Selected USGS Groundwater Publications
New & Noteworthy
March 10-16: National Groundwater Awareness Week
Fact Sheet: Understanding and Managing the Effects of Groundwater Pumping on Streamflow
Annotated List of Classic Pre-1980 USGS Groundwater Papers on Quantitative Groundwater-Flow Analysis
WaterNow: Get current water conditions by text or email
Groundwater's Greater Role in Waterways Demonstrated in Virginia
Circular: Streamflow Depletion By Wells: Understanding and Managing the Effects of Groundwater Pumping on Streamflow
MODPATH v6 released
USGS Groundwater Watch
USGS maintains a network of active wells to provide basic statistics about groundwater levels.
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Selected USGS Groundwater Publications
Recent Groundwater Publications
Introductory Documents on Groundwater Hydrology
National Overviews
- Ground Water Atlas of the United States
- Aquifer Maps on the National Atlas
(Printed wall map, 1:7,500,000 and spatial data sets, 1:2,500,000)
- Bibliography of Regional aquifer system analysis (RASA) studies, 1978-96 (WRIR 97-4074)
- Flow and Storage in Groundwater Systems (from Science Magazine, June 14, 2002)
- A Brief History of Contributions to Ground Water Hydrology by the USGS (from Ground Water, July-August, 2004)
- Strategic Directions for the U.S. Geological Survey Ground-Water Resources Program - A Report to Congress (1998)
USGS Circulars
USGS Circulars are directed at general or scientific audiences and present short summaries or articles of short-term, popular, or local interest.
USGS Fact Sheets
USGS Water-Resources Fact Sheets are concise and timely publications that describe programs, projects, products, and water-resources topics to either a general or professional audience.
USGS Training and Methods Documents
Techniques and Methods Reports are directed at technically oriented audiences and present methods and techniques used in collecting, analyzing, and processing hydrologic data
USGS Conference Proceedings
- USGS Karst Interest Group Proceedings, Bowling Green, Kentucky, May 27-29, 2008 (SIR 2008-5023)
- Subsidence Interest Group Conference, Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Galveston, Texas, November 27-29, 2001 (OFR 03-308)
- USGS Artificial Recharge Workshop Proceedings, Sacramento, California, April 2-4, 2002 (OFR 02-89)
- Effects of Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) on Hydrologic Resources and the Environment -- Proceedings of the 1999 USGS conference (OFR 00-204)
Groundwater Modeling and Hydraulics
General
- Annotated List of Classic Pre-1980 USGS Groundwater Papers on Quantitative Groundwater-Flow Analysis
- Bennett, G., 1989, Introduction to Ground-Water Hydaulics - A Programmed Text for Self-Instruction (TWRI Book 3, Chapter 2)
- Barlow, P.M., and Harbaugh, A.W., 2006, USGS Directions in MODFLOW Development (Ground Water) (80KB PDF)
- Reilly, T.E., and Harbaugh, A.W., 2004, Guidelines for evaluating ground-water flow models (SIR2004-5038)
- Reilly, T.E., 2001, System And Boundary Conceptualization In Ground-Water Flow Simulation (TWRI Book 3, Chapter B8)
- Harbaugh, A.W., 2005, MODFLOW-2005, The U.S. Geological Survey modular ground-water model – the Ground-Water Flow Process (TM 6-A16)
- Ahlfeld, D.P., and others, 2005, GWM - A Ground-Water Management Process for the USGS Modular Ground-Water Model (OFR 2005-1072)
- Ahlfeld, D.P., and others, 2009, GWM-2005 — A Groundwater-Management Process for MODFLOW-2005 with Local Grid Refinement (LGR) capability
Aquifer Tests
- Barlow, P.M., and Moench, A.F., 1999, Computer program (WTAQ) for analysis of aquifer tests in confined and water-table aquifers (WRIR 99-4225)
- Day-Lewis, F.D. and others, 2011, A Computer Program for Flow-Log Analysis of Single Holes (FLASH)
- Halford, K.J.and Kuniansky, E.L., 2002, Spreadsheets for the Analysis of Aquifer-Test and Slug-Test Data (OFR 02-197)
- Barlow, P.M., and Moench, A.F., 2011, WTAQ Version 2 — Computer program for calculating drawdowns and estimating hydraulic properties for confined and water-table aquifers
MODFLOW Resources
- MODFLOW-2005 software and user guides
- MODFLOW-LGR software and user guides – MODFLOW-2005 with Local Grid Refinement Capability
- MODFLOW-2000 software and user guides
- Harbaugh, A.W., 2005, MODFLOW-2005, The U.S. Geological Survey modular ground-water model – the Ground-Water Flow Process (TM 6-A16)
- Ahlfeld, D.P. and others, 2011, Documentation for the State Variables Package for the Groundwater-Management Process of MODFLOW-2005 (GWM-2005) (TM 6-A36)
- Ahlfeld, D.P., and others, 2009, A Groundwater-Management Process for MODFLOW-2005 with Local Grid Refinement (LGR) capability (GWM-2005) (TM 6-A33)
- Konikow, L.F., and others, 2009, Revised Multi-Node Well (MNW2) Package for MODFLOW Ground-Water Flow Model (Techniques and Methods 6–A30)
- Langevin, C.D., and others, 2007, SEAWAT Version 4: A Computer Program for Simulation of Multi-Species Solute and Heat Transport (Techniques and Methods Book 6, Chapter A22)
- Shoemaker, W.B., and others, 2008, CFP - Conduit Flow Process for MODFLOW-2005 (Techniques and Methods 6-A24)
- Markstrom, S.L., and others, 2008, GSFLOW - Coupled Ground-water and Surface-water FLOW model based on the integration of the PRMS and MODFLOW-2005 (Techniques and Methods 6-D1)
- Schmid, Wolfgang, and Hanson R.T., 2009, The Farm Process Version 2 (FMP2) for MODFLOW-2005 - Modifications and Upgrades to FMP1 (TWRI Book 6, Chapter A32)
Data Collection
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