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USGS is studying climate change impacts to U.S. Pacific and Arctic coasts. Alaska’s north coast is predominantly erosional, retreating on average about 1.4 meters per year.

Greater Yellowstone Area ice patches, northwestern Wyoming

NCASC Chief Doug Beard presentingon sea level rise work at DOI CASCs at the US Pavilion at an IUCN event in Honolulu

Franklin Mountains near the Hueco Bolson study area near El Paso, Texas, September 2016. Photograph by Monica Langhorst, U.S. Geological Survey.

U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2020–5056

Gulkana Glacier is located along the south flank of the eastern Alaska Range. 

The majestic Brooks Range in Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska. This work is part of the Hydro-Ecology of Arctic Thawing (HEAT): Hydrology project that takes place in the Arctic Network Parks.

Prairie coneflower, Blanket flower, and Phacelia bloom in an established Pollinator Plot at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, North Dakota. 

This is a sunset on the Front Range of Colorado in summer.

Landscape view of a hydrologically restored wetland unit within the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, OH, USA. Photo Credit: Kurt Kowalski, USGS.

Increasing temperatures and decreasing precipitation threaten the persistence of the Rio Grande cutthroat trout, the southernmost  subspecies of cutthroat trout, found only in parts of New Mexico and Colorado.

Increasing temperatures and decreasing precipitation threaten the persistence of the Rio Grande cutthroat trout, the southernmost  subspecies of cutthroat trout, found only in parts of New Mexico and Colorado.

Increasing temperatures and decreasing precipitation threaten the persistence of the Rio Grande cutthroat trout, the southernmost  subspecies of cutthroat trout, found only in parts of New Mexico and Colorado.

Increasing temperatures and decreasing precipitation threaten the persistence of the Rio Grande cutthroat trout, the southernmost  subspecies of cutthroat trout, found only in parts of New Mexico and Colorado.

Capitol Hill lawmakers requested an informational briefing on the documented impacts of climate change on inland fish and fisheries.

Spruce grouse on Mt. Washington, White Mountain National Forest, NH

The Southeast Climate Science Center is partnering with National Wildlife Refuges along the east coast to understand climate change impacts to important natural resources.

Female grizzly bear with her young cub near the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park. Photo was taken in April 2016 by USGS scientist Frank van Manen. 

American pika eating plants.

USGS researchers collect water samples from the Research Vessel Dorah Henry to measure suspended sediment concentration in Central San Francisco Bay. Samples were collected using a D-96 sampler that collects samples over the entire depth of the water column allowing for a  depth-integrated sample.

Researcher Amanda Kissel pauses by a lake in Mt. Rainier National Park.

A frosty day in North Dakota near the Hear River above Lake Tschida, near Glen Ullin, streamgage.