Technical Announcements

The U. S. Geological Survey is poised to bring a dynamic array of science and tools to help decision-makers manage and offset effects of increased...

The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program recently released a new strategic plan for earthquake monitoring entitled the “Advanced National Seismic System –...

Great strides made toward a national hydrography framework with release of the initial USGS NHDPlus High Resolution datasets.

We've got a library full of spectral signatures, like a police fingerprint library for minerals and other substances!

As part of an ongoing effort to improve the suite of hydrography web-based map services, the USGS will separate the services for the National...

A new tool, which predicted the recent, rapid growth and continued spread of chronic wasting disease in deer, can help forecast and manage other...

While freshwater ecosystems cover only a small amount of the land surface in Alaska, they transport and emit a significant amount of carbon, according...

More than two dozen short videos on mastering USGS geospatial tools now available

The USGS is currently soliciting project proposals for 2018 grants on earthquake hazards science. 

The U.S. Geological Survey releases a new tile cached map service for hydrography