USGS Energy and Wildlife Research Year in Review | U.S. Geological Survey - a shortcut to scientific papers published in FY 2024 on the interactions of fish and wildlife with energy infrastructure https://t.co/udYXT8RaQJ #energyandwildlife#windenergy#solarenergy
Educators, take your students on virtual field trips to #NationalParks!
Explore the Grand Canyon's rock layers, Mount St. Helens' eruptions, or dive into park biodiversity. Perfect for lessons on geology and ecology — all from your classroom!
https://t.co/bKLl4y4RST
How did new wind energy facilities lead to restored habitat in North Dakota? USGS & @USFWS calculated the amount of habitat needed to support birds displaced by new energy production so the right amount of habitat could restored. #UnleashTheScience here: https://t.co/NfNn43ZUUC
Do you know what lives in an octopus's garden? 🐙🌻?
See our new factsheet to learn how eDNA could help find the answer and be applied to offshore wind energy development: https://t.co/OOMQ1S1b6G
#CHOW2024#RenewableEnergy#OceanConservation#eDNA#Biodiversity
Bats are now in the cool crowd, but that doesn’t mean things that threaten them, like disease, have disappeared. Learn about our science related to bat and other wildlife interactions with wind energy in our new feature story: https://t.co/SCbwtH4xaV
#BatAppreciationDay#Bats
It’s here, our one-stop shop for all large-scale #SolarEnergy facilities that we made with @BerkeleyLab & @ENERGY! See all 3700 large-scale #solar plants in the US in this interactive map: https://t.co/Vok9pOBuOJ
USGS and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory release database and interactive map of all large-scale solar energy facilities in the U.S. | U.S. Geological Survey https://t.co/AcA84GkenL #solarenergy
Sometimes, science takes time. Learn how ongoing research is helping to increase populations of American shad, a fish prized by anglers across the U.S. https://t.co/7Jw2cp6LMi 🐟
#Biology
📷Joe Zydlewski
Happy 133rd Birthday to Sequoia National Park, home of the General Sherman Tree (the world's largest - by volume)! 🎂🌲
Here's a photo of it from 1909: https://t.co/6ksZddobQe
Have you visited? We'd love to see your pics!
@SequoiaKingsNPS
We're super excited to announce the Top 300 in the inaugural @thermofisher Scientific #JuniorInnovators Challenge. Congratulations to these young scientists! https://t.co/8A7B26dQtx
Love this piece by @khulick also including research efforts by @USGS ecologists and wildlife biologists studying eagles and tortoises 🦅🐢 Research is motivated to find ways to reduce impacts of renewables on protected #wildlife
USGS EROS was developed in the 1970’s as a place to store and distribute the imagery from the #Landsat Earth observation satellite program. Since then it has become much more - including a place to advance land cover mapping and monitoring: https://t.co/x9cW9wjXRX
#LandCover 🛰️
Stormwater and road runoff are forms of pollution that can contain contaminants that affect aquatic #ecosystems. One of these is a chemical that keeps tire rubber from cracking and can harm fish and other aquatic animals: https://t.co/c1swG8CeOc
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📸Florian Graner
A study by @BoiseState, Idaho Power and USGS found that 66% of dead birds collected during surveys along power lines in 4 western states died from gunshot. Shot species included bald eagles and other protected migratory birds. https://t.co/cmwn8c57AX