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

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.