USGS NAWQA: Publications on Major River Basins

Hambrook-Berkman, J.A., Scudder, B.C., Lutz, M.A., and Harris, M.A., 2010, Evaluation of aquatic biota in relation to environmental characteristics measured at multiple scales in agricultural streams of the Midwest: 1993–2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5051, 24 p.

Lutz, M.A., and Kennedy, J.L., Jr., 2010, Digital orthophotograph-based riparian land cover for 86 stream segments in eight study units in Major River Basin 3 of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Report 536.

Sullivan, D.J., Vecchia, A.V., Lorenz, D.L., Gilliom, R.J., and Martin, J.D., 2009, Trends in pesticide concentrations in Corn-Belt streams, 1996–2006: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5132, 75 p.

Vecchia, A.V., Gilliom, R.J., Sullivan, D.J., Lorenz, D.L., and Martin, J.D., 2009, Trends in concentrations and use of agricultural herbicides for Corn Belt rivers, 1996-2006: Environmental Science and Technology.

Anning, D.W., Bauch, N.J., Gerner, S.J., Flynn, M.E., Hamlin, S.N., Moore, S.J., Schaefer, D.H., Anderholm, S.K., and Spangler, L.E., 2007, Dissolved solids in basin-fill aquifers and streams in the southwestern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5315, 168 p.

Anning, D.W., Dissolved Solids in Basin-Fill Aquifers and Streams in the Southwestern United States - Executive Summary: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2008-3076, 4 p.

Northeast and Mid-Atlantic River Basins

Chalmers, Ann Thomas, Argue, Denise M., Gay, David A., Brigham, Mark E., Schmitt, Christopher J., and Lorenz, David L., Mercury trends in fish from rivers and lakes in the United States, 1969-2005: Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 175:175–191. published online June 10, 2010, doi: 10.1007/s10661-010-1504-6.

Kennen, J.G., Murray, K.R., and Beaulieu, K.M., 2010, Determining hydrologic factors that influence stream macroinvertebrate assemblages in the northeastern U.S.: Ecohydrology, Published online Dec. 29, 2009.

Phillips, P.J., Ator, S.W., and Nystrom, E.A., 2007, Temporal Changes in Surface-Water Insecticide Concentrations after the Phaseout of Diazinon and Chlorpyrifos: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 41(12), p. 4246–4251.

South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee River Basins

Terziotti, Silvia, Hoos, A.B., Harned, D.A., and Garcia, A.M., 2010, Mapping watershed potential to contribute phosphorus from geologic materials to receiving streams, southeastern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3102, 1 sheet.

McMahon, Gerard, Tervelt, Larinda, and Donehoo, William, 2007, Methods for estimating annual wastewater nutrient loads in the southeastern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1040, 81 p..

Hoos, A.B., Terziotti, Silvia, McMahon, Gerard, Savvas, Katerina, Tighe, K.C., and Alkons-Wolinsky, Ruth, 2008, Data to Support Statistical Modeling of Instream Nutrient Load Based on Watershed Attributes, Southeastern United States, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1163, 51 p.

Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy River Basins

Frey, Jeffrey W.; Bell, Amanda H.; Hambrook Berkman, Julie A.; and Lorenz, David L., 2011, Assessment of nutrient enrichment by use of algal-, invertebrate-, and fish-community attributes in wadeable streams in ecoregions surrounding the Great Lakes: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5009, 49 p.

Lorenz, D.L., Robertson, D.M., and Hall, D.W., 2009, Trends in streamflow, and nutrient and suspended sediment concentrations and loads in the Upper Mississippi, Ohio, Red, and Great Lakes River Basins 1975-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008–5213, 82 p.

Missouri River Basin

Sprague, L.A.; Clark, M.L.; Rus, D.L.; Zelt, R.B.; Flynn, J.L.; Davis, J.V., 2007, Nutrient and Suspended-Sediment Trends in the Missouri River Basin, 1993-2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5231, 80 p.

Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf Basins

Rebich, R.A.; Demcheck, D.K., 2007, Trends in Nutrient and Sediment Concencentrations and Loads in Major River Basins of the South-Central United States, 1993-2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5090, 112 p.

Rio Grande, Colorado, and Great Basin River Basins

Konrad, C.P., Brasher, A.M.D., and May, J.T., 2008, Assessing streamflow characteristics as limiting factors on benthic invertebrate assemblages in streams across the western United States: Freshwater Biology (2008), 16 p. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02024.x

Pacific Northwest River Basins

Wise, D.R.; Rinella, F.A., III; Rinella, J.F.; Fuhrer, G.J.; Embrey, S.S.; Clark, G.E.; Schwarz, G.E.; Sobieszczyk, Steven, 2007, Nutrient and Suspended-Sediment Transport and Trends in the Columbia River and Puget Sound Basins, 1993-2003: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5186, 177 p.

California Basins

Saleh, D.K., Lorenz, D.L., and Domagalski, J.L., 2011, Comparison of two parametric methods to estimaate pesticide mass loads in California's Central Valley: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 47, no. 2, p.254-264.

Johnson, H.M., Domagalski, J.L., and Saleh, D.K., 2011, Trends in pesticide concentrations in streams of the western United States, 1993-2005: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 47, no. 2, p. 265-286.

Kratzer, C.R., Kent, R.H., Saleh, D.K., Knifong, D.L., Dileanis, P.D., and Orlando, J.L., 2011, Trends in nutrient concentrations, loads, and yields in streams in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Santa Ana Basins, California, 1975–2004: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5228, 112 p.

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