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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…
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,…
USGS | 2012
For over 40 years, scientists have documented a dramatic northward movement of many bird species found in the United States. To better understand the relationship between climate change and migratory…
USGS | 2012
Historical aerial photography is an essential resource for change detection for time periods before the development of high-resolution satellite imagery. To support an assessment of the invasive…
USGS | 2012
In 2012, the USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) started a new program in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Bowling Green State University, and the…
USGS | 2012
The USGS UMESC partnered with the USFWS Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin to study Sandhill crane movements in relation to landscape features and wind energy development using a mobile…