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Facilitating Scientific Discovery

There are several avenues in which SOP4CWD is advancing scientific understanding of CWD and increasing the role of quantitative sciences in wildlife health investigation. The SOP4CWD team:

  • Publishes all research products in open source journals and repositories
  • Maintains the Wildlife Health Quantitative Group, which adapts current models or invents new tools to support agencies in answering their most pressing CWD-related questions
  • Coordinates researcher data request forms to link modelers with agencies
  • Encourages any modeler to incorporate their model into the CWD Data Warehouse to increase its use by agency professionals
  • Shares project experience and lessons learned across the wildlife health community