Yellowstone National Park

  Partnership Projects in Yellowstone National Park

 

• 1999 - Collecting Water-Quality Information on Soda Butte Creek at the Boundary


• 1999 - Effect of Changing Atmospheric Deposition on the Chemistry of Lakes in National Parks in the Intermountain Region (multi-park project)


• 2003 - State of Montana Water Right Compact


• 2008 - Continuous Chloride Measurement as an Indicator of Geothermal and Volcanic Hazards
  
  
  

Publications:

Clow, D.W., J.O. Sickman, R.G. Striegl, D.P. Krabbenhoft, J.G. Elliott, M. Dornblaser, D.A. Roth, and D.H. Campbell. 2003. (download PDF reader) Changes in the chemistry of lakes and precipitation in high-elevation national parks in the western United States, 1985-1999. Water Resources Research, 39(6), 1171, doi: 10.1019/2002WR001533.

Clow, D.W., R.G. Striegl, L. Nanus, M.A. Mast, D.H. Campbell, and D.P. Krabbenhoft. 2002. Current status of high-elevation lake chemistry in seven national parks in the western United States. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus 2(2) 139-164. U.S. Geological Survey.

Boughton, G.K. 2001 . Metal loading in Soda Butte Creek upstream of Yellowstone National Park, Montana and Wyoming: A retrospective analysis of previous research; and quantification of metal loading, August 1999. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4170. 68 p.

National Park Service Site: http://www.nps.gov/yell