NCIC state affiliates
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1988, Report
In 1974, the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, established the National Cartographic Information Center (NCIC) to serve as the public's primary source for information concerning the availability of cartographic, geographic,and remotely sensed data. As part of its program of providing information to the public, NCIC began in 1976...
Direct-current resistivity data from 94 sites in northeastern Palm Beach County, Florida
Cathleen J. Peterson
1988, Open-File Report 88-464
Direct-current resistivity data were collected from 94 vertical electric sounding profiles in northeastern Palm Beach County, Florida. Direct-current resistivity data, which may be used to determine the location and thicknesses of shallow, semipermeable marls or locate zones of high chloride concentration, are presented in this report. The resistivity data consist...
Effects of two stormwater management methods on the quality of water in the upper Biscayne aquifer at two commercial areas in Dade County, Florida
Donald J. McKenzie, G. A. Irwin
1988, Water-Resources Investigations Report 88-4069
This study is part of a continued effort to assess the effects of urban stormwater recharge on the water quality of the Biscayne aquifer in southeast Florida. In this report, the water-quality effects on shallow ground water resulting from stormwater disposal by exfiltration trench and grassy swale were investigated at...
Assessment of the role of bottomland hardwoods in sediment and erosion control
A. Molinas, Gregor T. Auble, C.A. Segelquist, Lee S. Ischinger
1988, Report
Drainage and clearing of bottomland hardwoods have long been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) as important impacts of Federal water projects in the lower Mississippi River Valley. More recently, the water quality impacts of such projects (e.g., increases in...
Numerical analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper images of Antarctica
Olav Orheim, Baerbel K. Lucchitta
1988, Annals of Glaciology (11) 109-120
Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) data from Dronning [Queen] Maud Land, Antarctica, have been analysed to provide insights into physical properties of the ice sheet. Brightness (at-satellite) temperatures calculated from digital numbers of the thermal band (TM band 6), using state-of-the-art equations and constants (Markham and Barker 1986), are...
The socially optimal and market utilization of ground-water resources
A. J. Douglas
1988, Report, Proceedings of the symposium on water-use data for water resources management
No abstract available....
Results of a survey of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species and Ecological Services Field Offices, Refuges, Hatcheries, and Research Centers
Douglas N. Gladwin, Duane A. Asherin, Karen M. Manci
1988, Report, Effects of aircraft noise and sonic booms on fish and wildlife
The National Ecology Research Center (Center), as part of an ongoing research study on the effects of low altitude aircraft operations on fish and wildlife, conducted a survey in January 1987 of all U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) regional directors, research center directors, Ecological Services and Endangered Species field...
Thematic mapping from satellite imagery
J. Denegre, editor(s)
1988, Book
This report, produced between 1984 and 1987 in a bilingual edition (English and French), provides a wealth of information on a wide variety of cartographic applications which are being developed to make effective use of new data that is now being collected by Earth observation satellites. At a time when...
River basins of the United States: the Potomac
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1988, Report
This leaflet, one of a series on the river basins of the United States, contains information on the Potomac River Basin, including a brief early history, a description of the physical characteristics, and other statistical data. At present, other river basins included in the series are The Colorado, The Columbia,...
Proceedings of a workshop on the development and evaluation of habitat suitability criteria: A compilation of papers and discussions presented at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, December 8-12, 1986
Ken Bovee, J.R. Zuboy
1988, Book
The development of reliable habitat suitability criteria is critical to the successful implementation of the Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM), or any other habitat based evaluation technology. It is also a fascinating topic of research, for several reasons. First, the “science” of habitat quantification is relatively young. Descriptions of habitat...
Recording strong motion studies
Roger D. Borcherdt
1988, Batiment International, Building Research and Practice (16) 87-92
Instruments now permit strong‐motion signals to be recorded over broader band widths, with wider dynamic range and signal resolution and with better data accessibility via computer. These advantages are utilized by the General Earthquake Observation System (GEOS) developed by the United States Geological Survey, by which a microcomputer‐controlled system provides...
Estimation of ground-water use for irrigation in eastern Washington using Landsat imagery
Peter C. Van Metre, P. M. Seevers
1988, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Symposium on Water-Use Data for Water Resources Management
No abstract available....
Habitat islands and the equilibrium theory of island biogeography: testing some predictions
M. Brown, J.J. Dinsmore
1988, Oecologia (75) 426-429
Species-area data from a study of marsh birds are used to test five predictions generated by the equilibrium theory of island biogeography. Three predictions are supported: we found a significant species-area relationship, a non-zero level of turnover, and a variance-mean ratio of 0.5. One prediction is rejected: the extinction rates...
Aircraft MSS data registration and vegetation classification of wetland change detection
E.J. Christensen, J.R. Jensen, Elijah W. Ramsey III, H.E. Mackey Jr.
1988, International Journal of Remote Sensing (9) 23-38
Portions of the Savannah River floodplain swamp were evaluated for vegetation change using high resolution (5a??6 m) aircraft multispectral scanner (MSS) data. Image distortion from aircraft movement prevented precise image-to-image registration in some areas. However, when small scenes were used (200-250 ha), a first-order linear transformation provided registration accuracies of...
Maps showing the Seabeam bathymetry and sedimentologic and biologic sample locations on Horizon Guyot, Mid-Pacific Mountains and a summary of existing data
W. C. Schwab, J.R. Hein, K.L. Smith Jr., C. P. de Moustier, L.A. Levin, Amatzia Genin, W.W. Wakefield, R.J. Baldwin
1988, Open-File Report 88-298
Horizon Guyot (Fig. 1) is a 300-km-long, 75-km-wide volcanic ridge with a relatively flat summit that is diagnostic of guyots (Hess, 1946). The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a study of Horizon Guyot in 1983 as part of a program on the origin, distribution, and composition of ferromanganese-oxide precipitates...
Hydrogeology of the Croton-Ossining area, Westchester County, New York
Richard J. Reynolds
1988, Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4159
The hydrogeology of a 29-sq-mi area surrounding the village of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, is summarized on 6 sheets at 1:12 ,000 scale that show locations of wells and test holes, surficial geology, geologic sections, bedrock geology, land use, and soil permeability. The primary stratified-drift aquifer in this area is the...
Effects of highway runoff on streamflow and water quality in the Sevenmile Creek basin, a rural area in the Piedmont Province of North Carolina, July 1981 to July 1982
Douglas Harned
1988, Water Supply Paper 2329
An evaluation of water-quality data from streams that receive stormwater runoff from a segment of Interstate Highway 85 in North Carolina indicated increased levels of many constituents compared to levels in nearby undeveloped basins. Additional data collected from a network of dry and wet atmospheric deposition collectors, lysimeter samples, soil...
Selection for virulence in the fish pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida, using coomassie brilliant blue agar
R. C. Cipriano, J.M. Bertolini
1988, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (24) 672-678
Coomassie Brilliant Blue Agar was used to quantify the frequency of the A-layer phenotype in different isolates of Aeromonas salmonicida. Hydrophilic, non-clumping isolates of A. salmonicida consisted predominantly of the A-layer minus phenotype. These bacteria were avirulent by intraperitoneal injection into susceptible brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)...
Applications of a simulation model to decisions in mallard management
L.M. Cowardin, Douglas H. Johnson, T.L. Shaffer, D. W. Sparling
1988, Fish and Wildlife Technical Report 17
A system comprising simulation models and data bases for habitat availability and nest success rates was used to predict results from a mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) management plan and to compare six management methods with a control. Individual treatments in the applications included land purchase for waterfowl production, wetland easement purchase,...
Dabbling duck harvest dynamics in the Central Valley of California--implications for recruitment
M. R. Miller, J. Beam, D.P. Connelly
M.W. Weller, editor(s)
1988, Book chapter, Waterfowl in winter
Age and sex ratios and body weights were obtained for northern pintails (Anas acuta), mallards (A. platyrhynchos), American wigeon (A. americana), green-winged teal (A. crecca), and northern shovelers (A. clypeata) shot at Mendota State Wildlife Area in the San Joaquin Valley (SANJV) and at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge in the...
Integrating spatial and frequency information in the search for kuroko deposits of the Hokuroku District, Japan
Donald A. Singer, Ryoichi Kouda
1988, Economic Geology (83) 18-29
A new method (FINDER) that uses the area of influence and Bayesian statistics to aid in selection of target areas on the basis of one or more variables and multiple observations was tested with drill hole data. A previously defined bimodal distribution of Na 2 O with the low sodium group confined...
Physical deposit measures and commercial potential: The case of titanium-bearing heavy-mineral deposits
E. D. Attanasi, J.H. DeYoung Jr.
1988, Mathematical Geology (20) 97-110
Physical measures of mineral deposit characteristics, such as grade and tonnage, long have been used in both subjective and analytic models to predict favorability of areas for the occurrence of mineral deposits of particular types. After a deposit has been identified, however, the explorationist must decide whether to continue data...
State public policy issues involved with the Parkfield prediction experiment.
R. Andrews, J. Goltz
1988, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (20) 87-91
The earthquake-prediction experiment at Parkfield may well be the most important such experiment currently underway worldwide. Its importance, however, extends beyond the scientific data that will be gathered and whether those data that will be gathered and whether those data can provide reliable prediction methods. Important public policy lessons are...
Developing a state water plan: Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1988
Gail E. Cordy, G. J. Smith, D. Michael Roark, Patrick M. Lambert, John A. Yarbrough, Carole B. Burden, R. B. Garrett, D. C. Emett, Susan A. Thiros, G. W. Sandberg, R. W Puchta
1988, Cooperative Investigations Report 28
This is the twenty-fifth in a series of annual reports that describe ground-water conditions in Utah. Reports in this series, published cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Water Resources, provide data to enable interested parties to keep abreast of changing ground-water conditions.This report, like the...
Measuring contemporary crustal motions; NASA’s Crustal Dynamics Project
H. V. Frey, J. M. Bosworth
1988, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (20) 96-113
In the early and middle 1970's, two new space-based geodetic techniques became available that offered unprecedented accuracy in the measurement of distances over long baselines. As described below, Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) and Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) provided a capability to determine in relatively short periods of time the...
