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USGS | 2016
High-latitude systems are experiencing climate change at faster rates than the rest of the globe. Warming temperatures could have dramatic effects on two important high-latitude ecological…
USGS | 2016
Soil carbon and permafrost are important drivers of future greenhouse gas emissions and vegetation communities. Accurately quantifying the magnitudes and spatial distribution of these soil…
USGS | 2016
Alaska is a major producer of base and precious metals and has a high potential for additional undiscovered mineral resources. However, discovery is hindered by Alaska’s vast size, remoteness, and…
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…