Terrestrial forest management plan for Palmyra Atoll
Stacie A. Hathaway, Kathryn McEachern, Robert N. Fisher
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1007
This 'Terrestrial Forest Management Plan for Palmyra Atoll' was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Palmyra Program to refine and expand goals and objectives developed through the Conservation Action Plan process. It is one in a series of adaptive management plans designed to achieve...
Relative abundance and distribution of fishes and crayfish at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nye County, Nevada, 2007-08
G. Gary Scoppettone, Peter Rissler, Danielle Johnson, Mark Hereford
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1017
This study provides baseline data of native and non-native fish populations in Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), Nye County, Nevada, that can serve as a gauge in native fish enhancement efforts. In support of Carson Slough restoration, comprehensive surveys of Ash Meadows NWR fishes were conducted seasonally from fall...
Overview of the ARkStorm scenario
Keith Porter, Anne Wein, Charles N. Alpers, Allan Baez, Patrick L. Barnard, James Carter, Alessandra Corsi, James Costner, Dale Cox, Tapash Das, Mike Dettinger, James Done, Charles Eadie, Marcia Eymann, Justin Ferris, Prasad Gunturi, Mimi Hughes, Robert Jarrett, Laurie Johnson, Hanh Dam Le-Griffin, David Mitchell, Suzette Morman, Paul Neiman, Anna Olsen, Suzanne Perry, Geoffrey Plumlee, Martin Ralph, David Reynolds, Adam Rose, Kathleen Schaefer, Julie Serakos, William Siembieda, Jonathan D. Stock, David Strong, Ian Sue Wing, Alex Tang, Pete Thomas, Ken Topping, Chris Wills, Lucile Jones
2011, Open-File Report 2010-1312
The U.S. Geological Survey, Multi Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP) uses hazards science to improve resiliency of communities to natural disasters including earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, landslides, floods and coastal erosion. The project engages emergency planners, businesses, universities, government agencies, and others in preparing for major natural disasters. The project also helps...
Geochemical characteristics of Holocene laminated sapropel (unit II) and underlying lacustrine unit III in the Black Sea
Walter E. Dean, Michael A. Arthur
2011, Open-File Report 2010-1323
eg 1 of the 1988 R/V Knorr expeditions to the Black Sea recovered 90 gravity and box cores. The longest recovery by gravity cores was about 3 meters, with an average of about 2.5 meters, recovering all of the Holocene and upper Pleistocene sections in the Black Sea. During the...
Seasonal Flux and Assemblage Composition of Planktic Foraminifera from the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2008-2009
Jessica W. Spear, Richard Z. Poore
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1002
The U.S. Geological Survey established a sediment trap in the northern Gulf of Mexico to collect time-series data on the flux and assemblage composition of live planktic foraminifers. This report provides an update of the 2008 time-series data to include results from 2009. Ten species, or varieties, of planktic foraminifers...
Coastal vulnerability assessment of the Northern Gulf of Mexico to sea-level rise and coastal change
E.A. Pendleton, J.A. Barras, S.J. Williams, D.C. Twichell
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1146
A coastal vulnerability index (CVI) was used to map the relative vulnerability of the coast to future sea-level rise along the Northern Gulf of Mexico from Galveston, TX, to Panama City, FL. The CVI ranks the following in terms of their physical contribution to sea-level rise-related coastal change: geomorphology, regional...
Whole-rock analyses of core samples from the 1988 drilling of Kilauea Iki lava lake, Hawaii
Rosalind Tuthill Helz, Joseph E. Taggart Jr.
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1093
This report presents and evaluates 64 major-element analyses of previously unanalyzed Kilauea Iki drill core, plus three samples from the 1959 and 1960 eruptions of Kilauea, obtained by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis during the period 1992 to 1995. All earlier major-element analyses of Kilauea Iki core, obtained by classical (gravimetric)...
Geomorphology and depositional subenvironments of Gulf Islands National Seashore, Perdido Key and Santa Rosa Island, Florida
Robert A. Morton, Marilyn C. Montgomery
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1330
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is studying coastal hazards and coastal change to improve our understanding of coastal ecosystems and to develop better capabilities of predicting future coastal change. One approach to understanding the dynamics of coastal systems is to monitor changes in barrier-island subenvironments through time. This involves examining...
Low-flow frequency and flow duration of selected South Carolina streams in the Broad River basin through March 2008
Wladmir B. Guimaraes, Toby D. Feaster
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1305
In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, initiated a study to update low-flow statistics at continuous-record streamgaging stations operated by the U.S. Geological Survey in South Carolina. This report presents the low-flow statistics for 23 selected streamgaging stations in...
Groundwater conditions and studies in the Brunswick–Glynn County area, Georgia, 2008
Gregory S. Cherry, Michael F. Peck, Jaime A. Painter, Welby L. Stayton
2010, Open-File Report 2009-1275
The Upper Floridan aquifer is contaminated with saltwater in a 2-square-mile area of downtown Brunswick, Georgia. This contamination has limited development of the groundwater supply in the Glynn County area. Hydrologic, geologic, and water-quality data are needed to effectively manage water resources. Since 1959, the U.S. Geological Survey has conducted...
Continuous tidal streamflow, water level, and specific conductance data for Union Creek and the Little Back, Middle, and Front Rivers, Savannah River Estuary, November 2008 to March 2009
Timothy H. Lanier, Paul Conrads
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1169
In the Water Resource Development Act of 1999, the U.S. Congress authorized the deepening of the Savannah Harbor. Additional studies were then identified by the Georgia Ports Authority and other local and regional stakeholders to determine and fully describe the potential environmental effects of deepening the channel. One need that...
Public water-supply systems and associated water use in Tennessee, 2005
John A. Robinson, Jaala M. Brooks
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1226
Public water-supply systems in Tennessee provide water to for domestic, industrial, and commercial uses, and municipal services. In 2005, more than 569 public water-supply systems distributed about 920 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) of non-purchased surface water and groundwater to a population of nearly 6 million in Tennessee. Surface-water sources...
Surface-water quality-assurance plan for the USGS Georgia Water Science Center, 2010
Anthony J. Gotvald
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1263
The U.S. Geological Survey requires that each Water Science Center prepare a surface-water quality-assurance plan to describe policies and procedures that ensure high quality surface-water data collection, processing, analysis, computer storage, and publication. The Georgia Water Science Center's standards, policies, and procedures for activities related to the collection, processing, analysis,...
Southeast Regional Assessment Project for the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Melinda S. Dalton, Sonya A. Jones
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1213
The Southeastern United States spans a broad range of physiographic settings and maintains exceptionally high levels of faunal diversity. Unfortunately, many of these ecosystems are increasingly under threat due to rapid human development, and management agencies are increasingly aware of the potential effects that climate change will have on these...
Report of the River Master of the Delaware River for the period December 1, 2005-November 30, 2006
Bruce E. Krejmas, Gary N. Paulachok, Stephen F. Blanchard
2010, Open-File Report 2011-1177
A Decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, entered June 7, 1954, established the position of Delaware River Master within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In addition, the Decree authorizes diversions of water from the Delaware River Basin and requires compensating releases from certain reservoirs, owned by New...
Evaluation of geodetic and geologic datasets in the Northern Walker Lane-Summary and recommendations of the Workshop
Richard W. Briggs, William C. Hammond
2010, Open-File Report 2011-1282
The Northern Walker Lane comprises a complex network of active faults in northwestern Nevada and northeastern California bound on the west by the Sierra Nevada and on the east by the extensional Basin and Range Province. Because deformation is distributed across sets of discontinuous faults, it is particularly challenging to...
Potentiometric Surface of the Aquia Aquifer in Southern Maryland, September 2009
Stephen E. Curtin, David C. Andreasen, Andrew W. Staley
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1201
This report presents a map showing the potentiometric surface of the Aquia aquifer in the Aquia Formation of Paleocene age in Southern Maryland during September 2009. The map is based on water-level measurements in 82 wells. The highest measured water level was 48 feet above sea level near the northern...
Difference between the potentiometric surfaces of the Lower Patapsco aquifer in southern Maryland, September 1990 and September 2009
Stephen E. Curtin, David C. Andreasen, Andrew W. Staley
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1208
This report presents a map showing the change in the potentiometric surface of the lower Patapsco aquifer in the Patapsco Formation of Early Cretaceous age in Southern Maryland between September 1990 and September 2009. The map, based on water level differences obtained from 45 wells, shows that the change of...
Historic Flooding in Georgia, 2009
Anthony J. Gotvald
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1230
Heavy rains in southern Georgia during March 27-April 3, 2009, and in northern Georgia during September 16-22, 2009, caused severe flooding and widespread damages to residential, public, and commercial structures. Of the 159 counties in Georgia, 69 were declared disaster areas because of flooding. The heavy rainfall in southern Georgia...
Implementation of the Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) ground-motion prediction equations in Fortran and R
James Kaklamanos, David M. Boore, Eric M. Thompson, Kenneth W. Campbell
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1296
This report presents two methods for implementing the earthquake ground-motion prediction equations released in 2008 as part of the Next Generation Attenuation of Ground Motions (NGA-West, or NGA) project coordinated by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER). These models were developed for predicting ground-motion parameters for shallow crustal earthquakes...
Computer simulation of reservoir depletion and oil flow from the Macondo well following the Deepwater Horizon blowout
Paul Hsieh
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1266
This report describes the application of a computer model to simulate reservoir depletion and oil flow from the Macondo well following the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Reservoir and fluid data used for model development are based on (1) information released in BP's investigation report of the incident, (2) information provided by...
An initial SPARROW model of land use and in-stream controls on total organic carbon in streams of the conterminous United States
Jhih-Shyang Shih, Richard B. Alexander, Richard A. Smith, Elizabeth W. Boyer, Grogory E. Shwarz, Susie Chung
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1276
Watersheds play many important roles in the carbon cycle: (1) they are a site for both terrestrial and aquatic carbon dioxide (CO2) removal through photosynthesis; (2) they transport living and decomposing organic carbon in streams and groundwater; and (3) they store organic carbon for widely varying lengths of time as...
Biogeochemical processes in an urban, restored wetland of San Francisco Bay, California, 2007-2009: Methods and data for plant, sediment and water parameters
Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Mark C. Marvin-DiPasquale, Jennifer L. Agee, Le H. Kieu, Evangelos Kakouros, Li H. Erikson, Kristen Ward
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1299
The restoration of 18 acres of historic tidal marsh at Crissy Field has had great success in terms of public outreach and visibility, but less success in terms of revegetated marsh sustainability. Native cordgrass (Spartina foliosa) has experienced dieback and has failed to recolonize following extended flooding events during unintended...
Microbial and geochemical investigations of dissolved organic carbon and microbial ecology of native waters from the Biscayne and Upper Floridan Aquifers
John T. Lisle, Ron W. Harvey, George R. Aiken, David W. Metge
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1021
Groundwater resources in the United States are under ever-increasing demands for potable, irrigation, and recreational uses. Additionally, aquifer systems are being used or targeted for use as storage areas for treated surface waters and (or) groundwaters via injection (for example, aquifer storage and recovery). To date, the influence that the...
Shenandoah National Park Phenology Project-Weather data collection, description, and processing
John W. Jones, Danielle P. Aiello, Jesse D. Osborne
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1272
The weather data described in this document are being collected as part of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study of changes in Shenandoah National Park (SNP) landscape phenology (Jones and Osbourne, 2008). Phenology is the study of the timing of biological events, such as annual plant flowering and seasonal bird...
