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Colorado Plateau ecoregion and oil and gas footprints

Presentations and Events
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PubTalk-01/2024: Ancient human footprints in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

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Oil and gas development footprint in the Piceance Basin, western Colorado

Data Release
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Terrestrial Development Index for the Western United States: 1-kilometer moving window

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Developing spatially explicit footprints of plausible land-use scenarios in the Santa Cruz Watershed, Arizona and Sonora

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Effects of Urban Development on Streams and Aquatic Life (2)

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Surface area of solar arrays in the conterminous United States

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PubTalk 8/2003 — Human Footprints on the Web of Life

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Forecasting and evaluating patterns of energy development in southwestern Wyoming

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Effects of urban development on stream ecosystems in nine metropolitan study areas across the United States

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Conservation planning for offsetting the impacts of development: a case study of biodiversity and renewable energy in the Mojave Desert

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Landscape disturbance from unconventional and conventional oil and gas development in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania, USA

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Effects of vehicle traffic on space use and road crossings of caribou in the Arctic

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An inventory of three-dimensional geologic models—U.S. Geological Survey, 2004–22

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The effects of landscape and yard features on mammal diversity in residential yards within Northwest Arkansas, USA

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A rasterized building footprint dataset for the United States

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Mapping extent and change in surface mines within the United States for 2001 to 2006

Presentations and Events
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Susquehanna River Story — What does the science say about water quality?

Charts or Graphs
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Well pads in the Colorado Plateau

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Reducing cement's CO2 footprint

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Effects of Hydrocarbon Extraction on Landscapes of the Appalachian Basin

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Evaluating potential effects of an industrial road on winter habitat of caribou in North-Central Alaska

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Prototype downscaling algorithm for MODIS Satellite 1 km daytime active fire detections

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Improving stream studies with a small-footprint green lidar

Center News
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Flood Decision Support Toolbox (FDST) enhanced with addition of building footprint data

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The human footprint in the west: a large-scale analysis of human impacts

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Nine-banded armadillo (Dasyrus novemcinctus) activity patterns are influenced by human activity

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Waterfowl use of wetland habitats informs wetland restoration designs for multi‐species benefits

How to's and trainings
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Exploring EarthExplorer - Webinar, September 2024

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A Multiscale Index of Landscape Intactness for the Western U.S.

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