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Amanda Daria Stoltz, MS

Amanda is a coastal social scientist who bridges the gap between science and society. Her research interests include: coastal resilience, environmental justice, and sea-level rise adaptation.

As a Pathway Career Intern, I bring over five years of experience conducting qualitative research to the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program.

Professional Experience

  • US Geological Survey : Social Scientist (July 2020-Present)

  • NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center: Research Associate, Social Science Research Group (May 2018-July 2020)

  • The AOML South Florida Program: Research Assistant (August 2019)

  • Marine & Coastal Research, Corp., Miami, FL: Investigator (2016-2018)

  • The Biscayne Bay Economic and Spatial Study, Miami, FL: Survey Team Member (Summer 2017)

  • Shark Research and Conservation Program, Miami, FL: Outreach Coordinator (2016-2018)

  • Mighty Earth, Miami, FL: Campaign Organizer (August 2016- December 2017)

  • Waxman Strategies, Washington, DC: Oceans Intern (June 2016 – August 2016)

Education and Certifications

  • University of California, Santa Cruz: Ph.D. in Environmental Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Coastal Science and Policy (2019-Present)

  • University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science: Master of Science in Marine Ecosystems and Society (2018)

  • Tulane University, New Orleans, LA: Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Marine Biology (2014)

  • Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA: Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2013)

Honors and Awards

  • The UCSC Newton Drury Endowment (2020)

  • The CONCUR, Inc. Scholarship Award in Environmental Studies (2020)

  • The UCSC Blum Scholar Grant (2020)

  • The 2020 Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Student Travel Award

  • University of Miami Academic Scholarship (2017)

  • University of Miami Propeller Club Scholarship Award (2017)

Abstracts and Presentations

  • “USGS Coastal Change Hazards Guided Discovery Hub” Coastal GeoTools (2023)

  • “Communicating Managed Retreat in California” California’s Social Coast Forum (2022)

  • “A Comprehensive Framework for Mapping Potential Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries Socio-ecological Systems” Society for Applied Anthropology (2022)

  • “Two Storms and a Virus: An Examination of Adaptation to Perturbations in the USVI Fisheries” Society for Applied Anthropology (2022)

  • “Profiling St. Croix Fisheries” University of Arizona (2021)

  • “Communicating Managed Retreat in California” Society for Applied Anthropology (2021)

  • “Stakeholder Engagement to Inform Integrated Water Availability Assessment Data Delivery” USGS Water Mission Area Seminar Series (2020)

  • “A Comprehensive Framework for Mapping Potential Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries Socio-ecological Systems” Western Society of Naturalists (2020)

  • “Interdisciplinary Teamwork: When Social Scientists and Natural Scientists Work Together” An event hosted at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology (2020)

  • “What Unites Us Is Greater than What Divides Us: An Examination of the Yellowtail Commercial and Recreational Fisheries in South Florida” Society for Applied Anthropology (2019)

  • “Human Ecological Relationships between Natural Resource Users and Natural Resources: An Examination of the Florida Keys Yellowtail Snapper Fishery” NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (2019)

  • “Determining Resilience in Cedar Key, Fort Myers Beach, and Conch Key: Fishing Industry Views on Sea Level Rise Risk and Adaptation” Poster presentation at the Society for Applied Anthropology (2019)

  • “The Power of Reputational Risk: Driving Supply Chain Transformation in the Palm Oil Industry and Beyond” Power Shift Southeast (2016)

Science and Products

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So you want to build a decision support tool? Assessing successes, pitfalls, and lessons learned for tool design and development

The purpose of this study is to understand how the USGS is using decision support, learning from successes and pitfalls in order to help streamline the design and development process across all levels of USGS scientific tool creation and outreach. What should researchers consider before diving into tool design and development? Our goal is to provide a synthesis of lessons learned and best practice
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So you want to build a decision support tool? Assessing successes, pitfalls, and lessons learned for tool design and development

The purpose of this study is to understand how the USGS is using decision support, learning from successes and pitfalls in order to help streamline the design and development process across all levels of USGS scientific tool creation and outreach. What should researchers consider before diving into tool design and development? Our goal is to provide a synthesis of lessons learned and best practice
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So, you want to build a decision-support tool? Assessing successes, barriers, and lessons learned for tool design and development

The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of how the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is developing decision-support tools (DSTs) by documenting successes and barriers across all levels of USGS scientific tool creation and outreach. These findings will help streamline future tool design and development processes. We provide a synthesis of lessons learned and best practices across a spect
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Amanda D. Stoltz, Amanda E. Cravens, Nicole M. Herman-Mercer, Chung Yi Hou
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Community for Data Integration (CDI), Fort Collins Science Center

User engagement to improve coastal data access and delivery

Executive SummaryA priority of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program focus on coastal change hazards is to provide accessible and actionable science that meets user needs. To understand these needs, 10 virtual Coastal Data Delivery Listening Sessions were completed with 5 coastal data user types that coastal change hazards data are intended to serve: re
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Amanda D. Stoltz, Amanda E. Cravens, Erika Lentz, Emily Himmelstoss
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Stakeholder engagement to guide decision-relevant water data delivery

Water resources management and policy making require access to reliable scientific data. However, water managers may need to overcome various obstacles to accessing data. For example, insufficient technological infrastructures, low data literacy, and data format complexities often inhibit data user access. Thus, it is imperative to include stakeholders in the design of data delivery systems. The U
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Diana Restrepo-Osorio, Amanda D. Stoltz, Nicole M. Herman-Mercer
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New USGS report assesses successes, barriers, and lessons learned for decision-support tool design and development

Decision-support tools can be useful to natural resource managers, policy makers and other stakeholders that use USGS data. USGS scientists analyzed...

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Science and Products

  • Science
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    USGS science for a changing world logo

    So you want to build a decision support tool? Assessing successes, pitfalls, and lessons learned for tool design and development

    The purpose of this study is to understand how the USGS is using decision support, learning from successes and pitfalls in order to help streamline the design and development process across all levels of USGS scientific tool creation and outreach. What should researchers consider before diving into tool design and development? Our goal is to provide a synthesis of lessons learned and best practice
    By
    Community for Data Integration (CDI)
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    So you want to build a decision support tool? Assessing successes, pitfalls, and lessons learned for tool design and development

    The purpose of this study is to understand how the USGS is using decision support, learning from successes and pitfalls in order to help streamline the design and development process across all levels of USGS scientific tool creation and outreach. What should researchers consider before diving into tool design and development? Our goal is to provide a synthesis of lessons learned and best practice
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  • Publications

    So, you want to build a decision-support tool? Assessing successes, barriers, and lessons learned for tool design and development

    The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of how the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is developing decision-support tools (DSTs) by documenting successes and barriers across all levels of USGS scientific tool creation and outreach. These findings will help streamline future tool design and development processes. We provide a synthesis of lessons learned and best practices across a spect
    Authors
    Amanda D. Stoltz, Amanda E. Cravens, Nicole M. Herman-Mercer, Chung Yi Hou
    By
    Ecosystems Mission Area, Community for Data Integration (CDI), Fort Collins Science Center

    User engagement to improve coastal data access and delivery

    Executive SummaryA priority of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program focus on coastal change hazards is to provide accessible and actionable science that meets user needs. To understand these needs, 10 virtual Coastal Data Delivery Listening Sessions were completed with 5 coastal data user types that coastal change hazards data are intended to serve: re
    Authors
    Amanda D. Stoltz, Amanda E. Cravens, Erika Lentz, Emily Himmelstoss
    By
    Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

    Stakeholder engagement to guide decision-relevant water data delivery

    Water resources management and policy making require access to reliable scientific data. However, water managers may need to overcome various obstacles to accessing data. For example, insufficient technological infrastructures, low data literacy, and data format complexities often inhibit data user access. Thus, it is imperative to include stakeholders in the design of data delivery systems. The U
    Authors
    Diana Restrepo-Osorio, Amanda D. Stoltz, Nicole M. Herman-Mercer
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    New USGS report assesses successes, barriers, and lessons learned for decision-support tool design and development

    Decision-support tools can be useful to natural resource managers, policy makers and other stakeholders that use USGS data. USGS scientists analyzed...

    Read Article