Mike Weise Christopher P. Meyer Masha Edmondson Katie Fillingham Dee Allen Alicia Amerson Meredith L. Barton Abby Benson Gabrielle Canonico Zachary Gold Jennifer Gumm Margaret Hunter Nina Joffe Richard Lance Alyse Larkin Ricardo Letelier Christine Lipsky Dana McCoskey Cheryl Morrison Karen Clark John A. Darling Amelia-Juliette Demery Meredith Everett Colette Fletcher-Hoppe Krista M. Nichols Kim M. Parsons James Price Kimberly Puglise Katie Scholl Mike K Schwartz Adam Sepulveda Janet Shannon Woody Turner Timothy White Katie Fillingham Masha Edmondson Elaine Shen Kelly D Goodwin 2024 Aquatic life is the engine of ecosystems and economies. In environments ranging from freshwater through marine, this biodiversity underpins the health, culture, opportunities, and economic wellbeing of the Nation -- from local communities to the entire country. The ability to evaluate the status, trends, and future projections of nature is key to maintaining national prosperity, and this requires timely and trusted information about the condition of aquatic biodiversity on a vast scale. With one of the largest Exclusive Economic Zones in the world and extensive estuaries, lakes, rivers and streams, it is a grand challenge for the United States to explore, monitor, and understand aquatic life. application/pdf en White House Office of Science, Technology, and Policy (OSTP) National Aquatic Environmental DNA Strategy reports