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Assessing the impacts of climate variability and change on the Nations resources Site for a USGS project under the U.S. Global Change Research Program for a national assessment of the impacts of climate variability and change on resources with links to impacts in Alaska, western U.S., public lands, and water resources. (Score: 1.000)

Climate history Brief discussion of USGS projects studying climate change and links to several online reports giving data and results. (Score: 1.000)

Earthshots, satellite images of environmental change Satellite images of geographic areas of interest, cities, deserts, glaciers, geologic features,disaster areas,water bodies,and wildlife linked with articles, maps, and other images such as AVHRR, photographs,and special projects images. (Score: 1.000)

Global Change (Score: 1.000)

Global Change Hydrology Program (hydroclimatology) Review of the Global Change Hydrology Program components relating to hydroclimatology and studies of the biogeochemistry of greenhouse gases with links to research activities, datasets, fact sheets, and other publications and websites. (Score: 1.000)

Global Climate Change (Score: 1.000)

Global change research: a focus on mountain ecosystems Overview of interdisciplinary research studies in Glacier National Park to understand how this mountain wilderness responds to present climatic variability and other external stressors, such as air pollution, and links to detailed reports. (Score: 1.000)

North American Landscape Characterization (NALC) Project campaign document The North American Landscape Characterization (NALC) project is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the USGS, and NASA to make Landsat satellite data available to the widest possible user community. (Score: 0.811)

Global change research - earth surface dynamics Homepage for USGS Global Change Research projects which seek to understand the interrelationships among earth surface processes, ecological systems, and human activities. Links to projects with descriptions and products and downloadable poster. (Score: 0.690)

National Mapping research programs in Alaska Homepage of the Alaska Geographic Science Office with descriptions, results, and data on research projects using geographic analysis and monitoring and remote sensing to study ecosystems and land processes in the Arctic region. (Score: 0.647)

National assessment of coastal vulnerability to sea-level rise: preliminary results for the U.S. Pacific Coast Report on the relative potential of coastal change due to future sea-level rise using the coastal vulnerability index (C.V.I.) with two regional examples in San Francisco and Monterey Bay and Tillamook Head, Oregon, to Ocean Shores, WA. (Score: 0.554)

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Definition: Documenting, analyzing, and modeling the character of past and present environments and the geological, biological, hydrological, and geochemical processes involved in environmental change so that future environmental changes and impacts can be anticipated. [USGS Global Change Research, link]