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 ...

In this edition of Science Picks, discover details about the recent major earthquake in China, including expectations for aftershocks, and find out about a hypothetical earthquake scenario unveiled ...

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 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Rivers are the circulatory system of the continents. They are the conduits for water, ...

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.

Multidisciplinary research is a central goal of the USGS science strategy (NRC, 2001; USGS, 2007). GIScience research underpins this goal by addressing such challenges as data integration across the ...

Remember Chester in The Cricket in Times Square? George Selden was inspired to write his classic children's story after hearing chirps in the subway. Crickets and katydids are a vital part of the ...

This weekend, the U.S. Navy announced that it is temporarily closing four submarine repair drydocks in Washington due to earthquake risk. This closure stemmed from a recent seismic assessment for ...

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 ...

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 ...