Relations of Water Quality to Agricultural Chemical Use and Environmental Setting at Various Scales - Results from Selected Studies of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2008, Fact Sheet 2007-3088
In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began studies of 51 major river basins and aquifers across the United States as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program to provide scientifically sound information for managing the Nation's water resources. The major goals of the NAWQA Program are to assess...
Using logistic regression to predict a probability of debris flows in areas burned by wildfires, southern California, 2003-2006
Michael G. Rupert, Susan H. Cannon, Joseph E. Gartner, John A. Michael, Dennis R. Helsel
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1370
Logistic regression was used to develop statistical models that can be used to predict the probability of debris flows in areas recently burned by wildfires by using data from 14 wildfires that burned in southern California during 2003-2006. Twenty-eight independent variables describing the basin morphology, burn severity, rainfall, and soil...
Sediment Quality and Comparison to Historical Water Quality, Little Arkansas River Basin, South-Central Kansas, 2007
Kyle E. Juracek, Patrick P. Rasmussen
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5187
The spatial and temporal variability in streambed-sediment quality and its relation to historical water quality was assessed to provide guidance for the development of total maximum daily loads and the implementation of best-management practices in the Little Arkansas River Basin, south-central Kansas. Streambed-sediment samples were collected at 26 sites in...
Weather and Climate Monitoring Protocol, Channel Islands National Park, California
Kathryn McEachern, Paula Power, Linda Dye, Rocky Rudolph
2008, Techniques and Methods 2-B1
Weather and climate are strong drivers of population dynamics, plant and animal spatial distributions, community interactions, and ecosystem states. Information on local weather and climate is crucial in interpreting trends and patterns in the natural environment for resource management, research, and visitor enjoyment. This document describes the weather and climate...
Summary of Ground-Water Data for Brunswick County, North Carolina, Water Year 2007
Kristen Bukowski McSwain
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1307
Ground-water availability in Brunswick County, North Carolina, has been monitored continuously since 2000 through the operation and maintenance of ground-water-level observation wells in the surficial, Castle Hayne, Peedee, and Black Creek aquifers of the North Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifer system. Ground-water-resource conditions for the Brunswick County area were determined by...
Geochemical data from analyses of rock, sediment, water, and solid-phase leaching at the Tuba City Open Dump, Tuba City, Arizona
Raymond H. Johnson, James K. Otton, Robert Horton, Tanya J. Gallegos, LaDonna M. Choate, Jonah E. Sullivan
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1374
This report releases data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from the Tuba City Open Dump area from January 2008 to September 2008 with cooperation from the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Navajo and Hopi Tribes. These data were collected in support of investigations into the possible sources...
Water-quality effects and characterization of indicators of onsite wastewater disposal systems in the east-central Black Hills area, South Dakota, 2006-08
Larry D. Putnam, Galen K. Hoogestraat, J. Foster Sawyer
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5232
Onsite wastewater disposal systems (OWDS) are used extensively in the Black Hills of South Dakota where many of the watersheds and aquifers are characterized by fractured or solution-enhanced bedrock with thin soil cover. A study was conducted during 2006-08 to characterize water-quality effects and indicators of OWDS. Water samples were...
Geologic model for oil and gas assessment of the Kemik-Thomson Play, central North Slope, Alaska
Christopher J. Schenk, David W. Houseknecht
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5146
A geologic model was developed to assess undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Kemik-Thomson Play of the Central North Slope, Alaska. In this model, regional erosion during the Early Cretaceous produced an incised valley system on the flanks and crest of the Mikkelsen High and formed the Lower Cretaceous...
Mercury in precipitation in Indiana, January 2004–December 2005
Martin R. Risch, Kathleen K. Fowler
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5148
Mercury in precipitation was monitored during 2004–2005 at five locations in Indiana as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program–Mercury Deposition Network (NADP–MDN). Monitoring stations were operated at Roush Lake near Huntington, Clifty Falls State Park near Madison, Fort Harrison State Park near Indianapolis, Monroe County Regional Airport near Bloomington,...
Total dissolved gas and water temperature in the lower Columbia River, Oregon and Washington, 2008: Quality-assurance data and comparison to water-quality standards
Dwight Q. Tanner, Heather M. Bragg, Matthew W. Johnston
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1357
Significant Findings When water is released through the spillways of dams, air is entrained in the water, increasing the downstream concentration of dissolved gases. Excess dissolved-gas concentrations can have adverse effects on freshwater aquatic life. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, collected...
Environmental factors affecting mercury in Camp Far West Reservoir, California, 2001-03
Charles N. Alpers, A. Robin Stewart, Michael K. Saiki, Mark C. Marvin-DiPasquale, Brent R. Topping, Kelly M. Rider, Steven K. Gallanthine, Cynthia A. Kester, Robert O. Rye, Ronald C. Antweiler, John F. De Wild
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5008
This report documents water quality in Camp Far West Reservoir from October 2001 through August 2003. The reservoir, located at approximately 300 feet above sea level in the foothills of the northwestern Sierra Nevada, California, is a monomictic lake characterized by extreme drawdown in the late summer and fall. Thermal...
A bird community on the edge: habitat use of forest songbirds In eastern Oklahoma
Vincent S. Cavalieri, Timothy J. O’Connell, David M. Leslie Jr.
2008, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference: Tundra to Trophics
Several species of forest songbirds reach a western limit of their respective distributions in eastern Oklahoma. The relative infl uence of various habitat variables on patterns of occurrence in this region may differ from those same infl uences in the core of species’ ranges. We examined the infl uence of...
Millimeter-scale geologic mapping using field spectroscopy techniques
David C. Buesch, Daniel E. Ragona, Mark C. Helmlinger
2008, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 12th International High-level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWM): Steps Toward Reality for Safe Disposal: September 7-11, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada
No abstract available....
Effects of nitrate and water on the oxygen isotopic analysis of barium sulfate precipitated from water samples
Janet E. Hannon, J.K. Bohlke, Stanley J. Mroczkowski
2008, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (22) 4109-4120
BaSO4 precipitated from mixed salt solutions by common techniques for SO isotopic analysis may contain quantities of H2O and NO that introduce errors in O isotope measurements. Experiments with synthetic solutions indicate that δ18O values of CO produced by decomposition of precipitated...
Challenges to building a disaster-resilient nation
David Applegate
2008, Science News (173) 32-32
No abstract available....
Formulations for aircraft and airfield deicing and anti-icing: aquatic toxicity and biochemical oxygen demand
Lee Ferguson, Steven R. Corsi, Steven W. Geis, Graham Anderson, Kevin Joback, Harris Gold, Dean Mericas, Devon A. Cancilla
2008, Report
The Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has sponsored research on environmental characteristics of aircraft and pavement deicers and anti-icers focusing primarily on biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and aquatic toxicity of formulated products and individual chemical components of formulations. This report presents a background of issues leading to this research, objectives...
Mineral resource of the month: natural and synthetic zeolites
Robert L. Virta
2008, Geotimes (53)
Volcanic rocks containing natural zeolites — hydrated aluminosilicate minerals that contain alkaline and alkaline-earth metals — have been mined worldwide for more than 1,000 years for use as cements and building stone. For centuries, people thought natural zeolites occurred only in small amounts inside cavities of volcanic rock. But in...
Chemical and stable isotopic composition of water and gas in the Fort Union Formation of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana: Evidence for water/rock interaction and the biogenic origin of coalbed natural gas
Cynthia A. Rice, Romeo M. Flores, Gary D. Stricker, Margaret S. Ellis
2008, International Journal of Coal Geology (76) 76-85
Significant amounts (> 36 million m3/day) of coalbed methane (CBM) are currently being extracted from coal beds in the Paleocene Fort Union Formation of the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana. Information on processes that generate methane in these coalbed reservoirs is important for developing methods that will stimulate...
Factors affecting road mortality of white-tailed deer in eastern South Dakota
Troy W. Grovenburg, Jonathan A. Jenks, Robert W. Klaver, Kevin L. Monteith, Dwight H. Galster, Ron J. Schauer, Wilbert W. Morlock, Joshua A. Delger
2008, Human-Wildlife Conflicts (2) 48-59
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) mortalities (n = 4,433) caused by collisions with automobiles during 2003 were modeled in 35 counties in eastern South Dakota. Seventeen independent variables and 5 independent variable interactions were evaluated to explain deer mortalities. A negative binomial regression model (Ln Y = 1.25 – 0.12 [percentage...
Flood of June 2008 in Southern Wisconsin
Faith A. Fitzpatrick, Marie C. Peppler, John F. Walker, William J. Rose, Robert J. Waschbusch, James L. Kennedy
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5235
In June 2008, heavy rain caused severe flooding across southern Wisconsin. The floods were aggravated by saturated soils that persisted from unusually wet antecedent conditions from a combination of floods in August 2007, more than 100 inches of snow in winter 2007-08, and moist conditions in spring 2008. The flooding...
Ground-water quality data in the middle Sacramento Valley study unit, 2006— Results from the California GAMA program
Stephen J. Schmitt, Miranda S. Fram, Barbara J. Milby Dawson, Kenneth Belitz
2008, Data Series 385
Ground-water quality in the approximately 3,340 mi2 Middle Sacramento Valley study unit (MSACV) was investigated from June through September, 2006, as part of the California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) program. The GAMA Priority Basin Assessment project was developed in response to the Groundwater Quality Monitoring Act of 2001 and...
Double-crested cormorant studies at Little Galloo Island, Lake Ontario in 2008: Diet composition, fish consumption and the efficacy of management activities in reducing fish predation
James H. Johnson, Russell D. McCullough, James F. Farquhar
2008, NYSDEC Lake Ontario Annual Report 2008-14
For almost two decades Little Galloo Island (LGI)has supported the largest colony of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) in the eastern basin of Lake Ontario. Cormorant nest counts on the island since the early 1990's have averaged about 5,000 per year reaching a high of 8,400 in 1996. Johnson et al....
4th EGU Alexander von Humboldt conference - the Andes: challenge for geosciences
P. Fabian, R. Garreau, Christoph Schneider, Robert I. Tilling
2008, Advances in Geosciences (22) 1-189
No abstract available....
Projecting cumulative benefits of multiple river restoration projects: an example from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River system in California
G. Mathias Kondolf, Paul L. Angermeier, Kenneth Cummins, Thomas Dunne, Michael Healey, Wim Kimmerer, Peter B. Moyle, Dennis Murphy, Duncan Patten, Steve F. Railsback, Denise J. Reed, Robert B. Spies, Robert Twiss
2008, Environmental Management (42) 933-945
Despite increasingly large investments, the potential ecological effects of river restoration programs are still small compared to the degree of human alterations to physical and ecological function. Thus, it is rarely possible to “restore” pre-disturbance conditions; rather restoration programs (even large, well-funded ones) will nearly always involve multiple small projects,...
Simulated response of water quality in public supply wells to land use change
P.B. McMahon, K.R. Burow, L. J. Kauffman, S. M. Eberts, J.K. Böhlke, J.J. Gurdak
2008, Water Resources Research (45)
Understanding how changes in land use affect water quality of public supply wells (PSW) is important because of the strong influence of land use on water quality, the rapid pace at which changes in land use are occurring in some parts of the world, and the large...
