Links of Interest to Scientists

USGS Technology Transfer

• Hydro 21 -- New Technologies for Hydrologic Data Collection a USGS initiative intended to identify and incorporate new technologies and the associated instruments

More Indices

• General Science Information
• General Spatial Information

Scientific Interest Group Information

• USGS Isotope Interest Group
• USGS Surface-Water Quality and Flow Modeling Interest Group (SMIG)
• USGS Mine Drainage Interest Group
• USGS Karst Interest Group

Scientific Tools

• USGS Publications Warehouse - Search 60,000 bibliographic citations and obtain USGS series publications. Availability of content ranges from full text, to bibliographic citation only. Distribution packages including software in the review process
• Water Resources Applications Software - Software packages
• Water Resources Glossaries
• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)- Give a name, get a lat/lon
• Office of Ground Water, Branch of Geophysics
• GeoRef - Access to over 2.9 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses covering the geosciences.
• The USGS library
• New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
• Fact Sheet (FS-0217-95), Guidelines for Writing Hydrologic Reports