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Environment Frequently Asked Questions (Score: 3.000)

Water Information Coordination Program (WICP) Description of a federal interagency program to improve water information for decision making about natural resources management and environmental protection and the Advisory Committee on Water Information working with the program. (Score: 1.380)

Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center (UMESC) Homepage for Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, with links to data library, geographical search, science programs, partnerships, long term resource monitoring program, reports and publications, and education. (Score: 1.156)

Earth Surface Processes Homepage for Earth Surface Processes Team with research studies in two general categories: climate change and geologic mapping. Links to research activities, available data sets, workhop, and programs. (Score: 1.000)

Changing patterns in the number of species in North American floras A chapter of the publication: Land Use History of North America on general patterns of plant species diversity in North America that shows how these patterns have changed over time. (Score: 0.811)

Land use history of North America (LUHNA) Report prepared with NASA on the importance of a historical context for understanding ongoing changes in land cover and land use in North America and the effect on the environment. Site contains primarily contents of a book edited by T.D.Sisk. (Score: 0.811)

AmericaView Putting the Earth into your hands (Score: 0.690)

Assessing rangelands (Score: 0.690)

Classification of wetlands and deepwater habitats Detailed publication on the classification system for an inventory of wetlands and deepwater habitats of the United States used to describe ecological taxa and arrange them in a system useful to resource managers. (Score: 0.690)

Contaminant Biology Program The Contaminant Biology Program investigates contaminant exposure and effects on fish, wildlife, and other organisms, their habitat and ecosystems. Links include description of projects, research centers, and news. (Score: 0.690)

Environment Links to USGS activities in the environment theme area, including anthropogenic and natural contaminants, ecosystems, energy, human health, global change, etc. Also includes links to environment-related factsheets. (Score: 0.690)

Environmental Affairs Program The USGS reviews and prepares technical comments on environmental impact statements and establishes policies to implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Site has links to environmental laws and regulations including NEPA. (Score: 0.690)

Mercury contamination of aquatic ecosystems Fact sheet on mercury bioaccumulation and cycling in the environment. Also available in pdf format. (Score: 0.690)

Mercury in the environment Fact sheet on mercury and the environment, including toxic effects, risk to people and wildlife, sources of mercury, environments where methylmercury is a problem and mercury contamination. (Score: 0.690)

USGS by theme Links to Hazards, Natural Resources, Environment, and Information Management theme areas of USGS activities and links to USGS factsheets. (Score: 0.690)

Assessing the impact of urban sprawl on soil resources in the United States using nighttime city lights satellite images and digital soils maps Paper from Land Use History of North America giving results of a study to estimate the extent of developed land in the United States and the impact of development on soil resources. (Score: 0.688)

Historical interrelationships between population settlement and farmland in the conterminous United States, 1790 to 1992 Chapter from Land Use History of the North America on the results of a study to understand the interactions of population growth, urbanization, and agricultural activity over time. (Score: 0.688)

Aquatic insects as indicators of environmental quality Article on ongoing and past examples of surveillance monitoring of aquatic insects of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. (Score: 0.572)

Landscape changes in the southwestern United States: techniques, long-term data sets, and trends This study illustrates some approaches for reconstructing landscape change. (Score: 0.552)

Historical landcover changes in the Great Lakes region Results of a study that provides a regional vegetation history of the Great Lakes area during the last 150 years compared to the preceding 1,000 years. (Score: 0.547)

Presettlement and contemporary vegetation patterns along two navigation reaches of the Upper Mississippi River Study to reconstruct presettlement vegetation patterns along two navigation reaches of the Upper Mississippi. (Score: 0.535)

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About environmental assessment:

Definition: Assessment to appraise the effect of a proposed project on the aggregate of social and physical conditions that influence a community or ecosystem. The assessment is often prepared to determine the need for a formal environmental impact statement. [Adapted from Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]

Used for: environmental analysis, environmental impact assessment