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The President’s 2013 USGS Budget ProposalCoal-Tar Sealcoat: a Major Source of PAHs to Air and to Children Living NearbyExploding Lakes in West AfricaThe Big Squeeze: Pythons and Mammals in Everglades National ParkKristina Yamamoto: A Modern Geographer
The President’s 2013 USGS Budget Proposal
The proposed USGS budget reflects research priorities to respond to nationally relevant issues, including water quantity and quality, ecosystem restoration, hydraulic fracturing, natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, and support for the National Ocean Policy, and has a large R&D component.
Coal-Tar Sealcoat: a Major Source of PAHs to Air and to Children Living Nearby
Four new reports examine the contaminants polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in house dust, streams, lakes, soil, and air.
Exploding Lakes in West Africa
Exploding lakes in Cameroon, Africa, have killed people and livestock. Find out how USGS science is helping prevent such an event from occurring again.
The Big Squeeze: Pythons and Mammals in Everglades National Park
Mid-sized mammals in Everglades National Park are getting a big squeeze from invasive Burmese pythons, according to a USGS co-authored study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Kristina Yamamoto: A Modern Geographer
A student geographer shares her experiences and career path with the USGS. Most memorable moment
  • Say Hello to CalVO: USGS California Volcano Observatory Opens

    Say Hello to CalVO: USGS California Volcano Observatory Opens

    The Volcano Hazards Program announces the establishment of the USGS California Volcano Observatory (CalVO), which expands and replaces the former Long Valley Observatory.

  • A Look Back at the USGS’s 2011 Highlights

    A Look Back at the USGS’s 2011 Highlights

    The U.S. Geological Survey had a very busy 2011 — below are a few of our highlights from last year.

  • Gas Hydrates and Climate Warming

    Gas Hydrates and Climate Warming

    Despite news articles warning of large-scale releases of methane due to climate change, recent research indicates that most of the world’s gas hydrate deposits should remain stable for the next few thousand years.

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    Rose, Kathryn V.; Nayegandhi, Amar ; Moses, Christopher S.; Beavers, Rebecca ; Lavoie, Dawn ; Brock, John C.

    The National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program initiated a benthic habitat mapping program in ocean and coastal parks in 2008-2009 in alignment with the NPS Ocean Park Stewardship 2007-2008 Action Plan. With more than 80 ocean and Great Lakes parks encomp
    Gap Analysis of Benthic Mapping at Three National Parks: Assateague Island National Seashore, Channel Islands National Park, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

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    Long, Andrew J.; Ohms, Marc J.; McKaskey, Jonathan D. R. G.

    A study of groundwater flow, quality, and mixing in relation to Wind Cave National Park in western South Dakota was conducted during 2007-11 by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Park Service because of water-quality concerns and to determine possible sources of groundwater contamination in the Wind Ca
    Groundwater flow, quality (2007-10), and mixing in the Wind Cave National Park area, South Dakota

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    Szabo, Zoltan; Fischer, Jeffrey M.; Hancock, Tracy Connell

    What are the most important factors affecting dissolved radium concentrations in principal aquifers used for drinking water in the United States? Study results reveal where radium was detected and how rock type and chemical processes control radium occurrence. Knowledge of the geochemical conditions may help water-resource mana
    Principal aquifers can contribute radium to sources of drinking water under certain geochemical conditions

    (Released: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00 -0700)

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