The Techniques and Methods series is directed to core professionals and USGS employees. The series contains manuals that describe approved procedures for planning and executing field and laboratory studies in scientific investigations, including collecting, analyzing, and processing hydrologic data. The series may include selected computer programs, including manuals and documentation that represent major models, methodology, or techniques.
Publications in this series from the Western Region will be linked from here as they are produced.
Herpetological Monitoring Using a Pitfall Trapping Design in Southern California
By Robert Fisher, Drew Stokes, Carlton Rochester, Cheryl Brehme, and Stacie Hathaway, U.S. Geological Survey; and Ted Case, University of California
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm2a5/
Landbird Monitoring Protocol for National Parks in the North Coast and Cascades Network
By Rodney B. Siegel, Robert L. Wilkerson, Kurt J. Jenkins, Robert C. Kuntz II, John R. Boetsch, James P. Schaberl, and Patricia J. Happe
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm2a6/
Protocol for Monitoring Fish Assemblages in Pacific Northwest National Parks
By Samuel J. Brenkman, National Park Service; and Patrick J. Connolly, U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm2a7/
Forest Vegetation Monitoring Protocol for National Parks in the North Coast and Cascades Network
By Andrea Woodward and Karen M. Hutten, U.S. Geological Survey; John R. Boetsch and Steven A. Acker, Olympic National Park; Regina M. Rochefort and Mignonne M. Bivin, North Cascades National Park; and Laurie L. Kurth, U.S. Forest Service
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm2a8/
A Natural History Summary and Survey Protocol for the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher
By Mark K. Sogge, U.S. Geological Survey; Darrell Ahlers, Bureau of Reclamation; and Susan J. Sferra, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm2a10/
Standardized Methods for Grand Canyon Fisheries Research 2012
By William R. Persons, David L. Ward, and Luke A. Avery
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm2a12/
Weather and Climate Monitoring Protocol, Channel Islands National Park, California
By Kathryn McEachern, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Channel Islands Field Station, Paula Power, Linda Dye, and Rocky Rudolph, National Park Service, Channel Islands National Park
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm2b1/
Protocol for Landsat-Based Monitoring of Landscape Dynamics at North Coast and Cascades Network Parks
By Robert E. Kennedy, Warren B. Cohen, Alan A. Kirschbaum, and Erik Haunreiter
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/2007/tm2g1/
Levels at Gaging Stations
By Terry A. Kenney
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm3A19/
Excel® Spreadsheet Tools for Analyzing Groundwater Level Records and Displaying Information in ArcMap™
By Fred D Tillman
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm4f1/
AnalyzeHOLE—An Integrated Wellbore Flow Analysis Tool
By Keith Halford
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm4f2/
TracerLPM (Version 1): An Excel Workbook® for Interpreting Groundwater Age Distributions from Environmental Tracer Data
By Bryant C. Jurgens, J.K. Böhlke, and Sandra M. Eberts
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/4-f3/
Advanced Methods for Modeling Water-Levels and Estimating Drawdowns with SeriesSEE, an Excel Add-In
By Keith Halford, C. Amanda Garcia, Joe Fenelon, and Benjamin Mirus
http://pubs.usgs.gov//tm/tm4-F4/
Methods of Analysis—Determination of Pyrethroid Insecticides in Water and Sediment Using Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
By Michelle L. Hladik, Kelly L. Smalling, and Kathryn M. Kuivila
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm5c2/
Methods of Analysis—Determination of Pesticides in Sediment Using Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
By Michelle L. Hladik and Megan M. McWayne
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm5c3/
Documentation of the Streamflow-Routing (SFR2) Package to Include Unsaturated Flow Beneath Streams—A Modification to SFR1
By Richard G. Niswonger and David E. Prudic
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/2007/06A13/
MODFLOW Ground-Water Model-User Guide to the Subsidence and Aquifer-System Compaction Package (SUB-WT) for Water-Table Aquifers
By S.A. Leake and D.L. Galloway
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/2007/06A23/
Documentation of a Conduit Flow Process (CFP) for MODFLOW-2005
By W. Barclay Shoemaker, Eve L. Kuniansky, Steffen Birk, Sebastian Bauer, and Eric D. Swain
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm6a24/
The Farm Process Version 2 (FMP2) for MODFLOW-2005—Modifications and Upgrades to FMP1
By Wolfgang Schmid, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, and R.T. Hanson, U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm6a32/
MODFLOW-NWT, A Newton Formulation for MODFLOW-2005
By Richard G. Niswonger, U.S. Geological Survey, Sorab Panday, AMEC Geomatrix Inc., and Motomu Ibaraki, Ohio State University
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm6a37/
MODPATH-LGR—Documentation of a Computer Program for Particle Tracking in Shared-Node Locally Refined Grids by using MODFLOW-LGR
By Jesse E. Dickinson, R.T. Hanson, Steffen W. Mehl, and Mary C. Hill
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm6a38/
RIP-ET: A Riparian Evapotranspiration Package for MODFLOW-2005
By Thomas Maddock III and Kathryn J. Baird, University of Arizona; R.T. Hanson, U.S. Geological Survey; and Wolfgang Schmid and Hoori Ajami, University of Arizona
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm6a39/
GSFLOW-Coupled Ground-Water and Surface-Water Flow Model Based on the Integration of the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) and the Modular Ground-Water Flow Model (MODFLOW-2005)
By Steven L. Markstrom, Richard G. Niswonger, R. Steven Regan, David E. Prudic, and Paul M. Barlow
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm6d1/
CRT—Cascade Routing Tool to Define and Visualize Flow Paths for Grid-Based Watershed Models
By Wesley R. Henson, Rose L. Medina, C. Justin Mayers, Richard G. Niswonger, and R.S. Regan
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm6d2/
OPR-PPR, a Computer Program for Assessing Data Importance to Model Predictions Using Linear Statistics
By Matthew J. Tonkin, S.S. Papadopulos and Associates, Inc., Bethesda, MD, USA; University of Queensland, BNE, Australia; Claire R. Tiedeman, D. Matthew Ely, and Mary C. Hill, U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/2007/tm6e2/
Design and Maintenance of a Network for Collecting High-Resolution Suspended-Sediment Data at Remote Locations on Rivers, with Examples from the Colorado River
By Ronald E. Griffiths, David J. Topping, Timothy Andrews, Glenn E. Bennett, Thomas A. Sabol, and Theodore S. Melis
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm8c2/
FGDC Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization (PostScript Implementation)
By the U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/2006/11A02/
Geographic Information System Software to Enhance Field-Data Collection and Management of Land Cover Trends Information
By Nathan Wood, Benjamin Sleeter, and Peter Ng
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/2006/tm11c1/
Geographic Information System Software to Remodel Population Data Using Dasymetric Mapping Methods
By Rachel Sleeter and Michael Gould
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm11c2/
Land-Use Portfolio Modeler, Version 1.0—Software Documentation and Tutorial
By Richard Taketa, Peter Ng, and Makiko Hong
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm11c4/
SLAMMER—Seismic LAndslide Movement Modeled using Earthquake Records
By Randall W. Jibson, Ellen M. Rathje, Matthew W. Jibson, and Yong W. Lee
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/12b1/
MATLAB Tools for Improved Characterization and Quantification of Volcanic Incandescence in Webcam Imagery: Applications at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i
By Matthew R. Patrick, James P. Kauahikaua, and Loren Antolik
http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/tm13a1/
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