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USGS National Research Program Projects The NRP had its beginnings in the late 1950's. Since that time, the program has grown to encompass a broad spectrum of scientific investigations. The sciences of hydrology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, ecology, biology, geology, and engineering are used to gain a fundamental understanding of the processes that affect the availability, movement, and quality of the Nation's water resources. Results of NRP's long-term research investigations often lead to the development of new concepts, techniques, and approaches that are applicable not only to the solution of current water problems, but also to future issues that may affect the Nation's water resources. Basic tools of hydrology that have been developed by the... Categories: Project; Types: ScienceBase Project; Tags: Acid Mine Drainage, Aquatic Habitat, Arid Land Hydrology, Carbon Cycle, Contaminant Reactions and Transport, All tags... Estuaries and Near-Shore Environments, Evapotranspiration, Fire effects on watersheds, Fractured Rock, Ground-Water Flow, Transport, and Reactions, Ground-water Hydraulics, Hydroclimate (including droughts and floods), Hydrogeology, Hypoxia (see nutrients), Invasive Species, Isotopic Tracers, Lakes, Metals, Microbiology: Activity, Biogeochemistry, and Transport in Water, Nutrients, Organic Compounds (natural and man-made), Radionuclides, Rivers and Streams, Sediment Chemistry, Sediment Transport, Statistical Hydrology, Stream Channel Morphology, Surface Chemistry, Surface-Water - Ground-Water Interactions, Surface-Water Hydraulics, Surface-Water Transport and Reactions, Unsaturated Zone, Volcanic Hazards, Watershed Studies, Wetlands, Fewer tags Improving Characterizations of Future Wildfire Risk in Alaska In Alaska, recent research has identified particular areas of the state where both a lack of soil moisture and warming temperatures increase the likelihood of wildfire. While this is an important finding, this previous research did not take into account the important role that melting snow, ice, and frozen ground (permafrost) play in replenshing soil moisture in the spring and summer months. This project will address this gap in the characterization of fire risk using the newly developed monthly water balance model (MWBM). The MWBM takes into account rain, snow, snowmelt, glacier ice melt, and the permafrost layer to better calculate soil moisture replenishment and the amount of moisture that is lost to the atmosphere... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2017, Alaska, Alaska, Alaska CASC, CASC, All tags... Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fire, Fire, Glaciers and Permafrost, Glaciers and Permafrost, Other Water, Projects by Region, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, climate, evapotranspiration, hydrologic model, water budget, wildfire, Fewer tags Continental Water, Climate and Earth-System Dynamics The objectives of my research are (1) to synthesize observational estimates of continental water and energy fluxes and storage; (2) to construct global computational models of continental water and energy fluxes and storage; (3) to identify physical controls, natural and anthropogenic, on spatial and temporal variability of water and energy fluxes and storage; and (4) to elucidate the hydrologic causes and effects of Earth-system variability and change, including climatic, biospheric, and geodetic processes. Categories: Project; Tags: Climate Change, Evapotranspiration, Hydroclimatology (including droughts and floods) Improving Crop Coefficients for the Middle Rio Grande Water resource managers rely on hydrologic planning and decision-making models to understand and evaluate current and future water operations in the face of endangered species needs, drought, and climate change. Current climate change projections, such as those used in the West-Wide Climate Risk Assessment programs, are trending toward more extreme instances of drought within the Southern Rockies LCC region. Accurately estimating agricultural water consumption both under present conditions and under modeled future scenarios will help water resource managers project how much water might be available for allocation toward current ecological projects. It will also improve their understanding of the challenges a more... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Middle Rio Grande, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, Streamflows, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande Basin, agricultural water use, agricultural water use, climate change, climate change, completed, crop coefficients, crop coefficients, drought, drought, evapotranspiration, evapotranspiration, hydrologic planning, hydrologic planning, Fewer tags Assessing Evapotranspiration Rate Changes for Proposed Restoration of the Forested Uplands of the DLCC Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is essential for assessments of water balance and hydrologic responses to forest restoration treatments in uplands adjacent to the Desert LCC. As part of the Four Forests Restoration Initiative, a new paired watershed study is being planned to assess the hydrologic effects of mechanically thinning and restoring a more frequent fire regime to the ponderosa pine forests of Arizona. Water and energy balances will be measured and modeled in these paired watersheds to help inform and better plan for the hydrologic responses of future forest restoration actions. Researchers at Northern Arizona University have collected six years of eddy covariance measurements of ET in the... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, All tags... AZ-01, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Northern Arizona, Project, Publication, United States, WATER VAPOR PROCESSES, WATER VAPOR PROCESSES, adaptation, best management practice (BMP), biota, climate change, completed, drought, ecosystem services, fire, forest, groundwater, hydrology, land cover, management, model, native, plant, remote sensing, resilience, restoration, snow, soil, topography, vegetation, water availability, water budget, watershed, Fewer tags Actual evapotranspiration modeling using the operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) approach This project applies ET remote sensing at two scales, 1) across the full landscape at 1000 m MODIS resolution (as a component of the water budget to support water availability studies, and 2) on agricultural lands at 100 m Landsat resolution (for estimating crop water use). Categories: Project; Tags: ET, SSEBop, consumptive use, crop water use, evapotranspiration, All tags... remote sensing, Fewer tags Evapotranspiration Field Studies Develop new micrometeorological approaches and instrumentation to measure ET in a variety of challenging field settings. Develop ET models with applications to specific locations to allow users to predict ET easily and inexpensively. Investigate the performance of micrometeorological methods in complex terrain. Relate changes in ET to changes in weather patterns (e.g. El Nino in a desert setting) or to changes in land use (e.g. agricultural conversion, forest thinning). Develop guidelines for use of micrometeorological methods at limited fetch sites Categories: Project; Tags: Evapotranspiration, Groundwater Flow and Transport Ecologically Relevant Pacific Coastal Fog Datasets The goal of this project is to create critically needed coastal fog datasets. Anticipated products from the collaboration between on-the-ground natural resource managers and a multidisciplinary coalition of physical scientists are: 1) a compilation of existing fog related data from multiple sources: satellite (AVHRR, GOES, Modis, Landsat), NOAA buoy , and airport and meteorological stations, 2) USGS Open File report documenting the results of a multiday working session with climatologists, remote sensing specialists, fog modelers, statisticians, and natural resource managers, convened to review the data, examine and assess the correlations between data streams and models, specify initial parameters to be extracted... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2011, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, California coast, Coastal, Coastal, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Decision Support, Decision support, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Science Project, Southwest CSC, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, acquisition, cloud, coast, completed, conservation, endemic, environment, evapotranspiration, fog, gis, grassland, humidity, hydrology, management, marine layer, meteorology, model, multiple, redwoods, redwoods, restoration, risk, satellite, shrub, stream, temperature, vulnerability, weather, Fewer tags Unsaturated Zone Field Studies Determine source and sink strengths and environmental controls of greenhouse gases at the Earth’s surface and the role of management in modulating the exchange near the surface. Evaluate the role of land use and climate change on evapotranspiration rates over various land surfaces toward regional assessments with the aid of models and remote sensing. Categories: Project; Tags: Climate Change, Evapotranspiration, Greenhouse Gases, Remote Sensing National Water Census Data Resources Portal A major component of the Water Census is the National Water Census Data Platform, which enables integration and delivery of water budget information alongside other data of interest to managers, such as water use data or ecological assessment criteria. Eventually, end users of water budget data (i.e. management agencies and decision-makers) will be able to access an integrated system of online databases in a form that will enable them to construct local and regional water budgets. Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Management / Web Development, aquatic biology, evapotranspiration, precipitation, runoff, All tags... streamflow statistics, water budgets, water use, watersheds, Fewer tags Colorado River Geographic Focus Area Study This study sought to better quantify selected components of the water budget in the Colorado River Basin to assist in the assessment of water availability for the region. Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Colorado River Basin, evapotranspiration, groundwater, snow pack, All tags... water availability, water budget, water use, Fewer tags Upper Rio Grande Basin Focus Area Study In 2014, the Upper Rio Grande Basin (URGB) of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico was chosen as a focus area study (FAS) for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Census. The three main objectives of the USGS National Water Census are to (1) provide a nationally consistent set of indicators that reflect each status and trend relating to the availablity of water resources in the United States, (2) provide information and tools that allow users to better understand the flow requirements for ecological purposes, and (3) report on areas of significant competition over water resources and the factors that have led to the competition. The URGB FAS will help meet these objectives through an integrated,... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: evapotranspiration, groundwater, snow pack, snow processes, streamflow model, All tags... streamflow processes, water availability, water use, watershed processes, Fewer tags Tracking Landscape Change in the Central Valley This project helps the Central Valley Joint Venture (CVJV) track gains and losses of key bird and waterfowl habitats at a landscape scale. This will allow the CVJV to effectively monitor and evaluate habitats essential to conservation planning for wildlife species. This work is important for identifying, assembling, and analyzing data for key habitats of concern and will provide a foundation for future monitoring. Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, Agricultural, CA, CA Central Valley, California Central Valley, All tags... California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Consevation design, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Private land owners, Project, Rice Field, Science Project, Wetland, birds, completed, conservation, environment, evapotranspiration, modeling, pacific flyway, precipitation, scenarios, shorebird, temperature, truemet, water deficit, waterfowl, Fewer tags