By lowen@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 15, 2026.

The U.S. Geological Survey Technology Transfer Office has entered into three Cooperative Research & Development Agreements (CRADAs) aimed at advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and Machine Learning (ML) methods to optimize Landsat Missions Flight Operations.

By ssobie@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 15, 2026.

The USGS Albuquerque Seismological Observatory is partnering with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the National Science Foundation to deploy new seismometers in the coolest way possible.

By nschmer@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 14, 2026.

USGS groundwater and surface water monitoring data contributed to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (PaDEP) January 8, 2026, expansion of drought watches to three additional counties. A total of 40 counties are now under drought watch, and one county under a warning.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 14, 2026.

Kīlauea summit eruption episode 40 lava fountaining lasted for just under 10 hours on January 12, with maximum lava fountain heights of about 800 feet (250 meters). 

By samgott@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 14, 2026.

RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey released its assessment of undiscovered gas and oil in the Woodford and Barnett shales in the Permian Basin, assessing that there are technically recoverable resources of 28.3 trillion cubic feet of gas – enough to supply the United States for 10 months at the current rate of consumption -- and 1.6 billion barrels of oil, or 10 weeks’ supply for the nation.

By aaarcher@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 14, 2026.

Despite increases in human population and agricultural production, new national data show meaningful progress in reducing nutrient pollution sources across the United States. 

By ssobie@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 13, 2026.

New details about the ShakeAlert falsely issued for a M5.9 Earthquake near Carson City, NV, on December 4, 2025.

By jmbaker@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 13, 2026.

Learn how to explore National Map data using the updated National Map Viewer application in a new training video released by the National Geospatial Program.

By samgott@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 13, 2026.

RESTON, Va. — Low-level helicopter flights are planned over parts of eastern New Mexico in Curry and Roosevelt counties, and western Texas in Parmer and Bailey counties, to image geology and aquifers using airborne geophysical technology. The survey is scheduled to begin the week of January 12, 2026, and last for approximately 1-2 months, weather permitting. 

By jlball@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 13, 2026.

Last week we talked about how Long Valley has been seismically quiet during the past few years. Alongside this seismic quiescence, Long Valley has also been deflating.

By ppearsall@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 13, 2026.

Far below the ocean surface off the Pacific Northwest coast, earthquake-triggered landslides record the powerful stirrings of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. 

By ppearsall@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 12, 2026.

Coastal communities across California face increasing threats from flooding with changes in storm patterns and sea-level. Now all coastal areas across the state have future flood hazard projections from the USGS Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) to inform coastal planning and risk reduction.

By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 12, 2026.

In July 2025, an area on the north rim of Yellowstone caldera began to uplift slightly. This area also experienced uplift during 1996–2004.

By lhsu@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 11, 2026.

CDI Monthly Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month, from 11-12:30 pm Eastern Time. 

By shouse@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 09, 2026.

Title:  Climate Adaptation Technical Services (CATS): The first year of rapid science delivery

Date:  January 23, 2026, at 2:00-2:30 pm Eastern/11:00 -11:30 am Pacific 

By ppearsall@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 09, 2026.

Sediment bulk density is a physical property of the sediment bed that tells scientists how compacted the particles are. It’s a key parameter for calculating sediment budgets, modeling sediment transport, and predicting bed erosion, and can be used to calculate carbon density when measured with carbon content to quantify sequestration rates. 

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 08, 2026.

A series of lava fountains building a cone perched on the crater rim...sounds like the ongoing eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu at the summit of Kīlauea, but this description could also fit the Kīlauea Iki eruption in 1959. Let’s compare these two episodic lava fountaining eruptions.

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 06, 2026.

Volcano monitoring data plots are temporarily unavailable on the USGS website due to a server malfunction. USGS staff are working on resolving the issue, but it may be several days before it is resolved. Internally, volcano monitoring data is accessible and USGS staff are able to monitor volcanic activity. We apologize for this temporary outage and hope to have it resolved soon. 

By jlball@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 06, 2026.

The beginning of a new year is often a time for reflection about the highlights of the previous one. Seismologists reflect on large or impactful earthquakes, volcanologists on the highest ash plumes or lava fountains… but those of us at CalVO are marveling at just how uneventful 2025 was, at least as far as earthquakes near our volcanoes are concerned.

By cduzet@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 06, 2026.

A new open access book featuring contributions from CASC authors examines recreational fisheries through a social-ecological lens, highlighting how integrating social science with ecological research can support more sustainable fisheries management.

By meganevans@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 06, 2026.

By Julie DeVito

CT River Conservancy website, January 6, 2026

No Simple Swim: The Mysterious Migration of the American Eel

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 05, 2026.

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists conducted an overflight of Mauna Loa, and serviced Mauna Loa webcams, on December 23. That night, Kīlauea began its 39th lava fountaining episode, one year to the day from when the eruption began. 

By shouse@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 05, 2026.

Title:  Using new tools for old problems: Innovative and actionable science that informs decision making for our vast and dynamic U.S. drylands

Date:  January 9, 2026, at 2:00-2:30 pm Eastern/11:00 -11:30 am Pacific 

Speaker:  Sasha Reed, Research Ecologist, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center

By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 05, 2026.

With 2026 having arrived, Caldera Chronicles looks back on the past year of geological stories in Yellowstone National Park

By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jan 02, 2026.

Kīlauea has been providing “fireworks” all year long on the Island of Hawaiʻi, and today we present a summary in commemoration of the New Year. 

By jlball@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Dec 30, 2025.

Like the Big Pine volcanic field, the Golden Trout Creek volcanic field holds a group of olivine basalt scoria cones and lava flows with several rhyolite lava domes interspersed. 

By smieszek@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Dec 30, 2025.

List of products from the New England Water Science Center released in the fourth quarter of 2025.

By cduzet@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Dec 30, 2025.

From Maine’s Acadia National Park to the wilds of Australia, geological conditions exist that slow the effects of climate change on the local ecology and inhabitants. How these “climate refugia” remain relatively protected from climate change impacts over time, and how they might help local plant and animal species survive, is a focus of Northeast CASC Research Ecologist, Toni Lyn Morelli. 

By esanchez-chopitea@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Dec 29, 2025.

The Central Valley of California provides important habitat for waterbirds (waterfowl, shorebirds, and wading birds).

By esanchez-chopitea@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Dec 29, 2025.

California’s breeding populations of dabbling ducks have declined and the factors contributing to these declines have not been identified.