Analysis of Geomorphic and Hydrologic Characteristics of Mount Jefferson Debris Flow, Oregon, November 6, 2006
Steven Sobieszczyk, Mark A. Uhrich, David R. Piatt, Heather M. Bragg
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5204
On November 6, 2006, a rocky debris flow surged off the western slopes of Mount Jefferson into the drainage basins of Milk and Pamelia Creeks in Oregon. This debris flow was not a singular event, but rather a series of surges of both debris and flooding throughout the day. The...
Aspen Ecology in Rocky Mountain National Park: Age Distribution, Genetics, and the Effects of Elk Herbivory
Linda Zeigenfuss, Dan Binkley, Gerald A. Tuskan, William H. Romme, Tongming Yin, Stephen DiFazio, Francis J. Singer
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1337
Lack of recruitment and canopy replacement of aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands that grow on the edges of grasslands on the low-elevation elk (Cervus elaphus) winter range of Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) in Colorado have been a cause of concern for more than 70 years. We used a combination of...
Geologic Map of the Beta Regio Quadrangle (V-17), Venus
Alexander Basilevsky
2008, Scientific Investigations Map 3023
Streamflow Gains and Losses for Hellbranch Run, Franklin County, Ohio, August 2007
Denise H. Dumouchelle
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5191
On August 7, 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey did a streamflow gain-loss study on Hellbranch Run in western Franklin County, Ohio. From Feder Road to Lambert Road, 26 stream and pipe-discharge measurements were made on the mainstem, tributaries and other sources of inflow. Mainstem streamflows ranged from no measureable flow...
Occurrence of organic wastewater compounds in the Tinkers Creek watershed and two other tributaries to the Cuyahoga River, northeast Ohio
J.S. Tertuliani, D.A. Alvarez, E. T. Furlong, M. T. Meyer, S.D. Zaugg, G. F. Koltun
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5173
The U.S. Geological Survey - in cooperation with the Ohio Water Development Authority; National Park Service; Cities of Aurora, Bedford, Bedford Heights, Solon, and Twinsburg; and Portage and Summit Counties - and in collaboration with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, did a study to determine the occurrence and distribution of...
Water- and air-quality monitoring of Sweetwater Reservoir watershed, San Diego County, California — Phase one results continued, 2001-2003
Gregory O. Mendez, William T. Foreman, Andrew Morita, Michael S. Majewski
2008, Data Series 347
In 1998, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Sweetwater Authority, began a study to monitor water, air, and sediment at the Sweetwater and Loveland Reservoirs in San Diego County, California. The study includes regular sampling of water and air at Sweetwater Reservoir for chemical constituents, including volatile organic...
Regression method for estimating long-term mean annual ground-water recharge rates from base flow in Pennsylvania
Dennis W. Risser, Ronald E. Thompson, Marla H. Stuckey
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5185
A method was developed for making estimates of long-term, mean annual ground-water recharge from streamflow data at 80 streamflow-gaging stations in Pennsylvania. The method relates mean annual base-flow yield derived from the streamflow data (as a proxy for recharge) to the climatic, geologic, hydrologic, and physiographic characteristics of the basins...
Inventory of Data Sources Used for Watershed Condition Assessments of Fire Island National Seashore, Gateway National Recreation Area, and Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York and New Jersey
Mark J. Benotti
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1298
The natural resources and watershed conditions of National Park units in the New York-New Jersey area - Gateway National Recreation Area (GATE), Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (SAHI), and Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS) - are threatened by different degrees of urbanization and direct or indirect human use. Such threats...
Assessing gas-hydrate prospects on the North Slope of Alaska—Theoretical considerations
Myung W. Lee, Timothy S. Collett, Warren F. Agena
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5175
Gas-hydrate resource assessment on the Alaska North Slope using 3-D and 2-D seismic data involved six important steps: (1) determining the top and base of the gas-hydrate stability zone, (2) 'tying' well log information to seismic data through synthetic seismograms, (3) differentiating ice from gas hydrate in the permafrost interval,...
Hydrologic Analysis and Two-Dimensional Simulation of Flow at State Highway 17 crossing the Gasconade River near Waynesville, Missouri
Richard J. Huizinga
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5194
In cooperation with the Missouri Department of Transportation, the U.S. Geological Survey determined hydrologic and hydraulic parameters for the Gasconade River at the site of a proposed bridge replacement and highway realignment of State Highway 17 near Waynesville, Missouri. Information from a discontinued streamflow-gaging station on the Gasconade River near...
Variation in biotic assemblages and stream-habitat data with sampling strategy and method in tidal segments of Highland and Marchand Bayous, Galveston County, Texas, 2007
Jeffrey A. Mabe, J. Bruce Moring
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5151
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Houston-Galveston Area Council and the Galveston Bay Estuary Program under the authority of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, did a study in 2007 to assess the variation in biotic assemblages (benthic macroinvertebrate and fish communities) and stream-habitat data with sampling strategy...
Landslides Mapped from LIDAR Imagery, Kitsap County, Washington
Jonathan P. McKenna, David J. Lidke, Jeffrey A. Coe
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1292
Landslides are a recurring problem on hillslopes throughout the Puget Lowland, Washington, but can be difficult to identify in the densely forested terrain. However, digital terrain models of the bare-earth surface derived from LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) data express topographic details sufficiently well to identify landslides. Landslides and escarpments...
Protecting Black-Footed Ferrets and Prairie Dogs against sylvatic plague
Tonie E. Rocke
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3087
Scientists at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC), in collaboration with colleagues at other federal agencies and the University of Wisconsin, are developing and testing vaccines that can be used to protect black-footed ferrets and prairie dogs against plague. The black-footed ferret is commonly regarded as the most endangered...
Geologic map of Mount Mazama and Crater Lake Caldera, Oregon, including the database for the geologic map of Mount Mazama and Crater Lake Caldera, Oregon
Charles R. Bacon, David W. Ramsey, Dillon R Dutton
2008, Scientific Investigations Map 2832
Crater Lake partly fills one of the most spectacular calderas of the world, an 8-by-10-km basin more than 1 km deep formed by collapse of the volcano known as Mount Mazama (fig. 1) during a rapid series of explosive eruptions about 7,700 years ago. Having a maximum depth of 594...
EarthNow!
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2008, General Information Product 81
EarthNow! displays live or recent acquisitions from the Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites as they pass over North America. When these satellites pass within range of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, data imagery is downloaded and displayed in near-real time. When the...
Geologic map of upper cretaceous and tertiary strata and coal stratigraphy of the Paleocene Fort Union Formation, Rawlins-Little Snake River area, south-central Wyoming
R. D. Hettinger, J.G. Honey, M.S. Ellis, C.S.V. Barclay, J.A. East
2008, Scientific Investigations Map 3053
This report provides a map and detailed descriptions of geologic formations for a 1,250 square mile region in the Rawlins-Little Snake River coal field in the eastern part of the Washakie and Great Divide Basins of south-central Wyoming. Mapping of geologic formations and coal beds was conducted at a scale...
See Your State From Space!
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2008, General Information Product 82
Each of the 50 States in the United States is beautiful in its own way. That beauty can be seen from a unique perspective using satellite images taken from high above the Earth. These State images were created from multiple satellite images stitched together into one seamless image for each...
Earthquakes generated from bedding plane-parallel reverse faults above an active wedge thrust, Seattle fault zone
Harvey Kelsey, Brian L. Sherrod, Alan R. Nelson, Thomas M. Brocher
2008, GSA Bulletin (120) 1581-1597
A key question in earthquake hazard analysis is whether individual faults within fault zones represent independent seismic sources. For the Seattle fault zone, an upper plate structure within the Cascadia convergent margin, evaluating seismic hazard requires understanding how north-side-up, bedding-plane reverse faults, which generate late Holocene fault scarps, interact with...
Arctic climate change and its impacts on the ecology of the North Atlantic
Charles H. Greene, Andrew J. Pershing, Thomas M. Cronin, Nicole Ceci
2008, Ecology (89) S24-S38
Arctic climate change from the Paleocene epoch to the present is reconstructed with the objective of assessing its recent and future impacts on the ecology of the North Atlantic. A recurring theme in Earth's paleoclimate record is the importance of the Arctic atmosphere, ocean, and cryosphere in regulating global climate...
Slopes fail, debris flows in extremis
Robert Webb, Christopher S. Magirl, Peter G. Griffiths, Ann M. Youberg, Philip A Pearthree
2008, Southwest Hydrology (7) 8
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Effects of environmental factors on incubation patterns of Greater Sage-Grouse
Peter S. Coates, David J. Delehanty
2008, The Condor (110) 627-638
Birds in which only one sex incubates the eggs are often faced with a direct conflict between foraging to meet metabolic needs and incubation. Knowledge of environmental and ecological factors that shape life-history strategies of incubation is limited. We used continuous videography to make precise measurements of female Greater Sage-Grouse...
Latitudinal variation in cold hardiness in introduced Tamarix and native Populus
Jonathan M. Friedman, James E. Roelle, John F. Gaskin, Alan E. Pepper, James R. Manhart
2008, Evolutionary Applications (1) 598-607
To investigate the evolution of clinal variation in an invasive plant, we compared cold hardiness in the introduced saltcedar (Tamarix ramosissima, Tamarix chinensis, and hybrids) and the native plains cottonwood (Populus deltoidessubsp. monilifera). In a shadehouse in Colorado (41°N), we grew plants collected along a latitudinal gradient in the central...
Use of Superposition Models to Simulate Possible Depletion of Colorado River Water by Ground-Water Withdrawal
Stanley A. Leake, William Greer, Dennis Watt, Paul Weghorst
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5189
According to the 'Law of the River', wells that draw water from the Colorado River by underground pumping need an entitlement for the diversion of water from the Colorado River. Consumptive use can occur through direct diversions of surface water, as well as through withdrawal of water from the river...
Morphological Analyses and Simulated Flood Elevations in a Watershed with Dredged and Leveed Stream Channels, Wheeling Creek, Eastern Ohio
James M. Sherwood, Carrie A. Huitger, Andrew D. Ebner, G. F. Koltun
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5133
The USGS, in cooperation with the Ohio Emergency Management Agency, conducted a study in the Wheeling Creek Basin to (1) evaluate and contrast land-cover characteristics from 2001 with characteristics from 1979 and 1992; (2) compare current streambed elevation, slope, and geometry with conditions present in the late 1980s; (3) look...
Results of Gravity Fieldwork Conducted in March 2008 in the Moapa Valley Region of Clark County, Nevada
Daniel S. Scheirer, Arne Dossing Andreasen
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1300
In March 2008, we collected gravity data along 12 traverses across newly-mapped faults in the Moapa Valley region of Clark County, Nevada. In areas crossed by these faults, the traverses provide better definition of the gravity field and, thus, the density structure, than prior gravity observations. Access problems prohibited complete...
