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The Science of Landscape Change...


The Eastern Geographic Science Center (EGSC) informs decision-makers of the impact of landscape change.

EGSC scientists develop and apply the data, process understanding and Web-based tools necessary to holistically evaluate and forecast impacts that land use and land cover changes have had and could have on natural resources and environmental health and well-being.

News

Science at a Glance

EGSC Scientist Presented at City College of New York. In support of the U.S. Geological Survey Youth and student Pathways programs, EGSC scientist Terry Slonecker traveled to New York City on November 1, 2012, to talk about research on hyperspectral remote sensing of environmental contaminants and More...

USGS West Nile Virus Website Featured as USGS Top Story. The USGS West Nile Virus website developed by the EGSC was featured as a USGS Top Story due to this year’s outbreak of West Nile virus. More...

EGSC Geographer to Present Tracking Healthy Watersheds Initiative at the 2012 Chesapeake Watershed Forum. EGSC Geographer John Wolf presented an overview of the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Tracking Healthy Watersheds initiative at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum on September 30, 2012, More...

With a focus east of the Mississippi River, our research staff applies expertise in geography, remote sensing, geology, biology, and computer science to better understand our land.
Small map showing eastern United States.  The Dots represent the various research locations where EGSC conducts reasearch.
Research Locations
bullet Chesapeake Bay Watershed
bullet Clarksburg, MD
bullet Shenandoah National Park
bullet South Florida
bullet Pennsylvania
bullet Virginia

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  Live view of Reston!!
USGS Phenology WebCam

View of a Reston, Virginia, area. This webcam is updated every 30 minutes 10am to 4:30pm.
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Learn about the reasearch at the Phenology Web Site!


2012 Journal Articles

book cover - Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation "Analysis of the Effects of Heavy Metals on Vegetation Hyperspectral Reflectance Properties" by
Terry Slonecker.
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Journal cover of Environmental Management "Estimating the Cumulative Ecological Effect of Local Scale Landscape Changes in South Florida" by
Dianna Hogan and others.
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Live view of the Shenandoah!!
USGS Phenology WebCam

View of a portion of the Shenandoah Valley area at the Pinnacles Research site This webcam is updated every 30 minutes 10am to 4:30pm.

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Learn about the reasearch at the Phenology Web Site!

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