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Twentieth Anniversary of Kilauea Eruption
(created on 12-31-2002)
Supertyphoon Pongsona Damages Guam's Water Supplies
(created on 12-19-2002)
Recent Storms Bring San Francisco Bay Region to Beginning of the 2002-2003 Landslide Season
(created on 12-19-2002)
USGS Completes Assessment of Oil and Gas Resources in Priority Basins in the U.S.
(created on 12-16-2002)
Science Picks—Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (December 2002)
(created on 12-6-2002)
USGS Science at AGU: From Mars to Below the Earth
(created on 12-6-2002)
USGS Studies Cast Major Doubts on Geologic Theory of How Volcanic Regions Created: Mantle Plumes May Be Nonexistent After All
(created on 12-6-2002)
Exposed Water Ice Discovered Near the South Pole of Mars
(created on 12-5-2002)
Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain Terrestrial Wildlife Research Summaries
(created on 12-4-2002)
Shedding Light on Amphibian Declines: New Research Finds That Ultraviolet Radiation May Not Be a Factor in Amphibian Population Declines
(created on 12-3-2002)
To Thin or Not to Thin
(created on 11-21-2002)
Unearthing the San Andreas Fault Zone: Seismic History Suggests Big Quakes Impending in California
(created on 11-21-2002)
DOI and NASA Honor Achievements in Remote Sensing
(created on 11-20-2002)
USGS Releases Atlas of Natural Hazards of Hawaii's Coastal Areas
(created on 11-19-2002)
USGS NWIS Web Site Honored by GSA
(created on 11-14-2002)
Shaking it Up in Alaska: ShakeMap Released for 7.9 Earthquake
(created on 11-13-2002)
“Hurricane” Turtles of South Carolina’s Tidal Creeks
(created on 11-13-2002)
USGS - Human Health Link at Philadelphia Meeting
(created on 11-8-2002)
Alaska Interior Reveals Scars and Ruptures from 7.9 Denali Fault Quake
(created on 11-8-2002)
Science, Location and Luck Minimized Alaska's Earthquake Damage
(created on 11-6-2002)
Science Picks—Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (November 2002)
(created on 11-4-2002)
Drought, Fire, Mercury, Comets and More at GSA 2002
(created on 10-29-2002)
Protecting the Public From Earthquake Hazards - Advanced National Seismic System Comes to Memphis
(created on 10-29-2002)
M6.7 Nenana Mountain, Alaska, Earthquake
(created on 10-25-2002)
Scientists To Conduct Seismic Experiments Near Memphis
Small Underground Explosions Will Mimic Earthquake Waves
(created on 10-25-2002)
USGS Study Shows that Anchorage Area Fault is Capable of a Large Quake
(created on 10-23-2002)
USGS Introduces A Web-Searchable Database of Environmental Methods
(created on 10-18-2002)
USGS Assesses Coal in the Illinois Basin
(created on 10-18-2002)
Scientists Study the Long and Short of Pintail Duck Migration
(created on 10-16-2002)
Science Picks – Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (October 2002 Edition)
(created on 10-7-2002)
Join Scientists and Students for Free Live Electronic Field Trip
(created on 10-3-2002)
Multi-Year Contract Awarded for Work At EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, SD
(created on 10-1-2002)
USGS and the American Geological Institute Combine to Offer a World of Information
(created on 10-1-2002)
Science Picks - Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds
(created on 9-9-2002)
USGS to Map Richness of Aquatic Life in the Great Lakes
(created on 9-9-2002)
Mrs. Mary C. Rabbitt – Noted USGS Geophysicist and Historian
(created on 8-30-2002)
$2 More, But Still a Bargain For a Great USGS Topo Map
(created on 8-26-2002)
Second-Largest Glacial Flood Worldwide in Historic Times Occurs as Russell Lake Glacier Dam Ruptures
(created on 8-20-2002)
Rey Stendell Appointed Chief Scientist for the Salton Sea Science Office
(created on 8-14-2002)
Dr. George Phair - Noted USGS Research Geologist
(created on 8-9-2002)
From Swamps to Deserts, From Habitat Disturbance to Recovery, USGS Scientists Highlight Their Research
(created on 8-2-2002)
USGS Names Honor Award Recipients
(created on 8-2-2002)
New Lava From Kilauea Volcano Entering the Sea
(created on 7-30-2002)
From Plague to Cholera to Invasive Diseases, USGS Scientists Highlight Their Research at Wildlife Disease Conference
(created on 7-29-2002)
USGS Measures the Response of the Rodeo/Chediski Burn
(created on 7-26-2002)
Radios Lead Researchers to Nests of Elusive Marbled Murrelets
(created on 7-26-2002)
California Sea Otter Numbers Slide for Second Straight Year
(created on 7-26-2002)
Celebrating 30 Years of Imaging The Earth
(created on 7-23-2002)
Dr. Fawwaz T. Ulaby Recognized For Achievements in Radar Remote Sensing
(created on 7-16-2002)
It's a World Made for Parasites, or Is It?
(created on 7-3-2002)
Scientists Launch Major Earthquake Drilling Project Along the San Andreas Fault
(created on 6-24-2002)
Diazinon Levels in Sacramento and San Joaquin Basin Rivers Lower Than in 1990s
(created on 6-21-2002)
Harris Named Public Affairs Officer
(created on 6-21-2002)
Quake hits Southern Indiana-Illinois Border Region
(created on 6-19-2002)
Advancing Glacier Coming Close to Blocking Fiord Near Yakutat, Alaska
(created on 6-18-2002)
USGS Names Thompson as Chief of EROS Data Center
(created on 5-30-2002)
Decline of World's Glaciers Expected to Have Global Impacts Over This Century
(created on 5-29-2002)
USGS Presents a World of Science at AGU
(created on 5-28-2002)
USGS Revises Estimates of Undiscovered Oil & Gas Resources in NPRA
(created on 5-16-2002)
April Showers Bring Some Relief to Massachusetts Drought Conditions
But Drought Watch Continues
(created on 5-8-2002)
USGS Partners with Nation's Military Bases
Scientists Team with Defense Experts to Discuss Base Environmental Issues
(created on 4-26-2002)
Buffelgrass, an Invader Fueling Wildfires in the Sonoran Desert
(created on 4-24-2002)
Native Americans Were First Land Managers of California's Coastal Ranges
(created on 4-24-2002)
USGS Report on Mineral Resources of Afghanistan
(created on 4-5-2002)
USGS Partners With NNSA To Upgrade Camera Calibration
(created on 4-1-2002)
USGS Assessment: Complex Future for Appalachian Coal
(created on 3-28-2002)
Fresh Water Under the Sea?
(created on 3-18-2002)
New National Atlas Map Reveals Old Voting Patterns
(created on 3-14-2002)
What's in that Water?
USGS Releases First Nationwide Look At Pharmaceuticals, Hormones And Other Organic Contaminants In U.S. Streams
(created on 3-13-2002)
USGS Partners with ATDI to Serve Geographic Data
(created on 3-13-2002)
BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS –BEYOND THE GOLDEN GATE
(created on 2-25-2002)
U.S. Output of Mineral-based Materials Declines
(created on 2-20-2002)
Science and the Billion-Dollar Ground-Water Cleanup
(created on 2-12-2002)
USGS Planetary Geologist Named AAAS Fellow
(created on 2-12-2002)
Keeping Common Species Common in New York
(created on 2-8-2002)
Similar Patterns of Ground Water Pollution Found in United States and China
(created on 2-6-2002)
President's FY 2003 Budget for USGS -- Science in Support of Natural Resources and the Nation's Public Lands
(created on 2-4-2002)
University of Utah to Monitor Olympic Earthquakes - Thanks to USGS
(created on 1-30-2002)
THE "SHIP"ping NEWS -- USGS Scientists Launch Earth Shaking Study in the Puget Lowlands
(created on 1-25-2002)
SOUTH AMERICAN FORESTS OFFER GLIMPSE OF U.S. ECOSYSTEMS BEFORE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
(created on 1-24-2002)
PIPING PLOVERS HAVE THEIR UPS AND DOWNS
(created on 1-24-2002)
USGS to Distribute EO-1 Data
(created on 1-22-2002)
USGS Partners with MapMart.com to Serve Geographic Data
(created on 1-15-2002)
Normal Seismic Activity During 2001, But Heavy Toll in Human Losses
(created on 1-4-2002)
Start the New Year in the Right Direction - USGS Teaches Map and Compass Reading and How to Use Global Positioning System Receivers
(created on 1-4-2002)
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