Water quality in Indiana: trends in concentrations of selected nutrients, metals, and ions in streams, 2000-10
Martin R. Risch, Aubrey R. Bunch, Aldo V. Vecchia, Jeffrey D. Martin, Nancy T. Baker
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5205
Water quality in Indiana streams generally improved during the 2000–10 study period, based on trends in selected nutrients, metals, and ions. This study combined water-quality data from the Indiana Fixed Station Monitoring Program (FSMP) with streamflow data from nearby U.S. Geological Survey streamgages. A parametric time-series model, QWTREND, was used...
Establishing a baseline for regional scale monitoring of eelgrass (Zostera marina) habitat on the lower Alaska Peninsula
Kyle R. Hogrefe, David H. Ward, Tyrone F. Donnelly, Niels Dau
2014, Remote Sensing (6) 12447-12477
Seagrass meadows, one of the world’s most widespread and productive ecosystems, provide a wide range of services with real economic value. Worldwide declines in the distribution and abundance of seagrasses and increased threats to coastal ecosystems from climate change have prompted a need to acquire baseline data for monitoring and...
Water-level changes and change in water in storage in the High Plains aquifer, predevelopment to 2013 and 2011-13
Virginia L. McGuire
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5218
The High Plains aquifer underlies 111.8 million acres (about 175,000 square miles) in parts of eight States—Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. Water-level declines began in parts of the High Plains aquifer soon after the beginning of substantial irrigation with groundwater in the aquifer area...
Potash: a global overview of evaporate-related potash resources, including spatial databases of deposits, occurrences, and permissive tracts
Greta J. Orris, Mark D. Cocker, Pamela Dunlap, Jeff C. Wynn, Gregory T. Spanski, Deborah A. Briggs, Leila Gass, James D. Bliss, Karen S. Bolm, Chao Yang, Bruce R. Lipin, Stephen Ludington, Robert J. Miller, Miroslaw Slowakiewicz
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5090-S
Potash is mined worldwide to provide potassium, an essential nutrient for food crops. Evaporite-hosted potash deposits are the largest source of salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form, including potassium chloride, potassium-magnesium chloride, potassium sulfate, and potassium nitrate. Thick sections of evaporitic salt that form laterally continuous strata in sedimentary...
Lidar point density analysis: implications for identifying water bodies
Bruce B. Worstell, Sandra K. Poppenga, Gayla A. Evans, Sandra Prince
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5191
Most airborne topographic light detection and ranging (lidar) systems operate within the near-infrared spectrum. Laser pulses from these systems frequently are absorbed by water and therefore do not generate reflected returns on water bodies in the resulting void regions within the lidar point cloud. Thus, an analysis of lidar voids...
Mercury and halogens in coal
Allan Kolker, Jeffrey C. Quick
Evan J. Granite, Henry W. Pennline, Constance L. Senior, editor(s)
2014, Book chapter, Mercury control: For coal-derived gas streams
Apart from mercury itself, coal rank and halogen content are among the most important factors inherent in coal that determine the proportion of mercury captured by conventional controls during coal combustion. This chapter reviews how mercury in coal occurs, gives available concentration data for mercury in U.S. and international commercial...
Fluvial sediment fingerprinting: literature review and annotated bibliography
Joyce E. Williamson, Adel E. Haj Jr., John F. Stamm, Joshua F. Valder, Vicki L. Prautzch
2014, Open-File Report 2014-1216
The U.S. Geological Survey has evaluated and adopted various field methods for collecting real-time sediment and nutrient data. These methods have proven to be valuable representations of sediment and nutrient concentrations and loads but are not able to accurately identify specific source areas. Recently, more advanced data collection and analysis...
Investigating organic matter in Fanno Creek, Oregon, Part 1 of 3: estimating annual foliar biomass for a deciduous-dominant urban riparian corridor
Steven Sobieszczyk, Mackenzie K. Keith, Stewart A. Rounds, Jami H. Goldman
2014, Journal of Hydrology (519) 3001-3009
For this study, we explored the amount, type, and distribution of foliar biomass that is deposited annually as leaf litter to Fanno Creek and its floodplain in Portland, Oregon, USA. Organic matter is a significant contributor to the decreased dissolved oxygen concentrations observed in Fanno Creek each year and leaf...
Maps showing bathymetry and modern sediment thickness on the inner continental shelf offshore of Fire Island, New York, pre-Hurricane Sandy
William C. Schwab, Jane F. Denny, Wayne E. Baldwin
2014, Open-File Report 2014-1203
The U.S. Geological Survey mapped approximately 336 square kilometers of the lower shoreface and inner continental shelf offshore of Fire Island, New York, in 2011 by using interferometric sonar and high-resolution chirp seismic-reflection systems. This report presents maps of bathymetry, acoustic backscatter, the coastal plain unconformity, the Holocene marine transgressive...
Gravity changes and deformation at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii, associated with summit eruptive activity, 2009-2012
Marco Bagnardi, Michael P. Poland, Daniele Carbone, Scott Baker, Maurizio Battaglia, Falk Amelung
2014, Journal of Geophysical Research (119) 7288-7305
Analysis of microgravity and surface displacement data collected at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii (USA), between December 2009 and November 2012 suggests a net mass accumulation at ~1.5 km depth beneath the northeast margin of Halema‘uma‘u Crater, within Kīlauea Caldera. Although residual gravity increases and decreases are accompanied by periods...
Occupancy of yellow-billed and Pacific loons: evidence for interspecific competition and habitat mediated co-occurrence
Trevor B. Haynes, Joel A. Schmutz, Mark S. Lindberg, Kenneth G. Wright, Brian D. Uher-Koch, Amanda E. Rosenberger
2014, Journal of Avian Biology (45) 296-304
Interspecific competition is an important process structuring ecological communities, however, it is difficult to observe in nature. We used an occupancy modelling approach to evaluate evidence of competition between yellow-billed (Gavia adamsii) and Pacific (G. pacifica) loons for nesting lakes on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. With multiple years...
Size and retention of breeding territories of yellow-billed loons in Alaska and Canada
Joel A. Schmutz, Kenneth G. Wright, Christopher R. DeSorbo, Jeff Fair, David C. Evers, Brian D. Uher-Koch, Daniel M. Mulcahy
2014, Waterbirds (37) 53-63
Yellow-billed Loons (Gavia adamsii) breed in lakes in the treeless Arctic and are globally rare. Like their sister taxa, the well-documented Common Loon (G. immer) of the boreal forest, Yellow-billed Loons exhibit strong territorial behavior during the breeding season. Little is known about what size territories are required, however, or...
Factors influencing immediate post-release survival of spectacled eiders following surgical implantation of transmitters with percutaneous antennae
Matthew G. Sexson, Daniel M. Mulcahy, Maria Spriggs, Gwen E. Myers
2014, Journal of Wildlife Management (78) 550-560
Surgically implanted transmitters are a common method for tracking animal movements. Immediately following surgical implantation, animals pass through a critical recovery phase when behaviors may deviate from normal and the likelihood of individual survival may be reduced. Therefore, data collected during this period may be censored to minimize bias introduced...
Gravity survey and interpretation of Fort Irwin and vicinity, Mojave Desert, California
Robert C. Jachens, Victoria E. Langenheim
David C. Buesch, editor(s)
2014, Open-File Report 2013-1024-H
In support of a hydrogeologic study of the groundwater resources on Fort Irwin, we have combined new gravity data with preexisting measurements to produce an isostatic residual gravity map, which we then separated into two components reflecting (1) the density distribution in the pre-Cenozoic basement complex and (2) the distribution...
Specification for the U.S. Geological Survey Historical Topographic Map Collection
Gregory J. Allord, Jennifer L. Walter, Kristin A. Fishburn, Gale A. Shea
2014, Techniques and Methods 11-B6
This document provides the detailed requirements for producing, archiving, and disseminating a comprehensive digital collection of topographic maps for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC). The HTMC is a digital archive of about 190,000 printed topographic maps published by the USGS from the inception of the...
Introduction to the geologic and geophysical studies of Fort Irwin, California
David C. Buesch
David C. Buesch, editor(s)
2014, Open-File Report 2013-1024-A
Geologic and geophysical investigations in the vicinity of Fort Irwin National Training Center, California, have been completed in support of groundwater investigations, and are presented in eight chapters of this report. A generalized surficial geologic map along with field and borehole investigations conducted during 2010–11 provide a lithostratigraphic and structural...
Sediment data collected in 2013 from the northern Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana
Noreen A. Buster, Kyle W. Kelso, Julie Bernier, James G. Flocks, Jennifer L. Miselis, Nancy T. DeWitt
2014, Data Series 894
As part of the Barrier Island Evolution Research project, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center collected sediment samples from the northern Chandeleur Islands in July 2013. The overall objective of this project, which integrates geophysical (bathymetric, seismic, and topographic) and sedimentologic data, is...
Aeromagnetic data, processing, and maps of Fort Irwin and vicinity, California
Victoria E. Langenheim, Robert C. Jachens
David C. Buesch, editor(s)
2014, Open-File Report 2013-1024-I
Aeromagnetic data help provide the underpinnings of a hydrogeologic framework for Fort Irwin by locating inferred structural features or grain that influence groundwater flow. Magnetization boundaries defined by horizontal-gradient analyses coincide locally with Cenozoic faults and can be used to extend these faults beneath cover. These boundaries also highlight the...
Documentation for the U.S. Geological Survey Public-Supply Database (PSDB): A database of permitted public-supply wells, surface-water intakes, and systems in the United States
Curtis V. Price, Molly A. Maupin
2014, Open-File Report 2014-1212
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a database containing information about wells, surface-water intakes, and distribution systems that are part of public water systems across the United States, its territories, and possessions. Programs of the USGS such as the National Water Census, the National Water Use Information Program, and...
Estimates of groundwater recharge rates and sources in the East Mountain area, Eastern Bernalillo County, New Mexico, 2005-12
Steven E. Rice, Dianna M. Crilley
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5181
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Bernalillo County Public Works Division, has conducted a monitoring program in the East Mountain area of eastern Bernalillo County, New Mexico, since 2000 to better define the hydrogeologic characteristics of the East Mountain area and to provide scientific information that will assist...
Water resources of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
Lawrence B. Prakken, Vincent E. White
2014, Fact Sheet 2014-3080
Information concerning the availability, use, and quality of water in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, is critical for proper water-supply management. The purpose of this fact sheet is to present information that can be used by water managers, parish residents, and others for stewardship of this vital resource. Information on the availability,...
Water resources of Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana
Vincent E. White, Lawrence B. Prakken
2014, Fact Sheet 2014-3074
Information concerning the availability, use, and quality of water in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, is critical for proper water-supply management. The purpose of this fact sheet is to present information that can be used by water managers, parish residents, and others for stewardship of this vital resource. Information on the...
Evaluation of a mass-balance approach to determine consumptive water use in northeastern Illinois
P.C. Mills, James J. Duncker, Thomas M. Over, Marian Domanski, Marian Domanski, Frank L. Engel
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5176
A principal component of evaluating and managing water use is consumptive use. This is the portion of water withdrawn for a particular use, such as residential, which is evaporated, transpired, incorporated into products or crops, consumed by humans or livestock, or otherwise removed from the immediate water environment. The amount...
Evidence for free-living Bacteroides in Cladophora along the shores of the Great Lakes
Richard L. Whitman, Muruleedhara Byappanahalli, Ashley Spoljaric, Katarzyna Przybyla-Kelly, Dawn A. Shively, Meredith Nevers
2014, Aquatic Microbial Ecology (72) 117-126
Bacteroides is assumed to be restricted to the alimentary canal of animals and humans and is considered to be non-viable in ambient environments. We hypothesized that Bacteroides could persist and replicate within beach-stranded Cladophora glomerata mats in southern Lake Michigan, USA. Mean Bacteroides concentration (per GenBac3 Taqman quantitative PCR assay)...
Exposure pathways and biological receptors: baseline data for the canyon uranium mine, Coconino County, Arizona
Jo Ellen Hinck, Greg L. Linder, Abigail J. Darrah, Charles A. Drost, Michael C. Duniway, Matthew J. Johnson, Francisca M. Mendez-Harclerode, Erika M. Nowak, Ernest W. Valdez, Charles van Riper III, S.W. Wolff
2014, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (5) 422-440
Recent restrictions on uranium mining within the Grand Canyon watershed have drawn attention to scientific data gaps in evaluating the possible effects of ore extraction to human populations as well as wildlife communities in the area. Tissue contaminant concentrations, one of the most basic data requirements to determine exposure, are...
