Headwater C fluxes

This research focuses on understanding processes controlling temporal and spatial variability in aquatic carbon fluxes in headwater streams. Headwater streams are areas of active carbon cycling because of steep topographic gradients, complex soil and vegetation patterns, and an abundance of small lakes and streams. The project will combine information from the following major components: High-frequency measurements of aquatic carbon fluxes using in-stream sensors will provide information on temporal dynamics at unprecedented resolution. A geostatistical model will be developed to characterize relations between landscape type (e.g., wetlands, forest, tundra) and aquatic C dynamics and fluxes. Variations in fluxes...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Carbon, Carbon fluxes, Colorado, Geostatistics, Modeling, All tags... Rocky Mountain National Park, Rocky Mountains, Staging, Wetlands, land use and land cover, temporal dynamics, Fewer tags

Railroads for Wyoming at 1:24,000

Wyoming railroads and rail yards were created at 1:24000 as an accurate representation for taxation purposes. This is critical for the GIS analysis needs of the Ad Valorem mapping section. This was not meant to be nor was it based on legal descriptions.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable; Tags: 1, Cities, Counties, GIS, Rail yards, All tags... Railroads, Revenue, Rocky Mountains, United States, Wyoming, economy, environment, society, transportation, Fewer tags

Spatial heterogeneity influences native and nonnative plant species richness.

Spatial heterogeneity may have differential effects on the distribution of native and nonnative plant species richness. We examined the effects of spatial heterogeneity on native and nonnative plant species richness distributions in the central part of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. Spatial heterogeneity around vegetation plots was characterized using landscape metrics, environmental/topographic variables (slope, aspect, elevation, and distance from stream or river), and soil variables (nitrogen, clay, and sand). The landscape metrics represented five components of landscape heterogeneity and were measured at four spatial extents (within varying radii of 120, 240, 480, and 960 m) using the FRAGSTATS...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: AIC, Ecology, FRAGSTATS, Rocky Mountains, Spatial scale, All tags... landscape metrics, model selection, native and nonnative plant species richness, spatial autocorrelation, spatial heterogeneity, Fewer tags

Station_rgr316

This dataset consists of 102 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2012-2014 in the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data to improve regional conductivity models of the western United States. This work is in support of studies of the effect of lithospheric modification on electrical resistivity structure and tectonic evolution of the western United States.

Tags: Electromagnetic surveying, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geophysics, MRP, All tags... MT, Magnetic field (earth), Mineral Resources Program, New Mexico, Rio Grande Rift, Rocky Mountains, apparent resistivity, geoscientificInformation, impedance, magnetotelluric, phase, regional conductivity models, time series, tipper, Fewer tags

Magnetotelluric data, Southern San Luis Valley, Colorado, 2006: Station 7

This dataset includes the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data collected in 2006 in the Southern San Luis Valley, Colorado. The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a series of multidisciplinary studies, including MT surveys, in the San Luis Valley to improve understanding of the hydrogeology of the Santa Fe Group and the nature of the sedimentary deposits comprising the principal groundwater aquifers of the Rio Grande rift. The shallow unconfined and the deeper confined Santa Fe Group aquifers in the San Luis Basin are the main sources of municipal water for the region. The population of the San Luis Valley region is growing rapidly and water shortfalls could have serious consequences. Future growth and land management...

Types: Citation; Tags: Colorado, Costilla County, Electromagnetic surveying, GPS measurement, Geophysics, All tags... MT, Magnetic field (earth), Magnetic surveying, Rocky Mountains, San Luis Valley, apparent resistivity, geoscientificinformation, impedance, impedance phase, impedance strike, magnetotelluric, sounding, tipper, Fewer tags

Potential climate change impacts on grassland connectivity in the U.S. Northern Rockies

Establishing connections among natural landscapes is the most frequently recommended strategy for adapting management of natural resources in response to climate change. The U.S. Northern Rockies still support a full suite of native wildlife, and survival of these populations depends on connected landscapes. Connected landscapes support current migration and dispersal as well as future shifts in species ranges that will be necessary for species to adapt to our changing climate. Working in partnership with state and federal resource managers and private land trusts, we sought to: 1) understand how future climate change may alter habitat composition of landscapes expected to serve as important connections for wildlife,...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS Map Package, Citation, Downloadable; Tags: Connectivity, Environment and Conservation, Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Idaho, All tags... Landscapes, Mammals, Montana, North Central CASC, Rocky Mountains, United States, Wildlife and Plants, Wyoming, climate change, environment, environment, grassland ecosystems, natural resource management, Fewer tags

Potential climate change impacts on alpine connectivity in the U.S. Northern Rockies

Establishing connections among natural landscapes is the most frequently recommended strategy for adapting management of natural resources in response to climate change. The U.S. Northern Rockies still support a full suite of native wildlife, and survival of these populations depends on connected landscapes. Connected landscapes support current migration and dispersal as well as future shifts in species ranges that will be necessary for species to adapt to our changing climate. Working in partnership with state and federal resource managers and private land trusts, we sought to: 1) understand how future climate change may alter habitat composition of landscapes expected to serve as important connections for wildlife,...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS Map Package, Citation, Downloadable; Tags: Alpine, Connectivity, Environment and Conservation, Forests, Grasslands and Plains, All tags... Idaho, Landscapes, Mammals, Montana, North Central CASC, Rocky Mountains, United States, Wildlife and Plants, Wyoming, climate change, environment, environment, natural resource management, Fewer tags

Magnetotelluric sounding data, station 32, San Luis Valley, Colorado, 2007

This dataset includes the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data collected in 2007 in and near the San Luis Valley, Colorado. The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a series of multidisciplinary studies, including MT surveys, in the San Luis Valley to improve understanding of the hydrogeology of the Santa Fe Group and the nature of the sedimentary deposits comprising the principal groundwater aquifers of the Rio Grande rift. The shallow unconfined and the deeper confined Santa Fe Group aquifers in the San Luis Basin are the main sources of municipal water for the region. The population of the San Luis Valley region is growing rapidly and water shortfalls could have serious consequences. Future growth and land management...

Tags: CGGSC, Colorado, Conejos County, Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center, Electromagnetic surveying, All tags... GPS measurement, Geophysics, MRP, MT, Magnetic field (earth), Magnetic surveying, Mineral Resources Program, Rocky Mountains, San Luis Valley, apparent resistivity, aquifer, geoscientificinformation, groundwater, hydrogeology, impedance, impedance phase, impedance strike, magnetotelluric, sounding, tipper, Fewer tags

Collection of digital structure contour maps from previously published USGS studies

Under the direction and funding of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP) with guidance and encouragement from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), there has been a decadal strategic plan in place to call for geologic mapping across the nation. This call has been increasing the need for digital data that has not yet been made available. With such a demand, physical data is being re-released as vector-based, GIS operable data, which is viable as a corporate asset to the USGS. This collection of reports is part of the compilation and synthesis efforts hampered by the distributed nature of subsurface investigations at the USGS and a general lack of cataloging and archiving of 3-D geological...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Almond Formation, Arizona, Baxter Shale, Castlegate Sandstone, Colorado, All tags... Colorado Shale, Cutler Group, Dakota Formation, Dakota Sandstone, Exshaw Black Shale, Federal Geographic Data Committee, Fox Hills Sandstone, GeMS, Geologic Mapping Schema, Geomorphology, Glorieta Sandstone, Goose Egg Formation, Kinderhook Black Shale, Leadville Limestone, Lewis Shale, Minnelusa Formation, Montana, Morrison Formation, Mowry Shale, National Cooperative Geologic Map Program, National Geologic Synthesis Project, New Mexico, North Dakota, Paradox Basin, Permian, Piceance Basin, Piceance Creek Basin, Pierre Shale, Powder River Basin, Rocky Mountains, Rollins Sandstone, San Andres Limestone, San Juan Basin, San Juan Mountains, San Juan Volcanics, Sedimentology, South Dakota, Stratigraphy, Structural Geology, Sundance Formation, Sundance Unconformity, Tensleep Sandstone, Trout Creek Sandstone, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Uinta Basin, Utah, Wasatch Formation, Williston Basin, Wyoming, boundaries, chronostratigraphy, elevation, elevation, estimated thickness, geoscientificInformation, isopach contour, stratigraphy, structure contour, thickness contour, vector, Fewer tags

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Shrub Fractional Component Time-Series Across Western North America from 1985-2023

The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, tree, and shrub height in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, high-resolution training was revised using an improved neural-net classifier and modelling approach. These data serve as foundation to the RCMAP approach. The training database was...

Tags: AB, AZ, Alberta, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, All tags... Black Hills, Blue Mountains, CA, CO, California, Canada, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Prairie Provinces, Rocky Mountains, SD, SK, Saskatchewan, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrub height, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, vegetation height, Fewer tags

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Non Sagebrush Shrub Fractional Component Time-Series Across Western North America from 1985-2023

The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across western North America using Landsat imagery from 1985-2023. The RCMAP product suite consists of ten fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, tree, and shrub height in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, high-resolution training was revised using an improved neural-net classifier and modelling approach. These data serve as foundation to the RCMAP approach. The training database was...

Tags: AB, AZ, Alberta, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, All tags... Black Hills, Blue Mountains, CA, CO, California, Canada, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Prairie Provinces, Rocky Mountains, SD, SK, Saskatchewan, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrub height, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, vegetation height, Fewer tags

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Fractional Component Time-Series Across the Western U.S. 1985-2021

The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across the western U.S. using Landsat imagery from 1985-2021. The RCMAP product suite consists of nine fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub, and tree, in addition to the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. First, we have trained time-series predictions directly from 331 high-resolution sites collected from 2013-2018 from Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) instead of using the 2016 “base” map as an intermediary....

Tags: AZ, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, Black Hills, Blue Mountains, All tags... CA, CO, California, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, Land Use Change, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Rocky Mountains, SD, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, Fewer tags

Remote Sensing Shrub/Grass National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Back-in-Time (BIT) Annual Herbaceous Products for the Western U.S., 1985 - 2018

The need to monitor change in sagebrush steppe is urgent due to the increasing impacts of climate change, shifting fire regimes, and management practices on ecosystem health. Remote sensing provides a cost-effective and reliable method for monitoring change through time and attributing changes to drivers. We report an automated method of mapping rangeland fractional component cover over a large portion of the Northern Great Basin, USA, from 1986 to 2016 using a dense Landsat imagery time series. 2012 was excluded from the time-series due to a lack of quality imagery. Our method improved upon the traditional change vector method by considering the legacy of change at each pixel. We evaluate cover trends stratified...

Tags: AZ, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, Black Hills, Blue Mountains, All tags... CA, CO, California, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Middle Rockies, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mountainous, OR, Oregon, Rocky Mountains, SD, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, Three Forks, UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, Fewer tags

wind_approved_lease_points_blm

This data set consists of approved wind energy development facilities locations in the western United States. The data set was created by converting facilities polygons to point locations,.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, All tags... Energy, Great Basin, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, Renewable Energy, Rocky Mountains, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wind, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins, western Great Plains, western US, Fewer tags

Magnetotelluric data, Southern San Luis Valley, Colorado, 2006: Station 15

This dataset includes the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data collected in 2006 in the Southern San Luis Valley, Colorado. The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a series of multidisciplinary studies, including MT surveys, in the San Luis Valley to improve understanding of the hydrogeology of the Santa Fe Group and the nature of the sedimentary deposits comprising the principal groundwater aquifers of the Rio Grande rift. The shallow unconfined and the deeper confined Santa Fe Group aquifers in the San Luis Basin are the main sources of municipal water for the region. The population of the San Luis Valley region is growing rapidly and water shortfalls could have serious consequences. Future growth and land management...

Types: Citation; Tags: Colorado, Costilla County, Electromagnetic surveying, GPS measurement, Geophysics, All tags... MT, Magnetic field (earth), Magnetic surveying, Rocky Mountains, San Luis Valley, apparent resistivity, geoscientificinformation, impedance, impedance phase, impedance strike, magnetotelluric, sounding, tipper, Fewer tags

Magnetotelluric data, Southern San Luis Valley, Colorado, 2006: Station 18

This dataset includes the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data collected in 2006 in the Southern San Luis Valley, Colorado. The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a series of multidisciplinary studies, including MT surveys, in the San Luis Valley to improve understanding of the hydrogeology of the Santa Fe Group and the nature of the sedimentary deposits comprising the principal groundwater aquifers of the Rio Grande rift. The shallow unconfined and the deeper confined Santa Fe Group aquifers in the San Luis Basin are the main sources of municipal water for the region. The population of the San Luis Valley region is growing rapidly and water shortfalls could have serious consequences. Future growth and land management...

Types: Citation; Tags: Colorado, Costilla County, Electromagnetic surveying, GPS measurement, Geophysics, All tags... MT, Magnetic field (earth), Magnetic surveying, Rocky Mountains, San Luis Valley, apparent resistivity, geoscientificinformation, impedance, impedance phase, impedance strike, magnetotelluric, sounding, tipper, Fewer tags

Station_rgr206

This dataset consists of 102 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2012-2014 in the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data to improve regional conductivity models of the western United States. This work is in support of studies of the effect of lithospheric modification on electrical resistivity structure and tectonic evolution of the western United States.

Tags: Colorado Plateau, Electromagnetic surveying, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geophysics, All tags... MRP, MT, Magnetic field (earth), Mineral Resources Program, New Mexico, Rio Grande Rift, Rocky Mountains, apparent resistivity, geoscientificInformation, impedance, magnetotelluric, phase, regional conductivity models, time series, tipper, Fewer tags

Station_rgr207

This dataset consists of 102 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2012-2014 in the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data to improve regional conductivity models of the western United States. This work is in support of studies of the effect of lithospheric modification on electrical resistivity structure and tectonic evolution of the western United States.

Tags: Colorado Plateau, Electromagnetic surveying, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geophysics, All tags... MRP, MT, Magnetic field (earth), Mineral Resources Program, New Mexico, Rio Grande Rift, Rocky Mountains, apparent resistivity, geoscientificInformation, impedance, magnetotelluric, phase, regional conductivity models, time series, tipper, Fewer tags

Station_rgr213

This dataset consists of 102 magnetotelluric (MT) stations collected in 2012-2014 in the Rio Grande Rift and southern Rocky Mountains. The U.S. Geological Survey acquired these data to improve regional conductivity models of the western United States. This work is in support of studies of the effect of lithospheric modification on electrical resistivity structure and tectonic evolution of the western United States.

Tags: Electromagnetic surveying, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geophysics, MRP, All tags... MT, Magnetic field (earth), Mineral Resources Program, New Mexico, Rio Grande Rift, Rocky Mountains, apparent resistivity, geoscientificInformation, impedance, magnetotelluric, phase, regional conductivity models, time series, tipper, Fewer tags

Magnetotelluric data, Southern San Luis Valley, Colorado, 2006: Station 13

This dataset includes the magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data collected in 2006 in the Southern San Luis Valley, Colorado. The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a series of multidisciplinary studies, including MT surveys, in the San Luis Valley to improve understanding of the hydrogeology of the Santa Fe Group and the nature of the sedimentary deposits comprising the principal groundwater aquifers of the Rio Grande rift. The shallow unconfined and the deeper confined Santa Fe Group aquifers in the San Luis Basin are the main sources of municipal water for the region. The population of the San Luis Valley region is growing rapidly and water shortfalls could have serious consequences. Future growth and land management...

Types: Citation; Tags: Colorado, Costilla County, Electromagnetic surveying, GPS measurement, Geophysics, All tags... MT, Magnetic field (earth), Magnetic surveying, Rocky Mountains, San Luis Valley, apparent resistivity, geoscientificinformation, impedance, impedance phase, impedance strike, magnetotelluric, sounding, tipper, Fewer tags