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2024 was another productive year for the Land Change Science Program in the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area! Below are some summaries and highlights of...

A shared initiative between the USGS Water Resources Mission Area and Ecosystems Mission Area to communicate key findings of USGS land change science...

Title:  Sixty-seven years and still digging! A brief history of the USGS Benchmark Glacier Project to kick off the International Year of Glaciers’...

USGS recently released 42 years (1981-2023) of scanned field notebooks from long-term research and monitoring in the Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky...

High-quality field data on wetlands are essential for managing these important environments, but wetlands are inherently difficult to study. USGS...

How scientists use “tree cookies” and “root cookies” to study ecosystems

Reconstructing patterns of extreme precipitation beyond the instrumental record to help managers be better prepared for what is possible.

The USGS is home to one of the largest, most multidisciplinary groups of scientists who unravel mysteries of the past, and help project future...