United States Geological Survey

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Employment Permanent and seasonal

job opportunities with the National Park

Service are posted on the USAJobs Web

site: http://www.usajobs.gov. For more

information about permanent careers,

seasonal opportunities, and internship

programs, please visit http://www.nps.

gov/aboutus/workwithus.htm.

Grants For information on grants

authorized under the Land and Water

Conservation Fund, contact the

National Park Service, 1849 C Street

NW., Washington, DC 20240. Phone,

202–354–6900. For information on

grants authorized under the Historic

Preservation Fund, contact the National

Park Service, 1849 C Street NW.,

Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–

354–2067.

Publications Items related to the

National Park Service are available

from the Superintendent of Documents,

Government Printing Off‌ice, Washington,

DC 20401. Phone, 202–512–1800.

Items available for sale include the

National Park System Map and Guide

(Stock No. 024–005–01261–3), and The

National Parks: Index 2009–2011 (Stock

No. 024–005–01269–9). Contact the

Consumer Information Center, Pueblo,

CO 81009, for other publications about

the National Park Service available for

sale. For general park and camping

information, visit http://www.nps.gov or

write to the National Park Service, Off‌ice

of Public Inquiries, 1849 C Street NW.,

Washington, DC 20240.

For further information, contact the Chief, Off‌ice of Communications and Public Affairs, National Park

Service, Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW.,Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–208–6843.

Internet, http://www.nps.gov.

United States Geological Survey

U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior,12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA

20192

Phone, 703–648–4000. Internet, http://www.usgs.gov. Email, ASK@usgs.gov.

Director MARCIA MCNUTT

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) was

established by the Organic Act of March

3, 1879 (43 U.S.C. 31).

The USGS monitors and conducts

scientif‌ic research on the Earth’s

natural resources and environment.

With specialists working in biology,

geology, geography, hydrology,

geospatial information, and remote

sensing, the USGS studies the complex

interdependent relationships between

people, plants, animals, and the Earth’s

natural elements. The USGS holds no

regulatory or management responsibilities

and contributes politically neutral

scientif‌ic f‌indings to the creation of

public policy. The USGS compiles

statistics, reports, analyses, maps, models,

and tools that forecast the consequences

of various environmental strategies, and

these products, created in partnership

with other governmental, academic, and

private organizations, provide the basis

for evaluating the effectiveness of specif‌ic

policies and management actions at the

Federal, State, local, and tribal levels of

government.

The USGS maintains a broad scope

of research activities and long-term data

sets, such as information relating to

natural hazards, including earthquakes,

f‌loods, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides,

and coastal erosion; energy and mineral

resources; and geological processes

that affect the Nation’s land and coasts.

The USGS also collects information on

the quality of surface and ground water

resources; animal health, identifying and

dealing with invasive species, biological

species management, and ecosystems;

and geospatial data, topographic maps,

and satellite images critical to emergency

response, homeland security, land-use

planning, and resource management.

Every day, the USGS helps

decisionmakers to minimize loss of