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Links to State Geological Surveys - (dead link)

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The United States Geological Survey: 1879-1989
Circular 1050
"A history of the relation of geology during the first 110 years of the U.S. Geological Survey to the development of public-land, Federal-science, and mapping policies and the development of mineral resources in the United States"
By Mary C. Rabbitt

National Atlas of the United States of America
Products & Services: Online Interactive Maps ; Multimedia Maps ; Printed Maps ; Spatial Data Bases ; Metadata.
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Alaska Biological Science Center

Alaska Science Center
Sections include: Biology ; Geology ; Water ; Geography.

Biological Resources Division

Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (CINDI)

Central Region Earth Surface Process Team - (dead link)
"This website presents information related to activities of the former Global Change and Climate History Team."

  • Tree Species Distribution Maps for North America - (dead link)
    Digital Representations of Tree Species Range Maps from "Atlas of United States Trees" by Elbert L. Little, Jr. (and other publications).

Central Region Geologic Division

Central Region Mineral Resources Team

  • Earth Science Photographs - (dead link)
    USGS DDS21 Photographs - 1500 scanned photos

  • Links to State Geological Surveys - (dead link)
  • Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry - (dead link)
    "This U.S. Geological Survey site shows how chemists and geologists use analytical chemistry to: determine the age of the Earth; show an extraterrestrial body collided with the Earth; predict volcanic eruptions; observe atmospheric change over millions of years; and document damage by acid rain and pollution of the Earth's surface."
    Compiled by Joseph E. Taggart, Jr.

Coastal and Marine Geology Program

  • Sound Waves
    A monthly newsletter of coastal science and research news from across the USGS.
  • Marine Realms Information Bank
    "...is a distributed geolibrary that catalogues and provides organized access to information about the coastal and marine environments."
  • Tsunamis & Earthquakes - (dead link)
    "Below you will find general information on how local tsunamis are generated by earthquakes as well as animations, virtual reality models of tsunamis, and summaries of past research studies."

Colorado Plateau Field Station - (dead link)

  • Southwest Exotic Plant Mapping Program (SWEMP) - (dead link)
    "...a Colorado Plateau Field Station (CPFS) program designed to develop a regional database of exotic plant distributions for the southwest (which consists of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado Plateau portions of Utah and Colorado). The purpose of this project is to develop and distribute information on exotic plant species distributions, as well as to provide information on the status of exotic species distributions on the Colorado Plateau, and the greater southwest."

Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center
"The World's leading source of land information for exploring our changing planet"
Image sections include: Aerial ; Map ; Elevation ; Satellite ; Land Cover

  • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
    "Mapping The World in 3 Dimensions"
    "...can be used to create maps, which in turn can be used to create water drainage models, more realistic flight simulators, locations for cell phone towers, navigation safety and even improved maps for backpackers."

Earthquakes - See Geology.

Energy Resources Program

Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center - (dead link)

  • Olympic Field Station - (dead link)
    • LTEM: Monitoring Northern Spotted Owl Populations in Olympic National Park - (dead link)
    • Northern Spotted Owl Inventories in National Parks Publications - (dead link)
  • Snake River Field Station
    • Raptor Information System
      "...is a keyworded catalog of 29,000 references about the biology and management of birds of prey...It deals with raptor management, human impacts on raptors, the mitigation of adverse impacts, and basic raptor biology (with an emphasis on population dynamics and predation)."
Geology
  • Earthquake Hazards Program
    "To provide and apply relevant earthquake science Centers and knowledge for reducing deaths, injuries, and property damage from earthquakes through understanding of their characteristics and effects and by providing the Centers and knowledge needed to mitigate these losses."
    • Magnitude 6.7 - Island of Hawaii, Hawaii (2006 15 October)

    • USGS Earthquake Hazards Program - Preliminary Earthquake Report - (dead link)
      Magnitude 5.4 Southeastern Iran - 2003 Dec. 26 03:06:13 UTC
    • Earthquake in Washington (The Nisqually Earthquake) - (dead link)
    • Map for Hawaii
  • GEO-DATA Explorer (GEODE)
    "...to access, view, and download information from geo-spatial databases containing a broad spectrum of data produced by the USGS and other government agencies."
  • Mineral Resources Program
    • Mercury Research in the USGS
    • Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data
       "The main objectives of the Spatial Data Delivery Project (SDDP) are to: 1) coordinate the generation of complete, seamless, digital databases of geologic, lithologic, geochemical, geophysical, and mineral deposit information in consistent, standard formats; 2) develop methods and tools for serving this data to all customers, both internal and external, over the Internet; 3) develop Internet-based methods and tools for analytical processing of Mineral Resource Program (MRP) data; and 4) maintain communications with the rest of the Division and the Bureau on activities which are related to the electronic delivery of spatial data."
  • Volcano Hazards Program
Geologic Hazards Team
  • Geologic Hazards - Landslides - (dead link)
    • Landslide Publications & Reports - (dead link)
    • National Landslide Bibliographic Database - (dead link)
    • National Landslide Information Center (NLIC) - (dead link)
Geologic Information about the Eastern Region

Geology in the Parks - (dead link)"Our presentation is structured to inform and entice virtual and future park visitors with a non-technical approach to geology. We hope that everyone from middle-school age and up will find something of interest. Information is presented at a variety of technical levels."

  • Death Valley - (dead link)
  • Devils Postpile - (dead link)
  • Joshua Tree - (dead link)
  • Lake Mead - (dead link)
  • Geology of Mojave National Preserve - (dead link) Sections include: Field Trip ; Geologic History ; Plate Tectonics ; Rocks & Minerals ; Geologic Time ; Geologic Maps ; Glossary.
  • North Cascades National Park Geology : A Mountain Mosaic - (dead link)
    Sections of this wonderful [my homeland] site include: Geology Story ; Virtual Field Trip ; Plate Tectonics ; Rocks & Minerals ; Geologic Time ; Geologic Maps ; Glossary.
    "Material in this site has been adapted from a new book, Geology of the North Cascades: A Mountain Mosaic by R. Tabor and R. Haugerud, of the USGS, with drawings by Anne Crowder. It is published by The Mountaineers, Seattle."
  • Plate Tectonics Animations - (dead link)
    "These animations were originally produced for the US Geological Survey video Secrets in Stone. They have been converted to animated gifs for web display."
  • Sunset Crater - (dead link)
  • Yosemite - (dead link)
Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center
"...studies the effects of the operation of Glen Canyon Dam on downstream resources within the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Grand Canyon National Park."

Great Lakes Science Center

  • Atlas of the Spawning and Nursery Areas of Great Lakes Fishes - (dead link)

Learning Web
"...is dedicated to K-12 education and lifelong learning. Explore things on, in, around, and about the Earth, such as land, water, plants, animals, and maps.
Sections include: Students ; Teachers ; Explorers.

National Atlas of the United States of America
Products & Services: Online Interactive Maps ; Multimedia Maps ; Printed Maps ; Spatial Data Bases ; Metadata.

National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program

  • National Geologic Map Database
    "We can help you find information about maps and related data for: geology, hazards, earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and marine geology."

National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver - Earthquake Information for the World

National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
"...is a comprehensive set of digital spatial data that contains information about surface water features such as lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, springs and wells."

National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)
"...is a facility for storing, curating, and studying ice cores recovered from the polar regions of the world. It provides scientists with the capability to conduct examinations and measurements on ice cores, and it preserves the integrity of these ice cores in a long-term repository for current and future investigations."

National Mapping Information - (dead link)
Sections include: Regional Centers ; Related Sites ; Products ; Programs ; Standards ; Partners ; Publications ; Education.

  • The National Map
    "...will be a seamless, continuously maintained set of public domain geographic base information that will serve as a foundation for integrating, sharing, and using other data easily and consistently."

National Strong-Motion Program (NSMP)

National Water Quality Laboratory - (dead link)

  • Newsletter - (dead link)
  • Publications - (dead link)

National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC)

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

  • Bird Checklists of the United States
    "Here we offer bird checklists developed by others that indicate the seasonal occurrence of birds in state, federal, and private management areas, nature preserves, and other areas of special interest in the United States.
    By Lawrence Igl, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, USGS

Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center

Pacific Seafloor Mapping Project

PDS Planetary Image Atlas Front Page - (dead link)"...uses existing PDS image products and software known as MapMaker - (dead link) to generate seamless, tailor-made image maps of a variety of planetary bodies. You will be able to specify the latitude and longitude limits of your map, plus scale and map projection. Your maps can be created in a variety of image formats."

  • PDS [Planetary Data System] Mars Explorer for the Armchair Astronaut - (dead link)
    "The Mars Explorer allows you to get an image map of any area on Mars at a variety of zoom factors, image sizes, and map projections. These images are created using data from NASA's Viking missions. - (dead link)"

Publications

South Florida Information Access (SOFIA)

Toxic Substances Hydrology Program

U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN)

  • Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
    "...contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates. The GNIS is our Nation's official repository of domestic geographic names information."
  • Antarctica Geographic Names Data Base
    "...contains geographic names in Antarctica which are approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names for use by the Federal Government."

Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

Water Resources of the United States

Western Ecological Research Center
  • A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California - (dead link)
    By Robert N. Fisher, Ted J. Case with Photos by Chris Brown
Western Mapping Center
  • Crater Lake Data Clearinghouse - (dead link) Bathymetry Survey Completed!
    "The primary goal of this clearinghouse is to facilitate the coordination of research, monitoring, and environmental management activities in Crater Lake, and to ensure the widest possible access to data and information resulting from such activities."
    Includes a great fly-by movie of Crater Lake bathymetry - (dead link).
Western Region Geologic Information Server

Woods Hole [MA] Science Center
USGS Science Center for Coastal and Marine Geology

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