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Siemens Wins Contract To Help United States Geological Survey (USGS) Achieve Significant Energy Savings At Facilities In Virginia, Missouri And Washington State
2014-09-01 12:19:44| pollutiononline Home Page
Siemens Government Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an $11M Task Order by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to implement energy conservation measures at three of its facilities: National Center (Reston, Virginia); Columbia Environmental Research Center (Columbia, Missouri); and the Western Fisheries Research Center (Seattle, Washington)
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USGS Releases New National Produced Waters Geochemical Database
2014-06-25 11:18:07| oilandgasonline Home Page
Scientists studying produced waters and their geochemical and environmental impacts have a powerful new tool in the newly releasedUSGS Produced Waters Geochemical Database.
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USGS Issues Rare Earthquake Advisory for Central Oklahoma
2014-05-05 23:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: For the first time ever, on Monday the United States Geological Survey issued an earthquake advisory for a state east of the Rocky Mountains, Oklahoma. The USGS said on Monday that the risk of an earthquake of magnitude greater than 5.0 has noticeably increased in central Oklahoma. Robert Williams, a geophysicist with the USGS, said that the agency can't predict when or where the state's next earthquake might take place. "This is an advisory based on the increase in earthquake rate over the last...
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Obama picks veteran scientist to lead USGS
2014-01-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: President Obama yesterday nominated Suzette Kimball to lead the U.S. Geological Survey, the government's premier science agency. Kimball, a 15-year veteran of the $1.1 billion agency, is currently deputy director and has been serving as acting director since the retirement of Marcia McNutt last February. If confirmed, Kimball would oversee a staff of 8,000 in more than 400 locations nationwide. The agency is in charge of conducting scientific research and minimizing loss of life from natural...
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Humans "Inducing" Earthquakes During Energy Exploration, USGS Report Says
2013-07-12 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Human activities that inject fluids into the ground, such as natural gas extractions and geothermal energy production, are the cause of many earthquakes in the United States, including a destructive 5.6-magnitude tremor in Oklahoma in 2011, according to new research published in the journal Science. While the continental United States experiences small earthquakes each day, a recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that the annual number of earthquakes recorded at magnitude 3.0 or greater...
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