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USGS Water Mission Area

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Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project (FISP) Related Publications and Documents

• FISP Publications
• Minutes of the FISP Technical Committee
• Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference Proceedings
• Sediment Acoustic Documents and References

Selected References

• Alexander, J.S., O'Connell, J.P., and Brown, J.E., 2023, Interim guidance for calibration checks on a submersible acoustic backscatter sediment sensor (ver. 1.1, November 2023): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2023-1039, 23 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20231039
• Manaster, A.E., Landers, M.N., and Straub, T.D., 2022, Intake efficiency field results for Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project bag samplers: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2022-1036, 27 p., https://doi.org/10.313/ofr20221036.
• Wood, M.S., Szupiany, R., Boldt, J., Straub, T., Domanski, M., 2019, From Mobile ADCP to High-Resolution SSC: A Cross-Section Calibration Tool, 3rd Joint Federal Interagency Conference on Sedimentation and Hydrologic Modeling, April 19-23, 2015, Reno, Nevada, USA
• Boldt, J.A., 2015, Measuring Suspended Sediment in Sand-Bedded Rivers Using Down-looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers, 4th Joint Federal Interagency Conference on Sedimentation and Hydrologic Modeling, Reno, Nevada, USA
• Brown, J.E., Gray, J.R., Hornewer, N.J., 2015, In Situ Densimetric Measurements as a Surrogate for Suspended-Sediment Concentrations, 3rd Joint Federal Interagency Conference on Sedimentation and Hydrologic Modeling, April 19-23, 2015, Reno, Nevada, USA
• Czuba, J. A., T. D. Straub, C. A. Curran, M. N. Landers, and M. M. Domanski, 2015, Comparison of fluvial suspended-sediment concentrations and particle-size distributions measured with in-stream laser diffraction and in physical samples, Water Resour. Res., 51, 320-340, doi:10.1002/2014WR015697
• Domanski, M.M., Straub, T.D., and Landers, M.N., 2015, Surrogate Analysis and Index Developer (SAID) tool (version 1.0, September 2015): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1177, 38 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/20151177.
• Gray, J.R., and Landers, M.N., 2013, Measuring Suspended Sediment, in, Ahuja S. (ed.) Comprehensive Water Quality and Purification, United States of America. Elsevier, vol. 12, p. 159-204.
• Mosbrucker, A.R. , Spicer, K.R. , Christianson, T.S. , and Uhrich, M.A., 2015, Close-range Remotely-sensed Multispectral Imagery to Quantify Fine-grained Suspended Sediment, 3rd Joint Federal Interagency Conference on Sedimentation and Hydrologic Modeling, April 19-23, 2015, Reno, Nevada, USA
• Selbig, William R. and Cox, Amanda and Bannerman, Roger T., 2012, Verification of a depth-integrated sample arm as a means to reduce solids stratification bias in urban stormwater sampling. J. Environ. Monit., The Royal Society of Chemistry, vol. 14, p. 1137-1143.
• USDA, Forest Service, 2007, Guidelines for Using Bedload Traps in Coarse-Bedded Mountain Streams: Construction, Installation, Operation, and Sample Processing, Rocky Mountain Research Station General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-191
• Wood, M., Fosness, R., Pachman, G., Lorang, M., Evaluation of Multi-Frequency Acoustics as a Surrogate for Bedload, 3rd Joint Federal Interagency Conference on Sedimentation and Hydrologic Modeling, April 19-23, 2015, Reno, Nevada, USA
• Wren, D.G., Goodwiller, B.T., Rigby, J.R., Carpenter, W.O., Kuhnle, R.A., Chambers, J.P., 2015, Estimating the size of the measurement volume for passive acoustic monitoring of Self-Generated Noise, 3rd Joint Federal Interagency Conference on Sedimentation and Hydrologic Modeling, April 19-23, 2015, Reno, Nevada, USA