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USGS | 2012
The spatial and temporal distribution of snow covered area (SCA) represents an important climate record for hydrologists, climatologists, ecologists, other scientists, and resource managers. Snow…
USGS | 2012
This NASA-sponsored project is an international collaboration among the University of Arizona, USGS, and several Brazilian institutions. The science goal is to use remote sensing methods to…
USGS | 2012
There is a growing need to quantify large-scale below ground carbon sequestration rates in coastal wetlands to understand marsh resilience to sea level rise and define eligibility for carbon offset…
USGS | 2012
In 2012, the USGS completed mapping historical wildfires (1972 to 2010) for the full Mojave bioregion of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah using Landsat data. This work documented wildfire…
USGS | 2012
Vegetation structure plays an important role in the partitioning of energy, the movement and fate of water, and the provision of habitat. How vegetation structure changes as a function of climate (…
USGS | 2012
The USGS Eastern Geographic Science Center (EGSC) is conducting process-based hydrologic, biologic and climate modeling to demonstrate the utility of those data in particularly challenging or…
USGS | 2012
Phenology is an important way to observe impacts of climate change on ecosystems. Long-term, landscape-scale phenology monitoring has gained substantial interest in the last 25 years, largely due to…
FWS | 2012
The golden-cheeked warbler and black-capped vireo were listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFS) as endangered in 1990 and 1987, respectively. In 1992 the 10,000 hectare Balcones…
USGS | 2012
The semiarid western United States faces increasing water demands, focusing interest on hydroclimate, the past, present and future trends in climate with respect to water. To better understand past,…
FWS | 2012
In an attempt to assess the viability of using legacy lidar data of varying collection density to characterize avian nesting habitat by species at a landscape scale, the existing lidar data from the…
FWS | 2012
Vegetation mapping of the public access side of Desert National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) began in fiscal year 2011 and will be completed at the end of fiscal year 2012. The vegetation mapping is…
FWS | 2012
St. Matthew and Hall Islands are located within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge led a research cruise to these islands for the first time in over 5 years. While there,…