USGS IN YOUR STATE

USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state.

Oklahoma Water-Resources Projects

The USGS Oklahoma Water Science Center conducts scientific projects that provide reliable, impartial, and timely information to resource managers, planners, and other customers. Federally funded activities in Oklahoma generally emphasize regional projects assessing surface-water and ground-water conditions, how natural processes and human activities affect those conditions through time, and the development of new tools and techniques for understanding complex hydrologic systems. Through the USGS Cooperative Water Program, Water Science Center scientists collaboratively design and conduct water resource investigations with State, Tribal, and local partners.

Active Projects

• Norman Landfill Toxic Hydrology Research Project
• Rush Springs Aquifer Studies for the Caddo Nation
• Grand Lake O' the Cherokees Data Viewer
• StreamStats – Estimating drainage basin characteristics and streamflow statistics for ungaged streams in Oklahoma
• Garber-Wellington (Central Oklahoma) Aquifer Study
• Photographs of the Picher Mining District/Tar Creek Superfund Site (Ottawa County, Oklahoma)
• Youth Initiative Program

Completed Projects

• Dam-Breach Inundation Mapping for Lakes Lawtonka and Ellsworth, Lawton, OK
• Selected Metals in Sediments and Streams in the Oklahoma Part of the Tri-State Mining District, 2000–2006
• Development of a Probabilistic Assessment Methodology for Evaluation of Carbon Dioxide Storage
• Aquifer Tests and Characterization of Transmissivity, Ada-Vamoosa Aquifer on the Osage Reservation, Osage County, Oklahoma, 2006
• Monitoring of Nitrate and Pesticides in Water in Chickasaw Nation Lands,
  Southern Oklahoma
• Geochemical Data from Produced Water Contamination Investigations: Osage-Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research (OSPER) Sites, Osage County, Oklahoma
• Geochemistry of the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer
• Hydrogeology and Simulation of Groundwater Flow in the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer, South-Central Oklahoma
• Assessment of conservation practices in the Fort Cobb Reservoir watershed, southwestern Oklahoma

OKWSC Presentations

• "2007: A Very Wet Year in Oklahoma"