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USGS provides science and data on occurrence and distribution of geologic resources, including current and future energy resources and their wastes, and available carbon storage capacity. We also address environmental and socioeconomic effects of resource occurrence, extraction, use, and disposal.
USGS provides reliable information to answer your questions and provide assistance related to international energy science. Training and technology transfer often are integral to the technical assistance provided by USGS international activities.
International studies related to energy are conducted by scientists from throughout USGS on topics including:
- rare earth elements
- igneous and metamorphic petrology
- geochemistry and geophysics
- sedimentology
- stratigraphy
- tectonics and structural geology
- economic geology
- assessment of fossil fuels and selected non-hydrocarbon energy sources
- environmental and human health effects of energy use
- geothermal and wind energy.
Latest Science
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Grand challenges of hydrologic modeling for food-energy-water nexus security in high mountain Asia
Climate-influenced changes in hydrology affect water-food-energy security that may impact up to two billion people downstream of the High Mountain Asia (HMA) region. Changes in water supply affect energy, industry, transportation, and ecosystems (agriculture, fisheries) and as a result, also affect the region's social, environmental, and economic fabrics. Sustaining the highly interconnected food-AuthorsShruti K. Mishra, Summer Rupper, Sarah B. Kapnick, Kimberly Ann Casey, Hoi Ga Chan, Enrico Ciraci, Umesh Haritashya, John Hayse, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Rijan Kayatha, Nir Y. Krakauer, Sujay Kumar, Richard B. Lammers, Vivian Maggioni, Steven A. Margulis, Mathew Olson, Batuhan Osmanoglu, Yun Qian, Sasha McLarty, Karl Rittger, David R. Rounce, David Shean, Isabella Velicogna, Thomas D. Veselka, Anthony Arendt
Latest Publications
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Diatom influence on the production characteristics of hydrate-bearing sediments: Examples from Ulleung Basin, offshore South Korea
The Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate field expeditions in 2007 (UBGH1) and 2010 (UBGH2) sought to assess the Basin's gas hydrate resource potential. Coring operations in both expeditions recovered evidence of gas hydrate, primarily as fracture-filling (or vein type) morphologies in mainly silt-sized, fine-grained sediment, but also as pore-occupying hydrate in the coarser-grained layers of interbedded saAuthorsJunbong Jang, William F. Waite, Laura A. Stern, Joo Yong Lee
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USGS provides science and data on occurrence and distribution of geologic resources, including current and future energy resources and their wastes, and available carbon storage capacity. We also address environmental and socioeconomic effects of resource occurrence, extraction, use, and disposal.
USGS provides reliable information to answer your questions and provide assistance related to international energy science. Training and technology transfer often are integral to the technical assistance provided by USGS international activities.
International studies related to energy are conducted by scientists from throughout USGS on topics including:
- rare earth elements
- igneous and metamorphic petrology
- geochemistry and geophysics
- sedimentology
- stratigraphy
- tectonics and structural geology
- economic geology
- assessment of fossil fuels and selected non-hydrocarbon energy sources
- environmental and human health effects of energy use
- geothermal and wind energy.
Latest Science-
Grand challenges of hydrologic modeling for food-energy-water nexus security in high mountain Asia
Climate-influenced changes in hydrology affect water-food-energy security that may impact up to two billion people downstream of the High Mountain Asia (HMA) region. Changes in water supply affect energy, industry, transportation, and ecosystems (agriculture, fisheries) and as a result, also affect the region's social, environmental, and economic fabrics. Sustaining the highly interconnected food-AuthorsShruti K. Mishra, Summer Rupper, Sarah B. Kapnick, Kimberly Ann Casey, Hoi Ga Chan, Enrico Ciraci, Umesh Haritashya, John Hayse, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Rijan Kayatha, Nir Y. Krakauer, Sujay Kumar, Richard B. Lammers, Vivian Maggioni, Steven A. Margulis, Mathew Olson, Batuhan Osmanoglu, Yun Qian, Sasha McLarty, Karl Rittger, David R. Rounce, David Shean, Isabella Velicogna, Thomas D. Veselka, Anthony Arendt
Latest Publications-
Diatom influence on the production characteristics of hydrate-bearing sediments: Examples from Ulleung Basin, offshore South Korea
The Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate field expeditions in 2007 (UBGH1) and 2010 (UBGH2) sought to assess the Basin's gas hydrate resource potential. Coring operations in both expeditions recovered evidence of gas hydrate, primarily as fracture-filling (or vein type) morphologies in mainly silt-sized, fine-grained sediment, but also as pore-occupying hydrate in the coarser-grained layers of interbedded saAuthorsJunbong Jang, William F. Waite, Laura A. Stern, Joo Yong Lee
Up to International Science Theme: Energy