Machine Learning to evaluate water quality [2024 INV#WO0000000109241]
Examining the effect of physicochemical and meteorological variables on water quality indicators of harmful algal blooms in a shallow hypereutrophic lake
Wildlife species recognition and distance from camera estimation [2024 INV#WO0000000109245]
need reliable population estimates of animal density
Computationally efficient emulation of spheroidal elastic deformation sources using machine learning [2024 INV#WO0000000109302]
analytical models are fast but can be inaccurate as they do not correctly satisfy boundary conditions for many geometries, while numerical models are slow and may require speciali…
Quantifying the effects of land-use change and bioenergy crop production on pollinators, wildlife, and ecosystem services in the Northern Great Plains [2024 INV#WO0000000109305]
Quantifying the effects of land-use change and bioenergy crop production on pollinators, wildlife, and ecosystem services in the Northern Great Plains
Oceanographic, coastal, and geomorphic change analysis: data generation, QC/QA, and data management [2024 INV#WO0000000109310]
Machine learning to quantify coastal/marine change across broad scales. QC/QA processes in place to assess data robustness.
Machine learning for tsunami source zones [2024 INV#WO0000000109313]
State of the art tsunami hazard analysis for coastal communities and infrastructure is computationally demanding.
Automated otolith aging using image processing [2024 INV#WO0000000109315]
Fisheries managers and researchers often need to know the age of fish for population estimates, stock assessment, and similar projects. Fish otoliths (an ear bone) often accumulat…
Machine Learning algorithm for stream velocity prediction [2024 INV#WO0000000109319]
time-of-travel web-based application that will allow users to estimate travel times in a spill response scenario with greater accuracy
Population and critical habitat modeling of overwintering monarch butterflies [2024 INV#WO0000000109410]
Monarch butterflies in the western United States overwinter at very specific locations across coastal California. As monarch population decline it become important to identify the…
Reinforcement Learning for Helmholtz Coil Operation and Simulation [2024 INV#WO0000000109497]
optimize performance of its magnetic observatories
Vegetation mapping on the Hawaiian island of Lanai [2024 INV#WO0000000109501]
accurately classify plant species across the Hawaiian island of Lanai, producing detailed maps that can support conservation planning and monitoring of both native and invasive sp…
Delineating sub-surface drainage using satellite imagery [2024 INV#WO0000000109525]
Knowing subsurface drainage (tile-drain) extent is integral to understanding how landscapes respond to precipitation events and subsequent days of drying, as well as how soil char…
Mapping sagebrush from drones to satellites [2024 INV#WO0000000109568]
accurate maps of sagebrush are needed to identify seasonal habitats of sage-grouse for the Bureau of Land Management
Use of artificial intelligence tools for optimization and documentation for computer codes [2024 INV#WO0000000109681]
computer codes are needed that implement earthquake rupture forecasts and ground-motion models. This project uses ChatGPT to suggest optimizations and documentation for computer c…
National-Extent Groundwater Quality Prediction for the National Water Census and Regional Integrated Water Availability Assessments [2024 INV#WO0000000109709]
provide Nationally consistent predictions of groundwater quality (salinity and nutrients) relevant for human and ecological uses and its influence on surface-water
Data-Driven Streamflow Drought [2024 INV#WO0000000109714]
streamflow drought forecasts
FEMA mixed population flood-frequency analysis [2024 INV#WO0000000109723]
Classification of historical floods based on causal mechanisms to support improved estimation of flood reoccurrence intervals
Avian population estimates from passive acoustic monitoring [2024 INV#WO0000000109725]
Reliable estimates of avian abundance from acoustic recordings
Prioritized Constituents: Sediment [2024 INV#WO0000000109726]
Regional prediction of suspended sediment concentration in unmonitored rivers to characterize sediment transport in the Delaware, Illinois, and Colorado River Basins.
PAWSC Ecotoxicology PFAS Machine Learning [2024 INV#WO0000000112908]
assess the ecological health risk of PFAS in Pennsylvania stream surface water
Parsing large quantities of text data [2024 INV#WO0000000113692]
The goal is to assess how news sources discuss water events, how this relates to water availability and vulnerability, and how these patterns vary over time/space.
Use modern AI/ML approaches to gain insight into USGS unstructured data such as text [2024 INV#WO0000000131706]
There are a lot of unstructured data within USGS. Current efforts are to manually extract and analyze that data. We want to apply modern AI/ML approaches such as RAG (Retrieval-Au…
USGS Azure OpenAI ChatGPT [2024 INV#WO0000000154392]
Various groups within USGS need a generic ChatGPT API to call from IDEs and various applications.
Google Vertex AI Document workbench [2024 INV#WO0000000154393]
The USGS Energy Resource Program needs to use Google Vertex AI document workbench to perform data rescue on some old paper USGS publication tables with oil and gas production data…