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The Western Geographic Science Center conducts research to help communities make decisions about the interaction between people and their environment. We conduct geographic research on the environmental and societal consequences of a changing landscape.

Our projects analyze human / environmental interactions spatially and temporally. Our work is collaborative, involving many partners and linking many different natural science and social science disciplines. Our work is concentrated in the 9 states of the USGS Western Region and is conducted on local and regional scales.

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The USGS is advertising Research Opportunities (projects) that span a wide range of USGS science. The postdoc positions will be open until February 21, 2012. We anticipate being ready to make offers for FY-13 in April. For more information visit the USGS Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program website at http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc.

New Imaging System Aids Understanding of Carbon Dynamics in Terrestrial Ecosystems:


Dennis Dye USGS research geographer Dennis Dye will participate in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Dec. 3- 7, in San Francisco, CA by presenting results from his recent field campaign to evaluate the performance of the High Dynamic Range All-Sky Imaging System, a new USGS instrument designed to support improved understanding and prediction of carbon dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems; Dye's research is sponsored by the USGS Geographic Analysis and Monitoring program. The AGU Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, attracting nearly 20,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and policy makers.  For more information, visit http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting or contact Dennis Dye at 928-556-7029.

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In the News
USGS Powell Fellow Wins AGU Chapman Water Conference Award:

USGS Powell Fellow and University of Arizona researcher Isabella Mariotto won a competitive American Geophysical Union Chapman Award from the NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program to participate in the February 2012 Conference on Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle by presenting "Application of SEBAL Modified for Topographic Reflectance and Roughness to Map the Spatial Distribution of ET in a Heterogeneous Area". Mariotto is currently working on the NASA grant "Water Use and Water Productivity of Key World Crops using Hyperion-ASTER, and a Large Collection of in-situ Field Biological and Spectral Data in Central Asia", and also with the USGS Powell Center Working Group on Global Croplands. For more information, contact Isabella Mariotto at 575-635-5838. Rachel Sleeter
December 23, 2011

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