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News from the desert

spacer image Pressures from tens of millions of residents are causing changes, some slow and some rapid, in the deserts. Water is an all-important commodity and is increasingly the focus of contentious debate. Other front-and-center issues include habitat fragmentation, introduction of alien species, destructive floods and earthquakes, waste disposal, and management of threatened and endangered species.

Desert issues

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Desert landscape studies in action

This page will soon include updates on project activities, including:

  • Surface materials mapping
    Death Valley area
    Mojave National Preserve area
    Fort Irwin area
  • New developments in using satellite imagery
  • Measuring and modeling material properties
  • Understanding fringes of sand dune fields
  • Understanding sediment stored on hills
  • Progress toward understanding 10,000 years of climate change and associated changes in rivers, dunes, and vegetation

 

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Updated May 21, 2001