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MRI newsletter cover MRI Newsletter (.pdf) - The Western Mountain Initiative (WMI) of the US Geological Survey (USGS) studies global change in the mountains of the American West. This MRI Newsletter describes the functioning and the specialties of this Initiative, which we advance as an excellent example of scientific collaboration.
Bioscience Journal cover Modeled Climate-Induced Glacier Change in Glacier National Park, 1850-2100 (.pdf) - The following materials are excerpted from: Myrna H. P. Hall and Daniel B. Fagre, 2003. Modeled Climate-Induced Glacier Change in Glacier National Park, 1850- 2100. BioScience 53: 131-140. This project was supported by the Global Change Research Program -- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, Glacier Field Station.  For more information, visit the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center - Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems (CCME) Research Program web site.
LUHNA cover Perspectives on the land-use history of North America: a context for understanding our changing environment - Copies of this publication are available from the National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161 (1-800-553-6847 or 703-478-4650). Copies also are available to registered users from the Defense Technical Information Center, Attn.: Help Desk, 8725 Kingman Road, Suite 0944, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060-6218 (1-800-225-3842 or 703-767-9050).
Our Changing Planet Ecosystems cover

Preview of Our Changing Planet is a report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research that supplements the President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2008.

Western Mountain Initiatives cover

Western Mountain Initiative (WMI), Program Report 2006 (338 KB, .pdf) - The Western Mountain Initiative (WMI) strives to understand and predict the responses - emphasizing sensitivities, thresholds, resistance, and resilience - of Western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change.

 

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