National Research Program Project Index

by Regional Location of Project Chief

EASTERN REGION
CENTRAL REGION
WESTERN REGION

The projects listed below include bibliographic information for publications after 1995. Information for 1994 and earlier years are available in a series of published annual reports. The last such report published is:
Nichols, M.L., ed., 1995, National Research Program of the U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Division Fiscal Year 1994: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-356, 451 p.

EASTERN REGION

Ecology

• Vegetation and Hydrogeomorphic Relations (Hupp/Noe/Rybicki)

Ground-Water Chemistry Projects

• Physical Chemistry of Stable Isotope Fractionation in Hydrologic Processes (Coplen/Bohlke/Revesz)
• Biogeochemical Controls on Organic Contaminant Degradation in Heterogeneous Near Surface Environments (Cozzarelli)
• Transport and Biogeochemical Fate of Organic Substances in Aquatic Environments (Eganhouse)
• Hydrogeochemical and Microbiological Investigations of Radionuclides, Nutrients, and Environmental Contaminants. (Landa/Jones/Kraemer)
• Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Chemical Evolution in Ground-Water Systems (Plummer/Busenberg/Glynn)

Ground-Water Hydrology Projects

• Digital Modeling of Transport in the Saturated Zone (Konikow)
• Hydrologic Behavior of Cretaceous Shales (Neuzil/Scholl)
• Regional Groundwater Flow and Transport (Sanford)
• Transport Phenomena in Fractured Rock (Shapiro)
• Investigations of Single and Multiphase Fluid Flow, Mass and Energy Transport, and Fluid Phase Change in the Subsurface Environment (Voss)

Surface-Water Chemistry Projects

• Biogeochemistry of Metals and Nutrients in Sediments (Simon)
• Carbon Fluxes in Hydrologic and Geologic Processes (Sundquist)

Surface-Water Hydrology Projects

• Hydrologic, Ecological, and Biogeochemical Processes in Flowing Waters (Harvey/Larsen)
• Hydrologic Variability and Trends (Hirsch)
• Regional Hydrologic Processes (Landwehr)
• Continental Water, Climate, and Earth-System Dynamics (Milly/Eng)

CENTRAL REGION

Ecology

• Interaction of Bacteria with Environmental Contaminants and Solid Surfaces in the Aquatic Environment(Harvey/Metge)
• Biogeochemistry of Carbon and Nitrogen in Aquatic Environments (Smith)
• Characterization of Biotic and Biogeochemical Interactions at Environmental Interfaces (Striegl/Schuster/Walvoord)

Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Projects

• Erosion and Deposition Processes (Moody/Griffin)
• Environmental Fluid Dynamics (Nelson/Simoes)

Ground-Water Chemistry Projects

• Arid Regions Climate and Chemistry (Benson)
• Geochemistry of Clay-Water Reactions (Eberl/Blum)
• Chemical Modeling of Acid Waters (Nordstrom/McCleskey)
• Reaction-Transport Modeling in Ground-Water Systems (Parkhurst/Riggs)
• Aqueous crystal growth and dissolution kinetics of earth surface minerals (Reddy)

Ground-Water Hydrology Projects

• Modeling and uncertainty of complex ground-water systems (Hill)
• Ground-Water Solute-Transport Simulation (Kipp/Stollenwerk)
• The Application of Geophysical Logging to Hydrogeological Investigations (Morin)
• Application of Stochastic Processes in Hydrogeology (Naff)
• Field Applications of Unsaturated Zone Flow Theory (Weeks/Anderson/Healy/Riggs/Stannard/Tindall)
• Hydrogeology of Lakes, Wetlands and Streams (Rosenberry)

Surface-Water Chemistry Projects

• Organic Carbon Migration in Aquatic Environments (Aiken/Thorn/Wickland)
• Chemical Transformations in Water Reclamation and Reuse (Barber)
• Organic Nitrogen and Organic Carbon in Hydrologic Systems (Rostad/Rutherford)
• Sediment-Water Chemistry in Large River Systems: Biogeochemical, Geomorphic, and Human Controls (Stallard/Martin)

Surface-Water Hydrology Projects

• Modeling of Watershed Systems (Hay/Webb)
• Hydro-climatic Processes and Hazards (McCabe)
• Statistical Analysis of Errors in Hydrologic Models (Troutman)

WESTERN REGION

Ecology

• Biotic Response to Climatic Variability and Human Impacts in Arid Lands (Betancourt)
• Plankton Dynamics in Tidal Estuaries (Cloern/Lucas)
• Solute Transport Involving Biological Processes in Surface Waters (Kuwabara)
• Mechanisms of biological and ecological response in disturbed aquatic ecosystems (Thompson/Cain/Carter/Fend/Hornberger/Stewart/Luoma)
• Biogeochemistry at Regional Scales (Marvin-DiPasquale)
• Microbial Biogeochemistry of Aquatic Environments (Oremland/Miller)
• Geochemistry of Riverine and Estuarine Waters (Peterson/Cayan/Dettinger/Hostetler)

Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Projects

• Landscape Change in the Southwest (Webb)

Ground-Water Chemistry Projects

• Partitioning of Solutes between Solid and Aqueous Phases (Kent/Fuller)
• Isotope Tracers of Biogeochemical and Hydrologic Processes (Kendall/Michel/Silva)
• Hydrogeochemical and Biogeochemical Studies of Volcanic and Geothermal Systems (Mariner/Evans)
• Geochemical Reactions Between Water and Mineral Substrates (White/Bullen/Presser/Schulz)

Ground-Water Hydrology Projects

• Environmental Tracers of Surface-Water / Ground-Water Interactions (Constantz/Stonestrom)
• Multiphase Flow, Transport, Reaction, and Biodegradation (Essaid/Bekins/Curtis/Duff/Green/Herkelrath)
• Hydrology of Fractured Rocks (Hsieh/Tiedeman)
• Hydrologic Studies of Heat and Mass Transport (Ingebritsen/Hurwitz)
• Physical Characteristics that Determine Flow in the Unsaturated Zone (Nimmo/Perkins)
• Ground-Water Monitoring Network Design (Wagner)