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Other USGS Research
Watersheds and Related Programs
USGS investigates
watersheds at scales that range from the small research watersheds of
the Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budget (WEBB) Program to the Nation's
largest watersheds with data collected as part of the National Stream
Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN). In addition to the five WEBB
sites, other USGS research watersheds are:
- Watershed
Ecosystem Studies Program
- Other
Small Research Watersheds (listed alphabetically, by State)
- Catoctin
Mountains, Maryland
- Interdisciplinary
Research Initiative (IRI) at the Shingobee Headwaters Research
Area, Minnesota
- Crescent Lake,
Nebraska
- Mirror
Lake, New Hampshire
- Rio
Puerco Basin, New Mexico
- Neversink,
New York
- Cottonwood
Lake, North Dakota
- Massanutten,
Virginia
- Old Ridge Mountains,
Virginia
- Shenandoah
Valley,
Virginia
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Related Networks
and Programs
- The Hydrologic
Benchmark Network , a network of 53 sites (see map), selected
in small undeveloped watersheds around the country. For
additional information on this program, contact Rick
Hooper
- The
National Stream Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN), a network
of 39 stations designed to monitor the water quality of large rivers
within four of the Nation's largest river basins--the Mississippi,
Columbia, Colorado, and Rio Grande.
- The National
Atmospheric Deposition Program/NationalTrends Network (NAPD/NTN):
As the lead federal agency, the USGS supports 70 of the 200 NADP/NTN
sites.
- The Tritium Network,
a network of stations established to provide baseline information
on the occurrence of tritium in the Nation's surface waters; tritium
data are also obtained at a number of precipitation stations.
- The Toxics
Substances Hydrology Program generally uses a watershed approach
in studying the behavior of toxic substances in the Nation's hydrologic
environments.
- The National
Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program is composed of study
units which are geographically defined by a combination of ground-
and surface-water features and which typically are larger than 10,000
square kilometers.
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