USGS Publications Warehouse (2024)

James L. Bodkin, Heather A. Coletti, Brenda E. Ballachey, Daniel Monson, Daniel Esler, Thomas A. Dean

2017, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography (147) 87-97

Mussels are conspicuous and ecologically important components of nearshore marine communities around the globe. Pacific blue mussels (Mytilus trossulus) are common residents of intertidal habitats in protected waters of the North Pacific, serving as a conduit of primary production to a wide range of nearshore consumers including predatory invertebrates, sea...

Brenda E. Ballachey, James L. Bodkin, Kimberly A. Kloecker, Tom Dean, Heather A Colletti

2015, Report

In 2012, we completed three consecutive years of full field sampling in WPWS for EVOS Restoration Project 10100750. Nearshore monitoring was conducted in collaboration with the NPS SWAN I&M program and, beginning in 2012, as part of the EVOSTC GWA program.Data collection was done in accordance with standard operating procedures...

Brenda E. Ballachey, Daniel H. Monson, George G. Esslinger, Kimberly A. Kloecker, James L. Bodkin, Lizabeth Bowen, A. Keith Miles

2014, Open-File Report 2014-1030

On March 24, 1989, the tanker vessel Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling an estimated 42 million liters of Prudhoe Bay crude oil. Oil spread in a southwesterly direction and was deposited on shores and waters in western Prince William Sound (WPWS). The sea otter (Enhydra...

Andrew H. Manning, Philip L. Verplanck, Jonathan S. Caine, Andrew S. Todd

2013, Applied Geochemistry (37) 64-78

Recent studies suggest that climate change is causing rising solute concentrations in mountain lakes and streams. These changes may be more pronounced in mineralized watersheds due to the sensitivity of sulfide weathering to changes in subsurface oxygen transport. Specific causal mechanisms linking climate change and accelerated weathering rates have been...

M. Feng, S. Liu, N.H. Euliss, Caitlin Young, D.M. Mushet

2011, Environmental Modelling and Software (26) 458-468

Great interest currently exists for developing ecosystem models to forecast how ecosystem services may change under alternative land use and climate futures. Ecosystem services are diverse and include supporting services or functions (e.g., primary production, nutrient cycling), provisioning services (e.g., wildlife, groundwater), regulating services (e.g., water purification, floodwater retention), and...

Jane M. Hammarstrom, Charles A. Cravotta III, Daniel G. Galeone, John C. Jackson, Frank T. Dulong

Roger J. Hornberger, Keith B.C. Brady, editor(s)

2009, Report, Development and interpretation of the ADTI-WP2 Leaching Column Method (kinetic test procedure for the prediction of coal mine drainage quality). EPA Method 1627

Rocks associated with coal beds typically include shale, sandstone, and (or) limestone. In addition to common rock-forming minerals, all of these rock types may contain sulfide and sulfate minerals, various carbonate minerals, and organic material. These different minerals have inherently different solubility characteristics, as well as different acid-generating or acid-neutralizing...

C. D. Taylor, W. R. Premo, A. L. Meier, J.E. Taggart Jr.

2008, Conference Paper, Economic Geology

A belt of unusual volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) occurrences is located along the eastern margin of the Alexander terrane throughout southeastern Alaska and northwestern British Columbia and exhibits a range of characteristics consistent with a variety of syngenetic to epigenetic deposit types. Deposits within this belt include Greens Creek and...

Phillip R. Moyle, David Z. Piper

2004, Handbook of Exploration and Environmental Geochemistry (8) 575-598

The Western Phosphate Field (WPF), composed of Permian marine sedimentary strata that cover over 300,000 km2in the middle Rocky Mountains of Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming in the United States, contains vast resources of phosphate mined for fertilizer and a range of other industrial applications. The richest deposits of...

Jeffrey R. Barbaro

2002, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4150

Water-quality, aquifer-sediment, and hydro-logic data were used to assess the effectiveness of natural attenuation of ground-water contamination at Fire Training Area Three, the Rubble Area Landfill, the Liquid Waste Disposal Landfill, and the Receiver Station Landfill in the East Management Unit of Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. These sites, which...

Ronald E. Reynolds, Terry L. Shaffer, Randy W. Renner, Wesley E. Newton, Bruce D.J. Batt

2001, Journal of Wildlife Management (65) 765-780

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) resulted in the conversion of about 1.9 million ha of cropland to perennial grass cover in the Prairie Pothole Region of North Dakota, South Dakota, and northeastern Montana by 1992. Many wildlife managers believed this cover would provide benefits to...

R. E. Reynolds, T.L. Shaffer, J.R. Sauer, B.G. Peterjohn

1994, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (59) 328-336

During the past few decades numbers of some species of upland-nesting birds in North America have declined. Duck species such as mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), northern pintail (A. acuta) and blue-winged teal (A. discors) have declined since the early 1970s and have remained low since 1985 (Caithamer et al. 1993). Some...