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A researcher locates an ablation stake near a crevasse on Wolverine Glacier

USGS Benchmark Glacier Project

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

Firn Density and Stratigraphy Observations from USGS Benchmark Glaciers

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

USGS Benchmark Glacier Mass Balance and Project Data

Photography
Image: USGS Yosemite Benchmark Streamgage

USGS Yosemite Benchmark Streamgage
Center News
USGS scientist, measures and weighs an ice core extracted from Wolverine Glacier.

Sixty-seven years and still digging! A brief history of the USGS Benchmark Glacier Project

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

High Altitude Weather Station Data at USGS Benchmark Glaciers

Center News
Gulkana Glacier

Beautiful geonarrative published about decades old USGS Benchmark Glacier Project

Photography
Image shows a silver benchmark set in concrete

USGS National Center Benchmark
Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Glacier-Wide Mass Balance and Compiled Data Inputs: USGS Benchmark Glaciers

Research
Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park.

Benchmark Glacier: Sperry

Center News
Calving of Snow River Glacier in early September 2015, resulted in icebergs floating in Snow River Lake.

USGS Benchmark Glacier Research Project glaciology experts in news articles and videos

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

Scanned field notebooks from a USGS Benchmark Glacier: South Cascade Glacier, Washington,1957 - 2022

Featured Story
Image shows a man and a woman smiling and holding a coffee mug

Make Your Benchmark: Join the Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program

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

Point Raw Glaciological Data: Ablation Stake, Snow Pit, and Probed Snow Depth Data on USGS Benchmark Glaciers

Photography
Image: Yosemite Valley Benchmark

Yosemite Valley Benchmark
Photography
Image: Bryce Canyon Benchmark

Bryce Canyon Benchmark
Photography
Image: Former Yosemite Hydrologic Benchmark Streamgage

Former Yosemite Hydrologic Benchmark Streamgage
Photography
Image: Former Yosemite Hydrologic Benchmark Streamgage

Former Yosemite Hydrologic Benchmark Streamgage
Photography
A brass-disk benchmark set in the top of a concrete post. Mark is stamped "C9 1923 7337.580"

Benchmark C9, near Apollinaris Spring in Yellowstone National Park
Photography
USGS scientist measures Earth's gravity field at a benchmark on the...

USGS scientist measures Earth's gravity field at a benchmark on the...
Podcasts
CoreFacts

How can I find survey benchmark information?
Photography
A hinged metal cover, flush with the ground, is open, exposing a metal rod just below the ground surface.

Benchmark T366, north of Canyon Junction in Yellowstone National Park
Center News
Image: 2006 South Cascade Glacier

Decades of measuring glaciers: A USGS legacy

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

Geodetic Data for USGS Glaciers: Orthophotos, Digital Elevation Models, Glacier Boundaries and Surveyed Positions

How to's and trainings
Screenshot of the USGS Sediment Data Portal

USGS Sediment Portal Instructional Videos- 3
publication
image of publications layered on a wooden table

Paleontology of the upper Eocene to quaternary postimpact section in the USGS-NASA Langley core, Hampton, Virginia

Project
Tripod-Palooza

Tripod-palooza—USGS Collaborates with Federal, State, and Academic Partners to Support Coastal Resiliency in the Wider Chesapeake Bay Area

video

USGS Sediment Portal Instructional Videos- 2
Program
South Cascade Glacier, northwestern Washington State

Glaciers and Landscape Change

Photography
Color photograph of tripod on vegetated lava flow

2025 Annual Campaign GPS measurements in progress
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