Other NAWQA publications and USGS publications are also available.

Circulars
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.

Water-Resources Investigations Report:

• 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., 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, Click here for PDF format.

• 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:

• 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.

• 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., 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., 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., 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., 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 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 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.

• 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.

• 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., 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.

• Justus, B.G., 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.

• 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.

• 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, Sediment retention in an eastern Arkansas bottomland hardwood wetland: Association of Southeastern Biologists, April 1996, Statesboro, GA.

• 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., 1995, An ecosystem study of bottomland hardwood wetlands associated with the Cache River, Eastern Arkansas: Natural Areas Conference, November 1995, Fayetteville, AR.

• 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.

Posters:

• Organochlorine Compounds in Fish Tissue in the Lower Mississippi River

• Herbicides and Their Metabolites in the Surface Waters of the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain

Fact Sheets:

• Mallory, Michael J., 1994, National Water-Quality Assessment Program -- The Mississippi Embayment: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 94-047, 2p.

Journal Articles:

• Coupe, R.H., 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.

• Coupe, R.H., 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.

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