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

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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 kkovacs@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 03, 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 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.

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

Federal agencies are required to assess the potential effects of proposed management actions and use science in their assessments. In collaboration with other Department of the Interior (DOI) agencies, FORT researchers have developed a new type of science product—structured science syntheses—to inform environmental analyses for planning, permitting, and management actions on public lands.

By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Sep 01, 2025.

Geologic mapping has come a long way—from paper maps to powerful digital databases. But how do researchers store and organize all this data? Join us as we explore the role of geodatabases.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 29, 2025.

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Scientists visited the V1cam livestream camera site on the morning of August 29 for some maintenance work. 

By mhartwell@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 29, 2025.

Research has revealed differences in habitats, behavior, growth, and migration among humpback chub in the Grand Canyon, prompting questions about whether these groups represent distinct genetic subpopulations.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 28, 2025.

Kīlauea’s 2018 eruption transformed the lower Puna District of the Island of Hawaiʻi, including its coastline, where 875 acres of new land were added in a large lava delta. The area is still subject to sudden, dynamic changes, as evidenced by recent observations of new ground cracks in the lava delta near Pohoiki.

By ppearsall@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 28, 2025.

In summer 2025, a research team led by the USGS worked with the NOAA ship Rainier to map a large swath of seafloor offshore of Kodiak Island, Alaska, along the Alaska-Aleutian Trench.

By jburton@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 28, 2025.

In a significant advancement for geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released the most detailed national-scale geologic map of the country to date, offering a unique regional view of geology at and beneath the Earth’s surface.

By ppearsall@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 27, 2025.

New USGS-led research finds that submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)—the unseen flow of freshwater and nutrients from land to sea—is a key driver of water quality and nutrient loading on the island of Ofu, American Samoa, with implications for reef resilience in a changing climate.

By jgittens@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 26, 2025.

The Department of the Interior, through the U.S. Geological Survey, has released the draft 2025 List of Critical Minerals and a report that outlines a new model for assessing how potential supply chain disruptions could affect the U.S. economy. 

By jlball@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 26, 2025.

What if we told you that scientists can monitor a volcano's "breathing" 24/7, even through deep winter snow? That's exactly what CalVO's permanent gas monitoring station does at the Horseshoe Lake tree kill area on Mammoth Mountain!

By sernst@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 26, 2025.

On August 9, 2025, the USGS and several other science organizations located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, hosted hands-on activities and informative displays for the annual Woods Hole Science Stroll. 

By jlawson@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 26, 2025.

Landsat satellites can capture the image of a hurricane if they happen to be passing over at the right time, but they also help property owners and insurance companies prepare for hurricane-strength winds.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 25, 2025.

On August 25, 2025, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field crews sampled lava and tephra from episode 31 during a morning monitoring overflight of Kīlauea summit. Episode 31 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 2:04 p.m. HST on August 22 and ended at 2:52 a.m. HST on August 23 after nearly 13 hours of continuous fountaining.

By wegner@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 25, 2025.

The 2024 Remote Sensing Phenology Metrics have been released. This suite of phenology metrics was derived from time-series eVIIRS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data. 

By krossos@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 25, 2025.

A large portion of the state of Maine and all of Vermont and New Hampshire are currently experiencing a “flash drought.” The onset of drought conditions come after weeks of little precipitation and high temperatures. 

By meganevans@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 25, 2025.

By Lisa Caruso

August 25, 2025

Chesapeake Bay Foundation website

USGS's science is just as critical now, as the federal-state restoration partnership updates the Chesapeake Bay Agreement to confront the challenges of the 21st century. 

By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Aug 25, 2025.

Massive volcanoes dot the Cascade Range from British Columbia into Northern California, but what about the space in between the peaks? Volcanoes in those places aren’t unlike those found along the track of the Yellowstone hotspot in Idaho.