Health and Environment Fact Sheets

General Human Health

• FS-054-01 The Environment and Human Health: USGS Science for Solutions
• FS-189-97: USGS Recent Highlights -- Environmental Effects on Human and Wildlife Health

Inhalation of Toxic Contaminants in Air and Dusts

• FS-050-02 USGS environmental studies of the World Trade Center area, New York City, after September 11, 2001
• FS-038-02 Characterization and modes of occurrence of elements in feed coal and fly ash; an integrated approach
• FS-109-01 Economic and environmental evaluations of extractable coal resources conducted by the U. S. Geological Survey
• FS-095-01 Mercury in U.S. coal; abundance, distribution, and modes of occurrence
• FS-076-01 Coal combustion products
• FS-020-01 The U.S. Geological Survey National Coal Resource Assessment
• FS-012-01 Some Facts About Asbestos
• FS-011-01 Federally owned coal, federal lands, and coal quality in the Colorado Plateau Region
• FS-155-00 The World Coal Quality Inventory (WoCQI)
• FS-094-00 Health Impacts of Coal Combustion

Drinking Water Exposure to Chemical and Pathogenic Contaminants

• FS-2004-3127 Wastewater Chemicals in Colorado's Streams and Ground Water
• FS-2004-3119 Occurrence of Methyl tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) in public and private wells, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
• FS-104-03 LakeVOC; A Computer Model to Estimate the Concentration of Volatile Organic Compounds in Lakes and Reservoirs
• FS-072-03 Is Septic Waste Affecting Drinking Water From Shallow Domestic Wells Along the Platte River in Eastern Nebraska?
• FS-051-03 Arsenic Contamination in Private Bedrock Wells in Southeastern New Hampshire
• FS-120-02 Occurrence of antibiotics in water from fish hatcheries
• FS-112-02 Fractured-rock aquifers, understanding an increasingly important source of water
• FS-056-02 Storms, streams, and reservoirs; assessing water quality in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, drinking-water source area
• FS-044-02 What happens to nutrients in offstream reservoirs in the lower South Platte River basin?
• FS-032-02 Pesticides and their breakdown products in Lake Waxahachie, Texas, and in finished drinking water from the lake
• FS-027-02 Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams
• FS-020-02 Occurrence of selected volatile organic compounds and soluble pesticides in Texas public water-supply source waters, 1999-2001
• FS-122-01 Water Supply in the Mojave River Ground-Water Basin, 1931-99, and the Benefits of Artificial Recharge
• FS-112-01 Improving water quality in Sweetwater Reservoir, San Diego County, California; sources and mitigation strategies for trihalomethane (THM)-forming carbon
• FS-111-01 Ground-water studies in Fairbanks, Alaska; a better understanding of some of the United States' highest natural arsenic concentrations
• FS-105-01 MTBE and other volatile organic compounds: New findings and implications on the quality of source waters used for drinking-water supplies
• FS-089-01 Occurrence and distribution of volatile organic compounds in drinking water supplied by community water systems in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, 1993-98
• FS-070-01 Water-quality monitoring of Sweetwater Reservoir
• FS-064-01 National survey of MTBE and other VOCs in community drinking-water sources
• FS-026-01 Assessment of microbiological contamination of the Jacks Fork within the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri; phase
• FS-004-01 Health Effects of Toxic Organic Compounds from Coal -- The Case of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN)
• FS-110-00 Assessment of selected water-quality and biological data collected in the Wichita River basin, Texas, 1996-97
• FS-101-00 Overview of the Texas Source Water Assessment Project
• FS-078-00 Minimizing the risk of herbicide transport into public water supplies; a Nebraska case study
• FS-063-00 Arsenic in Ground-Water Resources of the United States
• FS-062-98: Radium-226 and Radium-228 in Shallow Ground Water, Southern New Jersey
• FS-028-98: Microbial Quality of Public-Water Supplies in the Ozark Plateaus Aquifer System, Missouri
• FS-055-98: Volatile Organic Compounds in Lake Tahoe, Nevada and California, July-September 1997
• FS-061-97: Predicting ground-water vulnerability to nitrate in the Puget Sound Basin
• FS-054-97: Public-Water Supplies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island: Investigations of Processess Affecting Source-Water Quality
• FS-047-97: USGS Drinking Water Initiative
• FS-205-96: Pesticides in public supply wells of the Central Columbia Plateau
• FS-122-96: Pesticides in Public Supply Wells of Washington State
• FS-092-96: Nitrate in the ground waters of the United States--Assessing the risk

Human Consumption of Bioaccumulative Contaminants

• FS-2004-3083 Restoring an urban river--polychlorinated biphenyls and other contaminants in bottom sediment of the lower Neponset River, Massachusetts
• FS-093-03 Tracking polychlorinated biphenyls in the Millers River basin, Massachusetts
• FS-088-03 A chronicle of organochlorine contamination in Clear Creek, Galveston and Harris Counties, Texas, 1960-2002, as recorded in sediment cores
• FS-016-03 Mercury in Stream Ecosystems -- New studies initiated by the U.S. Geological Survey
• FS-065-02 Llano Grande Lake bottom sediments; a chronicle of water-quality changes in the Arroyo Colorado, South Texas, 1989-2001
• FS-051-02 Glacial Ice Cores Reveal A Record of Natural and Anthropogenic Atmospheric Mercury Deposition for the Last 270 Years
• FS-040-02 Water-quality trends in suburban Houston, Texas, 1954-97, as indicated by sediment cores from Lake Houston
• FS-016-02 Occurrence of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) on Suspended Sediment in the Donna Canal, Hidalgo County, Texas, 1999-2001
• FS-068-01 Reconnaissance for trace metals in bed sediment, Wright Patman Lake, near Texarkana, Texas
• FS-067-01 PCBs in tissue of fish from the Spokane River, Washington, 1999
• FS-146-00 Mercury in the Environment
• FS-140-00 Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides in stream bed sediment and fish from selected streams on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, 1998
• FS-092-00 Pesticides in Stream Sediment and Aquatic Biota : Current Understanding of Distribution and Major Influences
• FS-061-00 Mercury Contamination from Historic Gold Mining in California
• FS-102-97: Are walleye from Lake Roosevelt contaminated with mercury?
• FS-216-95: Mercury Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems

Pathogen Exposure Through Recreational Waters

• Microbiology and Public Beach Safety: Integrated Science for the Protection of Public Health
• FS-024-03 Bacterial Contamination at Huntington Beach, California - Is it from a Local Offshore Wastewater Outfall?
• FS-134-02 Escherichia coli in the swash zone at four Ohio bathing beaches
• FS-132-02 Forecasting bacteria levels at bathing beaches in Ohio
• FS-055-02 USGS capabilities for interdisciplinary investigations in coastal and nearshore ecosystems of the Great Lakes
• FS-036-02 Occurrence of bacteria in Blue Marsh Lake and selected tributaries, Berks County, Pennsylvania; September-October 2001

Vector Borne and Zoonotic (animal to human) Disease

• FS-2004-3008 Helping to combat chronic wasting disease
• FS-074-02 Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Just the Facts
• FS-153-00 Wild birds critical to understanding the West Nile Virus

Animals as Sentinels of Human Health

• FS-2004-3106 Use of amphibians as indicators of ecosystem restoration success
• FS-2004-3042 Tree Swallows: A Nationwide Sentinel Species for Assessing and Monitoring Aquatic Contamination
• FS-080-01 Number and size of black bass reflect water quality in the lower Mississippi River Delta
• FS-043-01 Malformed frogs in Minnesota; an update

Location-Based Studies

• FS-2004-3013 Science Data in Support of Environmental Health Studies in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
• FS-048-02 Results of test drilling in the Basalt aquifer near Fallon, Nevada

Data Sources

• FS-015-03 A proposal for upgrading the National-Scale Soil Geochemical Database for the United States
• FS-071-02 Spatial Data Available on the Web
• FS-062-02 The National Map Pilot Projects
• FS-052-02 WaterWatch - Maps and graphs of current water resources conditions
• FS-006-02 U.S. Geological Survey Information Sources
• FS-079-01 USGS Mineral Resources Program; national maps and datasets for research and land planning
• FS-076-01 Coal combustion products
• FS-122-00 Mineral-Resource Databases
• FS-112-00 Atmospheric Deposition Program of the U.S. Geological Survey

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