Contaminant residues in fish and sediments from lakes in the Atchafalaya River Basin (Louisiana)
Parley V. Winger, J. K. Andreasen
1985, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (14) 579-586
Conversion of bottomland hardwood forests ℴ agricultural land has reduced habitat and water quality in many lakes in the floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. The objectives of this study were to ascertain current contaminant residue concentrations in fish and sediment from lakes in the Atchafalaya River Basin and to...
Comment on “Evaluation of slug tests in wells containing a finite-thickness skin” by C. R. Faust and J. W. Mercer
Allen F. Moench, Paul A. Hsieh
1985, Water Resources Research (21) 1459-1461
No abstract available....
Estuary-wide mitigation options for port development in Tampa Bar, Florida
Steve Dial, Millicent L. Quammen, Don Deis, James B. Johnston
1985, Conference Paper, Coastal zone '85 : Proceedings of the fourth symposium on coastal and ocean management
No abstract available....
Monitoring the earth: too many players?
Gene A. Thorley
1985, Pecora 10 Symposium 457-462
A number of organizations are currently engaged in, or proposing to embark on, worldwide measurement/monitoring programs. Program objectives vary in type and complexity, including a form of technical library (the Global Environment Monitoring System of the United Nations Environment Program), and an ambitious experiment to validate algorithms to derive...
The use of low-resolution satellite image data for rangeland monitoring
Thomas M. Holm, William C. Draeger, Patrick T. Williams, Robert F. Buzzard
1985, Pecora 10 Symposium 398-398
The U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) jointly evaluated the used of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) images for the calculate of normalized difference data as a green biomass indicator in an arid rangeland environment. The normalized...
Landsat-faciliated vegetation classification of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and adjacent areas, Alaska
Stephen S. Talbot, M.B. Shasby, T.N. Bailey
1985, Conference Paper, Pecora 10 Symposium
A Landsat-based vegetation map was prepared for Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and adjacent lands, 2 million and 2.5 million acres respectively. The refuge lies within the middle boreal sub zone of south central Alaska. Seven major classes and sixteen subclasses were recognized: forest (closed needleleaf, needleleaf woodland, mixed);...
Comparison of fire fuel maps produced using MSS and AVHRR data
Wayne A. Miller, David C. Johnston
1985, Conference Paper, Pecora 10 Symposium
The fuel information, in support of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) national fire program, has been obtained through the manila interpretation of Landsat multi-spectral scanner images and digital image analysis of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data. The BLM, in cooperation with the Earth Resources Observation Systems...
Change detection in rangeland environments using Landsat MSS data: A quantitative approach
David C. Johnston, Robert H. Haas
1985, Conference Paper, Pecora 10 Symposium
A range forage utilization study on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation in central South Dakota provided the opportunity to use Landsat multispectral scanner (MSS) data for examining range condition trends. A procedure was developed to compare change in spectral reflectance over time for polygon areas, defined by resource type...
Updating range surveys using a geographic information system
Jeffery C. Eidenshink, David C. Sjaastad
1985, Conference Paper, Pecora 10 Symposium
A spatial database was developed for the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota to demonstrate the use of a geographic information system for natural resource management. A key component of the digital database was a detailed soil survey. Range site boundaries were derived by aggregating soil mapping...
Interim program for land cover mapping in Alaska utilizing Landsat digital data
Mark Shasby, David Carneggie, Leonard Gaydos, Katherine Fitzpatrick-Lins, Donald Lauer, Vincent Ambrosia, Susan Benjamin
1985, Conference Paper, Pecora 10 Symposium
The enactment of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) in 1980 imposed mandates on all major land management agencies in Alaska to prepare comprehensive resource and management plans to assess wildlife habitat, oil and gas exploration and development, wild and scenic river, land disposals, timber production, and archaeological...
New horizons in remote sensing for forest and range resource management
D. T. Lauer
1985, Conference Paper, Pecora 10 Symposium
Forest and range resource scientists were among the first to recognize the potential of aircraft and satellite remote sensing for management of timber, forage, water, and wildlife resource. Today, data from a variety of sensor systems are being put to practical use for inventorying, monitoring, and assessing forest and...
Interfacing remote sensing with spatial data systems
Duane A. Asherin
1985, Book, Proceedings: Pecora 10, Remote sensing in forest and range resource management
No abstract available....
The effects of catastrophic ecosystem disturbance: the residual mammals at Mount St. Helens
Douglas C. Andersen, James A. MacMahon
1985, Journal of Mammalogy (66) 581-589
Individuals that survive the direct effects of community- or ecosystem-level disturbances, i.e., "residuals", can have major roles in determining the rate and pathway of subsequent secondary succession. The explosive eruption of the Mount St. Helens volcano on 19 May 1980 resulted in severe damage to a cast array of...
Quaternary tectonic setting of the 1983 Borah Peak earthquake, central Idaho
William E. Scott, Kenneth L. Pierce, M. H. Hait Jr.
1985, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (75) 1053-1066
The 1983 Borah Peak earthquake was accompanied by extensive surface faulting along a part of the Lost River fault that has abundant evidence of latest Quaternary (last 15,000 yr) offset. This fault and two similar range-front normal faults along the Lemhi Range and Beaverhead Mountains lie in an area of...
Dynamics of a black-capped chickadee population, 1958-1983
G. Loery, James D. Nichols
1985, Ecology (66) 1195-1203
The dynamics of a wintering population of Black—capped Chickadees (Parus atricapillus) were studied from 1958—1983 using capture—recapture methods. The Jolly—Seber model was used to obtain annual estimates of population size, survival rate, and recruitment. The average estimated population size over this period was °160 birds. The average estimated number of...
Using satellite data for mapping and monitoring vegetation resources
R. H. Haas
1985, Conference Paper, Remote sensing applications for consumptive use (evapotranspiration)
No abstract available....
Ground-water data for the alluvial, buried channel, Basel Pleistocene and Dakota aquifer in west-central Iowa
Pamela K. B. Hunt, Donna L. Runkle
1985, Open-File Report 84-819
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the availability, quantity and quality of groundwater from three principal aquifers in West-Central Iowa, the alluvial, buried channel, Basal Pleistocene and the Dakota aquifers. Specific objectives were to: (1) determine the location, extent and the nature of these aquifers; (2) evaluate the...
Biogeochemistry of aquatic humic substances in Thoreau's Bog, Concord, Massachusetts
Diane M. McKnight, E. Michael Thurman, Robert L. Wershaw, Herold Hemond
1985, Ecology (66)-1339
Thoreau's Bog is an ombrotrophic floating—mat Sphagnum bog developed in a glacial kettlehole and surrounded by a red maple swamp. Concentrations of dissolved organic carbon in the porewater of the bog average 36 mg/L and are greatest near the surface, especially during late summer. This distribution suggest that the upper...
Application of a ground-water flow digital model in evaluating alternate dewatering systems in the Río Grande de Arecibo alluvial valley, Puerto Rico
Vicente Quinones-Aponte, Heriberto Torres-Sierra
1985, Conference Paper, American Water Resources Association, Technical Publication Series TPS-85-1
Rate and depth of pedogenic-carbonate accumulation in soils: Formation and testing of a compartment model.
Leslie D. McFadden, John Tinsley
1985, GSA Special Papers (203) 23-41
The rate and depth of pedogenic carbonate accumulation in soils formed in Quaternary alluvium may be viewed as a theoretical problem that involves the mutual interaction of several independent and dependent soil-forming variables. We propose a model for carbonate accumulation in which the soil column is defined by a vertical...
Assessment and monitoring of sedimentation in the Aswan High Dam Reservoir using Landsat imagery
S. E. Smith, K. H. Mancy, A. F. A. Latif, Eugene A. Fosnight
1985, Conference Paper, Hydrological applications of remote sensing and remote data transmission
No abstract available....
Geographic map of the Al Muwayh quadrangle, sheet 22E, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Sahl, John W Smith, Fred J Fuller, Saudi Arabia. Wizārat al-Batrūl wa-al-Tharwah al-Maʻdinīyah, Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1985, Report
Site 549
P.C. de Graciansky, Claude (Wylie) Poag
1985, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (80) 123-250
No abstract available....
Site 551
P.C. de Graciansky, Claude (Wylie) Poag
1985, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (80) 357-385
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Explanatory notes
Claude (Wylie) Poag, Glen Foss
1985, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (80) 15-31
No abstract available....
