By mhartwell@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 12, 2025.

Join us on Monday, September 22 at 5:00 PM at the USGS Astrogeology building for “The Art of Inquiry,” a special Flagstaff Festival of Science exhibition showcasing a six-week collaboration between Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy students and USGS scientists.

By ppearsall@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 12, 2025.

Off the coast of southern California, oil naturally seeps from the seafloor, bubbling up to the surface and washing ashore as sticky tarballs. For decades, these natural seeps have complicated the work of regulators and resource managers, who must determine whether tar on beaches originates from human-caused spills or natural processes.

By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 12, 2025.

As the science backbone of the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI), USGS has developed 200+ science products for WLCI partners over the last 18 years. From wildlife migration to water quality, invasive species to mineral mapping, this science helps partners within WLCI adapt and plan for the future.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 11, 2025.

Born and raised in Hilo, I grew up hiking in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, fishing in Ka'ū, and stargazing on Mauna Kea. I knew then that the Big Island is one of the most beautiful places on Earth but had never considered earth science to be a pathway, or that I would find myself back here at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo (UHH) teaching it. 

By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 11, 2025.

The Department of Interior (DOI) manages 480 million acres of public lands that attract over 565 million visitors every year, generating $1.2 trillion in economic output. Social scientists at the USGS Fort Collins Science Center work on a variety of projects that help inform outdoor recreation management on DOI lands.

By lhsu@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 10, 2025.

Additional opportunities for science analysis and synthesis.

By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 10, 2025.

The USGS leads federal research efforts to address the growing threat of invasive reptiles in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem. 

By jlball@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 09, 2025.

How do CalVO scientists create a timeline of eruptions from radioactive elements stored in tiny crystals? The Coso volcanic field is one place where a special technique is hard at work.

By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 09, 2025.

In collaboration with universities, federal land management agencies, state wildlife organizations, and tribal biologists, FORT scientists are refining methods to accurately count wild horses and burros, investigating how these equines interact with native ecosystems, and testing what organizations can do to effectively manage wild equine populations. 

By meganevans@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 08, 2025.

This report was developed to evaluate the performance of a set of proposed alternatives for Cervus elaphus canadensis (elk) and Bison bison (bison) management at the National Elk Refuge (NER) in Wyoming, U.S.A., and to inform a National Environmental Policy Act Environmental Impact Statement focused on developing the next “Bison and Elk Management Plan” (BEMP).

By jmalpass@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 08, 2025.

The Disease Decision Analysis and Research (DDAR) group is a multi-disciplinary team based out of the Eastern Ecological Science Center whose strengths are in ecology, decision sciences, quantitative modeling, social sciences, and natural resource management. Learn more about the recent activities of this team below.

By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 08, 2025.

A critical component of invasive species management efforts is access to reliable, high-resolution geographic data on where invasive species currently exist and where they are likely to spread. To address this need, FORT developed the Invasive Species Habitat Tool (INHABIT), which provides wall-to-wall, fine-scale maps of invasive plant distributions and colonization risk across the United States.

By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 08, 2025.

Ever wonder who collects hats blown into Yellowstone hot springs, repairs damage to bacterial mats or thermal ground, and monitors the health of Yellowstone’s thermal features?  Meet the Yellowstone Geology Program!

By samgott@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 05, 2025.

RESTON, Va. — Low-level helicopter flights begin as soon as early September over the greater “Silver Valley” mineral district in Northeastern Idaho and Northwestern Montana to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. Surveying is expected to extend into late autumn of 2025; depending on weather, it may continue in the spring and summer of 2026.

By ppearsall@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 05, 2025.

Salt marshes, critical buffers against coastal erosion, rely on a net gain of sediment to maintain their elevation and resilience as sea levels rise. A new study examines how two different sediment delivery routes—wave-battered marsh edges and meandering tidal creeks—combine to shape the future of these vital ecosystems.

By meganevans@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 05, 2025.

By WILDHOPE.TV

September 5, 2025

WILD HOPE

As a deadly fungal disease sweeps across North America, wiping out millions of bats, scientists are pioneering a bold new strategy to protect these special creatures.

By kkovacs@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 05, 2025.

A USGS-led expedition in the Aleutian Arc off Alaska will provide critical information on energy resources, underwater earthquakes and other hazards, seafloor habitats, and biological resources, including key fisheries, as well as potential seabed minerals.

By sernst@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 05, 2025.

Learn about our research focus areas and yearly accomplishments and progress, while enjoying an array of stunning imagery.

By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 05, 2025.

The North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) was established in 2015 as a multi-national, multi-agency coordinated bat population monitoring program. NABat was designed to unify and enable a dispersed community to repeatedly monitor bats across a continent, assemble data in a centralized database, and deliver status and trends for one of North America’s critical resources – bats.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 04, 2025.

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists visited the caldera rim at Kīlauea summit to assess the aftermath of episode 32 lava fountaining. 

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 04, 2025.

Dick Fiske, who died on June 18 as he neared his 93rd birthday, was one of the most original thinkers ever at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). His ideas, interpretations, and concepts underlie much of current thinking about Kīlauea volcano.

By meganevans@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 04, 2025.

By Pamela D'Angelo

September 4, 2025

WVTF - Virginia Public Radio

This summer, scientists concerned with a continuing decline of osprey chicks in the Chesapeake Bay are crunching data from Maryland to Virginia to try to pinpoint why.

By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 04, 2025.

FORT researchers provide science expertise to interagency teams focused on the conservation and stewardship of bison on lands managed by the DOI. These projects deliver critical science for management of free-roaming bison, ensuring the long-term health of bison populations and public lands in America. 

By jmbaker@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 04, 2025.

Learn how to access the 3D Hydrography Program (3DHP) feature service and how to use 3DHP data in ArcGIS Pro in a new training video released by the National Geospatial Program.

By mnewbrough@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 03, 2025.

Chesapeake Bay Program — Press Release — September 3, 2025

By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 03, 2025.

As destructive wildfires continue to make headlines, FORT economists play a key role in numerous projects to reduce risks across sectors of society. 

By ssoileau@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 03, 2025.

Friday's Findings is a public webinar series hosted by the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area. These half hour webinars are meant to provide listeners an overview of the science topic and chance to ask questions. We hope to offer our audience an opportunity to discover the Ecosystems science capacity within the USGS.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 02, 2025.

Episode 32 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption started around 6:35 a.m. HST this morning, September 2, 2025.  Lava fountains exceeded 330 feet (100 meters) in height, inclined to the northeast and are feeding lava flows on the western half of the crater floor.

By jdlawton@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 02, 2025.

The Global Food-and-Water Security-support Analysis Data (GFSAD) Project held its 4th Workshop @ the U. S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Flagstaff Science Center on August 18-19, 2025

By lowen@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 02, 2025.

On July 14, 2025, downloads of Landsat products passed 200,000 terabytes (TB)—roughly equivalent to the storage capacity of one million smartphones. This milestone highlights the vast scale of the Landsat archive and growing demand for its data.