Data report: Permeabilities of eastern equatorial Pacific and Peru margin sediments
Kusali Gamage, Barbara A. Bekins, Elizabeth Screaton
Bo B. Jorgensen, Steven L. D’Hondt, D. Jay Miller, editor(s)
2006, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: Scientific Results 201-18
Constant-flow permeability tests were conducted on core samples from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 201 from the eastern equatorial Pacific and the Peru margin. Eighteen whole-round core samples from Sites 1225, 1226, 1227, 1230, and 1231 were tested for vertical permeabilities. Sites 1225, 1226, and 1231 represent sediments of the open...
Effects of floods on fish assemblages in an intermittent prairie stream
N.R. Franssen, K.B. Gido, C.S. Guy, J.A. Tripe, S.J. Shrank, T.R. Strakosh, K.N. Bertrand, C.M. Franssen, K.L. Pitts, C.P. Paukert
2006, Freshwater Biology (51) 2072-2086
1. Floods are major disturbances to stream ecosystems that can kill or displace organisms and modify habitats. Many studies have reported changes in fish assemblages after a single flood, but few studies have evaluated the importance of timing and intensity of floods on long-term fish assemblage dynamics. 2. We used...
Water Resources Data New York Water Year 2005, Volume 2: Long Island
U.S. Geological Survey
2006, Water Data Report NY-05-2
Water resources data for the 2005 water year for Long Island New York consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; stage and water quality of estuaries; and water levels and water quality of ground-water wells. This volume...
Methods Used to Assess the Susceptibility to Contamination of Transient, Non-Community Public Ground-Water Supplies in Indiana
Leslie D. Arihood, David A. Cohen
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5059
The Safe Water Drinking Act of 1974 as amended in 1996 gave each State the responsibility of developing a Source-Water Assessment Plan (SWAP) that is designed to protect public-water supplies from contamination. Each SWAP must include three elements: (1) a delineation of the source-water protection area, (2) an inventory of...
Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Brian F. Powell, Eric W. Albrecht, Cecilia A. Schmidt, William L. Halvorson, Pamela Anning, Kathleen Docherty
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1185
Executive Summary This report summarizes results of the first comprehensive biological inventory of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument (NM) in southern Arizona. Surveys at the monument were part of a larger effort to inventory vascular plants and vertebrates in eight National Park Service units in Arizona and New Mexico. In 2001...
The Massachusetts Bay internal wave experiment, August 1998: Data report
Bradford Butman, P. Soupy Alexander, Steven P. Anderson, Frances L. Lightsom, Alberto Scotti, Robert C. Beardsley
2006, Data Series 85
This data report presents oceanographic observations made in Massachusetts Bay (fig. 1) in August 1998 as part of the Massachusetts Bay Internal Wave Experiment (MBIWE98). MBIWE98 was carried out to characterize large-amplitude internal waves in Massachusetts Bay and to investigate the possible resuspension and transport of bottom sediments caused by...
Chapter A4. Collection of water samples
U.S. Geological Survey
2006, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 09-A4
The National Field Manual for the Collection of Water-Quality Data (National Field Manual) describes protocols and provides guidelines for U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel who collect data that are used to assess the quality of the Nation's surface-water and ground-water resources. This chapter addresses preparations and appropriate methods for the...
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Trinity Peninsula area and south Shetland Islands, Antarctica: 1843-2001: Chapter A in Coastal-change and glaciological maps of Antarctica
Jane G. Ferrigno, Alison J. Cook, Kevin M. Foley, Richard S. Williams Jr., Charles Swithinbank, Adrian J. Fox, Janet W. Thomson, Jorn Sievers
2006, IMAP 2600-A
Changes in the area and volume of polar ice sheets are intricately linked to changes in global climate, and the resulting changes in sea level could severely impact the densely populated coastal regions on Earth. Melting of the West Antarctic part alone of the Antarctic ice sheet would cause a...
Aquatic habitat mapping with an acoustic doppler current profiler: Considerations for data quality
David Gaeuman, Robert B. Jacobson
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1163
When mounted on a boat or other moving platform, acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) can be used to map a wide range of ecologically significant phenomena, including measures of fluid shear, turbulence, vorticity, and near-bed sediment transport. However, the instrument movement necessary for mapping applications can generate significant errors, many...
Submersed Aquatic Vegetation Modeling Output Online
Yao Yin, Jim Rogala, John Sullivan, Jason J. Rohweder
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1233
Introduction The ability to predict the distribution of submersed aquatic vegetation in the Upper Mississippi River on the basis of physical or chemical variables is useful to resource managers. Wildlife managers have a keen interest in advanced estimates of food quantity such as American wildcelery (Vallisneria americana) population status to give...
Summary of significant floods in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1994 through 1998 water years
C. A. Perry
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5194
This volume is a compilation of significant floods that occurred at streamgages throughout the United States and Puerto Rico from October 1, 1993, through September 30, 1998. A significant flood in this report refers to a peak-flow discharge(instantaneous or time averaged) that is in the top 5 percent of all...
UCODE_2005 and six other computer codes for universal sensitivity analysis, calibration, and uncertainty evaluation constructed using the JUPITER API
Eileen E. Poeter, Mary C. Hill, Edward R. Banta, Steffen Mehl, Steen Christensen
2005, Techniques and Methods 6-A11
This report documents the computer codes UCODE_2005 and six post-processors. Together the codes can be used with existing process models to perform sensitivity analysis, data needs assessment, calibration, prediction, and uncertainty analysis. Any process model or set of models can be used; the only requirements are that models have numerical (ASCII...
Water quality and ground-water/surface-water interactions along the John River near Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, 2002-2003
Edward H. Moran, Timothy P. Brabets
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5229
The headwaters of the John River are located near the village ofAnaktuvuk Pass in the central Brooks Range of interior Alaska. With the recent construction of a water-supply system and a wastewater-treatment plant, most homes in Anaktuvuk Pass now have modern water and wastewater systems. The effluent from the treatment plant discharges into a...
Documentation of the Streamflow-Routing (SFR2) Package to Include Unsaturated Flow Beneath Streams - A Modification to SFR1
Richard G. Niswonger, David E. Prudic
2005, Techniques and Methods 6-A13
Many streams in the United States, especially those in semiarid regions, have reaches that are hydraulically disconnected from underlying aquifers. Ground-water withdrawals have decreased water levels in valley aquifers beneath streams, increasing the occurrence of disconnected streams and aquifers. The U.S. Geological Survey modular ground-water model (MODFLOW-2000) can be used...
Framework for regional synthesis of water-quality data for the glacial aquifer system in the United States
Kelly L. Warner, Terri Arnold
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5223
The glacial aquifer system is the largest principal aquifer in aerial extent and ground-water use for public supply in the United States. A principal aquifer is defined as a regionally extensive aquifer or aquifer system that has the potential to be used as a source of potable water (U.S. Geological...
Early to middle Jurassic salt in Baltimore Canyon trough
B. Ann McKinney, Myung W. Lee, Warren F. Agena, C. Wylie Poag
2005, Open-File Report 2004-1435
A pervasive, moderately deep (5-6 s two-way traveltime), high-amplitude reflection is traced on multichannel seismic sections over an approximately 7500 km² area of Baltimore Canyon Trough. The layer associated with the reflection is about 25 km wide, about 60 m thick in the center, and thins monotonically laterally, though asymmetrically,...
Sediment-transport investigations of the upper Yellowstone River, Montana, 1999 through 2001: Data collection, analysis, and simulation of sediment transport
Stephen R. Holnbeck
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5234
The upper Yellowstone River in Montana is an important State and national water resource, providing recreational, agricultural, and commercial benefits. Floods in 1996 and 1997, with recorded peak discharges having recurrence intervals close to 100 years, caused substantial streambank erosion and hill- slope mass wasting. Large quantities of sand-,...
Streamflow characteristics and trends in New Jersey, water years 1897-2003
Kara M. Watson, Robert G. Reiser, Steven P. Nieswand, Robert D. Schopp
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5105
Streamflow statistics were computed for 111 continuous-record streamflow-gaging stations with 20 or more years of continuous record and for 500 low-flow partial-record stations, including 66 gaging stations with less than 20 years of continuous record. Daily mean streamflow data from water year 1897 through water year 2001 were used for...
Historical statistics for mineral and material commodities in the United States
Thomas Kelly, Grecia R. Matos, David A. Buckingham, Carl A. DiFrancesco, Kenneth E. Porter, Cyrus Berry, Melissa Crane, Thomas Goonan, John Sznopek
2005, Data Series 140
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides information to the public and to policy-makers concerning the current use and flow of minerals and materials in the United States economy. The USGS collects, analyzes, and disseminates minerals information on most nonfuel mineral commodities.This USGS digital database is an online compilation of historical...
Occurrence of organic wastewater compounds in wastewater effluent and the Big Sioux River in the Upper Big Sioux River basin, South Dakota, 2003-2004
Steven K. Sando, Edward T. Furlong, James L. Gray, Michael T. Meyer, Roy C. Bartholomay
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5249
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the East Dakota Water Development District conducted a reconnaissance study to determine the occurrence of organic wastewater compounds (OWCs) in wastewater effluent and the Big Sioux River at or near the cities of Watertown, Volga, and Brookings in the upper Big Sioux...
Surface water-quality and water-quantity data from selected urban runoff-monitoring sites at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Commerce City, Colorado, water years 1988-2004
John D. Gordon, Donald E. Schild, Joseph P. Capesius, Cecil B. Slaughter
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5214
The U.S. Geological Survey has monitored the quality and quantity of streamflow at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal (RMA) northeast of Denver, Colorado, since the early 1990s in cooperation with the U.S. Army. This report, prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, documents existing surface-water-quality conditions on the...
Hydrologic and water-quality conditions in the Kansas River, northeast Kansas, November 2001–August 2002, and simulation of ammonia assimilative capacity and bacteria transport during low flow
Patrick P. Rasmussen, Victoria G. Christensen
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5188
Large concentrations of ammonia and densities of bacteria have been detected in reaches of the Kansas River in northeast Kansas during low streamflow conditions, prompting the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to list these reaches as water-quality limited with respect to ammonia and fecal coliform bacteria. Sources for...
Effects of Surface-Water Diversions on Habitat Availability for Native Macrofauna, Northeast Maui, Hawaii
Stephen B. Gingerich, Reuben H. Wolff
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5213
Effects of surface-water diversions on habitat availability for native stream fauna (fish, shrimp, and snails) are described for 21 streams in northeast Maui, Hawaii. Five streams (Waikamoi, Honomanu, Wailuanui, Kopiliula, and Hanawi Streams) were chosen as representative streams for intensive study. On each of the five streams, three representative reaches...
Water-quality assessment of Lake Houston near Houston, Texas, 2000-2004
Debra A. Sneck-Fahrer, Matthew S. Milburn, Jeffery W. East, Jeannette H. Oden
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5241
Lake Houston is a major source of public water supply and recreational resource for the Houston metropolitan area, Texas. Water-quality issues of potential concern for the lake have included nutrient enrichment (orthophosphorus, total phosphorus, nitrite plus nitrate) and aquatic life use (dissolved oxygen). The , in cooperation with the City...
Water Resources Data New York Water Year 2004, Volume 2: Long Island
A.G. GeSpinello, R.J. Busciolano, G.P. Pena-Cruz, R.B. Winowitch
2005, Water Data Report NY-04-2
Water resources data for the 2004 water year for Long Island New York consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; stage and water quality of estuaries; and water levels and water quality of ground-water wells. This volume...
