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Estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods for urban and small, rural streams in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina
Reliable estimates of the magnitude and frequency of floods are essential for such things as the design of transportation and water-conveyance structures, Flood Insurance Studies, and flood-plain management. The flood-frequency estimates are particularly important in densely populated urban areas. A multistate approach was used to update methods for determining the magnitude and frequency of flood
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Toby D. Feaster, Anthony J. Gotvald, J. Curtis Weaver
Forecasting distribution of numbers of large fires
Systems to estimate forest fire potential commonly utilize one or more indexes that relate to expected fire behavior; however they indicate neither the chance that a large fire will occur, nor the expected number of large fires. That is, they do not quantify the probabilistic nature of fire danger. In this work we use large fire occurrence information from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity pr
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Jeffery C. Eidenshink, Haiganoush K. Preisler, Stephen Howard, Robert E. Burgan
Quagga and zebra mussels: biology, impacts, and control
Quagga and Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control, Second Edition provides a broad view of the zebra/quagga mussel issue, offering a historic perspective and up-to-date information on mussel research. Comprising 48 chapters, this second edition includes reviews of mussel morphology, physiology, and behavior. It details mussel distribution and spread in Europe and across North America, and ex
Field guide to the geology of the Denali National Park Road and the Parks Highway from Cantwell to Healy
The Denali National Park & Preserve area provides one of the few opportunities in Alaska for road-side access to good rock outcrops. The rocks and surficial deposits exposed in the Denali area span from the Paleozoic to the Quaternary. It is a structurally complex area that contains a history of rifting, accretion, and orogeny. There is evidence of multiple metamorphic events in the Mesozoic, moun
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Chad P. Hults, Danny L. Capps, Phil F. Brease
Urban runoff (URO) process for MODFLOW 2005: simulation of sub-grid scale urban hydrologic processes in Broward County, FL
Climate change and sea-level rise could cause substantial changes in urban runoff and flooding in low-lying coast landscapes. A major challenge for local government officials and decision makers is to translate the potential global effects of climate change into actionable and cost-effective adaptation and mitigation strategies at county and municipal scales. A MODFLOW process is used to represent
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Jeremy D. Decker, J.D. Hughes
Constructing a reference tephrochronology for Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Augustine Volcano is the most historically active volcano in Alaska's populous Cook Inlet region. Past on-island work on pre-historic tephra deposits mainly focused on using tephra layers as markers to help distinguish among prevalent debris-avalanche deposits on the island (Waitt and Beget, 2009, USGS Prof Paper 1762), or as source material for petrogenetic studies. No comprehensive reference stu
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Kristi L. Wallace, Michelle L. Coombs
Microbial source tracking as a tool for TMDL development, Little Blue River in Independence, Missouri
The Little Blue River in Jackson County, Missouri has been listed by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as impaired by bacteria for the protection of aquatic life and contact recreation from urban point and nonpoint sources. The Clean Water Act requires that a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for Escherichia coli (E. coli) be developed. Over a 5-year period, 108 base-flow, 87 stormflow, 4
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Eric D. Christensen, Rebecca N. Bushon, Amie M. G. Brady
Creating potentiometric surfaces from combined water well and oil well data in the midcontinent of the United States
For years, hydrologists have defined potentiometric surfaces using measured hydraulic-head values in water wells from aquifers. Down-dip, the oil and gas industry is also interested in the formation pressures of many of the same geologic formations for the purpose of hydrocarbon recovery. In oil and gas exploration, drillstem tests (DSTs) provide the formation pressure for a given depth interval i
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Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, Philip H. Nelson
Integrating complexity into data-driven multi-hazard supply chain network strategies
Major strategies in the wake of a large-scale disaster have focused on short-term emergency response solutions. Few consider medium-to-long-term restoration strategies that reconnect urban areas to the national supply chain networks (SCN) and their supporting infrastructure. To re-establish this connectivity, the relationships within the SCN must be defined and formulated as a model of a complex a
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Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg, Varun Ramachandran, Steven M. Corns, Hector J. Carlo
Spatial capture-recapture
Spatial Capture-Recapture provides a revolutionary extension of traditional capture-recapture methods for studying animal populations using data from live trapping, camera trapping, DNA sampling, acoustic sampling, and related field methods. This book is a conceptual and methodological synthesis of spatial capture-recapture modeling. As a comprehensive how-to manual, this reference contains detai
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J. Andrew Royle, Richard B. Chandler, Rahel Sollmann, Beth Gardner
Seismic hazard analysis using simulated ground motions
No abstract available.
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M. Dabaghi, A. Der Kiureghian, S. Rezaeian, N. Luco
Alaska national hydrography dataset positional accuracy assessment study
Initial visual assessments
Wide range in the quality of fit between features in NHD and these new image sources.
No statistical analysis has been performed to actually quantify accuracy
Determining absolute accuracy is cost prohibitive (must collect independent, well defined test points)
Quantitative analysis of relative positional error is feasible.
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Samantha Arundel, Kristina H. Yamamoto, Eric Constance, Kim Mantey, Jeremy Vinyard-Houx