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The USGS has cooperated with federal, state, and tribal partners to conduct research on Avian Influenza (AI) viruses and to assist with response to outbreaks of highly pathogenic AI (HPAI) […]

This is a video of a parasite, commonly known as eye flukes, swimming in the eye of a sucker in our lab. The eye fluke has a complex three-host life

Scientific information is fundamental to understanding how proposed actions on public lands may impact the environment. Development of new science is occurring at rates that can make it challenging for

Sure, bats, like many animals can spread disease to one another when they are in close proximity, by touching and grooming one another. But did you know that bats may

USGS researchers are using remote-sensing and other broadscale datasets to study and predict recovery of sagebrush across the sage-grouse range, assessing influence of disturbance, restoration treatments, soil moisture, and other

Scientists attempted to save this elkhorn coral from bleaching in 2023 by installing a shade above it. The coral was part of a USGS study in the Florida Reef Tract

Title:  An ancient rock-climbing fish: science in support of Pacific Lamprey Date:  November 8, 2024, at 2:00-2:30 pm Eastern/11:00 -11:30 am Pacific  Speaker:  Theresa “Marty” Liedtke, Research Fisheries Biologist, USGS

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The western population of yellow-billed cuckoos (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) was thought to nest only in mid-elevation riparian areas dominated by cottonwood and willow trees, with perennial surface

Jan Lovy, Ph.D. at work It’s October, and fall is upon us. Fall is a season of change. The days get shorter and colder, it’s cloudier and rains more (especially

Cheatgrass, an invasive annual grass, reduces ecosystem productivity, negatively impacts biodiversity, and is increasingly problematic in higher elevation ecosystems with climate change. Cheatgrass phenology (that is, the timing of yearly

Scientists gathered data on the recent distributions of 130 lizard and snake species found from Mexico to western Canada.  The climate in each species’ current range defined its “climate-niche distribution”

Sixteen years after Pd, the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats, was first recognized in New York, its range now extends to the Rocky Mountains, and it has been