Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Publications

Browse more than 160,000 publications authored by our scientists over the past 100+ year history of the USGS.  Publications available are: USGS-authored journal articles, series reports, book chapters, other government publications, and more.

Pubs Warehouse

Science Quality and Integrity

Collage of scientists doing work in field with example budget tables and charts over as graphic elements.

The USGS provides unbiased, objective, and impartial scientific information upon which our audiences, including resource managers, planners, and other entities, rely.

Fundamental Science Practices

Mission Area Publications

We are focused on some of the most significant issues society faces, and our science is making a substantial contribution to the well-being of the Nation and the world. Learn more about the major topics our research covers and the programs focused on those topics.

Explore Mission Areas
Filter Total Items: 74209

The 1970 annual meeting of IBBA

No abstract available.
Authors
L. L. Hood
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

The airborne infrared scanner as a geophysical research tool

The infrared scanner is proving to be an effective anomaly-mapping tool, albeit one which depicts surface emission directly and heat mass transfer from depths only indirectly and at a threshold level 50 to 100 times the normal conductive heat flow of the earth. Moreover, successive terrain observations are affected by time-dependent variables such as the diurnal and seasonal warming and cooling cy
Authors
Jules D. Friedman
By
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

The demography of the lizard, Uta stansburiana Baird and Girard, in southern Nevada

No abstract available.
Authors
F.B. Turner, G.A. Hoddenbach, P.A. Medica, J.R. Lannom
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)

The determination of low levels of cobalt-60 in environmental waters by liquid scintillation counting

A method for determination of cobalt-60 in waters at levels greater than 0.5 pCi per sample is presented. A modification of the method may be used to analyze fluvial sediments and soils. After the cobalt has been separated, first as the hydroxide and then as the thiocyanate complex in methyl isobutyl ketone, it is counted in a liquid scintillation system at 80% efficiency. Separation factors achie
Authors
H. C. Claassen

The diffusion of ions in unconsolidated sediments

Diffusion in unconsolidated sediments generally proceeds at rates ranging from half to one twentieth of those applying to diffusion of ions and molecules in free solution. Diffusion rates are predictable with respect to porosity and path tortuosity in host sediments, and can be conveniently measured by determinations of electrical resistivity on bulk sediment samples. Net ion flux is further influ
Authors
F. T. Manheim

The Dismal Swamp - its flora and fauna

No abstract available.
Authors
B. Meanley
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

The effect of anesthetization and urinary bladder catheterization on renal function of rainbow trout

1. Rainbow trout were anesthetized with MS-222 (Sandoz) or methylpentynol and catheterized. Urine was collected at selected intervals up to 48 hr. 2. Effects of MS-222 anesthesia on urine flow and composition were isolated from the stress of catheterization by re-anesthetizing the fish 18 to 20 hr post catheterization. 3. Urine output patterns were similar following MS-222 or methylpentynol anest
Authors
J. B. Hunn, W. A. Willford
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

The effect of putrefaction of eggs upon residue analysis of DDT and metabolites

No abstract available.
Authors
B. M. Mulhern, W. L. Reichel
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

The effect of temperature on the rate of development and survival of alewife eggs and larvae

Eggs from Lake Michigan alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) were incubated at 79 different temperatures from 42.1 to 87.0 F. Hatching occurred at 44.4-84.9 F and was optimum (38% hatched) at about 64 F. Incubation time varied from 15 days at 45 F to 3.7 days at 70 F and 2.1 days at 84 F. Time from start to finish of hatching ranged from 13 days at about 46 F to 2-3 days at 68-70 F and 1-2 days at 80-8
Authors
Thomas A. Edsall
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

The environmental crisis--a call to action

Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
G.A. Sherwood
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

The floor of central San Francisco Bay

No abstract available.
Authors
P. R. Carlson, T. R. Alpha, D. S. McCulloch

The fox sparrow on the west slope of the Oregon Cascades

No abstract available.
Authors
R.C. Banks
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center