• What does NASA's Ecological Forecasting program element draw from NASA's Earth system science modeling investments? How can the transition of these models into decision support be improved/strengthened? How do we know/decide when an Earth system modeling capability has matured to the stage it can be used in decision support?
• How should the NASA Ecological Forecasting Program help to inter-relate the climate, hydrological, ecological, and biogeochemical models traditionally supported by NASA, many of which operate at relatively coarse spatial scales and capture a certain set of mechanisms, and the ecological models used by management agencies, planners, and investors (e.g.: niche models, population and habitat viability models, socioeconomic models, financial models) that often operate at relatively fine spatial scales and capture sometimes different sets of mechanisms? What needs to be done to make the products of NASA's research models relevant for ecological forecasting? How can we foster more connections between these different types of models and modelers?
• More specifically, how can NASA contribute to the global effort to "achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss" — the so-called 2010 Biodiversity Target? What satellite-relevant models are appropriate here in terms of a monitoring strategy and how can we link them to other efforts?

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