NBS continues cooperative studies of pintail ecology in California
J. Fleskes
1995, People, Land, and Water (2) 24-25
No abstract available at this time...
Influence of cryptobiotic soil crusts on nutrient and water relations of winter annual plants in the northeast Mojave Desert
L.A. DeFalco, J.K. Detling, C.R. Tracy
1995, Conference Paper, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
No abstract available at this time...
Turtle, tortoise and terrapin: myriad monikers
J.E. Lovich
1995, People, Land, and Water (2) 26
No abstract available at this time...
Minerals yearbook; area reports; international 1995; mineral industries of Asia and the Pacific; Volume III
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1995, Report
Data on quantity and quality of water flowing in drainage systems of dry docks at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, 1994
Edmund A. Prych
1995, Open-File Report 95-361
Data on the quantity and quality of ground water that drains into dry docks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard can be useful for planning environmental remediation work at the shipyard. Ground-water discharges into and total drain-water discharges from individual dry docks were computed from a single set of discharges...
An evaluation of lake trout reproductive habitat on Clay Banks Reef, northwestern Lake Michigan
Thomas A. Edsall, Mark E. Holey, Bruce A. Manny, Gregory W. Kennedy
1995, Journal of Great Lakes Research (21) 418-432
The extinction of the native populations of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in Lake Michigan in about 1956 has been followed by a decades-long attempt to reestablish self-sustaining populations of this valuable species in habitats it formerly occupied throughout the lake. One of the most recent management strategies designed to facilitate...
Availability of lake trout reproductive habitat in the Great Lakes
Thomas A. Edsall, Gregory W. Kennedy
1995, Journal of Great Lakes Research (21) 290-301
A decades-long program to reestablish self-sustaining stocks of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in the four lower Great Lakes produced excellent fisheries supported by stocked fish. These fish spawned widely and small numbers of their offspring were collected intermittently from Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Ontario, but no self-sustaining stocks were established....
Baseline risk assessment for aquatic life for the Buffalo River, New York, Area of Concern
Dora R. Passino-Reader, Patrick L. Hudson, James P. Hickey
1995, Report
The Great Lakes National Program Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiated the Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments (ARCS) program to address concerns of environmental degradation at 43 Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes. In our first report (Passino-Reader et al. 1992), we developed a generic...
Lake trout rehabilitation in Lake Erie: a case history
Floyd C. Cornelius, Kenneth M. Muth, Roger Kenyon
1995, Journal of Great Lakes Research (21) 65-82
Native lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) once thrived in the deep waters of eastern Lake Erie. The impact of nearly 70 years of unregulated exploitation and over 100 years of progressively severe cultural eutrophication resulted in the elimination of lake trout stocks by 1950. Early attempts to restore lake trout by...
Removal of algae by the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) population in western Lake Erie: a bioenergetics approach
Charles P. Madenjian
1995, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (52) 381-390
A bioenergetics model for growth of a zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) individual was verified with observations on zebra mussel growth in western Lake Erie. The bioenergetics model was then applied to the zebra mussel population in the western basin of Lake Erie to estimate the removal of phytoplankton by mussels....
Flowing recirculated-water system for inducing laboratory spawning of sea lampreys
Kim T. Fredricks, James G. Seelye
1995, Progressive Fish-Culturist (57) 297-301
We describe a water‐recirculating system for inducing spawning of sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) held under laboratory conditions. Water temperature in the system was gradually increased to and maintained at 18 ± 2°C, the optimal temperature for spawning. About 10% freshwater was added daily to prevent buildup of waste products. Sea...
Planktivory by alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) on microcrustacean zooplankton and dreissenid (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae) veligers in southern Lake Ontario
Edward L. Mills, Robert O’Gorman, Edward F. Roseman, Connie Adams, Randall W. Owens
1995, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (52) 925-935
The objective of this study was to describe the diet of young-of-the-year and adult alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) in nearshore waters coincident with the colonization of Lake Ontario by Dreissena. Laboratory experiments and field observations indicated that alewife and rainbow smelt consumed dreissenid veligers and that the...
Abundance indices for determining the status of lake trout restoration in Michigan waters of Lake Superior
Michael J. Hansen, Richard G. Schorfhaar, James W. Peck, James H. Selgeby, William W. Taylor
1995, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (15) 830-837
Self-sustaining populations of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush have returned to most areas in Lake Superior, but progress toward achieving historic commercial yields has been difficult to measure because of unrecorded losses to predation by sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus and to fisheries. Consequently, we developed restoration targets (catch per effort,...
Comparison of lake trout-egg survival at inshore and offshore and shallow-water and deepwater sites in Lake Superior
Randy L. Eshenroder, Charles R. Bronte, James W. Peck
1995, Journal of Great Lakes Research (21) 313-322
We incubated lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) eggs over winter at shallow (10 m) and deep locations (20 m) on Gull Island Shoal, Lake Superior; at a shallow-water (10 m) site off the mainland (Bark Point); and in flowing Great Lakes water at two laboratories. Survival to hatch was significantly higher...
Lake trout rehabilitation in Lake Huron
Randy L. Eshenroder, N. Robert Payne, James E. Johnson, Charles Bowen II, Mark P. Ebener
1995, Journal of Great Lakes Research (21) 108-127
Efforts to restore lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in Lake Huron after their collapse in the 1940s were underway in the early 1970s with completion of the first round oflampricide applications in tributary streams and the stocking of several genotypes. We assess...
Hatching, dispersal, and bathymetric distribution of age-0 wild lake trout at the Gull Island Shoal complex, Lake Superior
Charles R. Bronte, James H. Selgeby, James H. Saylor, Gerald S. Miller, Neal R. Foster
1995, Journal of Great Lakes Research (21) 233-245
We studied age-0 lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) associated with spawning and nursery areas of the Gull Island Shoal complex in western Lake Superior. Post-emergent age-0 lake trout were captured on rocky spawning substrate with a 3-m beam trawl and at the nursery area with a bottom trawl from June to...
Population recovery and natural recruitment of lake trout at Gull Island Shoal, Lake Superior, 1964-1992
Stephen T. Schram, James H. Selgeby, Charles R. Bronte, Bruce L. Swanson
1995, Journal of Great Lakes Research (21) 225-232
We documented an increase in the abundance of wild lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) at Gull Island Shoal in western Lake Superior and examined the relationship between parental-stock size and recruitment of age-0 fish in 1964–1992. Abundance of adult wild female lake trout and densities of age-0 fish both increased during...
Survival of lake trout eggs on reputed spawning grounds in Lakes Huron and Superior: In situ incubation, 1987-1988
Bruce A. Manny, Thomas A. Edsall, James W. Peck, Gregory W. Kennedy, Anthony M. Frank
1995, Journal of Great Lakes Research (21) 302-312
Lake trout reproduce widely in Lake Superior but little in Lake Huron. We examined whether survival of lake trout eggs and fry in either lake was reduced by physical disturbances and swim-up mortality. Eggs were collected from feral lake trout in Lake Superior and placed in 108 plastic incubators. A...
Lake trout rehabilitation in Lake Ontario
Joseph H. Elrod, Robert O’Gorman, Clifford P. Schneider, Thomas H. Eckert, Ted Schaner, James N. Bowlby, Larry P. Schleen
1995, Journal of Great Lakes Research (21) 83-107
Attempts to maintain the native lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) population in Lake Ontario by stocking fry failed and the species was extirpated by the 1950s. Hatchery fish stocked in the 1960s did not live to maturity because of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) predation and incidental commercial harvest. Suppression of sea...
Advanced instrumentation for the collection, retrieval, and processing of urban stormwater data
Jerald B. Robinson, Jerad D. Bales, Wendi S. Young
Espey William H.Combs Phil G., editor(s)
1995, Conference Paper, International Water Resources Engineering Conference - Proceedings
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, has developed a data-collection network that uses advanced instrumentation to automatically collect, retrieve, and process urban stormwater data. Precipitation measurement and water-quality networks provide data for (1) planned watershed simulation models, (2) early warning...
Contraction scour at a bridge over Wolf Creek, Iowa
Edward E. Fischer
Espey William H.Combs Phil G., editor(s)
1995, Conference Paper, International Water Resources Engineering Conference - Proceedings
Contraction scour at the State Highway 14 bridge over Wolf Creek in south-central Iowa was caused by a large flood on September 14 and 15, 1992. The bridge is a 30.5-m, single-span steel structure supported by vertical-wall concrete abutments with wingwalls. Approximately 6 meters of scour resulted from the flood....
Correlation of Ordovician rocks of northern Alaska
Anita G. Harris, Julie A. Dumoulin, John E. Repetski, Claire Carter
John D. Cooper, Mary L. Droser, Stanley C. Finney, editor(s)
1995, Conference Paper, Ordovician odyssey: Short papers for the seventh international symposium on the Ordovician system (SEPM Book 77)
The Ordovician sequences presented in this report were chosen to cover a range of depositional and structural settings found in northern Alaska. Consequently, the quality of lithostratigraphic, paleontologic, and sedimentologic data is variable. Until 1982, Ordovician rocks in northern Alaska were known only from a few, widely separated localities. Since...
Aerial photographs and satellite images
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1995, Report
Because photographs and images taken from the air or from space are acquired without direct contact with the ground, they are referred to as remotely sensed images. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has used remote sensing from the early years of the 20th century to support earth science studies and...
Louisiana ground-water map no. 6: Potentiometric surface, 1990, and water-level changes, 1974-90, of the Mississippi River alluvial aquifer in northeastern Louisiana
Ronald C. Seanor, Charles W. Smoot
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4146
The Mississippi River alluvial aquifer is the largest source of fresh ground water in northeastern Louisiana. In 1990, an average of 170 million gallons per day was withdrawn from the aquifer in 12 northeast Louisiana parishes. Additional knowledge about ground-water flow and the effects of withdrawals on the Mississippi River...
Effects of pulsating flow on current meter performance
Janice M. Fulford
Espey William H.Combs Phil G., editor(s)
1995, Conference Paper, International Water Resources Engineering Conference - Proceedings
Summarized are laboratory tests for current meter response to pulsating flows. Included are results for mechanical and electromagnetic water-current meters that are commonly used for stream gaging. Most of the vertical-axis and horizontal-axis types of mechanical meters that were tested significantly underregistered the mean flow velocity when the magnitude of...