Water resources data for Oregon, water year 2005
Thomas A. Herrett, Glen W. Hess, Marc A. Stewart, Gregory P. Ruppert, Mary-Lorraine Courts
2005, Water Data Report OR-05-1
Host Fish Identification and Early Life Thermal Requirements for the Federal Endangered Winged Mapleleaf Mussel
Mark Steingraeber, Teresa J. Newton
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3103
The winged mapleleaf mussel (Quadrula fragosa, WML) is a Federal endangered species historically inhabiting at least 34 river systems in 12 Midwestern states. Only four populations are currently known to exist, including one confirmed reproducing population in the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway (NSR) bordering Minnesota and Wisconsin. Recovery efforts...
Geohydrology of the Valley-Fill Aquifers between the Village of Greene, Chenango County and Chenango Valley State Park, Broome County, New York
Kari K. Hetcher-Aguila, Todd S. Miller
2005, Scientific Investigations Map 2914
This set of maps and geohydrologic sections depict the geology and hydrology of valley-fill aquifers in the 14-mile reach of the Chenango River valley between the Village of Greene and the area south of Chenango Valley State Park, N.Y. This map report depicts the aquifers; locations of domestic, production, and...
The U.S. Geological Survey, branch of Astrogeology - a chronology of activities from conception through the end of Project Apollo (1960-1973)
Gerald G. Schaber
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1190
Crustal structure of the Cascadia fore arc of Washington
Tom Parsons, Richard J. Blakely, Thomas M. Brocher, Nikolas I. Christensen, Michael A. Fisher, Ernst Flueh, Fiona Kilbride, James H. Luetgert, Kate Miller, Uri S. ten Brink, Anne M. Trehu, Ray E. Wells
2005, Professional Paper 1661-D
Sonoran Pronghorn Literature: An Annotated Bibliography
Paul R. Krausman, John R. Morgart, Lisa K. Harris, Chantal S. O’Brien, James W. Cain III, Steve S. Rosenstock
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1265
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Sonoran pronghorn (Antilocapra americana sonoriensis) is 1 of 5 subspecies of pronghorn in North America. Sonoran pronghorn historically ranged from eastern California into southeastern Arizona and south to Sonora, Mexico. Sonoran pronghorn currently inhabit the Sonoran Desert in Southwestern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico. Unfortunately, their future in...
Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Tumacacori National Historical Park
Brian F. Powell, Eric W. Albrecht, William L. Halvorson, Cecilia A. Schmidt, Pamela Anning, Kathleen Docherty
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1142
Executive Summary This report summarizes the results of the first comprehensive biological inventory of Tumacacori National Historical Park (NHP) in southern Arizona. These surveys were part of a larger effort to inventory vascular plants and vertebrates in eight National Park Service units in Arizona and New Mexico. From 2000 to 2003 we...
U.S. Geological Survey Aids Federal Agencies in ObtainingCommercial Satellite and Aerial Imagery
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3117
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is a leading U.S. Federal civil agency in the implementation of the civil aspects of the Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy (CRSSP). The USGS is responsible for collecting inter-agency near-term requirements, establishing an operational infrastructure, and supporting the policy and other Federal agencies....
Florida salt marsh vole habitat: lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge
Ellen A. Raabe, Laura C. Gauron
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1417
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality invistigation. 13. Mineral microscopy and chemistry of mined and unmined porphyry molybdenum mineralization along the Red River, New Mexico: Implications for ground- and surface-water quality
Geoff Plumlee, Heather Lowers, Steve Ludington, Alan Koenig, Paul Briggs
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1442
This report is one in a series presenting results of an interdisciplinary U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study of ground-water quality in the lower Red River watershed prior to open-pit and underground molybdenite mining at Molycorp's Questa mine. The stretch of the Red River watershed that extends from just upstream of...
Status of forest birds in the Central Windward Region of Hawai'i Island: population trends and power analyses
P. Marcos Gorresen, Richard J. Camp, Thane K. Pratt, Bethany L. Woodworth
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1441
User's Guide for the Decision Support System for Map Projections of Small Scale Data, Version 2.0
Michael P. Finn, Laura N. Woodard
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1335
U.S. Geological Survey Chesapeake Bay Science Plan, 2006-2011
Scott Phillips
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1440
Catalog of earthquake hypocenters at Alaskan volcanoes: January 1 through December 31, 2004
James P. Dixon, Scott D. Stihler, John A. Power, Guy Tytgat, Steve Estes, Stephanie Prejean, John J. Sanchez, Rebecca Sanches, Stephen R. McNutt, John Paskievitch
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1312
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO), a cooperative program of the U.S. Geological Survey, the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, has maintained seismic monitoring networks at historically active volcanoes in Alaska since 1988. The primary objectives of the seismic...
Developing ecological criteria for prescribed fire in South Florida pine rockland ecosystems
James R. Snyder, Michael S. Ross, Suzanne Koptur, Jay P. Sah
2005, Open-File Report 2006-1062
The pine rocklands of South Florida, characterized by a rich herbaceous flora with many narrowly endemic taxa beneath an overstory of south Florida slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa), are found in three areas: the Miami Rock Ridge of southeastern peninsular Florida, the Lower Florida Keys, and slightly elevated portions...
Translocation of Endangered Laysan Ducks to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (2004-5)
Michelle Reynolds
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3128
BACKGROUND Island ecosystems throughout the Pacific have undergone catastrophic species loss, largely due to the effects of alien or non-native species. Rats, in particular, pose significant threats to native species. In Hawai`i, the appearance of rats (which are not native to Hawai`i) in the subfossil record coincides with the disappearance of...
Landsat: A global land-observing program
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3130
Landsat represents the world’s longest continuously acquired collection of space-based land remote sensing data. The Landsat Project is a joint initiative of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) designed to gather Earth resource data from space. NASA developed and launched the spacecrafts, while...
Mount St. Helens erupts again: Activity from September 2004 through March 2005
Jon J. Major, William E. Scott, Carolyn Driedger, Dan Dzurisin
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3036
Eruptive activity at Mount St. Helens captured the world’s attention in 1980 when the largest historical landslide on Earth and a powerful explosion reshaped the volcano, created its distinctive crater, and dramatically modified the surrounding landscape. Over the next 6 years, episodic extrusions of lava built a large dome in...
Biocomplexity of introduced avian diseases in Hawai`i: threats to biodiversity of native forest ecosystems
Bethany L. Woodworth, Carter T. Atkinson, Michael D. Samuel, Dennis A. LaPointe, Paul C. Banko, Jorge A. Ahumada
2005, Fact Sheet 2005-3139
A GIS-Based Information System for Predicting Impacts from Coastal Storms--The Coastal Impact Assessment Tool (CIAT), Version 1.0, User's Manual
Brian H. Bossak, Robert A. Morton, Sallenger Jr.
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1260
Geologic map of the Nemesis Tesserae quadrangle (V-13), Venus
Mikhail A. Ivanov, James W. Head III
2005, Scientific Investigations Map 2870
Locations and descriptions of gravity, box, and push cores collected in San Francisco Bay between January and February, 1990 and 1991
Roberto J. Anima, H. Edward Clifton, Carol Reiss, Florence L. Wong
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1453
A project to study San Francisco Bay sediments collected over 300 sediment gravity cores; six push cores, and three box cores in San Francisco Bay during the years 1990-91. The purpose of the sampling effort is to establish a database on the Holocene sediment history of the bay. The samples...
Argon dating at and near Medicine Lake volcano, California: Results and data
Julie M. Donnelly-Nolan, Marvin A. Lanphere
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1416
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Global Positioning System measurements on the island of Hawai`i: 1997 through 2004
Asta Miklius, Peter Cervelli, Maurice Sako, Michael Lisowski, Susan Owen, Paul Segal, James Foster, Kevan Kamibayashi, Ben Brooks
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1425
This report summarizes GPS data and observations collected between 1997 and 2004 on the island of Hawai‘i with static surveying and continuously recording instruments. On Kīlauea, the long-term deformation field is dominated by steady southeastern velocities of more than 6 cm/year and uplift of about 2 cm/yr at stations on the...
Numerical simulation of the effects of low-permeability valley-fill barriers and the redistribution of ground-water withdrawals in the Pearl Harbor area, Oahu, Hawaii
Delwyn S. Oki
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5253