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Rapid climate and socioeconomic changes may be outrunning society's ability to understand, predict, and respond to change effectively.  Natural resource managers of all kinds want better information about what these changes will be and how the resources they manage will be affected.  Computer models are key to providing much of this information, however, despite many excellent models there seems to be no coordinated modeling infrastructure that can be consulted to shed light on important ecological questions.  While some of this shortcoming is due to the complexity of the science or lack of observations, data and model sharing is often a limiting factor and an appropriate modeling infrastructure would benefit resource managers, researchers, and modelers.