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  • USGS scientists, research help Haiti reconstruction

    ... geophysicist, who recently returned from Haiti. The most recent USGS scientists traveling to Haiti are Carol Prentice ... Port-au-Prince and Leogane," Mooney said. The USGS scientists also installed seismic monitoring stations ...
  • Scientists collect data to aid Afghanistan reconstruction

    ... . Data were collected by U.S. Geological Survey scientists, who flew over Afghanistan and conducted an airborne geophysical ... resources and the development of detailed maps. In this effort, USGS scientists worked cooperatively with the Naval Research ...
  • Unexplored Arctic region to be mapped

    ... is costly, logistically difficult, and sometimes dangerous," said USGS scientist Deborah Hutchinson, who will sail aboard ... , to map the seafloor. This will be done using a multibeam bathymetry system," said USGS scientist Jonathan Childs, chief ...
  • Genetic evidence for avian influenza movement from Asia to North America via wild birds

    ... . In an article published this week in Molecular Ecology, USGS scientists observed that nearly half of the low ... from sources of Asian strains of avian influenza. Scientists with the USGS, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
  • Acid soils in Slovakia tell somber tale

    ... soil is considered a non-renewable resource," said USGS scientist Jill Baron, who helped analyze ... and Tatra National Parks are sister parks, with scientists and managers beginning to cooperate in studies to understand ...
  • Getting warmer? Prehistoric climate can help forecast future changes

    ... laboratories for understanding the global climate system. Scientists examined fossils from 3.3 to 3 ... atmospheric CO2 and oceanic energy transport systems," said USGS scientist Harry Dowsett, also lead ...
  • Tree deaths have doubled across the western US

    ... in western forests, said Phil van Mantgem, a USGS scientist and co-leader of the research team. Such changes, the team noted, can have cascading effects, such as by changing ...
  • Decline of shorebird linked to bait use of horseshoe crabs

    ... , and this led to a dramatic decline in population size," said USGS scientist, Jon Bart, one of the authors of the study ... need to find the right balance." Fifteen scientists participated in the study, from a wide variety of federal ...
  • Erosion doubles along Alaska's Arctic coast

    ... Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. USGS scientist and lead author Benjamin Jones cautioned that it is possible that the recent patterns documented in their study ...
  • 'Ice that burns' may yield clean, sustainable bridge to global energy future

    ... toward that bridge to the future. In a landmark study, the USGS scientists estimated that 85.4 trillion ... scale." That volume, he says, depends on the ability of scientists to extract useful methane, the main ingredient in natural ...
  • Landmark USGS study

    ... eastward transport by large ocean circulation currents," said USGS scientist and coauthor David Krabbenhoft ... is from the consumption of marine fish and shell fish. Scientists have known for some time that mercury deposited from the atmosphere ...
  • Jeepers creepers: Climate change threatens endangered honeycreepers

    ... to disease. "Unfortunately," said study co-author, USGS scientist Dr. Dennis LaPointe, "this seasonal movement happens at the same time that mosquito populations ...
  • Estrogen linked to lowered immunity in fish

    ... kills and intersex in these two rivers suggested to USGS scientists that estrogen-mimicking compounds could be involved ... in the journal, Fish & Shellfish Immunology. The authors are USGS scientists Laura Robertson, Luke Iwanowicz ...
  • Biologists rediscover endangered frog population

    ... .S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessing suitability of sites to re-establish frogs and scientists from the San ... across Southern California," said Adam Backlin, a USGS scientist who led the survey team that spotted ...
  • Large trees declining in Yosemite

    ... contributor to these events and should be taken into consideration," said USGS scientist emeritus Jan van Wagtendonk ... trees' ability to resist insects and pathogens." Scientists also found a shift to fire-intolerant trees in some forests ...

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