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• Methods for computing water-quality loads at sites in the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Network, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1120
• Geologic map of the Washington West 30’ × 60’ quadrangle, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C., 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1142
• P- and S-wave velocity models incorporating the Cascadia subduction zone for 3D earthquake ground motion simulations, Version 1.6—Update for Open-File Report 2007–1348, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1152
• Visualization of groundwater withdrawals, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1137
• Model-based scenario planning to inform climate change adaptation in the Northern Great Plains—Final report, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1129
• Laboratory evaluation of the Sequoia Scientific LISST-ABS acoustic backscatter sediment sensor, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1154
• Evaluation of the Hydrolab HL4 water-quality sonde and sensors, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1153
• Effectiveness of common fish screen materials for protecting lamprey ammocoetes—Influence of sweeping velocities and decreasing flows, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1163
• Groundwater/surface-water interaction in central Sevier County, Tennessee, October 2015–2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1147
• U.S. Geological Survey National Strong-Motion Project strategic plan, 2017–22, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1156
• Characteristics of dissolved organic matter in the Upper Klamath River, Lost River, and Klamath Straits Drain, Oregon and California, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1160
• Deepwater Program: Lophelia II, continuing ecological research on deep-sea corals and deep-reef habitats in the Gulf of Mexico, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1139
• Groundwater, surface-water, and water-chemistry data, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona—2013–2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1127
• Analysis of the variability in ground-motion synthesis and inversion, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1151
• Cobalt—Styles of deposits and the search for primary deposits, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1155
• Integrated wetland management for waterfowl and shorebirds at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1052
• Timing of warm water refuge use in Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge by manatees—Results and insights from Global Positioning System telemetry data, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1146
• An expert elicitation process to project the frequency and magnitude of Florida manatee mortality events caused by red tide (Karenia brevis), 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1132
• Behavioral response of giant gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) to the relative availability of aquatic habitat on the landscape, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1141
• Virginia flow-ecology modeling results—An initial assessment of flow reduction effects on aquatic biota, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1088
• Bathymetric map and area/capacity table for Castle Lake, Washington, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1145
• Evaluation of the Eureka Manta2 Water-Quality Multiprobe Sonde , 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1118
• Acoustic tag detections of green sturgeon in the Columbia River and Coos Bay estuaries, Washington and Oregon, 2010–11, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1144
• A concept for performance management for Federal science programs, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1143
• Monitoring storm tide and flooding from Hurricane Matthew along the Atlantic coast of the United States, October 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1122
• Public supply and domestic water use in the United States, 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1131
• Near-field receiving water monitoring of trace metals and a benthic community near the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant in south San Francisco Bay, California; 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1135
• Methods for converting continuous shrubland ecosystem component values to thematic National Land Cover Database classes, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1119
• U.S. Geological Survey input-data forms for the assessment of the Spraberry Formation of the Midland Basin, Permian Basin Province, Texas, 2017, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1117
• Geologic map of the Dusar area, Herat Province, Afghanistan; Modified from the 1973 original map compilations of V.I. Tarasenko and others, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1126
• Southern Great Plains Rapid Ecoregional assessment—Volume I. Ecological communities, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1100
• Seismic velocity site characterization of 10 Arizona strong-motion recording stations by spectral analysis of surface wave dispersion, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1208
• Health and condition of endangered young-of-the-year Lost River and Shortnose suckers relative to water quality in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, 2014–2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1134
• Design and methods of the Midwest Stream Quality Assessment (MSQA), 2013, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1073
• HIF evaluation of In-Situ Aqua TROLL 400, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1086
• Physical properties of sidewall cores from Decatur, Illinois, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1094
• Proceedings of the 11th United States-Japan natural resources panel for earthquake research, Napa Valley, California, November 16–18, 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1133
• Conceptual modeling framework to support development of site-specific selenium criteria for Lake Koocanusa, Montana, U.S.A., and British Columbia, Canada, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1130
• Watershed Data Management (WDM) database for West Branch DuPage River streamflow simulation, DuPage County, Illinois, January 1, 2007, through September 30, 2013, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1099
• Description of chronostratigraphic units preserved as channel deposits and geomorphic processes following a basin-scale disturbance by a wildfire in Colorado, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1090
• Assessment of adult pallid sturgeon fish condition, Lower Missouri River—Application of new information to the Missouri River Recovery Program, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1121
• Compilation of streamflow statistics calculated from daily mean streamflow data collected during water years 1901–2015 for selected U.S. Geological Survey streamgages, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1108
• User’s Manual for the National Water Information System of the U.S. Geological Survey: Aggregate Water-Use Data System, Version 3.2, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1114
• Skagit River coho salmon life history model—Users’ guide, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1125
• Tracking riverborne sediment and contaminants in Commencement Bay, Washington, using geochemical signatures, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1124
• An evaluation of the efficacy of using environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect giant gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas), 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1123
• Geologic assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in the Lower Paleogene Midway and Wilcox Groups, and the Carrizo Sand of the Claiborne Group, of the Northern Gulf coast region, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1111
• Groundwater quality in the Yuba River and Bear River Watersheds, Sierra Nevada, California, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1115
• Triangle Area Water Supply Monitoring Project, North Carolina—Summary of monitoring activities, quality assurance, and data, October 2013–September 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1068
• Analysis of seafloor change around Dauphin Island, Alabama, 1987–2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1112
• Field manual for identifying and preserving high-water mark data, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1105
• National assessment of shoreline change—Summary statistics for updated vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the north coast of Alaska, U.S.-Canadian Border to Icy Cape, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1107
• Low-flow characteristics of streams in South Carolina, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1110
• Morphologic evolution of the wilderness area breach at Fire Island, New York—2012–15, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1116
• Risk assessment for the reintroduction of anadromous salmonids upstream of Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams, Northeastern Washington, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1113
• Bathymetric survey of the Cayuga Inlet flood-control channel and selected tributaries in Ithaca, New York, 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1109
• Results of hydrologic monitoring on landslide-prone coastal bluffs near Mukilteo, Washington, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1095
• Design and methods of the Pacific Northwest Stream Quality Assessment (PNSQA), 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1103
• Balancing habitat delivery for breeding marsh birds and nonbreeding waterfowl: An integrated waterbird management and monitoring approach at Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge, Missouri, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1051
• The influence of local- and landscape-level factors on wetland breeding birds in the Prairie Pothole Region of North and South Dakota, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1096
• Agricultural irrigated land-use inventory for Polk County, Florida, 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1082
• Modified mercalli intensities for nine earthquakes in central and western Washington between 1989 and 1999, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1104
• Detecting temporal change in land-surface altitude using robotic land-surveying techniques and geographic information system applications at an earthen dam site in Southern Westchester County, New York, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1028
• Using object-based image analysis to conduct high-resolution conifer extraction at regional spatial scales, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1093
• Hierarchical population monitoring of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Nevada and California—Identifying populations for management at the appropriate spatial scale, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1089
• Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) nesting and brood-rearing microhabitat in Nevada and California—Spatial variation in selection and survival patterns, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1087
• A projection of lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) populations range-wide, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1071
• Synthesis of downstream fish passage information at projects owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1101
• Barrier island habitat map and vegetation survey—Dauphin Island, Alabama, 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1083
• Precipitation, streamflow, suspended-sediment, and water-quality data for the U.S. Army Garrison Fort Carson and Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado, 1966–2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1072
• Report from the Workshop on Coregonine Restoration Science, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1081
• Suspended-sediment loads in the lower Stillaguamish River, Snohomish County, Washington, 2014–15, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1066
• Compilation of geospatial data for the mineral industries and related infrastructure of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1079
• Mapping the change of Phragmites australis live biomass in the lower Mississippi River Delta marshes, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1098
• Determining the sources of fine-grained sediment using the Sediment Source Assessment Tool (Sed_SAT), 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1062
• Streamflow investigations on a reach of Hobble Creek near Springville, Utah, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1084
• The use of passive membrane samplers to assess organic contaminant inputs at five coastal sites in west Maui, Hawaii, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1097
• Devils Hole, Nevada—A photographic story of a restricted subaqueous environment, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1058
• A method for addressing differences in concentrations of fipronil and three degradates obtained by two different laboratory methods, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1056
• Status and trends of adult Lost River (Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose (Chasmistes brevirostris) sucker populations in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1059
• National assessment of shoreline change—Summary statistics for updated vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Atlantic coasts, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1015
• Lithofacies and sequence stratigraphic description of the upper part of the Avon Park Formation and the Arcadia Formation in U.S. Geological Survey G–2984 test corehole, Broward County, Florida, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1074
• Case studies of riparian and watershed restoration in the southwestern United States—Principles, challenges, and successes, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1091
• Factors affecting marsh vegetation at the Liberty Island Conservation Bank in the Cache Slough region of the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1077
• Grand challenges for integrated USGS science — A workshop report, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1076
• Description of gravity cores from San Pablo Bay and Carquinez Strait, San Francisco Bay, California, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1078
• Spatial and temporal distribution of bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus)-size fish near the floating surface collector in the North Fork Reservoir, Oregon, 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1080
• Juvenile salmonid monitoring in the White Salmon River, Washington, post-Condit Dam removal, 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1070
• Structured decision making for conservation of bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) in Long Creek, Klamath River Basin, south-central Oregon, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1075
• Elevation Difference and Bouguer Anomaly Analysis Tool (EDBAAT) User's Guide, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1036
• Inter-annual variability in apparent relative production, survival, and growth of juvenile Lost River and shortnose suckers in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, 2001–15, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1069
• A new seamless, high-resolution digital elevation model of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary, California, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1067
• Five hydrologic and landscape databases for selected National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern United States, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1018
• Coastal circulation and water-column properties in the National Park of American Samoa, February–July 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1060
• Incorporating genetic sampling in long-term monitoring and adaptive management in the San Diego County Management Strategic Plan Area, Southern California, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1061
• Water temperature effects from simulated changes to dam operations and structures in the Middle and South Santiam Rivers, Oregon, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1063
• Cyanobacteria of the 2016 Lake Okeechobee and Okeechobee Waterway harmful algal bloom, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1054
• Water-quality and lake-stage data for Wisconsin lakes, water years 2012–2013, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1050
• Water-quality and lake-stage data for Wisconsin lakes, water year 2014, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1131
• Summary of oceanographic and water-quality measurements in Chincoteague Bay, Maryland and Virginia, 2014–15, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1032
• Conversing with Pelehonuamea: A workshop combining 1,000+ years of traditional Hawaiian knowledge with 200 years of scientific thought on Kīlauea volcanism, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1043
• Oregon OCS seafloor mapping: Selected lease blocks relevant to renewable energy, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1045
• Evaluating land-use change scenarios for the Puget Sound Basin, Washington, within the ecosystem recovery target model-based framework, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1057
• Bridge scour countermeasure assessments at select bridges in the United States, 2014–16, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1048
• U.S. Department of the Interior Climate Science Centers and U.S. Geological Survey National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center—Annual report for 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1033
• Community for Data Integration 2016 annual report, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1053
• Estimates of immediate effects on world markets of a hypothetical disruption to Russia’s supply of six mineral commodities, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1023
• Geophysical data collected during the 2014 minute 319 pulse flow on the Colorado River below Morelos Dam, United States and Mexico, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1050
• Evaluation of Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia) and snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) nesting on modified islands at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, California—2016 Annual Report, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1055
• Quality-assurance plan for water-quality activities in the U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1044
• Report of the workshop on evidence-based design of national wildlife health programs, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1038
• Characterization of peak streamflows and flood inundation at selected areas in North Carolina following Hurricane Matthew, October 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1047
• Eastern Denali Fault surface trace map, eastern Alaska and Yukon, Canada, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1049
• The U.S. Geological Survey Monthly Water Balance Model Futures Portal, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1212
• Arsenic and uranium in private wells in Connecticut, 2013-15, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1046
• Guidelines for preparation of State water-use estimates for 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1029
• Precipitation thresholds for landslide occurrence near Seattle, Mukilteo, and Everett, Washington, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1039
• Monitoring breeding and migration of neotropical migratory birds at Point Loma, San Diego County, California, 5-year summary, 2011–15, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1042
• Time-causal decomposition of geomagnetic time series into secular variation, solar quiet, and disturbance signals, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1037
• Feasibility study for the quantitative assessment of mineral resources in asteroids, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1041
• Longshore water-current velocity and the potential for transport of contaminants—A pilot study in Lake Erie from Walnut Creek to Presque Isle State Park beaches, Erie, Pennsylvania, June and August 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1206
• Shallow-depth location and geometry of the Piedmont Reverse splay of the Hayward Fault, Oakland, California, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1123
• Potential effects of existing and proposed groundwater withdrawals on water levels and natural groundwater discharge in Snake Valley and surrounding areas, Utah and Nevada, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1026
• Effects of experimental removal of barred owls on population demography of northern spotted owls in Washington and Oregon—2016 progress report, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1040
• Correction of elevation offsets in multiple co-located lidar datasets, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1031
• Nearshore sediment thickness, Fire Island, New York, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1024
• Semiautomatic approaches to account for 3-D distortion of the electric field from local, near-surface structures in 3-D resistivity inversions of 3-D regional magnetotelluric data, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1007
• Landsat and agriculture—Case studies on the uses and benefits of Landsat imagery in agricultural monitoring and production, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1034
• Numerical modeling of the effects of Hurricane Sandy and potential future hurricanes on spatial patterns of salt marsh morphology in Jamaica Bay, New York City, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1016
• Geophysical logging and thermal imaging near the Hemphill Road TCE National Priorities List Superfund site near Gastonia, North Carolina, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1017
• County-level estimates of nitrogen and phosphorus from animal manure for the conterminous United States, 2007 and 2012, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1021
• Channel mapping river miles 29–62 of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, May 2009, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1030
• Methods used to characterize the chemical composition and biological activity of environmental waters throughout the United States, 2012-14, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1011
• Distribution, nesting activities, and age-class of territorial pairs of golden eagles at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, California, 2014–16, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1035
• Age of the youngest volcanism at Eagle Lake, northeastern California—⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and paleomagnetic results, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1027
• Natural resource inventory and monitoring for Ulaan Taiga Specially Protected Areas—An assessment of needs and opportunities in northern Mongolia, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1025
• Assessment of continuous oil resources in the Wolfcamp shale of the Midland Basin, Permian Basin Province, Texas, 2016, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1013
• Water-quality sampling plan for evaluating the distribution of bigheaded carps in the Illinois Waterway, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1019
• USA National Phenology Network gridded products documentation, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1003
• Systematic comparisons between PRISM version 1.0.0, BAP, and CSMIP ground-motion processing, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1020
• Processing and review interface for strong motion data (PRISM) software, version 1.0.0—Methodology and automated processing, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1008
• Record-high specific conductance and water temperature in San Francisco Bay during water year 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1022
• Saltwater intrusion in the Floridan aquifer system near downtown Brunswick, Georgia, 1957–2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1010
• A methodology for modeling barrier island storm-impact scenarios, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1009
• Hurricane Sandy washover deposits on Fire Island, New York, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1014
• Mapping land cover through time with the Rapid Land Cover Mapper—Documentation and user manual, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1012
• Geologic assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources—Lower Cretaceous Albian to Upper Cretaceous Cenomanian carbonate rocks of the Fredericksburg and Washita Groups, United States Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain and State Waters, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1199
• Forested floristic quality index: An assessment tool for forested wetland habitats using the quality and quantity of woody vegetation at Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) vegetation monitoring stations, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1002
• Updated operational protocols for the U.S. Geological Survey Precipitation Chemistry Quality Assurance Project in support of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1213
• The Wetland and Aquatic Research Center strategic science plan, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1193
• Noble gas isotopes in mineral springs and wells within the Cascadia forearc, Washington, Oregon, and California, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1203
• Colorado River fish monitoring in Grand Canyon, Arizona; 2002–14 humpback chub aggregations, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1177
• smwrGraphs—An R package for graphing hydrologic data, version 1.1.2, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1188
• Preliminary evaluation of the behavior and movements of adult spring Chinook salmon in the Chehalis River, southwestern Washington, 2014, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1004
• Water quality and bed sediment quality in the Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 2012–14, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1171
• Assessment of ecosystem response to a temporary water level drawdown and subsequent refilling at Topock Marsh, Arizona—July 2011–October 2014, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1195
• Data cleaning methodology for monthly water-to-oil and water-to-gas production ratios in continuous resource assessments, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1204
• Soil data for a thermokarst bog and the surrounding permafrost plateau forest, located at Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Site, Interior Alaska, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1173
• State of the Salton Sea—A science and monitoring meeting of scientists for the Salton Sea, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1005
• Multiscale guidance and tools for implementing a landscape approach to resource management in the Bureau of Land Management, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1207
• Water-quality, bed-sediment, and biological data (October 2014 through September 2015) and statistical summaries of data for streams in the Clark Fork Basin, Montana, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1201
• Scientific monitoring plan in support of the selected alternative of the Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1006
• Status of the 3D Elevation Program, 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1196
• Southern sea otter range expansion and habitat use in the Santa Barbara Channel, California, 2017, Open-File Report 2017-1001
• Evaluation of nocturnal roost and diurnal sites used by whooping cranes in the Great Plains, United States, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1209
• Tectonic summaries of magnitude 7 and greater earthquakes from 2000 to 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1192
• Peak streamflow on selected streams in Arkansas, December 2015, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1198
• Surface-water quality-assurance plan for the U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center, 2017, Open-File Report 2016-1020