Sentences with phrase «geological survey studies»

The GM farming system has made exposure to Roundup herbicide a daily fact of our existence, and according to the latest US Geological Survey study its probably in the air you are breathing...

Hawkins criticized the Cuomo administration for interfering with a US Geological Survey study on the dangers posed by fracking.

Piping plovers, a federally threatened species of shorebirds, are likely losing wetland breeding habitat in the Great Plains as a result of wetland drainage, climate change or both, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study.

A new U.S. Geological Survey study shows how mercury pollution contaminates fish in the North Pacific

Unlike most animals, sea lampreys, an invasive, parasitic species of fish damaging the Great Lakes, could become male or female depending on how quickly they grow, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study.

Scientists recently reconstructed the skin of endangered green turtles, marking the first time that skin of a non-mammal was successfully engineered in a laboratory, according to a recently published U.S. Geological Survey study.

A new U.S. Geological Survey study shows that unconventional oil and gas production in some areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas is not currently a significant source of methane or benzene to drinking water wells.

To give a sense of the possibilities, a U.S. Geological Survey study of geothermal resources in the United States found that EGS increased estimated U.S. geothermal power potential 13-fold.

A 2014 U.S. Geological Survey study concluded: «Average chloride concentrations often exceed toxic levels in many northern United States streams due to the use of salt to deice winter pavement, and the frequency of these occurrences nearly doubled in two decades.»

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The study was conducted by the US Geological Survey, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Deltares and the University of Hawaii.

BOEM's Marine Minerals Program (MMP) is multi-faceted, focusing on coordinated leasing of sediment for extraction, inventorying sediment resources through geological and geophysical surveys of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and environmental studies and reviews to inform decisions.

J David Hughes has studied the energy resources of Canada and the US for four decades, including 32 years with the Geological Survey of Canada as a scientist and research manager, where he headed unconventional gas and coal research.

That study was based on work by researchers Fred Baldassare from Echelon Applied Geochemistry Consulting, Mark McCaffrey of Weatherford Laboratories, and John Harper from the U.S. Geological Survey who conducted an analysis of groundwater in the same area.

«The most recent evidence that came to light was an effort to edit and delay a study that the DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation) commissioned from the U.S. Geological Survey on fracking,» Hawkins said.

Referring to the revelation two weeks earlier that the Cuomo administration had delayed releasing a Federal study on the issue so it could edit out some of the more - damning conclusions, the Green Party candidate said, «When some science came back from the U.S. Geological Survey, his administration wanted to change the results.»

DEC began working with the U.S. Geological Survey in the summer of 2016 to study groundwater in the region with hopes of locating a new, uncontaminated water supply for the village.

Plastic debris is pervasive in the waters that feed the Great Lakes, according to a new study published by the United States Geological Survey.

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What's new in the Czech study, explains pathologist Carol Meteyer of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisc., is the confirmation of tissue damage characteristic of clinical white - nose sydrome: skin being digested by the pathogen as the fungi's fibrous segments enter a bat's wing and begin replacing its cells.

'' [The authors] stitched together geological evidence, anthropological information as well as geophysical modeling to put together this story that is tantalizing for a geologist but it's frightening for people in Hawaii,» said Robert Witter, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage, Alaska who was not involved in geological evidence, anthropological information as well as geophysical modeling to put together this story that is tantalizing for a geologist but it's frightening for people in Hawaii,» said Robert Witter, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage, Alaska who was not involved in Geological Survey in Anchorage, Alaska who was not involved in the study.

Concerned public officials turned to the U.S. Geological Survey, which has studied the aquifer since the early 1900s.

The study began in 2011 when Kudela's lab started monitoring for domoic acid and microcystins in the water during regular water quality surveys conducted in San Francisco Bay by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

So, as part of an initiative by the Geological Survey of Israel to study the Dead Sea region, Imri Oz, a hydrogeologist currently at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and his colleagues built their own version of the Dead Sea.

The study, by researchers at University of Wisconsin - Madison, the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, focused on a nest - protection program that was based on the logical assumption that endangered birds would reproduce and prosper if people are kept away from their nests.

«The extent of fault creep, and therefore locking, controls the size and timing of large earthquakes on the Northern San Andreas Fault system,» said James Lienkaemper, a co-author of the study and research geophysicist at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The study can help researchers identify which variables of topography and climate drive submarine groundwater discharge, says Robert Buddemeier, a geohydrologist at the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence.

* Correction, 23 September, 10:47 a.m.: The article has been clarified to note the involvement of the Geological Survey of Israel in the study.

Similarly, the U.S. Geological Survey released a study last week, published in PLOS ONE, finding that roughly 20 percent of the Arctic waters of the Canadian basin have «become more corrosive,» threatening the entire food web.

The study's other authors were Steve Windels and Leland Grim from the National Park Service, Wayne Thogmartin from the U.S. Geological Survey, and Shawn Crimmins from UW - Stevens Point.

The study «paints a realistic picture of how complicated the management of Arctic species will be going forward,» adds Mike Runge, a research ecologist and polar bear expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland.

In a new study led by the University of Sussex, geoscientists from the British Geological Survey and the Technical University of Munich reveal that using a micro-seismic technique, which detects tiny earthquakes which cause cracks in the rock, alongside modern electrical imaging technology, which measures rock mass, would provide scientists with much earlier warnings of potential rock falls.

«You can walk in a single direction for a long distance, through this bizarre Lord of the Rings, cathedral - like thing,» says Scott Elrick, a geologist with the Illinois State Geological Survey, who studied the 300 - million - year - old fossilized forest.

Sam Droege of the US Geological Survey and Sean Brady of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History study native bee populations on the base.

Their hunch paid off 2 years later, when study co-author and paleontologist Iyad Zalmout of the Saudi Geological Survey in Jeddah found a small bone stuck in the sediment.

«This study makes a compelling case that a significant Himalayan earthquake occurred in Bhutan in 1714,» says Susan Hough, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, California, who was not involved in the work.

The pipes, sewers and basements that lie beneath the coastal city of New Haven, Conn., could be flooded by rising groundwater by the end of the century, according to a preliminary study from Yale University and the U.S. Geological Survey.

«There is shallow ground ice under roughly a third of the Martian surface, which records the recent history of Mars,» said the study's lead author, Colin Dundas of the U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona.

«This is a really neat and pioneering study,» says Stephen Jackson, a paleoecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Southwest Climate Science Center in Tucson, Arizona, who was not involved in the work.

Liljedahl and her co-authors at the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers» Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory studied a watershed in a semidry climate in the eastern Alaska Range.

«We have a choice when issuing earthquake warnings,» says study leader Sarah Minson, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, in Menlo Park, Calif. «You have to think about your relative risk appetite: What is the cost of taking action versus the cost of the damage you're trying to prevent?»

In 1968, a high schooler entranced by space, he was referred to a job program at the US Geological Survey's Branch of Astrogeological Studies.

«Understanding how and why high flows affect trout numbers is valuable information that decision makers can use to help manage and protect river resources,» remarks Dr. Theodore Kennedy, project coordinator and a coauthor of the study with the U.S. Geological Survey's Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center.

The study highlights a «useful and effective technique of reducing introgression of coyote genes into red wolf populations,» says Dave Mech, a wolf biologist and senior scientist with the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Paul, who was not involved with the research.

The project — which relied on a team of more than 10 researchers from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Montana State University, Idaho State University, University of Wyoming, U.S. Geological Survey, and Loyola University of Chicago — assessed six sites on the Colorado River, many so remote they required two - week boat trips through the canyon.

In the latest study, geochemists Kenneth McGee and Terrence Gerlach of the U.S. Geological Survey in Vancouver, Washington, installed two subsurface monitoring stations and made hourly measurements of carbon dioxide for a year, beginning in October 1995.

To more fully understand Arctic lake dynamics and to document the changes we have observed requires also doing fieldwork under often harsh conditions during the cold and dark arctic winter,» said Benjamin Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage and co-author of the new study.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, was based on 30 years of research by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Montana, and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist William Ellsworth reviewed the issue of injection - induced earthquakes in a recent study published in the journal Science.

«You can't have a better recorded earthquake,» says David Wald of the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, who was not involved in any of the studies.

Other UK project partners that contributed to the study are the University of Southampton and the British Geological Survey.