Detailed descriptions of selected IGS projects

The links below open full-length articles that describe some of our projects.

• Geologic Mapping
  • STATEMAP
  • Comprehensive Index Map
• Water/Environmental
  • Developing a Prototypical Predictive Model for Beach Closings in Indiana
  • Evaluation of Riparian Buffer Zones using GIS and Remote Sensing to Target Watershed Restoration Efforts
  • Evaluation of Ground Water in LaGrange County
  • An Evaluation of the Storage and Movement of Potential Contaminants in Soils at a Confined Feeding Operation
  • IGS Helps State Improve Waters Impacted by Acidic Mine Drainage
  • GIS-Based Hydrologic Modeling of Watersheds that Drain into Lake Michigan: Examples from the Watersheds of Trail Creek and the East Little Calumet River
  • Potential Nonpoint-source Contamination of the Spring Mill Lake Drainage Basin
  • Defining Brine and Oil Threats in the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge
  • Development of a Statistically Valid Program for Monitoring Pesticides in Ground Water in the State of Indiana
  • Source Water Assessments at the Indiana Geological Survey
  • Hydrologic Suitability of Mine Spoil as a Medium for Septic-Tank Absorption Fields, Warrick County, Indiana
  • Quality and Hydrology of Water in a Coal Waste Pile Amended with Synthetic Soil, Chinook Mine, Clay County, Indiana
  • Hydrology and Water Quality Associated with the Midwestern Reclamation Site (Site No. 1087), Pike County, Indiana
  • Midwestern Project Extension
  • Hydrologic Monitoring and Watershed Modelling Associated with the Great Marsh Restoration Project, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
  • Monitoring and Forecasting Outfalls of Streamflow Contaminated by E. coli at the Portage-Burns Waterway ("Burns Ditch"), Lake Michigan, Indiana
  • Analysis of Nitrate in Groundwater in Jackson County, Indiana
  • Agricultural BMP (Best Management Practices) Application to Remediate Nitrate Contamination in a Major Outwash Aquifer in Jackson County, Indiana
• Coal, Oil, and Gas
  • Reconnaissance of Coal Slurry Deposits in Indiana
  • Indiana Energy Report 2007
  • Indiana BioFuels Map
  • Overview of Coal Research
  • Mercury Content of Indiana Coals
  • Petrographic Characterization of Fly Ash
  • Chemical Properties and Petrographic Composition of Coal and Fly Ash: Examples from Indiana
• Mineral Resources
  • The Origins and Remediation of Pad Marks on Milled Limestone
  • Whetstone Gravestones
• Other Projects
  • Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) - Phase II

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