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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessed that the upper Paleozoic reservoirs of the Wind River, Bighorn and Powder River basins has technically recoverable resources of 47 million barrels of oil and 876 billion cubic feet of gas. This area includes Wyoming and parts of southern Montana as well as parts of western South Dakota and Nebraska. Since exploration
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March 4th, 2025
National Ocean Service Experts, Technology Support DCA Aircraft Collision Recovery EffortsIn the wake of the aircraft collision over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), NOAA’s National Ocean Service activated response teams to support response and recovery efforts. Tragically, the incident claimed all 67 lives aboard the two aircraft and created significant recovery and salvage obstacles due to the frigid waters and complex wreckage
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February 14th, 2025
Sentinel-1C Demonstrates Power to Map Land DeformationLaunched just two months ago and still in the process of being commissioned for service, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite is, remarkably, already showing how its radar data can be used to map the shape of Earth’s land surface with extreme precision. These first cross-satellite “interferometry” results assure its ability to monitor subsidence, uplift, glacier flow,
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February 4th, 2025
Top 10 Persistent Methane SourcesData from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission was used to study and estimate methane emissions at 217 potential locations, as shown on the accompanying map. The paper, published in Atmosphere, Chemistry and Physics, focused on sources that emit methane gradually over time, in contrast to ‘super-emitters,’ typically oil and gas operations, coal mines or poorly managed landfills, which release
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