Retrospective Review of Watershed Characteristics and a Framework for Future Research in the Sarasota Bay Watershed, Florida
George R. Kish, Arnell S. Harrison, Mark Alderson
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1349
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program conducted a retrospective review of characteristics of the Sarasota Bay watershed in west-central Florida. This report describes watershed characteristics, surface- and ground-water processes, and the environmental setting of the Sarasota Bay watershed. Population growth during the last 50 years...
A decade of measuring, monitoring, and studying the fate and transport of triazine herbicides in groundwater, surface water, reservoirs, and precipitation by the U.S. Geological Survey
E.M. Thurman, E.A. Scribner
J. McFarland, editor(s)
2008, Book chapter, The triazine herbicides
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Gathering, organizing, and accessing data for use in bird conservation across the Americas
Elizabeth Martin, Bruce G. Peterjohn, Steve Kelling
Terrell D. Rich, editor(s)
2008, Conference Paper, Tundra to tropics: Connecting birds, habitats and people, proceedings of the fourth International Partners in Flight Conference
The U.S. North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) Monitoring Subcommittee (2007) identified the need for a comprehensive plan for integrating and managing bird population monitoring data, and to adapt this as an integral component for improving monitoring activities across North America. While the Subcommittee provided a basic framework to begin...
Time-averaged near-bed suspended sediment concentrations under waves and currents: Comparison of measured and model estimates
D.A. Cacchione, P.D. Thorne, Y Agrawal, N.J. Nidzieko
2008, Article
Profiles of suspended sediment concentration and velocity were measured over a 15-day period at a near-shore site off Santa Cruz, CA in Monterey Bay. The concentration and velocity data were collected with an Acoustic Backscattering System (ABS) and Acoustic Current Profiler (ACP) that were mounted on a bottom tripod. High-resolution...
Catalog of earthquake hypocenters at Alaskan volcanoes: January 1 through December 31, 2006
James P. Dixon, Scott D. Stihler, John A. Power, Cheryl Searcy
2008, Data Series 326
Between January 1 and December 31, 2006, AVO located 8,666 earthquakes of which 7,783 occurred on or near the 33 volcanoes monitored within Alaska. Monitoring highlights in 2006 include: an eruption of Augustine Volcano, a volcanic-tectonic earthquake swarm at Mount Martin, elevated seismicity and volcanic unrest at Fourpeaked Mountain, and...
Variations in Community Exposure and Sensitivity to Tsunami Hazards on the Open-Ocean and Strait of Juan de Fuca Coasts of Washington
Nathan Wood, Christopher Soulard
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5004
Evidence of past events and modeling of potential future events suggest that tsunamis are significant threats to communities on the open-ocean and Strait of Juan de Fuca coasts of Washington. Although potential tsunami-inundation zones from a Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake have been delineated, the amount and type of human...
Geologic Map of the Piedmont Hollow Quadrangle, Oregon County, Missouri
David J. Weary
2008, Scientific Investigations Map 2979
The Piedmont Hollow 7.5-min quadrangle is located in south-central Missouri within the Salem Plateau region of the Ozark Plateaus physiographic province (Fenneman, 1938; Bretz, 1965) (fig. 1). Almost all of the land in the quadrangle north of the Eleven Point River is part of the Mark Twain National Forest. Most...
Climate simulation and flood risk analysis for 2008-40 for Devils Lake, North Dakota
Aldo V. Vecchia
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5011
Devils Lake and Stump Lake in northeastern North Dakota receive surface runoff from a 3,810-square-mile drainage basin, and evaporation provides the only major water loss unless the lakes are above their natural spill elevation to the Sheyenne River. In September 2007, flow from Devils Lake to Stump Lake had...
Science Activities Associated with Proposed 2008 High-Flow Experiment at Glen Canyon Dam
John Hamill
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3011
Grand Canyon National Park lies approximately 15 miles downriver from Glen Canyon Dam, which was built on the Colorado River just south of the Arizona-Utah border. Because the dam stops most sediment moving downstream, its presence has resulted in erosion and shrinkage of river sandbars in Grand Canyon. Fewer and...
Needs Assessment and Scoping Study for Sinking Ships as Diving Sites in Puget Sound
Steve Rubin, Eric E. Grossman, Lynne Koontz, Anthony Paulson, Natalie Sexton, Reg Reisenbichler
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1020
BACKGROUND There is growing interest in starting a program to sink ships in Puget Sound to create one or more underwater dive sites. Experience in other parts of the world has indicated that sunken vessels are highly popular with divers and could provide a basis for increased recreation and attraction of...
Evaluation of a Single-Beam Sonar System to Map Seagrass at Two Sites in Northern Puget Sound, Washington
Andrew W. Stevens, Jessica R. Lacy, David P. Finlayson, Guy Gelfenbaum
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5009
Seagrass at two sites in northern Puget Sound, Possession Point and nearby Browns Bay, was mapped using both a single-beam sonar and underwater video camera. The acoustic and underwater video data were compared to evaluate the accuracy of acoustic estimates of seagrass cover. The accuracy of the acoustic method was...
Preliminary Gravity and Ground Magnetic Data in the Arbuckle Uplift near Sulphur, Oklahoma
Daniel S. Scheirer, Essam Aboud
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1003
Improving knowledge of the geology and geophysics of the Arbuckle Uplift in south-central Oklahoma is a goal of the Framework Geology of Mid-Continent Carbonate Aquifers project sponsored by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP). In May 2007, we collected ground magnetic and gravity observations...
Occurrence of organic compounds and trace elements in the upper Passaic and Elizabeth Rivers and their tributaries in New Jersey, July 2003 to February 2004: Phase II of the New Jersey toxics reduction workplan for New York-New Jersey Harbor
Timothy P. Wilson, Jennifer L. Bonin
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5136
Samples of surface water and suspended sediment were collected from the Passaic and Elizabeth Rivers and their tributaries in New Jersey from July 2003 to February 2004 to determine the concentrations of selected chlorinated organic and inorganic constituents. This sampling and analysis was conducted as Phase II of the New...
Monitoring the Earth's dynamic magnetic field
Jeffrey J. Love, David Applegate, John B. Townshend
2008, Fact Sheet 2007-3092
The mission of the U.S. Geological Survey's Geomagnetism Program is to monitor the Earth's magnetic field. Using ground-based observatories, the Program provides continuous records of magnetic field variations covering long timescales; disseminates magnetic data to various governmental, academic, and private institutions; and conducts research into the nature of geomagnetic variations...
Bottom-Sediment Accumulation and Quality in Shawnee Mission Lake, Johnson County, Kansas, 2006
Casey J. Lee, Kyle E. Juracek, Christopher C. Fuller
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5274
Shawnee Mission Lake is an artificial impoundment central to Shawnee Mission Park, the largest public park in Johnson County, Kansas. The Shawnee Mission Lake watershed has remained relatively undeveloped since the completion of the dam in 1962. However, recent (1990?2006) urban development has been a cause for concern regarding the...
Application of Geographic Information System Methods to Identify Areas Yielding Water that will be Replaced by Water from the Colorado River in the Vidal and Chemehuevi Areas, California, and the Mohave Mesa Area, Arizona
Lawrence E. Spangler, Cory E. Angeroth, Sarah J. Walton
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5284
Relations between the elevation of the static water level in wells and the elevation of the accounting surface within the Colorado River aquifer in the vicinity of Vidal, California, the Chemehuevi Indian Reservation, California, and on Mohave Mesa, Arizona, were used to determine which wells outside the flood plain of...
Summary of Survival Data from Juvenile Coho Salmon in the Klamath River, Northern California, 2007
John W. Beeman
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1022
A study to estimate the effects of Iron Gate Dam discharge on ESA-listed juvenile coho salmon during their seaward migration to the ocean was begun in 2005. Estimates of survival through various reaches of river downstream from the dam were completed in 2006 and 2007 as part of this process....
Fecal-indicator bacteria and Escherichia coli pathogen data collected near a novel sub-irrigation water-treatment system in Lenawee County, Michigan, June-November 2007
Joseph W. Duris, Stephanie Beeler
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1025
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Lenawee County Conservation District in Lenawee County, Mich., conducted a sampling effort over a single growing season (June to November 2007) to evaluate the microbiological water quality around a novel livestock reservoir wetland sub-irrigation system. Samples were collected and analyzed for...
Potentiometric Surfaces in the Springfield Plateau and Ozark Aquifers of Northwestern Arkansas, Southeastern Kansas, Southwestern Missouri, and Northeastern Oklahoma, 2006
Jonathan A. Gillip, John B. Czarnecki, Douglas N. Mugel
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5253
The Springfield Plateau and Ozark aquifers are important sources of ground water in the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system. Water from these aquifers is used for agricultural, domestic, industrial, and municipal water sources. Changing water use over time in these aquifers presents a need for updated potentiometric-surface maps of the Springfield...
Ground- and surface-water chemistry of Handcart Gulch, Park County, Colorado, 2003-2006
Philip L. Verplanck, Andrew H. Manning, Briant A. Kimball, R. Blaine McCleskey, Robert L. Runkel, Jonathan S. Caine, Monique Adams, Pamela A. Gemery-Hill, David L. Fey
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1020
As part of a multidisciplinary project to determine the processes that control ground-water chemistry and flow in mineralized alpine environments, ground- and surface-water samples from Handcart Gulch, Colorado were collected for analysis of inorganic solutes and water and dissolved sulfate stable isotopes in selected samples. The primary aim of this...
Facing Tomorrow's Challenges - An Overview
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3008
In 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed a science strategy outlining the major natural-science issues facing the Nation in the next decade. The science strategy consists of six science directions of critical importance, focusing on areas where natural science can make a substantial contribution to the well-being of the...
Taming of a wild research well in Yellowstone National Park during November 1992
Robert O. Fournier, Michael M. Moore
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1014
Much of our current understanding of Yellowstone's geothermal areas comes from research drilling by the USGS during 1967 and 1968. Thirteen wells were drilled in thermal areas around the park. Scientists collected waters and rocks, measured temperatures and pressures and performed other tests to characterize the shallow subsurface at Yellowstone. Most...
Database of the geology and thermal activity of Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
Kathryn Flynn, Brita Graham Wall, Donald E. White, Roderick A. Hutchinson, Terry E.C. Keith, Laura Clor, Joel E. Robinson
2008, Data Series 324
This dataset contains contacts, geologic units and map boundaries from Plate 1 of USGS Professional Paper 1456, 'The Geology and Remarkable Thermal Activity of Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.' The features are contained in the Annotation, basins_poly, contours, geology_arc, geology_poly, point_features, and stream_arc feature classes as well as...
Geology of the Northern Part of the Harcuvar Complex, West-Central Arizona
Bruce Bryant, J. L. Wooden
2008, Professional Paper 1752
In west-central Arizona near the northeast margin of the Basin and Range Province, the Rawhide detachment fault separates Tertiary and older rocks lacking significant effects of Tertiary metamorphism from Precambrian, Paleozoic, and Mesozoic rocks in the Harcuvar metamorphic core complex below. Much of the northern part of the Harcuvar complex...
Recovery of Ground-Water Levels From 1988 to 2003 and Analysis of Potential Water-Supply Management Options in Critical Area 1, East-Central New Jersey
Frederick J. Spitz, Martha K. Watt, Vincent T. dePaul
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5193
Water levels in four confined aquifers in the New Jersey Coastal Plain within Water Supply Critical Area 1 have recovered as a result of reductions in ground-water withdrawals initiated by the State in the late 1980s. The aquifers are the Wenonah-Mount Laurel, the Upper and Middle Potomac-Raritan-Magothy, and Englishtown aquifer...
