In this edition of Science Picks, learn about an upcoming Canoe Journey to study water resources in the Salish Sea, a new USGS partnership to develop a volcano early warning system in Chile, how ...

This report has identified a compelling national need for an integrative river science, a science structured and conducted to develop a process-based predictive understanding of the functions of the ...

Volcanoes can be catastrophic. Lava flows and debris avalanches can choke major riverways, destroy bridges and devastate natural areas. Scientists from the USGS work with partners around the world to ...

Within the USGS organizational structure, all the disciplinary building blocks exist for a USGS river science initiative. Still, bringing together these elements to create a USGS river science ...

Lava fire flares up as it flows down dirt road, a result of the 2014 Kilauea Volcano eruption and lava flow. (Kelly Hudson/FEMA) Every year, the United States experiences dozens, if not hundreds, of ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), announces the selection of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Science Team.

With a veritable army of robots scanning its surface, Mars is the most surveilled planet after Earth. Those rovers and orbiters collect a mountain of image data, but very little is processed into an ...

A Texas Gas Transmission pipeline located approximately 15 miles southwest of Dulac burns natural gas near Lake Mechant, April 9, 2012. The Coast Guard and the Terrebonne Parish Fire Department ...

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Learn more about the department's name change from geological sciences to the Department of Earth Science, including the effect on degree names and curricula. The Department of Geological Sciences is ...