Estimation of missing water-level data for the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN), 2013 update
Matthew D. Petkewich, Paul Conrads
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1251
The Everglades Depth Estimation Network is an integrated network of real-time water-level gaging stations, a ground-elevation model, and a water-surface elevation model designed to provide scientists, engineers, and water-resource managers with water-level and water-depth information (1991-2013) for the entire freshwater portion of the Greater Everglades. The U.S. Geological Survey Greater...
U.S. Geological Survey water resources Internet tools
Kimberly H. Shaffer
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3072
The U.S. Geological Fact Sheet (USGS) provides a wealth of information on hydrologic data, maps, graphs, and other resources for your State.Sources of water resources information are listed below.WaterWatchWaterQualityWatchGroundwater WatchWaterNowWaterAlertUSGS Flood Inundation...
Hyperspectral versus multispectral crop-productivity modeling and type discrimination for the HyspIRI mission
Isabella Mariotto, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Alfredo Huete, E. Terrence Slonecker, Alexander Platonov
2013, Remote Sensing of Environment (139) 291-305
Precise monitoring of agricultural crop biomass and yield quantities is critical for crop production management and prediction. The goal of this study was to compare hyperspectral narrowband (HNB) versus multispectral broadband (MBB) reflectance data in studying irrigated cropland characteristics of five leading world crops (cotton, wheat, maize, rice, and alfalfa) with...
Physical, chemical, and isotopic data from groundwater in the watershed of Mirror Lake, and in the vicinity of Hubbard Brook, near West Thornton, New Hampshire, 1983 to 1997
James W. LaBaugh, Philip T. Harte, Allen M. Shapiro, Paul A. Hsieh, Carole D. Johnson, Daniel J. Goode, Warren W. Wood, Donald C. Buso, Gene E. Likens, Thomas C. Winter
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1087
Research on the hydrogeologic setting of Mirror Lake near West Thornton, New Hampshire (43° 56.5’ N, 71° 41.5’ W), includes the study of the physical, chemical, and isotopic characteristics of groundwater in the vicinity of the lake and nearby Hubbard Brook. Presented here are those physical, chemical, and isotopic data...
Odor-conditioned rheotaxis of the sea lamprey: Modeling, analysis and validation
Jongeun Choi, Soo Jean, Nicholas S. Johnson, Cory O. Brant, Weiming Li
2013, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics (8)
Mechanisms for orienting toward and locating an odor source are sought in both biology and engineering. Chemical ecology studies have demonstrated that adult female sea lamprey show rheotaxis in response to a male pheromone with dichotomous outcomes: sexually mature females locate the source of the pheromone whereas immature females swim...
Detection of salt marsh vegetation stress and recovery after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Barataria Bay, Gulf of Mexico using AVIRIS data
Shruti Khanna, Maria J. Santos, Susan L. Ustin, Alexander Koltunov, Raymond F. Kokaly, Dar A. Roberts
2013, PLoS ONE (8)
The British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the biggest oil spill in US history. To assess the impact of the oil spill on the saltmarsh plant community, we examined Advanced Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data flown over Barataria Bay, Louisiana in September 2010...
Principal facts and an approach to collecting gravity data using near-real-time observations in the vicinity of Barstow, California
G. Phelps, C. Cronkite-Ratcliff, L. Klofas
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1264
A gravity survey was done in the vicinity of Barstow, California, in which data were processed and analyzed in the field. The purpose of the data collection was to investigate possible changes in gravity across mapped Quaternary faults and to improve regional gravity coverage, adding to the existing national gravity...
Asian carp behavior in response to static water gun firing
Megan J. Layhee, Jackson A. Gross, Michael J. Parsley, Jason G. Romine, David C. Glover, Cory D. Suski, Tristany L. Wagner, Adam Sepulveda, Robert E. Gresswell
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3098
The potential for invasion of Asian carp into the Great Lakes has ecological and socio-economic implications. If they become established, Asian carp are predicted to alter lake ecosystems and impact commercial and recreational fisheries. The Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal is an important biological conduit between the Mississippi River Basin,...
Recent lake ice-out phenology within and among lake districts of Alaska, U.S.A.
Christopher D. Arp, Benjamin M. Jones, Guido Grosse
2013, Limnology and Oceanography (58) 2013-2028
The timing of ice-out in high latitudes is a fundamental threshold for lake ecosystems and an indicator of climate change. In lake-rich regions, the loss of ice cover also plays a key role in landscape and climatic processes. Thus, there is a need to understand lake ice phenology at multiple...
Hydrographic surveys of four narrows within the Namakan reservoir system, Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, 2011
Brenda K. Densmore, Kellan R. Strauch, Jeffrey R. Ziegeweid
2013, Data Series 792
The U.S. Geological Survey performed multibeam echosounder hydrographic surveys of four narrows in the Namakan reservoir system in August 2011, in cooperation with the International Joint Commission and Environment Canada. The data-collection effort was completed to provide updated and detailed hydrographic data to Environment Canada for inclusion in a Hydrologic...
Plant invasions in protected areas of tropical pacific islands, with special reference to Hawaii
R. Flint Hughes, Jean-Yves Meyer, Lloyd L. Loope
2013, Book chapter, Plant Invasions in Protected Areas
Isolated tropical islands are notoriously vulnerable to plant invasions. Serious management for protection of native biodiversity in Hawaii began in the 1970s, arguably at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Concerted alien plant management began there in the 1980s and has in a sense become a model for protected areas throughout Hawaii...
Reconnaissance investigation of the rough diamond resource potential and production capacity of Côte d’Ivoire
Peter G. Chirico, Katherine C. Malpeli
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5185
Ethnic and political conflict developed into open civil war in Côte d’Ivoire in 2002, leading to a de facto partitioning of the country into the government-controlled south and the rebel-controlled north. Côte d’Ivoire’s two main diamond mining areas, Séguéla and Tortiya, are located in the north, under what was, until...
Large scale snow water status monitoring: Comparison of different snow water products in the upper Colorado basins
G. A. Artan, J. P. Verdin, R. Lietzow
2013, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (17) 5127-5139
We illustrate the ability to monitor the status of snow water content over large areas by using a spatially distributed snow accumulation and ablation model that uses data from a weather forecast model in the upper Colorado Basin. The model was forced with precipitation fields from the National Weather Service...
Magnetotelluric survey to locate the Archean-Proterozoic suture zone in the northeastern Great Basin, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho
Jay A. Sampson, Brian D. Rodriguez
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1252
North-central Nevada contains a large amount of gold in linear belts, the origin of which is not fully understood. During July 2008, September 2009, and August 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey, as part of the Assessment Techniques for Concealed Mineral Resources project, collected twenty-three magnetotelluric soundings along two profiles in...
Using isotopes for design and monitoring of artificial recharge systems
International Atomic Energy Agency
2013, IAEA TECDOC 1723
Over the past years, the IAEA has provided support to a number of Member States engaged in the implementation of hydrological projects dealing with the design and monitoring of artificial recharge ( A R ) systems, primarily situated in arid and semiarid regions. AR is defined as any engineered system...
North America
Mark D. Schwartz, Elisabeth G. Beaubien, Theresa Crimmins, Jake Weltzin
Mark D. Schwartz, editor(s)
2013, Book chapter, Phenology: An integrative environmental science
Plant phenological observations and networks in North America have been largely local and regional in extent until recent decades. In the USA, cloned plant monitoring networks were the exception to this pattern, with data collection spanning the late 1950s until approximately the early 1990s. Animal observation networks, especially for birds...
Estimating nitrate concentrations in groundwater at selected wells and springs in the surficial aquifer system and Upper Floridan aquifer, Dougherty Plain and Marianna Lowlands, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, 2002-50
Christy A. Crandall, Brian G. Katz, Marian P. Berndt
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5150
Groundwater from the surficial aquifer system and Upper Floridan aquifer in the Dougherty Plain and Marianna Lowlands in southwestern Georgia, northwestern Florida, and southeastern Alabama is affected by elevated nitrate concentrations as a result of the vulnerability of the aquifer, irrigation water-supply development, and intensive agricultural land use. The region...
Bedrock geologic and joint trend map of the Pinardville quadrangle, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
William C. Burton, Thomas R. Armstrong
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1027
The bedrock geology of the Pinardville quadrangle includes the Massabesic Gneiss Complex, exposed in the core of a regional northeast-trending anticlinorium, and highly deformed metasedimentary rocks of the Rangeley Formation, exposed along the northwest limb of the anticlinorium. Both formations were subjected to high-grade metamorphism and partial melting: the Rangeley...
Uniform California earthquake rupture forecast, version 3 (UCERF3): the time-independent model
Edward H. Field, Glenn P. Biasi, Peter Bird, Timothy E. Dawson, Karen R. Felzer, David D. Jackson, Kaj M. Johnson, Thomas H. Jordan, Christopher Madden, Andrew J. Michael, Kevin R. Milner, Morgan T. Page, Thomas Parsons, Peter M. Powers, Bruce E. Shaw, Wayne R. Thatcher, Ray J. Weldon II, Yuehua Zeng, Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1165
In this report we present the time-independent component of the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, Version 3 (UCERF3), which provides authoritative estimates of the magnitude, location, and time-averaged frequency of potentially damaging earthquakes in California. The primary achievements have been to relax fault segmentation assumptions and to include multifault ruptures,...
The music of earthquakes and Earthquake Quartet #1
Andrew J. Michael
2013, Book chapter, Konrad Smolenski's S.T.R.H.
Earthquake Quartet #1, my composition for voice, trombone, cello, and seismograms, is the intersection of listening to earthquakes as a seismologist and performing music as a trombonist. Along the way, I realized there is a close relationship between what I do as a scientist and what I do as...
Mercury speciation and mobilization in a wastewater-contaminated groundwater plume
Carl H. Lamborg, Doug B. Kent, Gretchen J. Swarr, Kathleen M. Munson, Tristan Kading, Alison E. O’Connor, Gillian M. Fairchild, Denis R. LeBlanc, Heather A. Wiatrowski
2013, Environmental Science & Technology (47) 13239-13249
We measured the concentration and speciation of mercury (Hg) in groundwater down-gradient from the site of wastewater infiltration beds operated by the Massachusetts Military Reservation, western Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Total mercury concentrations in oxic, mildly acidic, uncontaminated groundwater are 0.5–1 pM, and aquifer sediments have 0.5–1 ppb mercury. The plume...
Geomorphology and groundwater origin of amphitheater-shaped gullies at Fort Gordon, Georgia, 2010-2012
James Landmeyer, John B. Wellborn
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1230
Seven amphitheater-shaped gullies at valley heads in the northern part of Fort Gordon, Georgia, were identified by personnel from Fort Gordon and the U.S. Geological Survey during a field investigation of environmental contamination near the cantonment area between 2008 and 2010. Between 2010 and 2012, the amphitheater-shaped gullies were photographed,...
The effects of artificial recharge on groundwater levels and water quality in the west hydrogeologic unit of the Warren subbasin, San Bernardino County, California
Christina L. Stamos, Peter Martin, Rhett R. Everett, John A. Izbicki
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5088
Between the late 1940s and 1994, groundwater levels in the Warren subbasin, California, declined by as much as 300 feet because pumping exceeded sparse natural recharge. In response, the local water district, Hi-Desert Water District, implemented an artificial-recharge program in early 1995 using imported water from the California State Water...
The 3D Elevation Program: summary for California
William J. Carswell Jr.
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3056
Elevation data are essential to a broad range of applications, including forest resources management, wildlife and habitat management, national security, recreation, and many others. For the State of California, elevation data are critical for infrastructure and construction management; natural resources conservation; flood risk management; wildfire management, planning, and response; agriculture...
Geologic map of the Mount Sherman 7.5' quadrangle, Lake and Park Counties, Colorado
Robert G. Bohannon, Chester A. Ruleman
2013, Scientific Investigations Map 3271
The Mount Sherman 7.5- minute quadrangle is located along the crest of the Mosquito Range in between Leadville and Fairplay, Colorado. There are eleven 13,000-foot peaks and one fourteener, Mount Sherman, within the quadrangle. General elevations range from 10,400–14,036 feet (3,200–4,278 meters). The western half of the quadrangle primarily consists...
