Factors affecting reservoir and stream-water quality in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, drinking-water source area and implications for source-water protection
Marcus C. Waldron, Gardner C. Bent
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4262
This report presents the results of a study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Water Department, to assess reservoir and tributary-stream quality in the Cambridge drinking-water source area, and to use the information gained to help guide the design of a comprehensive...
Availability Of Ground-Water Data For California, Water Year 2000
Julia Huff
2001, Fact Sheet 055-01
The Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Federal, State, and local water agencies, obtains a large amount of data pertaining to the ground-water resources of California each water year. These data constitute a valuable database for developing an improved understanding of the water resources of...
Educational materials from the U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2001, Fact Sheet 044-01
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in Central and South America
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2001, Fact Sheet 037-01
The U.S. Geological Survey recently completed an assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in 130 selected petroleum provinces of the world (USGS, 2000). Of these 130 provinces, 23 are in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean area (fig. 1). The assessed provinces range from established petroleum provinces...
U.S. Geological Survey Information Sources
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2001, Fact Sheet 034-01
As the Nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) works in cooperation with more than 2,000 organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other customers. This information is gathered in every State by...
Statistical Summary of Hydrologic and Water-Quality Data from the Halawa, Haiku, and Kaneohe Drainage Basins Before, During, and After H-3 Highway Construction, Oahu, Hawaii, 1983-99
Michael F. Wong, Stacie T. M. Young
2001, Open-File Report 2001-64
This report provides statistical summaries of rainfall, streamflow, suspended-sediment, and water-quality data collected in the Halawa, Haiku, and Kaneohe drainage basins before, during, and after construction of the H-3 Highway on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Methods of data collection also are described. Data collected during water years 1983 through...
USGS water programs in North Carolina; 2001
J. D. Bales
2001, Fact Sheet 046-01
Innovative Partnerships
John Szemraj
2001, Fact Sheet 052-01
A major responsibility of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is to ensure geospatial data availability. This includes the cooperative production of digital geospatial data through the National Mapping Program's Innovative Partnerships (IP) initiative, which began in October 1992....
Benthic habitat and faunal surveys of Closed Area II, central Georges Bank, 1998 and 1999
P. C. Valentine, J.T. Malczyk, T. J. Middleton
2001, Open-File Report 2001-66
Data-collection methods, quality-assurance data, and site considerations for total dissolved gas monitoring, lower Columbia River, Oregon and Washington, 2000
Dwight Q. Tanner, Matthew W. Johnston
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4005
Excessive total dissolved gas pressure can cause gas-bubble trauma in fish downstream from dams on the Columbia River. In cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Geological Survey collected data on total dissolved gas pressure, barometric pressure, water temperature, and probe depth at eight stations on the...
Assessment of microbiological contamination of the Jacks Fork within the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri—phase I
Jerri V. Davis, Joseph M. Richards
2001, Fact Sheet 026-01
The Ozark National Scenic Riverways (ONSR), the Nation's first scenic riverway, was created by an Act of Congress (Public Law 88-492) on August 24, 1964, for "the purpose of conserving and interpreting unique scenic and other natural values and objects of historic interest, including preservation of parts of the Current...
A comparative analysis of hazard models for predicting debris flows in Madison County, Virginia
Meghan M. Morrissey, Gerald F. Wieczorek, Benjamin A. Morgan
2001, Open-File Report 2001-67
During the rainstorm of June 27, 1995, roughly 330-750 mm of rain fell within a sixteen-hour period, initiating floods and over 600 debris flows in a small area (130 km2) of Madison County, Virginia. Field studies showed that the majority (70%) of these debris flows initiated with a thickness...
Potential for a basin-centered gas accumulation in the Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico
Ronald C. Johnson, Thomas M. Finn, Vito F. Nuccio
2001, Bulletin 2184-C
The potential that a basin-centered or continuous-type gas accumulation is present in the Albuquerque Basin in central New Mexico was investigated. The Albuquerque Basin is one of the many rift basins that make up the Rio Grand rift system, an area of active extension from Oligocene to recent time. The...
Book review: Simulating ecological and evolutionary systems in C
Donald L. DeAngelis
2001, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (63) 795-799
Review info: Simulating ecological and evolutionary systems in c. By Will Wilson, 2000. ISBN: 978-0521776585, 320 pp....
Scientific and social landscapes: New frameworks and forums for water management and sustainability
Christine Turner, Herman A. Karl
2001, Conference Paper, Two decades of water law and policy reform: A retrospective and agenda for the future
The Two Decades of Water Law and Policy Reform conference examines the agenda for reforming and improving water law that has developed during the past two decades in the West, assesses what has (and has not) been accomplished by pursuing these reforms, and explores lessons and implications for future water...
Predation by northern pikeminnow on juvenile salmonids in The Dalles Dam tailrace: field, laboratory, and habitat modeling studies (FY2000)
James H. Petersen, Craig A. Barfoot, Mindi B. Sheer
2001, Report
Predation by resident fish is known to be a substantial cause of juvenile salmonid mortality, especially in dam tailraces and outfall locations. Conditions in The Dalles Dam tailrace are unique compared to other projects on the Columbia or Snake rivers, having a complex basin with a series of downriver islands...
Cosmogenic 3He and 10Be chronologies of the late Pinedale northern Yellowstone ice cap, Montana, USA
Joseph M. Licciardi, P.U. Clark, Edward J. Brook, Kenneth L. Pierce, Mark D. Kurz, David Elmore, Pankaj Sharma
2001, Geology (29) 1095-1098
Cosmogenic 3He and 10Be ages measured on surface boulders from the moraine sequence deposited by the northern outlet glacier of the Yellowstone ice cap indicate that the outlet glacier reached its terminal position at 16.5 ± 0.4 3He ka and 16.2 ± 0.3 10Be ka, respectively. Concordance of these ages supports the scaled production...
Newly emergent and future threats of alien species to Pacific birds and ecosystems
Lloyd L. Loope, Francis G. Howarth, Frederick Kraus, Thane K. Pratt
2001, Studies in Avian Biology (22) 291-304
Although the devastating effects of established alien species to Pacific birds and ecosystems are generally well recognized by the avian conservation community, we raise the under appreciated issue of effects of incipient and future invasions. Although special attention to Pacific bird species “on the brink” is to a certain extent...
Fluvial processes and passive rehabilitation of the Lisbon Bottom side-channel chute, Lower Missouri River
Robert B. Jacobson, Mark S. Laustrup, Michael D. Chapman
2001, Book chapter, Geomorphic processes and riverine habitat
Multiple large floods in 1993-1997 on the Lower Missouri River carved a side-channel chute through the river bottom at Lisbon, Missouri. Although similar in some respects to engineered side-channel chutes designed for habitat rehabilitation projects, the Lisbon Bottom chute has been unique in that it was allowed to evolve for...
Breeding productivity and survival of the endangered Hawai'i Creeper in a wet forest refuge on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i
Mark Collins
2001, Studies in Avian Biology (22) 164-172
We studied the demography of the endangered Hawai‘i Creeper (Oreomystis muna) from 1994-1999 at three sites in Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). Hawai‘i Creepers bred from January to June, with peak breeding in February through May (about 120-l 80 days), and molted from May to August. A small proportion...
It's time to know the planet's mineral resources
Joseph A. Briskey, Klaus J. Schulz, J.P. Mosesso, Lief R. Horwitz, Charles G. Cunningham
2001, Geotimes (46) 14-19
No abstract available. ...
Spring 2000 Delta smelt salvage and Delta hydrodynamics and an introduction to the Delta Smelt Working Group's decision tree
Matthew Nobriga
2001, Interagency Ecological Program Newsletter (14)
No abstract available....
Experimental flood effects on the limnology of Lake Powell Reservoir, southwestern USA
Susan J. Hueftle, Lawrence E. Stevens
2001, Ecological Applications (11) 644-656
In the spring of 1996, a nine-day test flood from Glen Canyon Dam involved the deepest and largest hypolimnetic withdrawals from the penstocks and the river outlet works (ROW) since 1986, interacting with ongoing hydrodynamic and stratification patterns to enhance freshening of the hypolimnion of Lake Powell reservoir and its...
The introduction of nonnative fish into wilderness lakes: Good intentions, conflicting mandates, and unintended consequences
Roland A. Knapp, Paul Stephen Corn, Daniel E. Schindler
2001, Ecosystems (4) 275-278
Because they have the potential to provide the best remaining standards of relatively unmodified landscapes, protected areas in North America (such as wilderness areas and national parks) have tremendous ecological and scientific value (Cole and Landres 1996). Although the montane ecosystems of western North America are particularly well represented in...
Developing landscape-indicator models for pesticides and nutrients in streams of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain
S.W. Ator, J. M. Denver, A.M. Pitchford
2001, Fact Sheet 157-00
Collaborative research between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Landscape Ecology Branch, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began in 1999 to relate land use, geology, and other geographic variables to water quality and aquatic ecology in small streams of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain. Results of the study will include...
