Circulars are generally aimed at the general public; they may also be aimed at non-core professional and core professional audiences. The aim of the series is to broadly educate and inform about a wide variety of topics covered concisely and clearly to provide a synthesis of understanding about processes, geographic areas, issues, or USGS programs. The focus is usually on USGS programs, projects, and data and how they address issues of public interest. Circulars may include, for example, progress reports of mission programs, preliminary reports on topical investigations or catastrophic events, hazard and resource assessments, classification procedures, and so on. Circulars are of wide, popular interest but are generally of little archival value; this series should not be used to present new data or new scientific findings.
Publications in this series from the Western Region will be linked from here as they are produced.
Look Before You Build—Geologic Studies for Safer Land Development in the San Francisco Bay Area
By Martha Blair Tyler
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1995/c1130/
Yucca Mountain as a Radioactive-Waste Repository
By Thomas C. Hanks, Isaac J. Winograd, R. Ernest Anderson, Thomas E. Reilly, and Edwin P. Weeks
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/circular/c1184/
Surviving a Tsunami—Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan
Compiled by Brian F. Atwater, Marco Cisternas V., Joanne Bourgeois, Walter C. Dudley, James W. Hendley II, and Peter H. Stauffer, Compilers
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187
Beyond the Golden Gate—Oceanography, Geology, Biology, and Environmental Issues in the Gulf of the Farallones
Herman A. Karl, John L. Chin, Edward Ueber, Peter H. Stauffer, and James W. Hendley II, Editors
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1198/
Sobreviviendo a un tsunami: lecciones de Chile, Hawai y Japón (1999, Revisado y reimpreso: 2006)
Compilado por Brian F. Atwater, Marco Cisternas V., Joanne Bourgeois, Walter C. Dudley, James W. Hendley II y Peter H. Stauffer
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1218
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/circular/c1242/
Geothermal Energy—Clean Power From the Earth’s Heat
By Wendell A. Duffield and John H. Sass
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2004/c1249/
Shifting Shoals and Shattered Rocks-How Man Has Transformed the Floor of West-Central San Francisco Bay
By John L. Chin, Florence L. Wong, and Paul R. Carlson
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2004/c1259/
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of The National Map
By David Halsing, Kevin Theissen, and Richard Bernknopf
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2004/1271/
Marine Mineral Resources of Pacific Islands-A Review of the Exclusive Economic Zones of Islands of U.S. Affiliation, Excluding the State of Hawaii
By James R. Hein, Brandie R. McIntyre, and David Z. Piper
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2005/1286/
USGS Mineral Resources Program—Supporting Stewardship of America’s Natural Resources
By S.J. Kropschot
With a section on Evolution of Mineral Resource Assessments
By Kathleen M. Johnson
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2006/1289/
USGS Science in Menlo Park—A Science Strategy for the U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park Science Center, 2005–2015
By Thomas M. Brocher, Michael D. Carr, David L. Halsing, David A. John, Victoria E. Langenheim, Margaret T. Mangan, Mark C. Marvin-DiPasquale, John Y. Takekawa, and Claire R. Tiedeman
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2006/1290/
Opportunities and Needs for Mobile-Computing Technology to Support U.S. Geological Survey Fieldwork
By Nathan J. Wood and David L. Halsing
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2006/1299/
Understanding Metal Pathways in Mineralized Ecosystems
By Laurie S. Balistrieri, Andrea L. Foster, Larry P. Gough, Floyd Gray, James J. Rytuba, and Lisa L. Stillings
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2007/1317/
Western Juniper Field Guide: Asking the Right Questions to Select Appropriate Management Actions
By R.F. Miller, J.D. Bates, T.J. Svejcar, F.B. Pierson, and L.E. Eddleman
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1321/
Proceedings of a USGS Workshop on Facing Tomorrow’s Challenges Along the U.S.-Mexico Border—Monitoring, Modeling, and Forecasting Change Within the Arizona-Sonora Transboundary Watersheds
Edited by Laura M. Norman, Derrick D. Hirsch, and A. Wesley Ward
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1322/
The ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario—A Story That Southern Californians Are Writing
By Suzanne Perry, Dale Cox, Lucile Jones, Richard Bernknopf, James Goltz, Kenneth Hudnut, Dennis Mileti, Daniel Ponti, Keith Porter, Michael Reichle, Hope Seligson, Kimberley Shoaf, Jerry Treiman, and Anne Wein
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1324/
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