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USGS | 2012
In 2013, the USGS Utah Water Science Center in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation completed a temporally and spatially consistent dataset of irrigated agricultural lands in the Upper Colorado…
USGS | 2012
Recent efforts to model the flow of water through the Namakan Reservoir in Minnesota and Ontario indicate that different survey datums were used to establish water elevations at different points in…
USGS | 2012
Landsat imagery was used to calculate evapotranspiration within the Smith River Basin to refine the basin water balance and to determine water use impacts on groundwater and surface-water…
USGS | 2012
Snow extent in March through July has proven to be an important component in controlling stream intermittency in low order streams critical for salmonid species, primarily bull trout (Salvelinus…
USGS | 2012
Potential and reference evapotranspiration (PET and RET, respectively) data are critical to quantitative hydrologic analyses. The USGS has partnered with all five State of Florida Water Management…
USGS | 2012
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging infectious disease of bats caused by a recently discovered cold-growing fungus that thrives in dark caves where bats hibernate. Although the fungus is…
USGS | 2012
Escaped Burmese pythons are believed to be severely affecting the Everglades National Park ecosystem by consuming large numbers of native prey animals. These prey animals include federally endangered…
USGS | 2012
Radio telemetry was used to track long-nosed bats (Mexican long-nosed bat and the lesser long-nosed bat) in and between the Animas Mountains and Big Hatchet Mountains in southwestern New Mexico.…
USGS | 2012
CWPPRA is Federal legislation enacted in 1990 to identify and fund site-specific projects to create, restore, protect, or enhance coastal wetlands. The National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC) maps…
USGS | 2012
Using multispectral aerial photography acquired by Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA), shorelines and wetland habitats are being accurately delineated to reference shoreline location and…
USGS | 2012
Documenting and understanding the occurrence of wetland loss and shoreline erosion along the east coast of the United States as a result of Hurricane Sandy will provide for effective planning,…
USGS | 2012
Louisiana experiences more wetland loss than all other States in the conterminous United States combined, with a net change in land area of about -4,877 km² from 1932 to 2010. Documenting and…