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Flow in and around coral reefs affects a number of physical, chemical and biologic processes that influence the health and sustainability of coral reef ecosystems. These range from the residence time...

This Open-File Report makes available a valuable set of geochronological data that were produced more than 25 years ago. In the early 1980s, Donald L. Turner, Robert B. Forbes (since deceased), John...

Research during the last quarter century accounts for nearly all of what is known today about the locations, paleoseismic histories, and damage potential of shallow faults that rupture the ground...

To develop a better understanding of the origins of extreme-wave deposits and to help assess the potential risk of future overwash events, a field mapping survey was conducted in November 2006 on the...

The Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Project is a multiyear, multiagency collaborative research framework developed to provide information to support pallid sturgeon recovery and Missouri River...

The objective of this study was to understand the temporal variations in currents, waves, tides, temperature, salinity, and turbidity within a coral-lined embayment that received periodic discharges...

The central portion of the Southern California Bight, from Point Dume in the north to Dana Point in the south, includes the continental shelves and slopes within Santa Monica and San Pedro Bays, off...

Scientists and geographers have provided multiple datasets and maps to document temporal changes in vegetation types and land-water relationships in coastal Louisiana. Although these maps provide...

The Hawaiian Islands are home to nearly 1,200 native species of vascular plants, a large proportion of which either are listed as endangered, are candidates for such a listing, or are species of...

On the morning of April 7, 2000, the Piney Point Oil Pipeline system, which was owned by the Potomac Electric Power Company, experienced a pipe failure at the Chalk Point Generating Station in...

About 3:28 p.m., Pacific daylight time, on June 10, 1999, a 16-inch-diameter steel pipeline owned by Olympic Pipe Line Company ruptured and released about 237,000 gallons of gasoline into a creek...

About 8:55 p.m., central daylight time, on April 7, 2003, an 80,000-barrel storage tank at ConocoPhillips Company's Glenpool South tank farm in Glenpool, Oklahoma, exploded and burned as it was being...

About 8:30 a.m. on November 21, 1996, because of a propane gas leak, a commercial building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, exploded. Thirty-three people were killed, and at least 69 were injured.Author:...

About 4:44 p.m., eastern standard time, on November 28, 2008, a three-car train operating along a fixed guideway on Concourse E at Miami International Airport near Miami, Florida, failed to stop at...

On Sunday, June 24, 2012, at 10:02 a.m. central daylight time, eastbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train ZLAAH 22 and westbound UP freight train AAMMLX 22 collided head-on while operating...

High seismicity levels with accelerating uplift (under the resurgent dome) in Long Valley caldera in the eastern Sierra Nevada from 1989 to 1997, triggered upgrades to dilational strainmeters and...

Streamflow statistics are used routinely by watershed planners, regulators, engineers, and managers for waterresource projects. Streamflow statistics for a streamgage can change over time as more...

The Ruth Mine and mill are located in the western Mojave Desert in Inyo County, California (fig. 1). The mill processed gold-silver (Au-Ag) ores mined from the Ruth Au- Ag deposit, which is adjacent...

In support of a study to investigate the history of the Green Valley Fault, 13 cone penetration test soundings and 3 auger borings were made at the Mason Road site in Green Valley, Solano Country,...

Nebraska's Upper Loup Natural Resources District is currently (2011) participating in the Elkhorn-Loup Model to understand the effect of various groundwater-management scenarios on surface-water...

Development of energy and mineral resources in the Powder River structural basin in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana (fig. 1) includes coalbed natural gas, conventional oil and gas, and...

The Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Project is a multiyear, multiagency collaborative research framework developed to provide information to support pallid sturgeon recovery and Missouri River...

This report presents a summary of fieldwork conducted in Maunalua Bay, O'ahu, Hawaii to address coral-larval dispersal and recruitment from June through September, 2010. The objectives of this study...

The city of Wichita's water supply currently (2012) comes from two primary sources: Cheney Reservoir and the Wichita Equus Beds aquifer well field (fig. 1). Because future water demands will exceed...

According to regulatory building codes in United States (for example, 2010 California Building Code), at least two horizontal ground-motion components are required for threedimensional (3D) response...

In 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published a Bureau Science Strategy Facing Tomorrow's Challenges-U.S. Geological Survey Science in the Decade 2007-2017. It provided a view of the future,...

Increased demands for cleaner burning energy, coupled with the relatively recent technological advances in accessing unconventional hydrocarbon-rich geologic formations, led to an intense effort to...

This report presents a brief summary of recent fieldwork conducted off Kahekili Beach Park, Maui, Hawaii, the site of the newly established U.S. Coral Reef Task Force priority study area at Kaanapali...

Beach nourishment projects have been used widely to mitigate coastal erosion along sandy shorelines throughout the world (Dean, 2002; Hamm and others, 2002). Morphological monitoring is commonly...

Basic breakthroughs in science, engineering, and measurement technology have brought fire testing to its current state of maturity. It has been a long and slow process that has seen several...