Substantial advances in water science, together with emerging breakthroughs in technical and computational capabilities, have led the USGS to develop a Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS). The USGS NGWOS provides real-time data on water quantity and quality in more affordable and rapid ways than previously possible, and in more locations.
Water Vision 2050 takes aim at the greatest threats to water availability and sustainable agriculture, including climate change and the increasing global population. It puts forward recommendations for critical research and water management actions.
The Climate Resilience Information System (CRIS) provides access to federal decision-relevant information, enabling users to easily find and customize information for their need.
ClimRR provides data about future conditions and environmental extremes to help plan and adapt for the future. Using one of the world's largest supercomputers, ClimRR datasets provide among the most comprehensive, free, and dynamically downscaled projections for the United States.
The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) supports interagency groups across federal agencies that coordinate and implement global change research activities. The USGCRP Observations Interagency Working Group (ObsIWG) sponsored a seminar series in 2024, entitled Becoming a Climate Ready Nation: A Focus on Greenhouse Gases, with many sessions co-hosted by the USGCRP Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG). The series highlighted today’s most pressing climate topics and challenges affected by increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Newsletter archive of the MSD Community.
Updates from the MSD Community of Practice.
The MSD community aims to improve our understanding of the coevolution of human and natural systems over time, and build the next generation of tools that bridge across sectors (energy, water, land, economy) and scales (spatial, temporal) as well as offer a holistic view of systems-of-systems.
VELMA (Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments) is a tool designed to model effective decisions for a wide array of environmental issues. It is a spatially explicit ecohydrological watershed model that planners can use to visualize the effects of their decisions.
EPA’s water research supports solutions that ensure adequate supplies of clean water resources to protect our health and livelihood, protect and restore watersheds and ecosystems, and strengthen our economy.