A team of 45 USGS scientists has received a 2006 Service to America Medal for their search and rescue work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The scientists, led by Tom Casadevall, USGS regional director in Denver, Colo., are from the USGS National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, La., and the USGS Louisiana Water Science Center in Baton Rouge, La. Casadevall and representatives of the team received the medal in Washington, D.C., on September 27 in recognition of both their humanitarian and scientific work immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana coast in late August 2005.  more 

The MMS recently released a summary of discoveries industry has made in the Lower Tertiary Trend in the offshore ultra-deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Lower Tertiary formations were deposited from about 65 million to about 35 to 23 million years ago.  Discoveries in the GOM Lower Tertiary have been from variable depths, wells drilled as shallow as 15,000 feet in some areas and as deep as 30,000 feet in others.  more 

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The Department of the Interior, comprising the eight bureaus listed at the right:

• Manages 1 out of every 5 acres of land in the US.
• Provides the resources for nearly one-third of the Nation's energy.
• Works with 561 federally recognized Indian Tribes.
• Administers U.S. responsibility to four overseas Territories.
• Provides water to 31 million citizens through 820 dams and reservoirs.
• Receives almost 500 million visits each year to 390 units of the national park system, 545 wildlife refuges and vast areas of multiple use lands.
• Provides opportunities for hunters and anglers, working to improve habitat on millions of acres of public and private lands.