Emerging Environmental Geochemical Challenges for Future Mining -- Watershed Assessment Methodologies

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This task will use the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) database as a powerful and convenient platform from which to develop predictive methods to assess aquatic environmental risks over a range of scales --from small to large regional scales, up to national scales.

It will also integrate and apply insights, gained from other tasks of this project, to a regional landscape. The task will use

GIS,
database,
and modeling tools,
and rely on existing data;

The emphasis will be placed on understanding how local factors such as

geologic,
hydrologic,
and climatic settings

affect aquatic risks associated with specific metals, which then can be related back to specific deposit types, in a modern regulatory context.

Task chief: Laurie S. Balistrieri, balistri@usgs.gov, 206-543-8966

Mineral Resources	Eastern / Central / Western / Alaska / National Minerals Information
	Crustal Imaging & Characterization / Spatial Data

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