U.S. Geological Survey Central Region Research Projects

Ecology

• Shingobee Headwaters Aquatic Ecosystems Project (SHAEP) (Thomas Winter)
• Bacteria-Contaminant Interactions (Ron Harvey)
• Biogeochemistry of Carbon and Nitrogen in Aquatic Environments (Richard L. Smith)

Geomorphology and Sediment Transport

• Hydrologic and Erosional Responses of Burned Watersheds (John Moody/Deborah Martin)
• Geomorphology and Sediment Transport Laboratory (Jonathan Nelson)
• River Mechanics (Edmund Andrews)

Ground Water Chemistry

• Arid Regions Climate (Larry Benson)
• Chemical Modeling and Thermodynamic Data Evaluation (Kirk Nordstrom)
• Coupled Flow and Reactions (David Parkhurst)
• Arsenic Studies Group (Kirk Nordstrom)

Ground Water Hydrology

• Application of Stochastic Processes in Hydrogeology (Richard Naff)
• Borehole Geophysics as Applied to Geohydrology (Roger Morin)
• Simulation of Subsurface Water Flow (Dick Cooley)
• Solute Transport Simulation (Ken Kipp)
• Modeling and Uncertainty of Complex Ground-Water Systems (Mary C. Hill)
• Unsaturated Zone Hydrology (Edwin P. Weeks)

Surface Water Chemistry

• Aqueous Crystal Growth and Dissolution Kinetics of Earth Surface Materials (Michael Reddy)
• Compehensive Organic Analyses (Jerry Leenheer)
• Hydrologic and Erosional Responses of Burned Watersheds (John Moody/Deborah Martin)
• Inorganic Constituents in Water (Howard Taylor)
• Arsenic Studies Group (Kirk Nordstrom)
• Behavior of Organic Polyelectrolytes in Water (Robert Wershaw)
• Biogeochemistry and Environmental Chemistry of Nitrogen (Kevin Thorn)
• Water Quality of the Boulder Creek Watershed, Colorado (Sheila Murphy, Philip Verplanck, Larry Barber)
• Organic Carbon and Nitrogen (Colleen Rostad / David Rutherford)

Surface Water Hydrology

Hydrologic and Erosional Responses of Burned Watersheds (John Moody/Deborah Martin)

Modeling of Watershed Systems (Lauren Hay)

Hydro-Climatic Processes and Hazards (Greg McCabe)