Publications
These publications are written or co-authored by Central Midwest Water Science Center personnel in conjuction with their work at the USGS and other government agencies. They include USGS reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and published abstracts that are available in the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Sediment and nutrient retention on a reconnected floodplain of an Upper Mississippi River tributary, 2013–2018 Sediment and nutrient retention on a reconnected floodplain of an Upper Mississippi River tributary, 2013–2018
The connection of rivers with their floodplains has been greatly reduced in agricultural drainage basins, especially in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. The restriction of the Mississippi River from its floodplain has reduced the sediment trapping and nutrient deposition capabilities of the floodplain, exacerbating water quality problems in the river and in downstream waterbodies. A...
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Lynn A. Bartsch, Rebecca M. Kreiling, Lance R. Gruhn, Jessica D. Garrett, William B. Richardson, Greg M. Nalley
Intake efficiency field results for Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project bag samplers Intake efficiency field results for Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project bag samplers
The Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project (FISP) standardizes and advances sediment science among federal agencies. It is important to ensure that the FISP bag samplers perform isokinetically under all tested and approved conditions and collect samples that are representative of the stream or river cross-section. A measure of a sampler’s isokinetic behavior is its intake efficiency...
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Adam E. Manaster, Mark N. Landers, Timothy D. Straub
Root-mean-square error (RMSE) or mean absolute error (MAE): When to use them or not Root-mean-square error (RMSE) or mean absolute error (MAE): When to use them or not
The root-mean-squared error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) are widely used metrics for evaluating models. Yet, there remains enduring confusion over their use, such that a standard practice is to present both, leaving it to the reader to decide which is more relevant. In a recent reprise to the 200-year debate over their use, Willmott and Matsuura (2005) and Chai and Draxler (2014)...
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Timothy O. Hodson
Dynamic rating method for computing discharge from time-series stage data Dynamic rating method for computing discharge from time-series stage data
Ratings are used for a variety of reasons in water-resources investigations. The simplest rating relates discharge to the stage of the river. From a pure hydrodynamics perspective, all rivers and streams have some form of hysteresis in the relation between stage and discharge because of unsteady flow as a flood wave passes. Simple ratings are unable to represent hysteresis in a stage...
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Marian M. Domanski, Robert R. Holmes, Elizabeth N. Heal
Water quality in the Missouri River alluvial aquifer near the Independence, Missouri, well field, 1997–2018 Water quality in the Missouri River alluvial aquifer near the Independence, Missouri, well field, 1997–2018
Groundwater-quality data collected from 1997 through 2018 from 68 monitoring locations open to the Missouri River alluvial aquifer (hereafter referred to as the “alluvial aquifer”) near the Independence, Missouri, well field were analyzed by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the City of Independence, Missouri. This analysis was done to assess the quality of the water in the...
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Robert T. Kay, Heather M. Krempa, Katie M. Hulsey
Central Midwest Water Science Center— Harmful Algal Blooms team Central Midwest Water Science Center— Harmful Algal Blooms team
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Central Midwest Water Science Center (CMWSC) includes three States—Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. USGS water science centers across the Nation provide information on water resources including streamflow, water use, water availability, and the quality of surface water and groundwater (https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources). The USGS CMWSC...
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Katherine M. Summers, Heather M. Krempa, Jessica D. Garrett
Estimated daily mean streamflow in Iowa using the Flow-Duration Curve Transfer Method StreamStats application Estimated daily mean streamflow in Iowa using the Flow-Duration Curve Transfer Method StreamStats application
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) operates many streamgages throughout the country that provide historical and real-time daily streamflow information. Accurate estimates of daily streamflow and the percentage of time that a certain volume of streamflow occurs or is exceeded in a stream is crucial information for structure design and other activities conducted by federal, state, and local...
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Mackenzie K. Marti, Harper N. Wavra, Andrea Medenblik
Quality of surface water in Missouri, water year 2020 Quality of surface water in Missouri, water year 2020
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, monitors stations designed for the Ambient Water-Quality Monitoring Network, a collection of stations that monitor streams and springs in Missouri. During water year 2020 (October 1, 2019, through September 30, 2020), the U.S. Geological Survey collected water-quality data at 72 stations: 70...
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Camille E. Buckley
Uncertainty analysis of index-velocity meters and discharge computations at the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Lemont, Illinois, water years 2006–16 Uncertainty analysis of index-velocity meters and discharge computations at the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Lemont, Illinois, water years 2006–16
Monitoring discharge in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is critical for the accounting done by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the diversion of water from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River Basin by the State of Illinois. The primary streamgage used for this discharge monitoring, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Lemont, Illinois (U.S. Geological Survey station...
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Thomas M. Over, Marian Muste, James J. Duncker, Heng-Wei Tsai, P. Ryan Jackson, Kevin K. Johnson, Frank L. Engel, Crystal D. Prater
FluOil: A novel tool for modeling the transport of oil-particle aggregates in inland waterways FluOil: A novel tool for modeling the transport of oil-particle aggregates in inland waterways
Spilled oil in inland waterways can aggregate with mineral and organic particles to form oil-particle aggregates (OPAs). OPAs can be transported in suspension or deposited to the bed. Modeling the fate and transport of OPAs can provide useful information for making mitigation decisions. A novel open-source tool, FluOil, is developed to predict where OPAs may deposit and when they arrive...
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Yilan Li, Zhenduo Zhu, David Soong, Hamed Khorasani, Shu Wang, Faith A. Fitzpatrick, Marcelo H. Garcia
Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers
Environmental exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can have negative effects on the health of ecosystems and humans. While numerous studies have monitored APIs in rivers, these employ different analytical methods, measure different APIs, and have ignored many of the countries of the world. This makes it difficult to quantify the scale of the problem from a global...
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John L. Wilkinson, Alistair B. A. Boxall, Dana W. Kolpin, Kenneth M. Y. Leung, Racliffe W. S. Lai, Cristobal Galban-Malagon, Aiko D. Adell, J. Mondon, M. Metian, R. Marchant, Alejandra Bouzas-Monroy, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, A. Coors, Carriquiriborde P., M. Rojo, C. Gordon, Magdalena Cara, M. Moermond, Thais Luarte, V. Petrosyan, Yekaterina Perikhanyan, Clare S. Mahon, Christopher J. McGurk, T. Hofmann, T. Kormoker, V. Iniguez, J. Guzman-Otazo, Jean L. Tavares, Francisco Gildasio de Figueiredo, Maria T. P. Razzolini, V. Dougnon, G. Gbaguidi, Oumar Traore, Jules M. Blais, Linda E. Kimpe, M. Wong, D. Wong, R. Ntchantcho, J. Pizarro, Guang-Guo Ying, Chang-Er Chen, Martha Paez, Jina Martinez-Lara, Jean-Paul Otamonga, John Pote, Suspense A. Ifo, Penelope J. Wilson, Silvia Echeverria-Saenz, N. Udikovic-Kolic, M. Milakovic, D. Fatta-Kassinos, L. Ioannou-Ttofa, Vladimira Belusova, J. Vymazal, Maria Cardenas-Bustamante, Bayable A. Kassa, J Garric, A. Chaumot, Peter Gibba, I. Kunchulia, Seidensticker S., G. Lyberatos, Halldór P. Halldórsson, Molly Melling, T. Shashidhar, Manisha Lamba, A. Nastiti, A. Supriatin, N. Pourang, A. Abedini, Omar Abdullah, Salem S. Gharbia, F. Pilla, B. Chefetz, T. Topaz, Koffi Marcellin Yao, B. Aubakirova, R. Beisenova, L. Olaka, Jemimah Mulu, P. Chatanga, V. Ntuli, Nathaniel T. Blama, S. Sherif, Ahmad Zaharin Aris, Ley Juen Looi, M. Niang, Seydou T. Traore, Rik Oldenkamp, O. Ogunbanwo, M. Ashfaq, M. Iqbal, Z. Abdeen, A. O’Dea, Jorge Manuel Morales-Saldana, M. Custodio, H. de la Cruz, I. Navarrete, F. Carvalho, Alhaji B. Gogra, Bashiru M. Koroma, Vesna Cerkvenik-Flajs, Mitja Gombac, M. Thwala, K. Choi, H. Kang, John L. Celestino Ladu, A. Rico, P. Amerashinghe, A. Sobek, G. Horlitz, Armin K. Zenker, Alex C. King, Jheng-Jie Jiang, Rebecca Kariuki, M. Tumbo, U. Tezel, Turgut T. Onay, Julius B. Lejju, Y. Vystavna, Y. Vergeles, H. Heinzen, Andres Perez-Parada, Douglas B. Sims, M. Figy, David Good, C. Teta
Real-time telemetry and multi-state modeling Real-time telemetry and multi-state modeling
This project will result in real-time data and other invasive carp movement information to inform realtime management decisions and refine the SEICarP model. FY 2022 funding will produce final transition probability estimates from the newly-developed Bayesian multi-state model, continue the maintenance of real-time telemetry to inform contingency actions, and produce a study plan to...
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Marybeth K. Brey, Brent C. Knights, P. Ryan Jackson, Jessica C. Stanton, Douglas Appel, James J. Duncker, Andrea K. Fritts