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Department of Interior tried that, but "Interior faces challenges with maintaining a sufficient drone fleet because drones compliant with its policies are more expensive and do not…

Here's a cool demo I saw recently that allows a cyclist to specify risk tolerance for busy roads, based on traffic data. Take the direct, busy route, or the roundabout way, using b…

I'm looking at a legal agreement on my desk to lease 120 acres of productive eastern Nebraska farmland to build a commercial scale solar project. The land would be taken out of pro…

Here's the LK-99 tie in: the most precise gravity meters in the world are superconducting meters, which require a lot of power (2 kW contonuous) to maintain a helium dewar at 4K. I…

The MEMS accelerometers in our phones are in theory sensitive to gravity changes, but they're not nearly sensitive enough. This group is trying to improve the MEMS sensing technolo…

Navajo Generating Station, which was the largest coal-fired ppwer plant in the western U.S. and powered CAP pumping stations, closed in 2019 along with the accompanying coal mine.

Speaking of Albuquerque, this just-published paper shows how measuring the change in acceleration due to gravity can be used to map aquifer storage change. Importation of San Juan …

Too bad Google gets the credit for the amazing https://www.shakealert.org system developed by the USGS and other public entities. Altering the user is the easy part, detecting the …

Seems like more often than not I see them folded up, not in use. Even with the price of diesel. I wonder how much they save?

Apologies for the paywall, but this paper describes imaging cargo containers with gravity gradient sensors (to look for, e.g., plutonium): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4215…

If you just want some nice (public domain) art to hang on your wall: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/earth-art

And here's a USGS site that delineates a watershed from any point on a stream: https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/s...

For context: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/?s=brian+wansink (he's a Cornell prof with dubious research/PR tactics)

> The report shows that Detroit had 130 total traffic fatalities in 2015 - 46 of those were pedestrian.

This, and the recent megathread about children, made me think of Tom Robbins' B Is For Beer book, it's the natural history of beer, kids version. Rereading it now with the third ki…

USGS Elevation point query service with an API: https://nationalmap.gov/epqs/

In the U.S. it varies widely by state. The USGS has a map of "recent" groundwater levels: https://groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov/default.asp With some obvious large gaps. There are more…