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Low-flying airplane mapping parts of northwestern California

Low-flying airplane mapping parts of northwestern California

Editor: In the public interest and in accordance with FAA regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne project. Your assistance in...

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Drought-Related Studies in the Colorado River Basin Funded by the USGS Colorado River Basin Actionable and Strategic Integrated Science and Technology (ASIST) Initiative

Drought-Related Studies in the Colorado River Basin Funded by the USGS Colorado River Basin Actionable and Strategic Integrated Science and Technology (ASIST) Initiative

The USGS Actionable and Strategic Integrated Science and Technology (ASIST) Team has built relationships with representatives of resource management...

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps remap Nevada for critical minerals

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps remap Nevada for critical minerals

RESTON, Va. – The U.S. Geological Survey has announced it will invest approximately $4.7 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to collect...

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Media Alert: Low-level helicopter flights to image geology over parts of central and eastern Nevada

Media Alert: Low-level helicopter flights to image geology over parts of central and eastern Nevada

Editor: In the public interest and in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne...

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Shifting Sand-Supply Dynamics in San Francisco Bay

Shifting Sand-Supply Dynamics in San Francisco Bay

Coastal communities around large estuaries like San Francisco Bay are threatened by increasing erosion due to sea-level rise and anthropogenic...

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The science that transformed a dry streambed into an oasis

The science that transformed a dry streambed into an oasis

Nature-based solutions may seem too-good-to-be-true, but USGS is studying how these simple solutions provide benefits for people and the environment.

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Benthic Invertebrate Response to Estuarine Marsh Restoration at the Nisqually River Delta

Benthic Invertebrate Response to Estuarine Marsh Restoration at the Nisqually River Delta

New research from the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service evaluates the response of benthic invertebrates to the largest...

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Congratulations to Collin Smith for Winning this Issue’s Photo Contest!

Congratulations to Collin Smith for Winning this Issue’s Photo Contest!

USGS Western Fisheries Research Center (WFRC) fish biologist, Collin Smith, is the winner of this issue’s photo contest. 

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Five Years After the Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence

Five Years After the Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence

On July 4th, 2019, as millions of Southern Californians looked forward to fireworks and other celebrations, earthquake shaking rumbled across much of...

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Seafloor Imaging Reveals Nearly 1,500 Submarine Landslides Off Southern California Coast

Seafloor Imaging Reveals Nearly 1,500 Submarine Landslides Off Southern California Coast

In new research, scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have identified nearly 1,500 submarine landslide features off the coast of...

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Revisiting the 1957 Aleutian Earthquake: New Insights into Tsunami Hazards for Hawaiʻi

Revisiting the 1957 Aleutian Earthquake: New Insights into Tsunami Hazards for Hawaiʻi

Despite being separated by more than 3,910 kilometers (2,430 miles) of open ocean in the North Pacific, Hawai’i and Alaska’s Aleutian Islands share...

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Art Illuminates the Grand Canyon: Exploring the Environmental Puzzle

Art Illuminates the Grand Canyon: Exploring the Environmental Puzzle

In an innovative approach to addressing uranium mining's impact in the Grand Canyon region, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a visually...

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