Finding geological materials through the U.S. Geological Survey

my name is Linda calm the organizer of the help of an external government information librarian webinar series for the in feel a hannah is the geospatial and earth sciences librarian university of new hampshire she received her email i askim university in chapel hill university of north carolina at chapel hill and is the current president is the geoscience information society she is an advocate for data visualization science communication Geoscience education and developing critical thinkers using information literacy her research interests include using remote sensing and to use spatial technology to solve problems in the natural world and we're very excited to have you listed Kalinda that was a great introduction and hopefully you guys are all excited about this topic as much as I am I love talking about do you love diala geological materials and really anything that has to do with maps which if you are in that case and you feel similar that i do then you make probably have a career as of you in then seeing a map maker or a map librarian somewhere like that when they asked me to talk a little bit about finding a geological materials through the USGS and it was quite fortunate because I've recently done a lot of some research for a faculty member for their class on on this very same topic so i was able to bring it to life a little bit for you so we're going to be talking about a lot of different resources and luckily this is recorded so everything you hear you'll be able to see later and there's also a link at the very end of the presentation for you to go over so don't worry if you get over lump sum of the resources will be talking about are the National map viewer the USCS National Mountain geologic maps catalog search USGS topo view and map view and the USGS publications we're helped so the question that I had laughs left fall was I'm one of my faculty members who asked me his students were doing a research project for their introduction into field methods class they want to use government documents to ticket specifically USGS materials to find information about their hometowns that included they want to find maps they want to find the elevator where the hometown was they want to find out the lamb offer what the watershed would look like the watershed boundaries any certain certain water features if there is mining in the area where the nearest mines might be and what type of minerals are from that area they want to find some old and new topographic map and also recent publications from the USGS how to do that area so this is a great great way to transition into why we are you looking at usps materials so many of them to answer justice one question find information about your hometown so we're going to step through what I did in this class so one of the first resources that we looked at was the National map viewer also something similar to it is also called empathy national map viewer screamer the National map of the US Geological Survey is public available resource accessing to spatial base map data for all the geological community from a certain location and the National map is great because you can find a whole series of information from eight primary themes these all these data include things like elevation geographic names boundaries land cover and you can also use the National map viewer to look for us topos and historical topographic map products now get a little bit to that in a moment so this is just an illustration again of very many different resources that you can find the National map viewer boundaries elevation land cover these are all different layer sets that they that the USGS uses see go to viewer national map gov there's a lot going on in this page but it should be pretty easy to find on the right hand side you can see where says fine data you can zoom right in to get into national map viewer is it also if you click click on to it on the left hand side it's a TMM download client this is the run of resources that will be using today pretty easy it's interactive so this is what it looks like when you first get in its viewers national map gov / basic the download client is built on modern web technologies its interactive you can do a very simple approach of downloading content from the National mad poet product there's a lot of different data sets you can see towards the very top is's us topo and historical topographic maps remember I mentioned that there's a couple ways to get those two resources and this is one of them and then a whole list of different sets of data amazing you in a little bit closer so you see some of this data sets so these are the answer to well that reference question is embedded in a lot of these different types of data you can see that the data sets are selected with different product extensions formats some of them are by a foot or a metre imagery there are a lot of different types that are coming from different products that the USGS has should we see the Geographic Names information systems which allows you to look up geographic names if you're not quite sure the actual variation there's also the topographic maps and structures structures could be anything from a graveyard to knowing where an airport is so I'm just going to go over to particular data sets to answer this question one that is used often in the National map viewer it's a national hydrographic data set it's a really fun resource so that to use you can actually get the right in zoom and pan into the map draw a box to area and get to know the area or water features this is a comprehensive surface water feature areas for items on a typographic map for example lakes and ponds and dams and stream gauges you can trace the flow lines of what's going on and you can also look at the boundaries so the boundaries are not just for a state area or a country area that it would be environmentally focused say for example a watershed here we are back at that national map viewer and you can click on the on the left hand side click on the rise of coffee and zoom right into an area in this case we're going to look at the Orville dam area I don't know if many of you have heard about what's going on and the oroville damn it's perfectly permanently closed right now in February there is a main emergency spillway that happened in California and over 1,800 people living there had to be relocated so we're just going to use this as an example we can go into it find that data set clicking a click on file and look metadata look at the metadata and actually download that data set also we have a national land cover data set this is also something you can find the National map viewer it serves as a definitive land-based 30 millimeter resolution land cover database for the nation in fact this little image right here that you're seeing of the United States may look familiar to you because it's coming right from the USGS it provides a spatial reference and descriptive data for characteristics of land service surface such a schematic class so areas for Urban Development Agriculture Forest can be cover you can also find out the percentage of change that has happened for time and this is used to determine ecosystem health understand the effects of climate change and developed land management policy so you can also see the change them now and then from different time periods so some of the dilemma covered those back to nineteen ninety-two the most recent in 2011 and it's now on a five-year product cycle so this is what it looks like why are your in the National map viewer you can zoom into a certain area this is California clicking on products the very top of the page and you can see the list of products that come up and click on the shopping cart to be able to view that cart it goes into your cart and now you have entire land National Land cover database preview of California and you can download that material and it looks a little bit like this this is the summary in the metadata that's associated with it that looks a lot like California to me but then there's also the National map streamer really great resources kind of fun and interactive if you're interested in kayaking canoeing things like that you can trace the rivers and the streams us to see where they go that includes weather data stream flow and some really great base maps for you to understand the watershed area so here's the streamer flies see lots of high-profile rivers right here and if you see the very top I top click them started typing in the word Orville and this is for me to find out more information orville damn area I can also trace downstream to see the effects of where that river is with the damn being affected so let's look I've put Don Orville and now I've got a I've hovered over that trace report button to display a menu with the printable face report options here you can choose a new web pages on the very top sizes to support this a couple of different things you can do is by clicking on the trace upstream you can see how the river is traced melting moving on to topographic maps I think probably everybody here knows about topographic maps and what we have available through the USGS they are probably the central resource the USGS have and probably one of the ones that you're you've all come here today to learn about there are at least four different ways by until graphic maps now remember that you can find them through the National map viewer that we were just looking at but there's several other resources that you can use then there's a map locator which you can use through the USGS map store if you haven't been there you can try it out you can do a query application that's to txt space through a product called tu name and then you can also use something called couple view and the historical topographic map collection so I'm just going to dive into those if you're really interested in that overview that I was telling about with a four or five different ways of planning taboos there's some really fun interactive story maps that UFC assisted through every this entire presentation could be a part of that it's a fun little interactive slide and you can go through and see a little bit of the history of the story map so here's the help of you for those of you who've never hope part of Tober loot view it's okay it's fairly new it's really exciting way of enabling an historical exploration of all the usgs historical topographic map products so in the 1800's us spm to mapson nation's topography and now they have all these different datasets from different and maps from different levels of detail and it's finding them for a certain area is very difficult so they have all these resources into one place and you can use it to look for different land use purposes see how cities have changed over time or what boundaries have changed over time it's an online tool you can access and download all these maps for free it's about 178,000 topographic maps dating back to eighteen eighty a lot of different formats you can also download in maps from occluding cute PDF and do TIFF jpg is very popular and also candy for those of you that don't use it as often it's a type of format used to import data into Google Earth this is what the topo view looks like this is just the overall page when you first get to you can actually start by entering a location in the search box so if you look at the very top right hand side it says enter location you can and the map will guide you to that place you can pan an able and actually zoom around with your mouse to different areas and I could be doing this live but I've got a limited time and if we have time towards the end i'll try to show you freaking map you can there's a variety of different file formats that you can use and tap on you can also see the default map scale right on the far right-hand side and it allows you to easily change the map scale that you're looking for as well as well as the year at the very top for 1882 2010 so just diving in a little bit closer this is San Francisco area you can see that there are eight maps that came up for that specific area over the time period I'm looking at a map from 1964 when you click on the map the map counter shows the number of maps that were published and that is helpful to if you're looking for a certain year you can change that flatter as you like to if you want to get more information on the maps you can view the maps in a map record table and it looks like that nice little table of all the maps from that certain area and you can use the map locator I icon on to to zoom in also if you are looking for a certain area and it's nice if you can actually get a just download it says there's four different on file formats you can you just click on and get the file format that you're interested in in this case if I want a JPEG of the area I could just click on it download it and it come right up there's also the historical topographic map Explorer resource and though there's several access points from the USGS online database to find a news usgs topographic map this is my absolute favorite if you've never used it I say take a note right now and and make sure to play this when you're done watching this presentation it's a fun resource and I'll be honest not a month goes by that I don't point somebody to this resource it is a fun way to really see the how an area has changed over time and the least amount of navigation clicks if user friendly it has a lot of sliders it's it's fun and interactive going into it if you type in an area in this case i typed in Palo Alto you can actually search to find a place and type in your search and you view the topographic maps in an area and if I have a moment let me see if I can bring it up live we're going to try Greensboro North Carolina because that's where Linda is and when you from North Carolina area is zoomed right in to greensboro if I just click on an area you'll see at the very bottom all these different topographic maps are going to click up click on and you can actually scroll around it through the path of a change and I can choose another one it will overlay on top again I can scroll and change really great resource and you can just go and actually just down on the map click and it'll pop up won't do that today so let's look also what you're probably here for is actually finding few logical resources it's really really imperative as a librarian or government documents person to really be able to help people find usps materials there have geologic features some of these these resources are really really exciting you can you can access these from a lot of different places there's a national geologic map database project and also some mineral resources that you may be asked to learn about so some of the reasons why you might be asked about geologic resources maybe just as something a symbol of somebody wanting to do bedrock analysis if they're doing earthquake data looking at Mineral Resources wanting to know more about mining mines in the area or what resources are available in national and then natural environment geologic hazards are big avalanches tsunamis earthquakes etc and their impact also on climate change and if somebody's looking for us and materials they may be specifically looking for reports that have come out and this is a nice way to find by geography resource development but also with shoreline change so you can see a lot of good changes in shoreline and this is a great theological resource both the the map you'll get to the table view and the catalogs to look at some of these publications that are coming out so here we are at the National geological map database you can see we you are is mg MGB usgs gov kind of a fun fun place to really start off if this is the main page where you'll actually see there's actually four different resources that are part of that product there's something called the table view which is a really nice way of looking for materials that are a Horta Storyful there's the map catalog search which i'll show you in just a moment this map view which is probably the most fun interactive type of product that I've seen come out of the USGS in a long time and that's that colorful method in the tough side and then some they call the lexicon it's also known as the glx it's a national compilations of names and descriptions of geological community so these four different products are all coming under one so here's the National geological map database hopefully you can see there's a lot going on here you can search by keyword also by seems there's this nice location locator bounding box image and you'll see this consistent in a lot of you some USGS materials where you can scroll in by a certain area and search by these different boundaries coordinates and search by publisher publication date and map scale I use this resource early often when somebody is looking for a certain hazard material I want to know more about data from certain areas by working for resources in the geochemical area you can use these different teams to search the National geologic map database has a fuel x 22 so if you're a geologist and you're looking for certain information by by type that is by unit mean you can certify that so that's those age range photography for example or also other metadata that might be a formation type so they give an example of dakota for example you can search for all the different types of lexicon that has to do with into CODIS this is probably one other research that you're probably excited to see this is the map view it's now part of this map catalog or so it seemed may be easier if the users can more easily find and view high resolution map images and I'll try to do a live presentation if I came in second here you can do a lot of different searches here you can look for bedrock for superficial resources you can use the slide scalar to act the search for different areas and understand the opacity for an area you can type in a certain area you're searching for and come up with a queer bowl results about that area just giving impatient so this is where us searching again for evil and this isn't held California it would zoom right to that area really pretty kind of overlay of the jewel of area and then from there you can click on see there's a button on the far right-hand side that allows you to look at all the publications in that view these are geologically then are from that database this will be a list of them real quick let me show you what that looks like live and here's that very variable side go to location i'm just going to type in Greensboro again so zoomed right on in it so we can fill to my scale the very top we've got a filtering range so we can look from different periods of of scale and go to the actual catalog so I was able to create a bounding box with more so Graham Greensboro North Carolina and try that again and I went to the catalog and here's a list of publications for that area and if you see some of them have to do with the North Carolina North Carolina and this is this for example talk about geological and Mineral Resources good for counting just where Greensboro North Carolina is it shows the bounding box and the availability of how you can download those resources so us yes mineral resources if you're really interested in finding about mines money any sort of commodity best do that you want to dive into those the National minerals groups they put together over 700 publications annually and they have several different mapping tools that you can use to search by country state and commodity in this data portal they also have some resources we can search for mines metallic non-medical mineral resources deposit names commodities deposit descriptions production resources and other references so you can google for mineral resources online but that will just let me just show you want to click on the where it says mineral resources and it will bring you up to this resource and this is the mineral resources data system online resource for finding all those deposit informations and you can also use this to find out where all the local mines are also another resource that allows you to search by state by country and also by commodity so this is the National minerals Information Center website is the primary agency for collecting and analyzing non-fuel minerals information there's also some groups that puts out the annual mineral commodity summary publication which you may be familiar with so this this database for example looks at 85 commodities essential to the US economy so in this case I did a quick search for the word aluminum and came up with a bunch of different aluminum resources the statistics annually and they have it recently up and through 2017 but you can search by commodity if you like you can also go by state to state specific here we are again this is a way for you to subscribe to certain mineral information if you're specifically interested in aluminum you can subscribe to any new publications about that here is also the same database but it allows you to look by country and so if you're interested in say China and the minerals are coming out of there you can use this resource to do that just mention the mineral commodities summary this is very popular resource that's coming out of this group it's data sheets that come out in a five-year statistical method and they have over 90 individual minerals and materials listed I have people asking for this you fairly often and i'm pretty sure you probably have a copy of this in your library it's also available online through the usgs publications warehouse suppose it'll get to in just a moment it's just a nice overview and if you're interested in what's going on in your neighborhood you may want to take a picture so here's the information of the usgs science data catalog which is data usgs gov this is mostly open source data book dinner that is available through website this is these are data sets again so it's not the same type of geological information you may be as familiar with searching or maybe you use this all the time these are raw data sets that you can download often text file or other formats you can see that there's a listing of some of the most frequently asked access data that the site includes a national map which we just talked about but all these other different data sets from a variety of different resources and places when I'm in here you can see that just doing an overall search there's almost a thousands of thousands of places for you to search for scientific and geological data the first data set that comes up is the USGS survey gap analysis so this is a data set that also has a fun online map I'm not going to talk about that today but there is a interactive map that you search for this data to to look for species are going extinct to see well what's on the endangered list or has some sort of reason for being concerned for the environment and search by different keywords and also look at the catalog and holding for certain states or countries or even the oceans so doing a quick search for that Orville dam area we can search for it by geographic area and so all i did was a tan dense and click to a bounding box around the dam and found 864 resources that have data sets from that area clearly means if they aren't going to be part of it it's going to be more landlocked but you can see a long list now on the far left-hand side there's a filter by keywords area you can see that there are ways to filter by these different material types so here's another example i just searched for all the geophysical surveys just from that area and aiko only a few came up about five nothing nothing that was specifically about they be the damn breaking because these are older resources one the first ones that came up was from 1980 you can see it's about here born how to physical survey all right we're on number five one of these this is going to be a fun thing to talk about if you probably have heard of the USGS publication warehouse it's probably one of the go-to resources for finding usgs material over 130,000 publications that were written by USGS scientists the history of the USGS are ingested in the USGS publications warehouse there the resource itself used to be a little concrete to the 10 there wasn't always a great way of searching for some of these resources now the acts as a curation tool also as a citation system managing the links and managing the the scientist profiles about who's published what and actually linking out their publications so provides an index to all officially u.s. yes authored publications and these this is a list of some of the current resources that are coming out of the publications we're health can include data sheets and fact sheets and also open file reports for those of you looking for that that's one of that I get often is how do how do you find these type of resources there's also a popular map series that can be found for example to use difficult physical unicom investigations or mineral investigations somebody map series can be easily searched through the advanced search the basic search is pretty pretty easy and you can just search right on the front page where it says search for publications this is just a string term on something like you would use and Google just type what you're searching for sometimes and that's what is most popular resource that is in the USGS publications warehouse actually a resource from 1987 it's called map productions of working manual and it's one of the seminal resources in a precise network could actually look to it if you're interested in later if we're actually searching for a map productions click typing that in the search bar you can see the paper will come up by the author you can see the full document is available by PDF some plates that are evolved as well as abstract and some other information so that was all in the advanced or the beginning search but if you want to do advanced search you can do a search for a few interesting things there beginning search allows you to search for title year publication name series name or report number very easy things if you are already have a citation available but let's say you're looking for something a little bit more you can use the advanced search to search for a few other resources so here's what it looks like when you're an advanced search as you see the very top offenses for publication be the most of the search terms there's a few of the things you can search for let's go look at the stump / contributing office this is interesting for if you're specifically looking for a certain department of office and you can click on me contribute office and search by it that if you're it is a certain geographical area you want to know what your researchers or colleagues are working on I would choose this just like many other USGS materials you can do an area of interest to a geographic bounding box around an area I can't tell you how happy this makes you makes me for searching USGS materials just just like it's one of the easiest things to do so here we are just ret do creative bounding box around 14 specific area of interest this is San Francisco there's over almost 2,500 results that come up just from a geographic area if these reports are USGS funded resources not everything out there but for looking for these two type of government documents it makes it easy and then an advanced search you are able to search for author or by orchid ID now orchid if you're if you're familiar with it it allows you to search for those that have an open researcher and contributor art ID it's a alphanumeric number that is associated with certain authors and it's now required by the u.s. CSS of October 2016 Emily Wilde who is the USGS librarian in Denver she has a pretty active account this is forged IDs and actually look it up online you can look at the other on us just author of hundreds of publications newsies so I just told her orphan ID and in this the search box they meant searched and I searched by her orkut ID I could also search by her name but it wouldn't be as thorough so this is just a very fuzzy list of publications of 25 different resources if she has written you'll be able to download each one of them some other kicks I did promise some tips and tricks about using the USGS publications warehouse since you're probably going to use this resource problem more frequently and others while cards to find all of her the word are not needed it's probable by Google so it doesn't do that same kind of welcome card search that you were probably familiar with in other databases also unfortunately you can't do exact phrases we can't do a quotation around certain phrases like climate change or or carbon dioxide however there's a nice trick since all this content is indexed by Google you can actually search google for that content so if you're not familiar how to do that you just type in the phrase or that you're looking for and the end type in sight SI te colon and then the URL for the publication's warehouse and this works for all Google truncation so you can also just search for all of this usgs gov to as well and I use this trick a lot so you're still using the USGS publications warehouse even if you're searching through google and also you can try their RSS feed they have this really great set up please and search by certain topics instead of a feed reader so even if you're really interested in what uncertain author is doing or what a geographical area you can sketch a date with the publication's I use feedly my personal preference but it's a nice way of adding all those resources so you don't need to get an alert whenever a new resource comes up second-to-last wouldn't be a proper library if I did talk about the library catalog for some materials that are not in the USGS publications warehouse you can search the catalog to see them they're probably available in print there are also some key government documents you can find them now the USGS libraries has holdings of over 1.5 million books Maps other paper records even fossils and different things if you ever have a chance there's several different USGS libraries one of them one of the largest being in Denver there's another one in Reston Virginia you can visit you are able to visit you have to have a kind of a path you have to visit to do what their Latin their catalogue looks like so again that one resource map products projections a working manual that is one of the most popular resources you can see there's a lot of different copies that they have of it all online now these are the paper physical copies that are available and you can find out access to this library catalog through library at usgs.gov nearly lastly before I wrap up one of the left things I want to talk about was just USGS social media and now we're talking about finding geological materials through the USGS but I use social media for some of the most up-to-date ways to find recently released ucf news releases and other things one that they are all ways of doing is mostly through Twitter for the those of you they're interested you don't necessarily need to have an account if you can just go online and look to see what they're having but they do do releases those memos and other funding projects papers report and the big ones they will release on Twitter and do a big announcement this is all stuff that they you know it's another way for them to get the news out there's also ways to do publications signups for listservs and other things I wanted to talk about that for final presentation question it's a very beginning we talked about what happened when some students were asked where to find information about their hometown that is elev land cover mining watershed and water features and then told us the newest topographic maps are available as well as recent publications if you're intrigued about finding where you're from and you want to find more information all the resources i talked about today you can find the answer to that question so just for fun i wanted to show you about my hometown around name and my mom happens to live right on the water in on a river going into the ocean so it's a great example of looking for watershed nalysis oh here's what I found in doing the presentation 40 main area where my mom is she's somewhat she lives we're in that land cover database map her house is at 16 feet above sea level yes I'm worried that it may flood it does flood occasionally the nearest mind is actually from the Westbrook sorry which departed Pike industry and we found that information also through all these resources and I found an article about her area and the land flow of resources going to the car gulf of maine I found that information to the publication warehouses I also use the historical topographic map Explorer to find several different maps of the area and just took a screenshot instead of downloading them today but I want to show that the screenshot shows with the before and after and in one case there's the airport exists and the other case the airport doesn't exist and you can also see the islands off the coast of Maine and how they've changed in size a little bit smaller now and then download some mutant materials from the USS to polio and downloaded an actual real topo map so I could show her how things you took then finally I use the National hydrography dataset and USGS streamer to do analysis with some the streams in my mom's house on the far right-hand side you can see a little red lime that is the river of my mom lives on at strada river and is 12 miles long and goes right into the Atlantic Ocean and now I can go back and tell with great confidence her some more information about her area so all the resources we talked about today are listed here very much recommend the map view the top of you playing with the national geographic map database you I think we'll spend some time maybe look at your hometown and learning more about it and if you're interested in learning more about each one of these individual resources you probably take very long online tutorials here's a bit of a few more and i'm rounding up towards the end of my time here so if you have any questions stand by for the next little while on chat and you can ask me thank you very much Hannah that was great I was having quite a bit of fun with me a metrical topographic map Explorer yeah yeah it's just a fun kind of slider for people students use most most of the reasons why historically people come to a map collection or list mind here at UNH is nations are looking for a topographic map and what a joy they seem to have when I tell them oh I consider you the topographic map collection we have or we can sit down I can show you the max floor we can do a little bit of a search for your area and the sea and see what happens and I didn't really go into this way too much but it's it is really nice to be able distally to an overlay and show that's panning and the viewing of everything so any other questions your common what's your favorite there's a question about how we lost access to any map data is we have to GTA and agricultural a good question i do not know that we have and i've been keeping a pretty good ear to the ground ask asking around in anticipation for this presentation as well as from curiosity do not know that we have from maps however there is concern that future GIS data will be lost there are some bills and that have been proposed that would no longer man gate geospatial data to be collected for HUD head office economic data for example but not maps great okay well let anybody have any questions oh thank you Anna is very much for doing this is wonderful and definitely learned a lot of new resources that I can show my people today if you have any questions I'm sure he and it would love to talk call you know all right guys well unless you have any questions thank you very much everybody for coming and hope you all have a great week

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Published: Tue Mar 14 2017