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FINISHED!! TNMCorps Mapping Challenge for Fire Stations in AL

FINISHED!! TNMCorps Mapping Challenge for Fire Stations in AL

This challenge is now complete! Thank you to everyone who contributed!

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TRAILS Project Earns the 2020 Esri SAG Award

TRAILS Project Earns the 2020 Esri SAG Award

The Department of Interior sponsored National Digital Trails Project and USGS National Geospatial Program (NGP) have been selected to receive a...

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USGS Specifications for Deriving Hydrography from Elevation Data are Now Available

USGS Specifications for Deriving Hydrography from Elevation Data are Now Available

The USGS has released specifications for deriving hydrography from elevation data for use in updating the National Hydrography Dataset.

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Heavy rains clobbered water quality, but it wasn’t a total washout

Heavy rains clobbered water quality, but it wasn’t a total washout

Bay Journal — By Karl Blankenship — July 10, 2020

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Chesapeake’s grasses hard hit by heat, high flows in 2019

Chesapeake’s grasses hard hit by heat, high flows in 2019

Bay Journal — By Karl Blankenship — July 8, 2020

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Congratulations to the Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis Class of FY21 Working Group

Congratulations to the Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis Class of FY21 Working Group

The Powell Center is pleased to announce six new Working Groups for FY21 support.

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Mercury widespread in Chesapeake Bay headwaters fish

Mercury widespread in Chesapeake Bay headwaters fish

Bay Journal — By Jeremy Cox — Updated July 2, 2020

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NEW TNMCorps Mapping Challenge for Schools in Louisiana!

NEW TNMCorps Mapping Challenge for Schools in Louisiana!

Before we leave the Gulf of Mexico, here is a new challenge for schools in Louisiana!  Features participating in this challenge include General...

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TNMCorps Mapping Challenge Summary Results for City / Town Hall Structures in FL

TNMCorps Mapping Challenge Summary Results for City / Town Hall Structures in FL

Summary statistics are now available. Thanks again to everyone who contributed!

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Plan Your Next River Trip to Explore the Great Outdoors From Your Computer Using Streamer

Plan Your Next River Trip to Explore the Great Outdoors From Your Computer Using Streamer

Streamer is an online mapping application for exploring downstream and upstream along America’s rivers and streams.

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Groundwater and the Chesapeake Bay

Groundwater and the Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Quarterly — Volume 19, Number 1 — June 2020

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