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März 1879<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Hauptsitz </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Reston_(Virginia)" title="Reston (Virginia)">Reston (Virginia)</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Beh%C3%B6rdenleiter" title="Behördenleiter">Behördenleitung</a> </th> <td>Dave Applegate<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Mitarbeiter </th> <td>10000 (2021) </td></tr> <tr> <th>Website </th> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usgs.gov/">www.usgs.gov</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/Datei:Usgs-headquarters.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Usgs-headquarters.jpeg/220px-Usgs-headquarters.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Usgs-headquarters.jpeg/330px-Usgs-headquarters.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Usgs-headquarters.jpeg/440px-Usgs-headquarters.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>USGS-Hauptsitz in <a href="/wiki/Reston_(Virginia)" title="Reston (Virginia)">Reston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Der <b>United States Geological Survey</b> (USGS) ist eine wissenschaftliche Behörde im Geschäftsbereich des <a href="/wiki/Innenministerium_der_Vereinigten_Staaten" title="Innenministerium der Vereinigten Staaten">Innenministeriums der Vereinigten Staaten</a>. Der USGS ist das wichtigste Institut der Vereinigten Staaten für die <a href="/wiki/Landesvermessung" title="Landesvermessung">amtliche</a> <a href="/wiki/Kartografie" title="Kartografie">Kartografie</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="de" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Inhaltsverzeichnis</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Agenden"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Agenden</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Publikationen"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Publikationen</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Liste_der_Direktoren"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Liste der Direktoren</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Sonstiges"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Sonstiges</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Weblinks"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Weblinks</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Einzelnachweise"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Einzelnachweise</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Agenden">Agenden</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Geological_Survey&veaction=edit&section=1" title="Abschnitt bearbeiten: Agenden" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>Bearbeiten</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Geological_Survey&action=edit&section=1" title="Quellcode des Abschnitts bearbeiten: Agenden"><span>Quelltext bearbeiten</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Die Wissenschaftler des USGS untersuchen die Landschaften und <a href="/wiki/Strukturgeologie" title="Strukturgeologie">geologische</a> Strukturen der <a href="/wiki/Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">Vereinigten Staaten</a> und auch anderer Länder, ihre <a href="/wiki/Ressource" title="Ressource">Ressourcen</a> und die <a href="/wiki/Naturkatastrophe" title="Naturkatastrophe">Naturkatastrophen</a>, die sie bedrohen. </p><p>Die vier Hauptbetätigungsfelder sind: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wasser" title="Wasser">Wasser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geologie" title="Geologie">Geologie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geographie" title="Geographie">Geographie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biologie" title="Biologie">Biologie</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Die Arbeit stützte sich zu Beginn auf traditionell <a href="/wiki/Terrestrisch" title="Terrestrisch">terrestrische</a> Untersuchungen, doch seit den 1960er-Jahren zunehmend auch auf <a href="/wiki/Messflugzeug" class="mw-redirect" title="Messflugzeug">Messflugzeuge</a> (z. B. Aerophysik, <a href="/wiki/Aerofotogrammetrie" class="mw-redirect" title="Aerofotogrammetrie">Aerofotogrammetrie</a>) und auf <a href="/wiki/Erdbeobachtungssatellit" title="Erdbeobachtungssatellit">Erdbeobachtungssatelliten</a>, für die auch technische Systeme entwickelt werden. </p><p>Seit seiner Gründung am 3. März 1879 ist der USGS eine unabhängige Forschungsorganisation ohne Regulierungsverantwortlichkeiten. Von 1962 an beteiligt sich der USGS sowohl an der Erforschung als auch der Erstellung von <a href="/wiki/Karte_(Kartografie)" title="Karte (Kartografie)">Karten</a> der <a href="/wiki/Erde" title="Erde">Erde</a>, des <a href="/wiki/Mond" title="Mond">Mondes</a> und der <a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">Planeten</a>. </p><p>Der USGS ist die einzige wissenschaftliche Behörde des US-Innenministeriums und beschäftigt 8670 Mitarbeiter (2009). Der Sitz ist <a href="/wiki/Reston_(Virginia)" title="Reston (Virginia)">Reston (Virginia)</a>, weitere wichtige Büros existieren in <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Denver</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a> und in <a href="/wiki/Menlo_Park" title="Menlo Park">Menlo Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalifornien" title="Kalifornien">Kalifornien</a>. </p><p>Die Organisation ist wie die <a href="/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration" title="National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration">NOAA</a> Mitglied der <a href="/wiki/Internationale_Charta_f%C3%BCr_Weltraum_und_Naturkatastrophen" title="Internationale Charta für Weltraum und Naturkatastrophen">Internationalen Charta für Weltraum und Naturkatastrophen</a>. </p><p>Das Motto lautet “<span lang="en">science for a changing world.</span>” (<a href="/wiki/Englische_Sprache" title="Englische Sprache">englisch</a> für ‚Wissenschaft für eine sich verändernde Welt‘). Zu den am längsten laufenden Projekten des US Geological Survey gehören Untersuchungen an der <a href="/wiki/San-Andreas-Verwerfung" title="San-Andreas-Verwerfung">San-Andreas-Verwerfung</a>. Insbesondere Vermessungen im kalifornischen Örtchen <a href="/wiki/Parkfield" title="Parkfield">Parkfield</a>, das 1857 das Epizentrum des <a href="/wiki/Fort-Tejon-Erdbeben_1857" title="Fort-Tejon-Erdbeben 1857">Fort-Tejon-Erdbebens</a> war, sollen dazu beitragen, die Vorhersage von <a href="/wiki/Erdbeben" title="Erdbeben">Erdbeben</a> zu verbessern. </p><p>Im Sommer 2006 beteiligte sich die Organisation zusammen mit der <i>Indian Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH)</i> an der Erforschung von <a href="/wiki/Gashydrat" title="Gashydrat">Gashydraten</a> im Indischen Ozean. </p><p>Zudem betreibt die Behörde das <a href="/wiki/National_Wildlife_Health_Center" title="National Wildlife Health Center">National Wildlife Health Center</a> (NWHC), eine Forschungseinrichtung, die sich mit der Erforschung von Krankheiten bei wildlebenden Tieren befasst. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publikationen">Publikationen</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Geological_Survey&veaction=edit&section=2" title="Abschnitt bearbeiten: Publikationen" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>Bearbeiten</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Geological_Survey&action=edit&section=2" title="Quellcode des Abschnitts bearbeiten: Publikationen"><span>Quelltext bearbeiten</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Die Behörde publiziert die <a href="/wiki/Amtliche_Karte" title="Amtliche Karte">amtliche Karte</a> der Vereinigten Staaten und ist bekannt für die Benutzung des <a href="/wiki/Ma%C3%9Fstab_(Kartografie)" title="Maßstab (Kartografie)">Maßstabes</a> 1 : 24.000. 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Survey" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegisch (Nynorsk)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Geological_Survey" title="U.S. Geological Survey – Norwegisch (Bokmål)" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="U.S. Geological Survey" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegisch (Bokmål)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey – Polnisch" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="United States Geological Survey" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polnisch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a 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Geological Survey – einfaches Englisch" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="United States Geological Survey" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="einfaches Englisch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey – Slowakisch" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="United States Geological Survey" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slowakisch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolo%C5%A1ki_zavod_Zdru%C5%BEenih_dr%C5%BEav_Amerike" title="Geološki zavod Združenih držav Amerike – Slowenisch" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Geološki zavod Združenih držav Amerike" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" 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