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 […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Geothermal researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed sensors that can be placed in hotter and higher-pressure underground environments than previous instruments, a capability that is allowing
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
Panel A shows the tip/substrate position just prior to cavitation, which is shown ~33 msec later in Panel B. Panel C shows the cavity meniscus, during tip retraction, one frame
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
Increasing wildfire has motivated the construction of fuel breaks on many rangelands to improve prospects for wildfire suppression. However, the linear shape of fuel breaks greatly increases treatment perimeter: area
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dangling from a weather balloon 80,000 feet above New Mexico, a pair of antennas sticks out from a Styrofoam cooler. From that height, the blackness of space
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
ObjectiveFlathead Catfish Pylodictis olivaris are a widespread aquatic invasive species within the United States and a recent invader in the Susquehanna River basin, Pennsylvania. Flathead Catfish are piscivores known to consume native
Note: View a video statement from Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke here. A South Carolina man, Daqua Lameek Ritter, was sentenced today to life in prison for the December 2019 murder
The Justice Department, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) today announced a settlement with Hilcorp Energy Company resolving Clean Air Act and New Mexico state law violations
