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Colombia contains a variety of endemic species, making it one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. Due to a recent peace treaty between...
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Due to increasingly frequent and severe drought conditions in the southwestern US, land managers and livestock producers need to monitor stock ponds with increasing regularity...
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The gopher frog (Lithobates capito) is an endangered species facing extinction within the next century due to loss and alteration of its habitat. With limited...
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Estuaries are vital ecosystems that serve important ecological functions. The Marine Life Protection Act aims to protect these ecosystems by establishing a network of marine...
![An NDWI waterbody mask derived from Landsat-8 OLI cloud-masked imagery from March-May 2019-2021 is shown in blue at 10-meter resolution over Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. The ALOS-PALSAR-2 fine-beam L-band false color composite includes Refined Lee speckle filtered HV, HH, HH/HV bands. Darker and brighter green hues represent to low and high backscatter, respectively. Differentiating between open water, like the Hondo River, from vegetated inundation is important when distinguishing inundation by land cove](/sites/default/files/styles/lis/public/2022-03/2021Fall_JPL_MayaForestWaterResourcesII_WebsiteImage.png.webp?itok=WSwTB7q7)
Maya Forest Water Resources II (Fall 2021) Team: Stephanie Jiménez (Project Lead), Karen Alvarez, Rene Castillo, Daniel Nohren, and Stephanie Lawlor Summary: To monitor seasonal...
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Fisher’s Peak is a 77.5 km2 property southeast of Trinidad, Colorado that is planned to become Colorado’s newest state park. The area has experienced limited...
![Normalized Difference Moisture Index (NDMI) processed 2021 Landsat 8 OLI imagery over land and Sentinel-2 MSI over ocean, ranging from yellow (low) to blue (high), for Hilo, Hawaii. Overlayed with four-day rainfall accumulation cells in blue acquired during Hurricane Lane (Aug 22-25, 2018) from CHIRPS Daily. NDMI monitors water content of leaves and is useful for classifying land cover. Impervious surfaces and areas that have received excessive historical rainfall are susceptible to future flood events.](/sites/default/files/styles/lis/public/2022-03/2021Fall_AZ_HawaiiIslandDisasters_WebsiteImage_1440.png.webp?itok=UF3NMIoI)
Hawai‘i Island Disasters (Fall 2021) Team: Garren Kalter (Project Lead), Rose Eichelmann, Sanketa Kadam, Erin Azuma, and Anna Mikkelsen Summary: As the County of Hawai‘i...
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The Charles River watershed intersects 35 municipalities within the Boston Metropolitan Area and has a population of 1.2 million, making it one of the most...
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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is responsible for a large fraction of deforestation and disturbance in Amazonia. These activities cause severe impacts on the...
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Principal Investigator: Miguel Villarreal, USGS Western Geographic Science Center (mvillarreal@usgs.gov) Co-Investigator: Brian Ebel, USGS Water Mission Area-Earth System Processes Division (bebel@usgs.gov) Wildfires increase flood and...