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Use case	Agency	Stage	High-impact	Topic area	AI classification	Sourcing
Automated Walrus Haulout Monitoring [2024 INV#WO0000000110052] DOI-0247 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
PAWSC Ecotoxicology PFAS Machine Learning [2024 INV#WO0000000112908] DOI-0238 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Delineating sub-surface drainage using satellite imagery [2024 INV#WO0000000109525] DOI-0230 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Oil Spill Response for Ice-Covered Rivers [2024 INV#WO0000000109142] DOI-0208 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Pacific Northwest Stream Flow Permanence [2024 INV#WO0000000109137] DOI-0207 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Climate Futures for Lizards and Snakes in Western North America [2024 INV#WO0000000109092] DOI-0201 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Office of Grants Management (PGM) Grants Utility Tool DOI-0180 · OS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Procurement and Financial Management	Agentic AI	Developed in-house
Using Machine Learning in USGS StreamStats to make suspended sediment and bedload predictions [2024 INV#WO0000000107977] DOI-0176 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Seabird and Marine Mammal Surveys Near Potential Renewable Energy Sites Offshore Central and Southern California [2024 INV#WO0000000107535] DOI-0173 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Computer vision	Purchased from vendor
PRObability of Streamflow PERmanence (PROSPER models) [2024 INV#WO0000000109074] DOI-0156 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Machine Learning for automatic fracture mapping and rock identification [2024 INV#WO0000000109499] DOI-0155 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Machine Learning for Avalanche Frequency Modeling DOI-0148 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Classifying CWD-Infected Elk Using Recurrent Neural Networks on GPS Movement Data DOI-0135 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Energy and the Environment	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Deep?learning Integrations into NEIC Operations [2024 INV#WO0000000109496] DOI-0119 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
USGS Flow Photo Explorer [2024 INV#WO0000000109196] DOI-0117 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Contract and in-house
Coastal Change Likelihood: Synthesizing change factors using supervised learning DOI-0115 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Purchased from vendor
Predicting post-fire tree mortality DOI-0100 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Estimates of Habitat Suitability of Reed Canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) in Upper Mississippi River Floodplain Forest Understories DOI-0084 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Invasive Grass Mapping DOI-0068 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Evapotranspiration mapping and monitoring DOI-0067 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
National Land Cover Database (NLCD) [2024 INV#WO0000000107887] DOI-0066 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Microsoft eDiscovery Attorney-Client Privilege Detection DOI-0021 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Classical / predictive ML	Purchased from vendor
FOIA Request Lexical Similarity Tool in the Document Review Platform (Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) - Cosine) DOI-0020 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
Enabling FOIA Request Clustering Capability in the Document Review Platform (Density Based Algorithm alongside Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF)) DOI-0019 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
FOIA Request Clustering Tool (Embedding based clustering alongside Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF)) DOI-0018 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
FOIA Request Conceptual Similarity Tool (Semantic Similarity Score Generation) DOI-0017 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Other	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
Performance Modeling / Performance Forecasting DOI-0016 · SOL	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Administrative Functions	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Effects of vehicle traffic on space use and road crossings of caribou in the Arctic [2024 INV#WO0000000110111] DOI-0007 · USGS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
(unnamed) DOI-0015 · FWS	DOI	Deployed	Not high-impact	Law Enforcement	Other	Purchased from vendor
VoiceAtlas no-code chatbot framework DOI-0248 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Agentic AI	Purchased from vendor
Machine Learning approach to predict the composition of seafloor massive sulfide deposits [2024 INV#WO0000000108420] DOI-0245 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Google Cloud Vision [2024 INV#WO0000000154445] DOI-0243 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Computer vision	Purchased from vendor
Google Vertex AI Document workbench [2024 INV#WO0000000154393] DOI-0242 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Computer vision	Purchased from vendor
USGS Azure OpenAI ChatGPT [2024 INV#WO0000000154392] DOI-0241 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Purchased from vendor
Prioritized Constituents: Sediment [2024 INV#WO0000000109726] DOI-0237 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Data-Driven Streamflow Drought [2024 INV#WO0000000109714] DOI-0234 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
National-Extent Groundwater Quality Prediction for the National Water Census and Regional Integrated Water Availability Assessments [2024 INV#WO0000000109709] DOI-0233 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Use of artificial intelligence tools for optimization and documentation for computer codes [2024 INV#WO0000000109681] DOI-0232 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Generative AI	Contract and in-house
Vegetation mapping on the Hawaiian island of Lanai [2024 INV#WO0000000109501] DOI-0229 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Population and critical habitat modeling of overwintering monarch butterflies [2024 INV#WO0000000109410] DOI-0227 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Automated otolith aging using image processing [2024 INV#WO0000000109315] DOI-0225 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Machine learning for tsunami source zones [2024 INV#WO0000000109313] DOI-0224 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Oceanographic, coastal, and geomorphic change analysis: data generation, QC/QA, and data management [2024 INV#WO0000000109310] DOI-0223 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Quantifying the effects of land-use change and bioenergy crop production on pollinators, wildlife, and ecosystem services in the Northern Great Plains [2024 INV#WO0000000109305] DOI-0222 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Computationally efficient emulation of spheroidal elastic deformation sources using machine learning [2024 INV#WO0000000109302] DOI-0221 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Machine Learning to evaluate water quality [2024 INV#WO0000000109241] DOI-0219 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Ecological niche models for bat species [2024 INV#WO0000000109233] DOI-0218 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Quantifying Watershed Controls on Fine Sediment Flux to Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada [2024 INV#WO0000000109215] DOI-0216 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Seismology of Magmatic Injection [2024 INV#WO0000000109214] DOI-0215 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Earthquake Catalog Development [2024 INV#WO0000000109208] DOI-0214 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house