USGS Fact Sheets (listed by Resources Theme)

USGS activities in the natural resources theme area inventory the occurrence and assess the quantity and quality of natural resources. Activities also include monitoring changes to natural resources, understanding the processes that form and affect them, and forecasting the changes that may be expected in the future.

Others:

FS-2004-3097: Water-Level Changes in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 2003 and 2002 to 2003
FS-2004-3096: A small-diameter sample pump for collection of depth-dependent samples from production wells under pumping conditions
FS-2004-3088: Ground-Water Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program

FS-2004-3068: Cooperative Water Program. A partnership in the Nation's water-resources program

FS-2004-3045: New reports on our Nation's water quality

FS-116-03: The value of long-term monitoring in the development of ground-water-flow models
FS-075-03: Desalination of Ground Water: Earth Science Perspectives

FS-064-03: The Marine Realms Information Bank--A Coastal and Marine Digital Library

FS-053-03: USGS Mineral Resources Program: The Global Mineral Resource Assessment Project

FS-026-03: Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide—An Energy Resource Perspective

FS-077-02: Monitoring Our Rivers and Streams

FS-076-02: Monitoring and Assessing our Nation's Water Quality

FS-052-02: WaterWatch—Maps and Graphs of Current Water Resources Conditions

FS-003-02: Digital data set of generalized lithogeochemical characteristics of near-surface bedrock in the New England Coastal Basins

FS-136-01: Sand Distribution on the Inner Shelf South of Long Island, New York

FS-128-01: Cooperative Water Program—A Partnership in the Nation's Water-Resources Program

FS-091-01: Wetland subsidence, fault reactivation, and hydrocarbon production in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region

FS-090-01: Real-Time Ground-Water Data for the Nation

FS-076-01: Coal Combustion Products

FS-070-01: Water-Quality Monitoring of Sweetwater Reservoir
FS-061-01: Habitat Geology Studies on and near Georges Bank, off New England

FS-060-01: Obsolete Computers, "Gold Mine," or High-Tech Trash? Resource Recovery from Recycling, by Donald Bleiwas and Thomas Kelly

FS-058-01: Inventario Mundial de la Calidad del Carbón Mineral (WoCQI)

FS-056-01: U.S. Geological Survey Ground-Water Resources Program, 2001

FS-031-01: The Tides And Inflows In The Mangroves Of The Everglades (TIME) Interdisciplinary Project Of The South Florida Ecosystem Program

FS-017-01: The San Francisco Volcanic Field, Arizona

FS-012-01: Some Facts About Asbestos

FS-154-00-pdf only: Chinese tallow: invading the southeastern Coastal Plain
FS-122-00: Mineral-Resource Databases

FS-099-00: Three Western-Mineral-Resources Archives

FS-093-00: Research Activities in the Spokane, Washington, Field Office

FS-086-00:Ground-Water Resources for the Future -- Desert Basins of the Southwest

FS-085-00:Ground-Water Resources for the Future -- Atlantic Coastal Zone

FS-077-00: A Simple Device for Measuring Differences in Hydraulic Head Between Surface Water and Shallow Ground Water

FS-063-00: Arsenic in Ground-Water Resources of the United States
FS-021-00-pdf only: Research in rice fields
FS-020-00-pdf only: Nutria, eating Louisiana's coast
FS-019-00-pdf only: Coastal prairie
FS-018-00-pdf only: Fire ecology in the Southeastern United States
FS-017-00-pdf only: Seagrasses in northern Gulf of Mexico: an ecosystem in trouble
FS-016-00-pdf only: Restoring life to the dead zone: addressing gulf hypoxia, a national problem
FS-015-00-pdf only: Louisiana coastal ecosystem

FS-124-99: Water-level changes, 1980 to 1997, and saturated thickness, 1996-97, in the High Plains aquifer

FS-181-99: Recycled Aggregates -- Profitable Resource Conservation
FS-155-99: Fertilizers -- Sustaining Global Food Supplies
FS-153-99 The Central Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition"
FS-134-99: Tracing and Dating Young Ground Water
FS-094-99: Assessing our Natural Resources--Providing Vital Information for our Nation's future

USGS and the Clean Water Action Plan

FS-105-98: Organic Compounds and Trace Elements in Freshwater Streambed Sediment and Fish from the Puget Sound Basin
FS-068-98Materials Flow and sustainability
FS-055-98: Volatile Organic Compounds in Lake Tahoe, Nevada and California, July-September 1997
FS-027-98: National Water Information System (NWIS)
FS-019-98: Simulating Transport of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Unsaturated Zone Using the Computer Model R-UNSAT
FS-011-98: USGS Mineral Resources Program: International Activities
FS-008-98: USGS Mineral Resources Program: A National Perspective

FS-144-97--pdf onlyNatural Aggregates--Foundation of America's Future
FS-187-97: USGS Recent Highlights -- Natural Resources
FS-155-97:--pdf only Placer Gold Mining in Alaska - Cooperative Studies on the Effect of Suction Dredge Operations on the Fortymile River
FS-154-97:--pdf only Studies of Suction Dredge Gold-Placer Mining Operations Along the Fortymile River, Eastern Alaska 100
FS-149-97 National Water-Quality Assessment Program--Yellowstone River Basin
FS-121-97: Modeling Ground-Water Flow with MODFLOW and Related Programs
FS-096-97--pdf-only: Using remote sensing to monitor global change

FS-095-97--pdf-only: Modeling hurricane effects on mangrove ecosystems

FS-094-97--pdf-only: Predicting coastal flooding and wetland loss

FS-093-97--pdf-only: Effects of climate change on southeastern forests

FS-092-97--pdf-only: Salt tolerance of southern baldcypress

FS-091-97--pdf-only: Global warming, sea-level rise, and coastal marsh survival

FS-090-97--pdf-only: Global change and submerged aquatic vegetation research

FS-089-97--pdf-only: Coastal wetlands and global change: overview

FS-038-97: Methods to Identify Areas Susceptible to Irrigation-Induced Selenium Contamination in the Western United States
FS-015-97: Mined-Land Reclamation in the Thar Desert, India-INDO-U.S. TeIchnology Exchange
FS-013-97: Data from Selected U.S. Geological Survey National Stream Water-Quality Monitoring Networks (WQN) on CD-ROM
FS-010-97: Recent Highlights -- Natural Resources

FS-006-97: Streamflow Information for the Nation

FS-077-96: Using Geochemical and Statistical Tools to Identify Irrigated Areas That Might Contain High Selenium Concentrations in Surface Water

FS-239-95:--pdf only Introduction to Potential Fields: Gravity
FS-238-95:--pdf only Potential-Field Computer Programs, Databases, and Maps
FS-237-95:--pdf only Compiling Magnetic Databases
FS-236-95:--pdf only Introduction to Potential Fields: Magnetics
FS-215-95: Water-Level Changes in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 1994
FS-184-95:--pdf only Western United States Mine-Dump Data Retrievals
FS-163-95: Magnetic Surveys for Locating Abandoned Wells
FS-092-95: Natural Environmental Effects of Silver-lead-zinc Deposits in the Brooks Range, Alaska
FS-091-95: What fish live in the streams of Metropolitan Atlanta?
FS-078-95: Geophysical Data Grids for the Conterminous United States
FS-077-95: Investigations of Hazardous Waste Sites
FS-076-95: Potential-Field Geophysical Software for the PC
FS-066-95: An Overview of the Stream-Gaging Program
FS-065-95: Water Data Program
FS-059-95: Water-Managing a National Resource
FS-058-95: Ground Water
FS-056-95: Program in the Great Lakes
FS-052-95: Federal-State Cooperative Water-Resources

FS-072-94: Environmental Geochemistry of Mercury Mines in Alaska

Energy-Related:

FS-070-03: Heavy Oil and Natural Bitumen--Strategic Petroleum Resources

FS-149-02: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in Selected Rocky Mountain Provinces for the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 2000 (EPCA 2000)

FS-148-02: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Montana Thrust Belt Province, 2002

FS-147-02: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the San Juan Basin Province of New Mexico and Colorado, 2002

FS-146-02: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Powder River Basin Province of Wyoming and Montana, 2002

FS-145-02: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Southwestern Wyoming Province, 2002

FS-094-02: Coal Underlying Federal Lands in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain

FS-073-02: Coal Extraction -- Environmental Prediction Energy Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey

FS-072-02: Resource Assessment of the Springfield, Herrin,Danville, and Baker Coals in the Illinois Basin

FS-013-02: Federally Owned Coal and Federal Lands in the Northern and Central Appalachian Basin Coal Regions

FS-004-02: Coal resources of Selected Coal Beds and Zones in the Northern and Central Appalachian Basin

FS-037-01: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in
Central and South America

FS-032-01: Energy Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey

FS-028-01: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis

FS-024-01: The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA) Data Archive

FS-021-01: Natural Gas Hydrates: Vast Resource, Uncertain Future

FS-020-01: The U.S. Geological Survey National Coal Resource Assessment

FS-011-01: Federally Owned Coal, Federal Lands, and Coal Quality in the Colorado Plateau Region

FS-158-00: Forces Shaping Future U.S. Coal Production and Use

FS-156-00: Water Produced with Coal-Bed Methane

FS-155-00: The World Coal Quality Inventory (WoCQI)

FS-123-00: Coal-Bed Methane: Potential and Concerns

FS-119-00: Reserve Growth Effects on Estimates of Oil and Natural Gas Resources

FS-115-00: The Significance of Field Growth and the Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery

FS-094-00: Health Impacts of Coal Combustion

FS-070-00: USGS World Petroleum Assessment 2000

FS-011-00: Federally Owned Coal and Federal Lands in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains Region

FS-145-99: Federally Owned Coal and Federal Lands in the Colorado Plateau Region

FS-120-99: National Coal Quality Inventory (NaCQI) and U.S. Geological Survey Coal quality Databases
FS-119-99--pdf only: USGS International Activities in Coal Resources
FS-115-99: Coal Resource Assessments in the Northern and Central Appalachian Coal Region

FS-040-98: html file Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998--PDF
FS-024-98: The 1995 National Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources: The Economic Component
FS-012-98: Federal Coal in the United States - A Digital Database of Coal Ownership Status

FS-171-97: Coal-Quality Information--Key to the Efficient and Environmentally Sound Use of Coal

FS-163-97: Radioactive Elements in Coal and Fly Ash: Abundance, Forms, and Environmental Significance

FS-145-97: Changing Perceptions of World Oil and Gas Resources as Shown by Recent USGS Petroleum Assessments

FS-109-97: Satellite Image Maps of Pakistan

FS-053-97: U.S. Geological Survey Studies of Energy Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa

FS-025-97: Organic Geochemistry in Future Energy Development

FS-024-97: Continuous Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
FS-023-97: A Rebirth of the Illinois Basin
FS-022-97: NERSL--The National Energy Research Seismic Library
FS-021-97: From Atomic to Global Scales: Understanding Energy and the Environment
FS-020-97: Describing Petroleum Reservoirs of the Future
FS-019-97: Coalbed Methane--An Untapped Energy Resource and an Environmental Concern
FS-018-97: Oil and Gas Resources of the United States: The 1995 National Assessment
FS-017-97: The USGS World Energy Program--Russia
FS-016-97: Impact of Oil and Gas Activity on Land-Use Management Decisions
FS-007-97: The USGS World Energy Program
FS-003-97: USGS Research on Saline Waters Co-Produced With Energy Resources

FS-202-96: The Importance of Reserve Growth to the Nation's Supply of Natural Gas
FS-157-96: Assessing the Coal Resources of the United States
Unnumbered Fact Sheets

Play Analysis--The Cornerstone of the National Oil and Gas Assessment

Coalbed Methane in the Forest City Basin

Seafloor Images Refine Petroleum Exploration Models

A New Approach to Estimating Hydrocarbon Resources

The Uncertainty of Estimating Growth of Hydrocarbon Reserves

Global Warming, Lessons from the Past?

Information handout--X-Ray Powder Diffraction
Information handout--Stable Isotopes and Mineral Resource Investigations in the United States
Information handout--Environmental Processes that Affect Mineral Deposits in the Eastern United States
Mineral Resource Evaluation of the Northeastern United States (Region 9)
Mineral-Resource and Related Activities in the Upper Midwest
Minerals Information Team
National Mineral-Resource Assessment: The 1996 Estimate of Undiscovered Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc Remaining in the United States
Offshore Industrial Mineral Studies Using a Marine Induced-Polarization Streamer System
Potential for New Nickel-Copper Sulfide Deposits in the Lake Superior Region
Radiogenic Isotopes and the Eastern Mineral Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
Remote Sensing in the USGS Mineral Resource Surveys Program in the Eastern United States
Revising U.S. Geological Survey Mineral-Resource Assessment Methods
Gas (Methane) Hydrates--A New Frontier
Rocky Mountain Paleocene Coal Basins
A Summary of the U.S. Geological Survey 1995 National Assessment of Oil and Gas Resources
Coal Availability Studies: A New Look at Resource Estimates
Coal Quality: The Key to the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments

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