Guidelines for surveying bankfull channel geometry and developing regional hydraulic-geometry relations for streams of New York State
Rocky O. Powell, Sarah J. Miller, Britt E. Westergard, Christiane I. Mulvihill, Barry P. Baldigo, Anne S. Gallagher, Richard R. Starr
2004, Open-File Report 2003-92
Many disturbed streams within New York State are being restored in an effort to provide bank and bed stability and thereby decrease sedimentation and erosion. Efforts to identify and provide accurate indicators for stable-channel characteristics for ungaged streams have been hampered by the lack of regional equations or relations that...
Water-level altitudes 2004 and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers and compaction 1973-2003 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas
Mark C. Kasmarek, Jennifer Lanning-Rush
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1084
This report is one in an annual series of reports that depicts water-level altitudes and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers, and compaction in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers in the Houston-Galveston region. The Houston-Galveston region comprises Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Waller, and Montgomery Counties and adjacent...
Potentiometric surface of the upper Floridan aquifer in the St. Johns River Water Management District and vicinity, Florida, May 2003
Sandra L. Kinnaman, Leel Knowles Jr.
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1077
No abstract available....
Water-level altitudes 2003 and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers and compaction 1973–2015 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas
M. C. Kasmarek, Jennifer Lanning-Rush
2004, Open-File Report 2003-109
This report is one in an annual series of reports that depicts water-level altitudes and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers, and compaction in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers in the Houston-Galveston region. The Houston-Galveston region comprises Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Waller, and Montgomery Counties and adjacent...
Gulf of Mexico Integrated Science, Tampa Bay Study five-year science plan
Kimberly K. Yates
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1191
Flow-Meter and Passive Diffusion Bag Tests and Potential Influences on the Vertical Distribution of Contaminants in Wells at Galena Airport, Galena, Alaska, August to October 2002
Don A. Vroblesky, J.E. Peterson
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1241
Past activities at Galena Airport, a U.S. Air Force Base in Galena, Alaska, have resulted in ground-water contamination by volatile organic compounds. The primary contaminants are petroleum hydrocarbons and chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons. The U.S. Geological Survey and Earth Tech, in cooperation with the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, conducted...
Building a geospatial ROMA project database
Robert G. Clark, Steven Kambly, Thomas Moreland, Milan Pavich
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1099
Baseline Characteristics of Jordan Creek, Juneau, Alaska
Randy H. Host, Edward G. Neal
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1220
Anadromous fish populations historically have found healthy habitat in Jordan Creek, Juneau, Alaska. Concern regarding potential degradation to the habitat by urban development within the Mendenhall Valley led to a cooperative study among the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and the U.S. Geological Survey, that...
Organic contaminants associated with suspended sediment collected during five cruises of the Mississippi River and its principal tributaries, May 1988 to June 1990
Colleen E. Rostad, LaDonna M. Bishop, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Thomas J. Leiker, Stephanie G. Monsterleet, Wilfred E. Pereira
2004, Open-File Report 93-360
Suspended-sediment samples were obtained from sites along the Mississippi River and its principal tributaries to determine the presence of halogenated hydrophobic organic compounds on the suspended sediment smaller than 63 micrometers. Sample collection involved pumping discharge-weighted volumes of river water along a cross section of the river into a continuous-flow...
Surface-water quality-assurance plan for the U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center
David L. Kresch, Stewart A. Tomlinson
2004, Open-File Report 2003-490
This Surface-Water Quality-Assurance Plan documents the standards, policies, and procedures used by the U.S. Geological Survey's Washington District, Water Resources Discipline office, also known as the Washington Water Science Center, for activities related to the collection, processing, storage, analysis, and publication of surface-water data. This plan serves as a guide...
A Forest Vegetation Database for Western Oregon
Richard T. Busing
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1249
Data on forest vegetation in western Oregon were assembled for 2323 ecological survey plots. All data were from fixed-radius plots with the standardized design of the Current Vegetation Survey (CVS) initiated in the early 1990s. For each site, the database includes: 1) live tree density and basal area of common...
Computation of Flow Through Water-Control Structures Using Program DAMFLO.2
Curtis L. Sanders Jr., Toby D. Feaster
2004, Open-File Report 2003-473
As part of its mission to collect, analyze, and store streamflow data, the U.S. Geological Survey computes flow through several dam structures throughout the country. Flows are computed using hydraulic equations that describe flow through sluice and Tainter gates, crest gates, lock gates, spillways, locks, pumps, and siphons, which are...
Physical aquatic habitat assessment, Fort Randall segment of the Missouri River, Nebraska and South Dakota
Caroline M. Elliott, Robert B. Jacobson, Aaron J. DeLonay
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1060
This study addressed habitat availability and use by endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) in the Fort Randall segment of the Missouri River. Physical aquatic habitat - depth, velocity, and substrate - was mapped in 15 sites in Augsust and October of 2002. Habitat assessments were compared with fish locations...
Comparison of Estimated Areas Contributing Recharge to Selected Springs in North-Central Florida by Using Multiple Ground-Water Flow Models
W. Barclay Shoemaker, Andrew M. O’Reilly, Nicasio Sepulveda, Stanley A. Williams, Louis H. Motz, Qing Sun
2004, Open-File Report 2003-448
Areas contributing recharge to springs are defined in this report as the land-surface area wherein water entering the ground-water system at the water table eventually discharges to a spring. These areas were delineated for Blue Spring, Silver Springs, Alexander Springs, and Silver Glen Springs in north-central Florida using four regional...
Benthic foraminiferal census data from Gulf of Mexico cores (Texas and Louisiana continental shelf)
Lisa E. Osterman, Kate Pavich, Jessica Caplan
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1209
seg2_edit: a program for editing and manipulating SEG-2 files
Karl J. Ellefsen
2003, Open-File Report 2003-0141
OVERVIEWProgram seg2_edit is used to edit and manipulate files that contain seismic (or radar) data stored in the SEG-2 format. The program is written in the standard C++ programming language, including its standard library. The program has been compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ .NET and tested on the Microsoft Windows...
Coastal vulnerability assessment of Cape Cod National Seashore to sea-level rise
Erika S. Hammar-Klose, Elizabeth A. Pendleton, E. Robert Thieler, S. Jeffress Williams
2003, Open-File Report 2002-233
A coastal vulnerability index (CVI) was used to map the relative vulnerability of the coast to future sea-level rise within the Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO). The CVI ranks the following in terms of their physical contribution to sea-level rise-related coastal change: geomorphology, regional coastal slope, rate of relative sea-level...
Maps showing geology, oil and gas fields, and geologic provinces of the Arctic
2003, Open-File Report 97-470-J
IntroductionThis CD-ROM was compiled according to the methodology developed by the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project. The geologic map of the Arctic was compiled and synthesized from the Circumpolar Geological Map of the Arctic, by Okulitch A.V., Lopatin B.G., and Jackson H.R., scale 1:6,000,000, published by the...
Geologic map and digital database of the Yucaipa 7.5’ quadrangle, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California
Jonathan C. Matti, D. M. Morton, B. F. Cox, S. E. Carson, T. J. Yetter, P. M. Cossette, M. C. Wright, S. A. Kennedy, M. L. Dawson, R. M. Hauser
2003, Open-File Report 2003-301
IntroductionThis geologic database of the Yucaipa 7.5' quadrangle was prepared by the Southern California Areal Mapping Project (SCAMP), a regional geologic-mapping project sponsored jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Geological Survey. The database was developed as a contribution to the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program's National Geologic...
Extending the Beowulf Cluster to the Desktop
George Hamer, Daniel R. Steinwand
2003, Open-File Report 2003-432
Existing Beowulf clusters are normally limited to the actual number of compute nodes physically connected to the cluster's network switch. At some point, it may become necessary to extend the size of the cluster beyond the capacity of the switch. By using existing computers on a campus network, one can extend...
Using the Landsat 7 enhanced thematic mapper tasseled cap transformation to extract shoreline
J.W. Scott Jr.
2003, Open-File Report 2003-272
A semiautomated method for objectively interpreting and extracting the land-water interface has been devised and used successfully to generate multiple shoreline data for the test States of Louisiana and Delaware. The method is based on the application of tasseled cap transformation coefficients derived by the EROS Data Center for Landsat...
Annotated bibliography of selected references on PCB and the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, Michigan, 1982-2002
Andreanne Simard
2003, Open-File Report 2003-338
Fifty six publications pertaining to the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Publications stored in the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Environmental Response Division site files are summarized. Publications are presented chronologically within four categories: PCB releases, PCB remediation, PCB safety, and PCB testing and cleanup. The text consists of bibliographical information...
Processing large remote sensing image data sets on Beowulf clusters
Daniel R. Steinwand, Brian Maddox, Tim Beckmann, Gail Schmidt
2003, Open-File Report 2003-216
High-performance computing is often concerned with the speed at which floating- point calculations can be performed. The architectures of many parallel computers and/or their network topologies are based on these investigations. Often, benchmarks resulting from these investigations are compiled with little regard to how a large dataset would move about...
Summary of synoptic sampling and tracer-injection tests in the Alamosa River Basin during low-flow conditions, October 1998: A sampling analysis report for modeling reactive transport of metals for the Summitville Mine, Colorado
Roderick F. Ortiz, James W. Ball
2003, Open-File Report 2003-466
No abstract available....
Summary of synoptic sampling and tracer-injection tests in the Alamosa River basin during high-flow conditions, June 1999: A sampling analysis report for modeling reactive transport of metals for the Summitville Mine, Colorado
Roderick F. Ortiz, James W. Ball
2003, Open-File Report 2003-467
No abstract available....
