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Each EDMAP proposal is categorized as either a "Field-Focused" of "Data Synthesis" project, but proposals may combine elements of both project types. Both types of EDMAP projects require a mentor-guided field experience and for each primary student mapper to produce their own first-author geologic map.

Existing surficial geologic maps of project areas to be converted to digital geologic databases (Barry and Van Buren counties) and web-based maps (Allegan County).

This picture shows several STATEMAP partners and NCGMP staff during an AASG annual meeting. 

Each year, the US Geological Survey National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, in partnership with the Association of American State Geologists, the American Institute of Professional Geologists, Geological Society of America (GSA), and American Geosciences Institute hosts the annual Best Student Geologic Map Competition (BSGMC) 

BSGMC 2024 first place winner is Andrew Yokel-Deliduka with AASG President Jessica Moore and Brunton CEO Lauren Heerschap

STATEMAP Partners gather in Park City Utah during the annual meeting of the Association of American State Geologists 

Fault mapping: George Pharris, an EDMAP student from New Mexico Tech, is digging a soil pit to date a surface offset of the Quaternary-active Alamogordo fault, in central New Mexico. 

The Geologic Map of the Bear Camp Gulch Quadrangle started out as an EDMAP project at Idaho State University. EDMAP student Andrew Yokel-Deliduka worked with the Idaho Geological Survey to publish the map and presented it at GSA Connects 2024 to win the Best Student Geologic Map Competition. The image used here is an excerpt from the original product. 

Title banner from the USGS NCGMP 2023 STATEMAP Factsheet to be used to support communication and outreach 

A professor and EDMAP student confer about Quaternary surface mapping along the Alamogordo fault in central New Mexico. 

From a 2023 EDMAP project at NM Tech mapping Quaternary slip rate along the Alamogordo fault (New Mexico) using both remote sensing and field-based methods

Photograph of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. Photo taken on September 8, 2023.

Partners and processes supporting the USGI to demonstrate how components support the gathering and synthesis of geologic data to help construct a 2D/3D GeoFramework model of the United States.

Two-dimensional (2D) National Map Illustration in support of U.G. GeoFramework Initiative (USGI)

Illustration of NGS activities in bringing together national and continental-resolution 2D and 3D geologic data

National Subsurface Geology Explorer - Top Basement

National Subsurface Geology Explorer - Top Basement - ScienceBase-Catalog

Illustration of USGI partners and Cooperators; USGI supports NCGMP efforts to “bring together detailed national and continental-resolution 2D and 3D information produced throughout the Survey and by federal and state partners.” 

Illustration of USGI GeoFramework model; USGI supports Congressional mandate for NCGMP to “bring together detailed national and continental-resolution 2D and 3D information produced throughout the Survey and by federal and state partners.” 

3D geologic framework model from west-central New Mexico; graphic shows stratigraphic units in the model being sequentially removed to reveal the deeper units. Faults used in the model appear as vertical “ribbons” as geologic layers are removed.

This map is an updated bedrock topography map for the eastern extent of the Lafayette Bedrock Valley System in Indiana and Ohio which depicts a portion of an ancient river drainage valley. This image is used with the permission of the Indiana Geological and Water Survey and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey. 

This is a field photo of geologists from the Indiana Geological and Water Survey and Ohio Geological Survey conducting core drilling of glacial sediments. The information gained from this project aided in the development of a bedrock topography map of a buried ancient river bed. 

Photo of several students conducting geologic mapping field work as part of an EDMAP student project.