Watershed: Online Science Investigations for Students
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Science in Your Watershed
The science in your watershed website is provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to assist teachers and students find scientific information about specific watersheds.
This information, coupled with observations and measurements made by the watershed groups, provides a powerful foundation for characterizing, assessing, analyzing, and maintaining the status and health of a watershed.
Science in Your Watershed
Discussions with watershed groups across the country resulted in this web site. This web site provides access to:
- Locate Your Watershed - use an interactive mapping interface to locate your watershed and link to additional information from your watershed.
- Information Discovery - find projects, publications, and databases related to your watershed.
- Data Integration - learn more about how you can use scientific data to understand your watershed.
This web site provides a decision-support process by making accessible recent case studies of projects that have occurred, publications that have been produced, developing databases, information assembled, and provides access to free and nearly free software and tools for manipulating spatial information.
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