Geoscience

This website holds information related to how the Earth systems are changing due to climate change. Check out the Understand Climate Change tab for basic information on changes to the Earth system. For reports from government agencies, check out the "Browser Reports and Resources" tab. You can filter the reports by topic, region, and year.

Documents volcanic eruptions going back 10,000 years. Access Monthly Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, which contains an archive of relevant maps, photos, and documents; Volcanoes of the World; and an annotated list of other websites.

A virtual library on earthquakes from the National Earthquake Information Center, USGS. There's historical as well as current earthquake information.

Links to U.S. Government soil-related data and publications including Keys to Soil Taxonomy, the National Soil Characterization Database, official Soil Series Descriptions, and a list of published Soil Surveys.

Search the catalog of the largest earth science library in the world.

OST.gov is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research information with over 70 years of scientific and technical information with close to 3 million records.

This websites holds more than 500,000 still photographs, slides, glass plate slides, lantern slides, negatives, and sketches starting in the 1870's. USGS scientists took this images as part of their field studies. Subjects include earthquakes, volcanoes, geologic formations, minerals, historical mining operations, national parks, USGS portraits, and other photographs of historic and earth science events. You can freely download selected images from the collection.

This website holds over 160,000 publications authored by our scientists over the past 100+ year history of the USGS. Publications range from products written for the general public, maps, and articles published in scientific journals. Go to the Publications Warehouse to search for resources.

Focus of activities is mostly water related, including Lake Tahoe and Southern Nevada groundwater. Historic water data are also available.

Includes Nevada State Water Plan, Nevada Water Facts, a Water History of Nevada, and Nevada Hydrographic Regions. Links to other local, state, regional and national water-related agencies and organizations, information centers, and data sources.

Primary agency for water management in the West. Link to Lower Colorado Regional Office which includes Lake Mead and Hoover Dam. Check out the pages under the "Resources and Research" tab to find reports, technical information, and other helpful links.

This website holds information on reclaimation programs between the USBR and Indigenous Nations.

This agency is involved in a number of ways with the nations waterways and wetlands. Site includes capability of searching Corps publications from 1995 to present and a Digital Visual Library of over 4,000 Corps images.

Searchable site provides access to the text of publications (newsletters, periodicals, reports), laws, regulations and legislation, and featured sites such as American Heritage Rivers and Local Drinking Water Information.

Besides information on UWIN this searchable site includes events, directories, databases, employment listings, and annotated links to other water related sites (click on Wetlist under Directories).

The U.S. government’s site for local, national, and international weather, including access to some historical data through the national Climate Data Center (NCDC). Site is searchable.

The NCDC is the world’s largest archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate publications, some of which are available online.

All kinds of weather information, especially for Las Vegas, Reno, and Elko, but also for other cities in the state as well as regional coverage.

Discussion of and data on global warming organized in terms of Climate, Emissions, Impacts, and Actions. Site also provides access to publications (Sea Level Rise Reports, Greenhouse Gas Emission Reports, etc.) and links to other global warming sites.

NCEI provides the paleoclimatology data and information scientists need to understand natural climate variability and future climate change. We also operate the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, which archives and distributes data contributed by scientists around the world.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supports research into our world's frozen realms: the snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth's cryosphere. NSIDC manages and distributes scientific data, creates tools for data access, supports data users, performs scientific research, and educates the public about the cryosphere. NSIDC distributes more than 500 cryospheric data sets for researchers, from both satellite and ground observations.