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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

corn irrigation

State groundwater levels recovering from 2012 drought

March 9, 2017

Airborne electromagnetics help detail underground valleys, aquifers

November 30, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Rain falls near UNL's Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory in the Nebraska sandhills. A new groundwater report issued by UNL's School of Natural Resources shows that much of Nebraska is beginning to recover from the 2012-13 drought.

Report shows groundwater levels on the rise

February 5, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Conservation book explores history, current state of Nebraska fishes

January 21, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Xun-Hong "Hong" Chen

Obituary | Xun-Hong Chen

October 23, 2015

In wireline coring, a continuous core is extracted from the depth of the test hole, as opposed to just cuttings.

Conservation and Survey celebrates drilling first test hole of its kind

October 19, 2015

A Conservation and Survey Division crew drills a test well in the Nebraska panhandle. A new guide created by the Conservation and Survey Division is designed to help geologists and drillers catalog material encountered during drilling.

Conservation and Survey Division releases boreholes cuttings guide

July 1, 2015

Grant helps multiple organizations integrate, improve groundwater aquifer data

April 2, 2015

On average, water levels declined half a foot from spring 2013 to spring 2014, compared to average declines of 2.55 feet from spring 2012 to spring 2013. (Map courtesy Conservation and Survey Division)

Report reveals continued declines, some rises in statewide groundwater levels

January 30, 2015

UNL-led team drills 1,700+ feet in test-hole project

July 13, 2014

Shane Tucker, NU State Museum highway paleontologist, with the burrow image reconstructed as it would be exposed in the wall of the Happy Jack Chalk Mine.

Ancient rodent burrows illuminate evolutionary roadmap of Great Plains

June 4, 2014