White sturgeon mitigation and restoration in the Columbia and Snake rivers upstream from Bonneville Dam, Annual Progress Report April 2006 - March 2007. Report C
M.J. Parsley, P. Kofoot
2008, Report, White Sturgeon mitigation and restoration in the Columbia and Snake Rivers upstream from Bonneville dam
Describe reproduction and early life history characteristics of white sturgeon populations in the Columbia River between Bonneville and Priest Rapids dams. Define habitat requirements for spawning and rearing white sturgeon and quantify the extent of habitat available in the Columbia River between Bonneville and Priest Rapids dams. Progress updates on...
Climate change and coastal vulnerability assessment: Scenarios for integrated assessment
Robert J. Nicholls, Poh Poh Wong, Virginia Burkett, Colin D. Woodroffe, John Hay
2008, Sustainability Science (3) 89-102
Coastal vulnerability assessments still focus mainly on sea-level rise, with less attention paid to other dimensions of climate change. The influence of non-climatic environmental change or socio-economic change is even less considered, and is often completely ignored. Given that the profound coastal changes of the twentieth century are likely to...
Development of the water-analysis screening tool used in the initial screening for the Pennsylvania State Water Plan update of 2008
Marla H. Stuckey
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1106
The Water Resources Planning Act, Act 220 of 2002, requires the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PaDEP) to update the State Water Plan by 2008. As part of this update, a water-analysis screening tool (WAST) was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the PaDEP, to provide assistance...
Ground-water-flow modeling of a freshwater and brine-filled aquifer in the Onondaga Trough, Onondaga County, New York: A summary of findings
William M. Kappel, Richard M. Yager
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1409
In 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed a hydrogeologic study that included the development of a groundwater-flow model of the glacial-drift aquifer in the Onondaga Trough near Syracuse, N.Y., which extends from the Valley Heads Moraine near Tully, N.Y., to Onondaga Lake (fig. 1). Glacial sediments within the Onondaga...
Continuous water-quality monitoring of streams in Johnson County, Kansas 2002-06
Teresa J. Rasmussen, Casey J. Lee, Andrew C. Ziegler
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3007
Water quality in Johnson County, Kansas was characterized on the basis of continuous, in-stream monitoring. The results summarized in this fact sheet may be used to better understand concentration and load variability during changing seasonal and streamflow conditions and to assess water-quality conditions relative to water-quality standards and management goals....
Estimation of Constituent Concentrations, Loads, and Yields in Streams of Johnson County, Northeast Kansas, Using Continuous Water-Quality Monitoring and Regression Models, October 2002 through December 2006
Teresa J. Rasmussen, Casey J. Lee, Andrew C. Ziegler
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5014
Johnson County is one of the most rapidly developing counties in Kansas. Population growth and expanding urban land use affect the quality of county streams, which are important for human and environmental health, water supply, recreation, and aesthetic value. This report describes estimates of streamflow and constituent concentrations, loads, and...
Mid-Cenozoic tectonic and paleoenvironmental setting of the central Arctic Ocean
M. O’Regan, K. Moran, J. Backman, M. Jakobsson, F. Sangiorgi, Henk Brinkhuis, Rob Pockalny, Alasdair Skelton, Catherine E. Stickley, N. Koc, Hans-Juergen Brumsack, Debra A. Willard
2008, Paleoceanography (23) 1-15
Drilling results from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) to the Lomonosov Ridge (LR) document a 26 million year hiatus that separates freshwater-influenced biosilica-rich deposits of the middle Eocene from fossil-poor glaciomarine silty clays of the early Miocene. Detailed micropaleontological and sedimentological data from sediments surrounding this...
Reproductive disruption in fish downstream from an estrogenic wastewater effluent
A.M. Vajda, Larry B. Barber, James L. Gray, E.M. Lopez, John D. Woodling, David O. Norris
2008, Environmental Science & Technology (42) 3407-3414
To assess the impact of an estrogenic wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent on fish reproduction, white suckers (Catostomus commersoni) were collected from immediately upstream and downstream (effluent site) of the city of Boulder, CO, WWTP outfall. Gonadal intersex, altered sex ratios, reduced gonad size, disrupted ovarian and...
Geophysical characterization of the American River levees, Sacramento, California, with electromagnetics, capacitively coupled resistivity, and DC resistivity
Theodore H. Asch, Maria Deszcz-Pan, Bethany L. Burton, Lyndsay B. Ball
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1109
A geophysical characterization of a portion of American River levees in Sacramento, California was conducted in May, 2007. Targets of interest included the distribution and thickness of sand lenses that underlie the levees and the depth to a clay unit that underlies the sand. The concern is that the...
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation 22 — Groundwater budget for the Straight Creek drainage basin, Red River Valley, New Mexico, with a section on Sulphur Gulch water budget
Douglas P. McAda, Cheryl A. Naus
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5149
In April 2001, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) began a cooperative study to infer the pre-mining ground-water chemistry at the Molycorp molybdenum mine site in the Red River Valley. The Molycorp mine has been in operation since the 1920s. Because ground-water conditions prior...
Mid-Pliocene Planktic Foraminifer Census Data from Ocean Drilling Program Hole 1237C
Rocio Caballero, Harry Dowsett
2008, Data Series 336
INTRODUCTION The U.S. Geological Survey is conducting a long-term study of mid-Pliocene climatic and oceanographic conditions. One of the key elements of the study involves the use of quantitative composition of planktic foraminifer assemblages in conjunction with other proxies to constrain estimates of sea-surface temperature (SST) and to identify major oceanographic...
Water quality
Samuel N. Luoma, Susan Anderson, Brian A. Bergamaschi, Lisa Holm, Cathy Ruhl, David H. Schoellhamer, Robin Stewart
2008, Book chapter, The state of bay-Delta science, 2008
Sustainable water policy in California will require maintaining or improving water quality. The Delta is an important source of drinking water for Californians, but sustaining a quality sufficient for human and agricultural consumption presents a number of problems and challenges to water managers. Similarly, poor environmental water quality is recognized as one of the...
Quality of Shallow Ground Water in Three Areas of Unsewered Low-Density Development in Wyoming and Montana, 2001
Timothy T. Bartos, Thomas L. Quinn, Laura L. Hallberg, Cheryl A. Eddy-Miller
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5012
The quality of shallow ground water underlying unsewered low-density development outside of Sheridan and Lander, Wyo., and Red Lodge, Mont., was evaluated. In 2001, 29 wells (10 each in Sheridan and Lander and 9 in Red Lodge) were installed at or near the water table and sampled for a wide...
Methods for and estimates of 2003 and projected water use in the Seacoast Region, Southeastern New Hampshire
Marilee A. Horn, Richard B. Moore, Laura Hayes, Sarah M. Flanagan
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5157
New methods were developed to estimate water use in 2003 and future water demand in 2017 and 2025 in the Seacoast region in southeastern New Hampshire, which has experienced a 37-percent population increase during 1980 to 2000. Water-use activities for which estimates were developed include water withdrawal, delivery, demand, consumptive...
Analysis of Pulsed Flow Modification Alternatives, Lower Missouri River, 2005
Robert B. Jacobson
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1113
The graphical, tabular, and statistical data presented in this report resulted from analysis of alternative flow regime designs considered by a group of Missouri River managers, stakeholders, and scientists during the summer of 2005. This plenary group was charged with designing a flow regime with increased spring flow pulses to...
Methods for Monitoring Fish Communities of Buffalo National River and Ozark National Scenic Riverways in the Ozark Plateaus of Arkansas and Missouri: Version 1.0
James C. Petersen, B. G. Justus, H.R. Dodd, D.E. Bowles, L.W. Morrison, M.H. Williams, G.A. Rowell
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1302
Buffalo National River located in north-central Arkansas, and Ozark National Scenic Riverways, located in southeastern Missouri, are the two largest units of the National Park Service in the Ozark Plateaus physiographic province. The purpose of this report is to provide a protocol that will be used by the National Park...
Geomorphic characterization of the Middle Fork Saline River: Garland, Perry, and Saline Counties, Arkansas
Aaron L. Pugh, Thomas J. Garday, Ronald Redman
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5152
This report was prepared to help address concerns raised by local residents, State, and Federal agencies about the current geomorphic conditions of the Middle Fork Saline River. Over the past 30 years the Middle Fork Saline River Basin has experienced a marked increase in urbanization. The report summarizes the Middle...
Water-quality data for water- and wastewater-treatment plants along the Red River of the North, North Dakota and Minnesota, January through October 2006
William C. Damschen, John A. Hansel, Rochelle A. Nustad
2008, Data Series 328
From January through October 2006, six sets of water-quality samples were collected at 28 sites, which included inflow and outflow from seven major municipal water-treatment plants (14 sites) and influent and effluent samples from seven major municipal wastewater treatment plants (14 sites) along the Red River of the North in...
Pesticide Occurrence and Distribution in the Lower Clackamas River Basin, Oregon, 2000-2005
Kurt D. Carpenter, Steven Sobieszczyk, Andrew J. Arnsberg, Frank A. Rinella
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5027
Pesticide occurrence and distribution in the lower Clackamas River basin was evaluated in 2000?2005, when 119 water samples were analyzed for a suite of 86?198 dissolved pesticides. Sampling included the lower-basin tributaries and the Clackamas River mainstem, along with paired samples of pre- and post-treatment drinking water (source and finished...
PIT Tagging Anurans
Brome McCreary
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1354
This report is no longer available....
Water-Level Changes in Aquifers of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Predevelopment to 2000
Vincent T. dePaul, Donald E. Rice, Otto S. Zapecza
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5247
The Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifer system, which underlies a large part of the east coast of the United States, is an important source of water for more than 20 million people. As the population of the region increases, further demand is being placed on those ground-water resources. To define areas...
Hydrology Prior to Wetland and Prairie Restoration in and around the Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge, Northwestern Minnesota, 2002-5
Timothy K. Cowdery, David L. Lorenz, Allan D. Arntson
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5200
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) owned and managed 24,795 acres of mixed wetland, native prairie, farmland and woods east of Crookston, in northwestern Minnesota. The original wetlands and prairies that once occupied this land are being restored by TNC in cooperation with many partners and are becoming part of the Glacial...
Development of acid functional groups and lactones during the thermal degradation of wood and wood components
David W. Rutherford, Robert L. Wershaw, James B. Reeves III
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5013
Black carbon (pyrogenic materials including chars) in soils has been recognized as a substantial portion of soil organic matter, and has been shown to play a vital role in nutrient cycling; however, little is known concerning the properties of this material. Previous studies have largely been concerned with the creation...
An Overview of the GIS Weasel
Roland J. Viger
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3004
This fact sheet provides a high-level description of the GIS Weasel, a software system designed to aid users in preparing spatial information as input to lumped and distributed parameter environmental simulation models (ESMs). The GIS Weasel provides geographic information system (GIS) tools to help create maps of geographic features relevant...
Inventory of Well Yields in Avery and Watauga Counties, North Carolina
Brad A. Huffman, Melinda J. Chapman, Kirsten C. Tighe, Silvia Terziotti
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1104
More than 1,500 well records were compiled for Avery and Watauga Counties, North Carolina, as part of a study of ground-water resources. Wells in this area of the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province produce water from the fractured-bedrock aquifer. Prior to this study, only about 132 wells were included in the...
