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EcoNews is a quarterly newsletter highlighting ecosystems science and activities coming out of our Science Centers, Cooperative Research Units, and Climate Adaptation Science Centers across the Nation.

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Friday's Findings - December 17 2021

Friday's Findings - December 17 2021

Date: December 17, 2021, from 2-2:30 p.m. eastern time

Speaker: Zhiliang Zhu, Deputy Program Coordinator, USGS Climate Adaptation Science Center

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Restoring Prehistoric Juvenile Gulf Sturgeon from Louisiana to Florida

Restoring Prehistoric Juvenile Gulf Sturgeon from Louisiana to Florida

Little is understood about the behavior, location, and habitat preferences of juvenile Gulf sturgeon. To learn more about this prehistoric fish, the...

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Media Alert: Hunter Survey Available for Green Bay and Lake Michigan

Media Alert: Hunter Survey Available for Green Bay and Lake Michigan

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

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Friday's Findings - December 3, 2021

Friday's Findings - December 3, 2021

Climate Change Refugia for Landscape Conservation

Date: December 3, 2021, from 2-2:30 p.m. eastern time

Speaker: Toni Lyn Morelli, Research...

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Research Spotlight: New Study Identifies Effective Under-Road Passage Designs for California Tiger Salamanders

Research Spotlight: New Study Identifies Effective Under-Road Passage Designs for California Tiger Salamanders

A new study by USGS researchers and partners investigated how California tiger salamanders in Stanford, California interacted with different types of...

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Friday's Findings - November 19 2021

Friday's Findings - November 19 2021

Risks Posed by SARS-CoV-2 to North American Bats During Winter Field Work

Date: November 19, 2021 from 2-2:30 p.m. eastern time

Speakers: Jonathan...

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The Case of the Misplaced Skunk

The Case of the Misplaced Skunk

Curators’ Casebook is our ongoing series in which we look at some of the curious cases USGS curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural...

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Friday's Findings - November 5 2021

Friday's Findings - November 5 2021

What is a glacier? Defining ice dynamic thresholds for regional assessments of glacier mass change

Date: November 5, 2021 from 2-2:30 p.m. eastern time...

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Putting the ‘T’ in ‘STEAM’: using technology to share USGS research with the next generation of scientists

Putting the ‘T’ in ‘STEAM’: using technology to share USGS research with the next generation of scientists

The St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center and the Wetland and Aquatic Research Center shared U.S. Geological Survey science via live...

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Spooky Science

Spooky Science

USGS researchers frequently brave potentially haunted field sites and study spooky-looking creatures. Here’s a list of 13, right in time for Halloween...

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Extreme Rainfall and Flooding Contributes to Sudden Vegetation Dieback in Texas Salt Marsh

Extreme Rainfall and Flooding Contributes to Sudden Vegetation Dieback in Texas Salt Marsh

Sudden vegetation dieback events in salt marshes have historically been linked to severe drought, but a new U.S. Geological Survey study reports the...

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