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PCMSC Scientists Participate in Research Expeditions Across Pacific Ocean

PCMSC Scientists Participate in Research Expeditions Across Pacific Ocean

Scientists from PCMSC participated in several research expeditions across the Pacific Ocean during the 2023 field season!

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USGS scientists with the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative lead field tour to share science outcomes with partners and stakeholders.

USGS scientists with the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative lead field tour to share science outcomes with partners and stakeholders.

The USGS WLCI science team lead, Patrick Anderson (USGS Fort Collins Science Center), organized a field tour on August 24 to share and discuss science...

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USGS researchers and collaborators successfully host the first Pacific Northwest Native American Workshop on Bats

USGS researchers and collaborators successfully host the first Pacific Northwest Native American Workshop on Bats

Dr. Ernest Valdez of USGS-FORT, New Mexico Landscapes Field Station along with USGS-Northwest Pacific Islands Region, Native American Fish and...

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Slow, but Steady Improvement: 25 Years of Monitoring Reveals Impacts of the Northwest Forest Plan on Watersheds

Slow, but Steady Improvement: 25 Years of Monitoring Reveals Impacts of the Northwest Forest Plan on Watersheds

A team of U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Forest Service, and Oregon State University scientists published a report summarizing a quarter century of data...

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Two USGS Publications Outline Pollinator Conservation Efforts

Two USGS Publications Outline Pollinator Conservation Efforts

Pollinator species in the U.S. are in crisis based on broad-scale changes in land-use and climate. Scientists within several USGS programs, including...

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A new management framework to balance competing species’ conservation needs

A new management framework to balance competing species’ conservation needs

Conservation practitioners and restoration managers are often faced with the difficult decision of which species and ecosystems to prioritize during...

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Purdue University to host new multi-agency research partnership to benefit Indiana’s wildlife and wild places

Purdue University to host new multi-agency research partnership to benefit Indiana’s wildlife and wild places

The partnership is Indiana’s first U.S. Geological Survey Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

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Friday's Findings - August 25, 2023

Friday's Findings - August 25, 2023

Title:  Seeing the Bigger Picture: Using Aerial Photos to Assess Tufted Puffin Habitat in Oregon

Speaker:  Carina Kusaka, Master's Student, Oregon...

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Evaluating the U.S. Geological Survey, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Units Program—Your Input Needed!

Evaluating the U.S. Geological Survey, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Units Program—Your Input Needed!

Having sprouted from its beginnings at Iowa State University in 1935, the CRU Program has flourished into a partnership comprising 42 Units in 40...

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Two USGS Publications Outline Pollinator Conservation Efforts

Two USGS Publications Outline Pollinator Conservation Efforts

Pollinator species in the U.S. are in crisis based on broad-scale changes in land-use and climate. Biodiversity of pollinators in the U.S. includes...

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First Examination of Functional Capacity of Deep-sea Coral Microbiomes Reveals Details of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Plus Tropical Similarities

First Examination of Functional Capacity of Deep-sea Coral Microbiomes Reveals Details of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Plus Tropical Similarities

In this newly published "deep dive" into coral microbiomes, Dr. Christina Kellogg and partners reveal very similar microbial gene functions in deep...

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FORT Scientists Discuss Research at the 2023 Ecological Society of America Meeting

FORT Scientists Discuss Research at the 2023 Ecological Society of America Meeting

FORT researchers will be presenting at the 2023 Ecological Society of America (ESA) Conference in Portland, OR from August 6-11. The theme of this...

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