Groundwater Conditions and Studies in the Albany Area of Dougherty County, Georgia, 2008
Debbie W. Gordon
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1244
The U.S. Geological Survey has been working cooperatively with the Albany Water, Gas, and Light Commission to monitor groundwater quality and availability since 1977. This report presents an overview of groundwater conditions and studies in the Albany area of Dougherty County, Georgia, during 2008. Historical data also are presented for...
Deep Resistivity Structure of Mid Valley, Nevada Test Site, Nevada
Erin L. Wallin, Brian D. Rodriguez, Jackie M. Williams
2009, Open-File Report 2008-1118
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at their Nevada Site Office (NSO) are addressing ground-water contamination resulting from historical underground nuclear testing through the Environmental Management (EM) program and, in particular, the Underground Test Area (UGTA) project. From 1951 to 1992, 828 underground nuclear...
Ground-Water Quality in the Upper Hudson River Basin, New York, 2007
Elizabeth A. Nystrom
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1240
Water samples were collected from 25 production and domestic wells in the Upper Hudson River Basin (north of the Federal Dam at Troy, N.Y.) from August through November 2007 to characterize the ground-water quality. The Upper Hudson River Basin covers 4,600 square miles in upstate New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts;...
St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project - December 2008-June 2009 Progress Report
R. A. Williams, R.A. Bauer, O.S. Boyd, J. Chung, C.H. Cramer, D.A. Gaunt, G.L. Hempen, D. Hoffman, N.S. McCallister, J.L. Prewett, J.D. Rogers, P.J. Steckel, C.M. Watkins
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1245
This report summarizes the mission, the project background, the participants, and the progress of the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project (SLAEHMP) for the period from December 2008 through June 2009. During this period, the SLAEHMP held five conference calls and two face-to-face meetings in St. Louis, participated in...
Multilevel Methodology for Simulation of Spatio-Temporal Systems with Heterogeneous Activity; Application to Spread of Valley Fever Fungus
Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1241
This report consists of a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate College, The University of Arizona, 2008. Spatio-temporal systems with heterogeneity in their structure and behavior have two major...
Texture-based automated lithological classification using aeromagnetic anomaly images
Vivek Shankar
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1206
This report consists of a thesis submitted to the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Graduate College, The University of Arizona, 2004 Aeromagnetic anomaly images are geophysical prospecting tools frequently used in the exploration...
2008 Weather and Aeolian Sand-Transport Data from the Colorado River Corridor, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Amy E. Draut, Hoda A. Sondossi, Joseph E. Hazel Jr., Timothy Andrews, Helen C. Fairley, Christopher R. Brown, Karen M. Vanaman
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1190
This report presents measurements of weather parameters and aeolian (windblown) sand transport made in 2008 near selected archaeological sites in the Colorado River corridor through Grand Canyon, Ariz. The quantitative methods and data discussed here form a basis for monitoring ecosystem processes that affect archeological-site stability. Combined with forthcoming work...
Changes in Species, Areal Cover, and Production of Moss across a Fire Chronosequence in Interior Alaska
J.W. Harden, J. Munster, K.L. Manies, M.C. Mack, J. L. Bubier
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1208
In an effort to characterize the species and production rates of various upland mosses and their relationship to both site drainage and time since fire, annual net primary production of six common moss species was measured. Several stands located near Delta Junction, interior Alaska, were located. These stands ranged from...
Geochemical data for samples collected in 2008 near the concealed pebble porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Southwest Alaska
David L. Fey, Matthew Granitto, Stuart A. Giles, Steven M. Smith, Robert G. Eppinger, Karen D. Kelley
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1239
In the summer of 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began an exploration geochemical research study over the Pebble porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum deposit. This report presents the analytical data collected in 2008. The Pebble deposit is world class in size, and is almost entirely concealed by tundra, glacial deposits, and post-Cretaceous...
Application of the multi-dimensional surface water modeling system at Bridge 339, Copper River Highway, Alaska
Timothy P. Brabets, Jeffrey S. Conaway
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1237
The Copper River Basin, the sixth largest watershed in Alaska, drains an area of 24,200 square miles. This large, glacier-fed river flows across a wide alluvial fan before it enters the Gulf of Alaska. Bridges along the Copper River Highway, which traverses the alluvial fan, have been impacted by channel...
Relations between environmental and water-quality variables and Escherichia coli in the Cuyahoga River with emphasis on turbidity as a predictor of recreational water quality, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio, 2008
Amie M. G. Brady, Meg B. Plona
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1192
During the recreational season of 2008 (May through August), a regression model relating turbidity to concentrations of Escherichia coli (E. coli) was used to predict recreational water quality in the Cuyahoga River at the historical community of Jaite, within the present city of Brecksville, Ohio, a site centrally located within Cuyahoga Valley National...
Aeromagnetic and Aeroradiometric Data for the Conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Program of the U.S. Department of Energy
Patricia L. Hill, Robert P. Kucks, Dhananjay Ravat
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1129
The National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) program was initiated in 1973 with a primary goal of identifying uranium resources in the United States. The airborne program's main purpose was to collect radiometric data of the conterminous United States and Alaska. Magnetic data were also collected. After the program ended, most...
Total selenium in irrigation drain inflows to the Salton Sea, California, April 2009
Thomas W. May, Michael J. Walther, Michael K. Saiki, William G. Brumbaugh
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1230
This report presents the results for the final sampling period (April 2009) of a 4-year monitoring program to characterize selenium concentrations in selected irrigation drains flowing into the Salton Sea, California. Total selenium and total suspended solids were determined in water samples. Total selenium, percent total organic carbon, and particle...
Preliminary Assessment of the Potential for Inducing Stormwater Infiltration in Cook County, Illinois
William S. Morrow, Jennifer B. Sharpe
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1212
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago is responsible for all of the regional stormwater management for Cook County in northeastern Illinois, one of the largest urban areas in the United States. Continuing urban expansion in this area has increased stormwater runoff and combined sewer overflows and likely decreased...
Proceedings of the XIIIth IAGA Workshop on Geomagnetic Observatory Instruments, Data Acquisition, and Processing
Jeffrey J. Love
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1226
The thirteenth biennial International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) Workshop on Geomagnetic Observatory Instruments, Data Acquisition and Processing was held in the United States for the first time on June 9-18, 2008. Hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Geomagnetism Program, the workshop's measurement session was held at the...
Particle Size Characterization of Water-Elutriated Libby Amphibole 2000 and RTI International Amosite
Heather Lowers, Amy M. Bern
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1242
This report presents data on particle characterization analyzed by scanning electron microscopy on Libby amphibole collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2000 (LA2000) and amosite material collected by RTI International (RTI amosite). The particle characterization data were generated to support a portion of the Libby Action Plan. Prior to...
Water-quality monitoring in response to young-of-the-year smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) mortality in the Susquehanna River and major tributaries, Pennsylvania: 2008
Jeffrey J. Chaplin, J. Kent Crawford, Robin A. Brightbill
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1216
Mortalities of young-of-the-year (YOY) smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) recently have occurred in the Susquehanna River due to Flavobacterium columnare, a bacterium that typically infects stressed fish. Stress factors include but are not limited to elevated water temperature and low dissolved oxygen during times critical for survival and development of smallmouth bass...
Physical, Chemical, Ecological, and Age Data and Trench Logs from Surficial Deposits at Hatch Point, Southeastern Utah
Harland L. Goldstein, Mark E. Miller, James C. Yount, Marith C. Reheis, Richard L. Reynolds, Jayne Belnap, Paul J. Lamothe, John P. McGeehan
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1219
This report presents data and describes the methodology for physical, chemical and ecological measurements of sediment, soil, and vegetation, as well as age determinations of surficial deposits at Hatch Point, Canyon Rims area, Colorado Plateau, southeastern Utah. The results presented in this report support a study that examines geomorphic and...
Water-quality, bed-sediment, and biological data (October 2007 through September 2008) and statistical summaries of long-term data for streams in the Clark Fork Basin, Montana
Kent A. Dodge, Michelle I. Hornberger, Jessica Dyke
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1178
Water, bed sediment, and biota were sampled in streams from Butte to near Missoula as part of a long-term monitoring program in the upper Clark Fork basin; additional water samples were collected in the Clark Fork basin from sites near Missoula downstream to near the confluence of the Clark Fork...
Preliminary geologic map of the Cook Inlet region, Alaska-Including parts of the Talkeetna, Talkeetna Mountains, Tyonek, Anchorage, Lake Clark, Kenai, Seward, Iliamna, Seldovia, Mount Katmai, and Afognak 1:250,000-scale quadrangles
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1108
The growth in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has highlighted the need for digital geologic maps that have been attributed with information about age and lithology. Such maps can be conveniently used to generate derivative maps for manifold special purposes such as mineral-resource assessment, metallogenic studies, tectonic studies,...
Coastal Circulation and Sediment Dynamics in War-in-the-Pacific National Historical Park, Guam; measurements of waves, currents, temperature, salinity, and turbidity, June 2007-January 2008
Curt D. Storlazzi, M. Katherine Presto, Joshua B. Logan
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1195
Flow in and around coral reefs affects a number of physical, chemical and biologic processes that influence the health and sustainability of coral reef ecosystems. These range from the residence time of sediment and contaminants to nutrient uptake and larval retention and dispersal. As currents approach a coast they diverge...
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Buxton 7.5' Quadrangle, Washington County, Oregon
Philip A. Dinterman, Alison R. Duvall
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1186
This map, compiled from previously published and unpublished data, and new mapping by the authors, represents the general distribution of bedrock and surficial deposits of the Buxton 7.5-minute quadrangle. The database delineates map units that are identified by general age and lithology following the stratigraphic nomenclature of the U.S. Geological...
Quality of Surface Water in Missouri, Water Year 2008
William Otero-Benitez, Jerri V. Davis
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1214
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, designed and operates a series of monitoring stations on streams throughout Missouri known as the Ambient Water-Quality Monitoring Network. During the 2008 water year (October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2008), data were collected at 67 stations,...
Geologic Map of the Carlton Quadrangle, Yamhill County, Oregon
Karen L. Wheeler, Ray E. Wells, Joseph M. Minervini, Jessica L. Block
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1172
The Carlton, Oregon, 7.5-minute quadrangle is located in northwestern Oregon, about 35 miles (57 km) southwest of Portland. It encompasses the towns of Yamhill and Carlton in the northwestern Willamette Valley and extends into the eastern flank of the Oregon Coast Range. The Carlton quadrangle is one of several dozen...
Scientific Framework for Stormwater Monitoring by the Washington State Department of Transportation
R.W. Sheibley, V.J. Kelly, R. J. Wagner
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1236
The Washington State Department of Transportation municipal stormwater monitoring program, in operation for about 8 years, never has received an external, objective assessment. In addition, the Washington State Department of Transportation would like to identify the standard operating procedures and quality assurance protocols that must be adopted so that their...
