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2002 USGS News Releases

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  1. Twentieth Anniversary of Kilauea Eruption (created on 12-31-2002)

  2. Supertyphoon Pongsona Damages Guam's Water Supplies (created on 12-19-2002)

  3. Recent Storms Bring San Francisco Bay Region to Beginning of the 2002-2003 Landslide Season (created on 12-19-2002)

  4. USGS Completes Assessment of Oil and Gas Resources in Priority Basins in the U.S. (created on 12-16-2002)

  5. Science Picks—Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (December 2002) (created on 12-6-2002)

  6. USGS Science at AGU: From Mars to Below the Earth (created on 12-6-2002)

  7. 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)

  8. Exposed Water Ice Discovered Near the South Pole of Mars (created on 12-5-2002)

  9. Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain Terrestrial Wildlife Research Summaries (created on 12-4-2002)

  10. 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)

  11. To Thin or Not to Thin (created on 11-21-2002)

  12. Unearthing the San Andreas Fault Zone: Seismic History Suggests Big Quakes Impending in California (created on 11-21-2002)

  13. DOI and NASA Honor Achievements in Remote Sensing (created on 11-20-2002)

  14. USGS Releases Atlas of Natural Hazards of Hawaii's Coastal Areas (created on 11-19-2002)

  15. USGS NWIS Web Site Honored by GSA (created on 11-14-2002)

  16. Shaking it Up in Alaska: ShakeMap Released for 7.9 Earthquake (created on 11-13-2002)

  17. “Hurricane” Turtles of South Carolina’s Tidal Creeks (created on 11-13-2002)

  18. USGS - Human Health Link at Philadelphia Meeting (created on 11-8-2002)

  19. Alaska Interior Reveals Scars and Ruptures from 7.9 Denali Fault Quake (created on 11-8-2002)

  20. Science, Location and Luck Minimized Alaska's Earthquake Damage (created on 11-6-2002)

  21. Science Picks—Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (November 2002) (created on 11-4-2002)

  22. Drought, Fire, Mercury, Comets and More at GSA 2002 (created on 10-29-2002)

  23. Protecting the Public From Earthquake Hazards - Advanced National Seismic System Comes to Memphis (created on 10-29-2002)

  24. M6.7 Nenana Mountain, Alaska, Earthquake (created on 10-25-2002)

  25. Scientists To Conduct Seismic Experiments Near Memphis
    Small Underground Explosions Will Mimic Earthquake Waves
    (created on 10-25-2002)

  26. USGS Study Shows that Anchorage Area Fault is Capable of a Large Quake (created on 10-23-2002)

  27. USGS Introduces A Web-Searchable Database of Environmental Methods (created on 10-18-2002)

  28. USGS Assesses Coal in the Illinois Basin (created on 10-18-2002)

  29. Scientists Study the Long and Short of Pintail Duck Migration (created on 10-16-2002)

  30. Science Picks – Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (October 2002 Edition) (created on 10-7-2002)

  31. Join Scientists and Students for Free Live Electronic Field Trip (created on 10-3-2002)

  32. Multi-Year Contract Awarded for Work At EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, SD (created on 10-1-2002)

  33. USGS and the American Geological Institute Combine to Offer a World of Information (created on 10-1-2002)

  34. Science Picks - Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (created on 9-9-2002)

  35. USGS to Map Richness of Aquatic Life in the Great Lakes (created on 9-9-2002)

  36. Mrs. Mary C. Rabbitt – Noted USGS Geophysicist and Historian (created on 8-30-2002)

  37. $2 More, But Still a Bargain For a Great USGS Topo Map (created on 8-26-2002)

  38. Second-Largest Glacial Flood Worldwide in Historic Times Occurs as Russell Lake Glacier Dam Ruptures (created on 8-20-2002)

  39. Rey Stendell Appointed Chief Scientist for the Salton Sea Science Office (created on 8-14-2002)

  40. Dr. George Phair - Noted USGS Research Geologist (created on 8-9-2002)

  41. From Swamps to Deserts, From Habitat Disturbance to Recovery, USGS Scientists Highlight Their Research (created on 8-2-2002)

  42. USGS Names Honor Award Recipients (created on 8-2-2002)

  43. New Lava From Kilauea Volcano Entering the Sea (created on 7-30-2002)

  44. From Plague to Cholera to Invasive Diseases, USGS Scientists Highlight Their Research at Wildlife Disease Conference (created on 7-29-2002)

  45. USGS Measures the Response of the Rodeo/Chediski Burn (created on 7-26-2002)

  46. Radios Lead Researchers to Nests of Elusive Marbled Murrelets (created on 7-26-2002)

  47. California Sea Otter Numbers Slide for Second Straight Year (created on 7-26-2002)

  48. Celebrating 30 Years of Imaging The Earth (created on 7-23-2002)

  49. Dr. Fawwaz T. Ulaby Recognized For Achievements in Radar Remote Sensing (created on 7-16-2002)

  50. It's a World Made for Parasites, or Is It? (created on 7-3-2002)

  51. Scientists Launch Major Earthquake Drilling Project Along the San Andreas Fault (created on 6-24-2002)

  52. Diazinon Levels in Sacramento and San Joaquin Basin Rivers Lower Than in 1990s (created on 6-21-2002)

  53. Harris Named Public Affairs Officer (created on 6-21-2002)

  54. Quake hits Southern Indiana-Illinois Border Region (created on 6-19-2002)

  55. Advancing Glacier Coming Close to Blocking Fiord Near Yakutat, Alaska (created on 6-18-2002)

  56. USGS Names Thompson as Chief of EROS Data Center (created on 5-30-2002)

  57. Decline of World's Glaciers Expected to Have Global Impacts Over This Century (created on 5-29-2002)

  58. USGS Presents a World of Science at AGU (created on 5-28-2002)

  59. USGS Revises Estimates of Undiscovered Oil & Gas Resources in NPRA (created on 5-16-2002)

  60. April Showers Bring Some Relief to Massachusetts Drought Conditions
    But Drought Watch Continues
    (created on 5-8-2002)

  61. USGS Partners with Nation's Military Bases
    Scientists Team with Defense Experts to Discuss Base Environmental Issues
    (created on 4-26-2002)

  62. Buffelgrass, an Invader Fueling Wildfires in the Sonoran Desert (created on 4-24-2002)

  63. Native Americans Were First Land Managers of California's Coastal Ranges (created on 4-24-2002)

  64. USGS Report on Mineral Resources of Afghanistan (created on 4-5-2002)

  65. USGS Partners With NNSA To Upgrade Camera Calibration (created on 4-1-2002)

  66. USGS Assessment: Complex Future for Appalachian Coal (created on 3-28-2002)

  67. Fresh Water Under the Sea? (created on 3-18-2002)

  68. New National Atlas Map Reveals Old Voting Patterns (created on 3-14-2002)

  69. 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)

  70. USGS Partners with ATDI to Serve Geographic Data (created on 3-13-2002)

  71. BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS –BEYOND THE GOLDEN GATE (created on 2-25-2002)

  72. U.S. Output of Mineral-based Materials Declines (created on 2-20-2002)

  73. Science and the Billion-Dollar Ground-Water Cleanup (created on 2-12-2002)

  74. USGS Planetary Geologist Named AAAS Fellow (created on 2-12-2002)

  75. Keeping Common Species Common in New York (created on 2-8-2002)

  76. Similar Patterns of Ground Water Pollution Found in United States and China (created on 2-6-2002)

  77. President's FY 2003 Budget for USGS -- Science in Support of Natural Resources and the Nation's Public Lands (created on 2-4-2002)

  78. University of Utah to Monitor Olympic Earthquakes - Thanks to USGS (created on 1-30-2002)

  79. THE "SHIP"ping NEWS -- USGS Scientists Launch Earth Shaking Study in the Puget Lowlands (created on 1-25-2002)

  80. SOUTH AMERICAN FORESTS OFFER GLIMPSE OF U.S. ECOSYSTEMS BEFORE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (created on 1-24-2002)

  81. PIPING PLOVERS HAVE THEIR UPS AND DOWNS (created on 1-24-2002)

  82. USGS to Distribute EO-1 Data (created on 1-22-2002)

  83. USGS Partners with MapMart.com to Serve Geographic Data (created on 1-15-2002)

  84. Normal Seismic Activity During 2001, But Heavy Toll in Human Losses (created on 1-4-2002)

  85. 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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