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Agricultural chemicals in groundwater of the midwestern United States: Relations to land use

To determine the relations between land use and concentrations of selected agricultural chemicals (nitrate, atrazine residue [atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine) + deethylatrazinc (2-amino-4-chloro-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine) + deisopropylatrazine (2-amino-4-chloro-6-ethylamino-s-triazine)], and alachlor residue [alachlor, [2-chloro-2′,6′-diethyl-N-(methoxymethyl) acetani
Authors
D.W. Kolpin

Multiphase flow modeling of a crude-oil spill site with a bimodal permeability distribution

Fluid saturation, particle-size distribution, and porosity measurements were obtained from 269 core samples collected from six boreholes along a 90-m transect at a subregion of a crude-oil spill site, the north pool, near Bemidji, Minnesota. The oil saturation data, collected 11 years after the spill, showed an irregularly shaped oil body that appeared to be affected by sediment spatial variabilit
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Leslie A. Dillard, Hedeff I. Essaid, William N. Herkelrath

Evaluation of unconfined-aquifer parameters from pumping test data by nonlinear least squares

Nonlinear least squares (NLS) with automatic differentiation was used to estimate aquifer parameters from drawdown data obtained from published pumping tests conducted in homogeneous, water-table aquifers. The method is based on a technique that seeks to minimize the squares of residuals between observed and calculated drawdown subject to bounds that are placed on the parameter of interest. The an
Authors
M. Heidari, A. Moench

Effect of flagellates on free-living bacterial abundance in an organically contaminated aquifer

Little is known about the role of protists in the saturated subsurface. Porous media microcosms containing bacteria and protists, were used to determine whether flagellates from an organically contaminated aquifer could substantively affect the number of free- living bacteria (FLB). When flagellates were present, the 3-40% maximum breakthrough of fluorescent y labelled FLB injected into the microc
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N.E. Kinner, R.W. Harvey, M. Kazmierkiewicz-Tabaka

Spring snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada - Does a day make a difference?

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Authors
D.H. Peterson, M. D. Dettinger, D.R. Cayan, R. E. Smith, L. Riddle, N. Knowles

Assimilation efficiencies and turnover rates of trace elements in marine bivalves: A comparison of oysters, clams and mussels

Assimilation efficiencies (AEs) and physiological turnover-rate constants (k) of six trace elements (Ag, Am, Cd, Co, Se, Zn) in four marine bivalves (Crassostrea virginica Gmelin,Macoma balthica Linnaeus, Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus, and Mytilus edulis Linnaeus) were measured in radiotracer-depuration experiments. Egestion rates of unassimilated elements were highest during the first 24 h of de
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J.R. Reinfelder, W.-X. Wang, S. N. Luoma, N.S. Fisher

Forecasting spring runoff pulses from the Sierra Nevada

No abstract available. 
Authors
M. D. Dettinger, D.H. Peterson, H.F Diaz, D.R. Cayan

The spring runoff pulse from the Sierra Nevada

A spring runoff pulse is identified in the Merced River record from the Sierra Nevada, that makes the transition from low streamflow conditions in winter to the high streamflow conditions in the later spring-early summer period. The timing of the pulse is delayed with greater seasonal accumulation of snow pack in the Yosemite region. Also, the runoff pulse is triggered by a regional weather fluctu
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D.R. Cayan, D.H. Peterson, L. Riddle, M. D. Dettinger, R. E. Smith

Ground-water flow and contaminant transport at a radioactive-materials processing site, Wood River Junction, Rhode Island

Liquid wastes from an enriched-uranium cold-scrap recovery plant at Wood River Junction, Rhode Island, were discharged to the environment through evaporation ponds and trenches from 1966 through 1980. Leakage from the ponds and trenches resulted in a plume of contaminated ground water extending northwestward to the Pawcatuck River through a highly permeable sand and gravel aquifer of glacial origi
Authors
Barbara J. Ryan, Kenneth L. Kipp