Headlines ( Updated September 30, 2004 )

2004

• New Method for Assessing Bed Sediment Contamination

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• History and Ecology of Chloroethene Biodegradation–A Review

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• New Report on Science for Hypoxia in Gulf of Mexico

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• The Changing Face of Microbial Communities in Contaminant Plumes
  

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• USGS Develops New Field Method for Detecting Chromium VI in Ground Water

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• Using Oxygen to Enhance Biodegradation of Contaminants – Lessons Learned

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• USGS Scientists Contribute to the Landmark “Treatise on Geochemistry”

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• USGS Scientist Receives Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award

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• Developing Methods to Measure New Contaminants in Aquatic Environments

2003

• Veterinary Medicines in the Environment

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• Using Plants To Detect Tritium Contamination

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• Improving Cleanup of Contamination from Oil and Gas Production

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• Software Provides Estimates of How Long it Will Take for Remediation Efforts to Achieve Their Goals

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• High Nitrate in the Desert? What’s Going On?

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• Daily Variation of Metals in Streams Can Confound Scientific Studies

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• New Diffusion Samplers Track Contamination Entering Lakes and Ponds

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• Glyphosate Herbicide Found in Many Midwestern Streams, Antibiotics Not Common

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• Toxics Program Scientists Recognized in 2003

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• New Book on Soil Analysis Methods Destined to Become a Classic

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• Are Deserts Still Drying Out Since the Ice Age?

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• National Reconnaissance of Pharmaceuticals, Hormones and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams is Making an Impact

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• Fiscal Year 2004 President's Budget Request for the Toxic Substances Hydrology Program

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• Tracking Atrazine and a Breakdown Product (deethylatrazine) through a Drinking-Water Reservoir

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• Toxics Program Scientist Selected as 2003 USGS Engineer of the Year

2002

• Used Motor Oil a Potential Source of MTBE in Ground Water

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• "National Reconnaissance of Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in Streams" Named as One of the Top 100 Science Stories of the Year

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• A Unique Approach to Evaluating Natural Attenuation is Applied Worldwide

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• SERDP/ESTCP Invests in Technologies Developed by the Toxics Program

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• How Reliable are Chemical Property Data in the Literature?

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• Handbook on Permeable Reactive Barriers Published - The handbook gives guidance on the use of permeable reactive barriers to remediate radionuclide, trace metal, and nutrient contamination.

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• Landmark Book Published on the Fate of Contaminants in the Environment: Partition and Adsorption of Organic Contaminants in Environmental Systems

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• Parasite infection linked to amphibian malformations in the western United States

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• Glacial Ice Cores Reveal the History of Global Mercury Contamination

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• New Results on Wastewater Contaminants National Reconnaissance

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• Three Program Scientists Make Environmental Science and Technology's Top Ten Papers

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• Scientists Discover Analog for Extraterrestrial Life in Idaho Hot Spring

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• What's in Our Wastewaters and Where Does it Go?

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• DNAPL Removal Key to Accelerated, Less Expensive Remediation

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• Mercury-Contaminated Fish--Is it Old or New Mercury?

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• New Paradigm for Fractured Rock Cleanup

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• Phosphorus Doesn't Migrate in Ground Water? Better Think Again!

2001

• Oil Wells Produce More Than Just Oil -- Environmental Impact of Produced Water

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• Using Oxygen to Clean Up Ground-Water Contamination

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• What Controls the Migration of Chlorinated Solvents in Fractured Rock?

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• MTBE Can Degrade Naturally Without Oxygen

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• Does Landfill Methane Degrade Naturally Before Contaminating Ground Water?

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• How do you Clean Up Gasoline Spills Naturally?

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• Relying on Nature to Cleanup Contaminated Ground Water

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• MTBE Biodegrades Naturally in Stream Sediments

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• The Atmosphere - A Potential Source of MTBE to Ground Water

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• USGS Info Guides Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone Action Plan

2000+

• Science of the Total Environment Special Issue on Agricultural Chemicals

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• Silver can Affect Fish Reproduction in San Francisco Bay

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• USGS Leads a National Study on Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico

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• Nationwide Examination of Mercury Levels in the Food Chain

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• Nature's Way of Cleaning Up Mining-Contaminated Streams

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• Natural Attenuation for Groundwater Remediation

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• Measuring Pesticides and How They Transform in the Environment

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• Cleaning up Contamination in Hard Rock Mine Lands

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• Tracer Tests Steer Cleanup of Mined Watersheds

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• Management Practices a Factor in Herbicide Declines

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• Degradates: A Key to Assessing Herbicide Impacts in Streams

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• Where are the Pesticides?

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• Can a Sewage-Contaminated Aquifer Naturally Clean Itself?

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• USGS Studies Support Regulatory Guidance Documents

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• Natural Attenuation of MTBE at Laurel Bay, South Carolina