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Althea A. Archer, PhD

Dr. Althea A. Archer (she/her) is a data visualization specialist in the Data Science Branch of the USGS Water Resources Mission Area.

Althea combines her passion for statistics, design, and reproducibility to create visualizations of water resource data that are effective and accessible. Before becoming a data visualization specialist she was a professor, teaching the next generation of ecologists about quantitative methods, science communication, and field skills.

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A landscape depicting where water is (in bright blue) and how it moves (with arrows). Human activities are shown throughout.
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A landscape depicting where water is (in bright blue) and how it moves (with arrows). Human activities are shown throughout.
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The water cycle

An illustrated diagram of the water cycle. This is a modern, updated version of the widely used diagram featured on the USGS Water Science School. Notably, this new water cycle diagram depicts humans and major categories of human water use as key components of the water cycle, in addition to the key pools and fluxes of the hydrologic cycle. This product targets an 8th grade audience and is designe
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Water Resources, Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center (CFWSC), Colorado Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

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