Methods for Adjusting U.S. Geological Survey Rural Regression Peak Discharges in an Urban Setting
Glenn E. Moglen, Dorianne E. Shivers
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5270
A study was conducted of 78 U.S. Geological Survey gaged streams that have been subjected to varying degrees of urbanization over the last three decades. Flood-frequency analysis coupled with nonlinear regression techniques were used to generate a set of equations for converting peak discharge estimates determined from rural regression equations...
Organic Compounds, Trace Elements, Suspended Sediment, and Field Characteristics at the Heads-of-Tide of the Raritan, Passaic, Hackensack, Rahway, and Elizabeth Rivers, New Jersey, 2000-03
Jennifer L. Bonin, Timothy P. Wilson
2006, Data Series 123
Concentrations of suspended sediment, particulate and dissolved organic carbon, trace elements, and organic compounds were measured in samples from the heads-of-tide of the five tributaries to the Newark and Raritan Bays during June 2000 to June 2003. The samples were collected as part of the New Jersey Department of Environmental...
Organic Compounds and Trace Elements in Fish Tissue and Bed Sediment in the Delaware River Basin, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware, 1998-2000
Kristin M. Romanok, Jeffrey M. Fischer, Karen Riva-Murray, Robin Brightbill, Michael Bilger
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5150
As part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program activities in the Delaware River Basin (DELR), samples of fish tissue from 21 sites and samples of bed sediment from 35 sites were analyzed for a suite of organic compounds and trace elements. The sampling sites, within subbasins ranging in size...
Quantifying the Components of Impervious Surfaces
Janet S. Tilley, E. Terrence Slonecker
2006, Open-File Report 2007-1008
This study's objectives were to (1) determine the relative contribution of impervious surface individual components by collecting digital information from high-resolution imagery, 1-meter or better; and to (2) determine which of the more advanced techniques, such as spectral unmixing or the application of coefficients to land use or land cover...
Bedrock map of the early Mesozoic Pomperaug basin and surrounding basement rocks, Litchfield and New Haven counties, CT
William Burton
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1011
The Bedrock map of Mesozoic Pomperaug basin and surrounding areas will show a description of minerals in pre-Mesozoic rocks in ascending order of abundance....
The HRSC DTM test
Christian Heipke, Jurgen Oberst, Jeorg Albertz, Maria Attwenger, Peter Dorninger, Egon Dorrer, M. Ewe, Stephan Gehrke, Klaus Gwinner, H. Hirschmuller, J.R. Kim, Randolph L. Kirk, H. Mayer, Jan-Peter Muller, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, M. Rentsch, R. Schmidt, Frank Scholten, J. Shan, Michael Spiegel, M. Wahlisch, Gerhard Neukum, HRSC Co-Investigator Team
2006, Conference Paper, Symposium of ISPRS Commission IV
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) has been orbiting the planet Mars since January 2004 onboard the ESA Mars Express mission and delivers imagery which is being used for topographic mapping of the planet. The HRSC team is currently conducting a systematic inter-comparison of different alternatives for the production of...
Report of the River Master of the Delaware River for the period December 1, 2001 - November 30, 2002
Bruce E. Krejmas, Gary N. Paulachok, William J. Carswell Jr.
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1220
A Decree of the United States Supreme Court in 1954 established the position of Delaware River Master within the U.S. Geological Survey. In addition, the Decree authorizes diversions of water from the Delaware River Basin and requires compensating releases from certain reservoirs, owned by New York City, to be made...
Analysis of the Magnitude and Frequency of Peak Discharges for the Navajo Nation in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico
Scott D. Waltemeyer
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5306
Estimates of the magnitude and frequency of peak discharges are necessary for the reliable flood-hazard mapping in the Navajo Nation in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Navajo Nation requested that the U.S. Geological Survey update estimates of peak...
Hydrogeology of the Lloyd aquifer on Long Island, New York— A brief summary of USGS investigations
Anthony Chu
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1341
The four counties of Long Island (fig. 1) are underlain by a wedge-shaped sequence of unconsolidated deposits of Late Cretaceous and Pleistocene age that lie unconformably on crystalline bedrock (fig. 2). A saprolitic (weathered bedrock) zone 20 to 100 ft thick overlies the bedrock in most areas. The sequence of...
Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in New York
Richard Lumia, Douglas A. Freehafer, Martyn J. Smith
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5112
Techniques are presented for estimating the magnitude and frequency of flood discharges on rural, unregulated streams in New York, excluding Long Island. Peak-discharge-frequency data and basin characteristics from 388 streamflow-gaging stations in New York and adjacent states were used to develop multiple linear regression equations for flood discharges with recurrence...
Recent (2003-05) water quality of Barton Springs, Austin, Texas, with emphasis on factors affecting variability
Barbara Mahler, Bradley D. Garner, MaryLynn Musgrove, Amber L. Guilfoyle, Mohan V. Rao
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5299
From 2003 to 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, collected and analyzed water samples from the four springs (orifices) of Barton Springs in Austin, Texas (Upper, Main, Eliza, and Old Mill Springs), with the objective of characterizing water quality. Barton Springs is...
U.S. industrial garnet
James G. Evans, Phillip R. Moyle
2006, Bulletin 2209-L
The United States presently consumes about 16 percent of global production of industrial garnet for use in abrasive airblasting, abrasive coatings, filtration media, waterjet cutting, and grinding. As of 2005, domestic garnet production has decreased from a high of 74,000 t in 1998, and imports have increased to the extent...
Effects of Irrigation, Drought, and Ground-Water Withdrawals on Ground-Water Levels in the Southern Lihue Basin, Kauai, Hawaii
Scot K. Izuka
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5291
A numerical ground-water-flow model was used to investigate the effects of irrigation on ground-water levels in the southern Lihue Basin, Kauai, Hawaii, and the relation between declining ground-water levels observed in the basin in the 1990s and early 2000s and concurrent drought, irrigation reduction, and changes in ground-water withdrawal. Results...
Drainage Areas of Selected Streams in Virginia
Donald C. Hayes, Ute Wiegand
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1308
Drainage areas were determined for more than 1,600 basins in the three major river basins of Virginia -- the North Atlantic Slope, South Atlantic Slope, and Ohio River Basins. Drainage areas range from 0.004 square mile to 7,866 square miles. A geographic information system was used to digitize and store...
Stratigraphic framework and depositional sequences in the Lower Silurian regional oil and gas accumulation, Appalachian Basin: From Licking County, Ohio, to Fayette County, West Virginia
Robert T. Ryder
2006, Scientific Investigations Map 2916
The Lower Silurian regional oil and gas accumulation was named by Ryder and Zagorski (2003) for a 400-mile (mi)-long by 200-mi-wide hydrocarbon accumulation in the central Appalachian basin of the Eastern United States and Ontario, Canada. From the early 1880s to 2000, approximately 300 to 400 million barrels of oil...
GP Workbench Manual: Technical Manual, User's Guide, and Software Guide
Charles P. Oden, Craig W. Moulton
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1365
GP Workbench is an open-source general-purpose geophysical data processing software package written primarily for ground penetrating radar (GPR) data. It also includes support for several USGS prototype electromagnetic instruments such as the VETEM and ALLTEM. The two main programs in the package are GP Workbench and GP Wave Utilities. GP...
JUPITER: Joint Universal Parameter IdenTification and Evaluation of Reliability - An Application Programming Interface (API) for Model Analysis
Edward R. Banta, Eileen P. Poeter, John E. Doherty, Mary C. Hill, editor(s)
2006, Techniques and Methods 6-E1
he Joint Universal Parameter IdenTification and Evaluation of Reliability Application Programming Interface (JUPITER API) improves the computer programming resources available to those developing applications (computer programs) for model analysis.The JUPITER API consists of eleven Fortran-90 modules that provide for encapsulation of data and operations on that data. Each module contains...
The Response of Suspended Sediment, Turbidity, and Velocity to Historical Alterations of the Missouri River
Dale W. Blevins
2006, Circular 1301
The heavy sediment load and large amounts of floating debris generated by the constantly caving banks of the Missouri River was documented in the first written description of the river by Father Jacques Marquette in 1673 as he approached the mouth of the Missouri River from the upper Mississippi River:...
U.S. Geological Survey's alert notification system for volcanic activity
Cynthia A. Gardner, Marianne C. Guffanti
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3139
The United States and its territories have about 170 volcanoes that have been active during the past 10,000 years, and most could erupt again in the future. In the past 500 years, 80 U.S. volcanoes have erupted one or more times. About 50 of these recently active volcanoes are monitored,...
The Cerrillos Uplift, the La Bajada Constriction, and Hydrogeologic Framework of the Santo Domingo Basin, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico
Scott A. Minor, editor(s)
2006, Professional Paper 1720
The geologic, geophysical, and hydrogeologic properties of the La Bajada constriction and Santo Domingo Basin, northern New Mexico, result from tectonic and volcanic processes of the late Tertiary and Quaternary Rio Grande rift. An integrated geologic and geophysical assessment in the La Bajada constriction allows development of a geologic...
Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals in Shallow Ground-Water of Suffolk County, New York, 2002-05
Mark J. Benotti, Shawn Fisher, Stephen Terracciano
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1297
Seventy (70) water samples were collected from 61 wells in the upper glacial and Magothy aquifers (9 wells were sampled twice) during 2002-05 and analyzed for 24 pharmaceuticals. Wells were selected for their proximity to known wastewater-treatment facilities that discharge to the shallow upper glacial aquifer. Pharmaceuticals were detected in...
Water quality in the Bear River Basin of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming prior to and following snowmelt runoff in 2001
Steven J. Gerner, Lawrence E. Spangler
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5292
Water-quality samples were collected from the Bear River during two base-flow periods in 2001: March 11 to 21, prior to snowmelt runoff, and July 30 to August 9, following snowmelt runoff. The samples were collected from 65 sites along the Bear River and selected tributaries and analyzed for dissolved solids...
Geologic Map of the MTM-20272 and-25272 Quadrangles, Tyrrhena Terra Region of Mars
Scott C. Mest, David A. Crown
2006, Scientific Investigations Map 2934
Introduction Mars Transverse Mercator (MTM) -20272 and -25272 quadrangles (lat 17.5?-27.5? S., long 270?-275? W.) cover part of the highlands of Tyrrhena Terra north of Hellas Planitia. The surface of the Tyrrhena Terra region records a complex history of impact cratering and modification by fluvial and eolian activity. The map area...
Spatial data for Eurycea salamander habitats associated With three aquifers in south-central Texas
Franklin T. Heitmuller, Brian D. Reece
2006, Data Series 243
Eurycea salamander taxa comprise 12 known species that inhabit springs and caves in south-central Texas. Many of these are threatened or endangered species, and some are found only at one location. A number of the neotenic salamanders might be at risk from habitat loss associated with declines in ground-water levels....
Modeling the Effects of Fire Frequency and Severity on Forests in the Northwestern United States
Richard T. Busing, Allen M. Solomon
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5061
This study used a model of forest dynamics (FORCLIM) and actual forest survey data to demonstrate the effects of various fire regimes on different forest types in the Pacific Northwest. We examined forests in eight ecoregions ranging from wet coastal forests dominated by Pseudotsuga menziesii and other tall conifers to...
