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BOR | 2016
BOR performs dam failure inundation modeling and mapping in support of emergency evacuation planning and dam safety risk analysis. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR), lidar, and other…
BOR | 2016
The Colorado River is the principal source of water for irrigation and domestic use in Arizona, southern California, and southern Nevada. To account for water use by each State or individual and to…
BOR | 2016
Colorado River Delta - Water For the Environment and Environmental Benefits First-ever plans to facilitate and promote actions that foster environmental benefits in the Colorado River Delta were set…
BOR | 2016
The BOR administers the Operating Criteria and Procedures (OCAP) to determine irrigation status for the Newlands Reclamation Project, which covers approximately 61,000 acres in Nevada. The OCAP…
BOR | 2016
The San Joaquin River Restoration Program (SJRRP) is a comprehensive, long-term effort to revive the river’s self-sustaining Chinook salmon fishery by restoring water flows to the river from the…
BOR | 2016
Underwater construction projects typically require the creation of high-resolution 3D models of existing infrastructure to retrofit equipment such as gates, valves, trashracks, or bulkheads. …
FWS | 2016
In 2009, the Sea Duck Joint Venture (SDJV) launched an ambitious, large-scale satellite telemetry study of sea ducks in the Atlantic Flyway. Target species include black scoter,…
FWS | 2016
Documenting bird and bat migration is challenging because migration activity is typically sporadic in nature and nocturnal movements are difficult to observe. The FWS uses avian radar to monitor the…
FWS | 2016
FWS researchers investigated whether the recent, unprecedented scale of sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) conservation in the American West has had beneficial effects on other sagebrush-…
FWS | 2016
FWS Region 3 Aviation Program, FWS Division of Migratory Bird Management, FWS National Aviation Management Branch, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Laboratory, USGS…
FWS | 2016
Lidar data are being leveraged to characterize avian nesting sites. Forty counties having USGS Quality Level 2 lidar data in eastern North Carolina (240.5 billion points) were processed to extract…
FWS | 2016
The 48,000-ha Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) was established in 1985 for the re-introduction of the critically endangered masked bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) to…