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Our Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana WSC priority is to continue the important work of the Department of the Interior and the USGS, while also maintaining the health and safety of our employees and community. Based on guidance from the White House, the CDC, and state and local authorities, we are shifting our operations to a virtual mode and have minimal staffing within our offices.
Annual total phosphorus loads to the Great Lakes
Monthly and annual total phosphorus loads were estimated for water years 2014 through 2018 for 23 streamgaged (gaged) sites on tributaries to the Great Lakes.
View Full ReportUSGS Kentucky Drought Condition Monitor
The USGS Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center and Kentucky Agricultural Development Board rely upon several parameters to monitor water-supply-drought conditions.
Drought MonitorCurrent Data
This data was formerly known to most as the "Realtime Data" in table format. Although the format has not changed, we now refer to it as "Current Conditions".
Kentucky Current Streamflow Data
Indiana Current Streamflow Data
Kentucky Current Groundwater Data
Indiana Current Groundwater Data
Mobile Water DataNews
USGS Unveils Mobile Flood Tool for the Nation
The U.S. Geological Survey announced Friday the completion of a new mobile tool that provides real-time information on water levels, weather and flood forecasts all in one place on a computer, smartphone or other mobile device.
USGS Responds to Spring Flooding
U.S. Geological Survey field crews are measuring flooding across the country as spring weather is in full swing. Warming temperatures, increased precipitation and snowmelt have caused moderate to major flooding in the upper Midwest, East Coast, Central Plains and the Southeast portions of the country.
Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Winter 2020 Newsletter
Annual Cooperators Meeting – Hold the Date!!
The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center 2020 Cooperator Meetings – Tentative Dates are:
The Louisville Office will hold its annual cooperator meeting on September 16, 2020.
The Indianapolis Office will hold its annual cooperator meeting on ...
Publications
Supporting data and simulation of hypothetical bighead carp egg and larvae development and transport in the Ohio River between Markland Locks and Dam and McAlpine Locks and Dam, Kentucky and Indiana, by use of the Fluvial Egg Drift Simulator
Data collection, along with hydraulic and fluvial egg transport modeling, was completed along a 70.9-mile reach of the Ohio River between Markland Locks and Dam and McAlpine Locks and Dam in Kentucky and Indiana. Water-quality data collected in this reach included surface measurements and vertical profiles of water temperature, specific...
Ostheimer, Chad J.; Boldt, Justin A.; Buszka, Paul M.
Climate change impacts and strategies for adaptation for water resource management in Indiana
Changes to water resources are critical to all sectors of the economy. Climate change will affect the timing and quantity of water available in the environment as well as have an adverse effect on the quality of that water. Floods, droughts, and changing patterns of water scarcity—when water is not available in sufficient enough quantities or of a...
Cherkauer, Keith A.; Bowling, Laura; Byun, Kyuhyun; Chaubey, Indrajeet; Chin, Natalie; Ficklin, Darren; Hamlet, Alan; Kines, Stephen; Lee, Charlotte; Neupane, Ram; Pignotti, Garett; Rahman, Sanoar; Singh, Sarmistha; Valappil-Femeena, Pandara; Williamson, Tanja N. Cyanotoxin mixture models: Relating environmental variables and toxin co-occurrence to human exposure risk
Toxic cyanobacterial blooms, often containing multiple toxins, are a serious public health issue. However, there are no known models that predict a cyanotoxin mixture (anatoxin-a, microcystin, saxitoxin). This paper presents two cyanotoxin mixture models (MIX) and compares them to two microcystin (MC) models from data collected in 2016–2017 from...
Christensen, Victoria; Stelzer, Erin; Eikenberry, Barbara C. Scudder; Olds, Hayley T.; LeDuc, Jaime F.; Maki, Ryan P.; Norland, Jack E.; Khan, Eakalak