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Rendering High-Resolution Hydro-Climatic Data for Southern California Natural resource managers and researchers often need long-term averages of historical and future climate scenarios for their study area yet may not have the resources to make these summaries. This project will provide high quality, detailed maps of historical and projected future climate and hydrologic conditions for California and a finer scale version for southern California. The project will also assess the feasibility of expanding these reference data to the southwestern US and identify the most suitable online data portals for the public to view and analyze the data in support of local initiatives. The map products can be used to assess the impacts of ongoing climate change and to develop climate adaptation... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: 2023, Basin Characterization Model, CASC, Climate Change, Data Services, All tags... Downscaling, Hydroclimatic Model, Projects by Region, Southern California, Southwest, Southwest CASC, Fewer tags State Wildlife Action Planning in the Midwest As part of the State Wildlife Grant Fund, states are required to submit State Wildlife Plans (SWAPs) every 10 years detailing threats to habitats and species and conservation plans. However, incorporating climate change in SWAPs is voluntary, and capacity/expertise limitations at state agencies have resulted in varied and often only partial consideration of climate change impacts. In response, the MW CASC will conduct literature reviews to assess climate stressors and impacts to habitats and key species and to identify relevant adaptation actions for 13 different Level 2/3 EPA Ecoregions contained within the MW CASC area states. This work will provide a foundation for future habitat vulnerability assessments. ... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2023, CASC, Midwest, Midwest CASC, Projects by Region, All tags... Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, State of the Science, State of the Science, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Phase One: Southeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change Management Network (SE RISCC) Climate change is expected to worsen the harmful effects of invasive species on native wildlife. This presents a growing conservation challenge for invasive species managers in the southeastern United States where thousands of invasive species exist. While many of these invasive species currently have relatively small ranges in the southeastern U.S., climate change may allow them to expand into new regions. To effectively plan and respond to the redistribution of invasive species, it is crucial to coordinate existing information and identify future information needs across regional boundaries. The ultimate goal of this project is to improve invasive species management in the face of climate change by establishing... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2021, Birds, Birds, CASC, Fish, All tags... Fish, Mammals, Mammals, Other Wildlife, Other Wildlife, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Southeast, Southeast CASC, State of the Science, State of the Science, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Groundwater and Stream Temperature Modeling to Assess the Effect of Warming Temperatures on Coldwater Fish Cold-water fish species such as trout and salmon are highly valued components of many stream ecosystems in Michigan and the Great Lakes region and are sensitive to rising stream temperatures. For example, the timing of spawning and development rates of these species are affected by stream temperature from late fall through spring. Historically, stream temperature modeling has focused on air temperature and solar radiation as the main drivers of stream temperature, while streams that are fed by groundwater are often viewed as being less affected by climate warming. However, as the climate continues to warm, groundwater temperatures could also rise, thereby contributing to warming stream temperatures and reducing... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2023, CASC, Midwest, Midwest CASC, Projects by Region, All tags... Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags Mapping Effects of Wetland Change on Amphibians in the Upper Midwest Many amphibian species are highly susceptible to changes in precipitation timing and volume because of their reliance on intermittently flooded surface water pools, which are primarily filled through snowmelt and precipitation runoff. ​With increasing evapotranspiration (i.e. transfer of water from land to the atmosphere) due to climate change, the timing and availability of water in key amphibian reproductive habitats will likely be altered. This project will assess the future risk to amphibian populations in the Midwest, identifying present and future richness hotspots and those wetland species and populations most at risk of habitat loss due to climate change. The research team will model landscape level changes... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2022, CASC, Midwest, Midwest CASC, Other Wildlife, All tags... Other Wildlife, Projects by Region, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Characterizing Climate Change Impacts on Species Ecology to Support Species Status Assessments Species Status Assessments provide vital information to US Fish and Wildlife for improving considerations for climate change impacts. In the constrained timeline of species listing decisions, it is not always feasible to conduct lengthy quantitative analyses so there is a need for better resources to provide input for rapid decision-making. In this project, the team will work with species status assessment teams to address direct and indirect effects of climate change on priority species chosen through conversations with US Fish and Wildlife regional offices. This project aims to provide an overview of the direct and indirect effects of climate change on species life cycle, survival, species interactions, and habitat... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2020, CASC, Midwest, Midwest CASC, Projects by Region, All tags... Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Southeast, State of the Science, State of the Science, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Synthesizing the Responses and Vulnerabilities of Freshwater Invertebrates to Droughts and Heavy Precipitation in the Midwest The Midwest United States is facing wetter winters and springs and more variable precipitation in the summer and fall. Heavy floods and prolonged droughts are costly to agriculture, housing, transportation infrastructure, and recreational opportunities across the region. These extremes also stress the health of freshwater ecosystems that are important to the regional economy and quality of life. The number of freshwater invertebrates like mussels, crayfish, and aquatic insects are generally declining which strongly indicates declining freshwater health. Losing these animals limits benefits such as water purification, food for wildlife, and aesthetic values. This project seeks to understand and synthesize information... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2023, CASC, Drought, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, All tags... Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Midwest, Midwest CASC, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, invertebrates, precipitation, Fewer tags Assessing and Advancing Different Ways of Knowing in Climate Adaptation in the Midwest The Midwest region faces unique challenges from climate change that affect forests, grasslands, lakes, rivers, wetlands, and the services and cultural values these ecosystems provide. These changes also occur in a wide range of land types and cultural settings, such as on and off Tribal reservation and treaty-ceded land, within and around towns and cities, and in farms and managed forests. The goal of adaptation science is to identify, test, and demonstrate management strategies that reduce the impacts of climate change. This project will advance the creation and distribution of adaptation science that addresses the natural resource needs of the Midwest through: 1) a synthesis project and research symposium that... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2023, CASC, Climate change adaptation, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Peoples, All tags... Midwest, Midwest CASC, Projects by Region, Tribes and Tribal Organizations, Tribes and Tribal Organizations, co-production, Fewer tags Indigenous Perspectives on Lake Sturgeon and the Potential Impact of Climate Change Lake sturgeon are a fish of strong subsistence, cultural, and spiritual importance for many Tribal nations. But lake sturgeon are especially vulnerable to climate change given their unique life history and historical mass declines. Therefore, there is a great need to incorporate Tribal perspectives on lake sturgeon shifts and information needs into adaptation planning to conserve these fish in a changing climate. This project aims to synthesize documented and projected potentiall effects of climate change on lake sturgeon; synthesize Indigenous perspectives and experiences with lake sturgeon in a changing climate; and identify information needs, future research avenues, and potential adaptation options to support... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2022, CASC, Fish, Fish, Indigenous Peoples, All tags... Indigenous Peoples, Midwest, Midwest CASC, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Tribes and Tribal Organizations, Tribes and Tribal Organizations, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Assessing the Risk to National Park Service Lands in Alaska Imposed by Rapidly Warming Temperatures The observed rate of warming in many National Park Service (NPS) lands in Alaska has accelerated soil subsidence and increased landslide frequency, thereby threatening public access, subsistence activities and infrastructure in NPS regions. Areas most affected by this change are along the Denali Park Road, the proposed Ambler Road through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, and the McCarthy Road in Wrangell – St. Elias National Park and Preserve. In light of this, resource managers need highly accurate, localized climate information to assess and plan for future landslide hazards. This project addresses concerns and management implications in these focus areas with emerging issues that have been outlined... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2021, Alaska, Alaska CASC, CASC, Data Visualization & Tools, All tags... Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Fewer tags Climate Adaptation for Data-Limited Inland Fisheries Inland fisheries have tremendous cultural, economic, and subsistence value. However, climate change brings new stresses to land-locked fisheries that raise novel challenges for resource managers. One fundamental challenge in inland fisheries is how to best assess and manage data-limited fisheries when resources are finite and uncertainty is pervasive. To address this challenge, we will use quantitative models to examine whether indicators of fish population status commonly-measured by managers can serve as a “short-cut” to more data- and capacity-intensive approaches. Further, we will work and communicate directly with state and Tribal fisheries managers to better understand the challenges they face when making... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2023, Adaptation, CASC, Fish, Fish, All tags... Fisheries, Midwest, Midwest CASC, Modeling, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, State of the Science, State of the Science, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Developing a Decision Making and Climate Adaptation Framework for National Wildlife Refuge System Managers in the Midwest Climate change presents new and compounding challenges to natural resource management. With shifting climate patterns, managers are confronted with difficult decisions on how to minimize climate impacts to habitats, infrastructure, and wildlife populations. Further, managers lack the information needed to make proactive management decisions. To address this problem, this project will develop a decision and adaptation framework to support site‐level decision‐making that facilitates thoughtful integration of climate change information into formal management and planning processes. In collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS), the proposed framework will integrate... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2022, CASC, Data Visualization & Tools, Data Visualization & Tools, Midwest, All tags... Midwest CASC, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Fewer tags Alaska's Changing Habitats: A Multi-System Approach for Understanding Climate Impacts in High Latitude Regions Scientific information can be used to help individuals, communities, and governments alike make more informed decisions. However, for people to become aware of the science that could inform their decisions and its relevance to their lives and decisions, it must be communicated effectively. Multiple obstacles prevent this from happening, including scientists’ lack of time and communication expertise, among other barriers. This pilot project is a novel internship program that pairs student interns with USGS scientists to assist with field-based natural or physical science research in Alaska, while also providing support to the teams of interns and scientists to generate creative and durable science communication products... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2023, Alaska CASC, CASC, Data Visualization & Tools, Science Tools for Managers Technical Assessment of Climate Science Needs in the Midwest In 2020, in partnership with the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (NE CASC), the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (MW CASC) completed a four-part process to identify climate science priorities for both the Northeast and Midwest regions. The process included: structured feedback from an advisory committee, the completion of six listening sessions, feedback from project partners, and a review of regional climate initiatives. These efforts identified five management challenges for the MW CASC: 1) heavy precipitation events and drought, 2) loss of winter, 3) altered water levels, flows and temperatures, 4) new terrestrial landscapes resulting from climate change, and 5) barriers and opportunities... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2022, CASC, Completed, Midwest, Midwest, All tags... Midwest CASC, Projects by Region, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, State of the Science, Fewer tags Evaluating the Vulnerability of Indigenous Shell Middens and Marsh Habitat Diversity to Sea Level Rise Coastal marshes in the Gulf of Mexico host diverse ecological communities and hold Native American cultural artifacts within shell mounds (middens). However, both are vulnerable to erosion and submergence due to rising sea levels and more frequent severe storms. Researchers supported by this Southeast CASC project will develop a risk-assessment tool to evaluate the vulnerability of cultural sites and marsh habitat diversity to climate impacts. The outcomes will benefit land managers and Tribes by providing critical information to help protect these valuable heritage and ecological sites. Coastal marshes in the Gulf of Mexico face climate change threats from sea level rise and frequent severe storms. These wetlands... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2024, CASC, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Peoples, Projects by Region, All tags... Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Southeast, Southeast CASC, Tribes and Tribal Organizations, Tribes and Tribal Organizations, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, Wetlands, Fewer tags Geochemical, petrophysical, and drill hole database for Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks and iron ore deposits of the St. Francois Mountains, southeast Missouri Geochemical, petrophysical, and depth to the Paleozoic-Precambrian basement interface from drill hole data for Mesoproterozoic igneous rocks and iron ore deposits of the St. Francois Mountains, southeast Missouri (MMDB) are provided in this data release. The samples were collected as part of various agency programs and projects from 1967 through 2019. Most samples were collected by agency personnel and analyzed in agency laboratories, under contracts in commercial analytical laboratories, or in the field. The geochemical data compilations include historical geochemical data archived in the USGS National Geochemical Database (NGDB), the Missouri Geological Survey (MGS) of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources,... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Boss-Bixby mineral deposit, Bourbon mineral deposit, Camels Hump mineral deposit, GGGSC, Geochemistry, All tags... Ketcherside Gap mineral deposit, Kratz Spring mineral deposit, MRP, McCracken Core Library and Research Center, Mesoproterozoic, Mineral Resources, Missouri, Missouri Geological Survey, NGDB, National Geochemical Database, Operation Basement, Pea Ridge mineral deposit, Precambrian, Proterozoic, St. Francois Mountains, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center, USGS Mineral Resources Program, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, aluminum, analytical chemistry, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bound or essential water, bromine, bulk density, cadmium, calcium, calcium carbonate, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbonate carbon, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, drill core, drill cuttings, drillhole, dysprosium, erbium, europium, exploration geochemistry, ferric iron, ferrous iron, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, holmium, igneous rocks, indium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, loss on ignition, loss on ignition, lutetium, magnesium, magnetic susceptibility, manganese, mercury, metamorphic rocks, mineral resources, moisture or nonessential water, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, organic carbon, palladium, petrophysical data, phosphorus, platinum, plutonic rocks, potassium, praseodymium, rhenium, rhodium, rock chemistry, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, sedimentary rocks, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, total water, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, volcanic rocks, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags Improving the Midwest Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool to Support Regional Climate Adaptation Climate vulnerability assessments are tools that aid in understanding why specific resources are vulnerable to projected changes in climate. A recently developed online climate vulnerability assessment dashboard (https://www.usgs.gov/apps/CC_Vulnerability/) helps understand where vulnerability is projected to be greatest across watersheds in the Midwest United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin). This Northeast CASC-funded dashboard was created for, and in cooperation with, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to be useful to various FWS programs in the Midwest. With its broad applicability in mind, the dashboard has high potential to support other groups struggling... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2022, CASC, Completed, Data Visualization & Tools, Data Visualization & Tools, All tags... Midwest, Midwest CASC, Projects by Region, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Fewer tags