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• USGS Biology Contaminants Program 5-Year Plan

• Abandoned Mine Lands

• Aquatic Toxicology

• BEST-LRMN (Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends Programs - Large River Monitoring Network)

• Biochemical Responses

• Bird Surveys

• Boulder River

• Colorado River

• Ecotoxicology

• Environmental Chemistry

• Fire Chemicals

• Fisheries

• Freshwater Mussels

• Grand Teton National Park

• Invasive Species

• Mercury Contamination in Aquatic Ecosystems

• Missouri River

• Neosho Madtom Spawning Movies

• Ozark Rivers

• Rio Grande

• Sediment Toxicology

• Selenium and Trace Elements

• SPMD (Semipermeable Membrane Device)

• Ultraviolet Radiation (UV-B) and Photoenhanced Toxicity

• Vegetation Dynamics

• Western Reservoirs

Abandoned Mine Lands

• Assessment of the Biological Recovery of the Upper Cedar Creek, Boone County, Missouri, Following an Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation

Aquatic Toxicology

• Acute Toxicity of Copper, Ammonia, and Chloride to Glochidia and Juveniles of Freshwater Mussels

• A National Pilot Study of Mercury Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems Along Multiple Gradients: Bioaccumulation in Fishes

• An Examination of the Sensitivity of Bighead an Silver Carp to Antimycin A and Rotenone

• Assessing Contaminant Sensitivity of American Shad, Atlantic Sturgeon, and Shortnose Sturgeon (91008)

• Assessment of Goshen Warm Springs as a Potential Hatchery Site for June suckers (Chasmistes liorus) Focusing on Selenium Bioaccumulation and Fish Growth Rates   Appendix

• Assessment of the Photoenhanced Toxicity of Diluent to the Tidewater Silverside (90964)

• Behavioral Avoidance/Attractance Response of Rainbow Trout to Fire-Retardant Chemicals (for U.S. Forest Service--June 2002)

• Developing Standardized Guidance for Conducting Toxicity Tests With Glochidia of Freshwater Mussels (graphics)

• Effects of Geothermal Effluents on Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout in the Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (91012)

• Effects of UVB Radiation on the Toxicity of Fire-Fighting Chemicals (for U.S. Forest Service--March 2000)

• Effects of Fire-Retardant Chemical Products to Fathead Minnows in Experimental Streams (for U.S. Forest Service--June 2002)

• Environmental Implications of Fire-Retardant Chemicals (Summary Document for U.S. Forest Service--June 2002)

• Environmental Persistence of Long-Term Fire-Retardant Chemicals to Fathead Minnows (for U.S. Forest Service--June 2002)

• Evaluation of Contaminant Exposure and the Potential Impacts on Aquatic Habitat Quality in the Anchorage Area of the Cook Inlet Basin

• Evaluation of Flushing of a Backwater Channel: Concentrations of Selenium and Other Inorganic Elements in Water, Sediment, Invertebrates, Forage Fish, and Colorado Pikeminnow (91271) Appendix A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L

• Evaluation of Minimum Data Requirements for Acute Toxicity Value Extrapolation with Aquatic Organisms

• Fish and Agricultural Chemicals: Safeguarding Your Pond (90610)

• Handbook of Acute Toxicity of Chemicals to Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates (90301)

• Manual of Acute Toxicity: Interpretation and Database of 410 Chemicals and 66 Species of Freshwater Animals  - Introduction (90506)

• Mercury Content and Ultrastructure of Gills and Scales of Fish from Lakes in North and Northwestern Russia That Are Polluted by Atmospheric Deposition (90798)Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Water, Sediment and Snow from Lakes in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (91344)

• Mortality and Gill Damage from Beryllium in Acidic Water: A Comparison of Acute and Chronic Responses in Three Freshwater Fish Species (90879)

• Photoenhanced Toxicity of a Diluent to Mysidopsis bahia (90965)

• Photoenhanced Toxicity of a Diluent to the Frog, Rana sphenocephala (90967)

• Relative Toxicity of Waterborne Inorganic Contaminants to the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow (Hybognathus amarus) and Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas) in a Water Quality Simulating that in the Rio Grande, New Mexico   (Appendix A)   (Appendix B)   (Appendix C)   (Appendix D)

• The Toxic Equivalents Approach for Fish and Wildlife (90969)

• Sublethal Effects of Photoenhanced Toxicity of Diluent to Ceriodaphnia dubia Reproduction (90966)

• Toxic Equivalency Factors (TEFs) for PCBs, PCDDs, PCDFs for Humans and Wildlife (90970)

• Toxicity and Bioavailability of Metals in the Missouri River Adjacent to a Lead Refinery (USGS BSR2001-0004)

• Use of Surrogate Species in Assessing Contaminant Risk to Endangered and Threatened Fishes (90877)

• Using Water Quality Criteria and Surrogate Species to Protect Sensitive Life Stages of Freshwater Mussels and Other Aquatic Organisms (PowerPoint slideshow)

BEST-LRMN (Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends Programs-Large River Monitoring Network)

• SEARCH Bibliography from BEST Synthesis Documents (currently off-line)

• Colorado River (BEST 2-2004 Fact Sheet)

• Contaminant Concentrations and Biomarker Responses of Fish from the Mobile, Apalachicola, Savannah, and Pee Dee River Basins (SETAC 2005 Poster)

• Contaminant Concentrations and Biomarker Responses of Piscivorous and Benthivorous Fish in the Colorado River Basin (SETAC 2004 Poster)

• Development of an Approach for Integrating Components of the U.S. Geological Survey Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) and National Stream Quantity Accounting Network (NASQAN) Programs for Large U.S. Rivers (USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5083)

• Environmental Contaminants and Their Effects on Fish in the Columbia River Basin

• Environmental Contaminants and Their Effects on Fish in the Mississippi River Basin

• Environmental Contaminants and Their Effects on Fish in the Rio Grande Basin  errata page 8 (1-12-05)

• Field Procedures for Assessing the Exposure of Fish to Environmental Contaminants

• Illustrated Field Guide for Assessing External and Internal Anomalies in Fish

• Monitoring Fish and Wildlife for Environmental Contaminants: The National Contaminant Biomonitoring Program (90341)

• Selected Methods for Monitoring Chemical Contaminants and their Effects in Aquatic Ecosystems

• Synthesis Projects and Activities (Comprehensive Biomarker Reviews)

• Yukon River Basin SETAC 2003 Poster

• Environmental Contaminants and Their Effects on Fish in the Yukon River Basin

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Biochemical Responses

• Biochemical and Physiological Indicators of Contaminant Stress in Aquatic Organisms of Large River Systems (90880)

• Modulators of Immune Responses: The Evolutionary Trail (90870)

Bird Surveys

• Breeding Bird Surveys and Ecotourism Potential at Laredo, Webb County, Texas (cover page) (tables) (figure) (Appendix A) (91009)

• Breeding Bird Surveys at the Galvan Ranch, Webb County, Texas (cover page) (tables) (figure) (Appendix A) (91119)

• Reproduction and Distribution of Bald Eagles in Voyageurs National Park, MN, 1973-1993 (90945)

• Surveys of Night Birds Along the Rio Grande in Webb County, Texas (cover page) (91112)

Boulder River

• Aquatic Health and Exposure Pathways of Trace Elements (91375)
• Biomonitoring in the Boulder River Watershed, Montana: Metal Concentrations in Biofilm and Macroinvertebrates, and Relations with Macroinvertebrate Assemblage
• Evaluating the Success of Remediation in the Boulder River Watershed

• Synthesis of Water, Sediment, and Biological Data Using Hazard Quotients to Assess Ecosystem Health (91374)

Colorado River (also see BEST)

• A Site-Specific Assessment of the Risk of Ammonia to Endangered Colorado Pikeminnow and Razorback Sucker Populations in the Upper Colorado River Adjacent to the Atlas Mill Tailings Pile, Moab, Utah (Appendices [not ADA compliant])

• Chronic Toxicity of Un-ionized Ammonia to Early Life-Stages of Endangered Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) and Razorback Sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) Compared to the Surrogate Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas)

• Determination of a Safe Level of Ammonia that is Protective of Juvenile Colorado Pikeminnow in the Upper Colorado River, Utah

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Ecotoxicology

• Aquatic Health and Exposure Pathways of Trace Elements (91375)

• Water Quality and Aquatic Toxicity Data During 2002 Spring Thaw Conditions in the Upper Animas River Watershed, Silverton, Colorado: US Geological Survey, Open File Report 02-488 (91232)

• Impact of Permethrin on Zooplankton in High Latitude Experimental Ponds (90881)

• Synthesis of Water, Sediment, and Biological Data Using Hazard Quotients to Assess Ecosystem Health (91374)

Environmental Chemistry

• Analysis of SPMD Samples from the April 2004 Deployment in Bluestone River, VA for PCBs as Bioavailable Organic Contaminants

• Analysis of SPMD Samples from the October/November 2004 Deployment in Lake Anna, VA for PCBs as Bioavailable Organic Contaminants

• Assessment of Missouri River Habitat Quality Using SPMDs

• Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Integrative Samplers From Chesapeake Bay Tributaries (91309)

• Development and Application of Techniques for Sampling Bioavailable Airborne Organic Contaminants

• POCIS slide show (21 MG)

• SPMD web

• The CETAC ADX-500 Autodiluter system: A Study of Dilution Performance with the ELAN 6000 ICP-MS and ELAN Software (90956)

• The Use of Semipermeable Membrane Devices (SPMDs) to Concentrate Inducers of fish Hepatic Mixed Function Oxygenase (MFO) (90906)

• Use of SPMD Technology for a Probabilistic Assessment of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants in Selected Reaches of Virginia Rivers

Fire Chemicals

• Environmental Implications of Fire-Retardant Chemicals (Summary Document for U.S. Forest Service--June 2002)

• Effects of UVB Radiation on the Toxicity of Fire-Fighting Chemicals (for U.S. Forest Service--March 2000)

• Effects of Fire-Retardant Chemical Products to Fathead Minnows in Experimental Streams (for U.S. Forest Service--June 2002)

• Environmental Persistence of Long-Term Fire-Retardant Chemicals to Fathead Minnows (for U.S. Forest Service--June 2002)

• Behavioral Avoidance/Attractance Response of Rainbow Trout to Fire-Retardant Chemicals (for U.S. Forest Service--June 2002)

Fisheries

• Aquatic Synthesis for Voyageurs National Park (USGS/BRD/ITR--2003-0001)

• Benthic Fish

• Races of Cutthroat Trout in Yellowstone Lake (90019)

Freshwater Mussels

• Acute Toxicity of Copper, Ammonia, and Chloride to Glochidia and Juveniles of Freshwater Mussels

• Developing Standardized Guidance for Conducting Toxicity Tests With Glochidia of Freshwater Mussels (graphics)

• Using Water Quality Criteria and Surrogate Species to Protect Sensitive Life Stages of Freshwater Mussels and Other Aquatic Organisms (PowerPoint slideshow)

Grand Teton National Park

• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Water, Sediment and Snow from Lakes in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (91344)

• Summary of Cutthroat Trout Population Data in the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (1984-2003)

Invasive Species

• Asian Carps of the Genus Hypophthalmichthys (Pisces, Cyprinidae) ― A Biological Synopsis and Environmental Risk Assessment

• An Examination of the Sensitivity of Bighead an Silver Carp to Antimycin A and Rotenone

Mercury Contamination in Aquatic Ecosystems

• A National Pilot Study of Mercury Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems Along Multiple Gradients: Bioaccumulation in Fishes

• Mercury Content and Ultrastructure of Gills and Scales of Fish from Lakes in North and Northwestern Russia That Are Polluted by Atmospheric Deposition (90798)

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Missouri River

• Aquatic Habitat Mapping with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler: Considerations for Data Quality (USGS OFR-2005-1163)

• Asian Carps of the Genus Hypophthalmichthys (Pisces, Cyprinidae) ― A Biological Synopsis and Environmental Risk Assessment

• Assessment of Missouri River Habitat Quality Using SPMDs

• Assessment of Shallow-Water Habitat Availability in Modified-Dike Structures, Lower Missouri River, 2004  Appendix  (USGS OFR-2004-1409)

• Ecological Dynamics of Wetlands at Lisbon Bottom, Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, MO (USGS OFR-2004-1036)

• Fort Peck Flow Modification Biological Collection Data Plan (Summary of 2004 Activities) (pages 100-162)

• Habitat Assessment for Pallid Sturgeon Overwintering Surveys, Lower Missouri River

• Habitat Assessment, Missouri River at Hermann, Missouri (USGS OFR OF 02-32)

• Initial Biotic Survey of Lisbon Bottom, Big Muddy Fish and Wildlife Refuge

• Missouri River Benthic Fish Consortium

• Missouri River Natural Resource Bibliography

• Physical Aquatic Habitat Assessment, Fort Randall Segment of the Missouri River, Nebraska and South Dakota (USGS OFR-2004-1060)

• Physical Habitat Dynamics in Four Side-channel Chutes, Lower Missouri River (USGS Open File Report 2004-1071)

• Risk and Consequence Analysis Focused on Biotic Transfers Potentially Associated with Surface Water Diversions Between the Missouri River and Red River Basins

• River-Corridor Habitat Dynamics Research, Lower Missouri River

• Toxicity and Bioavailability of Metals in the Missouri River Adjacent to a Lead Refinery (USGS BSR2001-0004)

•   Science to Support Adaptive Habitat Management: Overton Bottoms North Unit, Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Missouri

• Visualization of Flow Alternatives (Lower Missouri River)

Ozark Rivers

• Physical Aquatic Habitat Assessment Data, Ozark Plateaus, Missouri and Arkansas (USGS Data Series DS-94)

• Physical Stream Habitat Dynamics in Lower Bear Creek, Northern Arkansas (USGS/BRD/BSR-2003--0002)  Appendix 1; Appendix 2

• Relations Among Geology, Physiography, Land Use, and Stream Habitat Conditions in the Buffalo and Current River Systems, Missouri and Arkansas

• Hydraulic Modeling of In-channel Habitats in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri: Assessment of Physical Habitat Sensitivity to Environmental Change

Rio Grande (also see BEST)

• Biology of the Rio Grande Border Region- A Bibliography

• Directory of Federal  Natural  Resources Research in the Rio Grande Border Region

• Relative Toxicity of Waterborne Inorganic Contaminants to the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow (Hybognathus amarus) and Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas) in a Water Quality Simulating that in the Rio Grande, New Mexico   (Appendix A)   (Appendix B)   (Appendix C)   (Appendix D)

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Sediment Toxicology

• An Assessment of Sediments from the Upper Mississippi River

• An Assessment of Sediment Injury in the West Branch of the Grand Calumet River

• A Guidance Manual to Support the Assessment of Contaminated Sediments in Freshwater Ecosystems

• A Guidance Manual to Support the Assessment of Contaminated Sediments in Freshwater, Estuarine, and Marine Ecosystems in British Columbia

• Development and Evaluation of Numerical Sediment Quality Assessment Guidelines for Florida Inland Waters

• Evaluation of Toxicity and Bioaccumulation of Contaminants in Sediment Samples from Waukegan Harbor, Illinois (91117)

• Evaluation of Toxicity of Sediment Samples Collected from the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas

• Methods for Assessing Bioaccumulation of Sediment-Associated Contaminants with Freshwater Invertebrates (90943)

• Mutagenicity of Great Lakes Sediments (90845)

• Prediction of Sediment Toxicity Using Consensus-based Freshwater Sediment Quality Guidelines ( 91126)  direct link to journal pub

• Sediment Effects Concentrations and Contaminated Sediments

• Sediment Toxicity Testing Methods and Data Interpretation Bibliography

• Summary of Discussions During the Interactive Short Course on "Use of Sediment Quality Guidelines in the Assessment And Management of Contaminated Sediments"

• Toxicity Assessment Of Sediment Samples Collected From North Carolina Streams

• Toxicity Testing of Sediments from the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, Quintana Roo, Mexico

• Use of Sediment Quality Guidelines and Related Tools for the Assessment of Contaminated Sediments - Executive Summary Booklet of a SETAC Pellston Workshop (provided courtesy of SETAC)

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Selenium and Other Trace Elements

• Aquatic Cycling of Selenium: Implications for Fish and Wildlife (90562)

• Assessment of Goshen Warm Springs as a Potential Hatchery Site for June suckers (Chasmistes liorus) Focusing on Selenium Bioaccumulation and Fish Growth Rates   Appendix

• Effects of Geothermal Effluents on Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout in the Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (91012)

• Evaluation of Flushing of a Backwater Channel: Concentrations of Selenium and Other Inorganic Elements in Water, Sediment, Invertebrates, Forage Fish, and Colorado Pikeminnow (91271) Appendix A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L

• Mortality and Gill Damage from Beryllium in Acidic Water: A Comparison of Acute and Chronic Responses in Three Freshwater Fish Species (90879)

• Selenium and Other Trace Elements in Water, Sediment, Aquatic Plants and Invertebrates, and Fish from Streams in Southeastern Idaho Near Phosphate Mining Operations: June 2000 (91237)

• Selenium and Other Trace Elements in Water, Sediment, Aquatic Plants and Invertebrates, and Fish from Streams in Southeastern Idaho Near Phosphate Mining Operations: September 2000 (91270)

• Selenium and Other Trace Elements in Water, Sediment, Aquatic Plants and Invertebrates, and Fish from Streams in Southeastern Idaho Near Phosphate Mining Operations: May 2001 (91272)

• Selenium and Other Trace Elements in Wild Larval Razorback Suckers from the Green River, Utah (1998-002)

• Sodium Cyanide Hazards to Fish and Other Wildlife from Gold Mining Operations (90972)

• The Chronic Toxicity of Dietary and Waterborne Selenium to Adult Colorado Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) in a Water Quality Simulating That in the San Juan River (91132)

• The Phosphoria Formation at the Hot Springs Mine in Southeast Idaho: A Source of Selenium and Other Trace Elements to Surface Water, Ground Water, Vegetation, and Biota (USGS Open File Report 00-050  CERC 91013)

• Toxicity of Proposed Water Quality Criteria-Based Mixtures of 11 Inorganics to Ceriodaphnia dubia and Fathead Minnow (1998-001)

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SPMD (Semipermeable Membrane Device)

• SPMD web

• Assessment of Missouri River Habitat Quality Using SPMDs

• Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Integrative Samplers From Chesapeake Bay Tributaries (91309)

• Development and Application of Techniques for Sampling Bioavailable Airborne Organic Contaminants

• The Use of Semipermeable Membrane Devices (SPMDs) to Concentrate Inducers of fish Hepatic Mixed Function Oxygenase (MFO) (90906)

Ultraviolet Radiation (UV-B) and Photoenhanced Toxicity

• Assessment of the Photoenhanced Toxicity of Diluent to the Tidewater Silverside (90964)

• Photoenhanced Toxicity of a Diluent to Mysidopsis bahia (90965)

• Photoenhanced Toxicity of a Diluent to the Frog, Rana sphenocephala (90967)

• Sublethal Effects of Photoenhanced Toxicity of Diluent to Ceriodaphnia dubia Reproduction (90966)

Vegetation Dynamics

• Evaluating the Impacts of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus viginianus) on Vegetation within Pea Ridge National Military Park

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Western Reservoirs

• An Integrated Assessment of the Trophic Status of Fort Cobb Reservoir, Oklahoma

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