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    • Locations: Camp Nelson National Monument
    • Offices: Geologic Resources Division
    Photo of a park visitor center with wood siding

    Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

    • Locations: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
    • Offices: Cumberland Piedmont Inventory & Monitoring Network, Inventory and Monitoring Division, Natural Resources Stewardship & Science
    A person crouches to collect water from a small stream in a vial.

    In 2008, scientists from the Cumberland Piedmont Network found a concerning trend: E. coli levels were too high. The source needed to be identified and addressed for the health and safety of the thousands of humans and animals that enjoyed the park. The network's long-term water quality monitoring program not only helped to identify the issue, but it also provided the tools to evaluate the solution.

    • Locations: Acadia National Park, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Amistad National Recreation Area, Antietam National Battlefield,
    • Offices: Appalachian Highlands Inventory & Monitoring Network, Chihuahuan Desert Inventory & Monitoring Network, Cumberland Piedmont Inventory & Monitoring Network, Eastern Rivers and Mountains Inventory & Monitoring Network, Great Lakes Inventory & Monitoring Network,
    Green, orange, and dead grey junipers in red soil, mountains in background

    Across the US, changes in water availability are altering which plants grow where. These changes are evident at a broad scale. But not all areas experience the same climate in the same way, even within the boundaries of a single national park. A new dataset gives park managers a valuable tool for understanding why vegetation has changed and how it might change in the future under different climate-change scenarios.

    • Locations: Stones River National Battlefield
    • Offices: Geologic Resources Division
    high ground and woods

    Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

    • Locations: Shiloh National Military Park
    • Offices: Geologic Resources Division
    memorial site

    Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park.

    • Locations: Russell Cave National Monument
    • Offices: Geologic Resources Division
    board walk to cave entrance

    Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

    • Locations: Ninety Six National Historic Site
    • Offices: Geologic Resources Division
    historic sunken Island Ford Road

    Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park.

    • Locations: Mammoth Cave National Park
    • Offices: Geologic Resources Division
    large cavern

    Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

    • Locations: Little River Canyon National Preserve
    • Offices: Geologic Resources Division
    waterfall on river

    Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park.

    • Locations: Kings Mountain National Military Park
    • Offices: Geologic Resources Division
    wooded hillside

    Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Resource Briefs

Resource briefs highlight and summarize key findings in network monitoring reports and data summaries.

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Last updated: August 23, 2024