Development of a bioenergetics model for age-0 American Shad
Sally T. Sauter
2011, Report, Impact of American Shad in the Columbia River
Bioenergetics modeling can be used as a tool to investigate the impact of non-native age-0 American shad (Alosa sapidissima) on reservoir and estuary food webs. The model can increase our understanding of how these fish influence lower trophic levels as well as predatory fish populations that feed on juvenile salmonids....
Diet of juvenile and adult American Shad in the Columbia River
Sally T. Sauter, Michael J. Parsen, J. Timothy Blubaugh
2011, Report, Impact of American shad in the Columbia River. Final Report Performance Period: May 1, 2007 – January 15, 2011.
The diet of juvenile and adult American shad Alosa sapidissima captured from various locations in the Columbia River was investigated during 2007 and 2008. Collection efforts in 2007 were restricted to fish collected from existing adult and juvenile fish collection facilities located at Bonneville Dam and to adult shad captured...
Climate change links fate of glaciers and an endemic alpine invertebrate
Clint C. Muhlfeld, J. Joseph Giersch, F. Richard Hauer, Gregory T. Pederson, Gordon Luikart, Douglas P. Peterson, Christopher C. Downs, Daniel B. Fagre
2011, Climatic Change (106) 337-345
Climate warming in the mid- to high-latitudes and high-elevation mountainous regions is occurring more rapidly than anywhere else on Earth, causing extensive loss of glaciers and snowpack. However, little is known about the effects of climate change on alpine stream biota, especially invertebrates. Here, we show a strong linkage between...
Growth characteristics and otolith analysis on age-0 American shad
Sally T. Sauter, Lisa A. Wetzel
2011, Book chapter, Growth characteristics and otolith analysis on age-0 American shad
Otolith microstructure analysis provides useful information on the growth history of fish (Campana and Jones 1992, Bang and Gronkjaer 2005). Microstructure analysis can be used to construct the size-at-age growth trajectory of fish, determine daily growth rates, and estimate hatch date and other ecologically important life history events (Campana and...
Effects of dams in river networks on fish assemblages in non-impoundment sections of rivers in Michigan and Wisconsin, USA
Jana S. Stewart, Lizhu Wang, Dana M. Infante, John D. Lyons, Arthur Cooper
2011, River Research and Applications (27) 473-487
Regional assessment of cumulative impacts of dams on riverine fish assemblages provides resource managers essential information for dam operation, potential dam removal, river health assessment and overall ecosystem management. Such an assessment is challenging because characteristics of fish assemblages are not only affected by dams, but also influenced by natural...
Review and interpretation of previous work and new data on the hydrogeology of the Schwartzwalder Uranium Mine and vicinity, Jefferson County, Colorado
Jonathan S. Caine, Raymond H. Johnson, Emily C. Wild
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1092
The Schwartzwalder deposit is the largest known vein type uranium deposit in the United States. Located about eight miles northwest of Golden, Colorado it occurs in Proterozoic metamorphic rocks and was formed by hydrothermal fluid flow, mineralization, and deformation during the Laramide Orogeny. A complex brittle fault zone hosts the...
Southeast Ecological Science Center: Who we are, what we do
R.J. Pawlitz
2011, General Information Product 120
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Southeast Ecological Science Center (SESC) is a research center that studies the biology and ecology of aquatic environments in the United States and around the world. This brochure offers a glimpse of the diverse issues addressed by SESC researchers....
Sediment toxicity test results for the Urban Waters Study 2010, Bellingham Bay, Washington
James M. Biedenbach
2011, Data Series 591
The Washington Department of Ecology annually determines the quality of recently deposited sediments in Puget Sound as a part of Ecology's Urban Waters Initiative. The annual sediment quality studies use the Sediment Quality Triad (SQT) approach, thus relying on measures of chemical contamination, toxicity, and benthic in-faunal effects (Chapman, 1990)....
Geospatial characteristics of Florida's coastal and offshore environments: Administrative and political boundaries and offshore sand resources
Amanda W.J. Demopoulos, Ann M. Foster, Michal L. Jones, Daniel J. Gualtieri
2011, Scientific Investigations Map 3115
The Geospatial Characteristics Geopdf of Florida's Coastal and Offshore Environments is a comprehensive collection of geospatial data describing the political and natural resources of Florida. This interactive map provides spatial information on bathymetry, sand resources, military areas, marine protected areas, cultural resources, locations of submerged cables, and shipping routes. The...
Review of samples of tailings, soils, and stream sediments adjacent to and downstream from the Ruth Mine, Inyo County, California
James J. Rytuba, Christopher S. Kim, Daniel N. Goldstein
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1105
The Ruth Mine and mill are located in the western Mojave Desert in Inyo County, California (fig. 1). The mill processed gold-silver (Au-Ag) ores mined from the Ruth Au-Ag deposit, which is adjacent to the mill site. The Ruth Au-Ag deposit is hosted in Mesozoic intrusive rocks and is similar...
A comparison of mercury burdens between St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and St. Andrew Bay, Florida: Evaluation of fish body burdens and physiological responses in largemouth bass, spotted seatrout, striped mullet, and sunfish
D.H. Huge, R.H. Rauschenberger, F.M. Wieser, J.M. Hemming
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1056
Musculature from the dorsal region of 130 largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), 140 sunfish (Lepomis sp.), 41 spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) and 67 striped mullet (Mugil cephalus) were collected from five estuarine and five freshwater sites within the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and two estuarine and two freshwater sites from...
2009 Spring floods in North Dakota, western Minnesota, and northeastern South Dakota
Kathleen M. Macek-Rowland, Tara A. Gross
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5225
In 2009, record-breaking snowfalls and additional spring moisture caused severe flooding in parts of the Missouri River and Red River of the North (Red River) Basins in North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota. There were 48 peak of record stages and 36 discharges recorded at U.S. Geological Survey streamgages located...
Two-dimensional streamflow simulations of the Jordan River, Midvale and West Jordan, Utah
Terry A. Kenney, Michael L. Freeman
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5043
The Jordan River in Midvale and West Jordan, Utah, flows adjacent to two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites: Midvale Slag and Sharon Steel. At both sites, geotechnical caps extend to the east bank of the river. The final remediation tasks for these sites included the replacement of a historic...
Data network, collection, and analysis in the Diamond Valley flow system, central Nevada
Lari A. Knochenmus, David L. Berger, Michael T. Moreo, J. LaRue Smith
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1089
Future groundwater development and its effect on future municipal, irrigation, and alternative energy uses in the Diamond Valley flow system are of concern for officials in Eureka County, Nevada. To provide a better understanding of the groundwater resources, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Eureka County, commenced a multi-phase...
Status of groundwater quality in the Southern, Middle, and Northern Sacramento Valley study units, 2005-08: California GAMA Priority Basin Project
George L. Bennett V, Miranda S. Fram, Kenneth Belitz
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5002
Groundwater quality in the Southern, Middle, and Northern Sacramento Valley study units was investigated as part of the Priority Basin Project of the Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program. The study units are located in California’s Central Valley and include parts of Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Placer, Sacramento, Shasta, Solano,...
Floristic Quality Index: An assessment tool for restoration projects and monitoring sites in coastal Louisiana
K.F. Cretini, G.D. Steyer
2011, Fact Sheet 2011-3044
The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) program was established to assess the effectiveness of individual coastal restoration projects and the cumulative effects of multiple projects at regional and coastwide scales. In order to make these assessments, analytical teams have been assembled for each of the primary data types sampled under...
Groundwater quality in the Southern Sacramento Valley, California
George L. Bennett V, Miranda S. Fram, Kenneth Belitz
2011, Fact Sheet 2011-3006
Groundwater provides more than 40 percent of California's drinking water. To protect this vital resource, the State of California created the Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program. The Priority Basin Project of the GAMA Program provides a comprehensive assessment of the State's groundwater quality and increases public access to...
Design and evaluation of a field study on the contamination of selected volatile organic compounds and wastewater-indicator compounds in blanks and groundwater samples
Susan A. Thiros, David A. Bender, David K. Mueller, Donna L. Rose, Lisa D. Olsen, Jeffrey D. Martin, Bruce Bernard, John S. Zogorski
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5027
The Field Contamination Study (FCS) was designed to determine the field processes that tend to result in clean field blanks and to identify potential sources of contamination to blanks collected in the field from selected volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and wastewater-indicator compounds (WICs). The VOCs and WICs analyzed in the...
Results of an evaluation of the effectiveness of chlorine dioxide as a disinfectant for onsite household sewage treatment systems
Christopher M. Kephart, Donald M. Stoeckel
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1096
EAARL Coastal Topography--Cape Canaveral, Florida, 2009: First Surface
J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, Amar Nayegandhi, Nathaniel Plant, C. W. Wright, D.B. Nagle, K.S. Serafin, E.S. Klipp
2011, Data Series 585
These remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements of lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography datasets were produced collaboratively by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, FL, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Kennedy Space Center, FL. This project provides highly detailed and...
Fractal analysis of the Navassa Island seascape
David G. Zawada
2011, Data Series 592
This release provides the numerical results of the fractal analyses discussed in Zawada and others (2010) for the Navassa Island reefscape. The project represents the continuation of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research effort begun in 2006 (Zawada and others, 2006) to understand the patterns and scalability of roughness and...
Groundwater quality in the Northern Sacramento Valley, California
George L. Bennett V, Miranda S. Fram, Kenneth Belitz
2011, Fact Sheet 2011-3004
Groundwater provides more than 40 percent of California's drinking water. To protect this vital resource, the State of California created the Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program. The Priority Basin Project of the GAMA Program provides a comprehensive assessment of the State's groundwater quality and increases public access to...
CRMS vegetation analytical team framework: Methods for collection, development, and use of vegetation response variables
Kari F. Cretini, Jenneke M. Visser, Ken W. Krauss, Gregory D. Steyer
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1097
This document identifies the main objectives of the Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) vegetation analytical team, which are to provide (1) collection and development methods for vegetation response variables and (2) the ways in which these response variables will be used to evaluate restoration project effectiveness. The vegetation parameters (that...
Groundwater quality in the Middle Sacramento Valley, California
George L. Bennett V, Miranda S. Fram, Kenneth Belitz
2011, Fact Sheet 2011-3005
Use of a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model to evaluate extreme flooding and transport of dissolved solids through Devils Lake and Stump Lake, North Dakota, 2006
Rochelle A. Nustad, Tamara M. Wood, Jerad D. Bales
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5035
The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the North Dakota Department of Transportation, North Dakota State Water Commission, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, developed a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model of Devils Lake and Stump Lake, North Dakota to be used as a hydrologic tool for evaluating the effects of different...
