Altman, B., Henson, C. M. & Waite, I. R. (1997). Summary of information on aquatic biota and their habitats in the Willamette basin, Oregon, through 1995. Portland, OR:U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Geological Survey Water- Resources Investigations Report 97-4023). Retrieved November 12, 2002, from http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Online/Pdf/97-4023.pdf Description: 174 p. (3 MB).
Anderson, C. W., Wood, T. M. & Morace, J. L. (1997). Distribution of dissolved pesticides and other water quality constituents in small streams, and their relation to land use, in the Willamette River basin, Oregon, 1996 (U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4268). Portland, OR: U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved January 30, 2007, from http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Pdf/97-4268.pdf Description: 87 p. (1.9 MB).
Andrus, C.W., Landers, D., Erway, M.L., Sharps, D.Cline, S.P. (1997). Ecological functions of off-channel habitat, Willamette River, Oregon : final research plan. Corvallis, OR: National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1957/4864.
Annear, R.L., Wells, S.A., Berger, C.J., McKillip, M., Khan, S.J. (2003). Willamette River System Temperature Waste Load Allocation Model. In Getting It Done: The Role of TMDL Implementation in Watershed Restoration, October 29-30, 2003, Stevenson, WA. Pullman: State of Washington Water Research Center. Retrieved March 16, 2004, from http://www.swwrc.wsu.edu/conference2003/pdf/Proceedings/Proceedings/ Session%208B/PAPER_Annear.pdf Description: 10 p. (369 KB)
Anthony, S.E., Prahl, F.G., & Peterson, T.D. (2012). Methane dynamics in the Willamette River, Oregon. Limnology and Oceanography 57, 1517-1530. doi: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.5.1517
Benda, s. (2014). Cool, pathogen free refuge lowers pathogen associated prespawn mortality of Willamette River chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawtyscha). (Unpublished master's thesis) Oregon State University, Corvallis. Retrieved from ScholarsArchive@OSU .
Berger, C.J., Annear, R. L. & Wells, S.A. (2002). Willamette River and Columbia River waste load allocation model. Paper presented at the 2nd Federal InterAgency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Las Vegas, July 28-Aug 1, 2002. RetreivedMarch 13, 2003 from http://www.ce.pdx.edu/~scott/pubs/Willamette_River.pdf Description:12 p. (203 KB)
Bonn, B. A. (1998). Dioxins and furans in bed sediment and fish tissue of the Willamette basin, Oregon, 1992-95. Portland, OR: U.S. Geological Survey. (U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4082-D) Retrieved November 12, 2002, from http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Pdf/97-4082d.pdf Description: 12 p. (305 KB)
Brooks, J. R., Wigington Jr, P. J., Phillips, D. L., Comeleo, R., & Coulombe, R. (2012, May).
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Buccola, N.L., Turner, D.F., & Rounds, S.A. (2016). Water temperature effects from simulated dam operations and structures in the Middle Fork Willamette River, western Oregon. Portland, OR: U.S. Geological Survey(U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1159). doi: 10.3133/ofr20161159
Buck, J. & Kaiser, J.L. (2011, March 11). Contaminant concentrations in osprey (Pandion haliaetus) eggs from Portland Harbor and surrounding areas: Data summary report. Portland, OR: The Portland Harbor Natural Resource Trustee Council. Retrieved from http://www.fws.gov/OregonFWO/Contaminants/PortlandHarbor/Documents /Osprey_FinalDataSummaryReport11.pdf
Butcher, J. B., Johnson, T. E., Nover, D., & Sarkar, S. (2014). Incorporating the effects of increased atmospheric CO2 in watershed model projections of climate change impacts. Journal of Hydrology, 513, 322-334. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.073
Case study: The Willamette River basin (2000). In Bingham, Tayler H., Bondelid, Timothy R., Depro, Brooks M, Figueroa, Ruth C., Hauber, A. Brett, Unger, Suzanne J., et al. A Benefits assessment of water pollution control programs since 1972: Part 1, the benefits of point source controls for conventional pollutants in rivers and streams, Final report (RTI Project No. 6600-4). Research Triangle Park, NC: Research Triangle Institute. Retrieved from http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eerm.nsf/vwan/ee-0429-01.pdf/$file/ee-0429-01.pdf (989 K)
Clemens, B. J., Mesa, M. G., Magie, R. J., Young, D. A., & Schreck, C. B. (2012).
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Coe, Daniel E. (2013). Willamette River historical stream channels, Oregon. [Portland]: Oregon Department of Geology & Mineral Industries. Retrieved from https://www.oregongeology.org/pubs/ll/p-poster-willamette.htm
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Curtis, L., Anderson, K., Jenkins, J., Kent, M., & Markle, D. (2003).
Environmental stresses and fish in the Willamette River:
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Description: 17 p. (266 KB) See also final report, below.
Dole, D. & Niemi, E.. (2002). The Future of Municipal water resources in the Willamette River basin: A basin-level analysis. Washington, DC: National Center for Environmental Economics. (Working Paper No. 02-01). Retrieved March 17, 2005, from http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumberNew/2002-01?OpenDocument Description: Forecast of water-supply issues. 35 pp.
Ellis, S.G. (2000). Characterization of skeletal deformities in three species of juvenile fish from the Willamette River Basin, February 2000. Salem, OR: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. (Willamette River Basin Studies: Ecological Health Technical Study; EVS Project No. 2/839-02). Retrieved January 7, 2003, from http://www.deq.state.or.us/wq/willamette/docs/studies/fsdrpt.pdf Description: 50 p. (408 KB) report on fish in naturally-occurring fish populations in the "Newberg Pool;" prepared by EVS Environment Consultants for Oregon DEQ.
EVS Environment Consultants, Inc. (2000). In situ bioassay for fish embryo development, September 2000. Salem, OR: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. (Willamette River Basin Studies: Ecological Health Technical Study; EVS Project No. 2/839-02). Retrieved January 7, 2003, from http://www.deq.state.or.us/wq/willamette/docs/studies/fedrpt.pdf Description: 46 p. (4.9 MB) study on the use of rainbow trout embryos to investigate fish in the "Newberg Pool," prepared by EVS Environment Consultants for Oregon DEQ.
EVS Environment Consultants, Inc. (2000). Human health risk assessment of chemical contaminants in four fish species from the Middle Willamette River, November 21, 2000. Salem, OR: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. (Willamette River Basin Studies: Human Health Technical Study; EVS Project No. 2/839-01). Retrieved January 30, 2007, from http://www.deq.state.or.us/wq/willamette/docs/studies/hhrarpt.pdf Description: 112 p. (4.3 MB) study on the risk of eating fish from the Middle Willamette River, prepared by EVS Environment Consultants for Oregon DEQ.
Fernald, A. (2002). Groundwater/surface water interactions. In Proceedings, 46th Annual New Mexico Water Conference : New Mexico watershed management, restoration, utilization, and protection, November 5-7, 2001, La Fonda, Santa Fe (WRRI Report No 323). Las Cruces, N.M.: New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute. Retrieved June 11, 2003, from http://wrri.nmsu.edu/publish/watcon/proc46/fernald.pdf Description: A conference paper about ground water and surface water interactions; the bulk of the paper deals with research done on the Willamette River.
Fernald, A., Landers, D., and Wigington, P.J., Jr. (2000). Water quality effects of hyporheic processing. Corvallis, OR: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory. (NTIS No. PB2000-107420) Retrieved from http://www.ntis.gov
Frentress, J. (2010). Stream DOC, nitrate, chloride and SUVA response to land use during winter baseflow conditions in sub-basins of the Willamette River Basin, OR. (Master's thesis). Retreieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1957/16419
Friesen, T.A. (Ed.) (2005, March). Biology, behavior, and resources of resident and anadromous fish in the Lower Willamette River: Final report of research, 2000-2004. Clackamas, OR: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Reitrieved January 30, 2013, from http://www.dfw.state.or.us/ fish/oscrp/CRI/docs/wfsreport2005-Final.pdf
Gannett M.W. & Caldwell R.R. (1998). Geologic framework of the Willamette Lowland aquifer system, Oregon and Washington (US Geological Survey Professional Paper no. P 1424-A). Reston, VA: U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved April 4, 2006, from http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp1424A Description: 32 p., 8 plates.
Gregory, S., Ashkenas, L. & Nygard, C. (2007). Summary report to assist development of ecosystem flow recommendations for the Coast Fork and the Middle Fork of the Willamette River, Oregon. Corvallis, OR: Institute for Water and Watersheds, Oregon State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1957/5965
Gregory, S., Wildman, R., Hulse, D. Enright, C., & Branscomb, A. (2008). Confluence Island: an assessment of current and future opportunities for ecological restoration at the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers. Retrieved from http://ise.uoregon.edu/publications/ confluence_is_report_10_31_08.pdf Description: "Prepared for Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission, Wastewater Division, City of Eugene Public Works." Includes assessment of the river as well as the island.
Grewell, B.J., Netherland, M.D., & Thomason, M.J.S. (2016, February). Establishing research and management priorities for invasive water primroses (Ludwigia spp.). Washington, DC: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Aquatic Plant Control Research Program ERDC/EL TR-16-2). Retrieved from http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD1002917
GSI Water Solutions, Inc., & Hart Crowser, Inc. (2010). Field and data report : downtown Portland sediment characterization: Willamette River, Portland, Oregon. Portland, OR: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Retrieved from: http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/cu/nwr/Willamette/FieldDataReportPhaseII.pdf Description: Additional documentation at: http://www.deq.state.or.us/ lq/cu/nwr/willametteriver.htm
Haddad, J., Ellis, S., & Read, L. (2000). Characterization of bacteria concentrations at water recreational sites in the Middle Willamette River, July 1999. Salem, OR: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. (Willamette River Basin Studies: Human Health Technical Study; EVS Project No. 2/839-01). Retrieved March 18, 2003, from http://www.deq.state.or.us/wq/willamette/docs/studies/bacteriarpt.pdf Description: 23 p. (1 MB) report and appendices by EVS Environment Consultants, Inc., for DEQ.
Hägglöf, K. (1996). Working paper: The implementation of the stochastic branch and bound method for applications in river basin water quality management (IIASA WP-96-89). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Retrieved March 19, 2003, from http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Publications/Documents/WP-96-089.pdf Description: 12 p. (274 KB) Describes a mathematical model, an extension of a stochastic branch and bound method,applied to water quality management, as exemplified by the Willamette River.
Hall, B. (2011, January 15). The Willamette River Project changing course: Support is building for floodplain restoration. Albany Democrat Herald. Retrieved from http://democratherald.com/news/local/article_72533502-213c-11e0-a049-001cc4c03286.html
Halmstad, A., Najafi, M. R., & Moradkhani, H. (2013). Analysis of precipitation extremes with the assessment of regional climate models over the Willamette River Basin, USA. Hydrological Processes, 27, 2579-2590. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9376
Harrison, H. E., Anderson, C. W., Rinella, F. A., Gasser, T. M.& Pogue, T. R., Jr.
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Description: "This report presents trace-element, organic-compound (pesticides,
volatile and semivolatile organic compounds, and dioxin and furan compounds),
and nutrient concentration data from the analyses of water column, suspended-
sediment, and bed-sediment samples." 171 p. (2234K)
Hart Crowser, Inc. (2002). Lower Willamette River reference area study, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, Oregon. [Seattle, WA]: The author. Retrieved from http://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/docs/d_sediment/Reports/Willamette/willamette_ref_02.pdf Description: "This reference area study is part of a comprehensive effort by the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to develop a Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP) for the Willamette River. Reference areas are defined as locations from which reference sediments are obtained to be used as part of a biological testing program." 114 p. (8173K)
Hess, G. W., & Haluska, T. L. (2016). Flood-inundation maps for a 9.1-mile reach of the Coast Fork Willamette River near Creswell and Goshen, Lane County, Oregon.Portland, OR: U.S. Geological Survey. (U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016–5029). doi: 10.3133/sir20165029.
Hughes, R. (2008). Willamette River Water quality map. Corvallis, OR: Institute for Water and Watersheds, Oregon State University. Retrieved from http://water.oregonstate.edu/projects/willwq.htm Description: Links to files for front and back of map.
Hulse, D. & Gregory, S. (2004). Integrating resilience into floodplain restoration. Urban Ecosystems, 7, 295–314. Retrieved from http://lterdev.fsl.orst.edu/ lter/pubs/pdf/pub3986.pdf
Hulse, D., Gregory, S. & Baker J. (Eds.) (2002). Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. Retrieved April 5, 2006, from http://www.fsl.orst.edu/pnwerc/wrb/Atlas_web_compressed/PDFtoc.html
Hulse, D., Branscomb, A., Enright, C. & Wildman, G.R. (2007). Linking cold-water refuges into a biologically effective network in the southern Willamette River floodplain: outlining key locations and knowledge gaps. Retrieved from http://ise.uoregon.edu/publications/Stepping_Stones_5_31_07.pdf Description: "Report to David Evans and Associates ... Portland."
Jackson, A. K. (2017). You are what, when, where, and how you eat: Mercury in avian food webs across multiple spatial scales. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation) Oregon State University, Corvallis. Retrieved from ScholarsArchive@OSU. Chapter 3 focuses on the Willamette River.
Jaeger, W., Plantinga, A., Langpap, C., Bigelow, D., & Moore, K.(2017).
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Jung, I. W., & Chang, H. (2011). Assessment of future runoff trends under multiple climate change scenarios in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, USA. Hydrological Processes, 25, 258-277. doi: 10.1002/hyp.7842
Keefer, M. L., Clabough, T. S., Jepson, M. A., Naughton, G. P., Blubaugh, T. J.,
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Langston, T. (2015). Spatial patterns of sediment transport in the Upper Willamette River, Oregon. (Unpublished master's thesis). Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
Lee, K.K. (1995). Stream Velocity and Dispersion Characteristics Determined by Dye-Tracer Studies on Selected Stream Reaches in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon (U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 95–4078). Portland, OR: OR: U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved March 19, 2003, from http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Online/Pdf/95-4078.pdf Description: 48 pp.
Lee, Karl K. & Risley, John C. (2002). Estimates of ground-water recharge, base flow, and stream reach gains and losses in the Willamette River basin, Oregon (U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report No. 01-4215). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved January 30, 2007, from http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/WRIR01-4215/wri014215.pdf Description: 5.8 MB.
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Mangano, J. F., Piatt, D. R., Jones, K. L., & Rounds, S. A. (2018). Water temperature in tributaries, off-channel features, and main channel of the lower Willamette River, northwestern Oregon, summers 2016 and 2017 (Open-File Report No. 2018-1184). US Geological Survey. Retreived January 25, 2019, from https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20181184
Mapes, R. L., Sharpe, C. S., & Friesen, T. A. (2017, September). Evaluation of the trap and transport of adult steelhead above USACE project dams in the upper Willamette basin. [Report to] US Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, Oregon (Task Order W9127N-10-2-0008-0036). Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Corvallis. Retrieved from https://odfw.forestry.oregonstate.edu /willamettesalmonidrme/sites/default/files/2016_odfw_uwr_winter_steelhead _-_final_-_sept_2017.pdf
Myers, J., Busack, C., Rawding, D., &Marshall, A. (2003, July).
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Description: 3 MB.
Whitehead, R.L. (1994). Puget-Willamette Trough regional aquifer system In Ground water atlas of the United States: Idaho, Oregon, Washington (Hydrologic investigations atlas HA 730-H). Reston, VA: U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 18 March 2014, from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ha/ha730/ch_h/H-text10.html Description: Examines the aquifer system underlying the Willamette Valley and its effect on the environment.
Willamette Restoration Initiative. (2004). Draft Willamette subbasin plan prepared for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. [Salem, OR: The author.] Note: 7 MB.
Willamette River Case Study. (2000). In Tetra Tech, Inc. Progress in water quality : An evaluation of the national investment in municipal wastewater treatment (pp. 13-1-13-13 ) (Environmental Protection Agency Report No. EPA/832/R-00/008). Washington, D.C.: Environmental Protection Agency Office Of Water. Retrieved May 20, 2002, from the NEPIS system: http://www.epa.gov/clhtml/ Also available at http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=20009NCX.txt
Willamette River Example QUAL2E Model. (1997). In U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Office Of Water. Technical Guidance Technical Guidance Manual for Developing
Total Maximum Daily Loads. Book 2. Streams and Rivers. Part 1. Biochemical Oxygen
Demand/Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients/Eutrophication (Appendix B)
(Environmental Protection Agency Report No. EPA/823/B-97/002). Washington, D.C.:
Author. Retrieved May 20, 2002, from the NEPIS system: http://www.epa.gov/clhtml/
Willamette River TMDLs Council. (2003). Willamette Basin Mercury Study. [Salem, OR]: Department of Environmental Quality. Retrieved March 16, 2004, from http://www.deq.state.or.us/lab/wqm/wbmercurystudy.htm Description: 18 pp.
Williams, J. E. (2014). Habitat relationships of native and non-native fishes of the Willamette River, Oregon. (Unpublished master's thesis). Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1957/49883
Wood, T.M. (2001). Herbicide use in the management of roadside vegetation, western Oregon, 1999-2000: Effects on water quality of nearby streams. Portland, OR: U.S. Geological Survey, 2001. Retrieved March 17, 2003, from http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs/Abstracts/01-4065.html Description: Describes an experiment to test the degree to which roadside spraying contributes to the load of herbicides a Willamette Valley stream.
Wu, H., Bolte, J. P., Hulse, D., & Johnson, B. R. (2015). A scenario-based approach to integrating flow-ecology research with watershed development planning. Landscape and Urban Planning, 144, 74-89. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.08.012
Northwest Power and Conservation Council. (2015). Willamette subbasin dashboard. Retrieved from http://www.nwcouncil.org/ext/dashboard/sb.asp?43 Description: A page featuring both Council and non-Council information on the Willamette Subbasin.
Oregon Water Resources Department (2015). Willamette Basin reservoir study page. Salem: Oregon Water Resources Department. Retrieved from http://www.oregon.gov/OWRD/pages/mgmt_res_study.aspx Description: Gives background of the reservoir study.
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (2015). Willamette Basin Total Maximum Daily Loads. Retrieved at http://www.deq.state.or.us/wq/willamette/willamette.htm Description: Basic information about the Willamette River Basin. Enviromental problems and physical characteristics. Includes the "303(d)" list of stream segments which do not meet federal standards, TMDLs (Total Maximum Daily Load), fact sheets, progress reports, and the DEQ Groundwater Quality page. Many new reports on TMDLs for bacteria, mercury, etc.
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. (2015). Portland Harbor site. Retrieved January 30, 2007, from http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/cu/nwr/PortlandHarbor/index.htm PortlandHarbor/ph.htm Description: Information and documents pertaining to the stretch of the Willamette known as Portland Harbor, which has been placed on the National Priorities List by the EPA. Includes a video on cleanup progress.
Oregon Plan For Salmon and Watersheds (2015). Oregon Plan For Salmon and Watersheds Retrieved from http://www.oregon-plan.org Description: Includes Biennial plan reports, Oregon plan for Salmon, team activities, photographs, and maps.
Oregon Water Resources Department (2015). State of Oregon Water Resources Department. Retrieved from http://www.wrd.state.or.us/OWRD/index.shtml Description: Contains links to archives of OWRD documents. Also has links to real-time and historical stream flow measurements. Measurements at some locations include temperature and dissolved oxygen.
The Pacific Northwest Ecosystem Research Consortium (n.d.). The Pacific Northwest Ecosystem Research Consortium. Retrieved June 3, 2002 from http://oregonstate.edu/dept/pnw-erc/ Description: Home page of a consortium dedicated to the human ecology of the Pacific Northwest. Includes Willamette Valley datasets and links to other resources.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, North Pacific Region Water Management Division
([continually updated]). Willamette River basin,.
Portland, OR: The author.
Description: Information on water control projects along the Willamette River.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, (2015). Portland District water management reports. Retrieved from http://www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil/nwp/wm/reports.html Description: Streamflow and river level information.
U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. Northwest Regional Office. (2006). West Coast Region, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [Seattle, WA]: The Office. Description: Lets the user look up Biological Opinions and more; click the Willamette tab for opinions and other information on the Willamette River Basin. A Biological Opinion, or BO, is prepared by the Fish and Wildlife Service or National Marine Fisheries Service to document effects of an action on species listed under the Endangered Species Act. The Act requires consulation when the Biological Opinion shows that a proposed action may affect a species listed as threatened or endangered or its critical habitat. A BO may discuss, for example, dissolved oxygen, temperature, and pH.
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