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Publications of other USGS NAWQA Urban Studies
Albano, C.M., and Giddings, E.M.P., 2007, Characterization of Habitat and Biological Communities at Fixed Sites in the Great Salt Lake Basins, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, Water Years 1999-2001, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5300.
Brown, L.R., Gregory, M.B., and May, J.T., , 2009, Relation of urbanization to stream fish assemblages and species traits in nine metropolitan areas of the United States, Urban Ecosystems, DOI 10.1007/s11252-009-0082-2.
Bryant, W.L., Goodbred, S.L., Leiker, T.L., Inouye, Laura, and Johnson , B.T., 2007, Use of Chemical Analysis and Assays of Semipermeable Membrane Devices Extracts to Assess the Response of Bioavailable Organic Pollutants in Streams to Urbanization in Six Metropolitan Areas of the United States, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5113.
Bryant , W.L., Jr., and Goodbred, S.L., , 2008, The response of hydrophobic organics and potential toxicity in streams to urbanization of watersheds in six metropolitan areas of the United States, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, DOI 10.1007/s10661-008-0546-5.
Coles, J.F., Bell, A.H., Scudder, B.C., and Carpenter, K.D., 2009, The effects of urbanization and other environmental gradients on algal assemblages in nine metropolitan areas across the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5022, 18 p.
Coles, J.F., Cuffney, T. F., McMahon, Gerard, and Beaulieu, K.M., 2004, The effects of urbanization on the biological, physical, and chemical characteristics of coastal New England streams: U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1695, 47 p.
Couch, Carol, and Hamilton, Pixie, 2002, Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-042-02, 2 p.
Cuffney, T.F., and Brightbill, R.A., 2008, Methods for processing and summarizing time-series temperature data collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program studies on the effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 330, 23 p.
Cuffney, T.F., and Falcone, J.A., 2009, Derivation of nationally consistent indices representing urban intensity within and across nine metropolitan areas of the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5095, 36 p.
Cuffney, T,F., Bilger, M.D., and Haigler, A.M., 2007, Ambiguous taxa: effects on the characterization and interpretation of invertebrate assemblages, J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc., 2007, 26(2):286-307.
Cuffney, T.F., Zappia, Humbert, Giddings, E.M.P., and Coles. J.F., 2005, Urbanization effects on benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in contrasting environmental settings: Boston, Birmingham, and Salt Lake City, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium XX, Bethesda, Maryland, p. 361-407.
Falcone, James, Stewart, Jana, Sobieszczyk, Steven, Dupree, Jean, McMahon, Gerard, and Buell, Gary, 2007, A comparison of natural and urban characteristics and the development of urban intensity indices across six geographic settings: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5123, 43 p., 7 apps.
Gerner, S.J., and Waddell, K.M., 2003, Hydrology and Water Quality of an Urban Stream Reach in the Great Basin—Little Cottonwood Creek near Salt Lake City, Utah, Water Years 1999-2000, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4276.
Giddings, E.M.G, Brown, L.R., Short, T.M. and Meador, M.R., 2006, Relation of fish communities to environmental conditions in urban streams of the Wasatch Front, Utah: Western North American Naturalist v. 66 p. 155-186.
Giddings, E.M.P., Bell, A.H., Beaulieu, K.M., Cuffney, T.F., Coles, J.F., Brown, L.R., Fitzpatrick, F.A., Falcone, James, Sprague, L.A., Bryant, W.L., Peppler, M.C., Stephens, Cory, and McMahon, Gerard, 2009, Selected physical, chemical, and biological data used to study urbanizing streams in nine metropolitan areas of the United States, 1999–2004: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 423, 11 p. + data tables.
Giddings, E.M., Moorman, M., Cuffney, T.F., McMahon, Gerard, and Harned, D.A., 2007, Selected physical, chemical, and biological data for 30 urbanizing streams in the North Carolina Piedmont ecoregion, 2002—2003: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 279, 14 p.
Gregory, M.B., and Bryant, W.L., 2003, Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems in the Piedmont Ecoregion of Georgia and Albama - A study design: in Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Water Resources Conference, Athens, Georgia, 5 p.
Gregory, M.B., and Calhoun, D.L., 2007, Physical, Chemical, and Biological Responses of Streams to Increasing Watershed Urbanization in the Piedmont Ecoregion of Georgia and Alabama, 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5101-B.
Gregory, M.B., 2005, Microhabitat preference by aquatic invertebrates influence bioassessment metrics in Piedmont streams of Georgia and Alabama: in Hatcher, K.J., editor, Proceedings of the 2005 Georgia Water Resources Conference, Athens, Georgia, 6 p.
Hopkins, E.H., 2003, Using a geographic information system to rank urban intensity of small watersheds for the Chattahoochee, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Oconee River Basins in the Piedmont Ecoregion of Georgia and Alabama: in Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Water Resources Conference, Athens, Georgia, 3 p.
Hughes, W.B., and Berndt, M.P., 2003, National Water-Quality Assessment in Georgia, 2001-2011: in Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Water Resources Conference, Athens, Georgia, 5 p.
McMahon, Gerard, 2007. Consequences of land-cover misclassification in models of impervious surface. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 73(12): 1343-1353.
McMahon, Gerard and Cuffney, T.F., 2000, Quantifying urban intensity in drainage basins for assessing stream ecological conditions: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 36, p. 1247-1261. http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/ecology/pubs/index.html
McMahon, Gerard, Bales, J.D., Coles J.F., Giddings, E.M.P., and Zappia, Humbert, 2003, Use of stage data to characterize hydrologic conditions in an urbanizing environment: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 39, no. 6., p. 1529-1546.
Meador, M.R., Coles, J.F., and Zappia, Humbert, 2005, Fish assemblage responses to urban intensity gradients in contrasting metropolitan areas: Birmingham, Alabama, and Boston, Massachusetts, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium 47, Bethesda, Maryland, p. 409-423.
Moring, J.B., 2009, Effects of urbanization on the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of small Blackland Prairie streams in and near the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5101–C, 31 p.
Potapova, Marina, Coles, J. F., Giddings, E.M., and Zappia, Humbert, 2005, A comparison of the influences of urbanization on stream benthic algal assemblages in contrasting environmental settings, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium 47, Bethesda, Maryland, p.333-359.
Short, T.M., Giddings, E.M.P., Zappia, Humbert, Coles, J.F., 2005, Urbanization effects on habitat characteristics of streams in Boston, Massachusetts, Birmingham, Alabama, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium 47, Bethesda, Maryland, p. 317-332.
Sprague, L.A. and Nowell, L.H. 2008. Comparison of pesticide concentrations in streams at low flow in six metropolitan areas of the United States, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 288-298.
Sprague, L.A., Harned, D.A., Hall, D.W., Nowell, L.H., Bauch, N.J., and Richards, K.D., 2007, Response of stream chemistry during base flow to gradients of urbanization in selected locations across the conterminous United States, 2002–04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5083, 132 p.
Sprague, L.A., Zuellig, R.E., and Dupree, J.A., 2006, Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado and Wyoming, chap. A of Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems in six metropolitan areas of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5101-A, 139 p.
Sprague, L.A., Zuellig, R.E., and Dupree, J.A., 2006, Effects of Urban Development on Stream Ecosystems along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2006–3083, 4 p.
Tate, C.M., Cuffney, T.F., McMahon, Gerard, Giddings, E.M.P., Zappia, Humbert, 2005, Use of an urban intensity index to assess urban effects on streams in three contrasting environmental settings, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium 47, Bethesda, Maryland, p. 291-315.
Waddell, K.M., Gerner, S.J., Thiros, S.A., Giddings, E.M., Baskin, R.L., Cederberg, J.R., and Albano, C.M., 2003, Water quality in the Great Salt Lake Basins, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, 1998-2001, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1236.
Waite, I.R., Sobieszczyk, Steven, Carpenter, K.D., Arnsberg, A.J., Johnson, H.M., Hughes, C.A., Sarantou, M.J., and Rinella, F.A., 2008, Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems in the Willamette River basin and surrounding area, Oregon and Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5101-D, 62 p.
Wilber, W.G., and Couch, C.A., 2002, Assessing Five National Priorities in Water Resources: Water Resources IMPACT, vol. 4, no. 4, p. 17-21.
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