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National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA)

Hudson River Basin Study Unit - Online Publications

• General - Surface Water

  
  
  • Water Quality in the Hudson River Basin, New York and Adjacent States, 1992-95: Wall, Gary R., Riva-Murray, Karen, and Phillips, P. J., 1998, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1165, 32 p. (PDF, 2MB) HTML

  • Distribution of DDT, Chlordane, and total PCB's in bed sediments in the Hudson River Basin Phillips, P. J., Riva-Murray, K., Hollister, H. M., and Flanary, E. A., 1997, New York Earth Science and the Environment, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 26-47. (PDF, 102k)

  • Water-Quality Assessment of the Hudson River Basin in New York and Adjacent States - Analysis of available nutrient, pesticide, volatile organic compound and suspended-sediment data, 1970-90: Phillips, P. J., and Hanchar, D. W., 1996, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4065, 76 p. (PDF, 2.4MB) HTML - abstract

  • Use of Chemical, Biological and Hydrologic Data to Assess Water Quality in Canajoharie Creek Watershed, New York, [abs.]: Wall, Gary R., Phillips, P.J. and Bode, B., 1996, American Geophysical Union 1996 Spring Meeting, EOS 77 (17), p.S117.

  • Pesticide, dissolved organic carbon, and nitrate concentrations in surface waters of the Canajoharie Creek watershed, New York, April 1994-July 1995, [abs.]: Phillips, P.J., and Wall, G. R., 1995, American Geophysical Union 1995 Fall Meeting, EOS 76 (46), p. F195.

  • Chloride concentrations as indicators of point source sewage discharges in the Hudson River basin, New York, [abs.]: Phillips, P.J., 1994b, American Geophysical Union 1994 Fall Meeting. EOS 75(44), p. 229.

  • Water quality in the Hudson River basin: working together to solve the puzzle: Murray, Karen R., and Freeman, Ward O., 1994, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-90, 4 p. abstract

  • National Water-Quality Assessment Program-- The Hudson River basin: Freeman, W.O.,1991, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-166, 2 p.

• General - Ground Water

  
  
  • Source and Occurrence of Bromide, Nitrate, and Pesticides, in Shallow Ground Water and Surface Water, Montgomery County, New York.[abs.]: Hanchar, D.W., 1995, American Geophysical Union 1995 Fall Meeting, EOS 76(46). p. F187.

  • Effects of urban land use on shallow ground-water quality in stratified-drift aquifers-comparison of data from the Hudson River basin, New York, and the Connecticut River basin, Connecticut and Massachusetts, [abs.]: Hanchar, D.W., and Grady, S.J., 1994, American Geophysical Union 1994 Spring Meeting, EOS 75(16), p. 150.

  • Use of lithologic and gamma logs to define the areal extent of a clay confining unit overlying a glacial-drift aquifer, Montgomery County, New York, [abs.]: Ryan, Christopher M., Wall, Gary R., and Hanchar, Dorothea W., 1994, Geological Society of America 1994, Abstracts with Programs, 26(3), p. A70.

• Pesticides

  
  
  • Pesticides in the Hudson River Basin, 1994-96: Wall, Gary R. and Phillips, Patrick J., 1998, Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 20, no.4, p.299-307. (PDF, 760k)

  • Pesticide Concentrations in Canajoharie Creek, New York 1994-96: Wall, G.R., and Phillips, P.J., 1997, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 131-97. (PDF, 165k)

  • Pesticides in surface waters of the Hudson River Basin - Mohawk River subbasin: Wall, G. R., and Phillips, P. J., 1996, U. S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 237-96. (PDF, 460k)

  • Pesticides in surface waters of the Hudson River Basin, New York and Adjacent States: Wall, G. R., and Phillips, P. J., 1996, U. S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 238-96. (PDF, 84k)

  • Pesticide concentrations in surface waters of the Hudson River Basin, May-September 1994. [abs.]: Phillips, P.J., 1995a, American Geophysical Union 1995 Spring Meeting. EOS 76 (17), p. S142.

• Nutrients

  
  
  • Seasonal and Spatial Patterns of Nitrate and Silica Concentrations in Canajoharie Creek, New York Wall, G.R., Phillips, P.J., and Riva-Murray, K., 1998, Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 27, no. 2, p. 381-89. (PDF, 1.4MB)

  • Nitrate, Organic Nitrogen, and Total Nitrogen Transport in Surface Waters of the Hudson River basin, New York [abs.]: Phillips, P.J., 1995b, U.S. Geological Survey Nitrogen Workshop, Denver, CO, November 1995.

  • Transport rates of nutrients at surface-water sites in the Hudson River basin, [abs.]: Phillips, P.J., 1994a, American Geophysical Union 1994 Spring Meeting, EOS 75(16), p. 177.

• Biology/Ecology

  
  
  • Impact source determination with biomonitoring data in New York State: concordance with environmental data Riva-Murray, K., R.W. Bode, P.J. Phillips, and G.L. Wall. 2002. . Northeastern Naturalist 9(2):127-162. (PDF, 1.5MB)

  • An index of biological integrity for northern mid-Atlantic slope drainages. Daniels, R.A., K. Riva-Murray, D.B. Halliwell, D.L. Vana-Miller, and M.D. Bilger, 2002. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:1044-1060. (PDF, 485kB)

  • Relations Among Benthic Invertebrate Communities, Environmental Conditions, and Land Use in Streams of the Hudson River Basin, New York, 1993, [abs.]: Riva-Murray, K., Phillips, P. J., and Rouse, G. L., 1996, American Geophysical Union 1996 Spring Meeting, EOS 77 (17), p.S117.

  • Fish assemblages and habitats at selected NAWQA Program sites in the Hudson River Basin, New York, in Fish Mgmt in Northeast, Past, Present [abs.] : Riva-Murray, K., 1995, American Fisheries Society, New York Chapter, 1995 annual meeting, p.13.

  • Biological components of the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Hudson River Basin Study: Murray, K.R. 1992, Programs and Abstracts, NY Natural History Conference II: New York State Museum Circular 54.

• GIS

  
  
  • Delineation of drainage basins in a large watershed from digital elevation model data,[abs.]: Freehafer, D.A., 1992, 7th Annual Northeast ARC/INFO Users Group Conference, Stamford, Conn., unpaginated.

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