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USGS Releases Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024, finds US Mineral Production Jumped 4 billion to exceed 105 billion dollars

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USGS Awards Competitive Remote Sensing Grant to AmericaView

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DARPA Announces Winners of Artificial Intelligence Competition to Aid Critical Minerals Assessments

Winning solutions will help the USGS automate key steps in evaluating geologic maps of mineral deposits that are vital to the U.S. Economy

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USGS Releases Spanish Version of National Water Dashboard

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USGS National Map Orthoimagery Map Services Transition and Other Map Service Changes

USGS National Map Orthoimagery Map Services Transition and Other Map Service Changes

As part of The National Map transition to cloud hosting, several of the National Map NAIP Orthoimagery Services will be provided under new URLs.

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USGS to Chair Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)

USGS to Chair Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)

Working together to advance international coordination of Earth observation programs

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USGS Seeks National Ground-Water Monitoring Network Proposals for 2017

USGS Seeks National Ground-Water Monitoring Network Proposals for 2017

In partnership with the Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information

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When the Whole is Less than the Sum of Its Parts

When the Whole is Less than the Sum of Its Parts

Environmental Ratios of Cadmium and Zinc are less Toxic to Aquatic Insects than Expected

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U.S. Geological Survey EDMAP Program Call For Proposals

U.S. Geological Survey EDMAP Program Call For Proposals

Calling all Earth Science professors conducting research or teaching geologic mapping. The USGS EDMAP Program is accepting funding proposals focusing...

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Assessing the Magnitude of Missouri’s 2016 New Year's Flood

Assessing the Magnitude of Missouri’s 2016 New Year's Flood

An assessment of the flooding that occurred in the Meramec River Basin from December 2015–January 2016 is available in a new report from the U.S...

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Landsat 8 Enhancements Detailed in Special Issue of Science Journal

Landsat 8 Enhancements Detailed in Special Issue of Science Journal

More data, better data, expanded applications

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Groundwater Sampling Method Key to Monitoring Success of Carbon Sequestration

Groundwater Sampling Method Key to Monitoring Success of Carbon Sequestration

TECHNICAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Monitoring, verification and accounting are key parts to demonstrating the feasibility or success of integrated carbon capture...

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USGS and India Space Research Organization to Cooperate Further in Observing Earth

USGS and India Space Research Organization to Cooperate Further in Observing Earth

Advancing the international exchange of Earth data

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Free Course Available – Managing for a Changing Climate

Free Course Available – Managing for a Changing Climate

Climate Science Center Offers Semester-Long Course

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USGS to Host Public Seminar on China’s Economic Rebalancing Act and its Global Implications

USGS to Host Public Seminar on China’s Economic Rebalancing Act and its Global Implications

We're live-streaming this seminar at 1:00pm ET on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/USGeologicalSurvey/ Check it out!

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Evaluation of Pallid Sturgeon Science on the Missouri River

Evaluation of Pallid Sturgeon Science on the Missouri River

A new fact sheet documenting the development of the Missouri River Pallid Sturgeon Effects Analysis (EA) is now available from the U.S. Geological...

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