Preparations for water sampling
Franceska D. Wilde
2005, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 9-A1
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 addresses field-trip preparations, including selection of sample-collection sites for...
Acoustic Flow Monitor System - User Manual
Richard LaHusen
2005, Open-File Report 2002-429
INTRODUCTION The Acoustic Flow Monitor (AFM) is a portable system that was designed by the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory to detect and monitor debris flows associated with volcanoes. It has been successfully used internationally as part of real-time warning systems in valleys threatened by such flows (Brantley, 1990; Marcial...
Evaluation of geohydrologic framework, recharge estimates and ground-water flow of the Joshua Tree area, San Bernardino County, California
Tracy Nishikawa, John A. Izbicki, Joseph Hevesi, Christina L. Stamos, Peter Martin
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5267
Ground water historically has been the sole source of water supply for the community of Joshua Tree in the Joshua Tree ground-water subbasin of the Morongo ground-water basin in the southern Mojave Desert. The Joshua Basin Water District (JBWD) supplies water to the community from the underlying Joshua Tree ground-water...
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2005
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2005, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2005
Published on an annual basis, this report is the earliest Government publication to furnish estimates covering nonfuel mineral industry data. Data sheets contain information on the domestic industry structure, Government programs, tariffs, and 5-year salient statistics for over 90 individual minerals and materials....
Water quality in Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park — Trends and spatial characteristics of selected constituents
Ronald L. Miller, Benjamin F. McPherson, Robert Sobczak, Christine Clark
2004, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4249
Seasonal changes in water levels and flows in Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY) and Everglades National Park (EVER) affect water quality. As water levels and flows decline during the dry season, physical, geochemical and biological processes increase the breakdown of organic materials and the build-up of organic waste, nutrients, and...
Water flow and nutrient flux from five estuarine rivers along the southwest coast of the Everglades National Park, Florida, 1997-2001
V.A. Levesque
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5142
Discharge and nutrient fluxes for five tidally affected streams were monitored and evaluated as a part of the U.S. Geological Survey Place-Based Studies Initiative and the U.S. Department of the Interior Critical Ecosystem Studies Initiative. Locations on Lostmans Creek, and Broad, Harney, Shark, and North Rivers were selected using the...
Assessment of shallow-water habitat availability in modified dike structures, Lower Missouri River, 2004
Robert B. Jacobson, Caroline M. Elliott, Harold E. Johnson
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1409
This study documented the effects of wing-dike notching on the availability of shallow water habitat in the Lower Missouri River. Five wing dikes were surveyed in late May 2004 after they were notched in early May as part of shallow-water habitat (SWH) rehabilitation activities undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps...
Application of cross-borehole radar to monitor fieldscale vegetable old injection experiments for biostimulation
John W. Lane Jr., Frederick D. Day-Lewis, Roelof J. Versteeg, C.C. Casey, Peter K. Joesten
2004, Conference Paper, Proceedings: Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP)
Cross-borehole radar methods were used to monitor a field-scale biostimulation pilot project at the Anoka County Riverfront Park (ACP), located downgradient of the Naval Industrial Reserve Ordnance Plant, in Fridley, Minnesota. The goal of the pilot project is to evaluate biostimulation using emulsified vegetable oil to treat ground water...
Use of borehole radar methods and borehole geophysical logs to monitor a field-scale vegetable oil biostimulation pilot project at Fridley, Minnesota
John W. Lane Jr., Clifton C. Casey, Frederick D. Day-Lewis, A. Witten, Roelof J. Versteeg
2004, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds
Cross-hole and surface-to-borehole radar and conventional borehole geophysical logs were used to monitor subsurface injections of vegetable oil emulsion conducted as part of a field-scale biostimulation pilot project at the Anoka County Riverfront Park (ACP), located downgradient of the Naval Industrial Reserve Ordnance Plant (NIROP), in Fridley, Minnesota. The pilot...
Map showing geology, oil and gas fields, and geologic provinces of the Caribbean Region
Christopher D. French, Christopher J. Schenk
2004, Open-File Report 97-470-K
This CD-ROM compilation contains a map and associated spatial data showing surface geology, faults, oil and gas field centerpoints, and geologic provinces of the Caribbean region, draped over a shaded relief image of topography and bathymetry. The map is provided in the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) ArcMap and...
Approaches to simulating the “March of Bricks and Mortar”
Noah Charles Goldstein, J.T. Candau, K.C. Clarke
2004, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (28) 125-147
Re-creation of the extent of urban land use at different periods in time is valuable for examining how cities grow and how policy changes influence urban dynamics. To date, there has been little focus on the modeling of historical urban extent (other than for ancient cities). Instead, current modeling research...
Pattern detection in stream networks: Quantifying spatial variability in fish distribution
Christian E. Torgersen, Robert E. Gresswell, Douglas S. Bateman
2004, Conference Paper
Biological and physical properties of rivers and streams are inherently difficult to sample and visualize at the resolution and extent necessary to detect fine-scale distributional patterns over large areas. Satellite imagery and broad-scale fish survey methods are effective for quantifying spatial variability in biological and physical variables over a range...
Yellowstone grizzly bear investigations: Annual report of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, 2003
Charles C. Schwartz, Mark A. Haroldson, editor(s)
2004, Report
The contents of this Annual Report summarize results of monitoring and research from the 2003 field season. The report also contains a summary of nuisance grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) management actions. The study team continues to work on issues associated with counts of unduplicated females with cubs-of-the-year (COY). These counts...
Geospatial techniques for developing a sampling frame of watersheds across a region
Robert E. Gresswell, Douglas S. Bateman, George Lienkaemper, T.J. Guy
2004, Conference Paper
Current land-management decisions that affect the persistence of native salmonids are often influenced by studies of individual sites that are selected based on judgment and convenience. Although this approach is useful for some purposes, extrapolating results to areas that were not sampled is statistically inappropriate because the sampling design is...
Integrating association data and disease dynamics: an illustration using African Buffalo in Kruger National Park
Paul C. Cross, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Justin A. Bowers, Craig T. Hay, Markus Hofmeyr, Wayne M. Getz
2004, Annales Zoologici Fennici (41) 879-892
Recognition is a prerequisite for non-random association amongst individuals. We explore how non-random association patterns (i.e. who spends time with whom) affect disease dynamics. We estimated the amount of time individuals spent together per month using radio-tracking data from African buffalo and incorporated these data into a dynamic social network...
Natural avalanches and transportation: A case study from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
B.A. Reardon, Daniel B. Fagre, R.W. Steiner
2004, Conference Paper, Proceedings of The International Snow Science Workshop
In January 2004, two natural avalanches (destructive class 3) derailed a freight train in John F. Stevens Canyon, on the southern boundary of Glacier National Park. The railroad tracks were closed for 29 hours due to cleanup and lingering avalanche hazard, backing up 112km of trains and shutting down Amtrak’s...
Modeling survival: application of the Andersen-Gill model to Yellowstone grizzly bears
Christopher J. Johnson, Mark S. Boyce, Charles C. Schwartz, Mark A. Haroldson
2004, Journal of Wildlife Management (68) 966-978
Wildlife ecologists often use the Kaplan-Meier procedure or Cox proportional hazards model to estimate survival rates, distributions, and magnitude of risk factors. The Andersen-Gill formulation (A-G) of the Cox proportional hazards model has seen limited application to mark-resight data but has a number of advantages, including the ability to accommodate...
What limits the Serengeti zebra population?
Sophie Grange, Patrick Duncan, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Anthony R.E. Sinclair, Peter J. Gogan, Craig Packer, Heribert Hofer, East Marion
2004, Oecologia (140) 523-532
The populations of the ecologically dominant ungulates in the Serengeti ecosystem (zebra, wildebeest and buffalo) have shown markedly different trends since the 1960s: the two ruminants both irrupted after the elimination of rinderpest in 1960, while the zebras have remained stable. The ruminants are resource limited (though parts of the...
Effects of management practices on grassland birds: Brewer's sparrow
Brett L. Walker
2004, Report, Effects of management practices on grassland birds
Information on the habitat requirements and effects of habitat management on grassland birds were summarized from information in more than 5,500 published and unpublished papers. A range map is provided to indicate the relative densities of the species in North America, based on Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Although birds...
Late Quaternary evolution of channel and lobe complexes of Monterey Fan
Andrea Fildani, William R. Normark
2004, Marine Geology (206) 199-223
The modern Monterey submarine fan, one of the largest deep-water deposits off the western US, is composed of two major turbidite systems: the Neogene Lower Turbidite System (LTS) and the late Quarternary Upper Turbidite System (UTS). The areally extensive LTS is a distal deposit with low-relief, poorly defined channels,...
The LISST-SL streamlined isokinetic suspended-sediment profiler
John R. Gray, Yogesh C. Agrawal, H. Charles Pottsmith
2004, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on River sedimentation: October 18-21, 2004 Yichang, China
The new manually deployed Laser In Situ Scattering Transmissometer-StreamLined profiler (LISST-SL) represents a major technological advance for suspended-sediment measurements in rivers. The LISST-SL is being designed to provide real-time data on sediment concentrations and particle-size distributions. A pressure sensor and current meter provide real-time depth and ambient velocity...
Mineral resource of the month: feldspar
Michael J. Potter
2004, Geotimes (2004)
The United States is the third leading producer of feldspar worldwide, after Italy and Turkey, according to data published by the U.S. Geological Survey. Foreign analysts indicate that China is also a leading feldspar producer, but official production data are not available. Feldspars are aluminum silicate minerals that contain varying...
The Colorado Plateau: cultural, biological, and physical research
Kenneth L. Cole
Charles van Riper III, editor(s)
2004, Book
Stretching from the four corners of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, the Colorado Plateau is a natural laboratory for a wide range of studies. This volume presents 23 original articles drawn from more than 100 research projects presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau....
Evaluating mallard adaptive management models with time series
P.B. Conn, W. L. Kendall
2004, Journal of Wildlife Management (68) 1065-1081
Wildlife practitioners concerned with midcontinent mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) management in the United States have instituted a system of adaptive harvest management (AHM) as an objective format for setting harvest regulations. Under the AHM paradigm, predictions from a set of models that reflect key uncertainties about processes underlying population dynamics are...
Demographic estimation methods for plants with dormancy
M. Kery, K.B. Gregg
2004, Animal Biodiversity and Conservation (27) 129-131
Demographic studies in plants appear simple because unlike animals, plants do not run away. Plant individuals can be marked with, e.g., plastic tags, but often the coordinates of an individual may be sufficient to identify it. Vascular plants in temperate latitudes have a pronounced seasonal life–cycle, so most plant demographers...
