Tropical glaciers now smallest in 11,700 years, scientists find
Tropical glaciers, which are especially at risk from climate warming, have melted rapidly in recent decades. The question, scientists say, is how much?Researchers funded by...
Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps joins USGS for Grand Canyon Research Expedition
Partners in Science is a collaborative effort between Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Grand Canyon Youth, and the National Park Service to provide opportunities...
Baylor wins ANS Outstanding Achievement Award
Larry Baylor, a distinguished staff member in the Fusion and Fission Science and Energy Directorate at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was...
Steadying the hands of time
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — All clocks are ticking down to an argument about the time. Imperceptibly, they gain or lose fractions of a second. Gradually, they...
RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Predicting the Spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Using Animal Movement Data
Status of HPAIvUnderstanding the timing and distribution of virus spread is critical for global commercial and wildlife biosecurity management. The current global HPAIv panzootic poses...
USGS Friday’s Findings – August 23, 2024
Title: Indigenous Knowledge: Providing Insight into Climate ChangeDate: August 23, 2024, at 2:00-2:30 pm Eastern/11:00 -11:30 am Pacific Speaker: Nicole Herman-Mercer, Research Social Scientist, USGS Southwest Climate...
Sanseverino named interim MPEX project director
John Sanseverino has been selected as interim project director for the Materials Plasma Exposure eXperiment, or MPEX, at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National...
Preserving 40+ years of legacy bird banding records
For the last one hundred years, the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center’s Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL) has received 10s of millions of bird banding records...
Estimating traffic volume and road age in Wyoming to inform resource management planning: An application with wildlife-vehicle collisions
Mean estimated traffic volume (annual average daily traffic; aadt) across the years 1986 to 2020 in Wyoming for all-vehicles (A) and truck-only (B) traffic along...
UTC, ORNL to collaborate in quantum information science and engineering
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are entering into a memorandum of understanding with...