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RAMPS Newsletter - Summer 2020 Edition
This season's edition of the Restoration Assessment and Monitoring Program for the Southwest Newsletter contains recent program highlights including research updates, new projects, field updates and more.
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Earth Science Matters - Volume 10, Spring 2020
This issue of Earth Science Matters highlights recently published Land Change Science Program research that contributes to an improved understanding of how changing land use, climate, and environment affect communities, ecosystems, and the services they provide.
Continuous Monitoring of Land Surface Change Over 30 Years Using the Landsat Record
The USGS Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection project has released a new suite of land-cover change products for the conterminous U.S.
Glacier change in the western U.S. and Alaska: New insights from reanalysis of old data
This article is part of the Spring 2020 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Cattail (Typha) invasion in North American wetlands
This article is part of the Spring 2020 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Sediment cores provide evidence of total warfare among the Classic Maya
This article is part of the Spring 2020 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
The antiquity of the Sahara Desert: New evidence from the mineralogy and geochemistry of Pliocene paleosols on the Canary Islands, Spain
This article is part of the Spring 2020 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Integrating stream gage data and Landsat imagery to complete surface water records
This article is part of the Spring 2020 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
RESEARCH BRIEF: Cost- benefit analysis of vegetation removal + seeding
Weighing costs relative to outcomes: woody and invasive plant removal followed by seeding in shrublands and woodlands.
New study by RAMPS researchers examines how the costs of vegetation treatments related to outcomes.
USGS and Stakeholder Engagement in the Gulf of Mexico
This article is part of the Fall 2019 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
LCS Research Activities: Arctic Research Cruise
This article is part of the Fall 2019 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.
Reconstructing extreme floods in eastern North American using sedimentary records
This article is part of the Fall 2019 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.