National Ice Core Laboratory
The U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) is a facility in the Denver Federal Center, Colorado, for long-term storage, curating, and studying ice cores recovered from the polar regions of the world with information on public tours.
(Score: 1.380)
Water resources of Alaska
USGS water resources home page for Alaska with links to detailed hydrologic studies and real-time and historic data on streamflow, ground and surface water, glaciers, and water quality plus research activities, publications, and contacts.
(Score: 1.295)
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)
Mapping snow from air and space
Paper by Anne W. Nolin presented at the Workshop on Remote Sensing of Planetary Ices: Earth and other Solid Bodies, Flagstaff, 1997. Summary on mapping snow coverage and properties by satellite and airborne remote sensing methods.
(Score: 1.000)
The Great Ice Age
Booklet (PDF format) on the Pleistocene glaciations known as the Great Ice Age and the resulting geomorphological, climatic, and environmental changes that occurred on earth during the period.
(Score: 1.000)
Water resources of Colorado
USGS water resources home page for Colorado with links to detailed hydrologic studies and real-time and long-term data on streamflow, snowpack, sediment, ground and surface water, and water quality, plus publications, news, and drought watch.
(Score: 0.923)
Water resources of Maine
USGS water home page for Maine with detailed hydrologic studies and real-time and long term data for streamflow, ground and surface water, snow, and water quality plus drought watch, press releases, projects, and contacts.
(Score: 0.883)
Atlas of Antarctic research
Entry to the Atlas of Antarctic Research giving a common base map for displaying research results, data, and descriptions of projects. Layers can viewed or downloaded as Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), digital aerial photos, and satellite images.
(Score: 0.828)
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)
Benchmark glaciers
Summary of the USGS benchmark glacier program to intensively monitor climate, glacier motion, glacier mass balance, glacier geometry, and stream runoff at three glacier basins, Gulkana and Wolverine in Alaska and South Cascade in Washington.
(Score: 0.647)
Glacier effects of the M7.9 Denali fault earthquake of November 3, 2002
Description and photos documenting offsets and 260 mile rupture in the Denali glacier in central Alaska after the November 3, 2002 earthquake, the 9th largest earthquake in the United States in the last 200 years.
(Score: 0.647)
Flagstaff Field Center
Homepage for the Flagstaff Field center with links to space science, water and ice studies, earth sciences, biological resources, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, outreach & education, data and software, and images.
(Score: 0.468)
Maine Cooperative Snow Survey
The Maine Cooperative Snow Survey collects, interprets, and distributes information on the depth and water content of Maines snowpack in the late winter and early spring, when the danger of flooding in Maines rivers and streams is greatest.
(Score: 0.442)
Maine river ice monitoring system
The USGS in Augusta, Maine monitors river and ice conditions in areas of ice accumulation on the Kennebec River near Augusta,s providing real-time river stage data and real-time pictures of ice conditions at this location.
(Score: 0.442)
