Global geological mapping of Ganymede
G. Wesley Patterson, Geoffrey C. Collins, James W. Head, Robert T. Pappalardo, Louise M. Prockter, Baerbel K. Lucchitta, Jonathan P. Kay
2010, Icarus (207) 845-867
We have compiled a global geological map of Ganymede that represents the most recent understanding of the satellite based on Galileo mission results. This contribution builds on important previous accomplishments in the study of Ganymede utilizing Voyager data and incorporates the many new discoveries that were brought about by examination...
Geophysical and sampling data from the inner continental shelf: Duxbury to Hull, Massachusetts
Walter A. Barnhardt, Seth D. Ackerman, Brian D. Andrews, Wayne E. Baldwin
2010, Open-File Report 2009-1072
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) have cooperated to map approximately 200 km² of the Massachusetts inner continental shelf between Duxbury and Hull. This report contains geophysical and geological data collected by the USGS on three cruises between 2006 and 2007. These...
Upper mantle rheology from GRACE and GPS postseismic deformation after the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake
I. Panet, Frederick Pollitz, V. Mikhailov, M. Diament, P. Banerjee, K. Grijalva
2010, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (11)
Mantle rheology is one of the essential, yet least understood, material properties of our planet, controlling the dynamic processes inside the Earth's mantle and the Earth's response to various forces. With the advent of GRACE satellite gravity, measurements of mass displacements associated with many processes are now...
Three-dimensional geologic modeling of the Santa Rosa Plain, California
Donald S. Sweetkind, Emily M. Taylor, Craig A. McCabe, Victoria E. Langenheim, Robert J. McLaughlin
2010, Geosphere (6) 237-274
New three-dimensional (3D) lithologic and stratigraphic models of the Santa Rosa Plain (California, USA) delineate the thickness, extent, and distribution of subsurface geologic units and allow integration of diverse data sets to produce a lithologic, stratigraphic, and structural architecture for the region. This framework can be used to predict pathways...
Interactive effects of senescence and natural disturbance on the annual survival probabilities of snail kites
Brian E. Reichert, J. Martin, William L. Kendall, Christopher E. Cattau, Wiley M. Kitchens
2010, Oikos (119) 972-979
Individuals in wild populations face risks associated with both intrinsic (i.e. aging) and external (i.e. environmental) sources of mortality. Condition-dependent mortality occurs when there is an interaction between such factors; however, few studies have clearly demonstrated condition-dependent mortality and some have even argued that condition-dependent mortality does not occur in...
Comparison of turbidity to multi-frequency sideways-looking acoustic-Doppler data and suspended-sediment data in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon
Nicholas Voichick, David J. Topping
2010, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Joint Federal Interagency Conference 2010: Hydrology and sedimentation for a changing future: existing and emerging issues
Water clarity is important to biologists when studying fish and other fluvial fauna and flora. Turbidity is an indicator of the cloudiness of water, or reduced water clarity, and is commonly measured using nephelometric sensors that record the scattering and absorption of light by particles in the water. Unfortunately, nephelometric...
Chesapeake bay watershed land cover data series
Frederick M. Irani, Peter R. Claggett
2010, Data Series 505
To better understand how the land is changing and to relate those changes to water quality trends, the USGS EGSC funded the production of a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Land Cover Data Series (CBLCD) representing four dates: 1984, 1992, 2001, and 2006. EGSC will publish land change forecasts based on observed...
Soil quality assessment using weighted fuzzy association rules
Yue-Ju Xue, Shu-Guang Liu, Yue-Ming Hu, Jing Yang
2010, Pedosphere (20) 334-341
Fuzzy association rules (FARs) can be powerful in assessing regional soil quality, a critical step prior to land planning and utilization; however, traditional FARs mined from soil quality database, ignoring the importance variability of the rules, can be redundant and far from optimal. In this study, we developed a method...
Conservation genetics of the alligator snapping turtle: cytonuclear evidence of range-wide bottleneck effects and unusually pronounced geographic structure
A.A. Echelle, J.C. Hackler, Justin B. Lack, S. R. Ballard, J. Roman, S. F. Fox, David M. Leslie Jr., Ronald A. Van Den Bussche
2010, Conservation Genetics (11) 1375-1387
A previous mtDNA study indicated that female-mediated gene flow was extremely rare among alligator snapping turtle populations in different drainages of the Gulf of Mexico. In this study, we used variation at seven microsatellite DNA loci to assess the possibility of male-mediated gene flow, we augmented the mtDNA survey with...
A comparison of methods for estimating open-water evaporation in small wetlands
Jason R. Masoner, David I. Stannard
2010, Wetlands (30) 513-524
We compared evaporation measurements from a floating pan, land pan, chamber, and the Priestley-Taylor (PT) equation. Floating pan, land pan, and meteorological data were collected from June 6 to July 21, 2005, at a small wetland in the Canadian River alluvium in central Oklahoma, USA. Evaporation measured with the floating...
Source and fate of inorganic solutes in the Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA: I. Low-flow discharge and major solute chemistry
R. Blaine McCleskey, D. Kirk Nordstrom, David D. Susong, James W. Ball, JoAnn M. Holloway
2010, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (193) 189-202
The Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) is an important natural resource and habitat for fisheries and wildlife. However, the Gibbon River differs from most other mountain rivers because its chemistry is affected by several geothermal sources including Norris Geyser Basin, Chocolate Pots, Gibbon Geyser Basin, Beryl Spring, and...
Patch dynamics and the timing of colonization-abandonment events by male Kirtland’s Warblers in an early succession habitat
Deahn M. Donner, Christine Ribic, John R. Probst
2010, Biological Conservation (143) 1159-1167
Habitat colonization and abandonment affects the distribution of a species in space and time, ultimately influencing the duration of time habitat is used and the total area of habitat occupied in any given year. Both aspects have important implications to long-term conservation planning. The importance of patch isolation and area...
Coalbed methane resources of the Appalachian Basin, eastern USA
Robert C. Milici, Joseph R. Hatch, Mark J. Pawlewicz
2010, International Journal of Coal Geology (82) 160-174
In 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessed the technically recoverable, undiscovered coalbed-gas resources in the Appalachian basin and Black Warrior basin Assessment Provinces as about 15.5 trillion cubic feet. Although these resources are almost equally divided between the two areas, most of the production occurs within relatively small areas...
The construction of Chasma Boreale on Mars
J.W. Holt, Kathryn E. Fishbaugh, S. Byrne, S. Christian, Kenneth L. Tanaka, P.S. Russell, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, A. Safaeinili, Nathaniel E. Putzig, R.J. Phillips
2010, Nature (465) 446-449
The polar layered deposits of Mars contain the planet’s largest known reservoir of water ice1,2 and the prospect of revealing a detailed Martian palaeoclimate record3,4, but the mechanisms responsible for the formation of the dominant features of the north polar layered deposits (NPLD) are unclear, despite decades of debate. Stratigraphic analyses...
Comparative analysis of Mourning Dove population change in North America
John R. Sauer, William A. Link, William L. Kendall, David D. Dolton
2010, Journal of Wildlife Management (74) 1059-1069
Mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) are surveyed in North America with a Call-Count Survey (CCS) and the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). Analyses in recent years have identified inconsistencies in results between surveys, and a need exists to analyze the surveys using modern methods and examine possible causes of differences...
Soil geochemical data for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative study area
David B. Smith, Karl J. Ellefsen
2010, Data Series 510
In 2008, soil samples were collected at 139 sites throughout the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative study area in southwest Wyoming. These samples, representing a density of 1 site per 440 square kilometers, were collected from a depth of 0-5 cm and analyzed for a suite of more than 40 major...
Biological, Physical and Chemical Data From Gulf of Mexico Gravity and Box Core MRD05-04
Lisa E. Osterman, Pamela L. Campbell, Peter W. Swarzenski, John P. Ricardo
2010, Open-File Report 2007-1024
This paper presents the benthic foraminiferal census data, magnetic susceptibility measurements, vanadium and organic geochemistry (carbon isotope, sterols, and total organic carbon) data from the MRD05-04 gravity and box cores. The MRD05-04 cores were obtained from the Louisiana continental shelf in an on-going initiative to examine the geographic and temporal...
Biological, Physical, And Chemical Data From Gulf of Mexico Core PE0305-GC1
Lisa E. Osterman, Peter W. Swarzenski, David Hollander
2010, Open-File Report 2006-1012
This paper presents benthic foraminiferal census data, and magnetic susceptibility, 210Pb , radiocarbon, and geochemical measurements from gravity core PE0305-GC1 (=GC1). Core GC1 was collected from the Louisiana continental shelf as part of an initiative to investigate the geographic and temporal extent of hypoxia, low-oxygen water, in the Gulf of...
Quality of Source Water from Public-Supply Wells in the United States, 1993-2007
Patricia L. Toccalino, Julia E. Norman, Kerie J. Hitt
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5024
More than one-third of the Nation's population receives their drinking water from public water systems that use groundwater as their source. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) sampled untreated source water from 932 public-supply wells, hereafter referred to as public wells, as part of multiple groundwater assessments conducted across the Nation...
The quality of our Nation’s waters: Quality of water from public-supply wells in the United States, 1993–2007: Overview of major findings
Patricia L. Toccalino, Jessica A. Hopple
2010, Circular 1346
Summary of Major Findings and Implications About 105 million people in the United States-more than one-third of the Nation's population-receive their drinking water from about 140,000 public water systems that use groundwater as their source. Although the quality of finished drinking water (after treatment and before distribution) from these public water...
Geophysical Logs, Specific Capacity, and Water Quality of Four Wells at Rogers Mechanical (former Tate Andale) Property, North Penn Area 6 Superfund Site, Lansdale, Pennsylvania, 2006-07
Lisa A. Senior, Philip H. Bird
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1023
As part of technical assistance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) in the remediation of properties on the North Penn Area 6 Superfund Site in Lansdale, Pa., the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 2006-07 collected data in four monitor wells at the Rogers Mechanical (former Tate Andale) property. During...
Flood hazard awareness and hydrologic modelling at Ambos Nogales, United States–Mexico border
Laura M. Norman, H. Huth, L. Levick, I. Shea Burns, D. Phillip Guertin, Francisco Lara-Valencia, Darius J. Semmens
2010, Journal of Flood Risk Management (3) 151-165
Appropriate land‐use, watershed‐management, and flood‐attenuation plans are critical in the cross‐border urban environment known collectively as Ambos Nogales. This paper summarizes methodologies for predicting the watershed response associated with land‐use change within a spatial and temporal context through the use of a hydrological model in a cross‐border setting. The KINEROS2...
Distribution of potential hydrothermally altered rocks in central Colorado derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper data: A geographic information system data set
Daniel H. Knepper
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1076
As part of the Central Colorado Mineral Resource Assessment Project, the digital image data for four Landsat Thematic Mapper scenes covering central Colorado between Wyoming and New Mexico were acquired and band ratios were calculated after masking pixels dominated by vegetation, snow, and terrain shadows. Ratio values were visually enhanced...
Application of AFINCH as a tool for evaluating the effects of streamflow-gaging-network size and composition on the accuracy and precision of streamflow estimates at ungaged locations in the southeast Lake Michigan hydrologic subregion
G. F. Koltun, David J. Holtschlag
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5020
Bootstrapping techniques employing random subsampling were used with the AFINCH (Analysis of Flows In Networks of CHannels) model to gain insights into the effects of variation in streamflow-gaging-network size and composition on the accuracy and precision of streamflow estimates at ungaged locations in the 0405 (Southeast Lake Michigan) hydrologic subregion....
A Method for Qualitative Mapping of Thick Oil Spills Using Imaging Spectroscopy
Roger N. Clark, Gregg A. Swayze, Ira Leifer, K. Eric Livo, Sarah Lundeen, Michael Eastwood, Robert O. Green, Raymond F. Kokaly, Todd Hoefen, Charles Sarture, Ian McCubbin, Dar Roberts, Denis Steele, Thomas Ryan, Roseanne Dominguez, Neil Pearson, The Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) Team
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1101
A method is described to create qualitative images of thick oil in oil spills on water using near-infrared imaging spectroscopy data. The method uses simple 'three-point-band depths' computed for each pixel in an imaging spectrometer image cube using the organic absorption features due to chemical bonds in aliphatic hydrocarbons at...
