U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
As the Nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides scientific understanding about natural resource conditions, issues, and problems. The mission of the USGS is to serve the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and maintain our quality of life.
The USGS undertakes scientific research, monitoring, remote sensing, modeling, synthesis, and forecasting to address the effects of climate and land use change on the Nation’s resources. The resulting research and products are provided as the scientific foundation upon which policymakers, natural resource managers, and the public can make informed decisions about the management of natural resources.
The USGS Climate and Land Use Change Research Program supports fundamental scientific research on topics related to climate and land-cover change and their impacts. Priority research areas include the global carbon cycle, sea-level rise and coastal processes, global warmth, precipitation and drought, abrupt climate change, polar climate, glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets, sea ice, wetlands and permafrost, vegetation and ecosystems, feedback processes, climate change and ocean circulation, land-cover impacts, and natural climate variability.
In 2008, Congress created the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC) within the USGS to address challenges resulting from climate change and to provide natural resource managers with rigorous scientific information and effective tools for decision-making. Located at the USGS National Headquarters in Reston, Virginia, the NCCWSC has invested over $20 million in climate change research and is now establishing eight regional Department of the Interior (DOI) Climate Science Centers (CSCs). NCCWSC is building cooperative partnerships with resource managers and scientists at Federal, State, tribal, local, academic, and nongovernmental (NGO) institutions and at national, regional and local scales. More information about the NCCWCS and the CSCs can be found in this clearinghouse as separate entries.
Phone: (888) 275-8747
Sectors:
- Biodiversity and ecosystems
- Coastal
- Fish and fisheries
- Land management and conservation
- Oceans
- Rural
- Wildlife
Related Organizations:
- U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)
- Western States Federal Agency Support Team (WestFAST)
- USGS Ohio Water Science Center
- USGS Pacific Islands Water Science Center
- USGS Wyoming Water Science Center
- USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center
- USGS West Virginia Water Science Center
- USGS Washington Water Science Center
- USGS Virginia Water Science Center
- USGS Utah Water Science Center
- USGS Texas Water Science Center
- USGS Tennessee Water Science Center
- USGS South Dakota Water Science Center
- USGS South Carolina Water Science Center
- USGS Pennsylvania Water Science Center
- USGS Oregon Water Science Center
- USGS Oklahoma Water Science Center
- USGS North Dakota Water Science Center
- USGS North Carolina Water Science Center
- USGS New York Water Science Center
- USGS New Mexico Water Science Center
- USGS New Jersey Water Science Center
- USGS New Hampshire-Vermont Water Science Center
- USGS Nevada Water Science Center
- USGS Nebraska Water Science Center
- USGS Montana Water Science Center
- USGS Missouri Water Science Center
- USGS Mississippi Water Science Center
- USGS Minnesota Water Science Center
- USGS Michigan Water Science Center
- USGS Massachusetts Water Science Center
- USGS Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Water Science Center
- USGS New England Water Science Center, Maine
- USGS Louisiana Water Science Center
- USGS Kentucky Water Science Center
- USGS Kansas Water Science Center
- USGS Iowa Water Science Center
- USGS Indiana Water Science Center
- USGS Illinois Water Science Center
- USGS Idaho Water Science Center
- USGS Georgia Water Science Center
- USGS Florida Water Science Center
- USGS Connecticut Water Science Center
- USGS Colorado Water Science Center
- USGS Caribbean Water Science Center
- USGS California Water Science Center
- USGS Arkansas Water Science Center
- USGS Arizona Water Science Center
- USGS Alaska Science Center Water Resources Office
- USGS Alabama Water Science Center
- USGS New England Water Science Center, Rhode Island
- U.S. Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information, Subcommittee on Ground Water
- National Drought Mitigation Center
- Department of the Interior (DOI): North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Northern Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Bay Area Ecosystems Climate Change Consortium (BAECCC)
- Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Climate Change Collaboration in the Pacific Northwest (C3)
Related Resources:
- Climate Change and Water Resources Management - A Federal Perspective: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1331
- Looking Forward: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a Changing Climate - National Action Plan Update
- Sea Level Rise Visualization for Alabama, Mississippi and Florida
- Influence of Potential Sea Level Rise on Societal Vulnerability to Hurricane Storm-Surge Hazards in Sarasota County, Florida
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cooperative Water Program
- National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA)
- Landsat Project
- USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System
- National Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: Preliminary Results for the Atlantic Coast
- Climate Resilience Data Challenge - NASA, USGS funding
- Simulated Changes in Salinity in the York and Chickahominy Rivers from Projected Sea-Level Rise in Chesapeake Bay
- Letter Report Assessing the USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program's Science Framework
- Current and Future Vulnerability of Sarasota County, Florida to Hurricane, Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise
- Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services
- USGS Coastal Change Hazards Portal
- USGS Groundwater Resources Program
- State of the Birds 2011- Report on Public Lands and Waters
- USGS Surface-Water Data for the Nation
- Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles into Practice
- State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change
- USGS WaterAlert
- Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
- USGS Precipitation Runoff Modeling System (PRMS)
- Pacific Northwest Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
- Federal Action to Support State, Local and Tribal Leaders as They Prepare Communities for the Impacts of Climate Change
- Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS)
- Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present and Future
- Climate Change and Forests of the Future: Managing in the Face of Uncertainty
- Our Coast, Our Future
- Cal-Adapt 2.0
- Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest
- Coastal Resilience - Coastal Defense App
- Assessing Reservoir Operations Risk Under Climate Change
- Massachusetts Wildlife Climate Action Tool
- U.S. Sea Level Change Website
- Climate Change and Wildlife Health: Direct and Indirect Effects
- Potential for Shoreline Changes Due to Sea-Level Rise Along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Region
- Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of the Northern Gulf of Mexico to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Change
- National Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: Preliminary Results for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coast
- USGS National Climate Change Viewer
- USGS Integrated Watershed Scale Response to Global Change in Selected Basins Across the United States
- Water SMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Program
- New York’s Expanded USGS StreamStats Tool
- Arizona DOT Resilience Pilot Program
- The National Map: 3D Elevation Program (3DEP)
- The Unusual Nature of Recent Snowpack Declines in the North American Cordillera
- National Assessment of Shoreline Change: Historical Shoreline Change along the New England and Mid-Atlantic Coasts
- Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States
- Rigorously Valuing the Role of U.S. Coral Reefs in Coastal Hazard Risk Reduction
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