Results of laboratory testing for diphacinone in seawater, fish, invertebrates, and soil following aerial application of rodenticide on Lehua Island, Kauai County, Hawaii, January 2009
Carl E. Orazio, Michael J. Tanner, Chris Swenson, Jeffrey J. Herod, Peter Dunlevy, Robert W. Gale
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1142
In January 2009, rodenticide bait (Ramik Green pellets) containing the active ingredient diphacinone was aerially applied to Lehua Island. Reported herein are the results of laboratory analyses to determine diphacinone concentrations in samples of seawater, fillet of fish, soft tissue of limpets (opihi), whole-body crabs, and soil collected from Lehua...
Preliminary study of the effect of the proposed Long Lake Valley project operation on the transport of larval suckers in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon
Tamara M. Wood
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1060
A hydrodynamic model of Upper Klamath and Agency Lakes, Oregon, was used to explore the effects of the operation of proposed offstream storage at Long Lake Valley on transport of larval suckers through the Upper Klamath and Agency Lakes system during May and June, when larval fish leave spawning sites...
Quality of Shallow Groundwater and Drinking Water in the Mississippi Embayment-Texas Coastal Uplands Aquifer System and the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, South-Central United States, 1994-2004
Heather L. Welch, James A. Kingsbury, Roland W. Tollett, Ronald C. Seanor
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5091
The Mississippi embayment-Texas coastal uplands aquifer system is an important source of drinking water, providing about 724 million gallons per day to about 8.9 million people in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Alabama. The Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer ranks third in the Nation for total...
Occurrence of Selected Organic Compounds in Groundwater Used for Public Supply in the Plio-Pleistocene Deposits in East-Central Nebraska and the Dawson and Denver Aquifers near Denver, Colorado, 2002-2004
Jeffrey B. Bails, Benjamin J. Dietsch, Matthew K. Landon, Suzanne S. Paschke
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5243
The National Water-Quality Assessment Program of the U.S. Geological Survey has an ongoing Source Water-Quality Assessment program designed to characterize the quality of water in aquifers used as a source of drinking-water supply for some of the largest metropolitan areas in the Nation. In addition to the sampling of the...
Evaluation of hazardous faults in the intermountain west region: Summary and recommendations of a workshop
Anthony J. Crone, Kathleen M. Haller, Joseph Z. Maharrey
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1140
The U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP) has the responsibility to provide nationwide information and knowledge about earthquakes and earthquake hazards as a step to mitigating earthquake-related losses. As part of this mission, USGS geologists and geophysicists continue to study faults and structures that have the potential to...
Table Rock Lake Water-Clarity Assessment Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Satellite Data
Gary Krizanich, Michael P. Finn
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5162
Water quality of Table Rock Lake in southwestern Missouri is assessed using Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite data. A pilot study uses multidate satellite image scenes in conjunction with physical measurements of secchi disk transparency collected by the Lakes of Missouri Volunteer Program to construct a regression model used to estimate...
Protecting Hawaii's forests from harm: an argument for strong measures to prevent arrival of pests of Hawaii's Myrtle family
Lloyd Loope, Anne Marie La Rosa
Michelle M. Cram, editor(s)
2009, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7.03.04: Diseases and insects in forest nurseries
No abstract available....
Assessment of the short-term radiometric stability between Terra MODIS and Landsat 7 ETM+ sensors
Taeyoung Choi, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Gyanesh Chander, A. Angal
2009, Conference Paper, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2009 IEEE International, IGARSS 2009
Short-term radiometric stability was evaluated using continuous ETM+ scenes within a single orbit (contact period) and the corresponding MODIS scenes for the four matching solar reflective visible and near-infrared (VNIR) band pairs between the two sensors. The near-simultaneous earth observations were limited by the smaller swath size of ETM+ (183...
Forest and forestry insect pests in Hawaii: past, present, and future
Patrick Contant, Robert Hauff, Lloyd Loope, Cynthia King
Michelle M. Cram, editor(s)
2009, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7.03.04: Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries
Comparison of ASTER- and AVIRIS-derived mineral and vegetation maps of the White Horse replacement alunite deposit and surrounding area, Marysvale volcanic field, Utah
Barnaby W. Rockwell
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5117
This report presents and compares mineral and vegetation maps of parts of the Marysvale volcanic field in west-central Utah that were published in a recent paper describing the White Horse replacement alunite deposit. Detailed, field-verified maps of the deposit were produced from Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data acquired from...
Beaches
Bruce M. Richmond
2009, Book chapter, Encyclopedia of Islands
Beaches are shoreline accumulations of loose sand, gravel or a mixture of the two, that are formed primarily by the action of waves. Beach sediment can be derived from a variety of sources including insular shelves, the adjacent land and upland sources, or other beach locations through alongshore movement of...
Bos grunniens and Bos mutus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae)
David M. Leslie Jr., George B. Schaller
2009, Mammalian Species (836) 1-17
Bos grunniens Linnaeus, 1766, and Bos mutus (Przewalski, 1883) are the domestic and wild forms, respectively, of the bovid commonly called the yak. B. mutus inhabits remote high-elevation alpine meadows and alpine steppe in rolling to mountainous terrain in the Tibetan Plateau, and B. grunniens is maintained widely in China...
The National Map - Orthoimagery
James Mauck, Kim Brown, William J. Carswell Jr.
2009, Fact Sheet 2009-3055
Orthorectified digital aerial photographs and satellite images of 1-meter (m) pixel resolution or finer make up the orthoimagery component of The National Map. The process of orthorectification removes feature displacements and scale variations caused by terrain relief and sensor geometry. The result is a combination of the image characteristics of...
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) Data Processing Manual
Jamie M. Bonisteel, Amar Nayegandhi, C. Wayne Wright, John Brock, David Nagle
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1078
The Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) is an example of a Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) system that utilizes a blue-green wavelength (532 nanometers) to determine the distance to an object. The distance is determined by recording the travel time of a transmitted pulse at the speed of light...
Selected metals in sediments and streams in the Oklahoma Part of the Tri-State Mining District, 2000-2006
William J. Andrews, Mark F. Becker, Shana L. Mashburn, S. Jerrod Smith
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5032
The abandoned Tri-State mining district includes 1,188 square miles in northeastern Oklahoma, southeastern Kansas, and southwestern Missouri. The most productive part of the Tri-State mining district was the 40-square mile part in Oklahoma, commonly referred to as 'the Picher mining district' in north-central Ottawa County, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma part of...
The National Map - Elevation
Dean Gesch, Gayla Evans, James Mauck, John Hutchinson, William J. Carswell Jr.
2009, Fact Sheet 2009-3053
The National Elevation Dataset (NED) is the primary elevation data product produced and distributed by the USGS. The NED provides seamless raster elevation data of the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the island territories. The NED is derived from diverse source data sets that are processed to a specification...
Groundwater restoration at uranium in-situ recovery mines, south Texas coastal plain
Susan Hall
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1143
This talk was presented by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geologist Susan Hall on May 11, 2009, at the Uranium 2009 conference in Keystone, Colorado, and on May 12, 2009, as part of an underground injection control track presentation at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Environmental Trade Fair and...
Report of the River Master of the Delaware River for the period December 1, 2003-November 30, 2004
Bruce E. Krejmas, Gary N. Paulachok, Stephen F. Blanchard
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1065
A Decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, entered in 1954, established the position of Delaware River Master within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In addition, the Decree authorizes diversions of water from the Delaware River Basin and requires compensating releases from certain reservoirs, owned by New York...
Performance of Traditional and Molecular Methods for Detecting Biological Agents in Drinking Water
Donna S. Francy, Rebecca N. Bushon, Amie M. G. Brady, Erin E. Bertke, Christopher M. Kephart, Christina A. Likirdopulos, Brian E. Mailot, Frank W. Schaefer III, H.D. Alan Lindquist
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5097
To reduce the impact from a possible bioterrorist attack on drinking-water supplies, analytical methods are needed to rapidly detect the presence of biological agents in water. To this end, 13 drinking-water samples were collected at 9 water-treatment plants in Ohio to assess the performance of a molecular method in comparison...
Decision Support System for Evaluation of Gunnison River Flow Regimes With Respect To Resources of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Gregor T. Auble, Mark Wondzell, Colin Talbert
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1126
This report describes and documents a decision support system for the Gunnison River in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. It is a macro-embedded EXCEL program that calculates and displays indicators representing valued characteristics or processes in the Black Canyon based on daily flows of the Gunnison River. The...
The National Coal Resource Assessment Overview
Brenda S. Pierce, Kristin O. Dennen
2009, Professional Paper 1625-F
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has completed the National Coal Resource Assessment (NCRA), a multiyear project by the USGS Energy Resources Program, in partnership with State geological surveys in the coal producing regions of the United States. The NCRA is the first digital national coal-resource assessment. Coal beds and zones...
The National Map - Hydrography
Jeffrey D. Simley, William J. Carswell Jr.
2009, Fact Sheet 2009-3054
The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is the surface-water component of The National Map. The NHD is a comprehensive set of digital spatial data that represents the surface water of the United States using common features such as lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, canals, streamgages, and dams. Polygons are used to represent...
Report of the River Master of the Delaware River for the period December 1, 2002-November 30, 2003
Bruce E. Krejmas, Gary N. Paulachok, Stephen F. Blanchard
2009, Open-File Report 2008-1372
A Decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, entered in 1954, established the position of Delaware River Master within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In addition, the Decree authorizes diversions of water from the Delaware River Basin and requires compensating releases from certain reservoirs, owned by New York...
Framework for a U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Climate-Response Program in Maine
Glenn A. Hodgkins, Robert M. Lent, Robert W. Dudley, Charles W. Schalk
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1115
This report presents a framework for a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) hydrologic climate-response program designed to provide early warning of changes in the seasonal water cycle of Maine. Climate-related hydrologic changes on Maine's rivers and lakes in the winter and spring during the last century are well documented, and several...
Reconnaissance of Organic Wastewater Compounds at a Concentrated Swine Feeding Operation in the North Carolina Coastal Plain, 2008
Stephen L. Harden
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1128
Water-quality and hydrologic data were collected during 2008 to examine the occurrence of organic wastewater compounds at a concentrated swine feeding operation located in the North Carolina Coastal Plain. Continuous groundwater level and stream-stage data were collected at one monitoring well and one stream site, respectively, throughout 2008. One round...
