U.S. Geological Survey activities related to American Indians and Alaska Natives: Fiscal year 2004
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2006, Circular 1296
The USGS works in cooperation with American Indian and Alaska Native governments to conduct research on (1) water, energy, and mineral resources, (2) animals and plants that are important for traditional lifeways or have environmental or economic significance, and (3) natural hazards. This report describes most of the activities that...
Analysis of mid- and high-stage conditions for the Peconic River at the eastern boundary of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Suffolk County, New York
Christopher Schubert, Terrence M. Sullivan, William H. Medeiros
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5292
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has historically discharged sewage treatment plant (STP) effluent to the Peconic River, which runs through the BNL site in Suffolk County, N.Y. This effluent discharge has averaged about 700,000 gallons per day (about 1.1 cubic feet per second [ft3/s]) since 1962 and led to contamination of...
Relative Coastal Change-Potential Assessment of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Elizabeth A. Pendleton, E. Robert Thieler, S. Jeffress Williams
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1247
A change-potential index (CPI) was used to map the relative coastal change-potential of the shoreline to future sea-level fluctuation within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (GBNPP) in southeastern Alaska. The CPI ranks the following in terms of their physical contribution to coastal change: geomorphology, regional coastal slope, rate of...
Coastal vulnerability assessment of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park to sea-level rise
Elizabeth A. Pendleton, E. Robert Thieler, S. Jeffress Williams
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1248
A coastal vulnerability index (CVI) was used to map the relative vulnerability of the coast to future sea-level rise within Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in Hawaii. 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...
Coastal vulnerability assessment of Point Reyes National Seashore (PORE) to sea-level rise
Elizabeth A. Pendleton, E. Robert Thieler, S. Jeffress Williams
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1059
A coastal vulnerability index (CVI) was used to map the relative vulnerability of the coast to future sea-level rise within Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California. 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...
Relative coastal change-potential assessment of Kenai Fjords National Park
Elizabeth A. Pendleton, E. Robert Thieler, S. Jeffress Williams
2006, Open-File Report 2004-1373
A change-potential index (CPI) was used to map the relative coastal change-potential of the shoreline to future sea-level changes within Kenai Fjords National Park (KEFJ) in south-central Alaska. The CPI ranks the following parameters in terms of their physical contribution to coastal change: geomorphology, regional coastal slope, rate of relative...
Chapter A6. Section 6.2. Dissolved oxygen
Stewart A. Rounds, Franceska D. Wilde, George F. Ritz
2006, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 09-A6.2
Accurate data for the concentration of dissolved oxygen in surface and ground waters are essential for documenting changes in environmental water resources that result from natural phenomena and human activities. Dissolved oxygen is necessary in aquatic systems for the survival and growth of many aquatic organisms and is used as...
Mapping vegetation communities in Ozark National Scenic Riverways: final technical report to the National Park Service
Robert A. Chastain, Matthew A. Struckhoff, Keith W. Grabner, Esther D. Stroh, Hong He, David R. Larsen, Timothy A. Nigh, Jim Drake
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1354
Vegetation communities were mapped at two levels in Ozark National Scenic Riverways (ONSR) usign a hybrid combination of statistical methods and photointerpretation. The primary map includes 49 cover classes, including 24 cleasses that relate to vegetation associations currenly described by the United States National Vegetation Classification Standard (USNVC: The...
Summary of preliminary 2D inundation modeling for three Hattian landslide dam breach scenarios
Roger P. Denlinger, Daniel R.H. O’Connell, Matt Jones
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1094
On October 8, 2005, a M 7.6 earthquake near Muzafarrabad, Pakistan, triggered a landslide that dammed the Karli River and one of its tributaries about 4 km upstream of the confluence of the Karli and Jhelum rivers near the town of Hattian Bala. The smaller dam on the tributary of...
Map showing geology, oil and gas fields, and geologic provinces of the Gulf of Mexico region
2006, Open-File Report 97-470-L
This map was created as part of a worldwide series of geologic maps for the U.S. Geological Survey’s World Energy Project, available on CD-ROM and through the Internet. The goal of the project is to assess the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world. Geologic provinces were...
Wildfire hazards—A national threat
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3015
Wildfires are a growing natural hazard in most regions of the United States, posing a threat to life and property, particularly where native ecosystems meet developed areas.However, because fire is a natural (and often beneficial) process, fire suppression can lead to more severe fires due to the buildup of vegetation,...
South Coast bioregion
Jon E. Keeley
2006, Book chapter, Fire in California's ecosystems
This chapter investigates the South Coast bioregion in Southern California. There are two broad ecological zones: the coastal valleys and foothill zone and the montane zone. Grasslands are resilient to a wide range of fire frequencies. Fire regimes in big-cone Douglas-fir forests vary spatially and temporally. Lodgepole pine forests are...
Water Resources Data, Pennsylvania, Water Year 2005, Volume 2. Susquehanna and Potomac River Basins
R.R. Durlin, W.P. Schaffstall, M.R. Beaver
2006, Water Data Report PA-05-2
Water resources data for the 2005 water year for Pennsylvania consist of records of discharge and water quality of streams; contents and elevations of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality of ground-water wells. This report, Volume 2 contains (1) discharge records for 89 continuous-record streamflow-gaging stations, 13...
Water Resources Data, Pennsylvania, Water Year 2005, Volume 1. Delaware River Basin
R.R. Durlin, W.P. Schaffstall, M.R. Beaver
2006, Water Data Report PA-05-1
Water resources data for the 2005 water year for Pennsylvania consist of records of discharge and water quality of streams; contents and elevations of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality of ground-water wells. This report, Volume 1 contains (1) discharge records for 75 continuous-record streamflow-gaging stations, 5...
Vanishing before our eyes
Wylie C. Barrow Jr., William R. Fontenot, Madeline H. Barrow, Richard A. DeMay, David Muth
2006, Book
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Introduction to the special issue on the changing Mojave Desert
Kristin H. Berry, R. W. Murphy, Jeremy S. Mack, W. Quillman
2006, Journal of Arid Environments (67) 5-10
The Mojave Desert, which lies between the Great Basin Desert in the north and the Sonoran Desert in the south, covers an estimated 114 478–130 464 km2 of the south-western United States and includes parts of the states of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California, with the amount of land mass dependent on the...
Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 2006
Carole B. Burden, David V. Allen, M.R. Danner, Vince Walzem, J.L. Cillessen, Paul Downhour, C.D. Wilkowske, Robert J. Eacret, Dale E. Wilberg, B.A. Slaugh, R.L. Swenson, J.H. Howells, H.K. Christiansen, M.J. Fisher
2006, Cooperative Investigations Report 47
This is the forty-third in a series of annual reports that describe ground-water conditions in Utah. Reports in this series, published cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources and Division of Water Rights, and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality,...
Reply to comment by F. Molz et al. on “Investigating the Macrodispersion Experiment (MADE) site in Columbus, Mississippi, using a three‐dimensional inverse flow and transport model”
Mary C. Hill, Heidi Christiansen Barlebo, Dan Rosbjerg
2006, Water Resources Research (42)
We are pleased to have the opportunity to discuss further what we think are important methods and results presented <span...
Multi-scale responses of soil stability and invasive plants to removal of non-native grazers from an arid conservation reserve
Erik A. Beever, Manuela M. P. Huso, David A. Pyke
2006, Diversity and Distributions (12) 258-268
Disturbances and ecosystem recovery from disturbance both involve numerous processes that operate on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Few studies have investigated how gradients of disturbance intensity and ecosystem responses are distributed across multiple spatial resolutions and also how this relationship changes through time during recovery. We investigated how cover...
Linking the concept of scale to studies of biological diversity: evolving approaches and tools.
E.A. Beever, R.K. Swihart, B. T. Bestelmeyer
2006, Diversity and Distributions (12) 229-235
Although the concepts of scale and biological diversity independently have received rapidly increasing attention in the scientific literature since the 1980s, the rate at which the two concepts have been investigated jointly has grown much more slowly. We find that scale considerations have been incorporated explicitly into six broad areas...
Mapping South San Francisco Bay's seabed diversity for use in wetland restoration planning
Theresa A. Fregoso, B. Jaffe, G. Rathwell, W. Collins, K. Rhynas, V. Tomlin, S. Sullivan
2006, Conference Paper
In an effort to understand the role of sediment of South San Francisco Bay (South Bay) salt ponds, an acoustic seabed classification was performed with the condition of over two hundred sediment samples. The success of the large-scale tidal wetland restoration of up to 15,000 acres of South Bay partly...
Monitoring biological diversity: strategies, tools, limitations, and challenges
E.A. Beever
2006, Northwestern Naturalist (87) 66-79
Monitoring is an assessment of the spatial and temporal variability in one or more ecosystem properties, and is an essential component of adaptive management. Monitoring can help determine whether mandated environmental standards are being met and can provide an early-warning system of ecological change. Development of a strategy for monitoring...
Taxonomic considerations in listing subspecies under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
S. M. Haig, E.A. Beever, Steven M. Chambers, Hope M. Draheim, Bruce D. Dugger, Susie Dunham, Elise Elliott-Smith, Joseph B. Fontaine, Dylan C. Kesler, Brian J. Knaus, Iara F. Lopes, Peter J. Loschl, Thomas D. Mullins, Lisa M. Sheffield
2006, Conservation Biology (20) 1584-1594
The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) allows listing of subspecies and other groupings below the rank of species. This provides the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service with a means to target the most critical unit in need of conservation. Although roughly one-quarter of listed...
Time of travel and dispersion in the Merrimack River in Massachusetts from the state line to the Atlantic Ocean
Gene W. Parker
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5103
To obtain copies of this report, please contact: Director, Division of Watershed Management, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, 8 New Bond St.. Worcester, MA 01608, (508) 792–7650...
Reassessing a troublesome fact of mountain life: Avalanches in Glacier National Park
Blase Reardon, Daniel B. Fagre
2006, Park Science (24) 37-39
For the past decade, our U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research team has rummaged through Glacier National Park’s archives looking for records of snow avalanches. Our searches have paid off. We have found photographs that show snow avalanches blocking progress during the annual spring opening of the famed Going-to-the-Sun Road,...
