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The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Jesse Korus, Matt Joeckel and Shane Tucker have worked to document and describe, via drone footage and computer modeling, the Haystack Mountain conglomerate in the Wildcat Ridge in Western Nebraska.

Ancient flooding formed, left behind boulders in Wildcat Ridge

March 12, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Google Earth detail

Google find expands understanding of Nebraska's icy past

November 5, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Matt Joeckel, state geologist, and Dana Divine, hydrogeologist, both of the Conservation and Survey Division, examine a core April 9 on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus.

Nebraska-led study eyes unique carbon dioxide storage option

April 11, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A sunset over the Platte River. A new report issued by the Conservation and Survey Division shows that nearly all of Nebraska saw declines in groundwater levels between spring 2012 and spring 2013.

Groundwater levels generally recovering from 2012 drought

March 29, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

A researcher stands among the termite mounds in Brazil's Caatinga forest. Nebraska's Paul Hanson helped determine the age of the termite mounds.

Hanson helps age Brazilian termite mounds

November 27, 2018

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Science & Technology

This image from Google Earth shows gilgai in the Panhandle of Nebraska; the field of view in the photo is approximately a half-mile wide.

Unusual land-surface patterning identified in Nebraska for first time

April 27, 2018

This map from the 2017 Nebraska Statewide Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report shows groundwater-level changes in Nebraska from spring 2016 to spring 2017.

Report: Nebraska continues to see modest groundwater decline

March 14, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska research hydrologist Joe Szilagyi has shown that precipitation has decreased in the most heavily irrigated regions of Nebraska, a finding that could have worldwide water-conservation implications if substantiated by further research.

Research shows large-scale irrigation reduces local precipitation

February 27, 2018

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Conservation and Survey Division celebrates 125 years

February 8, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

A new publication by Dana Divine (left), Steve Sibray and Les Howard (both not pictured) highlights Nebraska's seven secondary aquifers.

Publication highlights Nebraska’s secondary aquifers

December 15, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

3-D view at Firth

Project to make state's electromagnetic survey data available

May 12, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

This 10-foot section of core is a part of a nearly 500-foot-deep core, drilled by the Conservation and Survey as part of a CSD mapping program in eastern Cherry County during 2015-2016. Deep cores drilled during this study are the first of their kind for

Conservation and Survey Division made accessing materials easier

March 20, 2017

Agriculture & Environment