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Upper Midwest Great Waters Quarterly Newsletter
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Comprehensive Study finds Widespread Mercury Contamination Across Western North America

Comprehensive Study finds Widespread Mercury Contamination Across Western North America

Mercury contamination is widespread, at various levels across western North America in air, soil, sediment, plants, fish and wildlife.

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USGS participates in streamflow-data learning exchange with Philippine government

USGS participates in streamflow-data learning exchange with Philippine government

USGS scientists participated in a remote presentation to the Philippine government on Tuesday, July 19th. The USGS presented information on our...

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Sources of Excessive Nutrients in the Transboundary Red-Assiniboine River Basin Identified by Binational Research Team

Sources of Excessive Nutrients in the Transboundary Red-Assiniboine River Basin Identified by Binational Research Team

  

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Science-Based Tools Can Help Prevent Illness at Ohio and New York Beaches

Science-Based Tools Can Help Prevent Illness at Ohio and New York Beaches

These interactive, mobile-friendly websites use maps of beach locations to indicate whether or not estimated bacteria levels exceed state safety...

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How are waterfalls made?

How are waterfalls made?

Faith Fitzpatrick (USGS) discussed how waterfalls are made in a recent episode of Blue Sky Science, which answers science-related questions submitted...

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Welcome to the New USGS.gov

Welcome to the New USGS.gov

Our transitional site includes the new usgs.gov and more than 180 top-level pages (Mission Areas, Programs, Regions, our three new Science Center...

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Little Plover groundwater study - public meeting

Little Plover groundwater study - public meeting

Mike Fienen (USGS), along with Ken Bradbury (WGHNS), presented the results of their two-year study of the Little Plover River groundwater system on...

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Using Story Maps to communicate USGS science

Using Story Maps to communicate USGS science

Gary Latzke and Jamie Velkoverh (WiM) presented an invited plenary talk at the 2016 ESRI Federal GIS conference in Washington, DC, on Feb, 24, 2016...

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Presenting preliminary microplastics results to the White House

Presenting preliminary microplastics results to the White House

On Feb. 18, 2016, WI WSC scientist Austin Baldwin presented preliminary findings on microplastics in Great Lakes tributaries to the White House Office...

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Congressional visit to discuss sources of mercury in the Great Lakes

Congressional visit to discuss sources of mercury in the Great Lakes

WI WSC scientist Dave Krabbenhoft met with staff of the House Natural Resources Committee on Jan. 11, 2016, to discuss a new tool that can...

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Projected Warming of Wisconsin Streams Could Negatively Affect Trout

Projected Warming of Wisconsin Streams Could Negatively Affect Trout

Annual average stream temperatures in the Trout Lake watershed, Wisconsin, could increase from one to three degrees Celsius by the year 2100, which...

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Training Workshop for Emergency Flood Forecasting in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Training Workshop for Emergency Flood Forecasting in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Laura Norman helped scientists from the USGS, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and the University of Arizona...

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