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Welcome to the Upper Midwest Water Science Center’s (UMid) Website. We offer information on streamflow, water quality, water-use, and groundwater data for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
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Midcontinent Region. The Midcontinent Region covers activities in the geographic area of Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
The Midwest region faces unique challenges from climate change that affect forests, grasslands, lakes, rivers, wetlands, and the services and cultural values these ecosystems provide. These changes also occur in a wide range of land types and cultural settings, such as on and off Tribal reservation and treaty-ceded land, within and around towns ...
Welcome to the Midwest Region! Our region includes 19 Science Centers in 12 States from the Great Lakes to the Dakotas, south to Missouri and Kentucky. Our streamgage network is used to monitor and assess water resources across the region.
It is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Science Center, located within USGS's Midwest administrative area. The USGS Midwest Region promotes coordination between the Midwest Region Science Centers. UMESC's emphasis is on the Upper Midwest, however, our research, monitoring, and technical assistance efforts extend across the nation and world.
What are the official definitions of regions in the United States like "the Midwest," "the South," or the “East Coast”? The U.S. Board on Geographic Names does not define the extents of geographic regions, nor are they recorded in Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
