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At the crack of dusk in New York City Saturday night, expeditioneers will set off on foot, bikes, and in boats to aurally search for crickets...Cricket Expeditions Crawling All Over New York City Saturday Night
(Released: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:38:49 EST)

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The winter distribution of Pacific brant, a small, dark sea goose, has shifted northward from low-temperate areas such as Mexico to sub-Arctic areas as Alaska’s climate has warmed over the last four decades, according to a just-released article in Arctic...Opting Out of Migration: As Climate Warms, Arctic-Nesting Geese Elect to Winter in Alaska Instead of Mexico
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Landsat 5, the quarter-century-old satellite workhorse, is back in its traces....Landsat 5 Fully Operational After Brief Interruption
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Teeple, Andrew P.; Kress, Wade H.; Cannia, James C.; Ball, Lyndsay B. (2009), Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5092.

To help manage and understand the Platte River system in Nebraska, the Platte River Cooperative Hydrology Study (COHYST), a group of state and local governmental agencies, developed a regional ground-water model. The southern boundary of this mod...Geophysical Characterization of the Quaternary-Cretaceous Contact Using Surface Resistivity Methods in Franklin and Webster Counties, South-Central Nebraska
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Heitmuller, Franklin T.; Greene, Lauren E. (2009), Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5174.

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Texas Water Development Board, evaluated historical channel adjustment and estimated selected hydraulic values at U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations in the lower Sabine River Basin in Texas and Louisiana an...Historical Channel Adjustment and Estimates of Selected Hydraulic Values in the Lower Sabine River and Lower Brazos River Basins, Texas and Louisiana
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Evaldi, Ronald D.; Paybins, Katherine S.; Kozar, Mark D. (2009), Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5145.

Base-flow yields at approximately the annual 75-percent-duration flow were determined for watersheds in the Jefferson County area, WV, from stream-discharge measurements made during October 31 to November 2, 2007. Five discharge measurements of Opequon Creek ...Hydrogeologic Factors Affecting Base-Flow Yields in the Jefferson County Area, West Virginia, October-November 2007
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Did you know that natural resources like coal can have impacts on human health? USGS Energy Resources Program Coordinator Brenda Pierce discusses an emerging area of study called "medical geology" and the connections between natural resources and human health. We also hear from USGS scientists Bill Orem and Calin Tatu, who are researching links between coal and a kidney disease called "BEN" in the Balkans.
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Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) patient from a BEN village in Romania. The photo was taken at a dialysis clinic in Romania where the patient traveled every 2 to 3 days to receive dialysis, the principal treatment option for people with BEN. This patient died from complications of BEN within a year ...

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In September 2008, Hurricane Ike destroyed nearly every house in the Gulf-front community of Gilchrist, just north of Galveston Texas. In addition to storm surge and battering waves, the land on which the houses were built contributed to the disaster by changing in shape and elevation. Dr. Sallen...

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Did you know that natural resources like coal can have impacts on human health? USGS Energy Resources Program Coordinator Brenda Pierce discusses an emerging area of study called "medical geology" and the connections between natural resources and human health. We also hear from USGS scien...

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