Generalized surficial geologic map of the Fort Irwin Area, San Bernardino County, California
David M. Miller, Christopher M. Menges, David J. Lidke
David C. Buesch, editor(s)
2014, Open-File Report 2013-1024-B
The geology and landscape of the Fort Irwin area, typical of many parts of the Mojave Desert, consist of rugged mountains separated by broad alluviated valleys that form the main coarse-resolution features of the geologic map. Crystalline and sedimentary rocks, Mesozoic and older in age, form most of the mountains...
Introduction to the geologic and geophysical studies of Fort Irwin, California
David C. Buesch
David C. Buesch, editor(s)
2014, Open-File Report 2013-1024-A
Geologic and geophysical investigations in the vicinity of Fort Irwin National Training Center, California, have been completed in support of groundwater investigations, and are presented in eight chapters of this report. A generalized surficial geologic map along with field and borehole investigations conducted during 2010–11 provide a lithostratigraphic and structural...
Specification for the U.S. Geological Survey Historical Topographic Map Collection
Gregory J. Allord, Jennifer L. Walter, Kristin A. Fishburn, Gale A. Shea
2014, Techniques and Methods 11-B6
This document provides the detailed requirements for producing, archiving, and disseminating a comprehensive digital collection of topographic maps for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC). The HTMC is a digital archive of about 190,000 printed topographic maps published by the USGS from the inception of the...
Aeromagnetic data, processing, and maps of Fort Irwin and vicinity, California
Victoria E. Langenheim, Robert C. Jachens
David C. Buesch, editor(s)
2014, Open-File Report 2013-1024-I
Aeromagnetic data help provide the underpinnings of a hydrogeologic framework for Fort Irwin by locating inferred structural features or grain that influence groundwater flow. Magnetization boundaries defined by horizontal-gradient analyses coincide locally with Cenozoic faults and can be used to extend these faults beneath cover. These boundaries also highlight the...
Sediment data collected in 2013 from the northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana
Noreen A. Buster, Kyle W. Kelso, Julie Bernier, James G. Flocks, Jennifer L. Miselis, Nancy T. DeWitt
2014, Data Series 894
As part of the Barrier Island Evolution Research project, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center collected sediment samples from the northern Chandeleur Islands in July 2013. The overall objective of this project, which integrates geophysical (bathymetric, seismic, and topographic) and sedimentologic data, is...
Documentation for the U.S. Geological Survey Public-Supply Database (PSDB): A database of permitted public-supply wells, surface-water intakes, and systems in the United States
Curtis V. Price, Molly A. Maupin
2014, Open-File Report 2014-1212
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a database containing information about wells, surface-water intakes, and distribution systems that are part of public water systems across the United States, its territories, and possessions. Programs of the USGS such as the National Water Census, the National Water Use Information Program, and...
Water resources of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
Lawrence B. Prakken, Vincent E. White
2014, Fact Sheet 2014-3080
Information concerning the availability, use, and quality of water in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, is critical for proper water-supply management. The purpose of this fact sheet is to present information that can be used by water managers, parish residents, and others for stewardship of this vital resource. Information on the availability,...
Estimates of groundwater recharge rates and sources in the East Mountain area, Eastern Bernalillo County, New Mexico, 2005-12
Steven E. Rice, Dianna M. Crilley
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5181
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Bernalillo County Public Works Division, has conducted a monitoring program in the East Mountain area of eastern Bernalillo County, New Mexico, since 2000 to better define the hydrogeologic characteristics of the East Mountain area and to provide scientific information that will assist...
Water resources of Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana
Vincent E. White, Lawrence B. Prakken
2014, Fact Sheet 2014-3074
Information concerning the availability, use, and quality of water in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, is critical for proper water-supply management. The purpose of this fact sheet is to present information that can be used by water managers, parish residents, and others for stewardship of this vital resource. Information on the...
Evaluation of a mass-balance approach to determine consumptive water use in northeastern Illinois
P.C. Mills, James J. Duncker, Thomas M. Over, Marian Domanski, Marian Domanski, Frank L. Engel
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5176
A principal component of evaluating and managing water use is consumptive use. This is the portion of water withdrawn for a particular use, such as residential, which is evaporated, transpired, incorporated into products or crops, consumed by humans or livestock, or otherwise removed from the immediate water environment. The amount...
A reconnaissance for signs of a Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc mineralizing system on the eastern flank of the Rutbah Uplift, Anbar Province, Iraq
Timothy S. Hayes, Mazin Mustafa, Thair Bennet
2014, Open-File Report 2014-1240
Reconnaissance field visits and rock sampling were conducted at eight geologically selected locations within Mesozoic rocks on the eastern flank of the Rutbah Uplift, Anbar Province, western Iraq, in an attempt to determine if these rocks have been affected by a Mississippi Valley-Type (MVT) lead-zinc mineralizing system. Samples subsequently were...
Colorimetric microtiter plate receptor-binding assay for the detection of freshwater and marine neurotoxins targeting the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
Fernando Rubio, Lisa Kamp, Justin Carpino, Erin Faltin, Keith A. Loftin, Jordi Molgo, Romulo Araoz
2014, Toxicon (91) 45-56
Anatoxin-a and homoanatoxin-a, produced by cyanobacteria, are agonists of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). Pinnatoxins, spirolides, and gymnodimines, produced by dinoflagellates, are antagonists of nAChRs. In this study we describe the development and validation of a competitive colorimetric, high throughput functional assay based on the mechanism of action of freshwater and...
Evidence for free-living Bacteroides in Cladophora along the shores of the Great Lakes
Richard L. Whitman, Muruleedhara Byappanahalli, Ashley Spoljaric, Katarzyna Przybyla-Kelly, Dawn A. Shively, Meredith Nevers
2014, Aquatic Microbial Ecology (72) 117-126
Bacteroides is assumed to be restricted to the alimentary canal of animals and humans and is considered to be non-viable in ambient environments. We hypothesized that Bacteroides could persist and replicate within beach-stranded Cladophora glomerata mats in southern Lake Michigan, USA. Mean Bacteroides concentration (per GenBac3 Taqman quantitative PCR assay)...
Exposure pathways and biological receptors: baseline data for the canyon uranium mine, Coconino County, Arizona
Jo Ellen Hinck, Greg L. Linder, Abigail J. Darrah, Charles A. Drost, Michael C. Duniway, Matthew J. Johnson, Francisca M. Mendez-Harclerode, Erika M. Nowak, Ernest W. Valdez, Charles van Riper III, S.W. Wolff
2014, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (5) 422-440
Recent restrictions on uranium mining within the Grand Canyon watershed have drawn attention to scientific data gaps in evaluating the possible effects of ore extraction to human populations as well as wildlife communities in the area. Tissue contaminant concentrations, one of the most basic data requirements to determine exposure, are...
Conservation Action Planning: Lessons learned from the St. Marys River watershed biodiversity conservation planning process
Tamatha A. Patterson, Ralph Grundel
2014, Journal of Great Lakes Research (40) 7-14
Conservation Action Planning (CAP) is an adaptive management planning process refined by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and embraced worldwide as the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. The CAP process facilitates open, multi-institutional collaboration on a common conservation agenda through organized actions and quantified results. While specifically designed for...
Environmental DNA calibration study. Interim technical review report
K. Baerwaldt, Meredith L. Bartron, K. Schilling, Debbie Lee, Edmond Russo, Trudy Estes, Richard Fischer, Beth Fleming, Michael P. Guilfoyle, K. Jack Kilgore, Richard Lance, Edward Perkins, Martin Schultz, David Smith, Jon J. Amberg, Duane Chapman, Mark P. Gaikowski, Katy E. Klymus, Cathy A. Richter
2014, Report
Invasive aquatic nuisance species pose a major threat to aquatic ecosystems worldwide. Invasive Asian carps, including bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and silver carp (H. molitrix) have been steadily dispersing upstream through the Mississippi, Illinois, and Des Plaines Rivers since the 1990s. To prevent further movement up the Illinois River into...
Focused rock uplift above the subduction décollement at Montague and Hinchinbrook Islands, Prince William Sound, Alaska
Kelly M Ferguson, Phillip A Armstrong, Arkle Jeanette C, Peter J. Haeussler
2014, Geosphere (11) 144-159
Megathrust splay fault systems in accretionary prisms have been identified as conduits for long-term plate motion and significant coseismic slip during subduction earthquakes. These fault systems are important because of their role in generating tsunamis, but rarely are emergent above sea level where their long-term (million year) history can be...
Health assessments of brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) nestlings from colonies in South Carolina and Georgia, U.S.A.
L.M. Ferguson, Terry M. Norton, Carolyn Cray, M. Oliva, Patrick G.R. Jodice
2014, Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine (45) 802-812
Health evaluations of brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) nestlings from three colonies along the Atlantic coast of the southeastern United States were performed in 2005, 2007, and 2008. The primary objective of this study was to establish baseline data for hematologic, biochemical, and serologic values from a relatively healthy population of...
A model to locate potential areas for lake sturgeon spawning habitat construction in the St. Clair–Detroit River System
David Bennion, Bruce A. Manny
2014, Journal of Great Lakes Research (40) 43-51
In response to a need for objective scientific information that could be used to help remediate loss of fish spawning habitat in the St. Clair River and Detroit River International Areas of Concern, this paper summarizes a large-scale geographic mapping investigation. Our study integrates data on two variables that many...
Designing long-term fish community assessments in connecting channels: Lessons from the Saint Marys River
Jeff Schaeffer, Mark W. Rogers, David G. Fielder, Neal Godby, Anjanette K. Bowen, Lisa O'Connor, Josh Parrish, Susan Greenwood, Stephen Chong, Greg Wright
2014, Journal of Great Lakes Research (40) 15-22
Long-term surveys are useful in understanding trends in connecting channel fish communities; a gill net assessment in the Saint Marys River performed periodically since 1975 is the most comprehensive connecting channels sampling program within the Laurentian Great Lakes. We assessed efficiency of that survey, with intent to inform development of...
Inner-shelf circulation and sediment dynamics on a series of shoreface connected ridges offshore of Fire Island, NY
John C. Warner, Jeffrey H. List, William C. Schwab, George Voulgaris, Brandy N. Armstrong, N Marshall
2014, Ocean Dynamics (64) 1767-1781
Locations along the inner-continental shelf offshore of Fire Island, NY, are characterized by a series of shoreface-connected ridges (SFCRs). These sand ridges have approximate dimensions of 10 km in length, 3 km spacing, and up to ∼8 m ridge to trough relief and are oriented obliquely at approximately 30° clockwise from the coastline....
Migratory bird hunter opinions regarding potential management strategies for controlling light goose populations
Andrew J. Dinges, Elisabeth B. Webb, Mark P. Vrtiska, Charles H. Nilon, Sonja A. Wilhelm Stanis
2014, Wildlife Society Bulletin (38) 728-733
We expanded the Nebraska Light Goose Conservation Order (LGCO) harvest survey (NE, USA) in spring 2012 to assess migratory bird hunter opinions regarding future management strategies for controlling light goose populations. Although hunters strongly agreed that population control of light geese was an important wildlife management issue, they were generally...
Magma-ice-sediment interactions and the origin of lava/hyaloclastite sequences in the Síða formation, South Iceland
Tenley J. Banik, Paul J. Wallace, Armann Hoskuldsson, Calvin F. Miller, Charles R. Bacon, David J. Furbish
2014, Bulletin of Volcanology (76)
Products of subglacial volcanism can illuminate reconstructions of paleo-environmental conditions on both local and regional scales. Competing interpretations of Pleistocene conditions in south Iceland have been proposed based on an extensive sequence of repeating lava-and-hyaloclastite deposits in the Síða district. We propose here a new eruptive model and refine the...
Accounting for imperfect detection and survey bias in statistical analysis of presence-only data
Robert M. Dorazio
2014, Global Ecology and Biogeography (23) 1472-1484
Aim During the past decade ecologists have attempted to estimate the parameters of species distribution models by combining locations of species presence observed in opportunistic surveys with spatially referenced covariates of occurrence. Several statistical models have been proposed for the analysis of presence-only data, but these models have largely ignored the...
Why the New Madrid earthquakes are M 7–8 and the Charleston earthquake is ∼M 7
Chris H. Cramer, Oliver S. Boyd
2014, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (104) 2884-2903
Estimates of magnitudes of large historical earthquakes are an essential input to and can seriously affect seismic‐hazard estimates. The earthquake‐intensity observations, modified Mercalli intensities (MMI), and assigned magnitudes Mof the 1811–1812 New Madrid events have been reinterpreted several times in the last decade and have been a source of controversy...
