Earth Science Matters - Volume 17, Fall 2023
This issue of Earth Science Matters highlights recent work from the Climate Research and Development Program, including two new videos, that contributes to an improved understanding of how changing land use, climate, and environment affect communities, ecosystems, and the services they provide.
Climate R&D Poster Sessions and Presentations at the 2023 AGU Meeting
Are you attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting this year in San Francisco? Don't miss these presentations and poster sessions related to work in the USGS Climate Research & Development Program!
The USGS Updates Major Climate Change Visualization Tool
The USGS recently updated its National Climate Change Viewer (NCCV), a premier web application for visualizing climate projections across the contiguous United States. The updated tool incorporates the latest CMIP6 climate change models and integrates new guidance on model summarization and weighting.
Study confirms age of oldest fossil human footprints in North America
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America thousands of years earlier than once thought.
Going to Extremes to Uncover the Secrets of Dinosaur's Ponderosa Pine
Recent fieldwork and partnership with the National Park Service and others
A long-term assessment of ecosystem resilience in a protected grassland in the southwest US Canyonlands
In a rare, never-grazed, and undisturbed grassland in the southwest US, researchers conducted a multi-decadal study to assess how a protected ecosystem is faring under warming temperatures and the invasion of a non-native exotic grass.
Climate Research and Development Program – Ariana Sutton-Grier
USGS science helps to understand the causes and effects of environmental change. Ariana Sutton-Grier is the coordinator of the Climate Research and Development Program, whose scientists focus specifically on environmental changes that have occurred in the past, are taking place now, or will occur in the future. “We really are doing it all—past, present, and future,” Sutton-Grier…
Climate Research and Development Program – Day in the Life of Climate R & D
USGS science helps to understand the causes and effects of environmental change. Scientists in the Climate Research and Development Program focus specifically on these changes, conducting their work across many fields and disciplines throughout the United States and the globe.