Travel Times, Streamflow Velocities, and Dispersion Rates in the Yellowstone River, Montana
Peter McCarthy
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5261
The Yellowstone River is a vital natural resource to the residents of southeastern Montana and is a primary source of water for irrigation and recreation and the primary source of municipal water for several cities. The Yellowstone River valley is the primary east-west transportation corridor through southern Montana. This complex...
Hurricane Gustav: Observations and analysis of coastal change
Kara S. Doran, Hilary F. Stockdon, Nathaniel G. Plant, Asbury H. Sallenger Jr., Kristy K. Guy, Katherine A. Serafin
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1279
Understanding storm-induced coastal change and forecasting these changes require knowledge of the physical processes associated with a storm and the geomorphology of the impacted coastline. The primary physical processes of interest are the wind field, storm surge, currents, and wave field. Not only does wind cause direct damage to structures...
Evaluation of catchment delineation methods for the medium-resolution National Hydrography Dataset
Craig M. Johnston, Thomas G. Dewald, Timothy R. Bondelid, Bruce B. Worstell, Lucinda D. McKay, Alan Rea, Richard B. Moore, Jonathan L. Goodall
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5233
Different methods for determining catchments (incremental drainage areas) for stream segments of the medium-resolution (1:100,000-scale) National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) were evaluated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). The NHD is a comprehensive set of digital spatial data that contains information about...
Three short videos by the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
Stephen Wessells, Jake Lowenstern, Dina Venezky
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1067
This is a collection of videos of unscripted interviews with Jake Lowenstern, who is the Scientist in Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO). YVO was created as a partnership among the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Yellowstone National Park, and University of Utah to strengthen the long-term monitoring of volcanic...
Natural offshore oil seepage and related tarball accumulation on the California coastline — Santa Barbara Channel and the southern Santa Maria Basin; source identification and inventory
T.D. Lorenson, Frances D. Hostettler, Robert J. Rosenbauer, Kenneth E. Peters, Jennifer A. Dougherty, Keith A. Kvenvolden, Christina E. Gutmacher, Florence L. Wong, William R. Normark
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1225
Oil spillage from natural sources is very common in the waters of southern California. Active oil extraction and shipping is occurring concurrently within the region and it is of great interest to resource managers to be able to distinguish between natural seepage and anthropogenic oil spillage.The major goal of this...
Hydrogeologic Framework, Groundwater Movement, and Water Budget in Tributary Subbasins and Vicinity, Lower Skagit River Basin, Skagit and Snohomish Counties, Washington
Mark E. Savoca, Kenneth H. Johnson, Steven S. Sumioka, Theresa D. Olsen, Elisabeth T. Fasser, Raegan L. Huffman
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5270
A study to characterize the groundwater-flow system in four tributary subbasins and vicinity of the lower Skagit River basin was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey to assist Skagit County and the Washington State Department of Ecology in evaluating the effects of potential groundwater withdrawals and consumptive use on tributary...
Quality-Assurance Data for Routine Water Analyses by the U.S. Geological Survey Laboratory in Troy, New York - July 2001 Through June 2003
Tricia A. Lincoln, Debra A. Horan-Ross, Michael R. McHale, Gregory B. Lawrence
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1232
The laboratory for analysis of low-ionic-strength water at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Science Center in Troy, N.Y., analyzes samples collected by USGS projects throughout the Northeast. The laboratory's quality-assurance program is based on internal and interlaboratory quality-assurance samples and quality-control procedures that were developed to ensure proper sample...
Land-Surface Subsidence and Open Bedrock Fractures in the Tully Valley, Onondaga County, New York
William R. Hackett, Gayle C. Gleason, William M. Kappel
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1188
Open bedrock fractures were mapped in and near two brine field areas in Tully Valley, New York. More than 400 open fractures and closed joints were mapped for dimension, orientation, and distribution along the east and west valley walls adjacent to two former brine fields. The bedrock fractures are as...
Analysis of Water-Quality Trends for Selected Streams in the Water Chemistry Monitoring Program, Michigan, 1998-2005
C. J. Hoard, Lori M. Fuller, Lisa R. Fogarty
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5216
In 1998, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Geological Survey began a long-term monitoring program to evaluate the water quality of most watersheds in Michigan. Major goals of this Water-Chemistry Monitoring Program were to identify streams exceeding or not meeting State or Federal water-quality standards and to...
Riparian and Associated Habitat Characteristics Related to Nutrient Concentrations and Biological Responses of Small Streams in Selected Agricultural Areas, United States, 2003-04
Ronald B. Zelt, Mark D. Munn
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5224
Physical factors, including both in-stream and riparian habitat characteristics that limit biomass or otherwise regulate aquatic biological condition, have been identified by previous studies. However, linking the ecological significance of nutrient enrichment to habitat or landscape factors that could allow for improved management of streams has proved to be a...
Concentration of elements in whole-body fish, fish fillets, fish muscle plugs, and fish eggs from the 2008 Missouri Department of Conservation General Contaminant Monitoring Program
Thomas W. May, Michael J. Walther, William G. Brumbaugh, Michael J. McKee
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1278
This report presents the results of a contaminant monitoring survey conducted annually by the Missouri Department of Conservation to examine the levels of selected elemental contaminants in whole-body fish, fish fillets, fish muscle plugs, and fish eggs. Whole-body, fillet, or egg samples of catfish (Ictalurus punctatus, Ictalurus furcatus, Pylodictis olivaris),...
Compilation of Mineral Resource Data for Mississippi Valley-Type and Clastic-Dominated Sediment-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits
Ryan D. Taylor, David L. Leach, Dwight Bradley, Sergei A. Pisarevsky
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1297
This report contains a global compilation of the mineral resource data for sediment-hosted lead-zinc (SH Pb-Zn) deposits. Sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits are historically the most significant sources of lead and zinc, and are mined throughout the world. The most important SH Pb-Zn deposits are hosted in clastic-dominated sedimentary rock sequences (CD...
Effect of water hardness and dissolved-solid concentration on hatching success and egg size in bighead carp
Duane Chapman, Joseph E. Deters
2009, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (138) 1226-1231
Bighead carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis is an Asian species that has been introduced to the United States and is regarded as a highly undesirable invader. Soft water has been said to cause the bursting of Asian carp eggs and thus has been suggested as a factor that would limit the spread...
Regression models to estimate real-time concentrations of selected constituents in two tributaries to Lake Houston near Houston, Texas, 2005-07
Timothy D. Oden, William H. Asquith, Matthew S. Milburn
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5231
In December 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the City of Houston, Texas, began collecting discrete water-quality samples for nutrients, total organic carbon, bacteria (total coliform and Escherichia coli), atrazine, and suspended sediment at two U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging stations upstream from Lake Houston near Houston (08068500 Spring...
The Water Availability Tool for Environmental Resources (WATER): A water-budget modeling approach for managing water-supply resources in non-karst areas of Kentucky (phase I) — Data processing and model structure documentstion
Tanja N. Williamson, Kenneth R. Odom, Jeremy K. Newson, Aimee C. Downs, Hugh L. Nelson, Peter J. Cinotto, Mark A. Ayers
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5248
The Water Availability Tool for Environmental Resources (WATER) was developed in cooperation with the Kentucky Division of Water to provide a consistent and defensible method of estimating streamflow and water availability in ungaged basins. WATER is process oriented; it is based on the TOPMODEL code and incorporates historical water-use data...
A topographic feature taxonomy for a U.S. national topographic mapping ontology
Dalia E. Varanka
2009, Book, 24th International Cartographic Conference
Using legacy feature lists from the U.S. National Topographic Mapping Program of the twentieth century, a taxonomy of features is presented for purposes of developing a national topographic feature ontology for geographic mapping and analysis. After reviewing published taxonomic classifications, six basic classes are suggested; terrain, surface water, ecological regimes,...
USGS standard quadrangle maps for emergency response
Laurence R. Moore
2009, Book, Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting
The 1:24,000-scale topographic quadrangle was the primary product of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Mapping Program from 1947-1992. This map series includes about 54,000 map sheets for the conterminous United States, and is the only uniform map series ever produced that covers this area at such a large...
Using a coupled groundwater/surface-water model to predict climate-change impacts to lakes in the Trout Lake Watershed, northern Wisconsin
Randall J. Hunt, John F. Walker, Steven L. Markstrom, Lauren E. Hay, John Doherty
Richard M. T. Webb, Darius J. Semmens, editor(s)
2009, Conference Paper, Planning for an uncertain future - monitoring, integration, and adaptation (SIR 2009-5049)
A major focus of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Trout Lake Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budgets (WEBB) project is the development of a watershed model to allow predictions of hydrologic response to future conditions including land-use and climate change. The coupled groundwater/surface-water model GSFLOW was chosen for this purpose because it...
Hindcasting of decadal‐timescale estuarine bathymetric change with a tidal‐timescale model
Neil K. Ganju, David H. Schoellhamer, Bruce E. Jaffe
2009, Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface (114)
Hindcasting decadal-timescale bathymetric change in estuaries is prone to error due to limited data for initial conditions, boundary forcing, and calibration; computational limitations further hinder efforts. We developed and calibrated a tidal-timescale model to bathymetric change in Suisun Bay, California, over the 1867–1887 period. A general, multiple-timescale calibration ensured robustness...
Local versus landscape-scale effects of savanna trees on grasses
Corinna Riginos, James B. Grace, David J. Augustine, Truman P. Young
2009, Journal of Ecology (97) 1337-1345
1. Savanna ecosystems – defined by the coexistence of trees and grasses – cover more than one‐fifth the world’s land surface and harbour most of the world’s rangelands, livestock and large mammal diversity. Savanna trees can have a variety of effects on grasses, with consequences for the wild and domestic...
Importance of light, temperature, zooplankton, and fish in predicting the nighttime vertical distribution of Mysis diluviana
Brent Boscarino, Lars G. Rudstam, S.A. Ellenberger, Robert O’Gorman
2009, Aquatic Biology (5) 263-279
The opossum shrimp Mysis diluviana (formerly M. relicta) performs large amplitude diel vertical migrations in Lake Ontario and its nighttime distribution is influenced by temperature, light and the distribution of its predators and prey. At one location in southeastern Lake Ontario, we measured the vertical distribution of mysids, mysid predators (i.e. planktivorous fishes)...
Life history and status of shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) in the Potomac River
Micah Kieffer
2009, Journal of Applied Ichthyology (25) 34-38
We collected the first life history information on shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) in any of the rivers to Chesapeake Bay, the geographic center of the species range. In the Potomac River, two telemetry-tagged adult females used 124 km of river: a saltwater/freshwater reach at river km (rkm) 63-141 was the...
Transport of tritium contamination to the atmosphere in an arid environment
C. Amanda Garcia, Brian J. Andraski, Michael J. Johnson, David A. Stonestrom, Robert L. Michel, C.A. Cooper, S.W. Wheatcraft
2009, Vadose Zone Journal (8) 450-461
Soil–plant–atmosphere interactions strongly influence water movement in desert unsaturated zones, but little is known about how such interactions affect atmospheric release of subsurface water-borne contaminants. This 2-yr study, performed at the U.S. Geological Survey's Amargosa Desert Research Site in southern Nevada, quantified the magnitude and spatiotemporal variability of tritium (3H)...
Distinct freshwater and seawater isoforms of Na+/K+-ATPase in gill chloride cells of Atlantic salmon
Stephen D. McCormick, A.M. Regish, A.K. Christensen
2009, Journal of Experimental Biology (212) 3994-4001
Gill Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase (NKA) in teleost fishes is involved in ion regulation in both freshwater and seawater. We have developed and validated rabbit polyclonal antibodies specific to the NKA alpha1a and alpha1b protein isoforms of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar Linnaeus), and used western blots and immunohistochemistry to characterize their size, abundance...
Desert Dust Storm Microbiology: Issues in Planetary Health
Dale W. Griffin
2009, Book chapter, Yearbook of Science and Technology
