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What Water Worries Will Climate Change Bring?Cooling Streams in a Warming Climate?Bringing Earthquake Science into Your HomeMinerals: They’re Elementary!Polar Bears, Long-Distance Swimming, and the Changing Arctic
What Water Worries Will Climate Change Bring?
USGS Details how climate change could affect water availability in 14 U.S. Basins. Read more
Cooling Streams in a Warming Climate?
Western stream temperatures are not warming at the same rate as air temperature.Read more
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
  • National Wildlife Refuges Rate Highly for Visitors, USGS Survey Finds

    National Wildlife Refuges Rate Highly for Visitors, USGS Survey Finds

    Tue, 15 May 2012

    USGS-led survey finds that national wildlife refuges rate highly with visitors.

  • 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.

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    An unusual dark blue-green lichen, Lecanora sierrae, was discovered over 30 years ago by Czehura near copper mines in the Lights Creek District, Plumas County, Northern California. Using atomic absorption spectroscopy, Czehura found that dark green lichen samples from Warren Canyon contained 4% Cu in ash and suggested that its colour was due to copper accumulation in the cortex. The p    Copper localization, elemental content, and thallus colour in the copper hyperaccumulator lichen Lecanora sierra from California
    (Released: Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00 -0600)

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    Lake Okeechobee in south-central Florida is the second largest freshwater lake in the contiguous United States. Excessive phosphorus loading, harmful high and low water levels, and rapid expansion of non-native vegetation have threatened the health of the lake in recent decades. A study was conducted to monitor discharge and nutrient concentrations from selected tributaries into Lake     Concentrations and loads of nutrients in the tributaries of the Lake Okeechobee watershed, south-central Florida, water years 2004-2008
    (Released: Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00 -0600)

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    We present a new automatic earthquake discrimination procedure to determine in near-real time the tectonic regime and seismotectonic domain of an earthquake, its most likely source type, and the corresponding ground-motion prediction equation (GMPE) class to be used in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Global ShakeMap system. This method makes use of the Flinn–Engdahl regionaliz    A global earthquake discrimination scheme to optimize ground-motion prediction equation selection
    (Released: Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00 -0600)

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    Advancing ARMI: In Search for Chytrid Fungus
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