2005 | Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Fort Collins Science Center (FORT, Ft. Collins) | Format: URL
www.fort.usgs.gov — Historically, the Colorado River was one of the most formidable rivers in the world. Each spring, melting snow from the mountains scoured the desert landscape moving millions of tons of sediment to the sea. The Grand Canyon lays testament to its erosive nature. Summer heat would bring seasonal droughts, reducing the river to a trickle impacting More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC, Columbia) | Format: URL
www.cerc.usgs.gov — This research project focuses on the endemic nature of the Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) and shovelnose sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) and their reproductive status. Its objectives are to develop methods to use endoscopy and ultrasonic imagery to visually observe the gonads of adult and immature shovelnose and pallid sturgeon, as More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Leetown Science Center (LSC, Kearneysville) | Format: URL
www.lsc.usgs.gov — This is a research project whose primary objective is to assess the health of selected fish species (brown bullhead and largemouth bass) and compare these findings with historic information on fish health in the individual rivers and with concurrent samples collected at reference sites. A secondary objective is to compare and correlate the fish More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Florida Integrated Science Center (FISC, Gainesville) | Format: URL
fl.biology.usgs.gov — Web page for the Sirenia Project, a USGS Florida Integrated Science Center project that conducts studies on the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus). Includes links to manatee research in the news, international research, publications and presentations, and project staff contact information.
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC, Laurel) | Format: URL
www.pwrc.usgs.gov — The NAAMP is a collaborative effort among regional partners, such as state natural resource agencies and nonprofit organizations, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to monitor populations of vocal amphibians. The USGS provides central coordination and database management. The regional partners recruit and train volunteer observers to collect More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Fort Collins Science Center (FORT, Ft. Collins) | Format: URL
www.fort.usgs.gov — This publication is intended to provide a summary of long-range surveillance radar technology and applications of these data to questions about movement patterns of birds and other flying wildlife based on publications that provide more detailed information (Buurma, 1995; Gauthreaux and Belser, 2003a, b; Gauthreaux and others, 2003; Diehl and More...
June 25 2009 | Publisher: USGS | Format: AUDIO
gallery.usgs.gov — This sound recording is an interview with USGS scientist Sam Droege about the tremendous importance of native bees and pollinators in general. The interview was held during the 2009 Pollinator Week.
September 2008 | Publisher: USGS | Format: URL
pubs.usgs.gov — Water is among Florida's most valued resources. The State has more than 1,700 streams and rivers, 7,800 freshwater lakes, 700 springs, 11 million acres of wetlands, and underlying aquifers yielding quantities of freshwater necessary for both human and environmental needs (Fernald and Purdum, 1998). Although renewable, these water resources are More...
2008 | Publisher: USGS | Format: URL
soundwaves.usgs.gov — U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)'s Western Region held an internal USGS workshop on Sea-Level-Rise Impacts on November 6-7, 2007, in Menlo Park, California. The meeting was attended by 30 scientists from four USGS disciplines (geology, geography, biology, and water) and 13 different science centers in the Western Region. In part a follow-up to the More...
2008 | Publisher: Other (RSC Publishing, Journal of Environmental Monitoring) | Format: URL
www.rsc.org — Environmental contaminant and biomarker monitoring data from major U.S. river basins were summarized for black bass (Micropterus spp.) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) sampled over a nine year period. Cumulative frequency distributions revealed taxon differences for many organochlorine residue concentrations, elemental contaminant concentrations, More...
2008 | Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Fort Collins Science Center (FORT, Ft. Collins) | Format: URL
www.fort.usgs.gov — San Acacia Dam is located in a reach of the Rio Grande that has been designated as critical habitat for two endangered species, the Rio Grande silvery minnow (Hybognathus amarus) and the southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus). Presently, Rio Grande upstream from the dam is used to convey irrigation water to the Socorro main More...
May 4 2007 | Publisher: Other (Springer New York) | Format: URL
www.springerlink.com — This project is an evaluation of three potentially nonlethal alternatives to fillet sampling for the determination of mercury (Hg) concentrations in smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) to monitor mercury concentrations in smallmouth bass (micropterus dolomieu) from six sites in southern Missouri were captured by electrofishing. Blood samples More...