Results from surveys to academic and industry and government geoscientists on the future of coal geoscientists

At recent technical conferences, many coal geoscientists in academia and government institutions as well as in industry organizations have expressed concern about the dwindling number of students and young staff members interested in careers in coal geoscience. To better understand what is driving these trends and to identify potential ways that the community can increase interest and participation in coal geoscience, two different surveys were sent to 94 coal geoscientists who were current or past members of The Society of Organic Petrology (TSOP) in February 2020. As the trends and perceptions in industry and government organizations may be different than in universities, one distinct survey was sent to members...

Categories: Data; Tags: Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, China, All tags... Coal, Coal geoscience, Coal geoscientist, Columbia, Denmark, Europe, Future of coal geoscience, Gender, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Last hire, Left field, Nigeria, Non-combustion uses of coal, North America, Poland, Recruitment, Retrained, Russia, South America, Spain, Staff, Students, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United Kingdom, United States, Fewer tags

Isopach, lithic isopleth, and pyroxene, Fe-Ti oxide, and plagioclase geochemistry data for the Orange Tuff, West Java, Indonesia

The Orange Tuff is an informally named tephra-fall deposit that crops out extensively in the volcanic highlands to the south and southwest of Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. The data included in this data release documents the deposit thickness and maximum sizes of lithics present at sites throughout its distribution. Additional tables document dispersal areas calculated from within hand-drawn isopach and lithic isopleth maps based on the aforementioned thickness and lithic size data. Such area measurements will be used in the related subsequent publication listed in the metadata to derive eruption and deposit characteristics such as bulk volume and column height and to help determine the source volcano. The isopach...

Tags: Bogor, Indonesia, Jawa Barat, Salak Satu, Gunung, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... geochemistry, volcanic rocks, volcanology, Fewer tags

USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project–New Guinea, Papua Barat, Seram, and Timor-Leste: Assessment Unit Boundaries, Assessment Input Data, and Fact Sheet Data Tables

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units and input data for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in New Guinea, Papua Barat, Seram, and Timor-Leste. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arafura Platform, Assessment Unit, Bintuni Basin, Conventional Assessment Unit, Energy Resources, All tags... Geology, Indonesia, NOGA2000, National Assessment of Oil and Gas, Natural Gas, Oil, OilGas, Papua Barat, Papua New Guinea, Papua Platform, Papua-Lengguru Thrust Belt, Papua-New Guinea Thrust Belt, Resource Assessment, Salawati Basin, Seram, Seram Thrust Structures, Timor Thrust Structures, Timor-Leste, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:62c7469fd34eeb1417bb13c7, energy resources, geoscientificInformation, natural gas resources, oil resources, petroleum, Fewer tags

Compilation of Geospatial Data (GIS) for the Mineral Industries and Related Infrastructure of Select Countries in Southwest Asia

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled a geodatabase containing mineral-related geospatial data for 10 countries of interest in Southwest Asia (area of study): Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, and Thailand. The data can be used in analyses of the extractive fuel and nonfuel mineral industries and related economic and physical infrastructure integral for the successful operation of the mineral industries within the area of study as well as the movement of mineral products across domestic and global markets. This geodatabase reflects the USGS ongoing commitment to its mission of understanding the nature and distribution of global mineral commodity supply chains...

Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Cambodia, Economic Geology, Energy Resources, All tags... Geography, India, Indonesia, Information Sciences, Iran, LNG, LNG terminals, Laos, Malaysia–Thailand JDA, Mineral Resources, NGL, Nepal, North Korea, PGE, Pakistan, REE, Thailand, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aluminum, amethyst, antimony, aquamarine, aragonite, arsenic, asbestos, barite, barium, bauxite, beforsite, bentonite, beryl, beryllium, bismuth, boron, brine, brown coal, bulk cargo, bulk shipping, cadmium, calcium, celestite, cement, cesium, chromium, clay, coal, coal (brown), coal (hard), coal occurrence, coal resources, coalbed methane, cobalt, columbium, commodity, continuous resources, conventional resources, copper, copper occurrence, copper resources, critical minerals, deposit, diamond, dry port, electrical transmission lines, electricity, electricity generation, emerald, energy, energy generation, epidote, evaporite-related potash, exploration, ferroalloys, fluorite, fluorspar, fluxstone, gallium, garnet, gas, gas production, gas terminal, gasification, gemstone, gemstones, gold, graphite, gypsum, hafnium, halite, halite (brine), hard coal, hydrocarbon resources, iron, iron (carbonatite), iron and steel, iron ore, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, lead, limestone, liquefaction, liquefied natural gas, lithium, magnesite, magnesium, manganese, marble, maritime port, mercury, methanol, mica, mine, mineral, mineral commodity, mineral deposit, mineral exploration, mineral exports, mineral occurrence, mineral processing, mineral resources, minerals, mining, mining exploration, molybdenum, morganite, muscovite, natural gas, natural gas liquids, nickel, niobium, niobium (columbium), non-renewable energy, ochre, oil, oil and gas, oil and gas terminal, oil production, oil terminal, peat, petroleum, phosphate, phosphate occurrence, phosphate resources, phosphorite, platinum-group elements, porphyry copper, port, port terminal, potash, potash occurrence, potash resources, potassium, power, power generation, power lines, power plant, power station, quartz, rare earth elements, recoverable resources, refinery, refining, regasification, renewable energy, resources, rhenium, rose quartz, rubidium, ruby, salt, sand, sand (glass), sand and gravel, sandstone, sapphire, sediment-hosted stratabound copper, selenium, serpentine, shale gas, shale oil, shipping port, silica, silver, smelting, sodium, sphalerite, spinel, stratabound copper, strontium, sulfur, sövite, talc, tantalum, technetium, tellurium, thorium, tight gas, tight oil, tin, titanium, tourmaline, transmission lines, tungsten, unconventional resources, undiscovered resources, uranium, vanadium, vermiculite, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project–Southeast Asia Assessment Unit Boundaries, Assessment Input Forms, and Assessment Results Data Table (ver. 2.0, June 2023)

This data release is a revision of the USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project-Southeast Asia Assessment Unit Boundaries and Assessment Input Forms data release (DR-P9BI2N1N). Like DR-P9BI2N1N, this data release contains the boundaries of 48 assessment units and their respective assessment input forms and data. In addition, this data release contains the assessment results data, thereby placing all the information related to the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in Southeast Asia in one publication. The results table in this data release is the source data for the assessment results found in Table 1 of FS 2020-3046. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National and...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assessment Unit, Baram Delta Brunei-Sabah Basin, Barito Basin, Brunei, Cagayan Basin, All tags... Cambodia, Central Burma Basin, Central Sumatra Basin, Central Vietnam Basin, Conventional Assessment Unit, Cuu Long Basin, East Java Basin, Energy Resources, Geology, Greater Sarawak Basin, India, Indo-Burman, Indonesia, Irrawaddy, Khorat Platform, Kutei Basin, Laos, Malay Basin, Malaysia, Myanmar, NOGA2000, Nam Con Son Basin, National Assessment of Oil and Gas, Natural Gas, North Sumatra Basin, Northwest Java Basin, Oil, OilGas, Palawan Shelf, Pearl River Mouth Basin, Penyu West Natuna Basin, Phu Khanh Basin, Qiongdongnan Basin, Resource Assessment, Saigon Basin, Song Hong Basin, South China Sea Platform, South Makassar Basin, South Sumatra Basin, Sulu Sea Basin, Sumatra Java Fore-arc Basins, Taiwan, Taixinan Basin, Tarakan Basin, Thai Basin, Thai Cenozoic Basins, Thailand, Tonle Sap-Phnom Penh Basin, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Visayan Basin, energy resources, geoscientificInformation, natural gas resources, oil resources, petroleum, Fewer tags

Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB) describing anthropogenic materials cycles, recycling, and criticality for 102 materials on spatial scales ranging from suburbs to global and timescales from the early 1800s to circa 2013

This data release presents the Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB). Its data describe the use of 102 materials from the early 1800s to circa 2013 through anthropogenic cycles, their recycling and criticality properties, and on spatial scales ranging from suburbs to global. This data collection was previously scattered across multiple non-uniformly formatted files such as journal papers, reports, and unpublished spreadsheets. These data have been synthesized into YSTAFDB, which is presented as individual comma-separated text files and also in MySQL and PostgreSQL database formats. Consolidation of these data into a single database can increase their accessibility and reusability, which is relevant to diverse...

Categories: Data; Tags: AFGHANISTAN, ALBANIA, ALGERIA, ANDORRA, ANGOLA, All tags... ANGUILLA, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, ARGENTINA, ARMENIA, ARUBA, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, AZERBAIJAN, Africa, Asia, BAHAMAS, THE, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, BARBADOS, BELARUS, BELGIUM, BELIZE, BENIN, BHUTAN, BOLIVIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, BOTSWANA, BRAZIL, BRUNEI, BULGARIA, BURKINA FASO, BURMA, BURUNDI, CAMBODIA, CAMEROON, CANADA, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, CHAD, CHILE, CHINA, COLOMBIA, COMOROS, COSTA RICA, CROATIA, CUBA, CURACAO, CYPRUS, CZECH REPUBLIC, Cape Verde, Caribbean, Central America, Central Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), DENMARK, DJIBOUTI, DOMINICA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EGYPT, EL SALVADOR, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, ERITREA, ESTONIA, ETHIOPIA, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Europe, European Union, FIJI, FINLAND, FRANCE, FRENCH GUIANA, FRENCH POLYNESIA, GABON, GAMBIA, THE, GEORGIA, GERMANY, GHANA, GIBRALTAR, GREECE, GREENLAND, GRENADA, GUADELOUPE, GUAM, GUATEMALA, GUINEA, GUINEA-BISSAU, GUYANA, HAITI, HONDURAS, HONG KONG, HUNGARY, ICELAND, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, IRELAND, ISRAEL, ITALY, IVORY COAST (COTE D’IVOIRE), JAMAICA, JAPAN, JORDAN, KAZAKHSTAN, KENYA, KOREA, NORTH, KOREA, SOUTH, KUWAIT, KYRGYZSTAN, LAOS, LATVIA, LEBANON, LESOTHO, LIBERIA, LIBYA, LITHUANIA, LUXEMBOURG, Latin America, MACEDONIA, MADAGASCAR, MALAWI, MALAYSIA, MALI, MARTINIQUE, MAURITANIA, MAURITIUS, MEXICO, MOLDOVA, MONGOLIA, MONTENEGRO, MOROCCO, MOZAMBIQUE, Middle East, Mineralogy, NAMIBIA, NEPAL, NETHERLANDS, NEW CALEDONIA, NEW ZEALAND, NICARAGUA, NIGER, NIGERIA, NORWAY, North America, Northern Europe, OMAN, Oceania, PAKISTAN, PANAMA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, PARAGUAY, PERU, PHILIPPINES, POLAND, PORTUGAL, PUERTO RICO, QATAR, REUNION, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, RWANDA, SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE, SAUDI ARABIA, SENEGAL, SERBIA, SEYCHELLES, SIERRA LEONE, SINGAPORE, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, SOMALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH SUDAN, SPAIN, SRI LANKA, SUDAN, SURINAME, SWAZILAND, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, SYRIA, South America, TAIWAN, TAJIKISTAN, TANZANIA, THAILAND, TIMOR-LESTE, TOGO, TONGA, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, TUNISIA, TURKEY, TURKMENISTAN, UGANDA, UKRAINE, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, URUGUAY, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UZBEKISTAN, VENEZUELA, VIETNAM, WESTERN SAHARA, Western Europe, YEMEN, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE, circular economy, economy, environment, geoscientificInformation, industrial ecology, location, material flows, material life cycles, materials flow (commodities), metallic mineral resources, mineral deposits, nonmetallic mineral resources, society, Fewer tags

Sumbing Volcano. Indonesia. n.d.

Index card: Distant view of Sumbing Volcano, with prehistoric debris avalanche in foreground. n.d.

Categories: Image; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Indonesia, Mount St. Helens Collection, Volcanoes, color transparency (slides)