RESOURCE NOTES

NO. 5 DATE 05/13/99

Exploring the

USGS “Virtual

Earth Science

Library”

by Jim Turner,

Geographic Sciences

Laboratory Manager,

National Applied Resource

Sciences Center (NARSC)

The U.S. Geological Survey

(USGS) maintains a virtual earth

science library of digital information, publications, and data. Their

Internet World Wide Web sites

offer an array of information that

reflects scientific research and monitoring programs conducted in the

areas of natural hazards, environmental resources, and cartography. 

The following listing provides gateways to access a cross section of the

digital information on the USGS

World Wide Web sites. The listing

is not intended to be either comprehensive or exhaustive in scope.

Rather, the sites should be viewed

as starting points for exploring the

vast store house of information

maintained by the USGS.

Primary Home Pages

U.S. Geological Survey

http://www.usgs.gov/

Biological Resources Division

http://www.biology.usgs.gov/

Geologic Information

http://www.geology.usgs.gov/

National Mapping Information

http://www.mapping.usgs.gov/

Water Resources Information

http://www.water.usgs.gov/

USGS by Theme - Environment,

Resources, Hazards, Information

Management

http://www.usgs.gov/themes/

Data and Information Sites

Biology

Amphibians

http://www.frogweb.gov/

North American Reporting Center

for Amphibian Malformations

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/narcam/

Breeding Bird Survey

http://www.mbrpwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/

bbs.html

Butterflies of North America

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/

distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm

Global Change

http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/

National Biological Information

Infrastructure

http://www.nbii.gov/

Disasters and Hazards

Center for Integration of Natural

Disaster Information

http://www.cindi.usgs.gov/events/

Earthquake Information

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/

http://geology.usgs.gov/quake.html

http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/

earthquake.html/

http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/eq/

Volcano Hazards

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/

Energy

Energy Resources

http://energy.usgs.gov/

Geology

Coastal and Marine Geology

http://www.marine.usgs.gov/

National Geologic Mapping

http://ncgmp.usgs.gov/

Mapping

Declassified Intelligence Satellite

Photographs

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/

guide/disp

Data Available from EROS Data

Center

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edcho

me/datasets/edcdata.html/

EROS Data Center Home Page

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/

Earth Science Information Center

http://mapping.usgs.gov/esic/

Earthshots: Satellite Images of

Environmental Change

http://www.usgs.gov/Earthshots/

Geographic Names Information

System (GNIS)

http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/

Global Land Information System

(GLIS)

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/glis.html

National Atlas of the United States

http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/

National Geospatial Data

Clearinghouse, USGS Node

http://nsdi.usgs.gov/

US GeoData - File Transfer

Protocol (FTP) Access

http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edcho

me/ndcdb/ndcdb.html

Minerals

Mineral Resources

http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/

Publications

Locating Publications and Data

Products

http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/

index.html#online

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Current Stream Flow

http://water.usgs.gov/public/

realtime.html/

Real-Time Streamflow

http://water.usgs.gov/public/

realtime.html/

Historical Streamflow

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/public/

nwis-w/US/

National Water Conditions

http://water.usgs.gov/nwc/

National Water Quality

Assessment Program

http://wwwrvares.er.usgs.gov/nawqa/

nawqa_home.html

Water Use Data

http://water.usgs.gov/public/watuse/

Other USGS Organizations

Biological Cooperative Research

Units

http://biology.usgs.gov/coop/

Biological Resources National

Programs

http://biology.usgs.gov/pub_aff/natprog.html

Biological Science and Technology

Centers

http://biology.usgs.gov/pub-aff/centers.html

National Wetlands Research

Center

http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/educ_out.

html

For information on other USGS

products and services, call 1-888-

ASK-USGS or visit the general

interest publications Web Site at

http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/pro

ducts/mappubs.html

NARSC resource specialists typically coordinate closely with their

USGS counterparts. If you are

unable to locate the specific information you need, contact the

NARSC specialist knowledgeable

in your area of interest or the BLM

Library for additional assistance. 

NARSC support can be obtained

at: http://www.blm.gov/narsc/

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