The ten USGS Science Centers in the Southwest Region produce hundreds of USGS-series publications, journal papers, and books each year that are subject to rigorous peer review. The publications listed below, from Southwest Center staff members, are compiled from the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Soil surface treatments and precipitation timing determine seedling development across southwestern US restoration sites
Addressing stakeholder science needs for integrated drought science in the Colorado River Basin
Approaches for assessing long-term annual yields of highway and urban runoff in selected areas of California with the Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model (SELDM)
USGS National Water Quality Monitoring Network
Evaluation and application of the Purge Analyzer Tool (PAT) to determine in-well flow and purge criteria for sampling monitoring wells at the Stringfellow Superfund site in Jurupa Valley, California, in 2017
Multi-region assessment of chemical mixture exposures and predicted cumulative effects in USA wadeable urban/agriculture-gradient streams
Chemical-contaminant mixtures are widely reported in large stream reaches in urban/agriculture-developed watersheds, but mixture compositions and aggregate biological effects are less well understood in corresponding smaller headwaters, which comprise most of stream length, riparian connectivity, and spatial biodiversity. During 2014–2017, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) measured 389 unique orga
Assessing the impact of drought on arsenic exposure from private domestic wells in the conterminous United States
Mapping metabolic activity at single cell resolution in intact volcanic fumarole soil
A new technique to calculate earthquake stress transfer and to forecast aftershocks
Blind testing of shoreline evolution models
Geographic and oceanographic influences on ferromanganese crust composition along a Pacific Ocean meridional transect, 14N to 14S
National assessment of shoreline change — Historical shoreline change along the north coast of Alaska, Icy Cape to Cape Prince of Wales
Beach erosion is a persistent problem along most open-ocean shores of the United States. Along the Arctic coast of Alaska, coastal erosion is widespread and threatens communities, defense and energy-related infrastructure, and coastal habitat. As coastal populations continue to expand and infrastructure and habitat are increasingly threatened by erosion, there is increased demand for accurate info