Influence of Riparian Tree Phenology on Lower Colorado River Spring-Migrating Birds: Implications of Flower Cueing
Laura J. McGrath, Charles van Riper III
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1140
Executive Summary Neotropical migrant birds make choices about which habitats are most likely to provide successful foraging locations during migration, but little is known about how these birds recognize and process environmental clues that indicate the presence of prey species. Aspects of tree phenology, notably flowering of trees along the lower...
Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography: Water Requirements of Desert Ungulates
James W. Cain III, Paul R. Krausman, Steven S. Rosenstock, Jack C. Turner
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1141
Executive Summary Ungulates adapted to desert areas are able to survive extreme temperatures and limited water availability. This ability is largely due to behavioral, morphological, and physiological adaptations that allow these animals to avoid or tolerate extreme environmental conditions. The physiological adaptations possessed by ungulates for thermoregulation and maintenance of water...
Construction, Geology, and Aquifer Testing of the Maalo Road, Aahoaka Hill, and Upper Eleele Tank Monitor Wells, Kauai, Hawaii
Scot K. Izuka
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1159
The Maalo Road, Aahoaka Hill, and Upper Eleele Tank monitor wells were constructed using rotary drilling methods between July 1998 and August 2002 as part of a program of exploratory drilling, aquifer testing, and hydrologic analysis on Kauai. Aquifer tests were conducted in the uncased boreholes of the wells. The Maalo...
Preliminary Precambrian basement structure map of the continental United States— An interpretation of geologic and aeromagnetic data
Paul K. Sims, Richard W. Saltus, Eric D. Anderson
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1029
No abstract available....
Surficial deposits in the Bear Lake Basin
Marith C. Reheis, Benjamin J.C. Laabs, Richard M. Forester, John P. McGeehin, Darrell S. Kaufman, Jordon Bright
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1088
Mapping and dating of surficial deposits in the Bear Lake drainage basin were undertaken to provide a geologic context for interpretation of cores taken from deposits beneath Bear Lake, which sometimes receives water and sediment from the glaciated Bear River and sometimes only from the small drainage basin of Bear...
Geochemistry of sediments in cores and sediment traps from Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho
James L. Bischoff, Kathleen Cummins, Donald D. Shamp
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1215
The present study of Bear Lake began in 1998. Initially, the study utilized sediments from three long cores (up to 5 m) previously collected in 1996 and short cores (up to 40 cm) collected in 1998. The short cores were specifically acquired to preserve the uppermost layers of sediment that...
Reported historic asbestos mines, historic asbestos prospects, and natural asbestos occurrences in the eastern United States
Bradley S. Van Gosen
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1189
Digital data and derivative products from a high-resolution aeromagnetic survey of the central San Luis basin, covering parts of Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, and Rio Grande counties, Colorado, and Taos county, New Mexico
Viki Bankey, V. J. S. Grauch, Ank Webbers, Inc PRJ
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1200
This report describes data collected from a high-resolution aeromagnetic survey flown over the central San Luis basin during October, 2004, by PRJ, Inc., on contract to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The survey extends from just north of Alamosa, Colorado, southward to just northwest of Taos, New Mexico. It covers...
Determining age and vertical contribution of ground water pumped from wells in a small coastal river basin: a case study in the Sweetwater River valley, San Diego county, California
Wesley R. Danskin, Clinton D. Church
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1032
Evaluation of unsaturated-zone solute-transport models for studies of agricultural chemicals
Bernard T. Nolan, E. Randall Bayless, Christopher T. Green, Sheena Garg, Frank D. Voss, David C. Lampe, Jack E. Barbash, Paul D. Capel, Barbara A. Bekins
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1196
Seven unsaturated-zone solute-transport models were tested with two data sets to select models for use by the Agricultural Chemical Team of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment Program. The data sets were from a bromide tracer test near Merced, California, and an atrazine study in the White River Basin,...
Estimation of agricultural pesticide use in drainage basins using land cover maps and county pesticide data
Naomi Nakagaki, David M. Wolock
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1188
A geographic information system (GIS) was used to estimate agricultural pesticide use in the drainage basins of streams that are studied as part of the U.S. Geological Survey?s National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. Drainage basin pesticide use estimates were computed by intersecting digital maps of drainage basin boundaries with an...
Quality-assurance plan for the analysis of fluvial sediment by the U.S. Geological Survey Kentucky Water Science Center Sediment Laboratory
Elizabeth A. Shreve, Aimee C. Downs
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1230
This report describes laboratory procedures used by the U.S. Geological Survey Kentucky Water Science Center Sediment Laboratory for the processing and analysis of fluvial-sediment samples for concentration of sand and finer material. The report details the processing of a sediment sample through the laboratory from receiving the sediment sample, through...
Helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic survey data and maps, northern Bexar County, Texas
Bruce D. Smith, Michael J. Cain, Allan K. Clark, David W. Moore, Jason R. Faith, Patricia L. Hill
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1158
Occurrence of organic wastewater contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products in selected water supplies, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, June 2004
Marc J. Zimmerman
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1206
In June 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment, sampled water from 14 wastewater sources and drinking-water supplies on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for the presence of organic wastewater contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products. The geographic distribution of sampling locations does...
Ground-water, surface-water, and water-chemistry data, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona — 2003–04
Margot Truini, Jamie P. Macy, Thomas J. Porter
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1080
The N aquifer is the major source of water in the 5,400-square-mile area of Black Mesa in northeastern Arizona. Availability of water is an important issue in this area because of continued industrial and municipal use, a growing population, and precipitation of about 6 to 14 inches per year. The monitoring...
Estimated water use in Puerto Rico, 2000
Wanda L. Molina-Rivera
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1201
Water-use data were compiled for the 78 municipios of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for 2000. Five offstream categories were considered: public-supply water withdrawals, domestic self-supplied water use, industrial self-supplied withdrawals, crop irrigation water use, and thermoelectric power fresh water use. Two additional categories also were considered: power generation instream...
Indium in zinc-lead and other mineral deposits -- a reconnaissance survey of 1118 indium analyses published Before 1985
Joseph A. Briskey
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1209
Engineering geologic maps of northern Alaska, Harrison Bay quadrangle
L. David Carter, John P. Galloway
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1194
No abstract available....
Water resources on and near the Nottawaseppi Huron band of Potawatomi indian tribal lands, Calhoun County, Michigan, 2000-03
T. L. Weaver, D. Healy, T.G. Sabin
2005, Open-File Report 2004-1406
The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians in Calhoun County, Michigan is concerned about the water quality and quantity of streams in and around tribal lands and of shallow ground water. The tribe wanted to establish a database that included streamflow, stage, and water quality of local streams and quality...
Water resources data, Oakland County, Michigan 2001-2004
Stephen S. Aichele, S. L. Crowley, C.K. Tariska, J. Stopar
2005, Open-File Report 2004-1417
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with Oakland County, the Huron-Clinton Metropark Authority, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), and the Rouge Program Office, collected streamflow, water-quality, and ground-water-level data in watersheds across Oakland County during water years 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Water years begin October 1...
Magnetic properties of sediments in cores BL96-1, -2, and -3 from Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho
Joseph G. Rosenbaum
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1203
Bibliography of selected references in visual resource management
Belinda Arbogast
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1155
Particle-size, CaCO3, chemical, magnetic, and age data from surficial deposits in and around Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Harland L. Goldstein, Richard L. Reynolds, Marith C. Reheis, James Yount, Paul Lamothe, Helen Roberts, John McGeehin
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1186
No abstract available....
Future science direction: environmental information science plan
Anne F. Frondorf, David R. Boldt, Deborah R. Hutchinson, William G. Miller, Douglas R. Posson, Stuart A. Sipkin
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1180
The New Hampshire watershed tool: a geographic information system tool to estimate streamflow statistics and ground-water-recharge rates
Scott A. Olson, Robert H. Flynn, Craig M. Johnston, Gary D. Tasker
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1172
Estimates of low-flow statistics, flow durations, and ground-water-recharge rates are needed to assist water-resource managers in assessing surface-water resources and ground-water availability. Often these estimates are required at ungaged sites where no observed streamflow data are available for analysis. Regression equations for estimating low-flow statistics and flow durations, and for...
