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Group on Earth Observations (GEO) global drought early warning information service
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W. Pozzi, D. Cripe, J. Vogt, M. Werner, R. Heim, M.J. Brewer, J. Sheffield, R. Westerhoff, R. Stefanski, M. Svoboda, J. Verdin
Helicopter magnetic and electromagnetic surveys at Mounts Adams, Baker and Rainier, Washington: implications for debris flow hazards and volcano hydrology
High‐resolution helicopter magnetic and electromagnetic (HEM) data flown over the rugged, ice‐covered Mt. Adams, Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier volcanoes (Washington), reveal the distribution of alteration, water and ice thickness essential to evaluating volcanic landslide hazards. These data, combined with geological mapping and rock property measurements, indicate the presence of appreciable thicknes
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Carol A. Finn, Maria Deszcz-Pan
Infectious diseases: Surveillance, genetic modification and simulation
Infectious diseases such as influenza and dengue have the potential of becoming a worldwide pandemic that may exert immense pressures on existing medical infrastructures. Careful surveillance of these diseases, supported by consistent model simulations, provides a means for tracking the disease evolution. The integrated surveillance and simulation program is essential in devising effective early w
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H. L. Koh, S.Y. Teh, D. L. De Angelis, J. Jiang
Intercontinental gene flow among western arctic populations of lesser snow geese
Quantifying the spatial genetic structure of highly vagile species of birds is important in predicting their degree of population demographic and genetic independence during changing environmental conditions, and in assessing their abundance and distribution. In the western Arctic, Lesser Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) provide an example useful for evaluating spatial population geneti
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Rainy I. Shorey, K.T. Scribner, Jeannette Kanefsky, M. D. Samuel, S.V. Libants
Key science issues in the central and eastern United States for the next version of the USGS National Seismic Hazard Maps
The USGS National Seismic Hazard Maps are updated about every six years by incorporating newly vetted science on earthquakes and ground motions. The 2008 hazard maps for the central and eastern United States region (CEUS) were updated by using revised New Madrid and Charleston source models, an updated seismicity catalog and an estimate of magnitude uncertainties, a distribution of maximum magnitu
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M.D. Peterson, C.S. Mueller
Landscape evolution in south-central Minnesota and the role of geomorphic history on modern erosional processes
The Minnesota River Valley was carved during catastrophic drainage of glacial Lake Agassiz at the end of the late Pleistocene. The ensuing base-level drop on tributaries created knickpoints that excavated deep valleys as they migrated upstream. A sediment budget compiled in one of these tributaries, the Le Sueur River, shows that these deep valleys are now the primary source of sediment to the Min
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K.B. Gran, P. Belmont, S.S. Day, N. Finnegan, C. Jennings, J.W. Lauer, P.R. Wilcock
Long-term observations of Boreal Toads at an ARMI apex site
The U.S. Geological Survey’s Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) is a national project with goals to monitor the status and trends of amphibians, conduct research on causes of declines, and provide information and support to management agencies for conservation of amphibian populations. ARMI activities are organized around extensive inventories and place-based monitoring (such as c
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Paul Stephen Corn, Erin L. Muths, David S. Pilliod
Making United States Integrated Ocean Observing System (U.S. IOOS) inclusive of marine biological resources
An important Data Management and Communication (DMAC) goal is to enable a multi-disciplinary view of the ocean environment by facilitating discovery and integration of data from various sources, projects and scientific domains. United States Integrated Ocean Observing System (U.S. IOOS) DMAC functional requirements are based upon guidelines for standardized data access services, data formats, meta
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H. Moustahfid, J. Potemra, P. Goldstein, R. Mendelssohn, A. Desrochers
Mapping the distribution of materials in hyperspectral data using the USGS Material Identification and Characterization Algorithm (MICA)
Identifying materials by measuring and analyzing their reflectance spectra has been an important method in analytical chemistry for decades. Airborne and space-based imaging spectrometers allow scientists to detect materials and map their distributions across the landscape. With new satellite-borne hyperspectral sensors planned for the future, for example, HYSPIRI (HYPerspectral InfraRed Imager),
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Raymond F. Kokaly, T. V. V. King, Todd M. Hoefen
Measuring the impacts of natural amenities and the US-Mexico Border, on housing values in the Santa Cruz Watershed, using spatially-weighted hedonic modeling
Assessing the sustainability of International policy or urban development requires consideration of the impacts of these decisions on Ecosystem Services, or the values that humans receive from the ecosystem, including market-land price, environmental, and human well-being values. Hedonic modeling helps to identify the market land price, considering the price is determined by multiple factors affec
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Gladys Amaya, Laura M. Norman, George Frisvold
Mechanics of flow and sediment transport in delta distributary channels
Predicting the planform and dimensions of a channel downstream from a confluence of two smaller channels with known sediment and water supplies is a fundamental, well-studied problem in geomorphology and engineering. An analogous but less well understood problem is found
well downstream of such confluences, where large river channels split into two or more distributary channels on a river delta. I
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Jonathan M. Nelson, Paul J. Kinzel, Duong Duc Toan, Yasuyuki Shimizu, Richard R. McDonald
Meeting CCS communication challenges head-on: Integrating communications, planning, risk assessment, and project management
The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium, Schlumberger Carbon Services, and Archer Daniels Midland has implemented a comprehensive communications plan at the Illinois Basin–Decatur Project (IBDP), a one million metric tonne Carbon Capture and Storage project in Decatur, IL, USA funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. The IBDP Communication Plan inclu
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S. Greenberg, L. Gauvreau, K. Hnottavange-Telleen, R. Finley, S. Marsteller