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Minerals: They’re Elementary!Polar Bears, Long-Distance Swimming, and the Changing ArcticNo Such Thing as a “Typical Day”World’s Oil and Gas EndowmentThe USGS and Partners Work to Develop an Earthquake Early Warning System for California
Minerals: They’re Elementary!
Minerals are elementary to your everyday life, come find out how! Read more
Polar Bears, Long-Distance Swimming, and the Changing Arctic
Long polar bears swims provide tantalizing clues.Read more
No Such Thing as a “Typical Day”
Travis Gibson shares insight into the life a USGS hydrologic technician for one of the USGS water science centers out west. Read more
World’s Oil and Gas Endowment
The USGS released a new world estimate for conventional oil and gas resources.
The USGS and Partners Work to Develop an Earthquake Early Warning System for California
The USGS and partners are designing an earthquake early warning system for California to help save lives and property.
  • Experiments Underestimate Climate Change Impacts to Plants

    Experiments Underestimate Climate Change Impacts to Plants

    Wed, 02 May 2012

    As the climate has warmed, many plants are starting to grow leaves and bloom flowers earlier. A new study published in the journal, Nature, suggests that most field experiments may underestimate the degree to which the timing of leafing and flowering changes with global warming.

  • Evapotranspiration studies could help keep Africa’s Sahel green

    Evapotranspiration studies could help keep Africa’s Sahel green

    Tue, 01 May 2012

    Stressed agricultural lands may be releasing less of the moisture needed to protect the breadbasket of a continent.

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    Going, going, gone! Huge Blow-out Sale on Maps and More!

    Fri, 13 Apr 2012

    There are now over 60,000 maps and publications for sale for only a dollar now through May 7!

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    Byrnes, Raymond A.

    Landsat satellites have continuously acquired space-based images of the Earth's land surface, coastal shallows, and coral reefs across four decades. The Landsat Program, a joint effort of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was established to routinely gather land imagery from space. In practice, NASA develo    Landsat: A Global Land Imaging Program
    (Released: Thu, 3 May 2012 00:00 -0600)

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    Swarzenski, Christopher M.; Mize, Scott V.; Lovelace, John K.

    The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet navigation channel (MRGO) was constructed in the early 1960s to provide a safer and shorter route between the Gulf of Mexico and the Port of New Orleans for deep-draft, ocean-going vessels and to promote the economic development of the Port of New Orleans. In 2006, the U.S. Army Corps of Eng    Water-quality, bed-sediment, and discharge data for the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet and adjacent waterways, southeastern Louisiana, August 2008 through December 2009
    (Released: Thu, 3 May 2012 00:00 -0600)

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    Reddy, Michael M.; Gunther, Charmaine D.

    This report presents results of chemical analysis for samples collected during March, 1995, as part of a study to quantify the interaction of aquatic organic material (referred to here as dissolved organic carbon with dissolved metal ions). The work was done in conjunction with the South Florida Water Management District, the U.S. Environmental     Summary of data from onsite and laboratory analyses of surface water and marsh porewater from South Florida Water Management District Water Conservation Areas, the Everglades, South Florida, March 1995
    (Released: Thu, 3 May 2012 00:00 -0600)

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