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• Explore the Surface of Mercury

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 731
  NASAs MESSENGER team (previously: 1 , 2 , 3 ) , with help from the U.S. Geological Survey, released yesterday the first global map of the planet Mercury . The map stitches together images from MESSENGERs three recent flybys of the planet with those from Mariner 10 , which saw about 45% of the planet in the ...
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• Scientists monitor earthquake news on Twitter

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  San Francisco, Dec 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists at the United States Geological Survey are sure moving with the times. They have noticed that users of the social networking and micro blogging site Twitter in the seismically active areas of the world were very fast to note and report any temblors and movements of the ...
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• Now, tweets being used to get public reaction to quakes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec.16 (ANI): Tweets are being used by the US Geological Survey (USGS) to get instant public reaction to earthquakes. The agency is trawling the messages to find out what people felt during a tremor - whether there was a lot of shaking in their area or not. There are big spikes in Twitter traffic [...]
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• Meet T.E.D., aka Twitter Earthquake Detection

  
  techPresident — Authority: 574
  In this episode of its awesomely named podcast series CoreCast, U.S. Geological Survey scientists flesh out some of the details of how theyre turning to Twitter to do earthquake detection and response. Like other experts working in the natural disaster space, USGS is weighing the increased speed of Twitter against ...
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• Global Land Survey 2005: New set of Landsat imagery available

  
  GIS in Education — Authority: 135
  A new collection of selected Landsat earth images worldwide, Global Land Survey 2005 (GLS2005), is now available for free download to any user around the globe. Under a long-term partnership, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA periodically selected and processed thousands of the best-available Landsat ...
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• US Topo: New Topographic Maps from USGS

  
  Geology News — Authority: 146
  “US Topo” is the next generation of topographic maps from the U.S. Geological Survey. Digital US Topo maps are designed to look, feel, and perform like the traditional paper topographic maps for which the USGS is so well known. However, in contrast to paper-based maps, US Topo maps provide technical advantages ...
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• Native American Saltwork

  
  Geology News — Authority: 146
  “Native Americans of the Miwok tribe in the northern Sierra Nevada, California carved basins into granite bedrock to produce salt for trade. They filled the basins with water from a salt spring and let the water evaporate, leaving a salt residue in the basin.” USGS reports that this is the oldest evidence of ...
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• USGS monitoring Twitter for earthquake details (AP)

  
  Seo, Make Money Online and Technology — Authority: 146
  This came from Yahoo News AP - OMG! Earthquake! Go to Source
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• CO2 Impact Greatly Underestimated by Climate Projections

  
  Green Living Ideas — Authority: 509
  A new study claims that the Earth’s climate may be up to 50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over the long term than previous climate projections, and that these projections might need to be adjusted to account for this new information.The new research, “Earth system sensitivity inferred from ...
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• National Open Topographic LIDAR Facility Gets $1.7 Million

  
  LiDAR News — Authority: 123
  The NSF has awarded $1.7 million to SDSC and ASU for the creation of an online LIDAR data website. The goal is to make access to LIDAR data much easier for end users. This is a similar mission to the USGS CLICK site and I hope the 2 groups will work together. The US National Science Foundation, NSF has awarded ...
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
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• USGS RSS Feeds

  
  Palm PDA Handheld — Authority: 147
  United States Geological Services - USGS RSS feeds . See original here: USGS RSS Feeds
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• New discoveries could improve projections of future climate conditions

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, December 12 (ANI): New discoveries about the deep ocean’s temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.The deep ocean is affected more by surface warming than previously thought, and this understanding allows for more accurate predictions of ...
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• The Value of a Spring & How to Measure It

  
  Lynchburg Real Estate — Authority: 128
  In many areas of Campbell County and Bedford County springs are the primary source of water, because we are so close to the Blue Ridge Mountains.  A spring occurs where water seeps to the surface from a crack in the rock formation or where a road cust through a water vein.  Artesian wells are like springs, ...
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• Assessing Carbon Storage on Public Lands

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 734
  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, speaking at the Copenhagen climate summit, cited new research that showed the vast potential of public lands to help combat climate change.
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• There are Drugs in My Water?

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 122
  by Jessica Levinson We all know by now to recycle our plastic, glass and paper. To a lesser extent, people recycle paint, batteries and television sets but not many consider the implications of throwing our outdated prescriptions or over the...
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• Lunar Orbiters originals vs. LOIRP restorations

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 481
  Keith Cowing MoonViews.com (LOIRP) Keiths note : These images are taken from Lunar Orbiter II image LOII_092H1 Framelet 522. On the left is the highest resolution scanned version available online at LPI (or USGS). On the right is our partially processed version that we retrieved this morning. In addition to ...
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• When Buying Land in Campbell County or Bedford County Va – Three Ways to Locate Underground Water

  
  Lynchburg Real Estate — Authority: 128
  One way to locate underground water is to find certain plants, called phreatophytes. Live Oak You can find them where there is a high water table.  The name pheatophyte is derived from two Greek words meaning well plant .   Some pheatophytes indicate not only the presence of groundwater but also the ...
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• Podcast: Hands on with the New National Map Viewer and US Topos

  
  All Points Blog — Authority: 543
  The USGS rolled out two new products as part of its celebration of 125 years in the topographic mapping business: a new National Map Viewer and the production version of US Topos, digital quads in GeoPDF format. Our editors put them through their pac... Read more
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• National Map Viewer 2.0 (Beta) from USGS

  
  AnyGeo - A GISuser Blog about GIS and Location Technologies — Authority: 135
  Have you visited the recently updated National Map viewer from the USGS. This greatly enhanced and Highly interactive web service offers users an dramatically different user experience than what you are used to from R1 starting with the floating toolbar (upper left) that provides users…
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