Survival rates and lifetime reproduction of breeding male Cooper’s Hawks in Wisconsin, 1980-2005
Robert N. Rosenfield, John Bielefeldt, Laura J. Rosenfield, Travis L. Booms, Michael A. Bozek
2009, Wilson Journal of Ornithology (121) 610-617
There are few published data on annual survival and no reports of lifetime reproduction for breeding Cooper's Hawks (Accipiter cooperii). Breeding males (n = 105) in central and southeastern Wisconsin had an annual mortality rate of 19%, or a survival rate of 81% for birds ≤10 years of age. We did...
Emergent insect production in post-harvest flooded agricultural fields used by waterbirds
Richard C. Moss, Steven C. Blumenshine, Julie Yee, Joseph P. Fleskes
2009, Wetlands (29) 875-883
California’s Tulare Lake Basin (TLB) is one of the most important waterbird areas in North America even though most wetlands there have been converted to cropland. To guide management programs promoting waterbird beneficial agriculture, which includes flooding fields between growing periods, we measured emergence rates of insects, an important waterbird...
Twelve Years of Monitoring Phosphorus and Suspended-Solids Concentrations and Yields in the North Fork Ninnescah River above Cheney Reservoir, South-Central Kansas 1997-2008
Mandy L. Stone, Jennifer L. Graham, Andrew C. Ziegler
2009, Fact Sheet 2009-3073
Cheney Reservoir, located on the North Fork Ninnescah River in south-central Kansas, is the primary water supply for the city of Wichita and an important recreational resource. Concerns about taste-and-odor occurrences in Cheney Reservoir have drawn attention to potential pollutants, including total phosphorus (TP) and total suspended solids (TSS). July...
Seismic monitoring to assess performance of structures in near-real time: Recent progress
Mehmet Celebi
2009, Book chapter, Seismic risk assessment and retrofitting: With special emphasis on existing low rise structures
Earlier papers have described how observed data from classical accelerometers deployed in structures or from differential GPS with high sampling ratios deployed at roofs of tall buildings can be configured to establish seismic health monitoring of structures. In these configurations, drift ratios are the main parametric indicator of damage condition...
NBII-SAIN Data Management Toolkit
Thomas E. Burley, John D. Peine
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1170
The Strategic Plan for the U.S. Geological Survey Biological Informatics Program (2005-2009) recognizes the need for effective data management: Though the Federal government invests more than $600 million per year in biological data collection, it is difficult to address these issues because of limited accessibility and lack of standards for data...
Land-Cover Change in the East Central Texas Plains, 1973-2000
Krista A. Karstensen
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1164
Project Background: The Geographic Analysis and Monitoring (GAM) Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Land Cover Trends project is focused on understanding the rates, trends, causes, and consequences of contemporary U.S. land-use and land-cover change. The objectives of the study are to: (1) develop a comprehensive methodology for using...
Investigation of Contaminated Groundwater at Solid Waste Management Unit 12, Naval Weapons Station Charleston, North Charleston, South Carolina, 2008
Don A. Vroblesky, Matthew D. Petkewich
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5166
The U.S. Geological Survey and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast investigated natural and engineered remediation of chlorinated volatile organic compound (VOC) groundwater contamination at Solid Waste Management Unit 12 at the Naval Weapons Station Charleston, North Charleston, South Carolina, beginning in 2000. The primary contaminants of interest in the...
USGS Water Data for Washington
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2009, Fact Sheet 2009-3082
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been investigating the water resources of Washington State since the latter part of the 19th century. During this time, demand for water has evolved from primarily domestic and stock needs to the current complex requirements for public-water supplies, irrigation, power generation, navigation, ecological needs,...
Channel morphology and bed sediment characteristics before and after habitat enhancement activities in the Uridil Property, Platte River, Nebraska, water-years 2005-2008
Paul J. Kinzel
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1147
Fluvial geomorphic data were collected by the United States Geological Survey from July 2005 to June 2008 (a time period within water years 2005 to 2008) to monitor the effects of habitat enhancement activities conducted in the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust’s Uridil Property, located along the Platte River,...
An initial investigation of multidimensional flow and transverse mixing characteristics of the Ohio River near Cincinnati, Ohio
David J. Holtschlag
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5107
Two-dimensional hydrodynamic and transport models were applied to a 34-mile reach of the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio, upstream to Meldahl Dam near Neville, Ohio. The hydrodynamic model was based on the generalized finite-element hydrodynamic code RMA2 to simulate depth-averaged velocities and flow depths. The generalized water-quality transport code RMA4...
Groundwater-flow model of the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system, northwestern Arkansas, southeastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, and northeastern Oklahoma
John B. Czarnecki, Jonathan A. Gillip, Perry M. Jones, Daniel S. Yeatts
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5148
To assess the effect that increased water use is having on the long-term availability of groundwater within the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system, a groundwater-flow model was developed using MODFLOW 2000 for a model area covering 7,340 square miles for parts of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Vertically the model is...
Water quality and phytoplankton communities in Lake Pontchartrain during and after the Bonnet Carre Spillway opening, April to October 2008, in Louisiana, USA
Scott V. Mize, Dennis K. Demcheck
2009, Geo-Marine Letters (29) 431-440
The Bonnet Carré Spillway, located 28 miles northwest of New Orleans, was constructed in the early 1930s as part of an integrated flood-control system for the lower Mississippi River system. From 11 April to 8 May 2008, Mississippi River water was diverted through the spillway into the 629-square-mile Lake Pontchartrain,...
The Regional Geochemistry of Soils and Willow in a Metamorphic Bedrock Terrain, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2005, and Its Possible Relation to Moose
L. P. Gough, P. J. Lamothe, R. F. Sanzolone, L.J. Drew, J.A.K. Maier
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1124
In 2005 willow leaves (all variants of Salix pulchra) and A-, B-, and C-horizon soils were sampled at 10 sites along a transect near the Quarry prospect and 11 sites along a transect near the Big Hurrah mine for the purpose of defining the spatial variability of elements and the...
Data on mercury in water, bed sediment, and fish from streams across the United States, 1998-2005
Nancy J. Bauch, Lia C. Chasar, Barbara C. Scudder, Patrick W. Moran, Kerie J. Hitt, Mark E. Brigham, Michelle A. Lutz, Dennis A. Wentz
2009, Data Series 307
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) and Toxic Substances Hydrology Programs conducted the National Mercury Pilot Study in 1998 to examine relations of mercury (Hg) in water, bed sediment and fish in streams across the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. Water and bed-sediment samples were analyzed...
High-Resolution Aeromagnetic Survey To Image Shallow Faults, Poncha Springs and Vicinity, Chaffee County, Colorado
V. J. S. Grauch, Benjamin J. Drenth
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1156
High-resolution aeromagnetic data were acquired over the town of Poncha Springs and areas to the northwest to image faults, especially where they are concealed. Because this area has known hot springs, faults or fault intersections at depth can provide pathways for upward migration of geothermal fluids or concentrate fracturing that...
Hydrologic Setting and Conceptual Hydrologic Model of the Walker River Basin, West-Central Nevada
Thomas J. Lopes, Kip K. Allander
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5155
The Walker River is the main source of inflow to Walker Lake, a closed-basin lake in west-central Nevada. Between 1882 and 2008, agricultural diversions resulted in a lake-level decline of more than 150 feet and storage loss of 7,400,000 acre-ft. Evaporative concentration increased dissolved solids from 2,500 to 17,000 milligrams...
Total Petroleum Systems and Geologic Assessment of Oil and Gas Resources in the Powder River Basin Province, Wyoming and Montana
2009, Data Series 69-U
The U.S. Geological Survey completed an assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas potential of the Powder River Basin in 2006. The assessment of undiscovered oil and gas used the total petroleum system concept, which includes mapping the distribution of potential source rocks and known petroleum accumulations and determining the...
Land-Cover Change in the Central Irregular Plains, 1973-2000
Krista A. Karstensen
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1159
Spearheaded by the Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Land Cover Trends is a research project focused on understanding the rates, trends, causes, and consequences of contemporary...
Impact of wildfire on levels of mercury in forested watershed systems: Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
Laurel G. Woodruff, Mark B. Sandheinrich, Mark E. Brigham, William F. Cannon
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5151
Atmospheric deposition of mercury to remote lakes in mid-continental and eastern North America has increased approximately threefold since the mid-1800s (Swain and others, 1992; Fitzgerald and others, 1998; Engstrom and others, 2007). As a result, concerns for human and wildlife health related to mercury contamination have become widespread. Despite an...
Geophysical Studies in the Vicinity of the Warner Mountains and Surprise Valley, Northeast California, Northwest Nevada, and Southern Oregon
David A. Ponce, Jonathan M. G. Glen, Anne E. Egger, Claire Bouligand, Janet T. Watt, Robert L. Morin
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1157
From May 2006 to August 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected 793 gravity stations, about 102 line-kilometers of truck-towed and ground magnetometer data, and about 325 physical-property measurements in northeastern California, northwestern Nevada, and southern Oregon. Gravity, magnetic, and physical-property data were collected to study regional crustal structures and...
Finding Trapped Miners by Using a Prototype Seismic Recording System Made from Music-Recording Hardware
Thomas L. Pratt
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1095
The goal of this project was to use off-the-shelf music recording equipment to build and test a prototype seismic system to listen for people trapped in underground chambers (mines, caves, collapsed buildings). Previous workers found that an array of geophones is effective in locating trapped miners; displaying the data graphically,...
Black and Brown Bear Activity at Selected Coastal Sites in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska: A Preliminary Assessment Using Noninvasive Procedures
Steve Partridge, Tom Smith, Tania Lewis
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1169
A number of efforts in recent years have sought to predict bear activity in various habitats to minimize human disturbance and bear/human conflicts. Alaskan coastal areas provide important foraging areas for bears (Ursus americanus and U. arctos), particularly following den emergence when there may be no snow-free foraging alternatives. Additionally,...
Geologic Map of the Santa Barbara Coastal Plain Area, Santa Barbara County, California
Scott A. Minor, Karl S. Kellogg, Richard G. Stanley, Larry D. Gurrola, Edward A. Keller, Theodore R. Brandt
2009, Scientific Investigations Map 3001
This report presents a newly revised and expanded digital geologic map of the Santa Barbara coastal plain area at a compilation scale of 1:24,000 (one inch on the map to 2,000 feet on the ground)1 and with a horizontal positional accuracy of at least 20 m. The map depicts the...
Boundary of the Eagle River watershed valley-fill aquifer, Eagle County, north-central Colorado, 2006-2007
Michael G. Rupert, Niel Plummer
2009, Data Series 458
This vector data set delineates the approximate boundary of the Eagle River watershed valley-fill aquifer (ERWVFA). This data set was developed by a cooperative project between the U.S. Geological Survey, Eagle County, the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, the Town of Eagle, the Town of Gypsum, and the Upper...
Probability of Elevated Nitrate Concentrations in Groundwater in the Eagle River Watershed Valley-Fill Aquifer, Eagle County, North-Central Colorado, 2006-2007
Michael G. Rupert, Niel Plummer
2009, Data Series 459
This raster data set delineates the predicted probability of elevated nitrate concentrations in groundwater in the Eagle River watershed valley-fill aquifer, Eagle County, North-Central Colorado, 2006-2007. This data set was developed by a cooperative project between the U.S. Geological Survey, Eagle County, the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, the...
