U.S. Geological Survey
Recent News About U.S. Geological Survey
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Haaland: 'Partnership and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do'
The U.S. Department of the Interior recently celebrated a new facility for the U.S. Geological Survey and University of Hawai’i to support volcano monitoring and ecosystem restoration efforts.
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Torres-García: New capability to help inform Puerto Rico’s safety ‘decisions related to hurricane preparedness’
A new computerized task developed by U.S. Geological Survey science will help users see probabilities of hurricane-induced coastal change on Puerto Rico’s coastline before storms strike this hurricane season.
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Waddell: ‘PopEquus is a ground-breaking new tool’ to compare ways to manage, protect wild horses
People now have access to a modeling tool the U.S. Geological Survey developed that predicts outcomes of using non-lethal methods to manage and protect wild horses on public lands.
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Fortier: Mineral Commodity Summaries report helps leaders make ‘business decisions and determine national policy’
U.S. mines increased the production of nonfuel mineral commodities in 2022 by an estimated $3.6 billion compared to 2021.
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Dickman: 'Hazardous weather conditions continue in northern California'
Streamflows in some Northern California waterways are reaching record highs, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Waltz: Afghanistan withdrawal 'just a strategic fiasco'
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was a “strategic fiasco,” Florida Republican Rep. Mike Waltz said.
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Invasive zebra mussels found in South Dakota reservoir
The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) recently announced the presence of zebra mussels, an invasive species, in the Pactola Reservoir in southwestern South Dakota.
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USGS spokesperson: Los Alamos partnership 'creates an unparalleled opportunity to meet fire managers' needs'
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Los Alamos National Laboratory have teamed up in order to better predict how wildfires might act.
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Applegate: 'The USGS, like me, is committed to delivering' science-based data to all
President Joe Biden's nominee for a director's position in the Department of the Interior, testified before a Senate committee last month as part of the confirmation process.
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Iverson: New Harney Basin study 'is a tool for understanding and managing the basin's groundwater resources'
The U.S. Geological Survey and Oregon Department of Water Resources conducted a groundwater flow study of the Harney Basin to inform planning for future groundwater management.
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'I am confident he will continue to empower the agency’s scientific and technical experts': Biden nominates Applegate as director of USGS
President Joe Biden has nominated David Applegate to direct the U.S. Geological Survey in the Department of the Interior, a news release said.
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'With science at the heart' Interior Department welcomes nomination of Appelgate
President Joe Biden's administration nominated David Applegate for director of the United States Geological Survey, Department of Interior officials said in a release in March.
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Low-Flying Helicopter Will Survey Southern Wisconsin for Geologic, Water Studies
Starting around late February and lasting three to four weeks, a helicopter towing a large hoop from a cable will begin making low-level flights over southern Wisconsin between Grant and Kenosha counties.The low-flying helicopter will collect and record geophysical measurements as part of multiple U.S.
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Groundbreaking Study Finds Widespread Lead Poisoning in Bald and Golden Eagles
The paper, “Demographic Implications of Lead Poisoning for Eagles Across North America,” was published in the journal Science. Led by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, Conservation Science Global, Inc., and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, researchers evaluated lead exposure in bald and golden eagles from 2010 to 2018.
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USGS Announces Investments in Mineral Mapping and Data Preservation with Funding From Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
States, federal agencies and natural resource managers will soon have significantly more resources to invest in boosting the nation’s understanding of its energy and critical mineral resources, training and retaining the next generation of natural resource scientists and preserving the nation’s irreplaceable geologic knowledge.
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Study reveals 'crucial' peak flow along Rio Grande could occur earlier for decades
A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found that the peak runoff on the Rio Grande could happen earlier than initial projections anticipated.
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USGS Partners with UA to Build Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility
The U.S. Geological Survey is partnering with the University of Alabama to construct a new Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility, a science and engineering facility that will support the agency’s Water Enterprise observing networks and research.
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The U.S. Geological Survey released a strategy today that outlines the agency’s future scientific role in the study of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, chemicals known as PFAS.
This strategy identifies PFAS-related science opportunities that have informed ongoing USGS research and provides a strategic vision to address future science needs and opportunities with both existing and additional resources.PFAS are a diverse class of long-lasting chemicals with a wide range of applications.
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A new research study led by U.S. Geological Survey scientists assesses the risk from earthquakes to the Nation’s Gas Transmission Pipelines
A new study from the USGS in the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, “Earthquake Risk of Gas Pipelines in the Conterminous United States and its Sources of Uncertainty,” highlights the need to continue efforts to systematically quantify nationwide earthquake risk to gas pipelines in the United States, which manages the largest gas pipeline network in the world.
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U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Energy partner to strengthen 'global decarbonization efforts'
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) will partner to assess global, regional and national resources for geologic carbon storage