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Flood Preparedness – There’s a New USGS Map (or App) for That

Flood Preparedness – There’s a New USGS Map (or App) for That

Flood Preparedness – There’s a New USGS Map (or App) for That

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South Dakota Scientists Help Restore Water in Armenia

South Dakota Scientists Help Restore Water in Armenia

South Dakota-based scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey are helping to restore a depleted aquifer and build in-country expertise for managing...

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EarthWord – Watershed

EarthWord – Watershed

This week’s EarthWord sounds like what the British might call an outhouse...

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Five Science Tools to Check Out — Get Prepared

Five Science Tools to Check Out — Get Prepared

Are you and your family ready for the next disaster or emergency? Get tips by joining America’s PrepareAthon!

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New Willamette River Flood Inundation Maps to Aid Residents and Emergency Managers

New Willamette River Flood Inundation Maps to Aid Residents and Emergency Managers

New flood inundation maps focused on the Coast Fork Willamette River near Goshen, Oregon were published online Wednesday by the U.S. Geological Survey...
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New Online Tool Tracks Water Quality in the Nation’s Rivers and Streams

New Online Tool Tracks Water Quality in the Nation’s Rivers and Streams

A new USGS online tool provides graphical summaries of nutrients and sediment levels in rivers and streams across the Nation.
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USGS Bolsters Better References for Mass Spectrometers

USGS Bolsters Better References for Mass Spectrometers

USGS scientists Haiping Qi and Tyler Coplen were key contributors, among 24 contributing scientists, to a recently completed international project to...

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Drought and Management Actions Affect World Waterway—the Rio Grande

Drought and Management Actions Affect World Waterway—the Rio Grande

New research can help water managers along the Rio Grande make wise decisions about how to best use the flow of a river vital for drinking water...

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USGS Innovation in Inundation Mapping

USGS Innovation in Inundation Mapping

Flood Information to Power Community Decisions

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A Century of Water Science in Texas

A Century of Water Science in Texas

What a difference 100 years make!

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Follow Your Stream to Learn About Water

Follow Your Stream to Learn About Water

Explore America's streams and rivers from your computer or mobile device.

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Fire and Ice: Gauging the Effects of Wildfire on Alaskan Permafrost

Fire and Ice: Gauging the Effects of Wildfire on Alaskan Permafrost

USGS scientists, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Alaska Fairbanks, have mapped belowground...

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