Flood-depth frequency relations for rural streams in Alabama, 2003
K.G. Lee, T.S. Hedgecock
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5066
Equations have been defined for estimating the depth of water for floods having a 67-, 50-, 20-, 10-, 4-, 2-, and 1-percent chance exceedance on rural streams in Alabama. Multiple regression analyses of streamgage data were used to define the equations. Eight basin and climatic characteristics that were computed by...
Continuous tidal streamflow, water level, and specific conductance data for Union Creek and the Little Back, Middle, and Front Rivers, Savannah River Estuary, November 2008 to March 2009
Timothy H. Lanier, Paul Conrads
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1169
In the Water Resource Development Act of 1999, the U.S. Congress authorized the deepening of the Savannah Harbor. Additional studies were then identified by the Georgia Ports Authority and other local and regional stakeholders to determine and fully describe the potential environmental effects of deepening the channel. One need that...
Southeast Regional Assessment Project for the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Melinda S. Dalton, Sonya A. Jones
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1213
The Southeastern United States spans a broad range of physiographic settings and maintains exceptionally high levels of faunal diversity. Unfortunately, many of these ecosystems are increasingly under threat due to rapid human development, and management agencies are increasingly aware of the potential effects that climate change will have on these...
Report of the River Master of the Delaware River for the period December 1, 2005-November 30, 2006
Bruce E. Krejmas, Gary N. Paulachok, Stephen F. Blanchard
2010, Open-File Report 2011-1177
A Decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, entered June 7, 1954, established the position of Delaware River Master within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In addition, the Decree authorizes diversions of water from the Delaware River Basin and requires compensating releases from certain reservoirs, owned by New...
Enumeration of viruses and prokaryotes in deep-sea sediments and cold seeps of the Gulf of Mexico
Christina A. Kellogg
2010, Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography (57) 2002-2007
Little is known about the distribution and abundance of viruses in deep-sea cold-seep environments. Like hydrothermal vents, seeps support communities of macrofauna that are sustained by chemosynthetic bacteria. Sediments close to these communities are hypothesized to be more microbiologically active and therefore to host higher numbers of viruses than non-seep...
Reclaiming freshwater sustainability in the Cadillac Desert
John L. Sabo, Tushar Sinha, Laura C. Bowling, Gerrit H.W. Schoups, Wesley W. Wallender, Michael E. Campana, Keith A. Cherkauer, Pam L. Fuller, William L. Graf, Jan W. Hopmans, John S. Kominoski, Carissa Taylor, Stanley W. Trimble, Robert H. Webb, Ellen E. Wohl
2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (107) 21263-21269
Increasing human appropriation of freshwater resources presents a tangible limit to the sustainability of cities, agriculture, and ecosystems in the western United States. Marc Reisner tackles this theme in his 1986 classic Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Reisner's analysis paints a portrait of region-wide hydrologic dysfunction...
Archive of digital Chirp sub-bottom profile data collected during USGS Cruise 07SCC01 offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, June 2007
Arnell S. Forde, Shawn V. Dadisman, James G. Flocks, Dana S. Wiese
2010, Data Series 553
In June of 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a geophysical survey offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, in cooperation with the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) as part of the USGS Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) project. This project is part of a broader study focused on...
Total mercury, methylmercury, and selected elements in soils of the Fishing Brook watershed, Hamilton County, New York, and the McTier Creek watershed, Aiken County, South Carolina, 2008
Laurel G. Woodruff, William F. Cannon, Christopher D. Knightes, Francis H. Chapelle, Paul M. Bradley, Douglas A. Burns, Mark E. Brigham, Mark A. Lowery
2010, Data Series 516
Mercury is an element of on-going concern for human and aquatic health. Mercury sequestered in upland and wetland soils represents a source that may contribute to mercury contamination in sensitive ecosystems. An improved understanding of mercury cycling in stream ecosystems requires identification and quantification of mercury speciation and transport dynamics...
Archive of side scan sonar and swath bathymetry data collected during USGS cruise 10CCT01 offshore of Cat Island, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi, March 2010
Nancy T. DeWitt, James G. Flocks, William R. Pfeiffer, Dana S. Wiese
2010, Data Series 563
In March of 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted geophysical surveys east of Cat Island, Mississippi (fig. 1). The 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 Improvements Program (MsCIP) and the...
Extreme drought to extreme floods: summary of hydrologic conditions in Georgia, 2009
Andrew E. Knaak, Timothy K. Pojunas, Michael F. Peck
2010, Fact Sheet 2010-3101
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Georgia Water Science Center (WSC) maintains a long-term hydrologic monitoring network of more than 317 real-time streamgages, more than 180 groundwater wells of which 31 are real-time, and 10 lake-level monitoring stations. One of the many benefits of data collected from this monitoring network...
Evaluation of geodetic and geologic datasets in the Northern Walker Lane-Summary and recommendations of the Workshop
Richard W. Briggs, William C. Hammond
2010, Open-File Report 2011-1282
The Northern Walker Lane comprises a complex network of active faults in northwestern Nevada and northeastern California bound on the west by the Sierra Nevada and on the east by the extensional Basin and Range Province. Because deformation is distributed across sets of discontinuous faults, it is particularly challenging to...
Simultaneous modeling of habitat suitability, occupancy, and relative abundance: African elephants in Zimbabwe
Julien Martin, Simon Chamaille-Jammes, James D. Nichols, Herve Fritz, James E. Hines, Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Darryl I. MacKenzie, Larissa L. Bailey
2010, Ecological Applications (20) 1173-1182
The recent development of statistical models such as dynamic site occupancy models provides the opportunity to address fairly complex management and conservation problems with relatively simple models. However, surprisingly few empirical studies have simultaneously modeled habitat suitability and occupancy status of organisms over large landscapes for management purposes. Joint modeling...
Satellite tracking reveals habitat use by juvenile green sea turtles Chelonia mydas in the Everglades, Florida, USA
Kristen M. Hart, Ikuko Fujisaki
2010, Endangered Species Research (11)
We tracked the movements of 6 juvenile green sea turtles captured in coastal areas of southwest Florida within Everglades National Park (ENP) using satellite transmitters for periods of 27 to 62 d in 2007 and 2008 (mean ± SD: 47.7 ± 12.9 d). Turtles ranged in size from 33.4 to...
Fine-scale population genetic structure in Alaskan Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis)
Jennifer L. Nielsen, Sara L. Graziano, Andrew C. Seitz
2010, Conservation Genetics (11) 999-1012
Pacific halibut collected in the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska were used to test the hypothesis of genetic panmixia for this species in Alaskan marine waters. Nine microsatellite loci and sequence data from the mitochondrial (mtDNA) control region were analyzed. Eighteen unique mtDNA haplotypes were found with...
Phylogeography of declining relict and lowland leopard frogs in the desert Southwest of North America
V. Olah-Hemmings, J.R. Jaeger, M.J. Sredl, Martin A. Schlaepfer, R.D. Jennings, C.A. Drost, D.F. Bradford, B.R. Riddle
2010, Journal of Zoology (280) 343-354
We investigated the phylogeography of the closely related relict leopard frog Rana onca (=Lithobates onca) and lowland leopard frog Rana yavapaiensis (=Lithobates yavapaiensis) – two declining anurans from the warm‐desert regions of south‐western North America. We used sequence data from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to assess 276 individuals representing 30 sites from across current distributions....
Physiological response of wild dugongs (Dugong dugon) to out-of-water sampling for health assessment
Janet M. Lanyon, Helen L. Sneath, Trevor Long, Robert K. Bonde
2010, Aquatic Mammals (36) 46-58
The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a vulnerable marine mammal with large populations living in urban Queensland waters. A mark-recapture program for wild dugongs has been ongoing in southern Queensland since 2001. This program has involved capture and in-water sampling of more than 700 dugongs where animals have been held at...
Parametric study of the physical properties of hydrate-bearing sand, silt, and clay sediments: 1. Electromagnetic properties
J.Y. Lee, J.C. Santamarina, C. Ruppel
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research (115)
The marked decrease in bulk electrical conductivity of sediments in the presence of gas hydrates has been used to interpret borehole electrical resistivity logs and, to a lesser extent, the results of controlled source electromagnetic surveys to constrain the spatial distribution and predicted concentration of gas hydrate in natural settings....
North American osprey populations and contaminants: Historic and contemporary perspectives
Charles J. Henny, Robert A. Grove, James L. Kaiser, Branden L. Johnson
2010, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B: Critical Reviews (13) 579-603
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) populations were adversely affected by DDT and perhaps other contaminants in the United States and elsewhere. Reduced productivity, eggshell thinning, and high DDE concentrations in eggs were the signs associated with declining osprey populations in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The species was one of the first...
Approaches to highly parameterized inversion: A guide to using PEST for model-parameter and predictive-uncertainty analysis
John E. Doherty, Randall J. Hunt, Matthew J. Tonkin
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5211
Analysis of the uncertainty associated with parameters used by a numerical model, and with predictions that depend on those parameters, is fundamental to the use of modeling in support of decisionmaking. Unfortunately, predictive uncertainty analysis with regard to models can be very computationally demanding, due in part to complex constraints...
Match or mismatch: The influence of phenology on size-dependent life history and divergence in population structure
Jost Borcherding, Peter Beeck, Donald L. DeAngelis, Werner R. Scharf
2010, Journal of Animal Ecology (79) 1101-1112
1. In gape-limited predators, body size asymmetries determine the outcome of predator-prey interactions. Due to ontogenetic changes in body size, the intensity of intra- and interspecific interactions may change rapidly between the match situation of a predator-prey system and the mismatch situation in which competition, including competition with the prey, dominates. 2....
Alluvial diamond resource potential and production capacity assessment of the Central African Republic
Peter G. Chirico, Francis Barthelemy, Francois A. Ngbokoto
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5043
In May of 2000, a meeting was convened in Kimberley, South Africa, and attended by representatives of the diamond industry and leaders of African governments to develop a certification process intended to assure that rough, exported diamonds were free of conflict concerns. This meeting was supported later in 2000 by...
Facilitation drives 65 years of vegetation change in the Sonoran Desert
Bradley J. Butterfield, Julio L. Betancourt, Raymond M. Turner, John M. Briggs
2010, Ecology (91) 1132-1139
Ecological processes of low‐productivity ecosystems have long been considered to be driven by abiotic controls with biotic interactions playing an insignificant role. However, existing studies present conflicting evidence concerning the roles of these factors, in part due to the short temporal extent of most data sets and inability to test...
Alluvial diamond resource potential and production capacity assessment of Mali
Peter G. Chirico, Francis Barthelemy, Fatiaga Kone
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5044
In May of 2000, a meeting was convened in Kimberley, South Africa, and attended by representatives of the diamond industry and leaders of African governments to develop a certification process intended to assure that rough, exported diamonds were free of conflictual concerns. This meeting was supported later in 2000 by...
Factors controlling the regional distribution of vanadium in ground water
Michael T. Wright, Kenneth Belitz
2010, Ground Water (48) 515-525
Although the ingestion of vanadium (V) in drinking water may have possible adverse health effects, there have been relatively few studies of V in groundwater. Given the importance of groundwater as a source of drinking water in many areas of the world, this study examines the potential sources and geochemical...
Hydrogeologic framework of fractured sedimentary rock, Newark Basin, New Jersey
Pierre J. Lacombe, William C. Burton
2010, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation (30) 35-45
The hydrogeologic framework of fractured sedimentary bedrock at the former Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), Trenton, New Jersey, a trichloroethylene (TCE)-contaminated site in the Newark Basin, is developed using an understanding of the geologic history of the strata, gamma-ray logs, and rock cores. NAWC is the newest field research site...
