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USGS | 2019
Elevation data are critical for assessments of sea-level rise and coastal flooding exposure. Previous research has demonstrated that the quality of data used in elevation-based assessments must be…
USGS | 2019
Low-lying island environments, such as the Majuro Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, are particularly vulnerable to coastal flooding (inundation) whether the increased water levels are…
USGS | 2019
The USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to identify forest canopy gaps in riparian forests along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. The…
USGS | 2019
As part of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) commitment to provide technical assistance to the Kenyan Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT), the USGS created a high spatial and time-sensitive…
USGS | 2019
Located on the border of Iran and Afghanistan, Hamun Lake is a critical source of water for communities, irrigated agriculture, and wildlife across a river basin that covers 40% of Afghanistan. Two…
USGS | 2019
Livestock operations are typically located in areas of highly variable weather or unfavorable soil conditions that preclude farming. In areas with highly variable climate, livestock managers can…
USGS | 2019
Cheatgrass is a highly flammable, prolific grass species that invades sagebrush ecosystems and creates extensive fuel beds that spread fire. The fires threaten homes, grazing lands, energy…
USGS | 2019
Fires rage through hundreds of thousands to millions of acres in sagebrush ecosystems every year in the western U.S. The number of acres burned today is substantially more than has burned during…
USGS | 2019
Exotic annual species are of concern in much of the Western U.S. because they have flexible responses to resource availability, high reproductive capacity, and propagules that are readily dispersed,…
USGS | 2019
Palmyra Atoll is a former World War II U.S. Naval air station that is now a wildlife refuge jointly managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy. To inform future…
USGS | 2019
Beech bark disease (BBD) was first detected at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (PIRO) in the early 2000s and is infecting and killing American beech (Fagus grandidentata) trees, producing gaps in…
USGS | 2019
A capacity to monitor land surface change across the conterminous U.S. was launched by the USGS in 2019 to meet increasing demands for timely and frequent integrated land cover and change information…