Other NAWQA publications and USGS publications are also available.

Circulars
Scientific Investigations Reports
Water-Resources Investigations Report
Open-File Reports
Conference Proceedings and Abstracts
Posters
Fact Sheets
Journal Articles

Circulars:

• Kleiss, B.A., Coupe, R.H., Gonthier, G.J., and Justus, B.G., 2000, Water Quality in the Mississippi Embayment, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1995-98: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1208, 36 p.

Scientific Investigations Reports:

• Femmer, S.R., Coupe, R.H., Justus, B.G., and Kleiss, B.A., 2004, Concentrations of selected organochlorine compounds in fish tissue in the Mississippi Embayment Study Unit: Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee, 1995-99: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5006, 36 p.

Water-Resources Investigations Reports:

• Coupe, R.H., 1998, Concentrations and loads of nitrogen and phosphorus in the Yazoo River, northwestern Mississippi, 1996-97: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4219, 17 p. Click here for PDF format.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., 2000, Occurrence of pesticides in five rivers of the Mississippi Embayment Study Unit, 1996-98: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4159, 55 p.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., 2002, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Concentrations and Fluxes of Streams in the Mississippi Embayment Study Unit, 1996-98: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4024, 65 p.
  
  
• Garbarino, J.R., Bednar, A.J., Burkhardt, M.R., 2002, Methods of Analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory – Arsenic Speciation in Natural-Water Samples Using Laboratory and Field Methods: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4144, 40 p.
  
  
• Gonthier, G.J., 2000, Water quality in the deep tertiary aquifers of the Mississippi Embayment, 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4131, 91 p.
  
  
• Gonthier, G.J., 2002, Quality of shallow ground water in recently developed residential and commercial areas, Memphis vicinity, Tennessee, 1997: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, 02-4294, 105 p.
  
  
• Gonthier, G.J., 2003, Quality of water in Pleistocene and Holocene subunits of the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, 1998: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4202, 80 p.
  
  
• Justus, B.G., 2003, An Index of Ecological Integrity for the Mississippi Alluvial Plain Ecoregion: Index Development and Relations to Selected Landscape Variables: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4110, 32 p.
  
  
• Justus, B.G., Bray, D.G., Dossett, A., Hicks, M., Sarver, R., and Rogers, M., 2001, Comparison of multi-habitat aquatic macroinvertebrate sampling methods in streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain Ecoregion: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4216, 16 p.
  
  
• Justus, B.G., Folmar, H.G., and Bass P.B., 1999, Methods and results of dioxin related studies on the Leaf and Pascagoula Rivers, Mississippi, 1989-97: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4102, 34 p.
  
  
• Runner, M.S., Turnipseed, D.P., Coupe, R.H., 2002, Streamflow and Nutrient data for the Yazoo River below Steele Bayou near Long Lake, Mississippi, 1996-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4215, 35 p.
  
  
• Strom, E.W., 1997, Hydrogeologic interpretations of natural-gamma logs for 31 shallow wells in the Memphis, Tennessee area: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4181, 43 p.

Open-File Reports:

• Caskey, B.J., 2003, Relations of Stream Fish Communities to Physcial and Chemical Parameters and Land Use in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain Ecoregion: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-31.
  
  
• Justus, B.G., and Caskey, B.J., 2000, Occurrence of fishes at 38 sites in the Mississippi Embayment Study Unit, 1996-98: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-605.

Conference Proceedings and Abstracts:

• Bastian, K.C., Thurman, E.M., Kleiss, B.A., Coupe, R.H., Huckins, J.N., and Petty, J.D., 1997, Correlation of pesticides in semi-permeable membrane devices and fish tissue in Mississippi Embayment waters, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Meeting, Fall 1997, San Francisco, CA.
  
  
• Bastian, K.C., Thurman, E.M., and Rebich, R.A., 1998, Comparison of enzyme-linked immunoassay with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry for analysis of the cotton herbicide fluometuron: Proceedings of the 28^th Mississippi Water Resources Conference, April 7-8 1998, Raymond, MS, p. 45-55.
  
  
• Battaglin, W.A., Goolsby, D.A, and Coupe, R.H., 1996, Annual use and transport of agricultural chemicals in the Mississippi River, 1991-92 in U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program – Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 20-24, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4015, v. 1, p. 429-440.
  
  
• Bryson, J.R., Wates, L.M., and Kleiss, B.A., 2001, Concentrations of organic compounds in bed sediment in the Mississippi Embayment Study Unit: Mississippi Water Resources Conference, 31st, Raymond, MS, 10-11 April 2001, Proceedings, p. 2-8.
  
  
• Bryson, J. R., Welch, H. L., Coupe, R. H., 2003, Hydrogeologic Significance of Pesticide and Nitrate Concentrations in the Water Table Aquifer and Memphis Aquifer in the Memphis Area, TN: Mississippi Water Resources Conference, 33 rd, Raymond, MS, 23-24 April 2003, Proceedings
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., 1996, Herbicides in the surface water of the Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi: Proceedings of the 26^th Mississippi Water Resources Conference, April 2-3 1996, Jackson, MS, p. 187-195.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., Manning, M.A., Foreman, W.T., Goolsby, D.A., and Mayewski, M.S., 1998, Differences in distribution of pesticides in air and rain in urban and agricultural areas of Mississippi: Proceedings of the 28^th Mississippi Water Resources Conference, April 7-8 1998, Raymond, MS p. 106-116.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., Manning, M.A., Shaw, D.R., Boyette, M., 1996, Herbicides in the Yazoo River Basin: Proceedings of the Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, Spring 1995, Charlotte, NC.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., Manning, M.A., Shaw, D.R., Boyette, M., 1996, Metolachlor in the Surface Water of the Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi, April-July 1995: Proceedings of the Weed Science Society of America 1996 Annual Meeting, Norfolk VA.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., Manning, M.A., and Thurman, E.M., 1997, Cotton and rice herbicides in surface waters in the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain—Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri: Proceedings of the Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, January 1997, Houston, TX.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., and Rebich, R.A., 1998, Cotton herbicides in the surface waters of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (the Delta): Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers Annual Meeting, August 3-7, 1998, Memphis, TN.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., and Shaw, D.R., 2000, Off-site movement of the herbicide molinate: Weed Science Society of America, Toronto, Canada, Abstracts, p. 138-139.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., and Thurman, E.M., 1997, Herbicides and their metabolites in the surface waters of the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain: Proceedings of the 1998 Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., and Thurman, E.M., 1999, The Occurrence of Insecticides in the Surface Waters of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, The Seventh Symposium on the Chemistry and Fate of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1 pg abstract.
  
  
• Dayama, A., and Coupe, R.H., 1997, Pesticides in the Yazoo River and Bogue Phalia, February through September 1996 : Mississippi Water Resources Conference, 27 th, Jackson, MS, 25-26 March 1997, Proceedings, p. 127-132.
  
  
• Gonthier, G.J., 1997, Organic compounds in municipal wells open to the Claiborne and Wilcox Aquifers, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee: 10^th Annual AGWA-AWRA joint symposium
  
  
• Gonthier, G.J., 1998, Determination of distinct hydrogeologic units within the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer based on ground water: Proceedings of the 28^th Mississippi Water Resources Conference, April 7-8 1998, Raymond, MS p. 206-212.
  
  
• Johnson, G.P. and Coupe, R.H., 1996, Transport and concentrations of selected herbicides and nitrate in the Sangamon River, Illinois, April 1991-March 1992 in U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program – Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 20-24, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4015, v.1, p. 471-478.
  
  
• Joseph, R.L., Coupe, R.H., and Zimmerman, L., 1997, Occurrence of selected cotton and rice herbicides and their metabolites in streams and oxbow lakes of western Mississippi, northeastern Louisiana, and eastern Arkansas, 1996 : Mississippi Water Resources Conference, 27 th, Jackson, MS, 25-26 March 1997, Proceedings, p. 133-137.
  
  
• Justus, B.G. 1996, NAWQA qualitative macroinvertebrate sampling procedures: Can they be used to develop Biocriteria in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain Ecoregion: 1996, Southeastern Water Pollution Biologists Association Meeting, November 1996.
  
  
• Justus, B.G., 1998, Ongoing activities of the NAWQA Program in the Mississippi Embayment Study Unit: Mississippi Water Resources Conference, 28th, Raymond, MS, 7-8 April 1998, Proceedings, p. 174-182.
  
  
• Justus, B.G., and Kleiss, B.A., 1997, Ongoing activities of the National Water Quality Assessment Program in the Mississippi Embayment: Proceedings of the 28^th Mississippi Water Resources Conference, April 7-8 1998, Raymond, MS, p. 174-184.
  
  
• Justus, B.G., and Kleiss, B.A., 1997, Results of the 1996 NAWQA fish community assessment in the Mississippi Embayment Study Unit: Proceedings of the 27^th Mississippi Water Resources Conference, March 25-26, 1997, Jackson, MS, p. 72-81.
  
  
• Kingery, W.L., Shaw, D.R., Coupe, R.H., and Boyette, M., 1996, Cyanazine concentration in stream samples from selected watersheds in the Mississippi Delta: Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, 49th, Charlotte, NC, 15-17 January 1996, Proceedings, p. 208-209.
  
  
• Kleiss, B.A., 1995, An ecosystem study of bottomland hardwood wetlands associated with the Cache River, Eastern Arkansas: Natural Areas Conference, November 1995, Fayetteville, AR.
  
  
• Kleiss, B.A., 1996, Contaminants in fish tissue from rivers in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain: Southeastern Water Pollution Biologists Association Meeting, November 1996, Gulf Shores, AL.
  
  
• Kleiss, B.A., 1996, Measurement of endocrine disrupting contaminants in the Mississippi Embayment: Proceedings of the Arkansas Chapter, American Fisheries Society Meeting, February 1996, Jonesboro, AR.
  
  
• Kleiss, B.A., 1996, Sediment retention in an eastern Arkansas bottomland hardwood wetland: Association of Southeastern Biologists, April 1996, Statesboro, GA.
  
  
• Kleiss, B.A., and Justus, B.G., 1997, Preliminary results of fish tissue analysis in the Mississippi Embayment NAWQA Program: Proceedings of the 27^th Mississippi Water Resources Conference, March 25-26, 1997, Jackson, MS, p. 138-146.
  
  
• Mallory, M.J., 1994, The Mississippi Embayment National Water-Quality Assessment Study: Proceedings of the 24^th Mississippi Water Resources Conference, Jackson, MS, p. 171-177.
  
  
• Manning, M.A., 1997, Measurement of streamflow in the lower Yazoo River using an acoustic Doppler current profiler, January-August, 1996: Proceedings of the 27^th Mississippi Water Resources Conference, March 25-26, 1997, Jackson, MS, p. 213-221.
  
  
• Manning, M.A., 2000, Concentrations of selected pesticides in treated and untreated drinking water from Lake Bruin, Louisiana, April – December 1999: Mississippi Water Resources Conference, 30 th, Raymond, Mississippi, 18-19 April 2000, Proceedings, p. 349-353.
  
  
• Schraer, S.M., Shaw, D.R., Boyette, M., Kingery, W.L., Seifert, S., and Coupe, R.H., 1998, Herbicide dynamics of a small hydrologic system in the Mississippi Delta: Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, 51 st, Birmingham, AL, 26-28 January 1998, Proceedings, p. 249-250.
  
  
• Schraer, S.M., Shaw, D.R., Coupe, R.H., Boyette, M., Kingery, W.L., and Smith, M.C., 1997, Metolachlor and cyanazine concentrations in surface waters of selected watersheds in the Mississippi Delta: Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, 50 th, Houston, TX, 20-22 January 1997, Proceedings, p. 164.
  
  
• Steinheimer, T.R., Pfeiffer, R.L., Scogginm K.D., and Battaglin, W.A., 2000, Reconaissance Survey of Sulfonamide, Sulfonylurea, and Imadizaolinone Herbicides in Surface Streams and Groundwater of the Midwestern United States, 2000, in Steinheimer, T.R., Ross, L.J., and Spittler, T.D., eds., Agrochemical Fate and Moverment Perspectives of Scale of Study, ACS Symposium Series No. 751, 408 p.
  
  
• Wates, M.L. and Kleiss, B.A., 2000, Trace element concentrations in bed sediment in the Mississippi Embayment Study Unit: Mississippi Water Resources Conference, 30th, Raymond, MS, 18-19 April 2000, Proceedings, p.357-363.

Posters:

• Herbicides and Their Metabolites in the Surface Waters of the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain
  
  
• Organochlorine Compounds in Fish Tissue in the Lower Mississippi River

Fact Sheets:

• Justus, B.G., Caskey, B.J., and Kleiss, B.A., 2001, Number and size of black bass reflect water quality in the Low Mississippi River Delta: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-080-01, 1 sheet.
  
  
• Mallory, Michael J., 1994, National Water-Quality Assessment Program -- The Mississippi Embayment: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 94-047, 2 p.
  
  
• Thurman, E., M, Zimmerman, L.R., Scribner, E.A., and Coupe, R.H., 1998, Occurrence of cotton pesticides in surface water of the Mississippi Embayment: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-022-98, 4 p.

Journal Articles:

• Bednar, A.J., Garbarino, J.R., Ranville, J.F., and Wildeman, T.R., 2002, Presence of Organoarsenicals Used in Cotton Production in Agricultural Water and Soil of the Southern United States.
  
  
• Chang, Cecily C.Y., Kendall, Carol, Silva, Steven R., Battaglin, William A., and Campbell, Donald H., 2002, Nitrate stable isotopes: tools for determining nitrate sources among different land uses in the Mississippi River Basin: Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., v. 59, no. 12, p. 1874-1885.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H, and Blomquist, J.D., 2004, Water-soluble pesticides in finished water of community water supplies: Journal American Water Works Association, v. 96, no. 10, p. 56-68.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., Manning, M.A., Foreman, W.T., Goolsby, D.A., and Majewski, M.S., 2000, Occurrence of pesticides in rain and air in urban and agricultural areas of Mississippi, April-September 1995 : The Science of the Total Environment, v. 248, p. 227-240.
  
  
• Coupe, R.H., Thurman, E.M., and Zimmerman, L.R., 1998, Relation of usage to the occurrence of cotton and rice herbicides in three streams of the Mississippi Delta : Environmental Science & Technology, v. 32, no. 23, p. 3673 - 3680.
  
  
• Foreman, W.T., Majewski, M.S., Goolsby, D.A., Wiebe, F.W., and Coupe, R.H., 2000, Pesticides in the atmosphere of the Mississippi River Valley, part II – air: The Science of the Total Environment, v. 248, no. 2-3, p. 213-226.
  
  
• Kendall, Carol, and Coplen, T.B., 2001, Distribution of Oxygen-18 and Deuterium in River Waters Across the United States: Hydrological Processes, v. 15, p. 1363-1393.
  
  
• Kendall, Carol, Silva, S.R., and Kelly, V.J., 2001, Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Compositions of Particluate Organic Mater in Four Large River Systems Across the United States: Hydrological Processes, v. 15, p. 1301-1346.
  
  
• Schmitt, C.J., 2002, Organochlorine Chemical Residues in Fish from the Mississippi River Basin, 1995: Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, v. 43, p. 81-97.
  
  
• Schraer, S.M., Shaw, D.R., Boyette, M., Coupe, R.H., and Thurman, E.M., 2000, Comparison of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and gas chromatography procedures for the detection of cyanazine and metolachlor in surface water samples: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, v. 48, no. 12, p. 5881-5886.
  
  
• Scribner, E.A., Thurman, E.M., and Zimmerman, L.R., 2000, Analysis of selected herbicide metabolites in surface and ground water of the United States: The Science of the Total Environment, v. 248, no. 2-3, p. 157-167.
  
  
• Zimmerman, L.R., Thurman, E.M., Bastian, K.C., 1999, Detection of persistent organic pollutants in the Mississippi Delta using semipermeable membrane devices: The Science of the Total Environment, v. 248, no. 2-3, p. 169-179.
  

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