Landsat science team meeting summary
Thomas R. Loveland, Tom Maiersperger, James R. Irons, C. E. Woodcock
2011, The Earth Observer (23) 32-35
The Landsat Science Team sponsored by the U.S. Geo- logical Survey (USGS) and NASA met in Mesa, AZ, from March 1-3, 2011. The team met in Mesa so that they could receive briefings and tours of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft that is being developed by Orbital Sciences...
Development of a bioenergetics model for age-0 American shad
Sally T. Sauter
2011, Book chapter, Impact of American shad in the Columbia River
Bioenergetics modeling can be used as a tool to investigate the impact of non-native age-0 American shad (Alosa sapidissima) on reservoir and estuary food webs. The model can increase our understanding of how these fish influence lower trophic levels as well as predatory fish populations that feed on juvenile salmonids....
Growth characteristics and Otolith analysis on Age-0 American Shad
Sally T. Sauter, Lisa A. Wetzel
2011, Report, Impact of American Shad in the Columbia River
Otolith microstructure analysis provides useful information on the growth history of fish (Campana and Jones 1992, Bang and Gronkjaer 2005). Microstructure analysis can be used to construct the size-at-age growth trajectory of fish, determine daily growth rates, and estimate hatch date and other ecologically important life history events (Campana and...
Review and interpretation of previous work and new data on the hydrogeology of the Schwartzwalder Uranium Mine and vicinity, Jefferson County, Colorado
Jonathan S. Caine, Raymond H. Johnson, Emily C. Wild
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1092
The Schwartzwalder deposit is the largest known vein type uranium deposit in the United States. Located about eight miles northwest of Golden, Colorado it occurs in Proterozoic metamorphic rocks and was formed by hydrothermal fluid flow, mineralization, and deformation during the Laramide Orogeny. A complex brittle fault zone hosts the...
Review of samples of tailings, soils, and stream sediments adjacent to and downstream from the Ruth Mine, Inyo County, California
James J. Rytuba, Christopher S. Kim, Daniel N. Goldstein
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1105
The Ruth Mine and mill are located in the western Mojave Desert in Inyo County, California (fig. 1). The mill processed gold-silver (Au-Ag) ores mined from the Ruth Au-Ag deposit, which is adjacent to the mill site. The Ruth Au-Ag deposit is hosted in Mesozoic intrusive rocks and is similar...
Geospatial characteristics of Florida's coastal and offshore environments: Administrative and political boundaries and offshore sand resources
Amanda W.J. Demopoulos, Ann M. Foster, Michal L. Jones, Daniel J. Gualtieri
2011, Scientific Investigations Map 3115
The Geospatial Characteristics Geopdf of Florida's Coastal and Offshore Environments is a comprehensive collection of geospatial data describing the political and natural resources of Florida. This interactive map provides spatial information on bathymetry, sand resources, military areas, marine protected areas, cultural resources, locations of submerged cables, and shipping routes. The...
Sediment toxicity test results for the Urban Waters Study 2010, Bellingham Bay, Washington
James M. Biedenbach
2011, Data Series 591
The Washington Department of Ecology annually determines the quality of recently deposited sediments in Puget Sound as a part of Ecology's Urban Waters Initiative. The annual sediment quality studies use the Sediment Quality Triad (SQT) approach, thus relying on measures of chemical contamination, toxicity, and benthic in-faunal effects (Chapman, 1990)....
Data network, collection, and analysis in the Diamond Valley flow system, central Nevada
Lari A. Knochenmus, David L. Berger, Michael T. Moreo, J. LaRue Smith
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1089
Future groundwater development and its effect on future municipal, irrigation, and alternative energy uses in the Diamond Valley flow system are of concern for officials in Eureka County, Nevada. To provide a better understanding of the groundwater resources, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Eureka County, commenced a multi-phase...
Design and evaluation of a field study on the contamination of selected volatile organic compounds and wastewater-indicator compounds in blanks and groundwater samples
Susan A. Thiros, David A. Bender, David K. Mueller, Donna L. Rose, Lisa D. Olsen, Jeffrey D. Martin, Bruce Bernard, John S. Zogorski
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5027
The Field Contamination Study (FCS) was designed to determine the field processes that tend to result in clean field blanks and to identify potential sources of contamination to blanks collected in the field from selected volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and wastewater-indicator compounds (WICs). The VOCs and WICs analyzed in the...
Status of groundwater quality in the Southern, Middle, and Northern Sacramento Valley study units, 2005-08: California GAMA Priority Basin Project
George L. Bennett V, Miranda S. Fram, Kenneth Belitz
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5002
Groundwater quality in the Southern, Middle, and Northern Sacramento Valley study units was investigated as part of the Priority Basin Project of the Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program. The study units are located in California’s Central Valley and include parts of Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Placer, Sacramento, Shasta, Solano,...
Floristic Quality Index: An assessment tool for restoration projects and monitoring sites in coastal Louisiana
K.F. Cretini, G.D. Steyer
2011, Fact Sheet 2011-3044
The Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) program was established to assess the effectiveness of individual coastal restoration projects and the cumulative effects of multiple projects at regional and coastwide scales. In order to make these assessments, analytical teams have been assembled for each of the primary data types sampled under...
CRMS vegetation analytical team framework: Methods for collection, development, and use of vegetation response variables
Kari F. Cretini, Jenneke M. Visser, Ken W. Krauss, Gregory D. Steyer
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1097
This document identifies the main objectives of the Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) vegetation analytical team, which are to provide (1) collection and development methods for vegetation response variables and (2) the ways in which these response variables will be used to evaluate restoration project effectiveness. The vegetation parameters (that...
Fractal analysis of the Navassa Island seascape
David G. Zawada
2011, Data Series 592
This release provides the numerical results of the fractal analyses discussed in Zawada and others (2010) for the Navassa Island reefscape. The project represents the continuation of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research effort begun in 2006 (Zawada and others, 2006) to understand the patterns and scalability of roughness and...
EAARL Coastal Topography--Cape Canaveral, Florida, 2009: First Surface
J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, Amar Nayegandhi, Nathaniel Plant, C. W. Wright, D.B. Nagle, K.S. Serafin, E.S. Klipp
2011, Data Series 585
These remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements of lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography datasets were produced collaboratively by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, FL, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Kennedy Space Center, FL. This project provides highly detailed and...
Use of a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model to evaluate extreme flooding and transport of dissolved solids through Devils Lake and Stump Lake, North Dakota, 2006
Rochelle A. Nustad, Tamara M. Wood, Jerad D. Bales
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5035
The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the North Dakota Department of Transportation, North Dakota State Water Commission, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, developed a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model of Devils Lake and Stump Lake, North Dakota to be used as a hydrologic tool for evaluating the effects of different...
Review of samples of sediments, tailings, and waters adjacent to the Cactus Queen Gold Mine, Kern County, California
James J. Rytuba, Christopher S. Kim, Daniel N. Goldstein
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1034
The Cactus Queen Mine is located in the western Mojave Desert in Kern County, California. The Cactus Queen gold-silver (Au-Ag) deposit is similar to other Au-Ag deposits hosted in Miocene volcanic rocks that consist of silicic domes and associated flows, pyroclastic rocks, and subvolcanic intrusions. The volcanic rocks were emplaced...
Digital surfaces and hydrogeologic data for the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and in parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina
Jason C. Bellino
2011, Data Series 584
A digital dataset for the Floridan aquifer system in Florida and in parts of Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina was developed from selected reports published as part of the Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the 1980s. These reports contain maps and data depicting...
Archive of Side Scan Sonar and Swath Bathymetry Data collected during USGS Cruise 10CCT02 Offshore of Petit Bois Island Including Petit Bois Pass, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi, March 2010
William R. Pfeiffer, James G. Flocks, Nancy T. DeWitt, Arnell S. Forde, Kyle Kelso, Phillip R. Thompson, Dana S. Wiese
2011, Data Series 577
In March of 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted geophysical surveys offshore of Petit Bois Island, Mississippi, and Dauphin Island, Alabama (fig. 1). These efforts were part of the USGS Gulf of Mexico Science Coordination partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to assist the Mississippi Coastal...
Assessment of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in the Autauga Creek watershed, Autauga County, Alabama, 2009
Will S. Mooty, Amy C. Gill
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1027
Only four families within the Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera orders were found during a 1999 survey of aquatic macroinvertebrates in Autauga Creek, Autauga County, Alabama, by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The low number of taxa of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera families indicated that the aquatic macroinvertebrate community was...
Preliminary assessment of chloride concentrations, loads, and yields in selected watersheds along the Interstate 95 corridor, southeastern Connecticut, 2008-09
Craig J. Brown, John R. Mullaney, Jonathan Morrison, Remo Mondazzi
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1018
Water-quality conditions were assessed to evaluate potential effects of road-deicer applications on stream-water quality in four watersheds along Interstate 95 (I-95) in southeastern Connecticut from November 1, 2008, through September 30, 2009. This preliminary study is part of a four-year cooperative study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Federal...
2010 Petroleum resource assessment of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA): GIS play maps
Christopher P. Garrity, David W. Houseknecht, Kenneth J. Bird
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1099
This report provides digital geographic information systems (GIS) files of maps for each of the 24 plays considered in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 2010 updated petroleum resource assessment of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) (Houseknecht and others, 2010). These are the sample plays evaluated in a previous...
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center-fiscal year 2010 annual report
Janice S. Nelson
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1057
The Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) facility focused on providing science and imagery to better understand our Earth. The work of the Center is shaped by the earth sciences, the missions of our stakeholders, and implemented through strong program and project management,...
Onshore and offshore geologic map of the Coal Oil Point area, southern California
Pete Dartnell, James E. Conrad, Richard G. Stanley, Guy R. Guy R. Cochrane
2011, Scientific Investigations Map 3124
Geologic maps that span the shoreline and include both onshore and offshore areas are potentially valuable tools that can lead to a more in depth understanding of coastal environments. Such maps can contribute to the understanding of shoreline change, geologic hazards, both offshore and along-shore sediment and pollutant transport. They...
Relation between flows and dissolved oxygen in the Roanoke River between Roanoke Rapids Dam and Jamesville, North Carolina, 2005-2009
Loren L. Wehmeyer, Chad R. Wagner
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5040
The relation between dam releases and dissolved-oxygen concentration, saturation and deficit, downstream from Roanoke Rapids Dam in North Carolina was evaluated from 2005 to 2009. Dissolved-oxygen data collected at four water-quality monitoring stations downstream from Roanoke Rapids Dam were used to determine if any statistical relations or discernible quantitative or...
Assessment of soil-gas and soil contamination at the Old Metal Workshop Hog Farm Area, Fort Gordon, Georgia, 2009-2010
Andral W. Caldwell, W. Fred Falls, Wladmir B. Guimaraes, W. Hagan Ratliff, John B. Wellborn, James Landmeyer
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1080
Soil gas and soil were assessed for contaminants at the Old Metal Workshop Hog Farm Area at Fort Gordon, Georgia, from October 2009 to September 2010. The assessment included delineating organic contaminants present in soil-gas and inorganic contaminants present in soil samples collected from the area estimated to be the...
