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New Reference and Validation Data Available for Annual NLCD
By jlawson@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 28, 2025.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has released the reference and validation data for Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Conterminous U.S. (CU), Collection 1.0, from 1985 to 2023.
No, animals are not leaving Yellowstone National Park
By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 28, 2025.
Online sources are saying that animals are fleeing Yellowstone National Park. This isn’t the first time such claims have been made. And just like before, they aren’t true.
Photo & Video Chronology — July 24 & 25, 2025 — Kīlauea summit fieldwork
By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 25, 2025.
The ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption is currently paused. USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists made observations of the summit region on July 24 and 25.
John Wesley Powell Center Summer 2025 Update
By lhsu@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 24, 2025.
The Powell Center continues to host synthesis working groups this summer.
Volcano Watch — Ancient volcanoes are critical to our modern world, and our future
By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 24, 2025.
If you’ve read “Volcano Watch” articles before, you can probably list several reasons that scientists study volcanoes. However, there is another reason to study volcanoes that may surprise you: critical mineral resources of economic importance.
New 3D Elevation Program Fact Sheet for Vermont
By jmbaker@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 24, 2025.
Learn about 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) lidar data for Vermont in the new fact sheet -
The 3D Elevation Program - Supporting Vermont's Economy
USGS and state partners to test bait platforms to catch invasive carp in Upper Mississippi River
By aweill@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 24, 2025.
The study will assess whether the bait platforms could aid invasive carp removal.
Our Happy Place!: FSC Annual Poster Social Convened
By jrichie@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 23, 2025.
Once a year USGS Flagstaff Campus employees steal away to a place of science discovery in our own neighborhood. On May 29, folks from the five science centers hung posters or pictures and shared current research with each other, showcasing the work they are doing on the Flagstaff Campus. For many of us, being available to connect annually, has become our happy place.
Department of the Interior launches effort to recover critical minerals from mine waste
By samgott@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 23, 2025.
The Department of the Interior is taking decisive steps to recover critical minerals essential to America’s economic strength, national defense, and energy future from mine waste, coal refuse, tailings and abandoned uranium mines. In launching the effort, Secretary Doug Burgum cited "groundbreaking research from the U.S. Geological Survey that identifies promising sources of these minerals."
USGS Geologic Mapping Project Supports Critical Mineral Exploration, Enhances Public Safety in the Southeast
By jburton@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 23, 2025.
Deep beneath the southeastern U.S. lies a hidden world of critical minerals and potential earthquake risks. A U.S. Geological Survey geologic mapping project is dedicated to uncovering these secrets, with the goal of enriching the nation’s geological understanding and improving public safety.
Celebrating 53 Years Since the Launch of Landsat 1
By mbouchard@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 23, 2025.
This article was written by the NASA and USGS Landsat Science Communication teams to mark the 53rd anniversary of Landsat 1.
New 3D Elevation Program Fact Sheet for Louisiana
By jmbaker@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 23, 2025.
Learn about 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) lidar data for Louisiana in the new fact sheet -
The 3D Elevation Program - Supporting Louisiana's Economy
Photo & Video Chronology — July 20, 2025 — Episode 29 at Kīlauea summit
By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 22, 2025.
Episode 29 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption ended at 6:35 p.m. HST, July 20, 2025, after over 13 hours of sustained lava fountaining.
Dr. Matthew Kauffman Receives Aldo Leopold Conservation Award
By dchilds@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 22, 2025.
Dr. Matthew Kauffman, USGS Research Wildlife Biologist and Unit Leader of the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, was the recipient of the 2024 Aldo Leopold Conservation Award. The information below is adapted from the nomination letter released/obtained by the American Society of Mammalogists.
Hot springs on the Goosenest? Not so fast!
By jlball@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 22, 2025.
A historic report on volcanoes in northern California by the volcanologist Howell Williams made a curious claim about Goosenest volcano.
USGS maps moon for water, supporting NASA mission
By samgott@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 21, 2025.
RESTON, VA. — The U.S. Geological Survey used cutting-edge Earth science to publish the first off-planet mineral prospectivity map – assessing likely places to find lunar ice near the Lunar South Pole for a NASA mission.
A new framework for guiding management decisions for amphibians in an uncertain future
By edietrich@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 21, 2025.
Amphibians face an uncertain future in the Southern Rocky Mountains. Disease, such as the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus, habitat loss, and drought are all considerable threats to amphibians in the region. A recently developed decision framework aims to assist resource managers in reducing these threats to amphibians.
One Million Reasons to Celebrate Landsat 9
By lowen@contractor.usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 21, 2025.
The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center archive now contains more than one million Landsat 9 Level-1 products (that’s over 1 billion megabytes of Earth observation data)!
How AI helps to solve a big problem with small earthquakes
By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 21, 2025.
Calculating earthquake magnitudes can be a challenge in places like Yellowstone, where lots of small seismic events can occur in rapid succession. But artificial intelligence approaches offer a potential solution to the problem.
IGBST Public Notifications and Resources
By ssoileau@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 20, 2025.
As part of ongoing efforts required under the Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Conservation Strategy to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Yellowstone Ecosystem, the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) captures and monitors grizzly bears for research and monitoring purposes. Here you will find capture notifications for the current field season.
Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology over Black Hills, Bear Lodge area
By samgott@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 18, 2025.
Low-level airplane flights begin as soon as late July over the Black Hills and Bear Lodge areas of Wyoming and South Dakota to image geology using airborne geophysical technology.
Photo & Video Chronology — July 17, 2025 — UAS mission at Kīlauea summit
By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 17, 2025.
On July 17, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory staff conducted a UAS (uncrewed aircraft systems) flight of the recent eurption site at Kīlauea summit.
Volcano Watch — Remembering a destructive Mauna Loa eruption 75 years ago
By kmulliken@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 17, 2025.
Lava fountains at the summit of Kīlauea have been shining a spotlight on Hawaii’s most active volcano but let us not forget the larger one looming in the background of Kīlauea. Mauna Loa is currently quiet and now is a good opportunity to remember the 1950 Southwest Rift Zone eruption—the volcano’s most recent eruption to have caused significant damage—75 years ago.
Tree-Ring Patterns Reveal Climate and Fire's Historic Link
By evarelaminder@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 17, 2025.
Southwest CASC-supported researchers use tree-ring reconstructions to link historic climate patterns and wildfire events.
USGS delivers water-quality training in Thailand
By smieszek@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 17, 2025.
The USGS delivered water-quality techniques training to the Thailand Royal Irrigation Department (RID) 14-20 June in and around Chiang Mai, together with colleagues from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), with funding from the U.S. Department of State.
Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology over parts of southern Colorado
By samgott@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 15, 2025.
RESTON, VA. — The U.S. Geology Survey will conduct low-level helicopter flights over parts of southern Colorado to map critical minerals using airborne geophysical technology, beginning in mid-July. The airborne survey will be conducted through Fall 2025, weather and wildfire restrictions permitting, covering parts of Park, Chaffee, Teller, Fremont, Custer, Pueblo, and Huerfano Counties.
USGS Joins the Bird Collision Prevention Alliance to Combat Bird Collisions
By jmalpass@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 14, 2025.
USGS has joined a new initiative to address bird collisions with glass.
California’s Seasonally Rotating Pocket Beaches
By ppearsall@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 14, 2025.
New research led by USGS finds that along California’s rugged coastline, some of the state’s most scenic “pocket beaches”—short stretches of sand nestled between rocky headlands—undergo predictable rotations each year in response to changing wave conditions.
Another new hole in the ground at Norris Geyser Basin
By mpoland@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 14, 2025.
In April 2025, Yellowstone National Park geologists identified a new thermal feature in Norris Geyser Basin. Investigation of multiple data streams suggests it may have coincided with a visit from St. Nicholas.
Projecting Accelerated Erosion of O‘ahu's Shorelines
By ppearsall@usgs.gov from All News. Published on Jul 11, 2025.
Hawai‘i’s iconic beaches—essential to the state’s identity, economy, and ecosystems—are disappearing faster than previously predicted. New projections of shoreline change by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and USGS finds that 81% of sandy shorelines on the island of O‘ahu could be lost by the end of the century, with nearly 40% of that loss occurring within just the next five years.