The origin of shallow lakes in the Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan, and the history of pesticide use around these lakes
Michael R. Rosen, Arica Crootof, Liam Reidy, Laurel Saito, Bakhriddin Nishonov, Julian A. Scott
2018, Journal of Paleolimnology (59) 201-219
The economy of the Khorezm Province in Uzbekistan relies on the large-scale agricultural production of cotton. To sustain their staple crop, water from the Amu Darya is diverted for irrigation through canal systems constructed during the early to mid-twentieth century when this region was part of the Soviet Union. These...
Lakes and reservoirs—Guidelines for study design and sampling
U.S. Geological Survey
2018, Techniques and Methods 9-A10
The “National Field Manual for the Collection of Water-Quality Data” (NFM) is an online report with separately published chapters that provides the protocols and guidelines by which U.S. Geological Survey personnel obtain the data used to assess the quality of the Nation’s surface-water and groundwater resources. Chapter A10 reviews limnological...
Recent trends in Cuba’s mining and petroleum industries
Susan Wacaster, Michael S. Baker, Yadira Soto-Viruet, Steven D. Textoris
2018, Fact Sheet 2015-3032
In response to recent diplomatic developments between Cuba and the United States, the National Minerals Information Center compiled available information on the mineral industries of Cuba. This fact sheet highlights a new map and table that identify mines, mineral processing facilities, and petroleum facilities as well as information on location,...
Hydrogeology and simulation of groundwater flow in the Central Oklahoma (Garber-Wellington) Aquifer, Oklahoma, 1987 to 2009, and simulation of available water in storage, 2010–2059
Shana L. Mashburn, Derek W. Ryter, Christopher R. Neel, S. Jerrod Smith, Jessica S. Correll
2018, Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5219
The Central Oklahoma (Garber-Wellington) aquifer underlies about 3,000 square miles of central Oklahoma. The study area for this investigation was the extent of the Central Oklahoma aquifer. Water from the Central Oklahoma aquifer is used for public, industrial, commercial, agricultural, and domestic supply. With the exception of Oklahoma City, all...
Quality of water from crystalline rock aquifers in New England, New Jersey, and New York, 1995-2007
Sarah M. Flanagan, Joseph D. Ayotte, Gilpin R. Robinson Jr.
2018, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5220
Crystalline bedrock aquifers in New England and parts of New Jersey and New York (NECR aquifers) are a major source of drinking water. Because the quality of water in these aquifers is highly variable, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) statistically analyzed chemical data on samples of untreated groundwater collected from...
Evaluation of the Source and Transport of High Nitrate Concentrations in Ground Water, Warren Subbasin, California
Tracy Nishikawa, Jill N. Densmore, Peter Martin, Jonathan C. Matti
2018, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4009
Ground water historically has been the sole source of water supply for the Town of Yucca Valley in the Warren subbasin of the Morongo ground-water basin, California. An imbalance between ground-water recharge and pumpage caused ground-water levels in the subbasin to decline by as much as 300 feet from the...
Using large databases of groundwater chemistry in the northern Midwest USA: The effects of geologic and anthropogenic factors
Richard B. Wanty, Andrew H. Manning, Michaela R. Johnson, Stephen J. Kalkhoff, Jessica D. Garrett, Jean M. Morrison, Stefania Da Pelo, Jeffrey L. Mauk
2017, Article
Regional geochemical databases for the northern Midwest USA are being compiled to examine the various geogenic and anthropogenic factors that control the chemistry of groundwater. At the regional scale, variations are seen that are attributable to agricultural and urban effects, or to geologic factors. Examples...
Methods for computing water-quality loads at sites in the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Network
Casey J. Lee, Jennifer C. Murphy, Charles G. Crawford, Jeffrey R. Deacon
2017, Open-File Report 2017-1120
The U.S. Geological Survey currently (2020) publishes information on concentrations and loads of water-quality constituents at 110 sites across the United States as part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Network (NWQN). This report details historical and updated methods for computing water-quality loads at NWQN sites. The primary...
Application of paleoflood surveys for the southern Black Hills of South Dakota
Daniel G. Driscoll
2017, South Dakota Department of Transportation Office of Research Study 2010-04
Flood-frequency analyses for the Black Hills area have especially large uncertainties and are especially important for planning purposes because of a history of extremely large and damaging floods, such as the extreme floods of June 9–10, 1972. Geology, topography, and climatology are additional complicating factors for flood-frequency characterization for the...
Effectiveness of environmental flows for riparian restoration in arid regions: A tale of four rivers
Edward P. Glenn, Pamela L. Nagler, Patrick B. Shafroth, Christopher Jarchow
2017, Ecological Engineering (106) 695-703
Environmental flows have become important restoration tools on regulated rivers. However, environmental flows are often constrained by other demands within the river system and thus typically are comprised of smaller water volumes than the natural flows they are meant to replace, which can limit their functional efficacy. We review environmental flow programs...
Interactions of estuarine shoreline infrastructure with multiscale sea level variability
Ruo-Quian Wang, Liv M. Herdman, Li H. Erikson, Patrick L. Barnard, Michelle Hummel, Mark T. Stacey
2017, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (122) 9962-9979
Sea level rise increases the risk of storms and other short‐term water‐rise events, because it sets a higher water level such that coastal surges become more likely to overtop protections and cause floods. To protect coastal communities, it is necessary to understand the interaction among multiday and tidal sea level...
Hydrogeologic characteristics and geospatial analysis of water-table changes in the alluvium of the lower Arkansas River Valley, southeastern Colorado, 2002, 2008, and 2015
Michael J. Holmberg
2017, Scientific Investigations Map 3378
The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District measures groundwater levels periodically in about 100 wells completed in the alluvial material of the Arkansas River Valley in Pueblo, Crowley, Otero, Bent, and Prowers Counties in southeastern Colorado, of which 95 are used for the...
Timing of autumn migration of Sora (Porzana carolina) in Missouri
Auriel M. V. Fournier, Doreen C. Mengel, Edward E. Gbur, David G. Krementz
2017, Wilson Journal of Ornithology (129) 765-770
Monitoring and conserving waterbirds, including Sora (Porzana carolina), in Missouri, is constrained by the lack of information on migration phenology. We performed nocturnal distance sampling surveys by ATV across 11 state and federal managed wetlands in Missouri, USA from 2012–2015 to compare the timing of Sora' autumn migration among years....
Testing the limits of temporal stability: Willingness to pay values among Grand Canyon whitewater boaters across decades
Chris J. Neher, John Duffield, Lucas S. Bair, David A. Patterson, Katherine Neher
2017, Water Resources Research (53) 10108-10120
We directly compare trip willingness to pay (WTP) values between 1985 and 2015 stated preference surveys of private party Grand Canyon boaters using identically designed valuation methods. The temporal gap of 30 years between these two studies is well beyond that of any tests of WTP temporal stability in the...
Control of landslide volume and hazard by glacial stratigraphic architecture, Northwest Washington state, USA
Jonathan Perkins, Mark E. Reid, Kevin M. Schmidt
2017, Geology (45) 1139-1142
Landslide volumes span many orders of magnitude, but large-volume slides tend to travel farther and consequently can pose a greater hazard. In northwest Washington State, USA, a landscape abounding with landslides big and small, the recent occurrence of the large-volume and tragically deadly State Route 530 (Oso) landslide is a stark reminder of...
Assessing the impacts of future climate conditions on the effectiveness of winter cover crops in reducing nitrate loads into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed using SWAT model
Sangchul Lee, Ali M. Sadeghi, In-Young Yeo, Gregory W. McCarty, W. Dean Hively
2017, Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (60) 1939-1955
Winter cover crops (WCCs) have been widely implemented in the Coastal Plain of the Chesapeake Bay watershed (CBW) due to their high effectiveness at reducing nitrate loads. However, future climate conditions (FCCs) are expected to exacerbate water quality degradation in the CBW by increasing nitrate loads from agriculture....
Granular flows at recurring slope lineae on Mars indicate a limited role for liquid water
Colin M. Dundas, Alfred S. McEwen, Matthew Chojnacki, Moses P. Milazzo, Shane Byrne, Jim McElwaine, Anna Urso
2017, Nature Geoscience (10) 903-907
Recent liquid water flow on Mars has been proposed based on geomorphological features, such as gullies. Recurring slope lineae — seasonal flows that are darker than their surroundings — are candidate locations for seeping liquid water on Mars today, but their formation mechanism remains unclear. Topographical analysis shows that the...
Geologic overview of the Mars Science Laboratory rover mission at the Kimberley, Gale crater, Mars
Melissa Rice, Sanjeev Gupta, Allan H. Treiman, Kathryn M. Stack, Fred J. Calef, Lauren A. Edgar, John P. Grotzinger, Nina L. Lanza, Laetitia Le Deit, Jeremie Lasue, Kirsten L. Siebach, Ashwin R. Vasavada, Roger C. Wiens, Josh Williams
2017, Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets (122) 2-20
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover completed a detailed investigation at the Kimberley waypoint within Gale crater from sols 571-634 using its full science instrument payload. From orbital images examined early in the Curiosity mission, the Kimberley region had been identified as a high-priority science target based on its...
Geologic map of the Washington West 30’ × 60’ quadrangle, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C.
Peter T. Lyttle, John N. Aleinikoff, William C. Burton, E. Allen Crider Jr., Avery A. Drake Jr., Albert J. Froelich, J. Wright Horton Jr., Gregorios Kasselas, Robert B. Mixon, Lucy McCartan, Arthur E. Nelson, Wayne L. Newell, Louis Pavlides, David S. Powars, C. Scott Southworth, Robert E. Weems
2017, Open-File Report 2017-1142
The Washington West 30’ × 60’ quadrangle covers an area of approximately 4,884 square kilometers (1,343 square miles) in and west of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The eastern part of the area is highly urbanized, and more rural areas to the west are rapidly being developed. The area lies...
A simulation method for combining hydrodynamic data and acoustic tag tracks to predict the entrainment of juvenile salmonids onto the Yolo Bypass under future engineering scenarios
Aaron R. Blake, Paul Stumpner, Jon R. Burau
2017, Report
During water year 2016 the U.S. Geological Survey California Water Science Center (USGS) collaborated with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to conduct a joint hydrodynamic and fisheries study to acquire data that could be used to evaluate the effects of proposed modifications to the Fremont Weir on outmigrating...
International Watershed Technology: Improving Water Quality and Quantity at the Local, Basin, and Regional Scales
Ernest W. Tollner, Kyle R. Douglas-Mankin
2017, Transactions of the ASABE (60) 1915-1916
This article introduces the five papers in the “International Watershed Technology” collection. These papers were selected from 60 technical presentations at the fifth biennial ASABE 21st Century Watershed Technology Conference and Workshop: Improving the Quality of Water Resources at Local, Basin, and Regional Scales, held in Quito, Ecuador, on 3-9...
Characterization of microsatellite loci for the Gulf Coast waterdog (Necturus beyeri) using paired-end Illumina shotgun sequencing and cross-amplification in other Necturus
Jennifer Y. Lamb, Brian R. Kreiser, Hardin Waddle, Carl P. Qualls
2017, Herpetological Review (48) 458-763
Amphibians are one of the most threatened groups of vertebrates (Stuart et al. 2004; Wake and Vredenburg 2008), and the application of molecular techniques to amphibian ecology and genetics has dramatically improved our ability to conserve species and populations (see Shaffer et al. [2015] for review). Microsatellites, tandem repeats of...
Born of fire: In search of volcanoes in U.S. national parks, four striking examples
Laura Walkup, Thomas Casadevall, Vincent L. Santucci
2017, Earth Sciences History (36) 197-244
Geologic features, particularly volcanic features, have been protected by the National Park Service since its inception. Some volcanic areas were nationally protected even before the National Park Service was established. The first national park, Yellowstone National Park, is one of the most widely known geothermal and volcanic areas in the...
Permafrost-related processes and recent response to climatic changes
Marina Leibman, Alexandr Kizyakov, Guido Grosse, Benjamin M. Jones, M. Torre Jorgenson, Mikhail Z. Kanevskiy
2017, Book chapter, Snow, water, ice and permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2017
Permafrost-related processes have direct and indirect consequences to northern environments, but the impacts are affected by complex interactions involving positive and negative feedbacks at the surface (Jorgenson et al. 2010), climatic trends and fluctuations (Romanovsky et al. 2010; Konishchev 2011), and terrain and ground ice conditions (French and Shur 2010,...
Implications of refining vertical resolution of hydraulic conductivity in the numerical modeling of groundwater flow to surface water, NAS Whiting Field, Florida
Eric D. Swain, Bruce G. Campbell, James Landmeyer
2017, Conference Paper, Fourth international symposium on bioremediation and sustainable environmental technologies
Naval Air Station Whiting Field is located near Milton, Florida and is one of the Navy's two primary pilot training bases. Commissioned in 1943, historic operations at Whiting Field generated industrial wastes that contaminated soil and the water-table aquifer. The Environmental Protection Agency placed Whiting Field on the Superfund program’s...
