Publications of the Volcano Hazards Program 2005
Manuel Nathenson
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1064
The Volcano Hazards Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is part of the Geologic Hazards Assessments subactivity as funded by Congressional appropriation. Investigations are carried out in the Geology and Hydrology Disciplines of the USGS and with cooperators at the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, University of...
Radiometric Survey in Western Afghanistan: A Website for Distribution of Data
Ronald E. Sweeney, Robert P. Kucks, Patricia L. Hill, Carol A. Finn
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1042
Radiometric (uranium content, thorium content, potassium content, and gamma-ray intensity) and related data were digitized from radiometric and survey route location maps of western Afghanistan published in 1976. The uranium content data were digitized along contour lines from 33 maps in a series entitled 'Map of Uranium (Radium) Contents...
Ground-Water Recharge in Minnesota
G. N. Delin, J.D. Falteisek
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3002
'Ground-water recharge' broadly describes the addition of water to the ground-water system. Most water recharging the ground-water system moves relatively rapidly to surface-water bodies and sustains streamflow, lake levels, and wetlands. Over the long term, recharge is generally balanced by discharge to surface waters, to plants, and to deeper parts...
U.S. Geological Survey Field Leach Test for Assessing Water Reactivity and Leaching Potential of Mine Wastes, Soils, and Other Geologic and Environmental Materials
Philip L. Hageman
2007, Techniques and Methods 5-D3
The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a fast (5-minute), effective, simple, and cost-effective leach test that can be used to simulate the reactions that occur when materials are leached by water. The USGS Field Leach Test has been used to predict, assess, and characterize the geochemical interactions between...
Determination of Mercury in Aqueous and Geologic Materials by Continuous Flow-Cold Vapor-Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry (CVAFS)
Philip L. Hageman
2007, Techniques and Methods 5-D2
New methods for the determination of total mercury in geologic materials and dissolved mercury in aqueous samples have been developed that will replace the methods currently (2006) in use. The new methods eliminate the use of sodium dichromate (Na2Cr2O7 ?2H2O) as an oxidizer and preservative and significantly lower the detection...
Selected field parameters from streams and preliminary analytical data from water and macroinvertebrate samples, Central Colorado Assessment Project, task, 2004 and 2005
David L. Fey, Stan E. Church, Travis S. Schmidt, Richard B. Wanty, Philip L. Verplanck, Paul J. Lamothe, Monique Adams, Michael W. Anthony
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1044
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Central Colorado Assessment Project (CCAP) began in October 2003 and is planned to last through September 2008. One major goal of this project is to compare the relationships between surface-water chemistry and aquatic fauna in mined and unmined areas. To accomplish this goal, we are...
Drying of floodplain forests associated with water-level decline in the Apalachicola River, Florida: Interim results, 2006
Melanie R. Darst, Helen M. Light
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1019
Floodplain forests of the Apalachicola River, Florida, are drier in composition today (2006) than they were before 1954, and drying is expected to continue for at least the next 50 years. Drier forest composition is probably caused by water-level declines that occurred as a result of physical changes in the...
Geochemical Database for Intrusive Rocks of North-Central and Northeast Nevada
Edward A. du Bray, Michael W. Ressel, Calvin G. Barnes
2007, Data Series 244
North-central and northeast Nevada contains numerous large plutons and smaller stocks but also contains many small, shallowly emplaced intrusive bodies, including dikes, sills, and intrusive lava dome complexes. Decades of geologic investigations in the study area demonstrate that many ore deposits, representing diverse ore deposit types, are spatially, and probably...
Philopatry: A return to origins
John M. Pearce
2007, The Auk (124) 1085-1087
The word “philopatry” is a combination of the prefix philo (from the Greekphilos, “beloved”) and the Latin patria, which means “fatherland” or “homeland.” Since the first English-language use of “philopatry” in an ornithological context by Huntington (1951), the term has been applied to two types of site-faithful behavior in birds. Closest to the etymological meaning...
Vertical distribution of hydrogen at high northern latitudes on Mars: The Mars Odyssey Neutron Spectrometer
William C. Feldman, Michael T. Mellon, Olivier Gasnault, B. Diez, R.C. Elphic, Justin Hagerty, D. J. Lawrence, S. Maurice, T.H. Prettyman
2007, Geophysical Research Letters (34)
Neutron leakage currents measured using the Mars Odyssey Neutron Spectrometer are used to develop a two‐layer model of the distribution of hydrogen (here parameterized as water‐equivalent hydrogen, WEH) at high northern latitudes. The WEH abundance in the upper layer, Wup, was found to range between 1% and about 5%. The...
Simulation of Multiscale Ground-Water Flow in Part of the Northeastern San Joaquin Valley, California
Steven P. Phillips, Christopher T. Green, Karen R. Burow, Jennifer L. Shelton, Diane L. Rewis
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5009
The transport and fate of agricultural chemicals in a variety of environmental settings is being evaluated as part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment Program. One of the locations being evaluated is a 2,700-km2 (square kilometer) regional study area in the northeastern San Joaquin Valley surrounding the...
Principal Facts of Gravity data in the Northern Willamette Valley and Vicinity, Northwestern Oregon and Southwestern Washington
Robert L. Morin, Karen L. Wheeler, Darcy McPhee, Philip A. Dinterman, Janet T. Watt
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1058
Gravity data were collected from 2004 through 2006 to assist in mapping subsurface geology in the northern Willamette Valley and vicinity, northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington. Prior to this effort to improve the gravity data coverage in the study area, very little regional data were available. This report gives the...
Alkalilimnicola ehrlichii sp. nov., a novel, arsenite-oxidizing haloalkaliphilic gammaproteobacterium capable of chemoautotrophic or heterotrophic growth with nitrate or oxygen as the electron acceptor
Shelley E. Hoeft, Jodi Switzer Blum, John F. Stolz, F. Robert Tabita, Brian Witte, Gary M. King, Joanne M. Santini, Ron Oremland
2007, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (57) 504-512
A facultative chemoautotrophic bacterium, strain MLHE-1T, was isolated from Mono Lake, an alkaline hypersaline soda lake in California, USA. Cells of strain MLHE-1T were Gram-negative, short motile rods that grew with inorganic electron donors (arsenite, hydrogen, sulfide or thiosulfate) coupled with the reduction of nitrate to nitrite. No aerobic...
Estimating cleanup times for groundwater contamination remediation strategies
Gary Miner, Mark A. Widdowson, Eduardo Mendez III, Francis H. Chapelle
2007, Journal - American Water Works Association (99) 40-46
This article presents the Natural Attenuation Software (NAS), available as a free download from Virginia Polytechnic University, which can help remedial project managers and their contractors estimate the time of groundwater remediation through consideration of such natural attenuation processes as advection, dispersion, sorption, source zone depletion, and biodegradation. NAS consists...
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)—its past, present and future
Zhong Lu, Oh-Ig Kwoun, R.P. Rykhus
2007, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (73) 217-221
Very simply, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) involves the use of two or more synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the same area to extract landscape topography and its deformation patterns. A SAR system transmits electromagnetic waves at a wavelength that can range from a few millimeters to tens of...
Riding the storm--landslide danger in the San Francisco Bay Area
Karen Adams, editor(s)
2007, General Information Product 48
Movie Synopsis: --A catastrophic 1982 rainstorm triggered 18,000 landslides in the Bay Area, claiming 25 lives and causing $66 million in property damage. --The combination of steep slopes, weak rocks, and intense winter storms make Bay Area uplands an ideal setting for landslides. --Landslides include both swift,...
InSAR imaging of volcanic deformation over cloud-prone areas - Aleutian islands
Zhong Lu
2007, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (73) 245-257
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (INSAR) is capable of measuring ground-surface deformation with centimeter-tosubcentimeter precision and spatial resolution of tens-of meters over a relatively large region. With its global coverage and all-weather imaging capability, INSAR is an important technique for measuring ground-surface deformation of volcanoes over cloud-prone and rainy regions such...
Discovery of the invasive Mayan Cichlid fish "Cichlasoma" urophthalmus (Günther 1862) in Thailand, with comments on other introductions and potential impacts
Leo G. Nico, William H. Beamish, Prachya Musikasinthorn
2007, Aquatic Invasions (2) 197-214
We report on the occurrence and possible establishment of a non-native cichlid fish in a brackish-water system in the lower Chao Phraya River delta region, Thailand. Although, the possibility of some degree of introgressive hybridization can not be ruled out, Thailand specimens agree best with Mayan Cichlid “Cichlasoma” urophthalmus (Günther 1862). Our...
Chemical contamination of the Rybinsk Reservoir, northwest Russia: Relationship between liver polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) content and health indicators in bream (Abramis brama)
Grigorii M. Chuiko, Donald E. Tillitt, James L. Zajicek, Boris A. Flerov, Vera M. Stepanova, Yuri Y. Zhelnin, Vera A. Podgornaya
2007, Chemosphere (67) 527-536
The Rybinsk Reservoir (Russia) is the largest artificial waterbody in Europe (4550 km2) and provides drinking water for population of the cities located along the coast line. Industrialization in Cherepovets at the northeastern portion of the reservoir, including one of the largest metallurgical facilities in Europe, has resulted in chemical contamination...
Hydrology and glacier-lake-outburst floods (1987-2004) and water quality (1998-2003) of the Taku River near Juneau, Alaska
Edward G. Neal
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5027
The Taku River Basin originates in British Columbia, Canada, and drains an area of 6,600 square miles at the U.S. Geological Survey's Taku River gaging station. Several mines operated within the basin prior to 1957, and mineral exploration has resumed signaling potential for future mining developments. The U.S. Geological Survey...
Presence and significance of chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and other amphibian pathogens at warm-water fish hatcheries in southeastern North America
D. Earl Green, C. Kenneth Dodd Jr.
2007, Herpetological Conservation and Biology (2) 43-47
Amphibian populations and species are declining or disappearing from many regions throughout the world (Stuart et al. 2004). No single cause has been demonstrated, although a number of emerging infectious diseases have been suggested as primary etiologic agents (Berger et al. 1998; Daszak et al. 2003; Lips et al. 2006)....
Regenerated cellulose dialysis membrane sampler
Thomas E. Imbrigiotta
2007, Book chapter, Protocol for use of five passive samplers to sample for a variety of contaminants in ground water
No abstract available....
Assessment of Undiscovered Gas Resources in the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa and Woodbine Formations, Western Gulf Province of the Gulf Coast Region, Louisiana and Texas, 2007
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Fact Sheet 2006-3146
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean of 20.8 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas and a mean of 0.60 billion barrels of undiscovered natural gas liquids in the Western Gulf Province of the Gulf Coast Region, Louisiana and Texas....
Geochemical data from produced water contamination investigations: Osage-Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research (OSPER) sites, Osage County, Oklahoma
James J. Thordsen, Yousif K. Kharaka, Gil Ambats, Evangelos Kakouros, Marvin M. Abbott
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1055
We report chemical and isotopic analyses of 345 water samples collected from the Osage-Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research (OSPER) project. Water samples were collected as part of an ongoing multi-year USGS investigation to study the transport, fate, natural attenuation, and ecosystem impacts of inorganic salts and organic compounds present in produced...
Interpretation of borehole geophysical logs, aquifer-isolation tests, and water-quality data for Sites 1, 3, and 5 at Willow Grove Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base, Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: 2005
Ronald A. Sloto
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5243
Borehole geophysical logging, heatpulse-flowmeter measurements, borehole television surveys, and aquifer-isolation tests were conducted in 2005 at the Willow Grove Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base (NAS/JRB) in Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pa. This study was done by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the U.S. Navy in support of...
