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Beautiful geonarrative published about decades old USGS Benchmark Glacier Project

Beautiful geonarrative published about decades old USGS Benchmark Glacier Project

A new, beautiful geonarrative titled “The Glacier-Climate Connection” describes the USGS Benchmark Glacier Project— one of the longest running studies...

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Michigan State University and USGS team up in state-federal partnership for fishery and wildlife science

Michigan State University and USGS team up in state-federal partnership for fishery and wildlife science

Michigan to host the 42nd USGS Cooperative Research Unit

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Pathology Case of the Month - Brazilian Free-tailed Bat

Pathology Case of the Month - Brazilian Free-tailed Bat

Case History: After a winter storm, over a hundred Brazilian Free-tailed Bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) were found dead in Texas, USA and several bats...

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Limited Rigor in Studies of Raptor Mortality and Mitigation at Wind Power Facilities

Limited Rigor in Studies of Raptor Mortality and Mitigation at Wind Power Facilities

Wind power is a rapidly expanding source of renewable energy and poses risks to wildlife such as raptors that are vulnerable to collisions with wind...

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Creatures of the Night: The Frightening Threats to Bats

Creatures of the Night: The Frightening Threats to Bats

Bats play important roles in ecosystems around the world, but bat populations are at risk from disease, development, and more. USGS scientists are...

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Media Alert: Calling all Wisconsin duck hunters! USGS survey available for Green Bay and Lake Michigan

Media Alert: Calling all Wisconsin duck hunters! USGS survey available for Green Bay and Lake Michigan

Public input requested 

An annual waterfowl harvest survey is open to duck hunter feedback now through Dec. 31 for the Green Bay and Lake Michigan...

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Friday's Findings - November 4th 2022

Friday's Findings - November 4th 2022

Title: Science to Support the Conservation of Native Freshwater Mussels in Large Rivers 

Date: November 4th at 2:00 pm Eastern

Speaker: Teresa...

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Partnerships encourage the public to assist with fish disease biosurveillance

Partnerships encourage the public to assist with fish disease biosurveillance

Observations of fish and wildlife disease by the public can supplement biosurveillance efforts by state and federal agencies. Researchers at the U.S...

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Friday's Findings - October 28th 2022

Friday's Findings - October 28th 2022

Title: Ecohydrology: Integrated Science to Support Species, Ecosystems, and People Under Future Climate Change

Date: October 28th at 2:00 pm Eastern

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Innovative Paleoclimate Methods

Innovative Paleoclimate Methods

The Climate Research & Development Program (Climate R&D) in the Ecosystems Mission Area (EMA) covers a tremendous breadth of topics important to...

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A Surprising Band Recovery from the USGS Bird Banding Lab’s Fall Migration Station

A Surprising Band Recovery from the USGS Bird Banding Lab’s Fall Migration Station

The Bird Banding Lab recently got a report of an amazing banding recovery!  A Cape May warbler that was banded at the lab’s fall migration station in...

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How Pinyon-Juniper Trees in the West are Responding to a Warmer Climate

How Pinyon-Juniper Trees in the West are Responding to a Warmer Climate

North Central CASC-supported researchers examine the rate of new pinyon-juniper growth against juniper mortality in the western U.S to understand how...

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