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Framework Geology

• Geologic Framework of Rio Grande Basins, New Mexico and Colorado
  
1. Española Basin Technical Advisory Group
   
• Geologic Framework of the Central Death Valley Region
  
• Geologic Map of North America
  
• Geologic Mapping for Land-use Planning: Central Colorado Assessment Project
  
• Geologic Mapping Studies at Buffalo National River, Northern Arkansas
  
• Greater Platte River Basins and Northern Plains Geologic Framework Studies Project
  
• Improving the Geohydrologic Framework of the Edwards and Trinity Aquifers, South-central Texas
  
• Montana Geologic Investigations
  
• North Park-Medicine Bow Mountains Project
  
• Surficial Geology of the Mesa Verde National Park Area
  
• U.S.-Mexico Border Geologic Framework Project
  

Geologic Mapping for Urban Growth

• Geologic Mapping Along the I-70 Corridor in Western Colorado
  
• Quaternary Atlas of the United States
  
• Surficial Geologic Mapping along the Alaska Highway in East-central Alaska
  

Climate and Environmental Change

• Climate Change, Land Use, and Environmental Sensitivity (CLUES)
  
1. Assessing Potential Future Changes in Climate, Hydrology, and Vegetation in the Western United States
   
2. Quantitative Paleoclimatic Reconstructions from Late Pleistocene Plant Macrofossils of the Yucca Mountain Region
   
• Ecosystem and Climate History of Alaska
  
1. How Does Climate Change Influence Alaska's Vegetation?
   
2. An Illustrated Diary of Summer 1998 Field Investigations in Southern Alaska
   
• Effects of Climatic Variability and Land Use on American Drylands
  
1. Geology, Ecology, and Land Use in the Hopi Buttes Area, Navajo Nation, Arizona
   
2. Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use in the Southwestern United States—Web Workshop
   
3. The Inventory of North American Dust Sources
   
4. Rio Puerco Basin
   
5. Southwest Climate Impact Meteorological Stations (CLIM-MET)
   
6. Using Remote Sensing to Detect Active Dust Storms and Map Areas Vulnerable to Eolian Erosion
   
• Eolian History of North America
  
• Exploring Future Flora, Environments, and Climates Through Simulations (EFFECTS)
  
• Last Interglacial: Timing and Environment (LITE)
  
• Paleoclimate Variability of the American Southwest
  
• The Snowmastodon Project
  
• Surficial Geology and Geomorphology of the Great Sand Dunes Area, South-Central Colorado
  
• Western Lake/Catchment Systems (LACS)
  
1. Extent of Pleistocene Lakes in the Western Great Basin
   

Carbon Cycle

1. Evidence of Climate Change over the Last 10,000 Years from the Sediments of Lakes in the Upper Mississippi Basin
   
2. Magnitude and Significance of Carbon Burial in Lakes, Reservoirs, and Northern Peatlands
   

Cryospheric studies

1. Real-Time Permafrost and Climate Monitoring Network in Arctic Alaska
   
2. Borehole Temperature Logs from Arctic Alaska, Pre-1989
   
3. A Low-Cost Mechanical "Access" Drill for Polar Glaciology (PDF)
   

Facilities

1. Radiogenic Isotope Laboratory
   

Stratigraphic Framework

• Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Studies in the Southwest
  

International Studies

• Afghanistan Reconstruction—Geologic Mapping and Resource Evaluation Studies
  

Searchable Research Databases

• The Inventory of North American Dust Sources
  
• USGS/NOAA North American Packrat Midden Database