Related Publications

General

• Repeat Photography for Mojave Desert Ghost Towns and Mining Sites
  http://mojave.usgs.gov/time-series/

Ecology

• Desert Tortoise Ecology, Mojave Desert Tortoise GATF Project
  http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/biology/tortoise1/
• Earth Science at Fort Irwin
  http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/docs/geologic/Fort.Irwin.ES.web/Fort.Irwin.html
• Geographic Variation and Environmental Determinants of Reproductive Output in the Desert Tortoise
  http://www.werc.usgs.gov/hq/reprod.htm
• Long-term climate variation in the Mojave Desert Ecosystem
  http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/elnino/mojave.html
• Mojave Desert Science Symposium
  http://www.werc.usgs.gov/mojave-symposium/
• Mojave National Preserve Through Time
  http://geology.wr.usgs.gov/parks/mojave/mojavetime.html
• Nonnative Grass Invasions and Fire in the Mojave Desert
  http://www.werc.usgs.gov/invasivespecies/mojavegrassfire.html
• Recoverability and Vulnerability of Desert Ecosystems
  http://geography.wr.usgs.gov/news/docs-04/RVDE_FS058-03.pdf
• Vulnerability and Recoverability of the Mojave Desert Ecosystem
  http://geology.wr.usgs.gov/MojaveEco/
• Waste Burial in Arid Environments--Application of Information From a Field Laboratory in the Mojave Desert, Southern Nevada
  http://water.usgs.gov/wid/FS_179-95/
• Where Desert Meets City: Vulnerability and Recoverability of the Mojave Desert Ecosystem
  http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/MojaveEco/

Surface Water

• The Mojave River and Associated Lakes
  http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1007/river.html

Ground Water

• Aquifer Recharge in the Mojave Basin
  http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/uzf/mojave.html
• Artificial Recharge through a Thick, Heterogeneous Unsaturated Zone near an Intermittent Stream in the Western Part of the Mojave Desert, California
  http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/pubs/ofr0289/jai_artificial.htm
• Projects in California by USGS
  http://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects.html

Water Quality

• Baseline Water Quality in Joshua Tree National Park
  http://fresc.usgs.gov/text/research/detail.asp?Project_ID=95

Geology

• Dust Studies in Southern Nevada and California Deserts
  http://geology.wr.usgs.gov/MojaveEco/dustweb/dusthome.html
• Geology of Mojave – National Preserve
  http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/USGSNPS/mojave/mojave1.html
• Nevada Geology · Las Vegas Urban Corridor/Nevada Test Site Project
  http://geology.wr.usgs.gov/wgmt/lasvegas/lvmap.html
• Sediment yield and runoff frequency of small drainage basins in the Mojave Desert, California and Nevada
  http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3007/
• Southern California Areal Mapping Project (SCAMP)
  http://scamp.wr.usgs.gov/
• USGS Geological Research Activities with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Geologic Framework for Ecosystem Structure and Function
  http://geology.usgs.gov/connections/blm/landscapes/geologic_frame.htm
• USGS Geology in the Parks
  http://geology.wr.usgs.gov/docs/usgsnps/project/home.html

Animations

To better understand the relation between the aquifer systems and the Mojave River and to develop a management tool that could be used to estimate the effects that future stresses may have on the ground-water system, a numerical ground-water flow model of the Mojave River ground-water basin was developed (Stamos and others, 2001), in part, on the basis of a previously developed analog model (Hardt, 1971). To visualize the magnitude, spatial distribution, and timing of water-level changes in the basin through time, simulated hydraulic heads for 1931-99 were compared with simulated hydraulic heads for 1931 on an annual basis. These simulated annual water-level changes were compiled into a movie file (movie - 3MB, Stamos and others, 2002). To view the movie file, Quicktime viewer (free from Apple) is required. The viewer may be obtained at URL: (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/).

The calibrated flow model (Stamos and others, 2001) also was used to evaluate six proposed water-management alternatives using water from the California State Water Project (SWP) during the 20-year simulation period of 2000-2019 (Stamos and others, 2002). The simulated hydraulic-head change resulting from water-management alternative 1 was compared to 1999 initial conditions . Water-management alternative 1 assumed that no SWP water was available(animation of alternative 1 ). The five remaining water-management alternatives assumed that various amounts of SWP was available for recharge and the resulting simulated hydraulic-head change from each alternative was compared to the results from water-management alternative 1. Water-management alternative 2 assumed that 30,000 acre-ft/yr of SWP was recharged to the Mojave River in the upper part of the Alto subarea (location map) (animation of alternative 2 ). Water-management alternative 3 assumed that 4,000 acre-ft/yr of SWP water was recharged to the upper part of the Alto subarea, away from the Mojave River (animation of alternative 3 ). Water-management alternative 4 assumed that 10,000 acre-ft/yr of SWP water was recharged in the Baja subarea (animation of alternative 4 ). Water-management alternative 5 assumed that 23,800 acre-ft/yr of SWP water was delivered directly to municipal water districts in lieu of pumpage in the Alto subarea (animation of alternative 5 ). Water-management alternative 6 assumed that 3,800 acre-ft/yr of SWP water was delivered directly to municipal water districts in lieu of pumpage in the Transition zone subarea (animation of alternative 6 ).

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