Summary of West Virginia Water-Resource Data through September 2008
R. D. Evaldi, S.M. Ward, J.S. White
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1199
The West Virginia Water Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with State and Federal agencies, obtains a large amount of data pertaining to the water resources of West Virginia each water year. A water year is the 12-month period beginning October 1 and ending September 30. These...
Recent subsidence and erosion at diverse wetland sites in the southeastern Mississippi Delta Plain
Robert A. Morton, Julie Bernier, Kyle W. Kelso
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1158
A prior study (U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1216) examined historical land- and water-area changes and estimated magnitudes of land subsidence and erosion at five wetland sites in the Terrebonne hydrologic basin of the Mississippi delta plain. The present study extends that work by analyzing interior wetland loss and relative...
Hydrogeology and Ground-Water Flow in the Opequon Creek Watershed area, Virginia and West Virginia
Mark D. Kozar, David J. Weary
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5153
Due to increasing population and economic development in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and West Virginia, water availability has become a primary concern for water-resource managers in the region. To address these issues, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the West Virginia Department of Health and Human...
Apparent Resistivity and Estimated Interaction Potential of Surface Water and Groundwater along Selected Canals and Streams in the Elkhorn-Loup Model Study Area, North-Central Nebraska, 2006-07
Andrew Teeple, Joseph Vrabel, Wade H. Kress, James C. Cannia
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5171
In 2005, the State of Nebraska adopted new legislation that in part requires local Natural Resources Districts to include the effect of groundwater use on surface-water systems in their groundwater management plan. In response the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Upper Elkhorn, Lower Elkhorn, Upper Loup, Lower Loup,...
Vegetation Status of the Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India (April 2009)
Beth A. Middleton
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5193
The biodiversity of aquatic plant species may be reduced in the future by drought and/or climate change in monsoonal wetlands. After a number of years of low water levels, the aquatic vegetation of the Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India, was assessed. Though likely reduced in areal extent, most...
Acid rain effects on Adirondack streams— Results from the 2003–05 Western Adirondack Stream Survey (the WASS Project)
Gregory B. Lawrence, Karen M. Roy, Barry P. Baldigo, Howard A. Simonin, Sophia I. Passy, Robert W. Bode, Susan B. Capone
2009, Fact Sheet 2009-3075
Traditionally lakes have been the focus of acid rain assessments in the Adirondack region of New York. However, there is a growing recognition of the importance of streams as environmental indicators. Streams, like lakes, also provide important aquatic habitat, but streams more closely reflect acid rain effects on soils and...
Geologic Criteria for the Assessment of Sedimentary Exhalative (Sedex) Zn-Pb-Ag Deposits
Poul Emsbo
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1209
Sedex deposits account for more than 50 percent of the world's zinc and lead reserves and furnish more than 25 percent of the world's production of these two metals. This report draws on previous syntheses as well as on topical studies of deposits in sedex basins to determine the characteristics...
Solid precipitation measurement intercomparison in Bismarck, North Dakota, from 1988 through 1997
Karen R. Ryberg, Douglas G. Emerson, Kathleen M. Macek-Rowland
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5180
A solid precipitation measurement intercomparison was recommended by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and was initiated after approval by the ninth session of the Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation. The goal of the intercomparison was to assess national methods of measuring solid precipitation against methods whose accuracy and...
Summary of Seepage Investigations in the Yakima River Basin, Washington
C. S. Magirl, R. J. Julich, W.B. Welch, C.R. Curran, M. C. Mastin, J. J. Vaccaro
2009, Data Series 473
Discharge data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington State Department of Ecology, and Yakama Nation for seepage investigations in the Yakima River basin are made available as downloadable Microsoft Excel files. These data were collected for more than a century at various times for several different studies and are...
How to Use the Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) Digital Libraries
Frances L. Lightsom, Alan O. Allwardt
2009, Fact Sheet 2009-3083
Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) digital libraries provide access to free online scientific resources about oceans, coasts, and coastal watersheds. MRIB allows category, geographic, and keyword searching, alone or in combination. Instructions for searching the three MRIB libraries and for refining the searches are explained in detail....
Preliminary Physical Stratigraphy and Geophysical Data From the USGS Dixon Core, Onslow County, North Carolina
Ellen Seefelt, Wilma Aleman B. Gonzalez, Jean M. Self-Trail, Robert E. Weems, Lucy E. Edwards, Herbert A. Pierce, Colleen T. Durand
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1194
In October through November 2006, scientists from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) Eastern Region Earth Surface Processes Team (EESPT) and the Raleigh (N.C.) Water Science Center (WSC), in cooperation with the North Carolina Geological Survey (NCGS) and the Onslow County Water and Sewer Authority (ONWASA), drilled a stratigraphic test...
Data from a Thick Unsaturated Zone Underlying Two Artificial Recharge Sites along Oro Grande Wash in the Western Part of the Mojave Desert, near Victorville, San Bernardino County, California, 2001-2006
Dennis A. Clark, John A. Izbicki, Russell D. Johnson, Michael Land
2009, Data Series 438
This report presents data on the physical and hydraulic properties of unsaturated alluvial deposits and on the chemical and isotopic composition of water collected at two recharge sites in the western part of the Mojave Desert, near Victorville, California, from 2001 to 2006. Unsaturated-zone monitoring sites were installed adjacent to...
Selected Natural Attenuation Monitoring Data, Operable Unit 1, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Keyport, Washington, 2007 and 2008
R.S. Dinicola, R.L. Huffman
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1141
Previous investigations indicate that natural attenuation and biodegradation of chlorinated volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are substantial in groundwater beneath the 9-acre former landfill at Operable Unit 1 (OU 1), Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Keyport, Washington. Phytoremediation combined with on-going natural attenuation processes was the preferred remedy selected by the...
Climax-Type Porphyry Molybdenum Deposits
Steve Ludington, Geoffrey S. Plumlee
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1215
Climax-type porphyry molybdenum deposits, as defined here, are extremely rare; thirteen deposits are known, all in western North America and ranging in age from Late Cretaceous to mainly Tertiary. They are consistently found in a postsubduction, extensional tectonic setting and are invariably associated with A-type granites that formed after peak...
U.S. Geological Survey Science for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative - 2008 Annual Report
Zachary H. Bowen, Cameron L. Aldridge, Patrick J. Anderson, Timothy J. Assal, Lori Anne Baer, R. Sky Bristol, Natasha B. Carr, Geneva W. Chong, Jay E. Diffendorfer, Bradley C. Fedy, Steven L. Garman, Steve Germaine, Richard I. Grauch, Collin G. Homer, Daniel J. Manier, Matthew J. Kauffman, Natalie Latysh, Cynthia P. Melcher, Kirk A. Miller, Jessica Montag, Constance J. Nutt, Christopher Potter, Hall Sawyer, David B. Smith, Michael J. Sweat, Anna B. Wilson
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1201
The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) was launched in 2007 in response to concerns about threats to the State's world class wildlife resources, especially the threat posed by rapidly increasing energy development in southwest Wyoming. The overriding purpose of the WLCI is to assess and enhance aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
Production of a national 1:1,000,000-scale hydrography dataset for the United States: feature selection, simplification, and refinement
Robin H. Gary, Zachary D. Wilson, Christy-Ann M. Archuleta, Florence E. Thompson, Joseph Vrabel
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5202
During 2006-09, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Atlas of the United States, produced a 1:1,000,000-scale (1:1M) hydrography dataset comprising streams and waterbodies for the entire United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, for inclusion in the recompiled National Atlas. This report documents the...
Use of the U.S. Geological Survey StreamStats Web Application for dam safety analysis
John D. Guthrie, Kernell G. Ries III, Peter A. Steeves
2009, Conference Paper, Dam Safety 2009 conference proceedings
No abstract available....
To burn or not to burn Oriental bittersweet: A fire manager’s conundrum
Noel B. Pavlovic, Stacey A. Leicht-Young, Krystal Frohnapple, Neal Mulconrey
2009, Report
Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) is a highly invasive liana (woody vine) that occurs throughout the Eastern United States. This twining plant can blanket and girdle adjacent vegetation, affecting succession and damaging trees. In areas where prescribed fire is a management tool, the response of Oriental bittersweet to fire needs to...
The dynamic interaction of climate, vegetation, and dust emission, Mojave Desert, USA
Frank Urban, Richard L. Reynolds, R. Fulton
2009, Book chapter, Arid environments and wind erosion
No abstract available....
Spectroscopic analysis of arsenic uptake in Pteris Ferns
E. Terrence Slonecker, Barry N. Haack, Susan D. Price
2009, Remote Sensing (1) 644-675
Two arsenic-accumulating Pteris ferns (Pteris cretica mayii and Pteris multifida), along with a non-accumulating control fern (Nephrolepis exaltata) were grown in greenhouse conditions in clean sand spiked with 0, 20, 50, 100 and 200 ppm sodium arsenate. Spectral data were collected for each of five replicates prior...
Magma evolution and ascent at the craters of the moon and neighboring volcanic fields, southern Idaho, USA: Implications for the evolution of polygenetic and monogenetic volcanic fields
Keith D. Putirka, Mel A. Kuntz, Daniel M. Unruh, Nitin Vaid
2009, Journal of Petrology (50) 1639-1665
The evolution of polygenetic and monogenetic volcanic fields must reflect differences in magma processing during ascent. To assess their evolution we use thermobarometry and geochemistry to evaluate ascent paths for neighboring, nearly coeval volcanic fields in the Snake River Plain, in south-central Idaho, derived from (1) dominantly Holocene polygenetic evolved...
Simulation of streamflow and water quality in the Leon Creek watershed, Bexar County, Texas, 1997-2004
Darwin J. Ockerman, Meghan C. Roussel
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5191
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the San Antonio River Authority, configured, calibrated, and tested a Hydrological Simulation Program ? FORTRAN watershed model for the approximately 238-square-mile Leon Creek watershed in Bexar County, Texas, and used the model to simulate streamflow and...
Capacitively Coupled Resistivity Survey of Selected Irrigation Canals Within the North Platte River Valley, Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming, 2004 and 2007-2009
Bethany L. Burton, Michaela R. Johnson, Joseph Vrabel, Brian H. Imig, Jason Payne, Ryan E. Tompkins
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5194
Due to water resources of portions of the North Platte River basin being designated as over-appropriated by the State of Nebraska Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the North Platte Natural Resources District (NPNRD), in cooperation with the DNR, is developing an Integrated Management Plan (IMP) for groundwater and surface water...
Benthic oxygen demand in three former salt ponds adjacent to south San Francisco Bay, California
Brent R. Topping, James S. Kuwabara, Nicole D. Athearn, John Y. Takekawa, Francis Parcheso, Kathleen D. Henderson, Sara Piotter
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1180
Sampling trips were coordinated in the second half of 2008 to examine the interstitial water in the sediment and the overlying bottom waters of three shallow (average depth <1 meter) ponds adjacent to the southern reach of San Francisco Bay (herein referred to as South Bay), which were previously used...
Estimated bankfull discharge for selected Michigan rivers and regional hydraulic geometry curves for estimating bankfull characteristics in southern Michigan rivers
Cynthia M. Rachol, Kristine Boley-Morse
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5133
Regional hydraulic geometry curves are power-function equations that relate riffle dimensions and bankfull discharge to drainage-basin size. They are defined by data collected through surveys conducted at stable stream reaches and can be used to aid watershed managers, design engineers, and others involved in determination of the best course of...
