Public Lecture Sneak Peek: Soils, Carbon, and the Global exCHANGE
Studying Arctic Changes during the International Polar Year Why soils aren't just for growing crops What does carbon have to do with global weather and climate? Balancing tradeoffs between the carbon...
View ArticleUnearthing the Secrets Beneath the Forest Floor
There is a black box hidden beneath the forests of the Pacific Northwest, guarding the secrets to why the trees grow so large! The black box is soil, which harbors immense biological diversity and...
View ArticleCompletion of Continent - Wide Soil Survey
The USGS recently completed sampling for the North American Soil Geochemical Landscapes Project on November 18, 2010. The last three samples of a total of 14,400 samples were collected at Bull Run...
View ArticleUSGS Releases Latest Bakken Oil and Gas Assessment
On April 30, 2013, USGS released an updated assessment of the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana as part of the National Oil and Gas Assessment. We are joined by USGS Energy Resources Program...
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