Big news! 📢 AASG & we are announcing $74.6 million to be distributed in 30 states to invest in geoscience data collection, mapping, data preservation & scientific interpretation of areas with potential for critical minerals: http://ow.ly/VxVR50JCXZa (link also in profile).
Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will account for $64 million in this effort. This is part of the broader $510.7 million investment in USGS from the Law to support scientific innovation.
These investments will be managed by our Earth Mapping Resource Initiative, or Earth MRI, under which we've partnered with the Association of American State Geologists and state geological surveys to jointly fund and conduct new geologic mapping and geochemical reconnaissance sampling and preserve existing geologic data and samples.
As we conduct these surveys and analyze the data, we'll share them here and on our website, so keep an eye out!
Image shows a USGS scientist walking along an old exploration trench in Alaska.
Image credit: Susan Karl, USGS
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