Reports
Science Quality and Integrity
The USGS provides unbiased, objective, and impartial scientific information upon which our audiences, including resource managers, planners, and other entities, rely.
The USGS provides unbiased, objective, and impartial scientific information upon which our audiences, including resource managers, planners, and other entities, rely.
Browse more than 82,000 reports authored by our scientists over the past 100+ year history of the USGS and refine search by topic, location, year, and advanced search.
Filter Total Items: 84803
Status of groundwater quality in the San Fernando--San Gabriel study unit, 2005--California GAMA Priority Basin Project Status of groundwater quality in the San Fernando--San Gabriel study unit, 2005--California GAMA Priority Basin Project
Groundwater quality in the approximately 460-square-mile San Fernando--San Gabriel (FG) study unit was investigated as part of the Priority Basin Project of the Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program. The study area is in Los Angeles County and includes Tertiary-Quaternary sedimentary basins situated within the Transverse Ranges of southern California. The GAMA...
Authors
Michael Land, Justin T. Kulongoski, Kenneth Belitz
The Cottonwood Lake study area, a long-term wetland ecosystem monitoring site The Cottonwood Lake study area, a long-term wetland ecosystem monitoring site
The Cottonwood Lake study area is one of only three long-term wetland ecosystem monitoring sites in the prairie pothole region of North America; the other two are Orchid Meadows in South Dakota and St. Denis in Saskatchewan. Of the three, Cottonwood Lake has, by far, the longest continuous data-collection record. Research was initiated at the study area in 1966, and intensive...
Authors
David M. Mushet, Ned H. Euliss
Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge: Lake Lowell water based recreation data summary Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge: Lake Lowell water based recreation data summary
Introduction: Established in 1909, Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge is one of the oldest refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Refuge has two units, Lake Lowell and the Snake River Islands. The Lake Lowell Unit is 10,636 acres and includes the almost 9,000-acre Lake Lowell and surrounding lands. The Refuge offers the six priority wildlife-dependent activities (fishing...
Authors
Rudy M. Schuster
Data collection and compilation for a geodatabase of groundwater, surface-water, water-quality, geophysical, and geologic data, Pecos County Region, Texas, 1930-2011 Data collection and compilation for a geodatabase of groundwater, surface-water, water-quality, geophysical, and geologic data, Pecos County Region, Texas, 1930-2011
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District, Pecos County, City of Fort Stockton, Brewster County, and Pecos County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1, compiled groundwater, surface-water, water-quality, geophysical, and geologic data for site locations in the Pecos County region, Texas, and developed a geodatabase to...
Authors
Daniel K. Pearson, Johnathan R. Bumgarner, Natalie A. Houston, Gregory P. Stanton, Andrew Teeple, Jonathan V. Thomas
Database for volcanic processes and geology of Augustine Volcano, Alaska Database for volcanic processes and geology of Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Augustine Island (volcano) in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska, has erupted repeatedly in late-Holocene and historical times. Eruptions typically beget high-energy volcanic processes. Most notable are bouldery debris avalanches containing immense angular clasts shed from summit domes. Coarse deposits of these avalanches form much of Augustine's lower flanks. This geologic map at 1:25,000 scale...
Authors
Jacqueline McIntire, David W. Ramsey, Evan Thoms, Richard B. Waitt, James E. Beget
Algal community characteristics and response to nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in streams in the Ozark Plateaus, Southern Missouri, 1993-95 and 2006-07 Algal community characteristics and response to nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in streams in the Ozark Plateaus, Southern Missouri, 1993-95 and 2006-07
Nutrient and algae data were collected in the 1990s and 2000s by the U.S. Geological Survey for the National Water- Quality Assessment program in the Ozark Highlands, southern Missouri. These data were collected at sites of differing drainage area, land use, nutrient concentrations, and physiography. All samples were collected at sites with a riffle/pool structure and cobble/gravel bed...
Authors
Suzanne R. Femmer
An online database for IHN virus in Pacific Salmonid fish: MEAP-IHNV An online database for IHN virus in Pacific Salmonid fish: MEAP-IHNV
The MEAP-IHNV database provides access to detailed data for anyone interested in IHNV molecular epidemiology, such as fish health professionals, fish culture facility managers, and academic researchers. The flexible search capabilities enable the user to generate various output formats, including tables and maps, which should assist users in developing and testing hypotheses about how...
Authors
Gael Kurath
EAARL coastal topography--Central Wetlands, Louisiana, 2010 EAARL coastal topography--Central Wetlands, Louisiana, 2010
This DVD contains lidar-derived coastal topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Central Wetlands, Louisiana. These datasets were acquired on March 4 and 5, 2010.
Authors
Amar Nayegandhi, Xan Fredericks, J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, C. W. Wright, J. C. Brock, D.B. Nagle, Saisudha Vivekanandan, J.A. Barras
EAARL coastal topography--North Shore, Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, 2010 EAARL coastal topography--North Shore, Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, 2010
This DVD contains lidar-derived coastal topography GIS datasets of a portion of the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. These datasets were acquired on February 28, March 1, and March 5, 2010.
Authors
J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, Amar Nayegandhi, Xan Fredericks, C. W. Wright, J. C. Brock, D.B. Nagle, Saisudha Vivekanandan, J.A. Barras
Surface Mass Balance of the Columbia Glacier, Alaska, 1978 and 2010 Balance Years Surface Mass Balance of the Columbia Glacier, Alaska, 1978 and 2010 Balance Years
Although Columbia Glacier is one of the largest sources of glacier mass loss in Alaska, surface mass balance measurements are sparse, with only a single data set available from 1978. The dearth of surface mass-balance data prohibits partitioning of the total mass losses between dynamics and surface forcing; however, the accurate inclusion of calving glaciers into predictive models...
Authors
Shad O’Neel
Watershed scale response to climate change--Black Earth Creek Basin, Wisconsin Watershed scale response to climate change--Black Earth Creek Basin, Wisconsin
General Circulation Model simulations of future climate through 2099 project a wide range of possible scenarios. To determine the sensitivity and potential effect of long-term climate change on the freshwater resources of the United States, the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change study, "An integrated watershed scale response to global change in selected basins across the United States"...
Authors
Randall J. Hunt, John F. Walker, Steven M. Westenbroek, Lauren E. Hay, Steven L. Markstrom
Watershed scale response to climate change--Cathance Stream Basin, Maine Watershed scale response to climate change--Cathance Stream Basin, Maine
General Circulation Model simulations of future climate through 2099 project a wide range of possible scenarios. To determine the sensitivity and potential effect of long-term climate change on the freshwater resources of the United States, the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change study, "An integrated watershed scale response to global change in selected basins across the United States"...
Authors
Robert W. Dudley, Lauren E. Hay, Steven L. Markstrom, Glenn A. Hodgkins