Land cover change effects on stormflow characteristics across broad hydroclimate representative urban watersheds in the United States
Kul Bikram Khand, Gabriel B. Senay
2022, Water (14)
Urban development alters stormflow characteristics and is associated with increasing flood risks. The long-term evaluation of stormflow characteristics that exacerbate floods, such as peak stormflow and time-to-peak stormflow at varying levels of urbanization across different hydroclimates, is limited. This study investigated the long-term (1980s to 2010s) effects of increasing urbanization...
Mississippi and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3062
Mississippi holds a significant place in the cultural and economic history of the United States. For example, the Magnolia State was a hotbed for the Delta blues, an early 20th century musical genre with tremendous cultural effects in the United States and around the world. The “Delta” in Delta blues...
Delaware and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3064
Delaware’s status as the first State to ratify the U.S. Constitution is a well-known point of pride. “The First State” is among Delaware’s nicknames, alongside “the Blue Hen State,” “the Diamond State,” and “the Small Wonder,” the last of which relates to Delaware’s diminutive land area—larger only than Rhode Island. Less...
New Hampshire and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3058
At its widest point, a mere 80 miles separate the eastern and western borders of New Hampshire. Its northern and southern borders are just 175 miles apart. Even so, few States can boast as much rugged natural beauty per mile as the Nation’s fifth smallest.Nestled within New Hampshire are 93...
Geohydrology and water quality of the northern and central parts of the Tug Hill glacial aquifer, Jefferson and Oswego Counties, north-central New York
Todd S. Miller, Benjamin N. Fisher, William M. Kappel
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5039
The northern and central parts of the Tug Hill glacial aquifer consist of a 29-mile-long, crescent-shaped, mixture of glaciofluvial, glaciolacustrine, and recent alluvial deposits of predominantly sand and gravel on the western side of the Tug Hill Plateau in Jefferson and Oswego Counties in north-central New York. Approximately 11,400 people...
Wisconsin and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3055
Wisconsin could be called a State of icons, and many of the icons can trace their roots to the abundant resources within its four borders. Big beer companies in Milwaukee that began in the 1800s made their beer from water from nearby lakes and rivers, kept it cool with ice...
Assessment of fecal contamination sources to Alley Creek, Queens County, New York, August 2020–June 2021
Shawn C. Fisher, Christopher M. Kephart, Natalie Cheung, Tristen N. Tagliaferri
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5068
Alley Creek, a tributary to Little Neck Bay in Queens County, New York, has been designated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation as impaired (Class I) for fecal coliform because of pollution from combined sewer overflow, including stormwater runoff. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the...
Seasonal and long-term clarity trend assessment of Lake Tahoe, California–Nevada
Ramon C. Naranjo, Paul Work, Alan Heyvaert, Geoffrey Schladow, Alicia Cortes, Shohei Watanabe, Lidia Tanaka, Sebnem Elci
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5070
The clarity of Lake Tahoe, observed using a Secchi disk on a regular basis since the late 1960s, continues to be a sentinel metric of lake health. Water clarity is influenced by physical and biological processes and has declined in the five decades of monitoring, revealing differences between summer (June–September)...
Occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and inorganic analytes in groundwater and surface water used as sources for public water supply in West Virginia
Mitchell A. McAdoo, Gregory T. Connock, Terence Messinger
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5067
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widely observed anthropogenic compounds found in water supplies worldwide and increasingly linked with adverse health effects in humans. In 2019, the West Virginia Legislature recognized the contamination risk to public source-water supplies posed by PFAS and passed a resolution that required a statewide PFAS...
Presented abstracts from the U.S. Geological Survey 2020 Rocky Mountain Region Science Exchange (September 15–17, 2020)
Patrick J. Anderson, Anne C. Tillery, editor(s)
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1040
The U.S. Geological Survey Rocky Mountain Region hosted scientists, managers, program coordinators, and leadership team members for a virtual Science Exchange during September 15–17, 2020. The Science Exchange had 216 registered participants and included 48 talks over the 3-day period. Invited speakers presented information about the novel U.S. Geological Survey...
Concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in selected rivers and streams in Massachusetts, 2020
Jennifer G. Savoie, Denise M. Argue
2022, Data Report 1160
Water samples collected from 27 rivers and streams in Massachusetts were analyzed to characterize the presence and concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (collectively known as PFAS) in surface waters across the Commonwealth. Sampling sites were selected in urban rivers where PFAS were expected to be present, such as those...
Intake efficiency field results for Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project bag samplers
Adam E. Manaster, Mark N. Landers, Timothy D. Straub
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1036
The Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project (FISP) standardizes and advances sediment science among federal agencies. It is important to ensure that the FISP bag samplers perform isokinetically under all tested and approved conditions and collect samples that are representative of the stream or river cross-section. A measure of a sampler’s isokinetic...
Predicting larval alewife transport in Lake Michigan using hydrodynamic and Lagrangian particle dispersion models
Mark D Rowe, Sara E Prendergast, Karen M Alofs, David B. Bunnell, Edward S. Rutherford, Eric J. Anderson
2022, Limnology and Oceanography (67) 2042-2058
Several species of fish in large lakes and marine environments have a pelagic larval stage, and are subject to variable transport that can ultimately regulate survival and recruitment success. Alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, are subject to transport by complex coastal currents during their pelagic larval stage (~ 30 d). We...
Fitness homeostasis across an experimental water gradient predicts species' geographic range and climatic breadth
Ian S. Pearse, Patrick J. McIntyre, N. Ivalu Cacho, Sharon Y Strauss
2022, Ecology (103)
Species range sizes and realized niche breadths vary tremendously. Understanding the source of this variation has been a long-term aim in evolutionary ecology and is a major tool in efforts to ameliorate the impacts of changing climates on species distributions. Species ranges that span...
Relative contributions of suspended sediment between the upper Suiattle River Basin and a non-glacial tributary, Washington, May 2016–September 2017
Kristin L. Jaeger, Scott W. Anderson, Craig A. Senter, Christopher A. Curran, Scott Morris
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1056
Concentrations of suspended sediment were measured in discrete samples and turbidity was continuously monitored at four U.S. Geological Survey streamgages in western Washington State, including one gage on the Sauk River; two gages on the Suiattle River, a tributary to the Sauk River; and one gage on Downey Creek,...
New Jersey and Landsat
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3054
New Jersey ranks among the smallest of States but packs a lot within its borders. Of course, that includes the more than 9 million people who make it the most densely populated State, but it also includes diverse landscapes. Ranging from Atlantic Ocean barrier islands and beaches to the Appalachian...
Relocated beaver can increase water storage and decrease stream temperature in headwater streams
Benjamin J. Dittbrenner, Jason W. Schilling, Christian E. Torgersen, Joshua J. Lawler
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Many areas are experiencing increasing stream temperatures due to climate change, and some are experiencing reduced summer stream flows and water availability. Because dam building and pond formation by beaver can increase water storage, stream cooling, and riparian ecosystem resilience, beaver have been proposed as a potential climate adaption tool....
Prioritizing pharmaceutical contaminants in Great Lakes tributaries using risk-based screening techniques
Matthew A. Pronschinske, Steven R. Corsi, Laura A. DeCicco, Edward Furlong, Gerald T. Ankley, Brett R. Blackwell, Daniel L. Villeneuve, Peter L. Lenaker, Michelle A. Nott
2022, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (41) 2221-2239
In a study of 44 diverse sampling sites across 16 Great Lakes tributaries, 110 pharmaceuticals were detected of 257 monitored. The present study evaluated the ecological relevance of detected chemicals and identified heavily impacted areas to help inform resource managers and guide future investigations. Ten pharmaceuticals (caffeine, nicotine, albuterol, sulfamethoxazole,...
Root-mean-square error (RMSE) or mean absolute error (MAE): When to use them or not
Timothy O. Hodson
2022, Geoscientific Model Development (15) 5481-5487
The root-mean-squared error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) are widely used metrics for evaluating models. Yet, there remains enduring confusion over their use, such that a standard practice is to present both, leaving it to the reader to decide which is more relevant. In a recent reprise to the...
North Dakota and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3053
The State of North Dakota once did not figure prominently in the Nation’s economy. The sparsely populated State supported food production, and hunters and anglers were drawn to its lakes, rivers, and wide-open spaces, but its economy was overshadowed by that of other States. However, the State and its prairie...
Indiana and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3049
Natural resources have always been a strength for Indiana. Once largely covered by forest, the State now includes a mix of forest, farmland, wetlands, and small lakes. In fact, farms and forested areas make up more than 80 percent of the land. The Ohio River forms the southern border, and...
Estratigrafía preliminar del flanco Este del volcán de Santa Ana
Dennis Lemus, Christopher Harpel, Angela V. Garcia, Demetrio Escobar, Alexander Hernandez, Estefany Alvarenga
2022, Conference Paper, Memoria, XIV congreso geologica de America Central & VII congreso geologico nacional
We present the eruption sequence for the east flank of Santa Ana volcano, which we divide into the sections above and below the Tierra Blanca Joven (TBJ) formation. The sequence below the TBJ suggests a series of mafic magmatic eruptions that began before 7,800 cal BP and continued until after...
Nuevos datos: Avalancha de escombros de Acajutla, volcán Santa Ana
Angela V. Garcia, Christopher Harpel, Walter Hernandez, Demetrio Escobar, Luis E. Mixco, Charles Lewis, Linda Scott Cummings
2022, Conference Paper, Memoria, XIV congreso geologica de America Central & VII congreso geologico nacional
The Acajutla debris-avalanche deposit is dated to about 40,000 cal BP. The dating is based on two 14C dates on pieces of wood from the debris-avalanche deposit recovered from a core at the Santa Águeda School Center. The debris-avalanche deposit overlies a 1.2-m-thick paleosol and four ash layers. One...
Assessing spatial transferability of a random forest metamodel for predicting drainage fraction
Elisa Bjerre, Michael N. Fienen, Raphael Schneider, Julian Koch, Anker L. Højberg
2022, Journal of Hydrology (612)
Fully distributed hydrological models are widely used in groundwater management, but model speed and data requirements impede their use for decision support purposes. Metamodels provide a simpler and faster model which emulates the underlying complex model using machine learning techniques. However, metamodel predictions beyond the...
Evapotranspiration covers at uranium mill tailings sites
Todd Caldwell, Sarah Tabatabai, Jena Huntington, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Davies, Mark Fuhrmann
2022, Vadose Zone Journal (21)
Waste isolation is a key strategy for mitigating risk from municipal solid waste (MSW) and hazardous waste streams. Conventional covers at MSW facilities are designed for a 30-yr post-closure period where compacted soils and geosynthetics are used to minimize percolation into buried waste. Recently, evapotranspiration (ET) covers have shown beneficial...
