Tools and data for meeting America's conservation challenges
Kevin J. Gergely, Alexa McKerrow
2013, General Information Product 151
The Gap Analysis Project (GAP) produces data and tools that help meet critical national challenges such as biodiversity conservation, renewable energy development, climate change adaptation, and infrastructure investment. The GAP is managed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. GAP supports a wide range of national, State, and...
Simulation of the June 11, 2010, flood along the Little Missouri River near Langley, Arkansas, using a hydrologic model coupled to a hydraulic model
Drew A. Westerman, Brian R. Clark
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5056
A substantial flood event occurred on June 11, 2010, causing the Little Missouri River to flow over much of the adjacent land area, resulting in catastrophic damages. Twenty fatalities occurred and numerous automobiles, cabins, and recreational vehicles were destroyed within the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service Albert Pike Recreation Area,...
Two-dimensional simulation of the June 11, 2010, flood of the Little Missouri River at Albert Pike Recreational Area, Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas
Daniel M. Wagner
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5274
In the early morning hours of June 11, 2010, substantial flooding occurred at Albert Pike Recreation Area in the Ouachita National Forest of west-central Arkansas, killing 20 campers. The U.S. Forest Service needed information concerning the extent and depth of flood inundation, the water velocity, and flow paths throughout Albert...
MODIS phenology image service ArcMap toolbox
Colin Talbert, Tim J. Kern, Jeff Morisette, Don Brown, Kevin James
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1250
Seasonal change is important to consider when managing conservation areas at landscape scales. The study of such patterns throughout the year is referred to as phenology. Recurring life-cycle events that are initiated and driven by environmental factors include animal migration and plant flowering. Phenological events capture public attention, such as...
Rupture model of the 2011 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake from teleseismic and regional waveforms
Stephen H. Hartzell, Carlos Mendoza, Yuehua Zeng
2013, Geophysical Research Letters (40) 5665-5670
We independently invert teleseismic P waveforms and regional crustal phases to examine the finite fault slip model for the 2011 Mw 5.8 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake. Theoretical and empirical Green's functions are used for the teleseismic and regional models, respectively. Both solutions show two distinct sources each about 2 km across and separated...
Results of repeat bathymetric and velocimetric surveys at the Amelia Earhart Bridge on U.S. Highway 59 over the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, 2009-2013
Richard J. Huizinga
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5177
Bathymetric and velocimetric data were collected six times by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Kansas Department of Transportation, in the vicinity of Amelia Earhart Bridge on U.S. Highway 59 over the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas. A multibeam echosounder mapping system and an acoustic Doppler current meter...
Occurrence and transport of nutrients in the Missouri River Basin, April through September 2011
Stephen J. Kalkhoff
2013, Professional Paper 1798-G
Heavy snow and early spring rainfall generated substantial amounts of runoff and flooding in the upper part of the Missouri River Basin in 2011. Spring runoff in the upper and middle parts of the basin exceeded the storage capacity of the Missouri River reservoirs and unprecedented amounts of water were...
Species data: National inventory of range maps and distribution models
Kevin J. Gergely, Alexa McKerrow
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3087
The Gap Analysis Project (GAP) produces data and tools that help meet critical national challenges such as biodiversity conservation, renewable energy development, climate change adaptation, and infrastructure investment. The GAP species data includes vertebrate range maps and distribution models for the continental United States, as well as Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto...
PAD-US—National inventory of protected areas
Kevin J. Gergely, Alexa McKerrow
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3086
The Gap Analysis Project produces data and tools that help meet critical national challenges such as biodiversity conservation, renewable energy development, climate change adaptation, and infrastructure investment. The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the official inventory of public parks and other protected open space. Consisting of...
Terrestrial ecosystems: national inventory of vegetation and land use
Kevin J. Gergely, Alexa McKerrow
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3085
The Gap Analysis Project (GAP)/Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) National Terrestrial Ecosystems Data represents detailed data on the vegetation and land-use patterns of the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. This national dataset combines detailed land cover data generated by the GAP with LANDFIRE data...
Quaternary ostracodes and molluscs from the Rukwa Basin (Tanzania) and their evolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications
Andrew S. Cohen, Bert Van Bocxlaer, Jonathan A. Todd, Michael McGlue, Ellinor Michel, Hudson H. Nkotagu, A.T. Grove, Damien Delvaux
2013, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (392) 79-97
Much of the spectacular biodiversity of the African Great Lakes is endemic to single lake basins so that the margins of these basins or their lakes coincide with biogeographic boundaries. Longstanding debate surrounds the evolution of these endemic species, the stability of bioprovinces, and the exchange of faunas between them...
Quantifying groundwater’s role in delaying improvements to Chesapeake Bay water quality
Ward E. Sanford, Jason P. Pope
2013, Environmental Science & Technology (47) 13330-13338
A study has been undertaken to determine the time required for the effects of nitrogen-reducing best management practices (BMPs) implemented at the land surface to reach the Chesapeake Bay via groundwater transport to streams. To accomplish this, a nitrogen mass-balance regression (NMBR) model was developed and applied to seven watersheds...
Simulation of climate-change effects on streamflow, lake water budgets, and stream temperature using GSFLOW and SNTEMP, Trout Lake Watershed, Wisconsin
Randall J. Hunt, John F. Walker, William R. Selbig, Stephen M. Westenbroek, R. Steve Regan
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5159
Although groundwater and surface water are considered a single resource, historically hydrologic simulations have not accounted for feedback loops between the groundwater system and other hydrologic processes. These feedbacks include timing and rates of evapotranspiration, surface runoff, soil-zone flow, and interactions with the groundwater system. Simulations that iteratively couple the...
Local-area-enhanced, 2.5-meter resolution natural-color and color-infrared satellite-image mosaics of the Kandahar mineral district in Afghanistan
Philip A. Davis
2013, Data Series 709-Z
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, prepared databases for mineral-resource target areas in Afghanistan. The purpose of the databases is to (1) provide useful data to ground-survey crews for use in performing detailed assessments of the...
A review of fire effects on vegetation and soils in the Great Basin region: response and ecological site characteristics
Richard F. Miller, Jeanne C. Chambers, David A. Pyke, Fred B. Pierson, C. Jason Williams
2013, USDA General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-308
This review synthesizes the state of knowledge on fire effects on vegetation and soils in semi-arid ecosystems in the Great Basin Region, including the central and northern Great Basin and Range, Columbia River Basin, and the Snake River Plain. We summarize available literature related to: (1) the effects of environmental...
Topobathymetric model of Mobile Bay, Alabama
Jeffrey J. Danielson, John Brock, Daniel M. Howard, Dean B. Gesch, Jamie M. Bonisteel-Cormier, Laurinda J. Travers
2013, Data Series 769
Topobathymetric Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are a merged rendering of both topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depth) that provides a seamless elevation product useful for inundation mapping, as well as for other earth science applications, such as the development of sediment-transport, sea-level rise, and storm-surge models. This 1/9-arc-second (approximately...
Dissolved oxygen fluctuations in karst spring flow and implications for endemic species: Barton Springs, Edwards aquifer, Texas, USA
Barbara Mahler, Renan Bourgeais
2013, Journal of Hydrology (505) 291-298
Karst aquifers and springs provide the dissolved oxygen critical for survival of endemic stygophiles worldwide, but little is known about fluctuations of dissolved oxygen concentrations (DO) and factors that control those concentrations. We investigated temporal variation in DO at Barton Springs, Austin, Texas, USA. During 2006–2012, DO fluctuated by as...
Pesticides in amphibian habitats of Central and Northern California, USA
Gary M. Fellers, W Sparling, Laura McConnell, Patrick M. Kleeman, Leticia Drakeford
2013, Book chapter, Occurrence, fate and impact of atmospheric pollutants on environmental and human health
Previous studies have indicated that toxicity from pesticide exposure may be contributing to amphibian declines in California and that atmospheric deposition could be a primary pathway for pesticides to enter amphibian habitats. We report on a survey of California wetlands sampled along transects associated with Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lake...
New seismic data acquired over known gas hydrate occurrences in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Fire In the ice
Seth S. Haines, Patrick E. Hart, Carolyn D. Ruppel
2013, Methane Hydrate Newsletter (13) 3-6
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) led seismic acquisition in the Gulf of Mexico from April 18 to May 3, 2013, collecting ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) and high-resolution 2D data at lease blocks Green Canyon 955 (GC955) and Walker Ridge 313 (WR313). This collaborative effort among the U.S Department of Energy (DOE),...
Estimation of missing water-level data for the Everglades Depth Estimation Network (EDEN), 2013 update
Matthew D. Petkewich, Paul Conrads
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1251
The Everglades Depth Estimation Network is an integrated network of real-time water-level gaging stations, a ground-elevation model, and a water-surface elevation model designed to provide scientists, engineers, and water-resource managers with water-level and water-depth information (1991-2013) for the entire freshwater portion of the Greater Everglades. The U.S. Geological Survey Greater...
U.S. Geological Survey water resources Internet tools
Kimberly H. Shaffer
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3072
The U.S. Geological Fact Sheet (USGS) provides a wealth of information on hydrologic data, maps, graphs, and other resources for your State.Sources of water resources information are listed below.WaterWatchWaterQualityWatchGroundwater WatchWaterNowWaterAlertUSGS Flood Inundation...
Hyperspectral versus multispectral crop-productivity modeling and type discrimination for the HyspIRI mission
Isabella Mariotto, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Alfredo Huete, E. Terrence Slonecker, Alexander Platonov
2013, Remote Sensing of Environment (139) 291-305
Precise monitoring of agricultural crop biomass and yield quantities is critical for crop production management and prediction. The goal of this study was to compare hyperspectral narrowband (HNB) versus multispectral broadband (MBB) reflectance data in studying irrigated cropland characteristics of five leading world crops (cotton, wheat, maize, rice, and alfalfa) with...
Physical, chemical, and isotopic data from groundwater in the watershed of Mirror Lake, and in the vicinity of Hubbard Brook, near West Thornton, New Hampshire, 1983 to 1997
James W. LaBaugh, Philip T. Harte, Allen M. Shapiro, Paul A. Hsieh, Carole D. Johnson, Daniel J. Goode, Warren W. Wood, Donald C. Buso, Gene E. Likens, Thomas C. Winter
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1087
Research on the hydrogeologic setting of Mirror Lake near West Thornton, New Hampshire (43° 56.5’ N, 71° 41.5’ W), includes the study of the physical, chemical, and isotopic characteristics of groundwater in the vicinity of the lake and nearby Hubbard Brook. Presented here are those physical, chemical, and isotopic data...
Odor-conditioned rheotaxis of the sea lamprey: Modeling, analysis and validation
Jongeun Choi, Soo Jean, Nicholas S. Johnson, Cory O. Brant, Weiming Li
2013, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics (8)
Mechanisms for orienting toward and locating an odor source are sought in both biology and engineering. Chemical ecology studies have demonstrated that adult female sea lamprey show rheotaxis in response to a male pheromone with dichotomous outcomes: sexually mature females locate the source of the pheromone whereas immature females swim...
Detection of salt marsh vegetation stress and recovery after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Barataria Bay, Gulf of Mexico using AVIRIS data
Shruti Khanna, Maria J. Santos, Susan L. Ustin, Alexander Koltunov, Raymond F. Kokaly, Dar A. Roberts
2013, PLoS ONE (8)
The British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the biggest oil spill in US history. To assess the impact of the oil spill on the saltmarsh plant community, we examined Advanced Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data flown over Barataria Bay, Louisiana in September 2010...
