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Fossilized Footprints Reveal Human Habitation of North America Thousands of Years Earlier than Previously Thought
ALAMOGORDO – New scientific research conducted at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has uncovered the oldest known human footprints in North America. The discovery reveals evidence of human occupation in the Tularosa Basin beginning at least 23,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
Picture This: A National Climate Change Viewer that Helps Land Managers and Decision Makers Plan for Climate Change
The enormity of the challenge posed by climate change makes it difficult to visualize and understand on the ground. Even though wide-ranging impacts are visible today, it’s hard to envision how tomorrow’s changes will take shape. What will the temperature be in Portland in the spring, or how much rain might Dallas get in the fall? The USGS has a tool that can help address that challenge.
USGS Participation in the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop
This year's Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, coordinated by the Natural Hazards Center at CU Boulder on July 11 – 14, 2021, is the 46th and will be organized around the theme of The Hazards and Disaster Workforce: Preparing to Meet 21st Century Challenges. Check out these sessions, posters, and research highlights featuring the USGS Risk Community of Practice members...
Greater Yellowstone Area Expected to Become Warmer, Drier
Temperature significantly increased and snowfall decreased in the iconic Greater Yellowstone Area since 1950 because of climate change, and these trends will likely continue through the rest of the century, according to a climate report published today.
Earth Science Matters - Volume 12, Spring 2021
This issue of Earth Science Matters highlights recently published research from the Climate Research and Development Program that contributes to an improved understanding of how changing land use, climate, and environment affect communities, ecosystems, and the services they provide.
Using tree-rings to unravel avalanche frequency and associated climate drivers in the northern Rocky Mountains
This article is part of the Spring 2021 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Management strategies that can offset climate-change effects on wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region
This article is part of the Spring 2021 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Do mountain clouds exist because of upwind forests?
This article is part of the Spring 2021 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Carbon storage in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem under future warming scenarios
This article is part of the Spring 2021 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Comparing tree-ring based reconstructions of snowpack variability at different scales for the Navajo Nation
This article is part of the Spring 2021 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Friday's Findings - June 4 2021
Linking Climate Change, Cattail Expansion, and Wetland Management
Date: June 4, 2021 from 2-2:30 p.m. eastern time
Speaker: Sheel Bansal, Research Ecologist, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
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New publication examines biogeographic boundaries of Pacific versus Arctic meiobenthic ostracode species in response to climate change in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
A new ecological study of ostracodes was recently published by Climate R&D scientists.