The USGS Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center Strategic Science Plan 2017-2027: A blueprint for USGS contributions to water resource science in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands
Stamm, J.F., Rodríguez, J.M., Sifuentes, D.F., Sumner, D.M., and Grimsley, K.J. with contributions from Bogeajis, N., Torres-González, S., McBride, W.S., Parks, J., and Decker, J.
Content | Introduction | Priority Issues | Programatic Areas and Plans | Communication, Information Management, and Science Support | Referenced Cited
References Cited
Barnes, K.K., Kolpin, D.W., Meyer, M.T., Thurman, E.M., Furlong, E.T., Zaugg, S.D., and Barber, L.B., 2002,Water-quality data for pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, 1999–2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02–94, no pagination, available online at https://toxics.usgs.gov/pubs/OFR-02-94/.
Barnes, K.K., Kolpin, D.W., Focazio, M.J., Furlong, E.T., Meyer, M.T., Zaugg, S.D., Haack, S.K., Barber, L.B., and Thurman, E.M., 2008, Water-quality data for pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater contaminants in ground water and in untreated drinking water sources in the United States, 2000–01: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008–1293, 7 p. plus tables, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1293/pdf/OFR2008-1293.pdf.
Bellino, J.C., and Spechler, R.M., 2013, Potential effects of deepening the St. Johns River navigation channel on saltwater intrusion in the surficial aquifer system, Jacksonville, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013–5146, 34 p., available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5146/.
Byrne, M.J., Sr., and Wood, M.S., 2012, Concentrations and loads of nutrients in the tributaries of the Lake Okeechobee watershed, South-Central Florida, water years 2004–2008: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 613, 22 p., available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/613.
Daly, C. D., Halbleib, M., Smith, J. I., Gibson, W. P., Doggett, M. K., Taylor, G. H., Curtis, J., and Pasteris, P. P., 2008, Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States: International Journal of Climatology, vol. 28, p. 2031?2064, doi:10.1002/joc.1688, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.1688/abstract
Dausman, A.M., Doherty, J., Langevin, C.D., and Dixon, J., 2010, Hypothesis testing of buoyant plume migration using a highly parameterized variable-density groundwater model at a site in Florida, U.S.A.: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 18, no. 1, p. 147–160, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10040-009-0511-6.
Gómez-Gómez, F., 2008, Estimation of the change in freshwater volume in the North Coast Limestone upper aquifer of Puerto Rico in the Río Grande de Manatí-Río de la Plata area between 1960 and 1990 and implications on public-supply water availability: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5194, 24 p., available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5194/.
Hansen, J., Sato, M., Hearty, P., Ruedy, R., Kelly, M., Masson-Delmotte, V., Russell, G., Tselioudis, G., Cao, J., Rignot, E., Velicogna, I., Tormey, B., Donovan, B., Kandiano, E., von Schuckmann, K., Kharecha, P., Legrands, A.N., Bauer, M., Lo, K-W., 2016, Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming could be dangerous: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 16, p. 3761–3812, doi:10.5194/acp-16-3761-2016, available online at http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/.
Holland, K., and Bridger, K., 2014, Final TMDP Report, Nutrient TMDL for Blue Spring (Volusia County) and Blue Spring Run (Volusia County), WBIDs 28933 and 28933A: Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 60 p., available online at http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/docs/tmdls/final/gp2/VolusiaBlueSpgTMDL.pdf.
Hughes, J.D., and White, J.T., 2014, Hydrologic conditions in urban Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the effect of groundwater pumpage and increased sea level on canal leakage and regional groundwater flow: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5162, 175 p., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sir20145162.
Hughes, J.D., Sifuentes, D.F., and White, J.T., 2016, Potential effects of alterations to the hydrologic system on the distribution of salinity in the Biscayne Aquifer in Broward County, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016–5022, 114 p., available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sir20165022.
Ingebritsen, S.E., McVoy, C., Glaz, B., and Park, W., 1999, Florida Everglades, subsidence threatens agriculture and complicates ecosystem restoration, in Galloway, D., Jones, D.R., and Ingebritsen, S.E., eds., Land subsidence in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1182, p. 95–106, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1182/pdf/12Everglades.pdf.
Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change, 2013, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1535 p., available online at http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/.
Knochenmus, L.A., and Yobbi, D.K., 2001, Hydrology of the coastal springs ground-water basin and adjacent parts of Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus Counties, Florida: Water-Resources Investigations Report 01–4230, 88 p., available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wri014230.
Landers, M.N., Straub, T.D., Wood, M.S., and Domanski, M.M., 2016, Sediment acoustic index method for computing continuous suspended-sediment concentrations: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C5, 63 p., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/tm3C5.
Langevin, C.D. and Zygnerski, Michael, 2013, Effect of sea-level rise on salt water intrusion near a coastal well field in southeastern Florida: Groundwater vol. 51, no. 5, p. 781-803, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.01008.x/full.
Levesque, V.A., and Oberg, K.A., 2012, Computing discharge using the index velocity method: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 3–A23, 148 p., available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/3a23/.
Lisle, J., 2016, Natural inactivation of Escherichia coli in anaerobic and reduced groundwater: Journal of Applied Microbiology, vol. 120, p. 1739–1750, doi:10.1111/jam.13126, available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70170243.
Metz, P.A., Delzer, G.C., Berndt, M.P., Crandall, C.A., and Toccalino, P.L., 2007, Anthropogenic organic compounds in ground water and finished water of community water systems in the northern Tampa Bay area, Florida, 2002–04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5267, 48 p., https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5267/.
Molina-Rivera, W.L., 2014, Estimated water use in Puerto Rico, 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1117, 35 p., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141117.
Murphy, S.F., Stallard, R.F., Larsen, M.C., and Gould, W.A., 2012, Physiography, geology, and land cover of four watersheds in eastern Puerto Rico, in Murphy, S.F., and Stallard, R.F., eds., Water quality and landscape processes of four watersheds in eastern Puerto Rico, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1789–A., 22 p., available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1789A.
Renken, R.A., and Gómez-Gómez, F., 1993, Potentiometric surfaces of the upper and lower aquifers, North Coast Limestone aquifer system, Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 93–499, 16 p, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1993/0499/report.pdf.
Renken, R.A., Ward, W.C., Gill, I.P., Gómez-Gómez, F., Rodríguez-Martínez, J., and others, 2002, Geology and hydrogeology of the Caribbean Islands aquifer system of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1419, 139 p., available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1419/pdf/BOOK.PDF.
Rodríguez, J.M., 2013, Evaluation of groundwater quality and selected hydrologic conditions in the South Coast aquifer, Santa Isabel area, Puerto Rico, 2008–09: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5254, 36 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5254.
Rodríguez-Martínez, Jesús and Guzmán-Rios, Senén, 2017, Sanitary quality of surface water during base-flow conditions in the municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico, 2014–15: A comparison with results from a similar 1997–99 study: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2017–5045, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20175045
Saint Johns River and Suwannee River Water Management Districts, 2015, Joint assessment of the regional changes in the level and configuration of the potentiometric surface of the Upper Floridan aquifer in southeast Georgia and northeast Florida: Saint Johns and Suwanee River Water Management Districts Special Publication SJ2015-SP1, variously paginated, available online at http://www.sjrwmd.com/technicalreports/pdfs/SP/SJ2015-SP1.pdf.
Smith, S.W., 1997, The Scientist and Engineers Guide to Digital Signal Processing: San Diego, Calif., California Technical Publishing, 626 p.
Spechler, R.M., and Schiffer, D.M., 1995, Springs of Florida, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS–151–95, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1995/0151/report.pdf.
Tihansky, A.B., 1999, Sinkholes, west-central Florida, in Galloway, Devin, Jones, D.R., Ingebritsen, S.E., eds., Land subsidence in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1182, p. 121–140., available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/cir1182.
Torres-González, Sigfredo, and Rodríguez, J.M., 2016, Hydrologic conditions in the South Coast aquifer, Puerto Rico, 2010–15: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1215, 32 p., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151215.
Turnipseed, D.P., and Sauer, V.B., 2010, Discharge measurements at gaging stations: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods book 3, chap. A8, 87 p., available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm3-a8/.
Williams, L.J., Dausman, A.D., and Bellino, J.C., 2011, Relation of aquifer confinement and long-term groundwater-level decline in the Floridan aquifer system: Proceedings of the 2011 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 11–12, 2011, 2 p., available online at http://www.gwri.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/files/docs/2011/3.1.2_Williams_48.pdf
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The USGS Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center Strategic Science Plan 2017-2027: A blueprint for USGS contributions to water resource science in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands
Stamm, J.F., Rodríguez, J.M., Sifuentes, D.F., Sumner, D.M., and Grimsley, K.J. with contributions from Bogeajis, N., Torres-González, S., McBride, W.S., Parks, J., and Decker, J.
Content | Introduction | Priority Issues | Programatic Areas and Plans | Communication, Information Management, and Science Support | Referenced Cited
References Cited
Barnes, K.K., Kolpin, D.W., Meyer, M.T., Thurman, E.M., Furlong, E.T., Zaugg, S.D., and Barber, L.B., 2002,Water-quality data for pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, 1999–2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02–94, no pagination, available online at https://toxics.usgs.gov/pubs/OFR-02-94/.
Barnes, K.K., Kolpin, D.W., Focazio, M.J., Furlong, E.T., Meyer, M.T., Zaugg, S.D., Haack, S.K., Barber, L.B., and Thurman, E.M., 2008, Water-quality data for pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater contaminants in ground water and in untreated drinking water sources in the United States, 2000–01: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008–1293, 7 p. plus tables, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1293/pdf/OFR2008-1293.pdf.
Bellino, J.C., and Spechler, R.M., 2013, Potential effects of deepening the St. Johns River navigation channel on saltwater intrusion in the surficial aquifer system, Jacksonville, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013–5146, 34 p., available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5146/.
Byrne, M.J., Sr., and Wood, M.S., 2012, Concentrations and loads of nutrients in the tributaries of the Lake Okeechobee watershed, South-Central Florida, water years 2004–2008: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 613, 22 p., available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/613.
Daly, C. D., Halbleib, M., Smith, J. I., Gibson, W. P., Doggett, M. K., Taylor, G. H., Curtis, J., and Pasteris, P. P., 2008, Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States: International Journal of Climatology, vol. 28, p. 2031?2064, doi:10.1002/joc.1688, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.1688/abstract
Dausman, A.M., Doherty, J., Langevin, C.D., and Dixon, J., 2010, Hypothesis testing of buoyant plume migration using a highly parameterized variable-density groundwater model at a site in Florida, U.S.A.: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 18, no. 1, p. 147–160, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10040-009-0511-6.
Gómez-Gómez, F., 2008, Estimation of the change in freshwater volume in the North Coast Limestone upper aquifer of Puerto Rico in the Río Grande de Manatí-Río de la Plata area between 1960 and 1990 and implications on public-supply water availability: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5194, 24 p., available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5194/.
Hansen, J., Sato, M., Hearty, P., Ruedy, R., Kelly, M., Masson-Delmotte, V., Russell, G., Tselioudis, G., Cao, J., Rignot, E., Velicogna, I., Tormey, B., Donovan, B., Kandiano, E., von Schuckmann, K., Kharecha, P., Legrands, A.N., Bauer, M., Lo, K-W., 2016, Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming could be dangerous: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 16, p. 3761–3812, doi:10.5194/acp-16-3761-2016, available online at http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/.
Holland, K., and Bridger, K., 2014, Final TMDP Report, Nutrient TMDL for Blue Spring (Volusia County) and Blue Spring Run (Volusia County), WBIDs 28933 and 28933A: Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 60 p., available online at http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/docs/tmdls/final/gp2/VolusiaBlueSpgTMDL.pdf.
Hughes, J.D., and White, J.T., 2014, Hydrologic conditions in urban Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the effect of groundwater pumpage and increased sea level on canal leakage and regional groundwater flow: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5162, 175 p., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sir20145162.
Hughes, J.D., Sifuentes, D.F., and White, J.T., 2016, Potential effects of alterations to the hydrologic system on the distribution of salinity in the Biscayne Aquifer in Broward County, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016–5022, 114 p., available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sir20165022.
Ingebritsen, S.E., McVoy, C., Glaz, B., and Park, W., 1999, Florida Everglades, subsidence threatens agriculture and complicates ecosystem restoration, in Galloway, D., Jones, D.R., and Ingebritsen, S.E., eds., Land subsidence in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1182, p. 95–106, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1182/pdf/12Everglades.pdf.
Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change, 2013, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1535 p., available online at http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/.
Knochenmus, L.A., and Yobbi, D.K., 2001, Hydrology of the coastal springs ground-water basin and adjacent parts of Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus Counties, Florida: Water-Resources Investigations Report 01–4230, 88 p., available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wri014230.
Landers, M.N., Straub, T.D., Wood, M.S., and Domanski, M.M., 2016, Sediment acoustic index method for computing continuous suspended-sediment concentrations: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 3, chap. C5, 63 p., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/tm3C5.
Langevin, C.D. and Zygnerski, Michael, 2013, Effect of sea-level rise on salt water intrusion near a coastal well field in southeastern Florida: Groundwater vol. 51, no. 5, p. 781-803, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.01008.x/full.
Levesque, V.A., and Oberg, K.A., 2012, Computing discharge using the index velocity method: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 3–A23, 148 p., available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/3a23/.
Lisle, J., 2016, Natural inactivation of Escherichia coli in anaerobic and reduced groundwater: Journal of Applied Microbiology, vol. 120, p. 1739–1750, doi:10.1111/jam.13126, available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70170243.
Metz, P.A., Delzer, G.C., Berndt, M.P., Crandall, C.A., and Toccalino, P.L., 2007, Anthropogenic organic compounds in ground water and finished water of community water systems in the northern Tampa Bay area, Florida, 2002–04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5267, 48 p., https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2006/5267/.
Molina-Rivera, W.L., 2014, Estimated water use in Puerto Rico, 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1117, 35 p., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141117.
Murphy, S.F., Stallard, R.F., Larsen, M.C., and Gould, W.A., 2012, Physiography, geology, and land cover of four watersheds in eastern Puerto Rico, in Murphy, S.F., and Stallard, R.F., eds., Water quality and landscape processes of four watersheds in eastern Puerto Rico, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1789–A., 22 p., available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1789A.
Renken, R.A., and Gómez-Gómez, F., 1993, Potentiometric surfaces of the upper and lower aquifers, North Coast Limestone aquifer system, Puerto Rico: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 93–499, 16 p, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1993/0499/report.pdf.
Renken, R.A., Ward, W.C., Gill, I.P., Gómez-Gómez, F., Rodríguez-Martínez, J., and others, 2002, Geology and hydrogeology of the Caribbean Islands aquifer system of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1419, 139 p., available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1419/pdf/BOOK.PDF.
Rodríguez, J.M., 2013, Evaluation of groundwater quality and selected hydrologic conditions in the South Coast aquifer, Santa Isabel area, Puerto Rico, 2008–09: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5254, 36 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5254.
Rodríguez-Martínez, Jesús and Guzmán-Rios, Senén, 2017, Sanitary quality of surface water during base-flow conditions in the municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico, 2014–15: A comparison with results from a similar 1997–99 study: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2017–5045, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20175045
Saint Johns River and Suwannee River Water Management Districts, 2015, Joint assessment of the regional changes in the level and configuration of the potentiometric surface of the Upper Floridan aquifer in southeast Georgia and northeast Florida: Saint Johns and Suwanee River Water Management Districts Special Publication SJ2015-SP1, variously paginated, available online at http://www.sjrwmd.com/technicalreports/pdfs/SP/SJ2015-SP1.pdf.
Smith, S.W., 1997, The Scientist and Engineers Guide to Digital Signal Processing: San Diego, Calif., California Technical Publishing, 626 p.
Spechler, R.M., and Schiffer, D.M., 1995, Springs of Florida, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS–151–95, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1995/0151/report.pdf.
Tihansky, A.B., 1999, Sinkholes, west-central Florida, in Galloway, Devin, Jones, D.R., Ingebritsen, S.E., eds., Land subsidence in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1182, p. 121–140., available online at https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/cir1182.
Torres-González, Sigfredo, and Rodríguez, J.M., 2016, Hydrologic conditions in the South Coast aquifer, Puerto Rico, 2010–15: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1215, 32 p., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151215.
Turnipseed, D.P., and Sauer, V.B., 2010, Discharge measurements at gaging stations: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods book 3, chap. A8, 87 p., available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm3-a8/.
Williams, L.J., Dausman, A.D., and Bellino, J.C., 2011, Relation of aquifer confinement and long-term groundwater-level decline in the Floridan aquifer system: Proceedings of the 2011 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 11–12, 2011, 2 p., available online at http://www.gwri.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/files/docs/2011/3.1.2_Williams_48.pdf