Enhancing Community and Wildlife Resilience to Sea?Level Rise and Infrastructure Development in the San Pablo Baylands
Considerable public dollars will be invested in both tidal marsh restoration and transportation upgrades in the Baylands; yet the combined and interactive effects of SLR and infra…
Biotic and abiotic drivers of the prevalence of a tick and associated vector-borne disease
Ticks are one of the most important vectors of disease in North America; however, their presence in desert ecosystems is often underestimated. The Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma macul…
Predictive AI applications for estimating water quality constituents as causal factors of harmful algal blooms.
Ensemble regressions to predict suspended sediment, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, algal pigments, and algal cell abundances and image-based estimation of suspended sediment co…
Adaptive Management with AMMonitor
Automated species identification from remote sensed data (images and audio files)
Machine learning for stream velocity prediction
To predict stream velocity from streamflow and geographic attributes.
Improved earthquake detection for research studies [2024 INV#WO0000000108499]
Deep learning methods are being used to improve detection of earthquakes to provide more complete, high-resolution catalogs that are used in research to better understand earthqua…
Machine Learning for Avalanche Frequency Modeling
The machine learning (Random Forest) was used to identify vegetation characteristics in avalanche paths. This helps determine avalanche return periods in specific avalanche paths.
AI to survey boat traffic
We are using AI to collect boat traffic times when traveling in a specific area by scanning video. Typically, this type of data would be collected by manually watching video and…
target discrimination on portable radar
This application of machine learning is intended as a pilot effort to discriminate among radar target types, specifically between flying animals and precipitation.
Lead attribution model
Classification model identifying soils potentially contaminated by lead from battery recycling
Machine Learning for Rapid Earthquake Magnitude Estimation
A machine learning algorithm that utilizes statistics of earthquake waveforms to determine whether an earthquake is large enough to warrant an earthquake early warning alert, with…
Machine Learning for automatic fracture mapping and rock identification [2024 INV#WO0000000109499]
Machine learning algorithms are being used to improve detection and characterization of fault surface geometries using the spatial patterns of earthquake locations. We have improv…
PRObability of Streamflow PERmanence (PROSPER models) [2024 INV#WO0000000109074]
predictions of reliable surface flow in streams at regional scales to inform land and water resource decisions related to water availability.
HOTLink: identifying elevated thermal anomalies at volcanoes [2024 INV#WO0000000109217]
Moves beyond threshold-based hotspot detection algorithms using computer vision and CNN for improved detection of weka thermal signals that may be the first indiciation of volcani…
Tephra classification with machine learning [2024 INV#WO0000000109095]
Layers of volcanic ash can be classified using a their geochemical components to link a the ash to the volcano it erupted from.
use of random forest for species distribution modeling
We use random forest models in R as part of an ensemble species distribution modelling workflow. Random forests have been applied to model the distribution of Joshua trees, as wel…
Tsunami Hazard Analysis [2024 INV#WO0000000108470]
Improve onshore probabilistic inundation forecasts
Machine Learning based shoreline detection and sea ice dynamics using coastal cameras [2024 INV#WO0000000108008]
Determine shoreline location and change as well as sea ice dynamics from coastal cameras in remote communities
Machine learning for streamflow forecasting [2024 INV#WO0000000109317]
Improve streamflow forecasting predictions in the Willamette River basin.
Machine Learning for Bat Acoustics
Improving the accuracy and timeliness of species status assessments and science to support deregulation efforts.
Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) [2024 INV#WO0000000107126]
To address the need for long-term tracking of vegetation change, scientists from the USGS and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) developed the Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessme…
Foundation Models to Advance Earth Science [2024 INV#WO0000000107153]
Advance the understanding of Earth's conditions and processes by developing and deploying generalist AI models (Foundation Models) trained on Earth Observations from field, suborb…
Seabird and Marine Mammal Surveys Near Potential Renewable Energy Sites Offshore Central and Southern California [2024 INV#WO0000000107535]
Using rapidly developing machine- learning (ML) techniques, the USGS WERC team is developing new methods to automate the detection and counts of seabirds and marine mammals from d…
Data-driven approaches to filling missing time-series data within the San Francisco Bay-Delta [2024 INV#WO0000000107683; INV#WO0000000107488]
Environmental time-series data may suffer from gaps at a variety of time scales, significantly reducing the number of observations to understand phenomena, identify change, calibr…