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Research Activities

Framework Geology

• Surficial geology of the Mesa Verde National Park area
• Geologic framework of the central Death Valley region
• Geologic framework of Rio Grande basins, New Mexico and Colorado
• Española Basin Technical Advisory Group
• Geologic mapping studies at Buffalo National River, Northern Arkansas
• Montana Geologic Investigations
• Geologic Mapping for Land-use Planning: Central Colorado Assessment Project
• Improving the Geohydrologic Framework of the Edwards and Trinity aquifers, south-central Texas
• Geologic mapping in Big Bend National Park
• Geologic map of North America

Geologic Mapping for Urban Growth

• Geologic Mapping Along the I-70 Corridor in Western Colorado
• Surficial Geologic Mapping along the Alaska Highway in east-central Alaska
• Quaternary Atlas of the United States

Climate and Environmental Change

• Ecosystem and Climate History of Alaska
• How Does Climate Change Influence Alaska's Vegetation?
• An Illustrated Diary of Summer 1998 Field Investigations in Southern Alaska
• Cryospheric studies
• A Low-Cost Mechanical "Access" Drill for Polar Glaciology (PDF)
• Borehole Temperature Logs from Arctic Alaska, pre-1989
• Late Quaternary Paleohydrology of the Mojave Desert
• Effects of climatic variability and land use on American drylands
• Southwest Climate Impact Meteorological Stations (CLIM-MET)
• The Inventory of North American Dust Sources
• Impacts of climate change and land use in the southwestern United States - Web Workshop
• Photos and information on dust studies in California and Nevada deserts
• Geology, Ecology, and Land Use in the Hopi Buttes area, Navajo Nation, Arizona
• Using Remote Sensing to Detect Active Dust Storms and Map Areas Vulnerable to Eolian Erosion
• Rio Puerco Basin
• Western lake/catchment systems (LACS)
• Extent of Pleistocene Lakes in the Western Great Basin
• Surficial Geology and Geomorphology of the Great Sand Dunes Area, South-Central Colorado
• Eolian history of North America
• Last Interglacial: Timing and Environment (LITE)
• Climate change, land use, and environmental sensitivity (CLUES)
• Assessing Potential Future Changes in Climate, Hydrology, and Vegetation in the Western United States
• Quantitative Paleoclimatic Reconstructions From Late Pleistocene Plant Macrofossils of the Yucca Mountain Region
• Exploring Future Flora, Environments, and Climates Through Simulations (EFFECTS)
• Carbon Cycle
• Magnitude and Significance of Carbon Burial in Lakes, Reservoirs, and Northern Peatlands
• Evidence of Climate Change over the Last 10,000 Years from the Sediments of Lakes in the Upper Mississippi Basin
• Geochemistry of Sediments From Tule Lake, California
• Facilities
• Radiogenic isotope laboratory

Searchable Research Databases

• USGS/NOAA North American Packrat Midden Database
• The Inventory of North American Dust Sources

Stratigraphic Framework

• Paleontological Resources of the USGS in Denver
• Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary studies in the Southwest

International Studies

• Afghanistan reconstruction - geologic mapping and resource evaluation studies

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