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- Scientists Monitoring it 24/7- The level of seismic activity at Mount Redoubt Volcano, 106 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, has increased and an eruption is possible within days to weeks....Mount Redoubt Volcano in Alaska Likely to Erupt
(Released: 1/29/2009 5:41:33 PM)

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Tree death rates have more than doubled over the last few decades in old-growth forests of the western United States, and the most probable cause of the worrisome trend is regional warming, according to a U.S. Geological Survey-led (USGS) study published in Science on January 23...Tree Deaths Have Doubled Across the Western U.S. -- Regional Warming May be the Cause
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The latest climate-change science and how it can be used by natural resource agencies is the focus of a two-day workshop January 29-30 in San Francisco...Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems Workshop
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Jurgens, Bryant C.; McMahon, Peter B.; Chapelle, Francis H.; Eberts, Sandra M. (2009), Open-File Report 2009-1004.

The reduction/oxidation (redox) condition of ground water affects the concentration, transport, and fate of many anthropogenic and natural contaminants. The redox state of a ground-water sample is defined by the dominant type of reduction/oxidation reac...An Excel Workbook for Identifying Redox Processes in Ground Water
(Released: 2009-01-30)

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Molina-Rivera, Wanda L.; Gomez-Gomez, Fernando (2008), Open-File Report 2008-1286.

Water-use data were compiled for the 78 municipios of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for 2005. Five offstream categories were considered: public-supply water withdrawals and deliveries, domestic self-supplied water use, industrial self-supplied ground-water withdrawals, crop irrigati...Estimated Water Use in Puerto Rico, 2005
(Released: 2009-01-30)

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Norman, Laura M.; Wallace, Cynthia S. A. (2008), Open-File Report 2008-1378.

The Ambos Nogales watershed, which surrounds the twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, United States and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, has a history of problems related to flooding. This paper describes the process of creating a high-resolution, binational land-cover dataset to be used in modeling th...Mapping Land Use/Land Cover in the Ambos Nogales Study Area
(Released: 2009-01-30)

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Mount Redoubt Volcano in Alaska Likely to Erupt Quick look:
Mount Redoubt in Alaska is likely to erupt within days or weeks. We talk with USGS Volcano Hazards Program Coordinator John Eichelberger to find out more details.
Host: Clarice Nassif Ransom
(Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:14:25 UTC; Length: 5:08)

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Helicopter view of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (bottom left) stopped in the Arctic Ocean as Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St. Laurent (top right) comes alongside it. The ships are coming together because the crews are planning to meet and learn the operations of the other ship. This was durin...

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An unidentified large white anemone densely populates thinly-sedimented goethite (iron oxide) slab rock, the fundamental Viosca Knoll substrate for attachment of sessile particulate-feeding invertebrates....

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