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Water technology sure to become more profitable. Great "Dry" Lakes study released. Our food is consuming our water.

The Great Lakes are a major source of fresh water for much of the industrial and agricultural Midwest as well as southeastern Canada. Now the US Geological Survey has released a report on what happens to the water after people take it out of the lakes. You can...

Tags: Food, Clean Technology, Water, Livestock, U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Heads up, our gases are coming your way

Americans are polluting the air for fellow Americans. Here's what the U.S. Geological Survey found in a study released today: "Nitrate found in precipitation occurring in rural areas of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States is primarily caused by emissions from stationary sources located...

Tags: Coal, Pollution, U.S. Geological Survey, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Photos: Learning from disaster

Visitors are educated about how scientists study and measure quakes at the U.S. Geological Survey Visitors Center.

Tags: U.S. Geological Survey, scientist

Image galleries 2006-04-18

Photos: Learning from disaster

Visitors are educated about how scientists study and measure quakes at the U.S. Geological Survey Visitors Center.

Tags: U.S. Geological Survey, scientist

Image galleries 2006-04-18

Preparation for the next major quake

Scientists' advice: Don't wait--act nowU.S. Geological Survey examines expected damage to roads and problems of recovery after major Silicon Valley or San Francisco earthquake. It calls for a "culture of preparedness" now.

Tags: U.S. Geological Survey

Videos 2006-04-17

Best Practices in Web Management - Chapter 2: How to Become a Best-In Web Organization

How does an organization become a "Best-in-Web" organization? Is this like the analogy of children learning to walk before they can run? Can an organization change gears and begin implementing Best-in-Web practices at whatever point they now operate, or must they first lay a foundation? Let us consider what this...

Tags: Web, Best Practice, Organization, U.S. Geological Survey, Government, Vertical Industries, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

White papers 2005-01-04

Additional Resources

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Major meltdown

And we thought the economy was a serous meltdown. Now comes more evidence from the U.S. Geological Survey that glacial meltdown continues. This recent study cites glacial melt on in Washington State and Alaska. Somebody check the thromostat? by Harry Fuller

Tags: Meltdown, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-08

Oops, seems we're trashing our own seacoast, still

The U.S. Geological Survey could be accused of piling on. Just as NOAA was warnign us of climatic and climactic disasters in our future, USGS reminds us we're destroying life in the Gulf of Mexico. Isn't there a greentech solution to trapping all that fertlizier washing off the...

Tags: Gulf Of Mexico, Nutrient, USGS, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Forget local fracking, let's drill, baby, drill

There's a sandpile full of natural gas under the Gulf of Mexico. Does that signal the next energy bubble or what? This would get around any complaints of fracking on land, no humans live out there. Today the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed findings that there is considerable...

Tags: U.S., Gulf Of Mexico, Natural Gas, USGS, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Polar meltdown both north and south

Arctic Ice Cover maps. Courtesy University of Washington/NOAA. That's the March ice cover on the left, September on the right. The top pair show current conditions, the bottom maps show thirty year model: ice free summers. The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled data confirming...

Tags: Earth, Meltdown, Glacier, Sea Level, Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-04

How green is the stimulus?

The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed the Obama Admin's requested economic stimulus plan. Now the hard part for Obama's team, getting something through the Senate where the Democrats do not have the votes to block a filibuster. It's crucial to note that not a single House republican...

Tags: Money, U.S. Senate, Personal Finance, Taxes, Team Management, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Climate science: now what? Less ice, more hanta virus.

Guess which part of the Northern Hemisphere is warming the fastest? Scientists say "Arctic." That means retreating glaciers, reduction in sea ice and the rising ocean levels will continue. The research comes from a multi-national group of scientists and the project was co-ordinated by the U.S. Geological...

Tags: Bank, Europe, Scientist, Virus, Nephropathia Epidemica, PUUV, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Financial Services, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Science on climate change

The American Geophysical Union annual conflab was held in San Francisco again this year. Here are just some of the hundreds of papers that pertain: The U.S. Geological Survey summarized their best available data on what to expect in the United States. Some climate change...

Tags: U.S., California, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-22

QuakeInfo 1.1 (Mobile)

Using data from the U.S. Geological Survey, QuakeInfo displays earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater occurring anywhere in the world during the last 7 days. QuakeInfo will also take advantage of the location capabilities of your iPhone or iPod Touch to display only those earthquakes within a configurable distance of...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Atomic Powered, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-08

A wall's being built along the northern border of the U.S.

NOAA map of the Great Lakes Basin. And this isn't a wall promulgated by Homeland Security. It's not about people trying to get into the U.S. No this wall is aimed at keeping some states from getting resources that other states have. ...

Tags: Lake, State, Water, Wall, Construction, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide

U.S. researchers who have studied 15 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 since 1990 have found that at least 12 of them triggered smaller quakes thousands of miles away. Their study shows that large earthquakes routinely spark jolts worldwide, 'including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas...

Tags: Researcher, Wave, University Of Utah, Velasco, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Are we running out of everything? MSM's stunning lack of concern

Water. Worry about it, say some experts. Yet the MSM's oblivious to the fact that we even need water. Recently there was a joint briefing by a Congressional leader and the U.S. Geological Sruvey on America's water problems. Number of news articles about it found by...

Tags: Water, MSM, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-22

No clear sailing for wind power

Courtesy: US Geological Survey In many venues wind power can be as controversial as nuclear power. In Scotland there's a big fight brewing over mlountaintop windmills to generate electricity. One charge: the tall towers holding the turbines uglify the once beautiful landscape. Critics...

Tags: Turbine, Farm, North Dakota, Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Black oil, white bears and the color of money

Map of polar bear populations, courtesy USGS and IFAW. [Click image to enlarge.] The auction's over and the feds may rake in nearly three billion dollars for leases on land nobody will ever see. Land in the new oil and gas leases is far...

Tags: Oil, Bear, Government, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-07