Future of Geology Meeting, April 16-19, 2007
One Page Project Descriptions

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Climate | Ecosystems | Energy & Minerals | Hazards | Health | Water | Other

Climate

• Advanced Open Geospatial© Web Technologies for Multi-Disciplinary Access to Scientific Data [35 kB]
• Developing a Science-Based Natural Resource Information System [24 kB]

1. Climate Change in the Southwest: A Sentinel for the Nation [35 kB]
2. The Impact of Sea-level rise on the Open Coast [27 kB]
3. The Arctic Ocean Basin and Coastline: Climate Change, Resources, and Law of the Sea [25 kB]
4. The Continental Shelf as a Global Carbon Sink [150 kB]
5. Impact of Rapidly Rising Sea Levels on Infrastructure of Coral Atolls [24 kB]
6. Impact of Rapidly Rising Sea Levels on Health of U.S. Coral Reefs [24 kB]
7. A Landscape Approach to Exploring Coral Reef Resiliency and Adaptation to Climate Change [29 kB]
8. Anoxia and Climate Change: Using Constraints from Ancient Ore Deposits for Modeling Modern Marine Chemistry [28 kB]
9. Coastal Greenhouse Gas Fluxes: A Poorly Quantified Climate Feedback [27 kB]
10. Landscape Response to Climate Change [29 kB]
11. A USGS Function from 1879 to 1925; USBM Function from 1925 to 1996; Responsibility Transferred Back to USGS in January 1996 [29 kB]
12. The CO2 Problem: Too Much Of A Good Thing [24 kB]
13. Paleocology of Deep-Sea Corals in the Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic: Deciphering the High Resolution Marine Climate History Over the Last Three Thousand Years [41 kB]
14. Integrated Paleoclimate Framework [33 kB]
15. Geologic Storage of CO2: Potential Environmental & Human Health Effects [23 kB]
16. Impacts of Permafrost Thaw on Infrastructure and Ecosystems in Arctic Alaska [33 kB]
17. Inter-Agency Examination of the Role of Groundwater Discharge in the Carbon Budget of the U.S. East Coast [43 kB]
18. Characterizing and Communicating the Nation’s Vulnerability to Sea-level Rise: A USGS Inter-Disciplinary Approach [35 kB]
19. Understanding Global Climate Change through Understanding Deep Time Global Geologic Paleoclimate Change – “How Bad Can It Get? [29 kB]
20. USGS Remote Sensing Global Change Research [33 kB]
21. Enabling Climate-Quality Calibration of Satellite Remote Sensing Instruments Using the Moon [24 kB]

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Ecosystems

• Advanced Open Geospatial© Web Technologies for Multi-Disciplinary Access to Scientific Data [35 kB]
• Developing a Science-Based Natural Resource Information System [24 kB]

1. Geomorphology of Dams and Dam Removal [26 kB]
2. A Census Study of Submarine Canyons in the Eastern Pacific [27 kB]
3. The Influence of Estuaries on Transport of Sediment Across the Land-Sea Interface: Retention, Recycling, and Transformation [24 kB]
4. Sediment Movement at the Land/Sea Interface [124 kB]
5. Artificial Reefs [239 kB]
6. Dam Removal/Construction and the Coastal Environment [36 kB]
7. Mapping in Federal Waters [22 kB]
8. Sediment and Pollutant Transport Pathways Originating on Land and Passing Through the Urbanized Coastal Ocean [23 kB]
9. Geologic Mapping on Native Lands in the Southwest [31 kB]
10. Hydrogeologic Influences on Health and Dynamics of Coastal Ecosystems [34 kB]
11. Basin Analysis Teams (BAT) [124 kB]
12. Quaternary Evolution of Sacramento Valley Demonstration Research Project [227 kB]
13. Coastal Health/Sustainable Beach Ecosystems [62 kB]
14. Fires and Soil Biochemistry: Characterizing Water Quality Impacts and Predicting Long-Term Trends in Ecosystem Recovery [34 kB]
15. Coastal Zone Mapping: A National Research Program Responding to Regional, State, and Local Needs [38 kB]
16. Woods Hole Science Center - Law of the Sea Studies [29 kB]
17. National Survey of Submerged Lands [37 kB]
18. The Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury in the Coastal Marine Environment [28 kB]
19. Extending the geologic map offshore with a seamless interface onshore: US Shelf Map Project [36 kB]
20. Organic Matter Composition of Sediments in Nearshore Coastal Habitat: Past and Present Sources of Organic Carbon and Implications for Ecosystem Restoration [116 kB]
21. The Role of Submarine Groundwater Discharge in Coastal Ecosystemsc [25 kB]
22. Do Coastal Ecosystems Mitigate Storm Surges and Tsunamis? [22 kB]
23. U.S. Sustainability in the 21st Century [30 kB]
24. The Influence of Estuaries on Transport of Sediment Across the Land-Sea Interface: Retention, Recycling, and Transformation [24 kB]

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Energy & Minerals

• Advanced Open Geospatial© Web Technologies for Multi-Disciplinary Access to Scientific Data [35 kB]
• Developing a Science-Based Natural Resource Information System [24 kB]

1. Development of Techniques for Providing Ecosystem Assessments Related to Energy and Mineral Resources [31 kB]
2. The Effect of Energy Resource Access and Use on Ecosystems [28 kB]
3. Energy for Americas Future.doc [30 kB]
4. Global Mineral Resource Assessment; Application of Results to Global Ecosystem and Water-Related Issues [28 kB]
5. Biomethanogenesis: A Potentially Renewable Geologic Biofuel [26 kB]
6. Woods Hole Science Center - USGS Gas Hydrates [30 kB]
7. Energy Flow in the Global Human Ecosystem: Science in Support of Sustainability [28 kB]
8. Establishing the Security of Deep Groundwater Supplies and Monitoring the Integrity and Environmental Impact of Geologic Sequestration of CO2 [34 kB]
9. Dynamics of Multi-Component Natural Systems: Managing Sustainability of Natural Resources [52 kB]
10. Advanced Geospatial Analysis: Mineral Assessment and Land-Use Planning [54 kB]
11. A National High-Altitude Magnetic Survey [23 kB]
12. Science for Coastal Sediment Resource Management [29 kB]
13. Seamounts: Biological Richness and Mineral Wealth [29 kB]

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Hazards

• Advanced Open Geospatial© Web Technologies for Multi-Disciplinary Access to Scientific Data [35 kB]
• Developing a Science-Based Natural Resource Information System [24 kB]

1. Forecasting Eruptive Behavior of Large Alaskan Volcanoes [155 kB]
2. Understanding Magmatic Systems and Forecasting Behavior of Large Alaskan Volcanoes [30 kB]
3. Vulnerability and Resilience of the U.S. Coastal Cities to Hurricanes and Sea Level Rise [24 kB]
4. A Global Approach to Global Earth Science Problems [81 kB]
5. Communication Strategies at Cascade Volcanoes [12 kB]
6. Geology Discipline INSAR Laboratory For Studies of Natural Hazards and the Environment [30 kB]
7. Earthquake Scenarios for Effective Risk Reduction [27 kB]
8. Fault-Related Fluid Flow Research in the U.S. Geological Survey: Mapping, Characterization, Physical Properties, Modeling, and Potential Impacts for the New USGS Science Strategy [24 kB]
9. Alaska: Offshore Seismic and Tsunami Hazards of Alaska [35 kB]
10. Development of Advanced, User-Friendly Software for Assessing Hazards Posed by Landslides, Debris Flows, and Other Gravity-Driven Flows [37 kB]
11. Surface Processes Urgent Response (SPUR) [199 kB]
12. Assessment of Landslide Susceptibility and Root Reinforcement on the island of Moloka`i and Kauai Hawai`i Through Vegetation Mapping, Remote Sensing, and Field Surveys [42 kB]
13. Cool Idea: Creating an Advanced User-Friendly Landslide Modeling System [5 kB]
14. Regional and National Scale Probabilistic Landslide Hazard Mapping and Forecasting System [23 kB]
15. Establishing a Formal USGS Environmental Disaster Information and Response Capability [34 kB]
16. Pockmark Formation and Sediment Redistribution by Gas Escape in Maine Estuaries [32 kB]
17. Natural Hazards: Tahoe Basin [64 kB]
18. Using GIS and Geologic Map Databases for Volcano Hazards Assessment [26 kB]
19. Resolving the Louisiana Subsidence Issue [26 kB]
20. Leading the Transformation: Earth-Science Applications of Lidar [RH-WESP, 7 kB]
21. Second-Generation Studies of Cascade Volcanism [27 kB]
22. Precursors to Large Explosive Eruptions [28 kB]
23. Drilling Through Kilauea’s Mobile South Flank [28 kB]
24. LIDAR Topography of Mountainous Federal Lands in the Cascades and Olympics [29 kB]
25. Mapping the New England Shelf-Edge and Continental Slope [29 kB]
26. Urban Hazard Assessment of the National Capital Region [28 kB]
27. Imaging Magma Storage Beneath Active ARC Volcanoes [23 kB]

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Health

• Advanced Open Geospatial© Web Technologies for Multi-Disciplinary Access to Scientific Data [35 kB]
• Developing a Science-Based Natural Resource Information System [24 kB]

1. Biogeochemical Fluxes from Human-Impacted Coastal Lands in Response to Inundation by Rising Sea Level [26 kB]
2. New Project Proposals Under Energy and Human Health [27 kB]
3. Bioaccumulation of Emerging and Legacy Contaminants [24 kB]
4. Developing a Suite of Geochemical Tracers to Unravel Forcing Factors in Natural, Historic GoM ‘Dead Zones’ [26 kB]
5. Mapping Near-Offshore Industrial/Androgenic Waste – the Littoral Link [28 kB]
6. Integrated Study of Airborne Threats to Human Health [28 kB]
7. Pollutant Dispersal in the Coastal Ocean [206 kB]
8. Soil System Science: Intersection of Disciplines [28 kB]
9. Nearshore Delivery and Fate of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds and Pathogens Associated with Human Development of the Coastal Zone [27 kB]

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Water

• Advanced Open Geospatial© Web Technologies for Multi-Disciplinary Access to Scientific Data [35 kB]
• Developing a Science-Based Natural Resource Information System [24 kB]

1. Setting the Environmental, Geologic and Informatics Framework of the Hudson River Valley [23 kB]
2. Linking Soil Biogeochemistry with Hydrologic Landscapes [23 kB]
3. Moving 3D Geologic Mapping Forward: Quantitative Facies and Material Properties Modeling [455 kB]
4. Planning How to Provide 3-D Geologic Frameworks for the National Water Census [27 kB]
5. Coupling Novel Geophysical and Geochemical Techniques to Study the Geologic Control of Coastal Aquifers and Their Role in the Evolution of Florida’s Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) [24 kB]
6. The Development of Thermal Remote Sensing Techniques to Identify Cave Openings [27 kB]

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Other

1. Decide Which Science Question (s) or Strategic Action (s) Discussed in the Strategy you Think are Most Important. What Does Geology have to do to be a Significant Player or Contributor? What has to be Changed, Adapted, or Grown in Geology? [31 kB]

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