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The longitudinal and transverse components of flow velocity, as well as the normal and tangential stresses, must be expected to fluctuate with time and space when flow at a high Reynolds number moves between fixed boundaries. Although these nonperiodic fluctuations are generally secondary in magnitude compared to the mean motion, they have profound effects on properties of the primary mean motion. Scientists from the Illinois State Water Survey are involved in collecting and analyzing detailed velocity data from the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers using 2-D electromagnetic current meters. The goal of the present research is to understand and evaluate the turbulent structure in natural river systems, especially near...
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The Mississippi River System, including the Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri Rivers, has been modified for use by commercial traffic. Tows with barges, including those transporting to the Great Lakes System, are used to transport commodities up and down the river. Barges moving on the Mississippi River System normally have a draft of 9 feet, a width of 35 feet, and a length of 195 feet. Usually barge configuration on the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) consists of a system of 5 barges tied together and moving 3 abreast. This results in a planform surface area of 975 square feet. Average speed of the barges varies from about 3.5 mph to about 11 mph. Research was conducted on the UMRS to determine the physical impacts...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, conducted a pilot application of Navigation Predictive Analysis Technique (NAVPAT), a model for assessing incremental environmental effects of commercial navigation traffic on main channel Upper Mississippi River Pool 13. Upper Mississippi River Pool 13 was divided into units of similar habitat. Seasonal changes in stage and discharge were included. River reaches were described, including analysis of banks, mapping of depths and substrate, and measurement of water velocity. The needed economic data were developed from 1989 actual usage of Lock 13 (44 million tons). Two traffic scenarios, 44 and 88 million tons, were developed for the Pool 13 application. Each...
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Moisture content, bulk density, and organic content of surficial sediments were estimated with a penetrometer in Navigation Pools 4 and 8 of the Upper Mississippi River during 1994 and 1995. Mean moisture content of sediment was low in both Pool 4 (39%, SD = 15.0%) and Pool 8 (34%, SD = 13.7%), suggesting that soft, fine sediments are uncommon in these pools. Sediment in much of the off-channel habitat was found to have similarly low moisture content. Sediment in small backwaters was particularly low in moisture content, although areas with sediment moisture content greater than 70% were found in small backwaters. Sediment in the large backwaters of Pool 4 was similar to sediment in the small backwaters of Pools...
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Net sedimentation rates were obtained for backwaters of the Upper Mississippi River in Pools 4, 8, and 13 by measuring annual bed elevation changes along transects between 1997 and 2001. Average sedimentation rates (cmּyr�1) during the 5-yr period were lower than most previously reported rates in backwaters of the River, with means of –0.08 (standard error [SE] = 0.18) in Pool 4, 0.21 (SE = 0.10) in Pool 8, and 0.47 (SE = 0.26) in Pool 13.�Poolwide estimated mean sedimentation rates in the terrestrial areas adjacent to backwaters appeared higher, ranging from 0.32 (SE = 0.14) to 0.78 (SE = 0.25) cmּyr�1, but were not significantly different than rates in aquatic areas.�When averaged over the study period, sedimentation...
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Since 1991, the Illinois Natural History Survey has operated the Great Rivers Field Station, one of six field stations associated with the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Environmental Management Program. This bulletin presents detailed findings for water quality and fish monitoring from 1994 to 2004 in Pool 26 of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) collected and analyzed by scientists at the Great Rivers Field Station. We present this information with the goals of 1) demonstrating the value of these data for management of the natural resources of the UMRS, 2) to serve as an easily accessible vehicle for persons searching for information on environmental...
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In 1992, macroinvertebrate sampling was initiated in Pools 4, 8, 13, 26, the Open River reach of the Mississippi River, and La Grange Pool of the Illinois River as part of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program. Longterm monitoring is needed to detect population trends and local changes in aquatic ecosystems. Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), fingernail clams (Sphaeriidae), and the exotic Corbicula species were selected for monitoring. Midges (Chironomidae) were added to the sampling design in 1993 and zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) were added in 1995. Mayflies, fingernail clams, and midges, members of the soft-substrate community, were chosen because they play an important ecological role in the Upper Mississippi...
This data set was created to facilitate the BLM Greater Sage-Grouse Land Use Planning Strategy in the Utah Sub-Region. This data was developed and addressed, and used during preparation of an environmental impact statement to consider amendments to 14 BLM land use plans throughout the State of Utah, as well as 6 Forest Service land use plans. This planning process was initiated through issuance of a Notice of Intent published on December 6, 2011. This dataset is associated with the Final Environmental Impact Statement, released to the public via a Notice of Availability on May 29, 2015. The purpose of the planning process is to address protection of greater sage-grouse, in partial response to a March 2010 decision...
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Abstract Coastal marsh within Mediterranean climate zones is exposed to episodic watershed runoff and sediment loads that occur during storm events. Simulating future marsh accretion under sea level rise calls for attention to: (a) physical processes acting over the time scale of storm events and (b) biophysical processes acting over time scales longer than storm events. Using the upper Newport Bay in Southern California as a case study, we examine the influence of event-scale processes on simulated change in marsh topography by comparing: (a) a biophysical model that integrates with an annual time step and neglects event-scale processes (BP-Annual), (b) a physical model that resolves event-scale processes but...
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The Neversweat Prospect (MMK-092) is located on the right bank of Eldorado Creek, a tributary of Moose Creek. The site is a landscape of the Kantishna Historic Mining District (KHMD). The KHMD is within the boundaries of Denali National Park and Preserve, at the end of the 92 mile Park Road near Wonder Lake. The Neversweat Prospect is a 4.3 acre historic site and contains a small collection of historic buildings and structures, small scale features and landscape features associated with lode mining. The extant features consist of one building (cabin), and 15 structures (three collapsed adits, one partially collapsed adit, one partially collapsed outhouse, a historic road, a historic trail, six rock retaining walls)....
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Ongoing and rapid environmental change within western and northern Canada is of major societal and scientific concern and has local- to global-scale implications. There is an urgent need to understand the changes and develop improved diagnostic and predictive modeling tools to manage uncertain futures.
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The 2002 Mw 7.9 Denali Fault earthquake, Alaska, provides an unparalleled opportunity to investigate in quantitative detail the regional hillslope mass-wasting response to strong seismic shaking in glacierized terrain. We present the first detailed inventory of ∼1580 coseismic slope failures, out of which some 20% occurred above large valley glaciers, based on mapping from multi-temporal remote sensing data. We find that the Denali earthquake produced at least one order of magnitude fewer landslides in a much narrower corridor along the fault ruptures than empirical predictions for an M ∼8 earthquake would suggest, despite the availability of sufficiently steep and dissected mountainous topography prone to frequent...
map background search result map search result map Turbulent velocity fluctuations in natural rivers Resuspension and lateral movement of sediment due to commercial navigation in the Mississippi River System Navigation Predictive Analysis Technique (NAVPAT) Pilot Application for Pool 13, Upper Mississippi River Surficial sediment characteristics in Pools 4 and 8, Upper Mississippi River Annual status report, 1995: Macroinvertebrate sampling Rates and patterns of net sedimentation in backwaters of Pools 4, 8, and 13 of the Upper Mississippi River A decade of monitoring Pool 26 of the Upper Mississippi River sytem: water quality and fish data from the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Environmental Management Program BLM UT Preliminary Disturbance Inventory Polygon 2008 Campbell Tract Non-native Plant Survey: Revisiting permanent monitoring transects established in 2006. Report funded and prepared for Bureau of Land Management Alaska State Office Biogeography of select avian species in Alaska’s National Parks Observation, Diagnosis, and Prediction of Environmental Change in Northwestern Canada Differences in Ecosystem Carbon Distribution and Nutrient Cycling Linked to Forest Tree Species Composition in a Mid-Successional Boreal Forest Moose: Competing and Complementary Values Downstream Migrations of Juvenile Salmon and Other Fishes in the Upper Yukon River Why so few? Landslides triggered by the 2002 Denali earthquake, Alaska Yukon Southern Lakes Nest Box Project Report, 2000 ASSESSMENT REPORT for EXPLORATION on the ANNE 1 to 4 QUARTZ MINING CLAIMS, MARSH LAKE, YUKON TERRITORY between April, 2005 and April, 2006 Neversweat Prospect: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Denali National Park, National Park Service Multi-Decadal Simulation of Marsh Topography Under Sea Level Rise and Episodic Sediment Loads 2008 Campbell Tract Non-native Plant Survey: Revisiting permanent monitoring transects established in 2006. Report funded and prepared for Bureau of Land Management Alaska State Office Differences in Ecosystem Carbon Distribution and Nutrient Cycling Linked to Forest Tree Species Composition in a Mid-Successional Boreal Forest Navigation Predictive Analysis Technique (NAVPAT) Pilot Application for Pool 13, Upper Mississippi River ASSESSMENT REPORT for EXPLORATION on the ANNE 1 to 4 QUARTZ MINING CLAIMS, MARSH LAKE, YUKON TERRITORY between April, 2005 and April, 2006 Surficial sediment characteristics in Pools 4 and 8, Upper Mississippi River Rates and patterns of net sedimentation in backwaters of Pools 4, 8, and 13 of the Upper Mississippi River Neversweat Prospect: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Denali National Park, National Park Service Turbulent velocity fluctuations in natural rivers Yukon Southern Lakes Nest Box Project Report, 2000 BLM UT Preliminary Disturbance Inventory Polygon Why so few? Landslides triggered by the 2002 Denali earthquake, Alaska Resuspension and lateral movement of sediment due to commercial navigation in the Mississippi River System Annual status report, 1995: Macroinvertebrate sampling Observation, Diagnosis, and Prediction of Environmental Change in Northwestern Canada Downstream Migrations of Juvenile Salmon and Other Fishes in the Upper Yukon River Biogeography of select avian species in Alaska’s National Parks Moose: Competing and Complementary Values