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The U.S. Geological Survey public lecture series is back and virtual. News reporters are invited to attend to learn how USGS scientists are helping...

The first step in mitigating volcanic risk and building community resilience to volcanic hazards is identifying what and who is in harm’s way.

Congratulations to Dr. Anne Wein, Operations Research Analyst at WGSC, who received a 2019 Bay Area Metro Award from the Association of Bay Area...

Laura Norman's Aridland Water Harvesting Study helps lead a tour of a restoration and monitoring project at the Boy Scouts of America, Heard Scout...

The global croplands mapping project has succesfully mapped croplands across the entire planet in order to understand the security of food world wide...

Laura Norman was asked to present her study of Watershed Restoration at the Arizona Section Summer Meeting for the Society for Range Management,...

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A multi-disciplinary team of researchers scattered around the country is gearing up to piece together the world’s first high-resolution map of global...

The U.S. Geological Survery has has open a mapping portal call the Land Cover Trends Field Photo Map. This repository of geographically referenced...

Dr. Kristin Byrd, a Research Physical Scientist with the USGS Western Geographic Science Center in Menlo Park, CA presented her work on modeling the...