Methods for Estimating Withdrawal and Return Flow by Census Block for 2005 and 2020 for New Hampshire
Laura Hayes, Marilee A. Horn
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1168
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, estimated the amount of water demand, consumptive use, withdrawal, and return flow for each U.S. Census block in New Hampshire for the years 2005 (current) and 2020. Estimates of domestic, commercial, industrial, irrigation, and other nondomestic...
Computer programs for obtaining and analyzing daily mean streamflow data from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System web site
Gregory E. Granato
2009, Open-File Report 2008-1362
Five computer programs were developed for obtaining and analyzing streamflow from the National Water Information System (NWISWeb). The programs were developed as part of a study by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, to develop a stochastic empirical loading and dilution model. The programs were...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory seismic data, January to December 2008
Jennifer S. Nakata, Paul G. Okubo
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1251
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) summary presents seismic data gathered during the year. The seismic summary is offered without interpretation as a source of preliminary data and is complete in that most data for events of M greater than 1.5 are included. All latitude and longitude...
Enumeration of Pacific walrus carcasses on beaches of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska following a mortality event, September 2009
Anthony S. Fischbach, Daniel H. Monson, C.V. Jay
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1291
On September 14, 2009, we encountered substantial numbers of fresh walrus carcasses on the Alaskan shores of the Chukchi Sea near Icy Cape. We enumerated 131 carcasses using geo-referenced strip transect photography and visual counts of solitary carcasses. All appeared to be young animals based on review of aerial photographs...
A Collection of Chemical, Mineralogical, and Stable Isotopic Compositional Data for Green River Oil Shale from Depositional Center Cores in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
Michele L.W. Tuttle
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1274
For over half a century, the U.S. Geological Survey and collaborators have conducted stratigraphic and geochemical studies on the Eocene Green River Formation, which is known to contain large oil shale resources. Many of the studies were undertaken in the 1970s during the last oil shale boom. One such study...
Distribution, Health, and Development of Larval and Juvenile Lost River and Shortnose Suckers in the Williamson River Delta Restoration Project and Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon: 2008 Annual Data Summary
Summer M. Burdick, Christopher Ottinger, Daniel T. Brown, Scott P. VanderKooi, Laura Robertson, Deborah D. Iwanowicz
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1287
Federally endangered Lost River sucker Deltistes luxatus and shortnose sucker Chasmistes brevirostris were once abundant throughout their range but populations have declined; they have been extirpated from several lakes, and may no longer reproduce in others. Poor recruitment into the adult spawning populations is one of several reasons cited for...
Sizes of the largest possible earthquakes in the central and eastern United States— Summary of a workshop, September 8–9, 2008, Golden, Colorado
Russell L. Wheeler
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1263
Most probabilistic seismic-hazard assessments require an estimate of Mmax, the magnitude (M) of the largest earthquake that is thought possible within a specified area. In seismically active areas such as some plate boundaries, large earthquakes occur frequently enough that Mmax might have been observed directly during the historical period. In...
Holocene record of major and trace components in the sediments of an urban impoundment on the Mississippi River: Lake Pepin, Minnesota and Wisconsin
Walter E. Dean
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1238
Lake Pepin is a natural impoundment formed by damming of the Mississippi River about 9,180 radiocarbon years ago (19,600 calendar years) by an alluvial fan deposited by the Chippewa River, a tributary of the Mississippi in Wisconsin. Unique among 26 Mississippi River impoundments, Lake Pepin has stratigraphically preserved Holocene materials,...
Sediment-hosted zinc-lead deposits of the world— Database and grade and tonnage models
Donald A. Singer, Vladimir I. Berger, Barry C. Moring
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1252
This report provides information on sediment-hosted zinc-lead mineral deposits based on the geologic settings that are observed on regional geologic maps. The foundation of mineral-deposit models is information about known deposits. The purpose of this publication is to make this kind of information available in digital form for sediment-hosted zinc-lead...
Salton Sea Ecosystem Monitoring Project
A. Keith Miles, Mark A. Ricca, Anne Meckstroth, Sarah E. Spring
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1276
The Salton Sea is critically important for wintering and breeding waterbirds, but faces an uncertain future due to water delivery reductions imposed by the Interstate and Federal Quantification Settlement Agreement of 2003. The current preferred alternative for wetland restoration at the Salton Sea is saline habitat impoundments created to mitigate...
Mineral-resource assessment of northern Nye County, Nevada— A progress report
Steve Ludington, David A. John, John L. Muntean, Andrew D. Hanson, Stephen B. Castor, Christopher D. Henry, Niki Wintzer, Jean S. Cline, Adam C. Simon
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1271
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG), which is a part of the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), have completed the first year of data collection and analysis in preparation for a new mineral- and energy-resource assessment of...
Holocene core logs and site statistics for modern patch-reef cores: Biscayne National Park, Florida
Christopher D. Reich, T. Don Hickey, Kristine L. DeLong, Richard Z. Poore, John Brock
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1246
The bedrock in Biscayne National Park (BNP), a 1,730-square kilometer (km2) region off southeast Florida, consists of Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago (Ma) to 10,000 years ago (ka)) and Holocene (10 ka to present) carbonate rocks (Enos and Perkins, 1977; Halley and others, 1997; Multer and others, 2002). Most of...
Helicopter Electromagnetic and Magnetic Geophysical Survey Data for Portions of the North Platte River and Lodgepole Creek, Nebraska, June 2008
Bruce D. Smith, Jared D. Abraham, James C. Cannia, Patricia Hill
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1110
This report is a release of digital data from a helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic survey that was conducted during June 2008 in areas of western Nebraska as part of a joint hydrologic study by the North Platte Natural Resource District, South Platte Natural Resource District, and U.S. Geological Survey. The...
Rapid assessment of U.S. forest and soil organic carbon storage and forest biomass carbon sequestration capacity
Eric T. Sundquist, Katherine V. Ackerman, Norman B. Bliss, Josef M. Kellndorfer, Matt C. Reeves, Matthew G. Rollins
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1283
This report provides results of a rapid assessment of biological carbon stocks and forest biomass carbon sequestration capacity in the conterminous United States. Maps available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are used to calculate estimates of current organic carbon storage in soils (73 petagrams of carbon, or PgC) and...
Reconstructing Rodinia by Fitting Neoproterozoic Continental Margins
John H. Stewart
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1191
Reconstructions of Phanerozoic tectonic plates can be closely constrained by lithologic correlations across conjugate margins by paleontologic information, by correlation of orogenic belts, by paleomagnetic location of continents, and by ocean floor magmatic stripes. In contrast, Proterozoic reconstructions are hindered by the lack of some of these tools or the...
The Ecology of Parasite-Host Interactions at Montezuma Well National Monument, Arizona - Appreciating the Importance of Parasites
Chris O’Brien, Charles van Riper III
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1261
Although parasites play important ecological roles through the direct interactions they have with their hosts, historically that fact has been underappreciated. Today, scientists have a growing appreciation of the scope of such impacts. Parasites have been reported to dominate food webs, alter predator-prey relationships, act as ecosystem engineers, and alter...
A preliminary, full spectrum, magnetic anomaly grid of the United States with improved long wavelengths for studying continental dynamics: A website for distribution of data
D. Ravat, Carol A. Finn, P. Hill, R. Kucks, J. Phillips, R. Blakely, C. Bouligand, T. Sabaka, A. Elshayat, A. Aref, E. Elawadi
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1258
Under an initiative started by Thomas G. Hildenbrand of the U.S. Geological Survey, we have improved the long-wavelength (50-2,500 km) content of the regional magnetic anomaly compilation for the conterminous United States by utilizing a nearly homogeneous set of National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) magnetic surveys flown from 1975 to...
Summary of survival data from juvenile coho salmon in the Klamath River, northern California, 2009
John W. Beeman, Steven D. Juhnke
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1270
A study of the effects of the discharge from Iron Gate Dam on the Klamath River on juvenile coho salmon during their seaward migration began in 2005. Estimates of fish survival through various reaches of the river downstream of the dam were completed in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. This...
Flood of June 26-29, 2006, Mohawk, Delaware, and Susquehanna River Basins, New York
Thomas P. Suro, Gary D. Firda, Carolyn O. Szabo
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1063
A stalled frontal system caused tropical moisture to be funneled northward into New York, causing severe flooding in the Mohawk, Delaware, and Susquehanna River basins during June 26-29, 2006. Rainfall totals for this multi-day event ranged from 2 to 3 inches to greater than 13 inches in southern New York....
Application of the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process for Missouri Streams
Jonathan G. Kennen, James A. Henriksen, John Heasley, Brian S. Cade, James W. Terrell
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1138
Natural flow regime concepts and theories have established the justification for maintaining or restoring the range of natural hydrologic variability so that physiochemical processes, native biodiversity, and the evolutionary potential of aquatic and riparian assemblages can be sustained. A synthesis of recent research advances in hydroecology, coupled with stream classification...
Long-Term Stage, Stage-Residual, and Width Data for Streams in the Piedmont Physiographic Region, Georgia
Jeffrey W. Riley, Robert B. Jacobson
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1205
This report presents the data used to assess geomorphic adjustment of streams over time and to changing land-use conditions. Thirty-seven U.S. Geological Survey streamgages were selected within the Piedmont physiographic region of Georgia. Width, depth, stage, and discharge data from these streams were analyzed to assess channel stability and determine...
Assessment of contaminant exposure and effects on ospreys nesting along the Lower Duwamish River, Washington, 2006-07
Branden L. Johnson, Charles J. Henny, James L. Kaiser, Jay W. Davis, Edmund P. Schulz
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1255
We evaluated the effects of contaminants on osprey (Pandion haliaetus) nesting along the lower Duwamish River (LDR), Washington, and used the upper reach of the Willamette River (WR), Oregon, as a reference site. Osprey eggs and nestling blood (plasma) were collected at nests along the LDR (11 eggs, 7 plasmas)...
Survey of ungulate abundance on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California, March 2009
Paul C. Griffin, Kate A. Schoenecker, Peter J. Gogan, Bruce C. Lubow
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1243
Reliable estimates of elk (Cervus elaphus) and deer (Odocoileus hemionus) abundance on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California, are required to assess the success of management actions directed at these species. We conducted a double-observer aerial survey of elk on a large portion of Santa Rosa Island on...
Water-Level Data for the Albuquerque Basin and Adjacent Areas, Central New Mexico, Period of Record Through September 30, 2008
Joseph E. Beman
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1125
The Albuquerque Basin, located in central New Mexico, is about 100 miles long and 25 to 40 miles wide. The basin is defined as the extent of consolidated and unconsolidated deposits of Tertiary and Quaternary age that encompass the structural Rio Grande Rift within the basin. Drinking-water supplies throughout the...
Young Stand Thinning and Diversity Study: Response of Songbird Community One Decade Post-Treatment
Joan Hagar, Cheryl Friesen
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1253
The response of songbird assemblages to commercial thinning is likely to change as vegetation develops over time after thinning. The influence of thinning intensity and pattern on the timing of transitions in bird community composition following thinning is of interest to managers when a goal is to maintain diversity and...
