USU Digital Collections

- Accidental Releases of Sour Gas From Wells and Collection Pipelines in the Overthrust Belt: Calculating and Assessing Potential Health and Environmental Risks
- A study conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to test methods and models for quantifying the health risks of sour-gas facilities in the Overthrust Belt. 135 pages.
- Natural gas -- Environmental aspects -- Utah; Natural gas -- Environmental aspects -- Wyoming; Natural gas -- Environmental aspects -- Idaho
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Community Environmental Response Facilitation Act Report for Tooele Army Depot -- North Area, Tooele, Utah.
- This report presents the results of the Community Environmental Response Facilitation Act (CERFA) investigation conducted by AGEISS Environment, Inc (AGEISS) at the Tooele Army Depot North Area (TEAD-N), a U.S. Government property selected for...
- Tooele Army Depot (Utah); Hazardous Waste -- Utah -- Tooele Army Depot; Groundwater -- Pollution -- Utah -- Tooele Army Depot; Soil pollution -- Utah -- Tooele Army Depot; Oil pollution of soils -- Utah -- Tooele Army Depot; Oil pollution of ground...
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Data Collection and Presentation Procedures for the US Army's Chemical Hazard Assessment Warning System (CHAWS): For Tooele Army Depot South, Utah
- A report describing the basic procedures and referencing more detailed documents for the operation of meteorological and air quality sensing instrumentation, data description, and analysis systems for an incinerator pilot plant at the Tooele Army...
- Incineration -- Waste disposal -- Environmental aspects; Tooele Army Depot (Utah); Air quality -- Utah; Air -- Pollution -- Utah -- Tooele Army Depot -- Measurement
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Daytime wind valleys adjacent to the Great Salt Lake
- A 1986 study by Los Alamos National Laboratory highlighting the meteorological aspects of emergency preparedness of Tooele Army Depot sites that store and handle toxic material.
- Winds -- Utah -- Tooele Army Depot (Utah); Tooele Army Depot (Utah)
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Effects of Flaming Gorge Dam Hydropower Operations on Downstream Flow, Stage, and Sediment Transport
- This paper presents the development of release patterns and resulting downstream flows, stages, and sediment transport for four hydropower operational scenarios proposed for the dam. The results of this study are useful for assessing potential...
- Hydroelectric power plants -- Environmental aspects -- Utah -- Green River
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Effects of Flaming Gorge Dam Hydropower Operations on Flow and Stage in the Green River, Utah and Colorado
- Report by S.C.L. Yin, J.J. McCoy, S.C. Palmer, and H.E. Cho which is one of a series of technical memorandums prepared to support an environmental impact statement for the U.S. Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration on power...
- Hydroelectric power plants -- Environmental aspects -- Utah -- Green River
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Effects of hydropower operations on recreational use and nonuse values at Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge dams
- Report by J. L. Carlson on how dam operations that result in changes to the streamflow could cause the quantity or quality of downstream recreational activities to change.
- Hydroelectric power plants -- Environmental aspects -- Arizona -- Coconino County; Hydroelectic power plants -- Environmental aspects -- Utah -- Daggett County; Reservoir drawdown -- Environmental aspects -- Arizona -- Coconino County; Reservoir...
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Federal Land Management: Authorized Uses in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
- Report on authorized uses in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument issued April 17, 1997. 7 pages.
- Public Lands -- Utah -- Management; Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Utah)
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Final Program and Abstract: Fourth SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, May 18-22, 1997, Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Snowbird, Utah.
- A highly interdisciplinary meeting brings together a diverse group of mathematicians, scientists, and engineers, all working on dynamical systems and their applications. Final Program and Abstracts only. Full proceedings were not published. 131...
- Hamiltonian systems -- Congresses; Celestial mechanics -- Mathematics -- Congresses
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Investigations On The Effect Of Grazing Intensity On The Transfer Of Radionuclides To Cow's Milk
- After the Chernobyl nuclear accident studies were done to determine the effects of radionuclides (particularly radiocaesium, radioiodine, and radiostrontium) on humans. This study however looks at the influence of the grazing intensity and grazing...
- Radioactive contamination of milk; Grazing -- Management; Dairy cows -- Feeding and feeds
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Lessons From Five Years of Vegetation Monitoring on the Nevada Test Site
- Report by Richard B. Hunter and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, to monitor for a five year period the flora and fauna at the Nevada Test Site.
- Rangelands -- Nevada; Range Management -- Nevada
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Long-Term Flow Test #1, Roosevelt Hot Springs, Utah
- A study spanning 8 months in 1977 and 1978 by D.D. Faulder of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The study is on the Roosevelt Hot Springs geothermal field in southwestern Utah and consists of a 237 day Long-Term Flow Test #1 and a 100 day...
- Geothermal resources -- Utah -- Roosevelt Hot Springs; Roosevelt Hot Springs (Utah)
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Natural Gas Accumulations in Low-Permeability Tertiary, and Cretaceous(Campanian and Maastrichtian)Rock, Uinta Basin, Utah
- This report characterizes Upper Cretaceous Campanian and Maastrichtian, and lower Tertiary gas-bearing rocks in the Uinta Basin with special emphasis on those units that contain gas in reservoirs that have been described as being tight. The report...
- Natural Gas -- Uinta Basin (Utah and Colo.); Geology, Stratigraphic -- Cretaceous; Geology, Stratigraphic -- Tertiary
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Nitrogen Availability as a Control Mechanism of Secondary Succession Within a Semiarid Shrubland Ecosystem
- Study conducted by Edward F. Redente and Terry McLendon that consisted three experiments on four plots in the Piceance Basin of northwest Colorado. The study highlights the effect nitrogen availability has on the secondary succession of plant...
- Soils -- Nitrogen content; Shrubland ecology
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Potential Effects of Four Flaming Gorge Dam Hydropower Operational Scenarios on the Fishes of the Green River, Utah and Colorado
- Report by I. Hlohowskyj and J. W. Hayse that uses aerial videography and modeling to evaluate the impacts of four hydropower operational scenarios at Flaming Gorge Dam, Utah, on trout and native fishes in the Green River, Utah and Colorado.
- Hydroelectirc power plants -- Environmental aspects -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah); Fishes -- Effect of dams on -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah); Fishes -- Effect of water levels on -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah); Fishes -- Effect of habitat modification on --...
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Rangeland - Plant Response to Elevated CO2
- Study done involving plots of tallgrass prairie composed of Andorpogon gerardii, A. scoparius, Sorghastrum nutans, and Poa pratensis. The study looks at how prairie ecosystems respond to increased Carbon Dioxide levels. Also included is a...
- Plants -- Effect of carbon dioxide on -- Kansas; Range plants -- Kansas; Range plants -- Effect of air pollution on -- Kansas
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Simulation of Diurnally Varying Downslope Winds Over Northern Utah
- Masters thesis describing the results of a relatively complete regional model to simulate downslope winds in two dimensions. Submitted June 1991 to University of Utah and also released by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base via NTIS and DTIC. 73...
- Winds -- Utah
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Testing of the New USGS K Index Algorithm at Bear Lake Observatory
- Ariel O. Acebal's master thesis for a Masters of Science in Applied Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology. The thesis showed that a computer program developed by the USGS using the K index was computed properly. 123 pages.
- Geomagnetic indexes -- Testing; Geomagnetism -- Bear Lake (Utah and Idaho)
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports
- Utah Department of Transportation I-15 Case Study (Design-Build Contracting Strategy)
- A case study on Interstate 15 in Utah that captures the background information used to support the design build contracting strategy decision, challenges, innovations, significant construction methods and factors contributing to the project success.
- Interstate 15 -- Design and construction
- Utah's Most Elusive - Hard-to-find Government and Scientific Reports