USGS Global Change Science: Welcome

USGS

• International Polar Year
• Other Global Change Programs
• Biology - Terrestrial, Freshwater, and Marine Ecosystems Program
• Coastal Change Hazards: Hurricanes and Extreme Storms
• Earth Surface Dynamics
• Hydrologic Networks and Analysis
• Hydrologic Research and Development
• Geographic Analysis and Monitoring
• Land Remote Sensing
• Ecosystems
• WEBB
• International Activities
• Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
  • United States Group on Earth Observations
    (US GEO)
• Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Other Federal Agencies

• NOAA
• NASA
• National Science Foundation
• Department of Agriculture
• DOE
• U.S. Department of State
• U.S. Department of Transportation
• EPA
• U.S. Agency for International Development

Climate Change Science Program (CSSP)

The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) that integrates federal research on climate and global change.

• CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAP) -- The CCSP Strategic Plan calls for the development of a series of 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAP) to be managed by 13 participating agencies. The USGS is responsible for 3 of the SAPs.

New Polar Bear Finding

Newly-released USGS information from 9 recent studies presents relationships of polar bears to present and future sea ice environments.

U.S. Congressional Briefing Series --Climate Change

USGS Climate Change Science:  Exploring the Past, Observing the Present, Forecasting the Future

News Releases

• New Method to Estimate Sea Ice Thickness
• Volunteers across the Nation to Track Climate Clues in Spring Flowers
• Wetter Climate and Earlier Snowmelt Runoff Noted in Great Lakes Basin Study
• Media Advisory: USGS to Host Congressional Briefing on What Abrupt Climate Change Would Mean in Our Lifetime
• Future Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice Will Lower Polar Bear Populations and Limit Their Distribution
• Media Advisory: USGS Science Available to Inform U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Decision Making on Polar Bears
• Tree Deaths in California’s Sierra Nevada Increase as Temperatures Rise
• Media Advisory: USGS to Host Congressional Briefing on the Importance of Energy Resource Information to Climate Response Strategies
• USGS Finds Polar Bear Denning Shifting From Sea Ice to Coastal Habitats in Northern Alaska
• Abrupt Climate Change: Causes and Ecosystem Responses
• Media Advisory: USGS To Host Congressional Briefing on Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources
• Epic Droughts of the Last 2000 Years: USGS science on climate change

USGS Global Change Home


Climate Change Science Program

• CCSP Synthesis and Assessment

USGS Contributions to the Climate Change Science Program