Department of the Interior Areas of Global Change Research. DOI programs include studies of past climates, from which understanding of current changes can be drawn; interaction and sensitivity of hydrologic and ecological systems with climate at local, landscape and regional levels; arid, polar and coastal regions and systems; volcano-atmosphere interactions; methane hydrates; changing land surface characteristics; ocean heat fluxes; assessments of the impacts of global change and the social, environmental and economic consequences on human activities, water resources, coastal wetlands, biological species, ecological systems, and land management; carbon cycle variation; and archival and distribution of space- and land-based Earth science data.
| DOI | Program Title | FY95 | FY96 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Biogeochemical Exchanges between Terrestrial Systems | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| USGS | Climates of Arid/Semi-Arid Regions | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| USGS | Cold Regions Research | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| NBS | Impacts of Global Change on Coastal Lands & Ecosystems | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| NBS | Impacts of Global Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| USGS | Interaction of Climate & Hydrologic Systems | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| USGS | Land Characterization & Data Management | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| NBS | Impacts of Global Change on Fish and Wildlife | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| USGS | Paleoclimate Research | 6.8 | 6.8 |
| BOR | Sensitivity of Water Resources | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| DOI Total | 30.4 | 30.0 |
Related Research. In addition to focused USGCRP research, DOI sponsors contributing research programs addressing the collection, maintenance, analysis and interpretation of short- and long-term land, water, biological and other geological and biological processes and resources through dispersed observing networks; research in land use and land cover, including creation of maps and digital data products; and inventorying and monitoring of biological habitats, resources and diversity.