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https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/giant-sequoias-and-hotter-droughts (HTML Document 43.33 KB)

Giant Sequoias and Hotter Droughts Giant sequoias have fared better than other tree species in California's recent hotter drought, but many have ...

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/piwsc/science-topics/droughts (HTML Document 48.77 KB)

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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sa-water/science/completed-and-archived-projects-floods-droughts-and-hurricanes-sawsc?qt-science_center_objects=0 (HTML Document 53.83 KB)

Science Center Objects Completed and Archived Projects - Floods, Droughts, and Hurricane, SAWSC GEORGIA Groundwater resources, Rockdale County ...

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/droughts-can-affect-groundwater-levels-and-freshwater-springs (HTML Document 44.25 KB)

Comparison of water from an underground spring in Georgia  during non-drought and drought periods.Radium Springs, Albany, Georgia, USA

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Science Center Objects Completed and Archived Projects - Floods, Droughts, and Hurricane, SAWSC GEORGIA Groundwater resources, Rockdale County ...

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/sa-water/science/completed-and-archived-projects-floods-droughts-and-hurricanes-sawsc (HTML Document 53.83 KB)

Science Center Objects Completed and Archived Projects - Floods, Droughts, and Hurricane, SAWSC GEORGIA Groundwater resources, Rockdale County ...

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Giant Sequoias and Hotter Droughts Giant sequoias have fared better than other tree species in California's recent hotter drought, but many have ...

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https://www.fort.usgs.gov/news/droughts-might-increase-susceptibility-prairie-dogs-fleas-and-plague (HTML Document 25.05 KB)

Search Droughts Might Increase the Susceptibility of Prairie Dogs to Fleas and Plague Thursday, September 15, 2016 Colorado State University ... droughts in the ecology of plague (Yersinia pestis), an introduced, zoonotic disease that can devastate populations of prairie dogs (Cynomys)and ... the generality of whether droughts increase flea densities and how changes in flea abundance during sequences of dry and wet years might affect plague ... cycles in mammalian hosts. The article is entitled "Droughts may Increase the Susceptibility of Prairie Dogs to Fleas: Incongruity with Hypothesized Mechanisms of Plague Cycles in Rodents." For more information see:  ...

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Science Center Objects Completed and Archived Projects - Floods, Droughts, and Hurricane, SAWSC GEORGIA Groundwater resources, Rockdale County ...

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https://www.fort.usgs.gov/node/13447 (HTML Document 24.87 KB)

Search Droughts Might Increase the Susceptibility of Prairie Dogs to Fleas and Plague Thursday, September 15, 2016 Colorado State University ... droughts in the ecology of plague (Yersinia pestis), an introduced, zoonotic disease that can devastate populations of prairie dogs (Cynomys)and ... the generality of whether droughts increase flea densities and how changes in flea abundance during sequences of dry and wet years might affect plague ... cycles in mammalian hosts. The article is entitled "Droughts may Increase the Susceptibility of Prairie Dogs to Fleas: Incongruity with Hypothesized Mechanisms of Plague Cycles in Rodents." For more information see:  ...

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https://wwwpaztcn.wr.usgs.gov/fscc/floods-droughts.html (HTML Document 6.21 KB)

Floods, Droughts, and Climate Change No one in America would deny that the weather has changed drastically in our lifetime. We read about El Nino and ... and climatologists have long been aware of the role of regional climate in predicting floods and understanding droughts. But with our growing sense ... and droughts don't happen by accident but are the products of patterns of wind, temperature, and precipitation that produce meteorologic extremes. It ... climatic patterns through time to show that floods and droughts, once considered isolated "acts of God," are often related events driven by the same forces ...

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/droughts-can-affect-groundwater-levels-and-freshwater-springs (HTML Document 44.25 KB)

Droughts can affect groundwater levels and freshwater springs.. Comparison of water from an underground spring in Georgia  during non-drought and ...

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https://www.fort.usgs.gov/news_item/99775 (HTML Document 25.58 KB)

Search Droughts Might Increase the Susceptibility of Prairie Dogs to Fleas and Plague Thursday, September 15, 2016 Colorado State University ... droughts in the ecology of plague (Yersinia pestis), an introduced, zoonotic disease that can devastate populations of prairie dogs (Cynomys)and ... the generality of whether droughts increase flea densities and how changes in flea abundance during sequences of dry and wet years might affect plague ... cycles in mammalian hosts. The article is entitled "Droughts may Increase the Susceptibility of Prairie Dogs to Fleas: Incongruity with Hypothesized Mechanisms of Plague Cycles in Rodents." For more information see:  ...

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/wisconsin-water-science-center/science/floods-and-droughts (HTML Document 76.50 KB)

Floods and Droughts The USGS first began measuring streamflow in Wisconsin in 1906 when we took our first streamflow measurement of the Chippewa ... floods (usually caused by slow-moving summer thunderstorms, rapid snowmelt due to rainfall, or winter ice jams) and droughts (associated with abnormal ...

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