Occurrence of Escherichia coli in the Cuyahoga River in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio
Amie M. G. Brady, Meg B. Plona
2010, Fact Sheet 2010-3068
There are several measures of the 'cleanliness' of a natural body of water, including concentrations of indicator bacteria, anthropogenic chemicals (chemicals derived from human activities), and nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous. Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a bacterium that lives in the intestinal tract of warm-blooded animals, such as...
Groundwater-flow assessment of the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer of northeastern Arkansas
John B. Czarnecki
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5210
The Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer is a water-bearing assemblage of gravels and sands that underlies about 32,000 square miles of Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. Pumping of groundwater from the alluvial aquifer for agriculture started in the early 1900s in the Grand Prairie area for the irrigation...
Water quality (2000-08) and historical phosphorus concentrations from paleolimnological studies of Swamp and Speckled Trout Lakes, Grand Portage Reservation, northeastern Minnesota
Victoria G. Christensen, Perry M. Jones, Mark B. Edlund, Joy M. Ramstack
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5192
A paleolimnological approach was taken to aid the Grand Portage Reservation, in northeastern Minnesota, in determining reference conditions for lakes on the reservation. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians and the Science Museum of Minnesota, conducted a study to describe water quality...
Southeast Ecological Science Center
Rachel J. Pawlitz
2010, Fact Sheet 2010-3111
Aquatic ecosystems, from deep sea reefs and coastal marshes to freshwater springs and wetlands, are home to diverse assemblages of life. These commercially and ecologically important systems are part of our national heritage, and are often treasured places or refuges that protect rare or threatened species. In the water-rich Southeastern...
Drought Monitoring with VegDRI
Jesslyn F. Brown
2010, Fact Sheet 2010-3114
Drought strikes somewhere in the United States every year, turning green landscapes brown as precipitation falls below normal levels and water supplies dwindle. Drought is typically a temporary climatic aberration, but it is also an insidious natural hazard. It might last for weeks, months, or years and may have many...
Possible effects of groundwater pumping on surface water in the Verde Valley, Arizona
Stanley A. Leake, Jeanmarie Haney
2010, Fact Sheet 2010-3108
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy, has applied a groundwater model to simulate effects of groundwater pumping and artificial recharge on surface water in the Verde Valley sub-basin of Arizona. Results are in two sets of maps that show effects of locations of pumping or...
Geochemical evolution processes and water-quality observations based on results of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program in the San Antonio segment of the Edwards aquifer, Texas, 1996-2006
MaryLynn Musgrove, Lynne Fahlquist, Natalie A. Houston, Richard J. Lindgren, Patricia B. Ging
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5129
As part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, the U.S. Geological Survey collected and analyzed groundwater samples during 1996-2006 from the San Antonio segment of the Edwards aquifer of central Texas, a productive karst aquifer developed in Cretaceous-age carbonate rocks. These National Water-Quality Assessment Program studies provide an extensive dataset...
Assessment of goods and valuation of ecosystem services (AGAVES) San Pedro River Basin, United States and Mexico
Darius J. Semmens, William Kepner, David Goodrich
2010, Fact Sheet 2010-3082
A consortium of federal, academic, and nongovernment organization (NGO) partners have established a collaborative research enterprise in the San Pedro River Basin to develop methods, standards, and tools to assess and value ecosystem goods and services. The central premise of ecosystem services research is that human condition is intrinsically linked...
Channel-conveyance capacity, channel change, and sediment transport in the lower Puyallup, White, and Carbon Rivers, western Washington
Jonathan A. Czuba, Christiana R. Czuba, Chistopher S. Magirl, Frank D. Voss
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5240
Draining the volcanic, glaciated terrain of Mount Rainier, Washington, the Puyallup, White, and Carbon Rivers convey copious volumes of water and sediment down to Commencement Bay in Puget Sound. Recent flooding in the lowland river system has renewed interest in understanding sediment transport and its effects on flow conveyance throughout...
Thunderstorms and flooding of August 17, 2007, with a context provided by a history of other large storm and flood events in the Black Hills area of South Dakota
Daniel G. Driscoll, Matthew J. Bunkers, Janet M. Carter, John F. Stamm, Joyce E. Williamson
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5187
The Black Hills area of western South Dakota has a history of damaging flash floods that have resulted primarily from exceptionally strong rain-producing thunderstorms. The best known example is the catastrophic storm system of June 9-10, 1972, which caused severe flooding in several major drainages near Rapid City and resulted...
The effects of raking on sugar pine mortality following prescribed fire in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California, USA
Jonathan C. B. Nesmith, Kevin L. O’Hara, Phillip J. van Mantgem, Perry de Valpine
2010, Fire Ecology (6) 97-116
Prescribed fire is an important tool for fuel reduction, the control of competing vegetation, and forest restoration. The accumulated fuels associated with historical fire exclusion can cause undesirably high tree mortality rates following prescribed fires and wildfires. This is especially true for sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana Douglas), which is already negatively...
Summer microhabitat use by adult and young-of-year snail darters (Percina tanasi) in two rivers
M. J. Ashton, James B. Layzer
2010, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (19) 609-617
We characterised microhabitat availability and use by adult and young‐of‐year (YOY) snail darters (Percina tanasi Etnier 1976) while snorkelling in the French Broad and Hiwassee rivers, TN, USA. Both age groups of snail darters disproportionately used most microhabitat variables compared to their availability. Snail...
Invasion biology and parasitic infections
Sarah Perkins, Sonia Altizer, Ottar Bjornstad, Jeremy J. Burdon, Keith Clay, Lorena Gomez-Aparicio, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Kevin D. Lafferty, Carolyn M. Malmstrom, Patrick Martin, Alison Power, David L. Strayer, Peter H. Thrall, Maria Uriarte
Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, Valerie T. Eviner, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Infectious disease ecology: Effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems
No abstract available....
Effects of disease on community interactions and food web structure
Kevin D. Lafferty
Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, Valerie T. Eviner, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Infectious disease ecology: Effects of ecosystems on disease and of disease on ecosystems
No abstract available....
Seasonal ice and hydrologic controls on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations in a boreal-rich fen
Evan S. Kane, Merritt R. Turetsky, Jennifer W. Harden, A. David McGuire, James Michael Waddington
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences (115)
[1] Boreal wetland carbon cycling is vulnerable to climate change in part because hydrology and the extent of frozen ground have strong influences on plant and microbial functions. We examined the response of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) across an experimental manipulation of water table position...
Characterization of ten microsatellite loci in midget faded rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus concolor)
Sara J. Oyler-McCance, Joshua M. Parker
2010, Conservation Genetics Resources (2) 123-125
Primers for 10 microsatellite loci were developed for midget faded rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus concolor), a small bodied subspecies of the Western Rattlesnake, which is found in the Colorado Plateau of eastern Utah, western Colorado and southwestern Wyoming. In a screen of 23 individuals from the most northern portion of the...
Great Plains regional roadmap
Larry L. Tieszen, Vance Owens, Rob Mitchell, Robin Jenkins, Tom Gerik, Alan J. Franzluebbers, John Ferrell, Jim Doolittle, Norman B. Bliss, D. Archer
2010, Conference Paper, Sustainable alternative fuel feedstock opportunities, challenges and roadmaps for six U.S. regions: Proceedings of the sustainable feedstocks for advance biofuels workshop
No abstract available....
A river system to watch: documenting the effects of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) biocontrol in the Virgin River valley
Heather L. Bateman, Tom L. Dudley, Dan W. Bean, Steven M. Ostoja, Kevin R. Hultine, Michael J. Kuehn
2010, Ecological Restoration (28) 405-410
Throughout riparian areas of the southwestern United States, non-native saltcedar (also known as tamarisk; Tamarix spp.) can form dense, monotypic stands and is often reported to have detrimental effects on native plants and habitat quality (Everitt 1980; Shafroth et al. 2005). Natural resource managers of these riparian areas spend considerable...
Coordination of space data acquisition in support of geo forest carbon tracking
Frank M. Siefert, Hugo Costa, Ake Rosenqvist, Tom Holm
2010, Conference Paper, Proceedings of ESA living planet symposium
The Group on Earth Observation (GEO) required for their Forest Carbon Tracking (FCT) task the assistance of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) space agencies to implement coordinated data acquisition strategies from Earth Observation (EO) over key areas of interest to demonstrate the value of linking coordinated acquisition of...
Dr. Carl Marti 1944-2010
Michael N. Kochert, Karen Steenhof, Patricia L. Kennedy
2010, Journal of Raptor Research (44) 335-336
No abstract available....
Amphibian declines: promising directions in understanding the role of disease
Erin Muths, J.-M. Hero
2010, Animal Conservation (13) 33-35
No abstract available....
Magma flux at Okmok Volcano, Alaska, from a joint inversion of continuous GPS, campaign GPS, and interferometric synthetic aperture radar
Juliet Biggs, Zhong Lu, T. Fournier, Jeffrey T. Freymueller
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (115)
Volcano deformation is usually measured using satellite geodetic techniques including interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), campaign GPS, and continuous GPS. Differences in the spatial and temporal sampling of each system mean that most appropriate inversion scheme to determine the source parameters from each data set is different. Most studies either...
Distribution of the non-native gastropod Melanoides tuberculatus in Biscayne National Park, Florida
James B. Murray, G. Lynn Wingard, Emily C. Phillips
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1126
Introduction Melanoides tuberculatus (fig. 1), a gastropod that is not native to South Florida, was identified in Biscayne National Park (BNP) while researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey were conducting other studies around the Black Point canals in the summer of 2003. A study to determine the distribution, genetics, and...
Emerging dragonfly diversity at small Rhode Island (U.S.A.) wetlands along an urbanization gradient
Maria A. Aliberti Lubertazzi, Howard S. Ginsberg
2010, Urban Ecosystems (13) 517-533
Natal habitat use by dragonflies was assessed on an urban to rural land-use gradient at a set of 21 wetlands, during two emergence seasons (2004, 2005). The wetlands were characterized for urbanization level by using the first factor from a principal components analysis combining chloride concentration in the wetland and...
Mineral facilities of Northern and Central Eurasia
Michael S. Baker, Nurudeen Elias, Eric Guzman, Yadira Soto-Viruet
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1255
This map displays almost 900 records of mineral facilities within the countries that formerly constituted the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Each record represents one commodity and one facility type at a single geographic location. Facility types include mines, oil and gas fields, and plants, such as refineries, smelters,...
