USGS Fact Sheets (listed by Environmental Theme)
USGS activities in the environment theme area
include studies of natural physical, chemical, and
biological processes, and of the results of human actions;
the goal is to provide the understanding and scientific
information needed to recognize and mitigate adverse
impacts and to sustain the environment. Activities include
data collection, long-term assessments, ecosystem
analysis, predictive modeling, and process research on the
occurrence, distribution, transport, and fate of
contaminants as well as the impacts of contaminants on
biota.
Environment:
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FS2006-3028: Pesticides in the Nation's Streams and Ground Water, 1992–2001—A Summary
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FS2005-3140: Effects of Post-Wildfire Sedimentation on Leopard Frog Habitat in Saguaro National Park
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FS2005-3112: Water Resources Investigations at Edwards Air Force Base since 1988
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FS2005-3089: Pesticides in ground water - Converse County, Wyoming, 2003-04
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FS2005-3088:
Pesticides in ground water - Hot Springs County, Wyoming, 2003-04
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FS2005-3087:
Pesticides in ground water - Albany County, Wyoming, 2003-04
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FS-2005-3104:
A NOAAUSGS Demonstration Flash-Flood and Debris-Flow
Early-Warning System
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FS-2005-3064: South Fork Iowa River Watershed
Selected for a National Water-Quality Study
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FS-2005-3056:
Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World
- FS-2005-3051:
Estimated use of water in the United States in 2000
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FS-2005-3050: Bogue Phalia Watershed in Mississippi selected for a National Water-Quality Study
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FS-2005-3041: South Carolina Coastal Erosion Study
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FS-2005-3022: Assessing the Vulnerability of
Public-Supply Wells to Contamination from Urban, Agricultural, and Natural Sources
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FS-2005-3013: National Water-Quality Assessment Program — Cycle II Regional Assessments of Aquifers
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FS-2004-3141: Shells as Recorders of Environmental Change -- A
Study in Florida Bay
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FS-2004-3139: Historic aerial
photography of the Greater Everglades Archive and Geodatabase Development
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FS-2004-3137: Inventory of
freshwater fish species within Big Cypress National Preserve: The basis for
a long-term sampling program
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FS-2004-3131: Predicting the
effects of hydrologic restoration on Manatees along the Southwest Coast of
Florida
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FS-2004-3130: Development
of coastal flow and transport models in support of Everglades Restoration
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FS-2004-3129: Hydrologic characteristics
of Estuarine River Systems within Everglades National Park
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FS-2004-3126: Belowground
dynamics in mangrove ecosystemspdf only 7.4 MB
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FS-2004-3125: Global change
impacts on mangrove ecosystemspdf only 301 KB
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FS-2004-3123:
Sheet-flow velocities and factors affecting hseet-flow behavior of importance to restoration of the Florida Everglades
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FS-2004-3116:
Florida in a Tank--The role of experiments in ecosystem restoration
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FS-2004-3113: Spatial decision
support systems for landscape ecological evaluations in the Southwest Florida
Feasibility Study
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FS-2004-3112: Projecting future
population dynamics of the Florida Snail Kite in relation to hydrology using
EVERKITE
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FS-2004-3111: User interface
for ATLSS ModelsUser Interface for ATLSS Models
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FS-2004-3110: Modeling the
effects of hydrology on fire, vegetation dynamics, and their interaction
in the Florida Everglades
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FS-2004-3109: Progress on
the Across Trophic Level System Simulation (ATLSS) Program
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FS-2004-3106: Use of amphibians
as indicators of ecosystem restoration success
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FS-2004-3105: American alligator
ecology and monitoring for the comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan
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FS-2004-3098:
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey on Sources,
Transport, and Fate of Agricultural Chemicals
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FS-2004-3097:
Water-Level Changes in the High Plains Aquifer,
Predevelopment to 2003 and 2002 to 2003
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FS-2004-3091:
Linking selenium Sources to ecosystems: San Francisco Bay-Delta Model
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FS-2004-3062 version 2: Climatic fluctuations,
drought, and flow in the Colorado River Basin
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FS-2004-3057:
Natural remediation of arsenic contaminated ground water associated with landfill leachate
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FS-2004-3053:
Natural restoration basics for wetlandspdf only 531 KB
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FS-2004-3040:
Purple loosestrife volunteerspdf only 578 KB
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FS-2004-3026:
Water-level changes in the High Plains Aquifer,
predevelopment to 2002, 1980 to 2002, and 2001 to 2002
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FS-2004-3019:
Latitudinal variation in carbon storage can help predict changes in swamps
affected by global warmingpdf only 1.2 MB
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FS-116-03: The value of long-term monitoring in the development of
ground-water-flow models, by D.T. Feinstein, D.J. Hart, and J.T. Krohelski
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FS-114-03:
Occurrence of pesticides in ground water of the North Platte Natural Resources District, Nebraska, 2002
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FS-118-03: New Studies Initiated by the U.S. Geological
Survey—Effects of Nutrient Enrichment on Stream Ecosystems
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FS-104-03: LakeVOC—A Computer Model
to Estimate the Concentration of Volatile Organic Compounds in Lakes and Reservoirs
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FS-096-03: EarthquakesRattling the Earth's Plumbing System
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FS-090-03:
Native plants for effective coastal wetland restorationpdf only 635 KB
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FS-084-03: Sugar Creek Watershed
Selected for a National Water-Quality Study
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FS-083-03: Maple Creek
Watershed Selected for a National Water-Quality Study
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FS-082-03: Granger Drain
Subbasin Selected for a National Water-Quality Study
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FS-081-03: Lower Merced River and
Mustang Creek Watersheds Selected for a National Water-Quality Study
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FS-080-03: Morgan Creek
Watershed Selected for a National Water-Quality Study
- FS-078-03: Water-level
changes in the High Plains Aquifer, predevelopment to 2001,
1999 to 2000, and 2000 to 2001
- FS-075-03: Desalination
of Ground Water: Earth Science Perspectives
- FS-040-03: The Norman Landfill Environmental Research Site what happens to the waste in landfills?
- FS-031-03: Selenium
contamination and remediation at Stewart Lake Waterfowl Management are and Ashley Creek,
Middle Green Basin, Utah.ONLINE ONLY
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FS-030-03:
Predicting future mangrove forest migration in the everglades under rising sea levelpdf only 311KB
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FS-029-03:
Effects of hydrology on red mangrove recruitspdf only 333 KB
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FS-026-03: Geologic
Sequestration of Carbon DioxideAn Energy Resource Perspective
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FS-016-03: Mercury in
Stream Ecosystems—New Studies Initiated by the U.S. Geological
Survey
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FS-013-03:
Water-quality assessment of the Central Nebraska
BasinsEntering a new decade
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FS-148-02: Assessment
of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Montana Thrust Belt Province,
2002
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FS-147-02: Assessment
of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the San Juan Basin Province of New
Mexico and Colorado, 2002
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FS-146-02: Assessment
of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Powder River Basin Province of
Wyoming and Montana, 2002
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FS-145-02: Assessment
of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Southwestern Wyoming Province,
2002
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FS-130-02: Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the
World
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FS-112-02: Fractured-Rock Aquifers: Understanding an Increasingly Important Source of Water
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FS-104-02: Effects of wastewater on forested wetlandspdf only 112 KB
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FS-098-02: Modeling the bathymetry of Catahoula Lake: Specialized technology for wetland managementpdf only 151 KB
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FS-095-02: Vulnerability
of U.S. National Parks to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Change
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FS-073-02: Coal Extraction
-- Environmental Prediction
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FS-056-02: Storms, streams,
and reservoirs-- Assessing water quality in the Cambridge, Massachusetts,
drinking-water source area
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FS-053-02: Robowell
- providing accurate and current water-level and water-quality data in real
time for protecting ground-water resources
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FS-052-02: WaterWatchMaps
and Graphs of Current Water Resources Conditions
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FS-051-02: Glacial
ice cores reveal a record of natural and anthropogenic atmospheric mercury
deposition for the last 270 years
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FS-050-02: USGS
Environmental Studies of the World Trade Center Area, New York City, after
September 11, 2001
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FS-047-02:
History and ecology of mangroves in the Dry Tortugaspdf only 65KB
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FS-042-02: Effects of Urbanization
on Stream Ecosystems
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FS-039-02: The sea-floor
mapping facility at the U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole Field Center, Woods
Hole, Massachusetts
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FS-032-02: Pesticides and their
breakdown products in Lake Waxahachie, Texas, and in finished drinking
water from the lake
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FS-027-02: Pharmaceuticals, hormones,
and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams
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FS-025-02: U.S. Coral ReefsImperiled
National Treasures
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FS-020-02: Occurrence of
selected volatile organic compounds and soluble pesticides in Texas public
water-supply source waters, 19992001
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FS-017-02: Coastal-change and glaciological
maps of the Antarctic Peninsula, by J.G. Ferrigno, R.S. Williams, Jr., and
J.W. Thomson
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FS-003-02: Digital data set of generalized
lithogeochemical characteristics of near-surface bedrock in the New England
Coastal Basins
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FS-001-02: Mapping the sea floor
of the Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS) offshore of New York City
- FS-130-01: The USGS Role in TMDL Assessments
- FS-128-01: Cooperative
Water ProgramA Partnership in the Nation's Water-Resources
Program
- FS-125-01: The U.S. Geological Survey
Chesapeake Bay Science Program
- 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-091-01: Wetland subsidence, fault reactivation, and hydrocarbon production in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region
- FS-090-01: Real-Time
Ground-Water Data for the Nation
- FS-075-01: Characterizing ground-water chemistry and hydraulic properties of fractured-rock aquifers using the multifunction bedrock-aquifer transportable testing tool (BAT3)
- FS-071-01: The
National Water-Quality Assessment Program.Entering a new decade of investigations
- FS-070-01:Water Quality
Monitoring of Sweetwater Reservoir
- FS-066-01:
Geology of the Woods Hole Area, Massachusetts: The Story behind
the Landscape
- FS-061-01:
Habitat Geology Studies on and near Georges Bank, off New
England
- FS-060-01: Obsolete Computers, "Gold Mine," or High-Tech
Trash? Resource Recovery from Recycling, by Donald Bleiwas and
Thomas Kelly
- FS-054-01:
The Environment and Human Health: USGS Science for Solutions
- FS-047-01:
Selected Findings and Current Perspectives on Urban and Agricultural Water
Quality by the National Water-Quality Assessment Program
- FS-043-01:
Malformed Frogs In Minnesota: An Update
- FS-036-01: Flooding in the
Amargosa River Drainage Basin, February 23-24, 1998, Southern Nevada and Eastern
California, including the Nevada Test Site
- FS-031-01:
The Tides And Inflows In The Mangroves Of The Everglades (TIME) Interdisciplinary
Project Of The South Florida Ecosystem Program
- FS-029-01:
Water-level changes in the High Plains Aquifer, 1980 to 1999
- FS-027-01: A Primer On Water
Quality
- FS-004-01: Balkan Endemic Nephropathy
(BEN)
- FS-154-00-pdf only: Chinese tallow: invading the
southeastern Coastal Plain
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FS-146-00: Mercury in the Environment
- FS-142-00: Seabed Observation and Sampling System
- FS-135-00: Nitrogen
in the Mississippi Basin--Estimating sources and predicting flux to
the Gulf of Mexico
- FS-124-99: Water-level changes, 1980 to 1997, and saturated thickness, 1996-97, in the High Plains aquifer
- FS-068-97:
Water-level changes in the High Plains Aquifer, 1980 to 1995, by
V.L. McGuire and J.B. Sharpe
- FS-215-95:
Water-level changes in the High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment to 1994