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...
Polychlorinated Biphenyls in suspended-sediment samples from outfalls to Meandering Road Creek at Air Force Plant 4, Fort Worth, Texas, 2003-08
Christopher L. Braun, Jennifer T. Wilson
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5076
Meandering Road Creek is an intermittent stream and tributary to Lake Worth, a reservoir on the West Fork Trinity River on the western edge of Fort Worth, Texas. U.S. Air Force Plant 4 (AFP4) is on the eastern shore of Woods Inlet, an arm of Lake Worth. Meandering Road Creek...
Flooding in the United States Midwest, 2008
Robert R. Holmes Jr., Todd A. Koenig, Krista A. Karstensen
2010, Professional Paper 1775
During 2008, record precipitation amounts, coupled with already saturated soils, resulted in flooding along many rivers in the United States Midwest. Separate flooding events occurred in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, and September of 2008. The June floods were by far the most severe and widespread with substantial...
Model Refinement and Simulation of Groundwater Flow in Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties, Michigan
Carol L. Luukkonen
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5244
A groundwater-flow model that was constructed in 1996 of the Saginaw aquifer was refined to better represent the regional hydrologic system in the Tri-County region, which consists of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties, Michigan. With increasing demand for groundwater, the need to manage withdrawals from the Saginaw aquifer has become...
Geophysical Logs of Selected Wells at the Diaz Chemical Superfund Site in the Village of Holley, New York, 2009
David A.V. Eckhardt, J. Alton Anderson
2010, Data Series 500
Geophysical logs were collected and analyzed to define the bedrock fracture patterns and flow zones penetrated by three wells at the Diaz Chemical Superfund Site in the Village of Holley in Orleans County, New York. The work was conducted in December 2009 as part of the investigation of contamination by...
Cartographic Production for the FLaSH Map Study: Generation of Rugosity Grids, 2008
Lisa L. Robbins, Paul O. Knorr, Mark Hansen
2010, Data Series 477
Project Summary This series of raster data is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Series release from the Florida Shelf Habitat Project (FLaSH). This disc contains two raster images in Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) raster grid format, jpeg image format, and Geo-referenced Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF). Data is...
Preliminary Investigation of Paleochannels and Groundwater Specific Conductance using Direct-Current Resistivity and Surface-Wave Seismic Geophysical Surveys at the Standard Chlorine of Delaware, Inc., Superfund Site, Delaware City, Delaware, 2008
James R. Degnan, Michael J. Brayton
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1058
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with Region III of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the State of Delaware, is conducting an ongoing study of the water-quality and hydrogeologic properties of the Columbia and Potomac aquifers and the extent of cross-aquifer contamination with benzene; chlorobenzene; 1,2-dichlorobenzene; 1,4-dichlorobenzene;...
Chemistry of selected core samples, concentrate, tailings, and tailings pond waters: Pea Ridge iron (-lanthanide-gold) deposit, Washington County, Missouri
Richard I. Grauch, Philip L. Verplanck, Cheryl M. Seeger, James R. Budahn, Bradley S. Van Gosen
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1080
The Minerals at Risk and for Emerging Technologies Project of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Resources Program is examining potential sources of lanthanide elements (rare earth elements) as part of its objective to provide up-to-date geologic information regarding mineral commodities likely to have increased demand in the near term....
A Review of Land-Cover Mapping Activities in Coastal Alabama and Mississippi
Kathryn E. L. Smith, Amar Nayegandhi, John Brock
2010, Open-File Report 2009-1028
INTRODUCTION Land-use and land-cover (LULC) data provide important information for environmental management. Data pertaining to land-cover and land-management activities are a common requirement for spatial analyses, such as watershed modeling, climate change, and hazard assessment. In coastal areas, land development, storms, and shoreline modification amplify the need for frequent and detailed...
Water-Quality Data from Upper Klamath and Agency Lakes, Oregon, 2007-08
Kristofor E. Kannarr, Dwight Q. Tanner, Mary K. Lindenberg, Tamara M. Wood
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1073
Significant Findings The U.S. Geological Survey Upper Klamath Lake water-quality monitoring program collected data from multiparameter continuous water-quality monitors, weekly water-quality samples, and meteorological stations during May-November 2007 and 2008. The results of these measurements and sample analyses are presented in this report for 29 stations on Upper Klamath Lake and...
Outcrops, fossils, geophysical logs, and tectonic interpretations of the Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation and contiguous strata in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana
E.A. Merewether, W. A. Cobban, R. W. Tillman
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5256
In the Bighorn Basin of north-central Wyoming and south-central Montana, the Frontier Formation of early Late Cretaceous age consists of siliciclastic, bentonitic, and carbonaceous beds that were deposited in marine, brackish-water, and continental environments. Most lithologic units are laterally discontinuous. The Frontier Formation conformably overlies the Mowry Shale and is...
Parking Lot Runoff Quality and Treatment Efficiency of a Stormwater-Filtration Device, Madison, Wisconsin, 2005-07
Judy A. Horwatich, Roger T. Bannerman
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5196
To evaluate the treatment efficiency of a stormwater-filtration device (SFD) for potential use at Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) park-and-ride facilities, a SFD was installed at an employee parking lot in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. This type of parking lot was chosen for the test site because the constituent concentrations and...
Methods for estimating flow-duration and annual mean-flow statistics for ungaged streams in Oklahoma
Rachel A. Esralew, S. Jerrod Smith
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5267
Flow statistics can be used to provide decision makers with surface-water information needed for activities such as water-supply permitting, flow regulation, and other water rights issues. Flow statistics could be needed at any location along a stream. Most often, streamflow statistics are needed at ungaged sites, where no flow data...
U.S. Geological Survey Catskill/Delaware water-quality network: Water-quality report water year 2006
Michael R. McHale, Jason Siemion
2010, Data Series 497
The U.S. Geological Survey operates a 60-station streamgaging network in the New York City Catskill/Delaware Water Supply System. Water-quality samples were collected at 13 of the stations in the Catskill/Delaware streamgaging network to provide resource managers with water-quality and water-quantity data from the water-supply system that supplies about 85 percent...
Temporal chemical data for sediment, water, and biological samples from the Lava Cap Mine Superfund site, Nevada County, California— 2006–2008
Andrea L. Foster, Georges Ona-Nguema, Kate Tufano, Richard III White
2010, Open-File Report 2009-1268
The Lava Cap Mine is located about 6 km east of the city of Grass Valley, Nevada County, California, at an elevation of about 900 m. Gold was hosted in quartz-carbonate veins typical of the Sierran Gold Belt, but the gold grain size was smaller and the abundance of sulfide...
Bathymetry of Lake Manatee, Manatee County, Florida, 2009
Jason C. Bellino, William R. Pfeiffer
2010, Scientific Investigations Map 3112
Lake Manatee, located in central Manatee County, Florida, is the principal drinking-water source for Manatee and Sarasota Counties. The drainage basin of Lake Manatee encompasses about 120 square miles, and the reservoir covers a surface area of about 1,450 acres at an elevation of 38.8 feet above NAVD 88 or...
Acquisition and history of water on Mars
M. H. Carr, James W. Head
2010, Book, Lakes on Mars
The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the geologic history of Mars and the role water has played in the evolution of the surface so that subsequent chapters on more specific topics can be viewed in a broader context. It focuses mainly on surficial processes such as erosion, sedimentation,...
Geologic history of Mars
Michael H. Carr, James W. Head III
2010, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (294) 185-203
Mars accumulated and differentiated into crust, mantle and core within a few tens of millions of years of Solar System formation. Formation of Hellas, which has been adopted as the base of the Noachian period, is estimated to have occurred around 4.1 to 3.8 Gyr ago, depending on whether or not...
California's BAY-DELTA: USGS Science Supports Decision Making
James Nickles, Kimberly Taylor, Roger Fujii
2010, Fact Sheet 2010-3032
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists are in the forefront of the effort to understand what causes changes in the hydrology, the ecology and the water quality of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and the San Francisco Bay estuary. Their scientific findings play a crucial role in how agencies manage the...
Summary of Hydrologic Data for the Tuscarawas River Basin, Ohio, with an Annotated Bibliography
Ralph J. Haefner, Laura A. Simonson
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5010
The Tuscarawas River Basin drains approximately 2,600 square miles in eastern Ohio and is home to 600,000 residents that rely on the water resources of the basin. This report summarizes the hydrologic conditions in the basin, describes over 400 publications related to the many factors that affect the groundwater and...
Water Quality in the Equus Beds Aquifer and the Little Arkansas River Before Implementation of Large-Scale Artificial Recharge, South-Central Kansas, 1995-2005
Andrew C. Ziegler, Cristi V. Hansen, Daniel A. Finn
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5023
Artificial recharge of the Equus Beds aquifer using runoff from the Little Arkansas River in south-central Kansas was first proposed in 1956 and was one of many options considered by the city of Wichita to preserve its water supply. Declining aquifer water levels of as much as 50 feet exacerbated...
Summary of Organic Wastewater Compounds and Other Water-Quality Data in Charles County, Maryland, October 2007 through August 2008
Michelle M. Lorah, Daniel J. Soeder, Jessica A. Teunis
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1071
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the government of Charles County, Maryland, and the Port Tobacco River Conservancy, Inc., conducted a water-quality reconnaissance and sampling investigation of the Port Tobacco River and Nanjemoy Creek watersheds in Charles County during October 2007 and June-August 2008. Samples were collected and analyzed...
Recovery of sediment characteristics in moraine, headwater streams of northern Minnesota after forest harvest
Bruce C. Vondracek, Eric C. Merten, Nathaniel A. Hemstad, Randall K. Kolka, Raymond M. Newman, Elon S. Verry
2010, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (46) 733-743
We investigated the recovery of sediment characteristics in four moraine, headwater streams in north-central Minnesota after forest harvest. We examined changes in fine sediment levels from 1997 (preharvest) to 2007 (10 years postharvest) at study plots with upland clear felling and riparian thinning, using canopy cover, proportion of unstable banks, surficial...
The CEOS-Land Surface Imaging Constellation Portal for GEOSS: A resource for land surface imaging system information and data access
Thomas Holm, Kevin P. Gallo, Bryan Bailey
2010, earthzine, an IEEE online publication
The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites is an international group that coordinates civil space-borne observations of the Earth, and provides the space component of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS). The CEOS Virtual Constellations concept was implemented in an effort to engage and coordinate disparate Earth observing programs...
