Using climate information for fuels management
Crystal A. Kolden, Timothy J. Brown
2008, Climate Ecosystem Fire Applications CEFA Report 08-01
Climate has come to the forefront of wildfire discussions in recent years as research contributes to the general understanding of how climate influences fuels availability to burn, the occurrence of severe fire weather conditions and other wildfire parameters. This understanding has crossed over into wildfire management applications through the creation...
Time-series photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay, version 2, 1989 - 1996
Bradford Butman, P. Soupy Dalyander, Michael H. Bothner, William N. Lange
2008, Data Series 265
Time-series photographs of the sea floor were obtained from an instrumented tripod deployed in western Massachusetts Bay at LT-A (42° 22.6' N, 70° 47.0' W; nominal water depth of 32 m; fig. 1) from December 1989 through September 2005. The photographs provide time-series observations of physical changes of the sea...
Chapter A6. Section 6.0. General information and guidelines for field-measured water-quality properties
Franceska D. Wilde
2008, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 09-A6.0
This report summarizes information, guidelines, and minimum requirements that apply generally to the seven field-measurement sections that comprise the rest of Chapter A6 of this U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Field Manual for the Collection of Water-Quality Data (NFM). Protocols are specified for establishing and maintaining data records, use of...
Physicochemical properties and chemical characteristics of water, bed sediment, and mussel tissue from selected streams near the Redleg and Peason Ridge impact areas, Fort Polk Military Reservation, Louisiana, June 2001 - November 2003
Roland W. Tollett, Robert B. Fendick Jr.
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5151
At the request of the U.S. Army Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, the U.S. Geological Survey collected and analyzed water, bed-sediment, and mussel-tissue samples from selected streams near the Redleg impact area (RIA) and Peason Ridge impact areas (PRIA) at the Fort Polk Military Reservation (Reservation), Louisiana. from...
Chapter A7 Biological Indicators
Donna N. Myers, Franceska D. Wilde
2008, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 09-A7
The National Field Manual for the Collection of Water-Quality Data (National Field Manual) provides guidelines and standard procedures for U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel who collect data used to assess the quality of the Nation's surface-water and ground-water resources. This chapter of the manual includes procedures for the (1) determination...
Chapter A6. Field Measurements
Franceska D. Wilde, editor(s)
2008, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 09-A6
The National Field Manual for the Collection of Water-Quality Data (National Field Manual) provides guidelines and standard procedures for U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel who collect data used to assess the quality of the Nation's surface-water and ground-water resources. Chapter A6 presents procedures and guidelines for the collection of data...
Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica, 1940-2005
Jane G. Ferrigno, Alison J. Cook, Amy M. Mathie, Richard S. Williams Jr., Charles Swithinbank, Kevin M. Foley, Adrian J. Fox, Janet W. Thomson, Jorn Sievers
2008, IMAP 2600-B
Changes in the area and volume of polar ice sheets are intricately linked to changes in global climate, and the resulting changes in sea level could severely impact the densely populated coastal regions on Earth. Antarctica is Earth's largest reservoir of glacial ice. Melting of the West Antarctic part alone...
U.S. Geological Survey Activities Related to American Indians and Alaska Natives: Fiscal Year 2005
Susan M. Marcus
2007, Circular 1313
Introduction This report describes the activities that the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted with American Indian and Alaska Native governments, educational institutions, and individuals during Federal fiscal year (FY) 2005. Most of these USGS activities were collaborations with Tribes, Tribal organizations, or professional societies. Others were conducted cooperatively with the Bureau...
United States‐Mexican border watershed assessment: Modeling nonpoint source pollution in Ambos Nogales
Laura M. Norman
2007, Journal of Borderlands Studies (22) 79-97
Ecological considerations need to be interwoven with economic policy and planning along the United States‐Mexican border. Non‐point source pollution can have significant implications for the availability of potable water and the continued health of borderland ecosystems in arid lands. However, environmental assessments in this region present a host of unique...
The question of recharge to the deep thermal reservoir underlying the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone National Park: Chapter H in Integrated geoscience studies in Integrated geoscience studies in the Greater Yellowstone Area—Volcanic, tectonic, and hydrothermal processes in the Yellowstone geoecosystem
Robert O. Rye, Alfred Hemingway Truesdell
Lisa A. Morgan, editor(s)
2007, Professional Paper 1717-H
The extraordinary number, size, and unspoiled beauty of the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone National Park (the Park) make them a national treasure. The hydrology of these special features and their relation to cold waters of the Yellowstone area are poorly known. In the absence of deep drill holes,...
Modeling the dynamic response of a crater glacier to lava-dome emplacement: Mount St Helens, Washington, USA
Stephen F. Price, Joseph S. Walder
2007, Annals of Glaciology (45) 21-28
The debris-rich glacier that grew in the crater of Mount St Helens after the volcano's cataclysmic 1980 eruption was split in two by a new lava dome in 2004. For nearly six months, the eastern part of the glacier was squeezed against the crater wall as the lava...
Explosive eruptive record in the Katmai region, Alaska Peninsula: An overview
Judy Fierstein
2007, Bulletin of Volcanology (69) 469-509
At least 15 explosive eruptions from the Katmai cluster of volcanoes and another nine from other volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula are preserved as tephra layers in syn- and post-glacial (Last Glacial Maximum) loess and soil sections in Katmai National Park, AK. About 400 tephra samples...
Swarms of repeating long-period earthquakes at Shishaldin Volcano, Alaska, 2001-2004
Tanja Petersen
2007, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (166) 177-192
During 2001–2004, a series of four periods of elevated long-period seismic activity, each lasting about 1–2 months, occurred at Shishaldin Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The time periods are termed swarms of repeating events, reflecting an abundance of earthquakes with highly similar waveforms that indicate stable, non-destructive...
Predicting and validating the motion of an ash cloud during the 2006 eruption of Mount Augustine volcano
Richard L. Collins, Javier Fochesatto, Kenneth Sassen, Peter W. Webley, David E. Atkinson, Kenneson G. Dean, Catherine F. Cahill, Kohei Mizutani
2007, Journal of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (54) 17-28
On 11 January 2006, Mount Augustine volcano in southern Alaska began erupting after 20- year repose. The Anchorage Forecast Office of the National Weather Service (NWS) issued an advisory on 28 January for Kodiak City. On 31 January, Alaska Airlines cancelled all flights to and from Anchorage after multiple advisories...
Seismo-acoustic signals associated with degassing explosions recorded at Shishaldin Volcano, Alaska, 2003-2004
T. Petersen
2007, Bulletin of Volcanology (69) 527-536
In summer 2003, a Chaparral Model 2 microphone was deployed at Shishaldin Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The pressure sensor was co-located with a short-period seismometer on the volcano’s north flank at a distance of 6.62 km from the active summit vent. The seismo-acoustic data exhibit a correlation between impulsive acoustic signals...
Glacier-volcano interactions in the north crater of Mt. Wrangell, Alaska
Carl Abston, Roman J. Motyka, Stephen McNutt, Martin Luthi, Martin Truffer
2007, Annals of Glaciology (45) 48-57
Glaciological and related observations from 1961 to 2005 at the summit of Mt Wrangell (62.008 N, 144.028W; 4317 m a.s.l.), a massive glacier-covered shield volcano in south-central Alaska, show marked changes that appear to have been initiated by the Great Alaska Earthquake (MW = 9.2) of 27 March 1964. The...
Scale-dependent approaches to modeling spatial epidemiology of chronic wasting disease.
Mary M. Conner, John E. Gross, Paul C. Cross, Michael R. Ebinger, Robert Gillies, Michael D. Samuel, Michael W. Miller
2007, Book
This e-book is the product of a second workshop that was funded and promoted by the United States Geological Survey to enhance cooperation between states for the management of chronic wasting disease (CWD). The first workshop addressed issues surrounding the statistical design and collection of surveillance data for CWD. The...
LoCoH: Non-parameteric kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions
Wayne M. Getz, Scott Fortmann-Roe, Paul C. Cross, Andrew J. Lyons, Sadie J. Ryan, Christopher C. Wilmers
2007, PLoS ONE (2)
Parametric kernel methods currently dominate the literature regarding the construction of animal home ranges (HRs) and utilization distributions (UDs). These methods frequently fail to capture the kinds of hard boundaries common to many natural systems. Recently a local convex hull (LoCoH) nonparametric kernel method, which generalizes the minimum convex polygon...
Evaluating estimators for numbers of females with cubs-of-the-year in the Yellowstone grizzly bear population
S. Cherry, G.C. White, K.A. Keating, Mark A. Haroldson, Charles C. Schwartz
2007, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (12) 195-215
Current management of the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) population in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas requires annual estimation of the number of adult female bears with cubs-of-the-year. We examined the performance of nine estimators of population size via simulation. Data were simulated using two methods for different combinations of...
Frequency-duration analysis of dissolved-oxygen concentrations in two southwestern Wisconsin streams
Steven R. Greb, David J. Graczyk
2007, Water Resources Bulletin (31) 431-438
Historically, dissolved-oxygen (DO) data have been collected in the same manner as other water-quality constituents, typically at infrequent intervals as a grab sample or an instantaneous meter reading. Recent years have seen an increase in continuous water-quality monitoring with electronic dataloggers. This new technique requires new approaches in the statistical...
Effective groundwater model calibration: With analysis of data, sensitivities, predictions, and uncertainty
Mary C. Hill, Claire R. Tiedeman
2007, Book
Methods and guidelines for developing and using mathematical modelsTurn to Effective Groundwater Model Calibration for a set of methods and guidelines that can help produce more accurate and transparent mathematical models. The models can represent groundwater flow and transport and other natural and engineered systems. Use this book and its...
Vision for a worldwide fluvial-sediment information network
J. R. Gray, W. R. Osterkamp
2007, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on River Sedimentation, August 1-4, 2007, Moscow, Russia
The nations of the world suffer both from the deleterious effects of some natural and human-altered fluxes of fluvial sediment and a lack of consistent and reliable information on the temporal and spatial occurrence of fluvial sediments. Decades ago, this difficulty was unavoidable due to a lack of understanding of...
Petroleum systems of the San Joaquin Basin Province, California -- geochemical characteristics of oil types: Chapter 9 in Petroleum systems and geologic assessment of oil and gas in the San Joaquin Basin Province, California
Paul G. Lillis, Leslie B. Magoon
2007, Professional Paper 1713-9
New analyses of 120 oil samples combined with 139 previously published oil analyses were used to characterize and map the distribution of oil types in the San Joaquin Basin, California. The results show that there are at least four oil types designated MM, ET, EK, and CM. Most of the...
EAARL Topography-Padre Island National Seashore
John Brock, C. Wayne Wright, Amar Nayegandhi, Matt Patterson, Iris Wilson, Laurinda J. Travers
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1431
This Web site contains 116 Lidar-derived bare earth topography maps and GIS files for Padre Island National Seashore-Texas. These Lidar-derived topography maps were produced as a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Florida Integrated Science Center (FISC) St. Petersburg, Florida, the National Park Service (NPS) Gulf Coast Network, Inventory...
EAARL Topography-Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
John Brock, C. Wayne Wright, Amar Nayegandhi, Matt Patterson, Laurinda J. Travers
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1394
This Web site contains lidar-derived bare earth (BE) and first return (FR) topography maps and GIS files for the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site. These lidar-derived topography maps were produced as a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program, FISC St. Petersburg, Florida, the National...
