Preparation and characterization of nickel-spiked freshwater sediments for toxicity tests: toward more environmentally realistic nickel partitioning
William G. Brumbaugh, John M. Besser, Christopher G. Ingersoll, Thomas W. May, Chris D. Ivey, Christian E. Schlekat, Emily R. Garman
2013, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (32) 2482-2494
Two spiking methods were compared and nickel (Ni) partitioning was evaluated during a series of toxicity tests with 8 different freshwater sediments having a range of physicochemical characteristics. A 2-step spiking approach with immediate pH adjustment by addition of NaOH at a 2:1 molar ratio to the spiked Ni was...
Characterization of hydrodynamic and sediment conditions in the lower Yampa River at Deerlodge Park, east entrance to Dinosaur National Monument, northwest Colorado, 2011
Cory A. Williams
2013, Scientific Investigations Map 3273
The Yampa River in northwestern Colorado is the largest, relatively unregulated river system in the upper Colorado River Basin. Water from the Yampa River Basin continues to be sought for a number of municipal, industrial, and energy uses. It is anticipated that future water development within the Yampa River Basin...
Evaporation from Lake Mead, Nevada and Arizona, March 2010 through February 2012
Michael T. Moreo, Amy Swancar
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5229
Evaporation from Lake Mead was measured using the eddy-covariance method for the 2-year period starting March 2010 and ending February 2012. When corrected for energy imbalances, annual eddy-covariance evaporation was 2,074 and 1,881 millimeters (81.65 and 74.07 inches), within the range of previous estimates. There was a 9-percent decrease in...
Sea-level change during the last 2500 years in New Jersey, USA
Andrew C. Kemp, Benjamin P. Horton, Christopher H. Vane, Christopher E. Bernhardt, D. Reide Corbett, Simon E. Engelhart, Shimon C. Anisfeld, Andrew C. Parnell, Niamh Cahill
2013, Quaternary Science Reviews (81) 90-104
Relative sea-level changes during the last ∼2500 years in New Jersey, USA were reconstructed to test if late Holocene sea level was stable or included persistent and distinctive phases of variability. Foraminifera and bulk-sediment δ13C values were combined to reconstruct paleomarsh elevation with decimeter precision from sequences of salt-marsh sediment...
Preliminary estimates of annual agricultural pesticide use for counties of the conterminous United States, 2010-11
Nancy T. Baker, Wesley W. Stone
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1295
This report provides preliminary estimates of annual agricultural use of 374 pesticide compounds in counties of the conterminous United States in 2010 and 2011, compiled by means of methods described in Thelin and Stone (2013). U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) county-level data for harvested-crop acreage were used in conjunction with...
Monitoring of adult Lost River and shortnose suckers in Clear Lake Reservoir, California, 2008–2010
David A. Hewitt, Brian S. Hayes
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1301
Executive Summary In collaboration with the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Geological Survey began a consistent monitoring program for endangered Lost River suckers (Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose suckers (Chasmistes brevirostris) in Clear Lake Reservoir, California, in the fall of 2004. The program was intended to develop a more complete understanding of...
Selenium in ecosystems within the mountaintop coal mining and valley-fill region of southern West Virginia-assessment and ecosystem-scale modeling
Theresa S. Presser
2013, Professional Paper 1803
Coal and associated waste rock are among environmental selenium (Se) sources that have the potential to affect reproduction in fish and aquatic birds. Ecosystems of southern West Virginia that are affected by drainage from mountaintop coal mines and valleys filled with waste rock in the Coal, Gauley, and Lower Guyandotte...
Evaluation of total phosphorus mass balance in the lower Boise River and selected tributaries, southwestern Idaho
Alexandra B. Etheridge
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5220
he U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, developed spreadsheet mass-balance models for total phosphorus using results from three synoptic sampling periods conducted in the lower Boise River watershed during August and October 2012, and March 2013. The modeling reach spanned 46.4 river miles (RM)...
Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources: Arkoma Basin, Kansas Basins, and Midcontinent Rift Basin study areas
Marc L. Buursink, William H. Craddock, Madalyn S. Blondes, Phillip A. Freeman, Steven M. Cahan, Christina A. DeVera, Celeste D. Lohr
2013, Open-File Report 2012-1024-F
2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (Public Law 110–140) directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct a national assessment of potential geologic storage resources for carbon dioxide (CO2). The methodology used by the USGS for the national CO2 assessment follows that of previous USGS work. This methodology is non-economic...
Base of the upper layer of the phase-three Elkhorn-Loup groundwater-flow model, north-central Nebraska
Jennifer S. Stanton
2013, Scientific Investigations Map 3259
The Elkhorn and Loup Rivers in Nebraska provide water for irrigation, recreation, hydropower production, aquatic life, and municipal water systems for the Omaha and Lincoln metropolitan areas. Groundwater is another important resource in the region and is extracted primarily for agricultural irrigation. Water managers of the area are interested in...
Changes in types and area of postharvest flooded fields available to waterbirds in Tulare Basin, California
Joseph P. Fleskes, Daniel A. Skalos, Melissa A. Farinha
2013, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (4) 351-361
Conservation efforts to restore historic waterbird distribution and abundance in the Central Valley of California require information on current and historic areas of waterbird habitat. To provide this information, we mapped the area of agricultural fields in the vicinity of the historic Tulare Lake Bed in the Tulare Basin, California,...
Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources: Columbia Basin of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and the Western Oregon-Washington basins
Jacob A. Covault, Madalyn S. Blondes, Steven M. Cahan, Christina A. DeVera, P.A. Freeman, Celeste D. Lohr
Peter D. Warwick, M.D. Corum, editor(s)
2013, Open-File Report 2012-1024-D
The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (Public Law 110–140) directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct a national assessment of potential geologic storage resources for carbon dioxide (CO2). The methodology used by the USGS for the national CO2 assessment follows that of previous USGS work. The methodology is...
The effects of withdrawals and drought on groundwater availability in the Northern Guam Lens Aquifer, Guam
Stephen B. Gingerich
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5216
Owing to population growth, freshwater demand on Guam has increased in the past and will likely increase in the future. During the early 1970s to 2010, groundwater withdrawals from the limestone Northern Guam Lens Aquifer, the main source of freshwater on the island, tripled from about 15 to 45 million...
Intra-population variation in activity ranges, diel patterns, movement rates, and habitat use of American alligators in a subtropical estuary
Adam E. Rosenblatt, Michael R. Heithaus, Frank M Mazzotti, Michael S. Cherkiss, Brian M. Jeffery
2013, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (135) 182-190
Movement and habitat use patterns are fundamental components of the behaviors of mobile animals and help determine the scale and types of interactions they have with their environments. These behaviors are especially important to quantify for top predators because they can have strong effects on lower trophic levels as well...
Laboratory-derived temperature preference and effect on the feeding rate and survival of juvenile Hemimysis anomala
Jennifer Sun, Lars S. Rudstam, Brent T. Boscarino, Maureen G. Walsh, Brian F. Lantry
2013, Journal of Great Lakes Research (39) 630-636
Hemimysis anomala is a warm-water mysid that invaded the Great Lakes region in 2006 and has since rapidly spread throughout the basin. We conducted three laboratory experiments to better define the temperature preference, tolerance limits, and temperature effects on feeding rates of juvenile Hemimysis, using individuals acclimated to mid (16...
Use of reconstituted waters to evaluate effects of elevated major ions associated with mountaintop coal mining on freshwater invertebrates
James L. Kunz, Justin M. Conley, David B. Buchwalter, Norberg-King, J. Teresa, Nile E. Kemble, Ning Wang, Christopher G. Ingersoll
2013, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (32) 2826-2835
In previous laboratory chronic 7-d toxicity tests conducted with the cladoceran Ceriodaphnia dubia, surface waters collected from Appalachian sites impacted by coal mining have shown toxic effects associated with elevated total dissolved solids (TDS). The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of elevated major ions in...
The first five years of Kīlauea’s summit eruption in Halema‘uma‘u Crater, 2008–2013
Matthew R. Patrick, Tim R. Orr, A.J. Sutton, Tamar Elias, Donald A. Swanson
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3116
The eruption in Halema‘uma‘u Crater that began in March 2008 is the longest summit eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, on the Island of Hawai‘i, since 1924. From the time the eruption began, the new "Overlook crater" inside Halema‘uma‘u has exhibited fluctuating lava lake activity, occasional small explosive events, and a persistent...
Land-cover effects on the fate and transport of surface-applied antibiotics and 17-beta-estradiol on a sandy outwash plain, Anoka County, Minnesota, 2008–09
Jared J. Trost, Richard L. Kiesling, Melinda L. Erickson, Peter J. Rose, Sarah M. Elliott
2013, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5202
A plot-scale field experiment on a sandy outwash plain in Anoka County in east-central Minnesota was used to investigate the fate and transport of two antibiotics, sulfamethazine (SMZ) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX), and a hormone, 17-beta-estradiol (17BE), in four land-cover types: bare soil, corn, hay, and prairie. The SMZ, SMX, and...
Genetic population structure of muskellunge in the Great Lakes
Kevin L. Kapuscinski, Brian L. Sloss, John M. Farrell
2013, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (142) 1075-1089
We quantified genetic relationships among Muskellunge Esox masquinongy from 15 locations in the Great Lakes to determine the extent and distribution of measurable population structure and to identify appropriate spatial scales for fishery management and genetic conservation. We hypothesized that Muskellunge from each area represented genetically distinct populations, which would be evident...
Shapefile for Coastal Zone Management Program counties of the United States and its territories, 2009 (CZMP_counties_2009.shp)
Stephen R. Hartwell, Dana K. Wingfield, Alan O. Allwardt, Florence L. Wong, Frances L. Lightsom
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1284
A shapefile of 492 Coastal Zone Management Program counties of the United States and its territories, current for the ground condition in 2009, has been extracted from the U.S. Census Bureau MAF/TIGER database. Geospatial information systems with the capability to search user-defined, polygonal geographic areas will be able to utilize...
Probabilistic analysis showing that a combination of bacteroides and methanobrevibacter source tracking markers is effective for identifying waters contaminated by human fecal pollution
Christopher Johnston, Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli, Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, Jennifer A. Ufnar, Richard L. Whitman, Jill R. Stewart
2013, Environmental Science & Technology (47) 13621-13628
Microbial source tracking assays to identify sources of waterborne contamination typically target genetic markers of host-specific microorganisms. However, no bacterial marker has been shown to be 100% host-specific, and cross-reactivity has been noted in studies evaluating known source samples. Using 485 challenge samples from 20 different human and animal fecal...
National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive
John Faundeen, Francis P. Kelly, Thomas M. Holm, Jenna E. Nolt
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3100
The National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive (NSLRSDA) resides at the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. Through the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992, the U.S. Congress directed the Department of the Interior (DOI) to establish a permanent Government archive containing satellite...
Multi-laboratory evaluations of the performance of Catellicoccus marimammalium PCR assays developed to target gull fecal sources
Christopher D. Sinigalliano, Jared S. Ervin, Laurie C. Van De Werfhorst, Brian D. Badgley, Elisenda Ballestee, Jakob Bartkowiaka, Alexandria B. Boehm, Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli, Kelly D. Goodwin, Michele Gourmelon, John Griffith, Patricia A. Holden, Jenny Jay, Blythe Layton, Cheonghoon Lee, Jiyoung Lee, Wim G. Meijer, Rachel Noble, Meredith Raith, Hodon Ryu, Michael J. Sadowsky, Alexander Schriewer, Dan Wang, David Wanless, Richard Whitman, Stefan Wuertz, Jorge W. Santo Domingo
2013, Water Research (47) 6883-6896
Here we report results from a multi-laboratory (n = 11) evaluation of four different PCR methods targeting the 16S rRNA gene of Catellicoccus marimammalium originally developed to detect gull fecal contamination in coastal environments. The methods included a conventional end-point PCR method, a SYBR® Green qPCR method, and two TaqMan® qPCR methods....
The dilemma of the Jiaodong gold deposits: Are they unique?
Richard J. Goldfarb, M. Santosh
2013, Geoscience Frontiers (5) 139-153
The ca. 126–120 Ma Au deposits of the Jiaodong Peninsula, eastern China, define the country's largest gold province with an overall endowment estimated as >3000 t Au. The vein and disseminated ores are hosted by NE- to NNE-trending brittle normal faults that parallel the margins of ca....
Interactions between hyporheic flow produced by stream meanders, bars, and dunes
Susa H. Stonedahl, Judson W. Harvey, Aaron I. Packman
2013, Water Resources Research (49) 5450-5461
Stream channel morphology from grain-scale roughness to large meanders drives hyporheic exchange flow. In practice, it is difficult to model hyporheic flow over the wide spectrum of topographic features typically found in rivers. As a result, many studies only characterize isolated exchange processes at a single spatial scale. In this...
