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Danial Polette

Danial Polette is a hydrologic technician at the USGS Oregon Water Science Center.

A fourth generation resident of Oregon, Dan Polette has been a hydrologic technician with the Oregon Water Science Center since 1992.  He is project chief on a couple of ground-water monitoring programs and has been lead technician on others. Results of this work are featured in several publications and websites. He is a past co-chair of the Western Region Technician's Advisory Committee (2004 - 2007) and has participated in several GW/QW reviews both as a reviewer and reviewee. He operates and maintains telemetered continuous digital monitoring sites for both groundwater levels and evapo-transpiration and has recently been working with the Office of Groundwater on developing guidelines and standard procedures for continuous ground-water data collection.

Education and Certifications

  • B.S. in geography and fine art, Portland State University

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Ground water redox zonation near La Pine, Oregon: Relation to river position within the aquifer–riparian zone continuum

Increasing residential development since in the 1960s has lead to increases in nitrate concentrations in shallow ground water in parts of the 247 square mile study area near La Pine, Oregon. Denitrification is the dominant nitrate-removal process that occurs in suboxic ground water, and suboxic ground water serves as a barrier to transport of most nitrate in the aquifer. Oxic ground water, on the
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Stephen R. Hinkle, David S. Morgan, Leonard L. Orzol, Danial J. Polette
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Water Resources Mission Area, Oregon Water Science Center

Ground-Water Hydrology of the Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon and California

The upper Klamath Basin spans the California-Oregon border from the flank of the Cascade Range eastward to the Basin and Range Province, and encompasses the Klamath River drainage basin above Iron Gate Dam. Most of the basin is semiarid, but the Cascade Range and uplands in the interior and eastern parts of the basin receive on average more than 30 inches of precipitation per year. The basin has s
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Marshall W. Gannett, Kenneth E. Lite, Jonathan L. La Marche, Bruce J. Fisher, Danial J. Polette
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Water Resources Mission Area, Oregon Water Science Center

Origin, extent, and thickness of quaternary geologic units in the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Stratigraphic and chronologic information collected for Quaternary deposits in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, provides a revised stratigraphic framework that serves as a basis for a 1:250,000-scale map, as well as for thickness estimates of widespread Quaternary geologic units. We have mapped 11 separate Quaternary units that are differentiated on the basis of stratigraphic, topographic, pedogenic
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Jim E. O'Connor, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, Karl C. Wozniak, Danial J. Polette, Robert J. Fleck
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Water Resources Mission Area, Natural Hazards Mission Area, Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center, Oregon Water Science Center

Arsenic in ground water of the Willamette Basin, Oregon

In response to increasing demands on ground-water resources in the Willamette Basin, Oregon (fig. 1), the Oregon Water Resources Department (OWRD) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a cooperative study of the basin’s ground-water resources in 1996. This study was designed to increase the current understanding of the ground-water resource, and to better characterize the distribution of nat
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Stephen R. Hinkle, Danial J. Polette
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Water Resources Mission Area, Oregon Water Science Center
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Hydrologist measuring groundwater level

Upper Klamath Basin Groundwater Studies

Since the late 1990s, USGS has worked to characterize the regional groundwater hydrology of the upper Klamath Basin. Research focuses on collecting data to evaluate the groundwater system and its response to external stresses, and to develop computer models that provide insights for water management. These efforts build on earlier USGS studies going back to the 1950s.
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Oregon Water Science Center
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Upper Klamath Basin Groundwater Studies

Since the late 1990s, USGS has worked to characterize the regional groundwater hydrology of the upper Klamath Basin. Research focuses on collecting data to evaluate the groundwater system and its response to external stresses, and to develop computer models that provide insights for water management. These efforts build on earlier USGS studies going back to the 1950s.
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USGS Upper Klamath Basin Well Mapper

This mapper identifies wells that are monitored in the Upper Klamath Basin Oregon and California by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Oregon Water Resources Department (OWRD), and California Department of Water Resources (CDWR). This web page provides access to current and historic groundwater-level data collected by those agencies, as well as water-level graphs and maps.

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Oregon Water Science Center

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