Publications
Since 1966, CERC scientists have published over 2000 peer reviewed articles and reports. Browse our publications below or search CERC's publications by author or title through the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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River-corridor habitat dynamics, Lower Missouri River
Intensive management of the Missouri River for navigation, flood control, and power generation has resulted in substantial physical changes to the river corridor. Historically, the Missouri River was characterized by a shifting, multithread channel and abundant unvegetated sandbars. The shifting channel provided a wide variety of hydraulic environments and large areas of connected and unconnected
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Robert B. Jacobson
The pallid sturgeon: Scientific investigations help understand recovery needs
Understanding of the pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) has increased significantly since the species was listed as endangered over two decades ago. Since 2005, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC) have been engaged in an interdisciplinary research program in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Missouri River Recovery Progr
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Aaron J. DeLonay
Final report: Baseline selenium monitoring of agricultural drains operated by the Imperial Irrigation District in the Salton Sea Basin
This report summarizes comprehensive findings from a 4-year-long field investigation to document baseline environmental conditions in 29 agricultural drains and ponds operated by the Imperial Irrigation District along the southern border of the Salton Sea. Routine water-quality collections and fish community assessments were conducted on as many as 16 sampling dates at roughly quarterly intervals
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Michael K. Saiki, Barbara A. Martin, Thomas W. May
Bathymetric and Velocimetric Survey and Assessment of Habitat for Pallid Sturgeon on the Mississippi River in the Vicinity of the Proposed Interstate 70 Bridge at St. Louis, Missouri
A bathymetric and velocimetry survey was conducted on the Mississippi River in the vicinity of a proposed new bridge for Interstate 70 at St. Louis, Missouri. A multibeam echo sounder mapping system and an acoustic Doppler current profiler were used to obtain channel-bed elevations and vertically averaged and near-bed velocities for a 3,545-foot (1,080-meter) long reach of the Mississippi River ap
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Richard J. Huizinga, Caroline M. Elliott, Robert B. Jacobson
Power to detect trends in Missouri River fish populations within the Habitat Assessment Monitoring Program
As with all large rivers in the United States, the Missouri River has been altered, with approximately one-third of the mainstem length impounded and one-third channelized. These physical alterations to the environment have affected the fish populations, but studies examining the effects of alterations have been localized and for short periods of time, thereby preventing generalization. In respons
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Janice L. Bryan, Mark L. Wildhaber, Dan W. Gladish
Effects of current-use pesticides on amphibians
For many years, amphibians were understudied in the ecotoxicological literature. In 1989, the Canadian Wildlife Service published a comprehensive review of studies examining the effects of contaminants on amphibians (Power et al. 1989). Just 10 years later, the same organization published an updated review that included twice the number of studies (Pauli et al. 2000), indicating rapid growth in th
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C. Lehman, B K Williams
Potential effects of coal bed natural gas development on fish and aquatic resources
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a summary of issues and findings related to the potential effects of coalbed natural gas (CBNG) development on fish and other aquatic resources. We reviewed CBNG issues from across the United States and used the Powder River Basin of Wyoming as a case study to exemplify some pertinent issues. The quality of water produced during CBNG extraction is quite va
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Aïda M. Farag, D.D. Harper, W.A. Hubert, A.E. Hubert
What you need to know about selenium
No abstract available.
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T. Young, K. Finley, William J. Adams, John M. Besser, W. A. Hopkins, D.B. Jolley, J. Martin-McNaughton, Theresa S. Presser, D.P. Shaw, J. M. Unrine
Recent advancements in amphibian ecotoxicology
When the first edition of Ecotoxicology of Amphibians and Reptiles was published in 2000, I reviewed the state of the literature from 1972 through 1998 (Sparling et al. 2000). That review covered 11 271 contaminant citations listed in Wildlife Review and Sports Fisheries Abstracts published by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Among its findings, only 2.7% of the cited papers were on amphibians an
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Donald Sparling, Greg Linder, Christine A. Bishop, Sherry K. Krest
Physiological ecology of amphibians and reptiles: Natural history and life history attributes framing chemical exposure in the field
No abstract available.
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Greg Linder, B. Palmer, Edward E. Little, Christopher L. Rowe, Paula F. P. Henry
Variation in Lake Michigan alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) thiaminase and fatty acids composition
Thiaminase activity of alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) is variable across Lake Michigan, yet factors that contribute to the variability in alewife thiaminase activity are unknown. The fatty acid content of Lake Michigan alewife has not been previously reported. Analysis of 53 Lake Michigan alewives found a positive correlation between thiaminase activity and the following fatty acid: C22:ln9, sum o
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Dale C. Honeyfield, Donald E. Tillitt, John D. Fitzsimons, Scott B. Brown
Evaluation of the use of performance reference compounds in an oasis-HLB adsorbent based passive sampler for improving water concentration estimates of polar herbicides in freshwater
Passive samplers such as the Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Sampler (POCIS) are useful tools for monitoring trace levels of polar organic chemicals in aquatic environments. The use of performance reference compounds (PRC) spiked into the POCIS adsorbent for in situ calibration may improve the semiquantitative nature of water concentration estimates based on this type of sampler. In this work,
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N. Mazzella, S. Lissalde, S. Moreira, F. Delmas, P. Mazellier, J.N. Huckins