Phage therapy for Florida corals?
Christina A. Kellogg
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3065
Coral disease is a major cause of reef decline in the Florida Keys. Bacterium has been defined as the most common pathogen (disease-causing organism). Although much is being done to catalog coral diseases, map their locations, determine the causes of disease, or measure the rates of coral demise, very little...
Analysis of ground-water flow in the Madison aquifer using fluorescent dyes injected in Spring Creek and Rapid Creek near Rapid City, South Dakota, 2003-04
Larry D. Putnam, Andrew J. Long
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5137
The Madison aquifer, which contains fractures and solution openings in the Madison Limestone, is used extensively for water supplies for the city of Rapid City and other suburban communities in the Rapid City, S. Dak., area. The 48 square-mile study area includes the west-central and southwest parts of Rapid City...
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation. 19. Leaching characteristics of composited materials from mine waste-rock piles and naturally altered areas near Questa, New Mexico
Kathleen S. Smith, Philip L. Hageman, Paul H. Briggs, Stephen J. Sutley, R. Blaine McCleskey, K. Eric Livo, Philip L. Verplanck, Monique G. Adams, Pamela A. Gemery-Hill
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5165
The goal of this study is to compare and contrast the leachability of metals and the acidity from individual mine waste-rock piles and natural erosional scars in the study area near Questa, New Mexico. Surficial multi-increment (composite) samples less than 2 millimeters in diameter from five waste-rock piles, nine erosional-scar...
Bathymetry and Geology of the Floor of Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana
L. A. Morgan, Wayne C. Shanks, G. K. Lee, M. W. Webring
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2973
High-resolution, multi-beam sonar mapping of Yellowstone Lake was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in conjunction with the National Park Service from 1999 to 2002. Yellowstone Lake is the largest high-altitude lake in North America, at an altitude of 2,357 m with a surface area of 341 km2. More than...
External Quality Assurance Programs Managed by the U.S. Geological Survey in Support of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/Mercury Deposition Network
Natalie E. Latysh, Gregory A. Wetherbee
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1170
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Branch of Quality Systems operates external quality assurance programs for the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/Mercury Deposition Network (NADP/MDN). Beginning in 2004, three programs have been implemented: the system blank program, the interlaboratory comparison program, and the blind audit program. Each program was designed to measure...
Regionalized equations for bankfull discharge and channel characteristics of streams in New York State — Hydrologic Regions 1 and 2 in the Adirondack Region of northern New York
Christiane I. Mulvihill, Amy Filopowicz, Arthur Coleman, Barry P. Baldigo
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5189
Equations that relate drainage area to bankfull discharge and channel characteristics (width, depth, and cross-sectional area) at gaged sites are needed to define bankfull-discharge and channel characteristics at ungaged sites and to provide information for watershed assessments, stream-channel classification, and design of stream-restoration projects. Such equations are most accurate if...
Klamath Basin: A watershed approach to support habitat restoration, species recovery, and water resource planning
S. P. VanderKooi, L. Thorsteinson
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3068
Water allocation among human and natural resource uses in the American West is challenging. Western rivers have been largely managed for hydropower, irrigation, drinking water, and navigation. Today land and water use practices have gained importance, particularly as aging dams are faced with re-licensing requirements and provisions of the Endangered...
Maps of Quadrangle 3366, Gizab (513) and Nawer (514) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1111
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Maps of Quadrangle 3364, Pasa-Band (417) and Kejran (418) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1110
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Otolith research for Puget Sound
K. Larsen, R. Reisenbichler
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3042
Otoliths are hard structures located in the brain cavity of fish. These structures are formed by a buildup of calcium carbonate within a gelatinous matrix that produces light and dark bands similar to the growth rings in trees. The width of the bands corresponds to environmental factors such as temperature...
Land Cover Applications, Landscape Dynamics, and Global Change
Larry L. Tieszen
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3040
The Land Cover Applications, Landscape Dynamics, and Global Change project at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) seeks to integrate remote sensing and simulation models to better understand and seek solutions to national and global issues. Modeling processes related to population impacts, natural resource...
Maps of Quadrangle 3362, Shin-Dand (415) and Tulak (416) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1109
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Assessment of groundwater input and water quality changes impacting natural vegetation in the Loxahatchee River and floodplain ecosystem, Florida
William H. Orem, Peter W. Swarzenski, Benjamin F. McPherson, Marion Hedgepath, Harry E. Lerch, Christopher Reich, Arturo E. Torres, M.D. Corum, Richard E. Roberts
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1304
The Loxahatchee River and Estuary are small, shallow, water bodies located in southeastern Florida. Historically, the Northwest Branch (Fork) of the Loxahatchee River was primarily a freshwater system. In 1947, the river inlet at Jupiter was dredged for navigation and has remained permanently open since that time. Drainage patterns within...
Petroleum Systems and Geologic Assessment of Oil and Gas in the San Joaquin Basin Province, California
Allegra Hosford Scheirer, editor(s)
2007, Professional Paper 1713
In 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed an assessment of the oil and gas resource potential of the San Joaquin Basin Province of California. The assessment is based on the geologic elements of each Total Petroleum System defined in the province, including hydrocarbon source rocks (source-rock type and maturation...
Streamflow of 2006 -- Water Year Summary
Harry F. Lins
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3062
The maps and graphs appearing in this summary describe streamflow conditions for water-year 2006 (October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006) in the context of the 77-year period 1930-2006, unless otherwise noted. The illustrations are based on observed data from the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Streamflow Information Program. The...
Time scales and volumes of large ignimbrite-caldera eruptions in continental arc: Relation to assembly of subvolcanic batholiths
Peter W. Lipman
2007, Conference Paper, State of the Arc
Volcanoes and upper-crustal plutons in diverse geologic settings tend to share common features of mineral and chemical compositions, emplacement age, and magmatic volume. Voluminous silicic ignimbrites associated with caldera sources, widespread components of Cordilleran arcs, have commonly been interpreted as broadly concurrent with assembly of upper-crustal batholiths. Tertiary ignimbrites in...
Investigation of ground-water contamination at a drainage ditch, Installation Restoration Site 4, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, 2005–06
Don A. Vroblesky, Clifton C. Casey
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5155
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast, used newly developed sampling methods to investigate ground-water contamination by chlorobenzenes beneath a drainage ditch on the southwestern side of Installation Restoration Site 4, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, during 2005-06. The drainage ditch,...
Evaluation of pore-water samplers at a drainage ditch, Installation Restoration Site 4, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, 2005–06
Don A. Vroblesky, Clifton C. Casey
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5154
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast, used innovative sampling methods to investigate ground-water contamination by chlorobenzenes beneath a drainage ditch on the southwestern side of Installation Restoration Site 4, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, during 2005-06. The drainage ditch, which...
Sea-floor character and sedimentary processes of Great Round Shoal Channel, offshore Massachusetts
Lawrence J. Poppe, Seth D. Ackerman, David S. Foster, Dann S. Blackwood, S. Jeffress Williams, M. S. Moser, H.F. Stewart, K.A. Glomb
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1138
The imagery, interpretive data layers, and data presented herein were derived from multibeam echo-sounder and sidescan-sonar data collected in the vicinity of Great Round Shoal Channel, the main passage through shoals located at the eastern entrance to Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, and from the stations occupied to verify these acoustic data...
Hydrology, Water Quality, and Surface- and Ground-Water Interactions in the Upper Hillsborough River Watershed, West-Central Florida
J.T. Trommer, L. A. Sacks, E. L. Kuniansky
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5121
A study of the Hillsborough River watershed was conducted between October 1999 through September 2003 to characterize the hydrology, water quality, and interaction between the surface and ground water in the highly karstic uppermost part of the watershed. Information such as locations of ground-water recharge and discharge, depth of the...
Halite brine in the Onondaga Trough near Syracuse, New York: Characterization and simulation of variable-density flow
Richard M. Yager, William M. Kappel, Niel Plummer
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5058
Halite brine (saturation ranging from 45 to 80 percent) lies within glacial-drift deposits that fill the Onondaga Trough, a 40-km long bedrock valley deepened by Pleistocene ice near Syracuse, N.Y. The most concentrated brine occupies the northern end of the trough, more than 15 kilometers (km) beyond the northern limit...
Environmental effects of historical mining in the Animas River watershed, southwestern Colorado
Stan E. Church
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3051
The U.S. Geological Survey has completed an extensive environmental study of the effects of historical mining on water and sediment quality and aquatic and riparian habitat in the Animas River watershed upstream from Silverton, Colorado. Results from this study are being used by Federal and State agencies and by the...
Maps of Quadrangle 3568, Polekhomri (503) and Charikar (504) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1101
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Development of a global slope dataset for estimation of landslide occurrence resulting from earthquakes
Kristine L. Verdin, Jonathan W. Godt, Christopher C. Funk, Diego Pedreros, Bruce Worstell, James Verdin
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1188
Landslides resulting from earthquakes can cause widespread loss of life and damage to critical infrastructure. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed an alarm system, PAGER (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response), that aims to provide timely information to emergency relief organizations on the impact of earthquakes. Landslides are...
Maps of Quadrangle 3570, Tagab-E-Munjan (505) and Asmar-Kamdesh (506) Quadrangles, Afghanistan
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1102
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