This is a FREE live webinar at our Downtown location.

About the Program:

• Speaker: Emily C. Wild, Librarian (Physical Scientist), U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library

• Learning outcomes: The USGS Library provides reference services and instructional sessions to library users on finding print, digital, and online library materials. This webinar will focus on how to find and use information sources and products related to water use, surface water, groundwater, water quality, floods, droughts, and hurricanes (data, databases, publications, maps, and field and laboratory methods). The webinar will also cover education tools available from the USGS and other geoscience stakeholders.

• Expected level of knowledge for participants: No prerequisite knowledge required.

This event is part of our Government Depository series. The San Diego Law Library is a selective Federal Depository Library and California State Document Depository Library. We maintain a collection of United States and California government documents and make them accessible in print and electronic formats.

About the USGS:

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a science organization that provides impartial information on the health of our ecosystems and environment, the natural hazards that threaten us, the natural resources we rely on, the impacts of climate and land-use change, and the core science systems that help us provide timely, relevant, and useable information.

The USGS serves the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.

The USGS employs the best and the brightest experts who bring a range of earth and life science disciplines to bear on problems. By integrating our diverse scientific expertise, the USGS is able to understand complex natural science phenomena and provide scientific products that lead to solutions. Every day the 10,000 scientists, technicians, and support staff of the USGS are working for you in more than 400 locations throughout the United States.

As the Nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides scientific understanding about natural resource conditions, issues, and problems. The diversity of our scientific expertise enables us to carry out large-scale, multi-disciplinary investigations and provide impartial scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other customers.

MCLE: This class is NOT eligible for MCLE credit.