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Bringing Earthquake Science into Your HomeMinerals: They’re Elementary!Polar Bears, Long-Distance Swimming, and the Changing ArcticNo Such Thing as a “Typical Day”World’s Oil and Gas Endowment
Bringing Earthquake Science into Your Home
Citizen volunteers, portable instruments, and real-time maps help improve gathering of and access to earthquake data.Read more
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 20th Century’s Greatest Volcanic Eruption

    The 20th Century’s Greatest Volcanic Eruption

    Tue, 08 May 2012

    Join us on June 6 for a centennial look at the greatest volcanic eruption of the 20th century at our June Public Lecture!

  • 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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    Biewick, Laura R.H.; Jones, Nicholas R.

    To further advance the objectives of the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) have compiled Part A of the Energy Map of Southwestern Wyoming. Focusing primarily on electrical power sources, Part A of the energy map is a compilation of both published and p    Energy map of southwestern Wyoming, Part A - Coal and wind
    (Released: Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00 -0600)

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    Boal, Clint W.; Pirius, Nicholas E.

    The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) has experienced declines in population and occupied range by more than 90 percent since the late 1800s. The lesser prairie-chicken has been listed as a candidate species for protection under the Endangered Species Act and is undergoing review for actual listing. Populations and distribution of l    Winter ecology and habitat use of lesser prairie-chickens in west Texas, 2008-11
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    A west-east lithostratigraphic cross section of the Cretaceous rocks from central Utah to western Kansas was prepared as part of the former Western Interior Cretaceous (WIK) project, which was part of the Global Sedimentary Geology Program started in 1989. This transect is similar to that published by Dyman and others (1994) as a summary paper of the WIK project but e    West-east lithostratigraphic cross section of Cretaceous rocks from central Utah to western Kansas
    (Released: Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00 -0600)

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