Science news articles about 'united states geological survey'

Marcia McNutt, a former president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, will take over as the new director of the United States Geological Survey.

... strain on a fault, or loosen a fault so that it prematurely breaks or slides, she adds. The study was funded by the United States Geological Survey and the National Science Foundation, Pankow says.

... Diporeia populations began declining, said Charles Madenjian, research fishery biologist with the United States Geologic Survey. "Alewives used to regularly reach 10 inches in length," Madenjian ...

... views." Other principal investigators include Kevin Lafferty, a marine ecologist with the United States Geological Survey and Andrew Dobson, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at Princeton ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The United States Geological Survey says drought conditions in Western North Carolina are even worse than they were last year.

... access journal PLoS ONE. Although the United States Geological Survey (USGS) earlier this year ... pythons could potentially inhabit up to thirty two states in the continental U.S., new research indicates ...

... These data are gathered by amateur bird watchers for the United States Geological Survey's Breeding Bird Surveys, conducted nationwide. "We're seeing locally and nationally that bird diversity is ...

... , South America, and Asia. The study shows that satellites can supplement the measurements that the United States Geological Survey (USGS) gathers from flood gauges on the ground -- at little or no ...

... and others which come from clay. These compounds were obtained from reference materials from the United States Geological Survey, as well as from different areas of the Earth similar to those of the ...

... 20 years ago. Efforts to restock the supply with an updated SRM began in 2006. Scientists at the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Denver, Colo., laboratory collected the ...

... Hessen from the University of Oslo; Jill Baron of the United States Geological Survey and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University; Ann-Kristin Bergström and Mats ...