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Work Plan: Fiscal Years 2006-2010
Accomplishments: Fiscal Year 2005
Accomplishments: Fiscal Year 2006
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Project Fact Sheets
Buckler, D. and Strom, E., 2004, Science Data in Support of Environmental Health Studies in the U.S.-Mexico
Border Region. USGS Fact Sheet 2004-3013. USGS Fact Sheet 2004-3013 (Feb 2004) (English version)
(Spanish version)
Buckler, D. and Stefanov, J., 2004, Internet Map Service for Environmental Health in the U.S. Mexico Border
Region. USGS Fact Sheet 2004-3140. USGS Fact Sheet 2004-3140 (Dec 2004) (English version) (Spanish
version)
Papoulias, D., Parcher, J., Stefanov, J., Page, W., 2006, Interdisciplinary Science in Support of Environmental
Health along the United States – Mexico Border. USGS Fact Sheet 2006-3054. (English version) (Spanish
version)
Other Project Publications
Duval, J., 2005, Aerial gamma-ray survey for parts of Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy Counties, Texas: U.S.
Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1231, internet only.
Duval, J., 2005, Radon in soils in parts of Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy Counties,
Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1423
Folger, H.W., B.E. Hubbard, J. Duval, A. McCafferty, and W.R. Page, 2006, Synergistic use of airborne Gamma-
Ray survey data and ASTER imagery for mapping cross-border radon potential in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley, South Texas, USA and North Tamaulipas, Mexico [abs.]: Geological Society of America South-
Central Section Annual Meeting proceedings.
Hubbard, B.E., Folger, H.W., and Page, W.R., 2006, Multi-temporal remote sensing assessment of
soil moisture and vector-borne disease potential in the Pleistocene Beaumont and Lower Rio
Grande Delta, southern Texas and northern Tamaulipas, US-Mexico border region [abs.]:
Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs, vol. 38, no. 1
Hubbard, B.E., H.W. Folger, J.W. Parcher, and W.R. Page, 2006, Multi-temporal remote sensing assessment of
soil moisture and vector-borne disease potential in the Pleistocene Beaumont and Lower Rio Grande Delta,
Southern Texas and Northern Tamaulipas, U.S.-Mexico Border Region [abs.]: Geological Society of America
South-Central Section Annual Meeting proceedings.
Page, W.R., B.E. Hubbard, J.S. Duval, H.W. Folger, A.E. McCafferty, J.W. Parcher, Z.D. Wilson, 2006, Template
for compiling binational geologic map datasets in the U.S.-Mexico border region; an example from Southern
Texas and Northern Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Health Initiative [abs.]: Geological Society of
America South-Central Section Annual Meeting proceedings.
Page, W.R., D. VansSistine, and K.J. Turner, 2005, Preliminary geologic map of southernmost Texas and parts of
Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 1:250,000-scale.
Parcher, J.W., and Humberson, D.G., 2007 CHIPS: A New Way to Monitor Colonias Along the
United States-Mexico Border: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1230, 23p.
Parcher, J.W., L.M. Norman, D.M. Papoulias, J.E. Stefanov, Z.D. Wilson, W.R. Page, R.H. Gary, 2006,
Developing a Binational Geodatabase to Examine Environmental Health and Quality-of-Life Issues along the
U.S.-Mexico Border:GSDI-9 Conference Proceedings, 6-10 November, Santiago, Chile.
Parcher, J.W., Norman, L.M., Papoulias, D.M., Stefanov, J.E., Wilson, Z.D., Page, W.R., Gary, R.H., 2007 Salud Ambiental y los Asuntos de Calidad de Vida a lo largo de La Frontera de Mexico - Estados Unidos de America, 2007. Boletin de Las Sistemas Nacionales Estadistico y La Informacion Vol. 3, No. 1. INEGI.
Merrill, M.D., Folger, Helen, Hubbard, Bernard, Page, W.R., 2006, Soil geochemistry and geology
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts With
Programs, v. 38, no. 7, p. 136.
Norman, L. and J. Parcher, 2004, Monitoring Colonias along the United States-Mexico Border USGS Fact sheet
# 2004-3070
Wilson, Z., R.H. Gary, J.W. Parcher, D. Buckler, J.E. Stefanov, C.M. Archuleta, W.R. Page, B.E. Hubbard,
2006, U.S. Geological Survey U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Health Initiative: Binational integration
of geospatial and environmental data [abs.]: Geological Society of America South-Central Section Annual
Meeting proceedings.
Related Publications
Anderholm, S.K., 1996, Water-quality assessment of the Rio Grande Valley, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas;
shallow ground-water quality of a land-use area in the San Luis Valley, south-central Colorado, 1993: U. S.
Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations, Report 96-4144, 94 p.
Anderholm, S.K., 2002, Water-quality assessment of the Rio Grande Valley, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas;
surface-water quality, shallow ground-water quality, and factors affecting water quality in the Rincon
Valley, south-central New Mexico, 1994-95: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report
02-4188, 117 p.
Anderholm, S.K.; Radell, M.J.; and Richey, S.F., 1995, Water-quality assessment of the Rio Grande Valley
study unit, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas; analysis of selected nutrient, suspended-sediment, and
pesticide data: U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations, 203 p.
Baker, R.C., and Dale, O.C., 1964, Ground-water resources of the lower Rio Grande Valley area, Texas: U. S.
Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 1653, 56 p.
Brown, J.R.; Ulery, R.L.; and Parcher, J.W., 2000, Creating a standardized watersheds database for the lower
Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF 00-065, 17 p.
Brown L.F., Brewton, J.L., Evans, T.J., McGowen, J.H., White, W.A., Croat, C.G., and Fisher, W.F., 1980,
Environmental geologic atlas of the Texas Coastal Zone-Brownsville-Harlingen area: The University of Texas
at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 140 p.
Carter, L.F., 1997, Water-quality assessment of the Rio Grande Valley, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas;
organic compounds and trace elements in bed sediment and fish tissue, 1992-93: U. S. Geological Survey
Water-Resources Investigations 97-4002, 23 p.
Chapman D.C., Papoulias, D.M., and Onuf, C.P., 1998, Environmental Changes in South Texas-Status and trends
of the Nation's biological resources, Vol. 1: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,
Reston, Va.
Davis, J., Ferreira, R., and Jordan, M., 1999, Water quality on the lower Rio Grande in Water Resources
Research Institute Report 310, 43rd Annual Conference, Water Challenges on the Lower Rio Grande, Las
Cruces, N. Mex., Oct. 22-23, p. 117-131.
Eaton, D.J., and Anderson, J.M., 1987, The state of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo-A study of water resource issues
along the Texas-Mexico border: University of Arizona Press.
Ellis, S.R., Levings, G.W., Carter, L.F., Richey, S.F., and Radell, M.J., 1993, Rio Grande Valley, Colorado, New
Mexico, and Texas: American Water Resources Association, Water Resources Bulletin v. 29, no. 4, p.617-646.
Halvorson, W. L., C. S. Schwalbe, and C. van Riper III. (Accepted 2009). The Sonoran Desert I:
Biophysical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Research. Accepted for publication submission to the
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. (19 Chapters) xxx pp.
Hart, J. V., C. van Riper III, D. J. Mattson, and T. R. Arundel. (2008). Effects of fenced transportation
corridors on pronghorn movements at Border National Parks in Arizona. Pp. 161-185, In: The
Colorado Plateau III: Integrating research and resources management for effective conservation
(van Riper, C., III and M. K. Sogge, Eds). University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 393 pp.
Healy, D.F., 1996, Water quality assessment of the Rio Grande Valley, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas;
occurrence and distribution of selected pesticides and nutrients at selected surface-water sites in the
Mesilla Valley, 1994-95: U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4069, 85 p.
Healy, D.F., 1997, Water-quality assessment of the Rio Grande Valley, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas;
summary and analysis of water-quality data for the basic-fixed-site network, 1993-95, U. S. Geological
Survey Water-Resources Investigations, 97-4212, 82 p.
Huff, G.F., 2004, Review of knowledge on the occurrence, chemical composition, and potential use for
desalination of saline ground water in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas with a discussion of potential
future study needs: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1197, 10 p.
Johnson, M. J. and C. van Riper, III. 2004. Brown-headed Cowbird parasitism of the Black-throated
Sparrow in central Arizona. Journal of Field Ornithology 75:303-311.
Koronkiewicz, T J., M. K. Sogge, C. van Riper III, and E. H. Paxton. (2006). Territoriality, site
fidelity, and survivorship of Willow Flycatchers in Costa Rica. Condor 108 (2):558-570.
Lambert, R.B., 2004, Hydrogeology of Webb County, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations
Report 2004-5022, 7 sheets.
Lee, R.W., and Wilson, J.T., 1997, Trace elements and organic compounds associated with riverbed sediments
in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin, Mexico and Texas: U. S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS 0098-97, 6 p.
Levings, G.W.; Healy, D.F.; Richey, S.F.; and Carter, L.F., 1998, Water quality in the Rio Grande Valley,
Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, 1992-95: U. S. Geological Survey Circular C 1162, 39 p.
Lurry, D.L., Reutter, D.C., and Wells, F.C., 1998, Monitoring the Water Quality of the Nation's Large Rivers,
Rio Grande NASQAN Program: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-083-98, 4 p.
Lurry, D.L., Reutter, D.C., and Wells, F.C., 1998, Vigilando la Calidad del Agua de los Grandes Rios de la
Nación, El Programa NASQAN del Rio Grande (Rio Bravo del Norte): U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet
FS-083-98, 4 p.
Mahler, B.J., and Van Metre, P.C., 2002, Llano Grande lake bottom sediments: A chronicle of water-quality
change in the Arroyo Colorado, South Texas, 1989-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-065-02, 4 p.
McGrath, L. J., C. van Riper III, and J. J. Fontaine. (Submitted). Migrating warblers use
flowering trees as cues to locate insect resources at Mexico-US Border spring stop-over
habitat. American Naturalist.
McGrath, L. J., and C. van Riper III. 2005. Influences of riparian tree phenology on Lower Colorado
River spring-migrating birds: Implications of flower cueing. USGS OFR 2005-1140. US
Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Sonoran Desert Research Station,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 35 p.
Moore, S.J.; and Anderholm, S.K., 2002, Spatial and temporal variations in streamflow, dissolved solids,
nutrients, and suspended sediment in the Rio Grande Valley study unit, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas:
U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4224, 52 p.
Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., 1999, Biomonitoring of environmental status and trends (BEST)
program; contaminants and related effects in fish from the Mississippi, Columbia, and Rio Grande basins:
U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018-B, p. 437-446.
Moring, J.B.; and Setser, R., July 2000, Historical changes in streamflows, channel morphology, and riparian
vegetation of the Rio Grande downstream of Brownsville, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS
074-00, 6 p.
Myers, M. D. +, Ayers, M. A*., Baron, J. S*., Beauchemin, P. R*., Gallagher, K. T*., Goldhaber, M.
B*., Hutchinson, D. R*., LaBaugh, J. W*., Sayre, R., G.*, Schwarzbach, S. E*., Schweig, E. S*.,
Thormodsgard, J*., van Riper, C., III* and Wilde, W*. (+ Director, US Geological Survey;
*Science Strategy Team Authors in alphabetical order). 2007. US Geological Survey updates
science goals for the coming decade. Science 113: 200-201.
Nickerson, E., 1999, U. S. Geological Survey seepage investigations of the lower Rio Grande in the Mesilla
Valley in Water Resources Research Institute Report 310, 43rd Annual Conference, Water Challenges on the
Lower Rio Grande, Las Cruces, N. Mex., Oct. 22-23, 1998, p. 59-68.
O’Brien, C. Flesch, A. D. Wallace, E. Bogan, M. Carrillo-Percástegui, S. E., Jacobs S., and van Riper,
C., III. (In Press 2008). Biological inventory of the Rio Aros, Sonora, Mexico: A river unknown.
USGS OFR 2008-xxxx. US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Sonoran
Desert Research Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. xx p.
O’Brien, C., C. van Riper III, and D. Meyers. (In Press - 2008). Making informed decisions about the
analysis of Mexico and US wildlife disease data. Journal of Wildlife Diseases.
Parcher, J.W., 2003, Remote Sensing Methods for Estimating Impervious Cover For Hydrologic Modeling
Applications: A Case Study of the Brownsville/Matamoros Urban Area, Unpublished Masters Thesis, University
of Texas, Austin, p. 138.
Paxton, K. L., C. van Riper III, T. C. Theimer and E. H. Paxton. 2007. Spatial and temporal migration
patterns of Wilson’s Warbler ( Wilsonia pusilla) in the southwest as revealed by stable isotopes.
Auk 124:162-165.
Paxton, K. L., and C. van Riper III. 2006. Spatial and temporal migration patterns of neotropical
migrants in the Southwest revealed by stable isotopes. USGS OFR 2005-1298. US Geological
Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Sonoran Desert Research Station, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 35 p.
Shafroth, P. B., J. R. Cleverly, T. L. Dudley, J. P. Taylor, C. van Riper III, E. P. Weeks, and J. N.
Stuart. 2005. Control of Tamarix in the western United States: Implications for water salvage,
wildlife use, and riparian restoration. Environmental Management 35:231-246.
Skagen, S. K., J. F. Kelly, C. van Riper III, Richard L. Hutto, D. M. Finch, D. J. Krueper and C. P.
Melcher. 2005. Geography of spring landbird migration through riparian habitats in southwestern
North America. Condor 107: 212-227.
Sogge, M. K., T. J. Koronkiewicz, C. van Riper III, and S. L. Durst. 2007. Willow Flycatcher
nonbreeding territory defense behavior in Costa Rica. Condor 109:475-480.
Trowbridge, A.C., 1932, Tertiary and Quaternary geology of the lower Rio Grande region, Texas: U. S.
Geological Survey Bulletin 837, 260 p.
U. S. Geological Survey, 1978, Land use and land cover and associated maps for Brownsville, Texas: U. S.
Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-392, 1 sheet.
U. S. Geological Survey, 1979, Land use and land cover, 1972-75, Brownsville, Texas: Land Use/Land Cover
Map 70, 1 sheet.
U. S. Geological Survey (Authors in alphabetical order): Ayers, M. A., Baron, J. S., Beauchemin, P.
R., Gallager, K. T., Goldhaber, M. B., Hutchinson, D. R., LaBaugh, J. W., Sayre, R., Schwarzbach,
S. E., Schweig, E. S., Thormodsgard, J., van Riper, C., III, and Wilde, W. 2007. Facing
tomorrow’s challenges – U. S. Geological Survey science in the decade 2007-2017. U. S.
Geological Survey Circular 1309, x + 70 pp.
Van Metre, P.C., 1999, Chemical quality of sediment cores from the Laguna Madre, Laguna Atascosa, and
Arroyo Colorado, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-139-99, 4 p.
Van Metre, P.C., Mahler, B.J., and Callender, E., 1997, Water-quality trends in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin
using sediment cores from reservoirs: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-221-96, 8 p.
Van Riper, C. III. 2008. Integrating research into biological and cultural resources management on the
Colorado Plateau: A synthesis. Pp. 351-373, In: The Colorado Plateau III: Integrating research and
resources management for effective conservation (van Riper, C., III and M. K. Sogge, Eds). The
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 393 pp.
Van Riper III, C., III, A. J. Banks, and S. S. Rosenstock. 2006. Breeding Mexican and wintering birds
of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Pp 4-18, In: A Century of research at Petrified Forest
National Park: Natural and cultural history. (Eds., W. G. Parker and P. A. Thompson) Museum of
Northern Arizona Bulletin No. 63.
Van Riper, C., III., and K. A. Cole. 2004. The Colorado Plateau: Cultural, Biological, and Physical
Research. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 279 pp.
Van Riper, C. III, K. Ecton, L. McGrath, and C. O’Brien. 2005. Habitat partitioning by neotropical
migrant birds along the lower Colorado River corridor. Pp 627-628 In: Connecting mountain
islands and desert seas: Biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II (Gottfried, G.
J., B. S. Gebow, L. G. Eskew, and C. B. Edminster, Eds). Proceedings RMRS-P-36, Fort Collins,
CO: USDA/FS Rocky Mountain Research Station. 631 p.
Van Riper, C., III, K. Ecton, C. O’Brien, P. Shafroth and L. McGrath. 2008. Rethinking avian
response to tamarisk on the lower Colorado River: A threshold hypothesis. Restoration Ecology 17:
152-164 (March issue).
Van Riper, C., III, K. Ecton, C. J. van Riper, K. A. van Riper, L. McGrath, and J. J. Fontaine. (In Press
- 2008). The role of protected areas as bird stop-over habitat: ecology and habitat utilization by
migrating land birds within Colorado River riparian forests in southwestern North America. Pp.
xx-xx, In: Protected Areas in park management, Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Research
and Resource Management in Parks and Public Lands (D. Harmon, Ed.). The George Wright
Society, Hancock, MI. 393 pp.
Van Riper, C., III, and D. J. Forrester. 2007. Avian Pox. Pp 131-176, In: Infectious and parasitic
diseases of wild birds. (Eds. N. Thomas, B. Hunter and C. A. Atkinson). Blackwell Publishing
Professional, Ames, Iowa.
Van Riper, C., III., and D. J. Mattson. 2005. The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic
and Cultural Research. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 448 pp
Van Riper III, C. III, and C. E. Paradzick. 2006. Streamflow – biota relations: Birds. Pp 41-50,
Appendix B Pp. 113-122, In: Defining ecosystem flow requirements for the Bill Williams River,
Arizona. (Eds., P. B. Shafroth and V. B. Beauchamp) USGS Open File Report No. 2006-1314, 135
pp.
Van Riper, C., III, and M. K. Sogge. 2008. An introduction to Socioeconomic, Biological and
Cultural Research on the Borderlands and Colorado Plateau, pp ii-v , In: The Colorado Plateau
III: Integrating research and resources management for effective conservation (van Riper, C., III
and M. K. Sogge, Eds). The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 393 pp.
Van Riper, C., III., and M. K. Sogge. 2008. The Colorado Plateau III: The Colorado Plateau III:
Integrating research and resources management for effective conservation. The University of
Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. i-xiv; 393 pp.
Wells, F.C., Jackson, G.A., and Rogers, W.J., 1988, Reconnaissance investigation of water quality, bottom
sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the lower Rio Grande Valley and Laguna Atascosa
National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, 1986-87: U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report
87-4277, 89 p.
White, W.A., Calnan, T.R., Morton, R.A., Kimble, R.S., Littleton, T.G., McGowen, J.H., Nance, H.S., and
Shemedes, K.E., 1986, Submerged lands of Texas, Brownsville-Harlingen area-Sediments, geochemistry,
benthic macroinvertebrates, and associated wetlands. The University of Texas, Austin, Bureau of Economic
Geology, 138 p.
Willey, D. A. and C. van Riper III. . (Submitted). Roost behavior of juvenile Mexican Spotted Owls
in the Sky Islands of the Border region. Journal of Raptor Research.
Willey, D. A. and C. van Riper III. . 2007. Home range characteristics of Mexican Spotted Owls in
the canyonlands. Journal of Raptor Research. 41(1): 10-15.
Yard, H. K., C. van Riper III, B. T. Brown, and M. J. Kearsley. 2004. Diets of insectivorous birds
along the Colorado River in Arizona. Condor 106:106-115. |
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