Eyes on Earth Episode 50 - Delaware River Basin

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Summary: About 15 million people rely on the Delaware River Basin for drinking water, including residents of Philadelphia, PA, Camden, NJ, and Wilmington, DE. What might happen to the water supply if climate change and population growth continue unabated? How might that impact land cover and land use patterns? Those are the kinds of questions scientists at EROS looked to answer in a dataset built from Landsat satellite imagery, historical records, and scenario-based modeling across the basin. On this episode of Eyes on Earth, two of those scientists talk about how they looked back to 1680 and forward to 2100 and what sorts of questions the work may help answer.

Guest: Terry Sohl, Integrated Science and Applications Branch Chief, USGS EROS; Jordan Dornbierer, Scientist, USGS EROS Center contractor

Host: John Hult

Producer: John Hult

Release date: May 17, 2021

More on the Delaware River Basin and land cover projections: 

• Long-term database of historical, current, and future land cover for the Delaware River Basin (1680 through 2100)
• Land Cover Projections
• Eyes on Earth Episode 16 – Predictive Modeling