Mark Wimer
Science and Products
Regional Science Portal
Welcome to the Regional Science Portal. On this site, you will find the scientific research, data, and information USGS has completed for this Region. For a geospatial view of the projects, please click the map to the right to see a larger interactive view to the areas USGS has studied in detail. Each of the tabs below lists all of the completed product offerings the USGS has completed for the...
Breeding Birds
Patuxent science expands our understanding of the ecological relationships between breeding bird communities and their habitats. For example, Patuxent scientists follow structured decision-making principles to optimize the management of fresh-water and salt-marsh habitats to benefit wetland bird communities. Following pioneering studies documenting the effects of forest fragmentation on...
Breeding Bird Atlas Explorer
The Challenge: A Breeding Bird Atlas (BBA) is a widespread survey method that provides distribution maps for all bird species that nest in a specific state or province. Hundreds of participants fan out over several seasons to their assigned blocks on a systematic survey grid; they search for breeding evidence such as a male/female pair of a species on a branch (“possibly breeding”), or an...
USGS Science at The Wildlife Society 2020 Conference
Check out presentations by USGS scientists and collaborators and come talk with scientists at discussion boards and live video chats!
Conference website: https://...