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• NAWQA - Volatile Organic Compound Synthesis

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Selected Projects and Research Interests

Selected Active Projects

• Current Flood Information - South Dakota FloodWatch
  


• Application of Paleoflood Survey Techniques for the Black Hills of South Dakota
  
  
• Black Hills Area Floods Since 1877
  
  
• Crow Creek Surface-Water Quality Study
  


• Implementing a Web-Based Streamflow Statistics Tool for South Dakota
  


• Missouri River Bank Erosion on the Lower Brule Reservation
  
  
• NAWQA Volatile Organic Chemicals (VOC) National Synthesis
  
  
• NAWQA Source Water-Quality Assessment
  
  
• South Dakota Watershed Boundary Data Set
  
  
• Stormwater Monitoring in Rapid City
  
  
• Water Use in South Dakota
  
  
• Williston and Powder River Basins Groundwater Availability Study
  
  
  

Selected Tribal Studies

Selected Completed Projects

• Analysis of Ground-Water Resources in the Aberdeen Area
  
  
• Black Hills Hydrology Study
  • Precipitation
  • Digital Map Products
    
    
• Chemistry of Uncontaminated Alluvial Deposits of the Cheyenne and Belle Fourche Rivers, South Dakota
  


• Flooding
  • Flood of 1972 - Rapid City | FS 037-02
  • FS 164-95: Floods in South Dakota, Spring 1995
  • FS 229-96: The "100-Year" Flood
  • FS 021-98: North-Central and Eastern South Dakota, Spring 1997
  • Flooding 2001 - Eastern South Dakota
    
    
• Groundwater Flow, Quality, and Mixing in the Wind Cave National Park Area, South Dakota
  
  
• Hydrologic Information for Evaluation of Reservoir Management Strategies for Sheridan Lake to Enhance Fish Habitat in Spring Creek
  
  
• Hydrologic Units for South Dakota in Google Earth
  
  
• Madison Aquifer Study in the Rapid City area
  
  
• National Rivers and Streams Assessment
  
  
• National Stream Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN)
  
  
• Pennington County Ground-Water Levels
  
  
• Potentiometric Surface Mapping of the Arikaree Aquifer, Pine Ridge Reservation and Bennett County
  
  
• Rosebud Sioux Tribe and U.S. Geological Survey Collaboration for Ground-Water Flow Modeling of the Ogallala and Arikaree Aquifers
  
  
• Sensitivity of Ground Water to Contamination in Lawrence County, SD
  
  
• Statewide Flood-Frequency Analyses for Streamflow Gaging Stations in South Dakota

Research Interests

• Bedrock Contaminants