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USGS Announces Elevation and Hydrography Data Acquisition Partnership Awards, as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda

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USGS seeks geologic data preservation proposals from state geological surveys as part of the President’s Investing in America agenda

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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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Coastal Wetland Decision Support Tools Now Available for Great Lakes

Coastal Wetland Decision Support Tools Now Available for Great Lakes

Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative Launches Coastal Wetland Decision Support Tools

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USGS Releases New Standards for Natural Gas

USGS Releases New Standards for Natural Gas

USGS now has the new standard for natural gas.

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Potash Cache: USGS Study Summarizes U.S. Sources of an Essential Nutrient for Agriculture

Potash Cache: USGS Study Summarizes U.S. Sources of an Essential Nutrient for Agriculture

A new USGS report summarizes the primary sources of potash in the United States. Potash is an essential nutrient that, along with phosphorus and...

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In Orlando, USGS Science on the Health of the Environment is on Display

In Orlando, USGS Science on the Health of the Environment is on Display

Studies on the aquatic food web, tree swallows, and the spread of contaminants take center stage at SETAC 2016.

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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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