3 posts tagged with water by rockindata.
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Bringing Humans into the water cycle
The USGS just announced a new version of the venerable, 20 year old USGS water cycle diagram after an 18 month redesign process.
Zoomable non-pdf version
EOS described it as "Not Your Childhood Water Cycle" [more inside]
Recent work at USGS Water
This is a link to a blog, which is itself a project that I have worked on, along with other teammates. It highlights work that I and my coworkers at U.S. Geological Survey Water Mission Area have been working on over the past few years. [more inside]
The Water Quality Portal (now with Map!)
The Water Quality Portal is a collaborative project between the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make it easier to share water quality data. Data are harvested from the USGS NWIS database and the EPA STORET database, mapped to the WQX standard, and served back out again. There is information about over 2 million sites and over 200 million sample results. The most significant feature that we have added this year (and why I am posting this) is a mapping tool that allows users to map up to 250,000 sites based on any of the 15 different criteria to narrow a search. [more inside]
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