Preliminary assessment of the effects of selenium in agricultural drainage on fish in the San Joaquin Valley
M. K. Saiki, M.R. Jennings, S. J. Hamilton
A. Dinar, D. Zilberman, editor(s)
1991, Book chapter, The economics and management of water and drainage in agriculture.
Concentrations of total selenium were measured in whole-body samples of seven fishes from the Sacramento and San Joaquin River systems and the San Francisco Bay complex. Concentrations of selenium (up to 11 µg/g dry weight in whole-body composite samples) were highest in fish from canals and sloughs in...
Monitoring the impacts and persistence of fine sediment in the Prairie Creek watershed: A progress report for California Department of Transportation, 1990-1991
R.M. Coey, R.D. Klein, Mary Ann Madej, C.B. Meyer, D.W. Best, V.L. Ozaki
1991, Report
No abstract available at this time...
Louisiana coastal GIS network: Graphical user interface for access to spatial data
Matteson Hiland, Randolph A. McBride, Donald Davis, Dewitt Braud, Henry Streiffer, Farrell Jones, Anthony Lewis, S. Williams
1991, Conference Paper, GIS/LIS 1991 Proceedings
Louisiana's coastal wetlands support a large percentage of the nation's seafood and fur industries, vast deposits of oil and natural gas, habitat for thousands of species of plants and animals, winter nesting grounds and migratory paths for numerous waterfowl, and many recreational resources enjoyed by residents and tourists. Louisiana's wetlands...
Brine evolution and mineral deposition in hydrologically open evaporite basins
W. E. Sanford, W.W. Wood
1991, American Journal of Science (291) 687-710
A lumped-parameter, solute mass-balance model is developed to define the role of water outflow from a well-mixed basin. A mass-balance model is analyzed with a geochemical model designed for waters with high ionic strengths. Two typical waters, seawater and a Na-HCO3 ground water, are analyzed to illustrate the control that...
Beatty, Nevada: A section in U.S. Geological Survey research in radioactive waste disposal - Fiscal years 1986-1990 (WRI 91-4084)
Brian J. Andraski, Jeffrey M. Fisher, David E. Prudic
1991, Conference Paper, U.S. Geological Survey research in radioactive waste disposal - Fiscal years 1986-1990 (WRI 91-4084)
A low-level radioactive-waste disposal facility in the Amargosa Desert of Nevada, about 17 km southeast of Beatty and 169 km northwest of Las Vegas, has been operating since 1962. This was the first commercially operated radioactive waste disposal facility in the United States. Wastes at the facility are emplaced in...
Flight performance energetics and water turnovers of Tippler Pigeons with a harness and doorsal load
James A. Gessaman, Gar W. Workman, Mark R. Fuller
1991, The Condor (93) 546-554
We measured carbon dioxide production and water efflux of 12 tippler pigeons (Columba spp.) during seven experimental flights using the doubly labeled water (DLW) method. Prior to the experiment birds were randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group flew as controls (no load or harness) on all...
Ground-water conditions in Amargosa Desert, Nevada-California, 1952-87
K. C. Kilroy
1991, Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4101
No abstract available....
Regional assessment of nonpoint-source pesticide residues in ground water, San Joaquin Valley, California
Joseph L. Domagalski, N. M. Dubrovsky
1991, Water-Resources Investigations Report 91-4027
No abstract available....
Influence of pycnocline topography and water-column structure on marine distributions of alcids (Aves: Alcidae) in Anadyr Strait, Northern Bering Sea, Alaska
J. Christopher Haney
1991, Marine Biology (110) 419-435
Systematic ship-board surveys were used to simultaneously record seabird abundances and resolve coarse-scale (3 to 10 km) horizontal and fine-scale (1 to 10 m) vertical variability in water-column structure and bathymetry for portions of the coastal zone in Anadyr Strait near western St. Lawrence Island, northern Bering Sea, Alaska, during...
Geochemistry of halogens in the Milk River aquifer, Alberta, Canada
J. Fabryka-Martin, Donald O. Whittemore, S.N. Davis, P.W. Kubik, Prakash Sharma
1991, Applied Geochemistry (6) 447-464
Analytical data are presented for Cl, Br and I on a regional scale for the Milk River aquifer. The three halides show strikingly similar spatial distributions and are highly correlated. Concentrations are low in the freshwater portions of the aquifer but increase by as much as two orders of magnitude...
Clarifications and corrections of the dates of issue of some publications containing descriptions of North American birds
M. Ralph Browning, Burt L. Monroe Jr.
1991, Archives of Natural History (18) 381-405
The date of issue of a work containing a new scientific name determines the date the name is available and, therefore, the priority of the name with respect to other applied to the same taxon. Differences between the dates printed in publications and the actual dates of issues often...
A computer program for GEOphysical log data MANagement and plotting (GEOMAN)
I. E. Arroyo, Sigfredo Torres-Gonzalez, Ramon A. Carrasquillo
J.H. Krishna, Vicente Quinones-Aponte, Fernando Gomez-Gomez, G.L. Morris, editor(s)
1991, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Tropical Hydrology
Hydrogeology and water quality of glacial-drift aquifers in the Bemidji-Bagley area, Beltrami, Clearwater, Cass, and Hubbard Counties, Minnesota
J. R. Stark, J. P. Busch, M. H. Deters
1991, Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4136
Unconfined and the upper confined aquifers in glacial drift are the primary sources of water in a 1,600 square-mile area including parts of Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, and Hubbard Counties, Minnesota. The unconfineddrift aquifer consists of coarse sand and gravel in the center of the study area. The total area underlain...
Ground-water levels and quality at Crex Meadows Wildlife Area, Burnett County, Wisconsin
G. L. Patterson
1990, Water-Resources Investigations Report 89–4129
During 1984, above-normal ground-water levels flooded the fields and basements in the vicinity of the Crex Meadows Wildlife Area. In response to concerns of neighboring farmers and homeowners, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Geological Survey began a cooperative study to assess ground-water conditions in the area...
A method to estimate canal leakage to the Biscayne Aquifer, Dade County, Florida
D.A. Chin
1990, Water-Resources Investigations Report 90-4135
The leakage characteristics of channels that partially penetrate the Biscayne aquifer and have reduced bed permeability were studied. Leakage characteristics were described in terms of a reach transmissivity-defined as the volume flow rate out of the channel per unit length of the channel per unit drawdown, where drawdown is defined...
Water-resources potential of the freshwater lens at Key West, Florida
D.J. McKenzie
1990, Water-Resources Investigations Report 90-4115
The island of Key West lies at the end of the Florida Keys, about 150 miles southwest of Miami. The public-water supply for the island is provided by the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority Well Field near Miami. However, there are many privately owned wells on the island that tap the...
Hydrologic effects of well-field operations in a wetland, Dade County, Florida
R.S. Sonenshein, Ronald H. Hofstetter
1990, Water-Resources Investigations Report 90-4143
Water-level, canal stage and discharge, and rainfall data collected in a wetland in Dade County, Florida, were analyzed to determine the effects of pumping at the Northwest Well Field on water levels in the wetland. The Northwest Well Field is the first major well field in south Florida to be...
Water resources data Maryland and Delaware, water year 1990, Volume 1. Atlantic Slope Basins, Delaware River through Patuxent River
R.W. James, J.F. Hornlein, B.F. Strain, M.J. Smigaj
1990, Water Data Report MD-DE-90-1
No abstract available....
Water resources data Maryland and Delaware, water year 1990, volume 2: Monongahela and Potomac River Basins
R.W. James, J.F. Hornlein, R.H. Simmons, M.J. Smigaj
1990, Water Data Report MD-DE-90-2
No abstract available....
Underwater research methods for study of nuclear bomb craters, Enewetak, Marshall Islands
E.A. Shinn, R.B. Halley, J. L. Kindinger, J.H. Hudson, R.A. Slate
1990, Conference Paper
Three craters, created by the explosion of nuclear fusion devices, were mapped, sampled, core drilled and excavated with airlifts at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands by using scuba and a research submersible. The craters studied were Mike, Oak, and Koa. Tests took place near sea level at the transition...
Pesticide and PCB residues for loggerhead shrikes in the Shenandoah Valley
A. K. Blumton, J.D. Fraser, R.W. Young, S. Goodbred, S.L. Porter, D.L. Luukkonen
1990, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (45) 697-702
The decline in loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) populations is widespread and coincides with the use of organochlorines that began in the late 1940's and increased until the 1970's (Morrison 1981; Robbins et al. 1986; Tate 1986). An inhabitant of farmland areas, loggerhead shrikes prey on invertebrates and small vertebrates (Bent...
Solving groundwater flow problems by conjugate-gradient methods and the strongly implicit procedure
Mary C. Hill
1990, Water Resources Research (26) 1961-1969
The performance of the preconditioned conjugate-gradient method with three preconditioners is compared with the strongly implicit procedure (SIP) using a scalar computer. The preconditioners considered are the incomplete Cholesky (ICCG) and the modified incomplete Cholesky (MICCG), which require the same computer storage as SIP as programmed for a problem with...
Toxicity of organic selenium in the diet to chinook salmon
Steven J. Hamilton, Kevin J. Buhl, Neil L. Faerber, Fern A. Bullard, Raymond H. Wiedmeyer
1990, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (9) 347-358
The toxicity of two organoselenium diets was evaluated in 90- to 120-d partial life cycle tests with two life stages of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha Walbaum). One of the diets contained fish meal made from high-selenium mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis Baird and Girard) collected from the selenium-laden San Luis Drain, California...
Toxicity of inorganic and organic selenium to Daphnia magna (cladocera) and Chironomus riparius (diptera)
Christopher G. Ingersoll, F.J. Dwyer, T.W. May
1990, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (9) 1171-1181
Elevated concentrations of selenium (Se) have been previously measured in biota sampled from the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge (KNWR) in the San Joaquin Valley of central California. We conducted acute and chronic toxicity tests with the cladoceran Daphnia magna and the midge Chironomus riparius to determine the toxicity or bioaccumulation...
Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1990
L. R. Herbert, G. J. Smith, Kim A. Kariya, James P. Eads, D.V. Allen, Bert Stolp, Lynette E. Brooks, R. B. Garrett, W.C. Brothers, R. W Puchta, R.L. Swenson, D. C. Emett, W.R. Overman, G. W. Sandberg
1990, Cooperative Investigations Report 30
This is the twenty-seventh 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...
