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This
collection
of
lesson
plans
and
activities
allows
students
to
investigate
Earth,
its
processes,
and
its
inhabitants.
These
resources
provide
ideas
for
integrating
topographic
maps
into
geography,
science,
environmental
studies,
history,
and
mathematics
curricula.
Included
are
'map
mysteries',
which
use
topographic
and
thematic
maps
as
starting
points
to
uncover
mysteries
about
the
cultural
and
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This
report
describes
the
results
of
a
major
United
States
Geological
Survey
(USGS)
geologic
and
oceanographic
study
of
the
Gulf
of
the
Farallones,
adjacent
to
the
San
Francisco
Bay
region.
The
first
of
its
kind,
the
investigation
was
intended
to
establish
a
scientific
database
for
an
area
of
3,400
square
kilometers
(1,000
square
nautical
miles)
on
the
continental
shelf
for
the
purpose
of
evaluating
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This
resource
introduces
students
to
the
idea
of
saline
water.
Topics
include
how
saline
water
is
defined
and
how
dissolved
salt
concentrations
are
expressed
(parts
per
million).
Parameters
for
the
various
ranges
of
salinity
(fresh
to
highly
saline,
or
seawater)
are
also
presented,
and
there
is
a
brief
discussion
of
water
quality
considerations
regarding
saline
water.
Links
to
additional
information
...
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This
portal
provides
information
on
the
environmental
issues
and
research
projects
being
conducted
in
Redwood
National
and
State
Parks.
The
Redwood
Field
Station,
part
of
the
United
States
Geological
Survey's
(USGS)
Western
Ecological
Research
Center,
is
involved
with
restoration
of
the
physical
and
biological
landscapes
in
the
parks,
including
inventory
and
monitoring
of
erosion,
sediment
transport,
...
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This
teacher
packet
uses
Landsat
satellite
imagery
to
teach
about
changes
over
time.
Materials
include
a
lesson
plan
in
which
students
examine
four
sets
of
images
from
different
locations
and
times
to
see
how
the
landscapes
have
changed.
Links
are
provided
to
Multispec
software,
which
is
used
to
process
the
imagery,
to
the
image
sets,
to
national
standards
applied
to
the
activity,
and
to
background
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This
fact
sheet,
published
by
the
United
States
Geological
Survey
(USGS),
discusses
the
influence
of
the
California
Current
on
the
climate
of
the
western
United
States.
Topics
include
the
influence
of
atmospheric
pressure
cells
in
the
eastern
North
Pacific
and
the
examination
of
sediments
in
core
samples
to
obtain
a
high-resolution
paleoclimatic
record.
The
discussion
points
out
that
the
geologic
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This
portal
provides
access
to
information
on
United
States
Geological
Survey
(USGS)
research
activities
conducted
in
support
of
the
U.S.
Carbon
Cycle
Science
Program
(CCSP).
This
research
includes
carbon
sequestration
in
sediments,
landscape
dynamics
and
vegetation
change,
fate
of
carbon
in
cold
region
forests,
exchanges
of
greenhouse
gases,
water
vapor,
and
heat
at
the
Earth's
surface,
and
other
...
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This portal provides links to an extensive selection of photo and image galleries available on United States Geological Survey (USGS) websites. It features a short list of highlighted sites, such as the Earth Science Photographic Archive and the 'Earth as Art' gallery. Other image sites are grouped by subject: biology, ecosystems, geology, geography, hydrology, and national parks.
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This
portal
provides
links
to
a
set
of
online
map
indexes
of
the
United
States
Geological
Survey
(USGS)
and
other
organizations
which
can
be
used
to
locate,
view,
or
create
maps.
For
teachers,
there
is
the
Education
Map
Catalog,
which
provides
access
to
several
hundred
of
the
most
useful
USGS
maps
for
teaching
and
learning,
organized
by
12
themes.
The
maps
are
available
in
a
wide
variety
of
scales
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This
portal
provides
access
to
information
on
United
States
Geological
Survey
(USGS)
research
projects
and
other
topics
in
coastal
and
marine
environments
of
the
United
States,
especially
on
the
west
coast
and
the
Pacific
Ocean.
Research
projects
can
be
searched
by
topic,
location,
project
title,
or
from
a
publications
list.
Other
resources
include
an
ask-a-geologist
feature,
the
coastal
and
marine
...
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