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Short summaries of important findings, methods, and tools.
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Is septic waste affecting drinking water from shallow domestic
wells along the Platte River in eastern Nebraska?:
Verstraeten, I.M., Fetterman, G.S., Sebree, S.K. Meyer, M.T., and Bullen, T.D., 2004,
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 072-03, 4 p.
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Water quality of the Boulder Creek Watershed, Colorado:
Verplanck, P.L., Murphy, S.F., and Barber, L.B., 2003,
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 043-03, 4 p.
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The Norman landfill environmental research site--What happens to the
waste in landfills?: Christenson, S.C., and Cozzarelli, I.M., 2003,
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 040-03, 4 p.
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Diurnal variation in trace-metal concentrations in streams:
Nimick, D.A., 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-86-03, 4 p.
- Occurrence of antibiotics in water
from fish hatcheries: Thurman, E.M., Dietze, J.E., and Scribner, E.A., 2002,
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-120-02, 4 p.
- Fractured-Rock Aquifers--Understanding
an Increasingly Important Source of Water: Shapiro, A.M.,
2002, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-112-02
- Robowell--Providing accurate
and current water-level and water-quality data in real time for protecting
ground-water resources: Granato, G.E., and Smith, K.P., 2002, U.S.
Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-053-02
- Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other
Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams: Buxton, H.T., and
Kolpin, D.W., 2002 U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-027-02
- Glacial Ice Cores Reveal A Record of
Natural and Anthropogenic Atmospheric Mercury Deposition for the Last
270 Years: Krabbenhoft, D.P., and Schuster, P.F., 2002 U.S. Geological
Survey Fact Sheet FS-051-02
- Malformed frogs
in Minnesota: an update Rosenberry, D.O., 2001, U.S. Geological
Survey Fact Sheet FS-043-01
- Characterizing Ground-Water Chemistry
and Hydraulic Properties of Fractured-Rock Aquifers Using the Multifunction
Bedrock-Aquifer Transportable Testing Tool (BAT3) Shapiro,
A. M., 2001, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-075-01
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Borehole-radar methods--Tools for characterization of fractured rock:
Singha, K., Kimball, K., and Lane, J.W., 2000,
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 054-00, 4 p.
- The USGS Toxic Substances
Hydrology Program, 2000, USGS Fact Sheet FS-062-00, 4 p.
(this
is also avaiable in 1.1Mb pdf format) Buxton, Herbert T., 2000
- Contaminant Sorption by Soil and Bed
Sediment Is There a Difference? C. T. Chiou and D. E. Kile, 2000,
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-087-00
- Using
OTIS to model solute transport in streams and rivers: Runkel, R.L.,
2000, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-138-99, 4 p. (Link is to
a pdf file.)
- Nitrogen
in the Mississippi Basin--Estimating Sources and Predicting Flux to
the Gulf of Mexico: Goolsby and Battaglin, 2000, U.S. Geological
Survey Fact Sheet FS-135-00
- Simulating
contaminant attenuation, double-porosity exchange, and water age in
aquifers using MOC3D: Goode, D.J., 1999, U.S. Geological Survey
Fact Sheet 086-99, 4 p.
- The
USGS Abandoned mine Lands Initiative--Protecting and restoring the environment
near abandoned mine lands: U. S. Geological Survey, 1999, U.S. Geological
Survey Fact Sheet 095-99, 2 p.
- Modeling
Solute- Transport and Biodegradation with BIOMOC: Essaid, H.L.,
and Bekins, B.A., 1998 U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-095-98, 4 p.
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Ground water contamination by crude oil near Bemidji, Minnesota:
Delin, G.N., Essaid, H.I., Cozzarelli, I.M., Lahvis, M.H., and
Bekins, B.A., 1998, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-084-98, 4 p.
- Herbicides
in Midwestern reservoir outflows, 1992-93: Stamer, J.K., Battaglin,
W.A., and Goolsby, D.A., 1998, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-134-98,
4 p.
- Herbicides
in ground water of the Midwest--A regional study of shallow aquifers,
1991-94: Kolpin, D.W., Stamer, J.K., Goolsby, D.A., and Thurman,
E.M., 1998, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-076-98, 4 p.
- Improving
ground-water flow model calibration with the advective-transport observation
(ADV) package to MODFLOWP: Anderman, E.R., and Hill, M.C., 1998,
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-059-98, 2 p. (this is an ftp link
to a pdf file)
- A
reconnaissance for sulfonylurea herbicides in waters of the Midwestern
USA: An example of collaboration between the public and private sectors:
Battaglin, W.A., Furlong, E.T., and Peter, C.J., 1998, U.S. Geological
Survey Fact Sheet FS-046-98, 4 p.
- Occurrence
of cotton pesticides in surface water of the Mississippi Embayment:
Thurman, E.M., Zimmerman, L.R., Scribner, E.A., and Coupe, R.H., Jr.,
1998, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-022-98, 4 p.
- Simulating transport
of volatile organic compounds in the unsaturated zone using the computer
model R-UNSAT: Lahvis, M.A., and Baehr, A.L., 1998, U.S. Geological
Survey Fact Sheet FS-019-98, 4 p.
- Herbicides
in rain fall across the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, 1990-91:
Stamer, J.K., Goolsby, D.A., and Thurman, E.M., 1998, U.S. Geological
Survey Fact Sheet FS-181-97, 4 p.
- Agricultural
chemicals in Iowa's ground water, 1982-95 -- What are the trends:
Kolpin, D.W., Hallberg, G., Sneck-Fahrer, D.A., and Libra, R., 1997,
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-116-97, 4 p.
- Are walleye
from Lake Roosevelt contaminated with mercury?: Erwin, M.L., and
Munn, M.D., 1997, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-102-97, 4 p.
- Methods to Identify
Areas Susceptible to Irrigation-Induced Selenium Contamination in the
Western United States: Seiler, R.L., 1997, U.S. Geological Survey
Fact Sheet FS-O38-97, 4 p.
- Use of
tracer injections and synoptic sampling to measure metal loading from
acid mine drainage: Kimball, B.A., 1997, U.S. Geological Survey
Fact Sheet FS-245-96, 4 p.
- Using Geochemical
and Statistical Tools to Identify Irrigated Areas that Might Contain
High Selenium Concentrations in Surface Water: Naftz, D.L., 1996,
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-O77-96, 4 p.
- Mercury
Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems: Krabbenhoft, D.P., and Rickert,
D.A., 1996, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-216-95, 4 p.
- Waste burial
in arid environments--Application of information from a field laboratory
in the Mojave Desert, southern Nevada: Andraski, B.J., Prudic, D.E.,
and Nichols, W.D., 1995, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-179-95,
4 p.
- United States
Geological Survey--Toxic Substances Hydrology Program: Anderson,
M.T., Buxton, H.T., Rickert, D.A., and Morganwalp, D.W., 1995, U.S.
Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-O64-95, 4 p.
- Bioremediation--Nature's
Way to a Cleaner Environment: Chapelle, F.H., 1995, U.S. Geological
Survey Fact Sheet FS-O54-95, 2 p.
- San Francisco Bay
Program--Lessons learned for managing coastal water resources: Cloern,
J.E., Luoma, S.N., and Nichols, F.H., 1995, U.S. Geological Survey Fact
Sheet FS-053-95, 3 p.
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