1. USGS Goals for the Coming Decade.
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Myers, M. D., Ayers, M. A., Baron, J. S., Beauchemin, P. R., Gallagher, K. T., Goldhaber, M. B., Hutchinson, D. R., Labaugh, J. W., Sayre, R. C., Schwarzbach, S. E., Schweig, E. S., Thormodsgard, J., van Riper III, C., and Wilde, W.
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NATURAL history , *SCIENCE , *GOVERNMENT policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *SUSTAINABLE development , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ECOLOGY , *CLIMATOLOGY , *ENERGY development - Abstract
The article focuses on the goals of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in response to the challenges that the country faces that have major implications on the conduct and direction of natural science. The USGS proposes six integrated multiscale strategic directions that will help the U.S. address complex environmental problems. The difference of this effort from the previous ones is that the vision of integration across and among each of the science directions. The vision will be flourished by the USGS workforce of biologists, hydrologists, geologists and geographers. The six directions include understanding ecosystems and predicting changes, climate variability and change or energy and minerals for the country's future.
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- 2007
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