A Welcome from Linda Weiss., USGS New Mexico Water Science Center Director
The USGS was established by Congress in 1879 to provide the Nation with reliable and impartial information in order to understand the Nation's natural resources. This information is used to protect life and property from natural disasters, manage the Nation's natural resources, and protect the environment. The USGS is a scientific organization concerned with providing credible, relevant, impartial, and timely information to all.
Today, the USGS is known for its long-term and extensive data-collection networks, and research of water, mapping, biology and geology issues in New Mexico and throughout the Nation. These efforts provide policy makers, managers, and scientists, and the general public with information needed to understand and make decisions about the State of New Mexico's natural
resources.
The USGS, New Mexico Water Science Center, primarily addresses water
issues. These issues include water availability and surface- and
ground-water quality. The USGS, New Mexico Water Science Center,
investigates the occurrence, distribution, quantity, movement, and chemical
and biological quality of New Mexico's surface and ground water. Specific
water-resources activities of the New Mexico Water Science Center include
maintenance and analysis of long-term (prior to the turn of the Century)
quantitative and qualitative data for streams, reservoirs, sediment, and
ground water; and short-term interpretive investigations of specific
water-resources issues on a local, State, regional, and national level.
Such investigations include the aquifer characterization, water quality of
New Mexico's major river basins, sedimentation of rivers and lakes, and
contamination of surface water and ground water. The USGS in New Mexico,
primarily carries out its activities from three offices in Albuquerque, Las
Cruces, and Carlsbad, with a highly trained staff of scientists,
technicians, and support personnel committed to providing accurate and
timely natural-resource information.
I hope that you find the information on the following pages to be helpful,
interesting and informative. If you have any comments or suggestions on how
the pages could be improved to better serve your needs, please contact the
USGS New Mexico Water Science Center Webmaster. Please browse these pages
and let me know how I can make this service more useful to you.
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