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This list of Water Resources Mission Area publications includes both official USGS publications and journal articles authored by our scientists. A searchable database of all USGS publications can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.

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Groundwater flow cycling between a submarine spring and an inland fresh water spring Groundwater flow cycling between a submarine spring and an inland fresh water spring

Spring Creek Springs and Wakulla Springs are large first magnitude springs that derive water from the Upper Floridan Aquifer. The submarine Spring Creek Springs are located in a marine estuary and Wakulla Springs are located 18 km inland. Wakulla Springs has had a consistent increase in flow from the 1930s to the present. This increase is probably due to the rising sea level, which puts...
Authors
J. Hal Davis, Richard Verdi

Modeling groundwater flow and quality Modeling groundwater flow and quality

In most areas, rocks in the subsurface are saturated with water at relatively shallow depths. The top of the saturated zone—the water table—typically occurs anywhere from just below land surface to hundreds of feet below the land surface. Groundwater generally fills all pore spaces below the water table and is part of a continuous dynamic flow system, in which the fluid is moving at...
Authors
Leonard F. Konikow, Pierre D. Glynn

Export of dissolved organic carbon from the Penobscot River basin in north-central Maine Export of dissolved organic carbon from the Penobscot River basin in north-central Maine

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) flux from the Penobscot River and its major tributaries in Maine was determined using continuous discharge measurements, discrete water sampling, and the LOADEST regression software. The average daily flux during 2004–2007 was 71 kg C ha−1 yr−1 (392 Mt C d−1), an amount larger than measured in most northern temperate and boreal rivers. Distinct seasonal...
Authors
Thomas G. Huntington, George R. Aiken

Table of standard atomic weights 2013 Table of standard atomic weights 2013

IUPAC Commission on Istopic Abundances and Atomic Weights' spreadsheet of Standard Atomic Weights.
Authors
Tyler B. Coplen, Willi A. Brand, Juris Meija, Manfred Gröning, Norman E. Holden, Michael Berglund, Paul De Bievre, Robert D. Loss, Thomas Prohaska, Thomas Walczyk

234U/238U and δ87Sr in peat as tracers of paleosalinity in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta of California, USA 234U/238U and δ87Sr in peat as tracers of paleosalinity in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta of California, USA

The purpose of this study was to determine the history of paleosalinity over the past 6000+ years in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (the Delta), which is the innermost part of the San Francisco Estuary. We used a combination of Sr and U concentrations, d87Sr values, and 234U/238U activity ratios (AR) in peat as proxies for tracking paleosalinity. Peat cores were collected in marshes on...
Authors
Judith Z. Drexler, James B. Paces, Charles N. Alpers, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Leonid A. Neymark, Thomas D. Bullen, Howard E. Taylor

Descriptions and characterizations of water-level data and groundwater flow for the Brewster Boulevard and Castle Hayne Aquifer Systems and the Tarawa Terrace Aquifer Descriptions and characterizations of water-level data and groundwater flow for the Brewster Boulevard and Castle Hayne Aquifer Systems and the Tarawa Terrace Aquifer

This supplement of Chapter A (Supplement 3) summarizes results of analyses of groundwater-level data and describes corresponding elements of groundwater flow such as vertical hydraulic gradients useful for groundwater-flow model calibration. Field data as well as theoretical concepts indicate that potentiometric surfaces within the study area are shown to resemble to a large degree a...
Authors
Robert E. Faye, L. Elliott Jones, René J. Suárez-Soto

Increases in dissolved organic carbon accelerate loss of toxic Al in Adirondack lakes recovering from acidification Increases in dissolved organic carbon accelerate loss of toxic Al in Adirondack lakes recovering from acidification

Increasing pH and decreasing Al in surface waters recovering from acidification have been accompanied by increasing concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and associated organic acids that partially offset pH increases and complicate assessments of recovery from acidification. To better understand the processes of recovery, monthly chemistry from 42 lakes in the Adirondack...
Authors
Gregory B. Lawrence, James E Dukett, Nathan Houck, Phillip Snyder, Susan B. Capone

Harmonizing multiple methods for reconstructing historical potential and reference evapotranspiration Harmonizing multiple methods for reconstructing historical potential and reference evapotranspiration

Potential evapotranspiration (PET) and reference evapotranspiration (RET) data are usually critical components of hydrologic analysis. Many different equations are available to estimate PET and RET. Most of these equations, such as the Priestley-Taylor and Penman- Monteith methods, rely on detailed meteorological data collected at ground-based weather stations. Few weather stations...
Authors
Getachew Belaineh, David Sumner, Edward Carter, David Clapp

Effects of acidic deposition and soil acidification on sugar maple trees in the Adirondack Mountains, New York Effects of acidic deposition and soil acidification on sugar maple trees in the Adirondack Mountains, New York

We documented the effects of acidic atmospheric deposition and soil acidification on the canopy health, basal area increment, and regeneration of sugar maple (SM) trees across the Adirondack region of New York State, in the northeastern United States, where SM are plentiful but not well studied and where widespread depletion of soil calcium (Ca) has been documented. Sugar maple is a...
Authors
Timothy J. Sullivan, Gregory B. Lawrence, Scott W. Bailey, Todd C. McDonnell, Colin M. Beier, K.C. Weathers, G.T. McPherson, Daniel A. Bishop

Geochemical monitoring for potential environmental impacts of geologic sequestration of CO2 Geochemical monitoring for potential environmental impacts of geologic sequestration of CO2

Carbon dioxide sequestration is now considered an important component of the portfolio of options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to stabilize their atmospheric levels at values that would limit global temperature increases to the target of 2 °C by the end of the century (Pacala and Socolow 2004; IPCC 2005, 2007; Benson and Cook 2005; Benson and Cole 2008; IEA 2012; Romanak et al...
Authors
Yousif K. Kharaka, David R. Cole, James J. Thordsen, Kathleen D. Gans, Randal B. Thomas
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