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Interior Announces FY 2013 Climate Science Center Research Projects: In 2013 the Climate Science Centers are awarding nearly $7 million to universities and other partners for research as part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to reduce carbon pollution, move our economy toward clean energy sources and begin to prepare our communities for the impacts of climate change.

R: R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. This software has virtually unlimited spatial analysis capabilities but is a command line interface that can interface with ArcGIS, GRASS, PostGIS,and Google Earth.

NYSDEC: Partnerships Now Span the State to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species: Every area of the state now has a partnership working to combat invasive species at the local and regional level, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joseph Martens announced today. New York State recently finalized a contract establishing the final of eight Partnerships for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) in Western New York, achieving the important statewide milestone. Each PRISM is funded by the state Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) and has a full time coordinator.

Conservation easement protects Randolph County 'land bridge': A 555-acre stretch of private land in high country of Randolph County connecting the Laurel Fork Wilderness to the Seneca Creek Backcountry has been protected through a permanent conservation easement.

What are Future Climate Projections for Precipitation and Temperature for Your County?: For the first time, maps and summaries of historical and projected temperature and precipitation changes for the 21st century for the continental U.S. are accessible at a county-by-county level on a website developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the College of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University.

App LCC Potential Karstic Carbonate Rocks: Karst is a landscape produced by dissolution of rocks and the development of subterranean drainages dominated by the flow of ground water in enlarged conduits. Karst landscapes typically include cave entrances, sinkholes, losing streams, springs, and large and small-scale features on bedrock surfaces.