... Government produced maps include – USDA, NFS, USGS California Mountains Maps Topo Maps CA ... Forest maps, Wilderness maps, Topographical atlas The USGS is a scientific agency of the United States government. ... - Recent Earthquakes CA & NV USGS.gov Science In Your Backyard: California Topographic ... -maps%2F'; addthis_title = 'USGS+California+Maps'; addthis_pub = '&# ...

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In the spirit of removing clutter and recycling USGS again offers up old paper topos for use as wrapping paper for holiday gifts. It’s free. Details: The free “map wrap” ... ::: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2009%2F12%2F04%2Ffree-map-wrap-from-usgs-for-the-holidays%2F'; addthis_title = 'Free+Map+Wrap+from+USGS+for+the+Holidays'; addthis_pub = &# ...

As part of the 125th celebration of the topographic mapping program at the USGS, digital topo maps were promoted.  In a press release by the USGS, the new maps were described: Digital US Topo maps are designed to look, feel, and perform like the traditional paper topographic maps for which the USGS is so well known. The new digital

I got to visit the USGS gage on the Gallinas River recently. This is near Las Vegas, NM, on the east side of the Sangre de Cristos Mountains. Luckily, I recently purchased and have been ... works for the San Francisco Estuary Institute and whose wife was a grad student of Luna Leopold) that habitat occurs at the intersection of hydrology and geology. The Gallinas at the USGS gage is a fine example.

... the public availability of a huge cache of Landsat imagery, once I saw the actual images and read who they (the USGS) identify as target audiences, I made an immediate connection. These images are deeply beautiful; and the USGS left artists off their list. I dropped them a brief note suggesting that they broaden their view, just a bit, and included ...

... , D.C.- “US Topo” is the next generation of topographic maps from the U.S. Via A New Generation of USGS Maps Similar Posts on Geology News: Geology Links for January 18th, 2009 Price for USGS Topo Maps Rises Gently Substantial Power Generation from Domestic Geothermal Resources Salazar Releases Long-Term Report ...

USGS director Marcia McNutt announces, “Our policy of providing free Landsat data supports a central GEO goal: to promote global distribution of earth observation data. With a continuous record of earth observation since 1972, Landsat provides the most complete set of land surface information as well as a vital historical perspective for researchers, decision makers,

... of the tremor, which followed a series of huge quakes in mid-October that triggered a region-wide tsunami alert. The Pacific is still recovering from an 8.0-magnitude earthquake and huge tsunami that crashed into Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga on September 29, wiping out villages and resorts and killing 184 people. Quake strikes off Vanuatu: USGS was first posted on December 2, 2009 at 8:28 am.

Today, on the 125th anniversary of John Wesley Powell’s announcement to begin a nationwide topographic mapping program as the first director of the U.S. Geological Survey, the USGS has unveiled two new online mapping portals. The new electronic digital topographic map named US Topo, which is the next step from the “Digital Map – Beta”

The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, has allocated $7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to 15 universities and state agencies nationwide. Recovery Act funds will be used to modernize the equipment in volcano monitoring networks, to produce high-resolution maps of high-threat volcanoes for modeling volcanic hazards for at-risk ...

The latest news from the USGS/Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcano Report ... Highlights (not including Mayon) include: Strombolian eruptions and small pyroclastic falls at Arenal in Costa Rica. 3 km / 10 000 foot ash plume from Bagana on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea. Rumbling noises, ~4.5 km / 14 000 foot ash plumes and incandescence were all reported ...

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From the Ely Times: “If there’s one thing that scientists already know about Snake Valley’s aquifer, it’s the fact that there’s still a lot to learn about the complicated groundwater system. Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and University of Nevada, Reno set out last summer to further their scientific understanding of the basin, and last week,

A minor earthquake occurred at 11:41 p.m. on Wednesday night.  The 3.0 magnitude quake was centered in Banning, according to the USGS. Two smaller quakes were measured in Indio and Redlands at 11:55 p.m. and 1:40 a.m., respectively.  Each was 1.4 in magnitude. There have been no reports of damage. Click it. Read it. Watch it. When you visit InstantRiverside.com, you decide what’s ...