Factors affecting the reproduction, recruitment, habitat, and population dynamics of pallid sturgeon and shovelnose sturgeon in the Missouri River
Carl E. Korschgen, editor(s)
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1262
For more than a hundred years, human activities have modified the natural forces that control the Missouri River and its native fish fauna. While the ecological effects of regulation and channel engineering are understood in general, the current understanding is not sufficient to guide river restoration and management. The U.S....
Characterization of Water Quality in Unmonitored Streams in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, Northwestern Mississippi, May-June 2006
Jeannie R. Bryson, Richard H. Coupe, Michael A. Manning
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5116
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is required to develop restoration and remediation plans for water bodies not meeting their designated uses, as stated in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water Act section 303(d). The majority of streams in northwestern Mississippi are on the 303(d) list of water-quality limited...
Maps of Quadrangle 3162, Chakhansur (603) and Kotalak (604) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1118
By selecting one of the four series options shown below, namely, -A, -B, -C, and -D for the geologic, topographic, Landsat natural-color, and Landsat false-color maps, respectively, the user will be taken to that map....
Chapter 8 Tool for monitoring hydrophilic contaminants in water: polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS)
David A. Alvarez, James N. Huckins, Jimmie D. Petty, Tammy L. Jones-Lepp, Frank Stuer-Lauridsen, Dominic T. Getting, Jon P. Goddard, Anthony Gravell
2007, Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry (48) 171-197
The development of the polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS) provides environmental scientists and policy makers a tool for assessing the presence and potential impacts of the hydrophilic component of these organic contaminants. The POCIS provides a means for determining the time-weighted average (TWA) concentrations of targeted chemicals that can...
Dycheia shergoldi, a new genus and species of Late Cambrian Multivalved Mollusc from Oklahoma, USA
J. Pojeta Jr., James R. Derby
2007, Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists (34) 489-497
A new mollusc from the Upper Cambrian Fort Sill Limestone of Oklahoma, U.S.A. is described. Dycheia shergoldi has at least two types of valves, but the total number of valves is unknown, because the species is known only from disarticulated specimens. The valves show various morphological similarities to Cambrian and...
Conceptual design of the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) grid
John W. Jones, Susan D. Price
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1200
The Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN) offers a consistent and documented dataset that can be used to guide large-scale field operations, to integrate hydrologic and ecological responses, and to support biological and ecological assessments that measure ecosystem responses to the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (Telis, 2006). Ground elevation data for...
Introduction to Regional Geology, Tectonics, and Metallogenesis of Northeast Asia
Leonid M. Parfenov, Gombosuren Badarch, Nikolai A. Berzin, Duk-Hwan Hwang, Alexander I. Khanchuk, Mikhail I. Kuzmin, Warren J. Nokleberg, Alexander O. Obolenskiy, Masatsugu Ogasawara, Andrei V. Prokopiev, Sergey M. Rodionov, Alexander P. Smelov, Hongquan Yan
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1183-A
Purpose This introduction presents an overview of the regional geology, tectonics, and metallogenesis of Northeast Asia. The major purposes are to provide a relatively short summary of these features for readers who are unfamiliar with Northeast Asia; a general scientific introduction for the succeeding chapters of this volume; and an overview...
Nitrogen isotopes as indicators of NOx source contributions to atmospheric nitrate deposition across the midwestern and northeastern United States
Emily M. Elliott, Carol Kendall, Scott D. Wankel, Douglas A. Burns, E.W. Boyer, K. Harlin, Daniel J Bain, T.J. Butler
2007, Environmental Science & Technology (41) 7661-7667
Global inputs of NOx are dominated by fossil fuel combustion from both stationary and vehicular sources and far exceed natural NOx sources. However, elucidating NOx sources to any given location remains a difficult challenge, despite the need for this information to develop sound regulatory and mitigation strategies. We present results from a regional-scale...
Historic Conditions of MacDill AFB, Tampa Bay, Florida: Pre-settlement Landscape
Ellen A. Raabe, Myra Schwarz
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1141
High-resolution topographic, bathymetric, and oceanographic data for the Pleasure Point area, Santa Cruz County, California: 2005-2007
Curt D. Storlazzi, Patrick L. Barnard, Brian D. Collins, David P. Finlayson, Nadine E. Golden, Gerry A. Hatcher, Robert E. Kayen, Peter Ruggiero
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1270
The County of Santa Cruz Department of Public Works and the County of Santa Cruz Redevelopment Agency requested the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team (WCMG) to provide baseline geologic and oceanographic information on the coast and inner shelf at Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz County, California....
Potentiometric Surface of the Upper Floridan Aquifer, West-Central Florida, September 2006
A.G. Ortiz
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1228
The Floridan aquifer system consists of the Upper and Lower Floridan aquifers separated by the middle confining unit. The middle confining unit and the Lower Floridan aquifer in west-central Florida generally contain highly mineralized water. The water-bearing units containing freshwater are herein referred to as the Upper Floridan aquifer. The...
Seabed ripple morphology and surficial sediment size at the SAX04 experiments near Fort Walton Beach, Florida, fall 2004
Daniel M. Hanes, Li H. Erikson, Jamie M.R. Lescinski, Jodi N. Harney, Carissa L. Carter, Gerry A. Hatcher, Jessica R. Lacy, David M. Rubin
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1232
Data presented in this report originates from measurements obtained off the Florida coast (fig. 1) as part of the Sediment Acoustics Experiment (SAX04) and Ripples Department Research Initiative (DRI) (Office of Naval Research (ONR), Critical Benthic Environmental Processes and Modeling, Long Range BAA 04-001, Sept. 10, 2003). The aim of...
A monthly water-balance model driven by a graphical user interface
Gregory J. McCabe, Steven L. Markstrom
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1088
This report describes a monthly water-balance model driven by a graphical user interface, referred to as the Thornthwaite monthly water-balance program. Computations of monthly water-balance components of the hydrologic cycle are made for a specified location. The program can be used as a research tool, an assessment tool, and a...
Methods and data used to investigate polonium-210 as a source of excess gross-alpha radioactivity in ground water, Churchill County, Nevada
Ralph L. Seiler
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1231
Ground water is the major source of drinking water in the Carson River Basin, California and Nevada. Previous studies have shown that uranium and gross-alpha radioactivities in ground water can be greater than U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Maximum Contaminant Levels, particularly in the Carson Desert, Churchill County, Nevada. Studies also...
Geographic information systems, remote sensing, and spatial analysis activities in Texas, 2002-07
D.K. Pearson, R.H. Gary, Z.D. Wilson
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3076
Geographic information system (GIS) technology has become an important tool for scientific investigation, resource management, and environmental planning. A GIS is a computer-aided system capable of collecting, storing, analyzing, and displaying spatially referenced digital data. GIS technology is particularly useful when analyzing a wide variety of spatial data such as...
Geologic, Geophysical and Mineral Localities Map of Liberia: A Digital Compilation
Ronald R. Wahl
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1258
Geophysical analysis of the Salmon Peak Formation near Amistad Reservoir Dam, Val Verde County, Texas, and Coahuila, Mexico, March 2006, to aid in piezometer placement
Gregory P. Stanton, Wade H. Kress, Andrew Teeple, Michael L. Greenslate, Allan K. Clark
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5143
Since 1992, numerous sinkholes have developed northwest of the Amistad Reservoir dam on the Rio Grande. Increases in the discharge of springs south of the dam, on the western side of the Rio Grande, in Coahuila, Mexico, have been documented. In 1995 the Mexico Section of the International Boundary and...
Geologic Map of the Pueblo of Isleta Tribal Lands and Vicinity, Bernalillo, Torrance, and Valencia Counties, Central New Mexico
Florian Maldonado, Janet L. Slate, Dave W. Love, Sean D. Connell, J. C. Cole, Karl E. Karlstrom
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2913
This 1:50,000-scale map compiles geologic mapping of the Pueblo of Isleta tribal lands and vicinity in the central part of the Albuquerque Basin in central New Mexico. The map synthesizes new geologic mapping and summarizes the stratigraphy, structure, and geomorphology of an area of approximately 2,000 km2 that spans the...
Geospatial database of ground-water altitude and depth-to-ground-water data for Utah, 1971-2000
Susan G. Buto, Brent E. Jorgensen
2007, Data Series 302
A geospatial database of ground-water-level altitude and depth-to-ground-water data for Utah was developed. Water-level contours from selected published reports were converted to digital Geographic Information System format and attributes describing the contours were added. Water-level altitude values were input to an inverse distance weighted interpolator to create a...
Alteration Map Showing Major Faults and Veins and Associated Water-Quality Signatures of the Animas River Watershed Headwaters Near Silverton, Southwest Colorado
Dana J. Bove, Douglas B. Yager, M. Alisa Mast, J. Brad Dalton
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2976
This map was produced to provide hard-copy and digital data for alteration assemblages in the historical mining area centered on the Tertiary San Juan and Silverton calderas. The data have direct application to geoenvironmental and mineral exploration objectives. This dataset represents alteration mapping for the upper Animas River watershed near Silverton,...
Rotational seismology: AGU session, working group, and website
William H.K. Lee, Heiner Igel, Maria I. Todorovska, John R. Evans
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1263
Introduction Although effects of rotational motions due to earthquakes have long been observed (e. g., Mallet, 1862), nevertheless Richter (1958, p. 213) stated that: 'Perfectly general motion would also involve rotations about three perpendicular axes, and three more instruments for these. Theory indicates, and observation confirms, that such rotations are negligible.'...
Chemical constituents in sediment in Lake Pontchartrain and in street mud and canal sediment in New Orleans, Louisiana, following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 2005
Peter C. Van Metre, Jennifer T. Wilson, Arthur J. Horowitz, Stanley C. Skrobialowski, William T. Foreman, Christopher C. Fuller, Mark R. Burkhardt, Kent A. Elrick, Barbara Mahler, James J. Smith, Steven D. Zaugg
2007, Data Series 206
Samples of street mud, suspended and bottom sediment in canals discharging to Lake Ponchartrain, and suspended and bottom sediment in the lake were collected and analyzed for chemical constituents to help evaluate the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the subsequent unwatering of New Orleans, Louisiana. The approach used...
Multiple-Objective Stepwise Calibration Using Luca
Lauren E. Hay, Makiko Umemoto
2007, Open-File Report 2006-1323
This report documents Luca (Let us calibrate), a multiple-objective, stepwise, automated procedure for hydrologic model calibration and the associated graphical user interface (GUI). Luca is a wizard-style user-friendly GUI that provides an easy systematic way of building and executing a calibration procedure. The calibration procedure uses the Shuffled Complex Evolution...
Analysis of flood-magnitude and flood-frequency data for streamflow-gaging stations in the Delaware and North Branch Susquehanna River Basins in Pennsylvania
Mark A. Roland, Marla H. Stuckey
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1235
The Delaware and North Branch Susquehanna River Basins in Pennsylvania experienced severe flooding as a result of intense rainfall during June 2006. The height of the flood waters on the rivers and tributaries approached or exceeded the peak of record at many locations. Updated flood-magnitude and flood-frequency data for streamflow-gaging...
Science Review for the Scott Bar Salamander (Plethodon asupak) and the Siskiyou Mountains Salamander (P. stormi): Biology, Taxonomy, Habitat, and Detection Probabilities/Occupancy
Douglas J. DeGross, R. Bruce Bury
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1352
The Plethodon elongatus Complex in the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion of southern Oregon and northern California includes three species: the Del Norte salamander, Plethodon elongatus; the Siskiyou Mountains salamander, P. stormi; and the Scott Bar salamander, P. asupak. This review aims to summarize the current literature and information available on select topics...
