National Research Program Index of Former Projects

By Discipline

Projects that were merged with other projects or that ended prior to 1996 are not listed. Information on earlier projects is available in a series of annual reports. The last such report published is:
Nichols, M.L., ed., 1995, National Reserach Program of the U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Division Fiscal Year 1994: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-356, 451 p.

Ecology Projects

• Remote sensing and ecological research in wetlands (Carter)
• Fate of Organic Chemicals in Subsurface Environments(Godsy)
• Modeling of Microbially Catalyzed Geochemical Reactions in Aquatic Environments (Lovely)
• Limnological Phenomena in Impounded Rivers (Marzolf)
• Interactions Between Organic Solutes and Trace Metals in Natural Waters, and Their Ecological Role (McKnight)
• Environmental Influences on Estuarine Benthic Community Dynamics (Nichols)
• Biotic Interface with Fluvial Transport Processes Associated with Dissolved Solutes in Transport (Triska)

Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Projects

• Movement and Storage of Sediment in River System (Meade)
• Sediment Transported Pollutants in the Mississippi River (Meade)

Ground-Water Chemistry Projects

• Spatial Distribution of Chemical Constituents in Ground Water (Back)
• Comparative Study of Organic Degradation in Selected Hydrologic Environments (Baedecker)
• Environmental Dynamics of Persistent Organic Compounds (Chiou)
• Geochemical Kinetics Studies of Silicate Rock Hydrologic Systems (Claassen)
• Relationship Between Chemical Quality of Natural Waters and Human Health and Disease (Feder)
• Chemistry of Aquatic Organic Matter (Goerlitz)
• Lake-Atmospheric Interactions (Hostetler)
• Mineral-water interaction in saline environments (Jones)
• Chemical Models of Natural Systems (Thorstenson)
• Interface of Paleoclimatology and Aquifer Geochemistry (Winograd)
• Dispersion of Toxic and Radioactive Wastes in Ground-Water Systems (Wood)

Ground-Water Hydrology Projects

• Multivariate Statistical Techniques for Assessing Regional Ground-Water Quality and Quantity (Brown)
• Mathematical Simulation of Subsurface-Water Flow Using Uncertain and Incomplete Data (Cooley)
• The Mathematical Simulation of the Transport and Reaction of Chemical Species in Ground Water (Grove)
• Analytical Modeling of Flow and Transport in Aquifers (Moench)
• Borehole Geophysics as Applied to Geohydrology (Paillet)
• Quantitative Analysis of Heterogeneous Hydrologic Controls on Ground-Water Flow and Transport (Reilly)
• Modeling and Monitoring Heat and Fluid Flow in Geothermal Systems (Sorey)
• Role of Lakes in the Hydrologic System, with Emphasis on Their Relation to Ground-Water (Winter)

Surface-Water Chemistry Projects

• Geochemical Cycling of Trace Elements and Nutrients in Natural Water Systems (Bricker)
• Sedimentary Geochemical Processes Affecting the Exchange of Nutrients and transition Metals Between Sediment and Water in Riverine, Estuarine, and Lacustrine Environments (Callender)
• Comprehensive Organic Analysis of Water (Leenheer)
• Origin, Characterization, and Quantification of Natural Organic Solutes in Water (Malcolm)
• Origin, Fate, and Transport of Organic Compounds in Surface and Ground Waters and Their Effect on Water Quality (Pereira)
• Behavior of Natural Polyelectrolytes in Water (Wershaw)

Surface-Water Hydrology Projects

• Numerical Simulation of Hydrodynamic Processes in Rivers, Estuaries, and Coastal Embayments (Baltzer)
• Mathematical Modeling Principles (Bennett)
• Fluvial Processes and River Mechanics (Chen)
• Hydrodynamics and Mathematical Modeling of Circulation and Transport Phenomena in Tidal Estuaries (Cheng)
• Precipitation-Runoff Modeling of Watershed Systems (Leavesley)
• Transport of Dissolved and Suspended Materials in Surface Waters (Lee)
• Transport and Degradation of Organic Substances in Streams (Rathbun)
• Simulation Modeling of Hydrodynamic Systems (Schaffranek)
• Hydrologic Regression and Data- Network Design (Tasker)
• Analysis and modeling of conservative and non-conservative transport processes (Walters)