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USGS | 2016
Global warming is rapidly thawing permafrost along the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska, with a cascading effect that results in coastal subsidence, inundation by salt water, and subsequent…
USGS | 2016
Wildfire disturbance is an important factor contributing to ecosystem and landscape changes. The impact of fires on permafrost-influenced terrain in boreal forest regions is well documented;…
USGS | 2016
USGS scientists have been involved in mission planning, cartographic data processing, and scientific studies for the international Cassini-Huygens mission to the Saturn system since its inception in…
USGS | 2016
The first global topographic map of Mercury has been released by the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, in collaboration with Arizona State University, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics…
USGS | 2016
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures the surface of Mars at higher resolutions than ever before obtained from an orbiter:…
USGS | 2016
The solar system is full of objects (“small bodies”) that include comets, asteroids, and dwarf planets. Many of these small bodies are relics from the early solar system and therefore provide clues…
USGS | 2016
Color views of the Moon have revealed substantial distributions of water on the lunar surface in the form of molecules trapped in minerals. This discovery has fundamentally changed the…
USGS | 2016
Federal lands, covering about 23.5% of the conterminous United States, provide and sustain a wide range of ecosystem services including biodiversity preservation, mineral and energy development,…
USGS | 2016
Understanding current carbon fluxes is important for developing remediation or mitigation strategies in response to anticipated changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations under future…
USGS | 2016
Mangroves are among the most carbon rich forests globally and they provide numerous ecological and economic services such as coastal erosion protection, water filtration, and breeding grounds for…
USGS | 2016
Biofuels derived from cellulosic grass, such as switchgrass, have the potential to provide domestic biofuels with minimal adverse effect on food production. USGS scientists are seeking to…
USGS | 2016
A wide range of spatial forest disturbance datasets exist for the conterminous United States, yet inconsistencies among map products arise because of differing programmatic objectives and…