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Important paleoenvironmental perspectives on modern climate change

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Polar paleoenvironmental perspectives on modern climate change

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Continuous water-quality data for selected streams in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, water years 2011 - 19 (ver. 3.0, October 2023)

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State of the Earth’s cryosphere at the beginning of the 21st century : glaciers, global snow cover, floating ice, and permafrost and periglacial environments: Chapter A in Satellite image atlas of glaciers of the world

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A graphic of the globe with scenes of different ecosystems in flux and associated scientific fields of study noted

Science to Understand Changing Ecosystems

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Arctic glacier

Cryosphere: Earth’s Snow, Ice, and Permafrost
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Aquatic carbon export and dynamics in mountain headwater streams of the western U.S.

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Panarctic permafrost microbial community and edaphic data collected from 2010-2020

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Scenic view of the Beaufort Sea in AK. Beach, driftwood, ocean, and view of clouds against a blue and golden sky.

New 2,000-year record of ocean and climate variability in the Beaufort Sea documents recent rapid changes in water mass properties

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Holocene vegetation dynamics of circum-Arctic permafrost peatlands

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Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain

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Historical Structure from Motion (HSfM): Automated processing of historical aerial photographs for long-term topographic change analysis

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Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene

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Remote weather station at Wolverine Glacier, Alaska. The sun is setting with an almost full moon in the sky.

U.S. Geological Survey Benchmark Glacier Project

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Permafrost microbial communities and functional genes are structured by latitudinal and soil geochemical gradients

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Beyond glacier-wide mass balances: Parsing seasonal elevation change into spatially resolved patterns of accumulation and ablation at Wolverine Glacier, Alaska

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Jackson Glacier in 1912 and 2009

Snow, Ice, and Permafrost

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Scientist sample for suspended sediment by boat near the Golden Gate Bridge on a calm sunny day.

Climate R&D Poster Sessions and Presentations at the 2023 AGU Meeting

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Large increases in methane emissions expected from North America’s largest wetland complex

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snow covered steep mountain slopes

Steep terrain of the Bridger Mountains, Montana

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uncrewed aircraft system landing zone in Bridger Mountains

Uncrewed aircraft system landing zone in Bridger Mountains

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Modeled production, oxidation, and transport processes of wetland methane emissions in temperate, boreal, and Arctic regions

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dark aerosols on glacier in Juneau Icefield

Fire Aerosols Affect Southeastern Alaskan Glaciers

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Retreat and regrowth of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Interglacial as simulated by the CESM2-CISM2 coupled climate–ice sheet model

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edge of the Ryder Glacier ice tongue

Tracking the history of Ryder Glacier and its ice tongue during the past 11,000 years

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f. Glaciers and ice caps outside Greenland

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Evidence of glacial activity during MIS 4 in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA

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Gulkana Glacier

Beautiful geonarrative published about decades old USGS Benchmark Glacier Project

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exposed ablation stake in the fall at Wolverine Glacier

Glacier change in the western U.S. and Alaska: New insights from reanalysis of old data

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Uncertainty of ICESat-2 ATL06- and ATL08-derived snow depths for glacierized and vegetated mountain regions