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"@context": "http://schema.org/", "@type": "WebPage", "additionalType": "Project", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/southwest-biological-science-center/science/southwest-repeat-photography-collection", "headline": "The Southwest Repeat Photography Collection (previously 'Desert Laboratory Repeat Photography Collection')", "datePublished": "August 8, 2022", "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Meredith A Hartwell", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/meredith-a-hartwell", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "orcid", "value": "0000-0001-6350-5450" } } ], "description": [ { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "For example, SBSC scientists are currently using historical photographs from the Collection, including matches made in the early 1990s, to monitor changes in the riparian vegetation along the Colorado River as a response to Glen Canyon Dam operations (Fairley, 2018). To view Helen Fairley's presentation on vegetation change as seen through historic vs. current images, go to: https://www.usbr.gov/uc/progact/amp/twg/2021-01-22-twg-meeting/20210122-AnnualReportingMeeting-UsingRepeatPhotographyDocumentDamOperationEffects-508-UCRO.pdf." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The Southwest Repeat Photography Collection was founded at The Desert Laboratory Research Station on Tumamoc Hill in Tucson, Arizona in 1960 by USGS ecologist, the late Dr. Ray Turner, and expanded over decades by Turner and now-retired USGS scientist Dr. Robert Webb. (It was previously named the Desert Laboratory Repeat Photography Collection.) Thanks to Teo Melis, SBSC Deputy Director, and Helen Fairley, it is now housed and maintained in Flagstaff, Arizona." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "This research provides valuable opportunities to document, analyze and track change due to anthropogenic (human) and ecological causes, including climate change. The assessments complement data gathered from GIS, remote sensing, satellite, and aerial imagery, and are used for resource and ecosystem conservation and management." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The USGS Southwest Repeat Photography Collection contains repeat imagery taken for a variety of research purposes over the last 100+ years. Repeat photographs are taken at precisely the same location at later times in order to document landscape and other change." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "In order to preserve the long-term visual record, SBSC inventories and scans the Collection, and provides data and digital images upon request. Geographically, the Collection\u2019s materials range from Utah\u2019s canyonlands south to Arizona's Grand Canyon, Colorado River, and Sonoran Desert, along the borderlands of Arizona and into Mexico, as well as some images from Kenya, in eastern Africa. We show a small sampling of the images here." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Researchers in Tucson are using the SW Repeat Photography Collection to document changes in saguaro populations in central and southern Arizona." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "2255 N. Gemini Drive\nFlagstaff, AZ 86001\nUnited States" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Originally developed for surveys and scientific study, repeat photography allows researchers to study how, why and when environmental transformations occurred by capturing comparative images at precisely the same location as a historic photograph." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "To download individual images, click on 'View and Download' on each image within a slideshow. To view the geographic location of images shown in the slideshows, click on the Study Area map on the right-hand side of this page. A link to each slideshow is accessible if you zoom \ud83d\udd0e into the map, click on a point, and then right-click on 'View Slideshow.' \u27a1\ufe0f" } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Southwest Biological Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/southwest-biological-science-center" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "repeat photography" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Citizen Science" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Maps and Mapping" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "The Desert Laboratory Repeat Photography Collection" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Southwest Repeat Photography Collection" } ]
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