National Research Program


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 Solute Transport Involving Biological Processes in Surface Waters (Hupp/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/Kraemer/Voytek/)
  • 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)
  • Reaction-Transport Phenomena in Hydrogeologic Settings (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/Noe)
  • 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/Walvoord)
  • Shingobee Headwaters (Minnesota) Aquatic Ecosystems Project (Winter and others)

Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Projects

  • River Mechanics (Andrews/Antweiller/Moody)
  • Movement and Storage of Sediment in River Systems (Meade)
  • Environmental Fluid Dynamics (Nelson/Simoes)
  • Applications of Fluid and Sediment Mechanics to Basin and Regional Scale Hydrologic and Geomorphic Problems (Smith)

Ground-Water Chemistry Projects

  • Arid Regions Climate and Chemistry (Benson)
  • Geochemistry of Clay-Water Reactions (Eberl/Blum/Kile)
  • Chemical Modeling and Thermodynamic Data Evaluation of Major and Trace Elements in Acid Mine Waters and Ground Waters (Nordstrom/Ball)
  • Reaction-Transport Modeling in Ground-Water Systems (Parkhurst/Riggs)

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)
  • Role of Lakes in the Hydrologic System, with Emphasis on Their Relation to Ground-Water (Rosenberry)

Surface-Water Chemistry Projects

  • Organic Carbon Migration in Aquatic Environments (Aiken/Thorn/Wickland)
  • Chemical Transformations in Water Reclamation and Reuse (Barber)
  • Aqueous crystal growth and dissolution kinetics of earth surface minerals (Reddy/Schuster)
  • Sediment-Water Chemistry in Large River Systems: Biogeochemical, Geomorphic, and Human Controls (Stallard/Martin)
  • Research in Analytical Environmental Trace Element Chemistry and Its Impact on Water Quality (Taylor/Antweiler)

Surface-Water Hydrology Projects

  • Paleohydrology and Climate Change (Jarrett)
  • Precipitation-Runoff Modeling of Watershed Systems (Hay)
  • Hydro-climatic Processes and Hazards (McCabe)
  • Statistical Analysis of Errors in Hydrologic Models (Troutman)

WESTERN REGION

Ecology

Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Projects

  • Sediment Impacts from Disturbed and Undisturbed Lands (Osterkamp)
  • Response of Fluvial Systems to Climatic Change (Webb)

Ground-Water Chemistry Projects

Ground-Water Hydrology Projects

Surface-Water Hydrology Projects

  • Coupled Transport and Geochemical Processes Determining the Fate of Chemicals in Surface Waters (Bencala)

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