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Washington's Puget Sound is a complex ecosystem directly adjacent to a robust metropolitan area that scientists from the USGS Western Fisheries Research Center study. Recent surveys have looked at juvenile surf smelt, a key link in the food web that are consumed by predators such as salmon, orca, and many marine birds.
Western Fisheries Research Center
Research at the WFRC focuses on the environmental factors responsible for the creation, maintenance, and regulation of fish populations including their interactions in aquatic communities and ecosystems.
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The Water Science Center's mission is to collect, analyze and disseminate the impartial hydrologic data and information needed to wisely manage water resources for the people of the United States and the State of Washington.
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Morphology and hydrology of a glacial stream -- White River, Mount Rainier, Washington
Fahnestock, Robert K.
Geology and ground-water resources of the Ahtanum Valley, Yakima County, Washington
The Ahtanum Valley covers an area of about 100 square miles in an important agricultural district in central Yakima County, Wash. Because the area is semiarid, virtually all crops require irrigation. Surface-water supplies are inadequate in most of the area, and ground water is being used increasingly for irrigation. The purpose of this...
Foxworthy, B.L.
Water resources of the Tacoma area, Washington
Griffin, William Colvin; Sceva, J.E.; Swenson, H.A.; Mundorff, M.J.
Artificial recharge through a well tapping basalt aquifers Walla Walla area, Washington
Price, Charles E.; Hubbell, D.W.
Floods in the Skagit River basin, Washington
According to Indian tradition, floods of unusually great magnitude harassed the Skagit River basin about 1815 and 1856. The heights of these floods were not recorded at the time; so they are called historical floods. Since the arrival of white men about 1863, a number of large and damaging floods have been witnessed and recorded. Data...
Stewart, James E.; Bodhaine, George Lawrence
Storage of ground water behind subsurface dams in the Columbia River basalt, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho
Newcomb, R.C.
Availability of ground water at the border stations at Laurier and Ferry, Washington
In the Laurier area, Washington, the Kettle River has cut into crystalline rocks in the deepest part of the valley. Sand and gravel fill were deposited in the valley during Pleistocene time by melt water from glaciers, and subsequent erosion and alluviation formed three terrace levels. The highest level, on which Laurier Border Station is situated...
Walters, Kenneth Lyle
Floods in Washington, magnitude and frequency
Bodhaine, G.L.; Thomas, D.M.
Tests of artesian wells in the Cold Creek area, Washington
Hart, D.H. Correlative estimates of discharge for three sites in the upper Lewis River Basin, Washington
In response to increased interest in the power possibilities of tributary streams in the headwater of Lewis River stream-gaging stations were reestablished in 1955 at three sites in the upper Lewis River basin, Washington. The one year of recent record now available and the four years of record obtained during water years 1928-31 provide a...
Bodhaine, G.L.
Floods in 1956 in the Esquatzel Coulee area in Washington
Anderson, D.G.; Bodhaine, G.L.
Geology and ground-water resources of Kitsap County, Washington
Sceva, Jack Edward
Mount St. Helens soon after the May 18, 1980 eruption
Mount St. Helens soon after the May 18, 1980 eruption, as viewed from Johnston's Ridge.
Mount St. Helens soon after May 18, 1980 eruption
Mount St. Helens soon after the May 18, 1980 eruption, as viewed from Johnston's Ridge.
Pyroclastic flow during Aug. 7, 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. The...
Pyroclastic flow during August 7, 1980, Mount St. Helens eruption. The view is from Johnston Ridge, located 8 km (5 mi) north of Mount St. Helens.
Pyroclastic flow from the Aug. 7, 1980 eruption stretches from Moun...
During the May 18, 1980 eruption, at least 17 separate pyroclastic flows descended the flanks of Mount St. Helens. Pyroclastic flows typically move at speeds of over 60 miles per hour (100 kilometers/hour) and reach temperatures of over 800 Degrees Fahrenheit (400 degrees Celsius).
July 22, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens sent pumice and ash 6 to...
July 22, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens sent pumice and ash 6 to 11 mi (10-18 km) into the air, and was visible in Seattle, Washington (100 mi/160 km north).
Mudline left on tree by May 18, 1980 lahars from Mount St. Helens
Mudline left on tree by May 18, 1980 lahars from Mount St. Helens near the Old Highway 99 bridge across Toutle River, geologist 6 ft tall.
Ash from the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens covering the...
Ash from the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens covering the ground and road at a farm in Connell, Washington, approximately 300 km (180 mi) from the volcano.
Plinian column from May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Aeri...
Plinian column from May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Aerial view from southwest. Mount Adams is in the background (right).
The St. Helens bridge on Highway 504 was carried over a quarter-mile
The May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, generated lahars that swept down river valleys. The St. Helens bridge on Highway 504 was carried over a quarter-mile (a half-kilometer) downstream and partially buried. The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory continues to monitor Mount St. Helens and other very high threat volcanoes. Photo by R.L. Schuster from USGS
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Ash plume (close up) from May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens. Plume move...
For more than nine hours a vigorous plume of ash erupted, eventually reaching 20-25 km (12-15 mi) above sea level. By early May 19, the devastating eruption was over.
Eruption column from May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption
On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook Mount St. Helens. The bulge and surrounding area slid away in a gigantic rockslide and debris avalanche, releasing pressure, and triggering a major pumice and ash eruption of the volcano. Thirteen-hundred feet (400 meters) of the peak collapsed or blew outwards. As a result, 24 square
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May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens.
May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens from southwest. Note the pyroclastic density currents spilling over the crater rim.
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Washington Water Science Center
Phone: (253) 552-1600
Fax: (253) 552-1581
Western Fisheries Research Center (WFRC)
Phone: (206) 526-6282
Fax: (206) 526-6654
USGS Volcano Science Center
Phone: 360-993-8900
Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO)
vhpweb@usgs.gov
Phone: 360-993-8900
Fax: 360-993-8980
Columbia River Research Laboratory
Phone: (509) 538-2299
Fax: (509) 538-2843
WFRC - Fish Health Program
Phone: 206-526-6282
Fax: 206-526-6654
Marrowstone Marine Field Station
Phone: (360) 385-1007
Fax: (360) 385-7207
Northwest Washington Field Office
Phone: (360) 312-8155 x2001
Fax: (360) 312-8565
Mid-Columbia Field Office
Phone: (509) 735-3739
Fax: (509) 735-3723
Upper Columbia Field Office
Phone: (509) 353-2649
Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC) Olympic Field Station
fresc_outreach@usgs.gov
Phone: 360-565-3041
Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC) Cascadia Field Station
fresc_outreach@usgs.gov
Phone: 206-616-1874
Fax: 206-685-0790
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Western Fisheries Research Center
Research at the WFRC focuses on the environmental factors responsible for the creation, maintenance, and regulation of fish populations including their interactions in aquatic communities and ecosystems.
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The Water Science Center's mission is to collect, analyze and disseminate the impartial hydrologic data and information needed to wisely manage water resources for the people of the United States and the State of Washington.
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