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Chemistry of water collected from an unventilated drift, Yucca Mountain, Nevada Chemistry of water collected from an unventilated drift, Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Water samples (referred to as puddle water samples) were collected from the surfaces of a conveyor belt and plastic sheeting in the unventilated portion of the Enhanced Characterization of the Repository Block (ECRB) Cross Drift in 2003 and 2005 at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The chemistry of these puddle water samples is very different than that of pore water samples from borehole cores in...
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B.D. Marshall, T.A. Oliver, Z. E. Peterman

Chesapeake Inundation Prediction System (CIPS): A regional prototype for a national problem Chesapeake Inundation Prediction System (CIPS): A regional prototype for a national problem

Recent Hurricanes Katrina and Isabel, among others, not only demonstrated their immense destructive power, but also revealed the obvious, crucial need for improved storm surge forecasting and information delivery to save lives and property in future storms. Current operational methods and the storm surge and inundation products do not adequately meet requirements needed by Emergency...
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B. Stamey, W. Smith, K. Carey, D. Garbin, F. Klein, Hongfang Wang, J. Shen, W. Gong, J. Cho, D. Forrest, C. Friedrichs, W. Boicourt, M. Li, M. Koterba, D. King, J. Titlow, E. Smith, A. Siebers, J. Billet, J. Lee, Douglas R. Manning, G. Szatkowski, D. Wilson, P. Ahnert, J. Ostrowski

Chronology of the last glacial maximum in the upper Bear River Basin, Utah Chronology of the last glacial maximum in the upper Bear River Basin, Utah

The headwaters of the Bear River drainage were occupied during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) by outlet glaciers of the Western Uinta Ice Field, an extensive ice mass (???685 km2) that covered the western slope of the Uinta Mountains. A well-preserved sequence of latero-frontal moraines in the drainage indicates that outlet glaciers advanced beyond the mountain front and coalesced on the...
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B.J.C. Laabs, Jeffrey S. Munroe, J. G. Rosenbaum, K.A. Refsnider, D.M. Mickelson, B. S. Singer, M.W. Caffee
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Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Circum-arctic map compilation Circum-arctic map compilation

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Authors
R. W. Saltus, C. Gaina

Climate matching as a tool for predicting potential North American spread of Brown Treesnakes Climate matching as a tool for predicting potential North American spread of Brown Treesnakes

Climate matching identifies extralimital destinations that could be colonized by a potential invasive species on the basis of similarity to climates found in the species’ native range. Climate is a proxy for the factors that determine whether a population will reproduce enough to offset mortality. Previous climate matching models (e.g., Genetic Algorithm for Rule-set Prediction [GARP])...
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Gordon H. Rodda, Robert N. Reed, Catherine S. Jarnevich
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Coastal-change impacts during hurricane katrina: an overview Coastal-change impacts during hurricane katrina: an overview

As part of an ongoing cooperative effort between USGS, NASA and USACE, the barrier islands within the right-front quadrant of Hurricane Katrina were surveyed with airborne lidar both before and after landfall. Dauphin Island, AL was located the farthest from landfall and wave runup intermittently overtopped its central and western sections. The Gulf-side of the island experienced severe...
Authors
Asbury Sallenger, C. Wayne Wright, Jeff Lillycrop
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program
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