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Chauncey Warren Anderson

Hydrologist

Contact:

U.S. Geological Survey
Oregon Water Science Center
2130 SW 5th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97201
503.251.3206 (office)
503.251.3470 (fax)
chauncey@usgs.gov

Education:

B.S. Chemistry, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon (1982)

M.S.E. Environmental Engineering/Limnology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1991)

Research Interests:

• Effects of water quality on amphibians in the Pacific Northwest, including development and implementation of field methods for detection and quantitation of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in water. ARMI PNW-Region Hydrologic Coordinator.
• Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative
• Toxic Substances Hydrology Program: Detecting Amphibian-Killing Fungus Helps Scientists Study Amphibian Declines
• Interactions of water quality and freshwater ecology, especially nonpoint runoff of nutrients, pesticides, and sediment in agricultural and urban settings.
• Willamette River Basin Contaminants
• Nutrient-Metabolism Relations in a Periphyton-Dominated Stream Community
• McKenzie River, Oregon, Source Water Quality Protection
• Sources and potential mitigation for threats to drinking water quality, including pesticides and other contaminants and precursors for formation of disinfection byproducts.
• McKenzie River, Oregon, Source Water Quality Protection
• Lake restoration in an urban watershed.
• Ecological effects of dam removal.
  • Dam Removal and Sediment Transport in the Sandy River Basin, Oregon

Publications

Adams, M.J., Pearl, C.A., McCreary, B., Galvan, S.K., Wessell, S.J., Wente, W.H., Anderson, C.W., and Kuehl, A.B., 2009, The short-term effect of cattleeExclosures on Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris) populations and habitat in northeastern Oregon: Journal of Herpetology, v. 43, no. 1, p. 132-138.

Anderson, C. W., 1991, Pine lake response to diversion of wetland inflow; Master's Thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 161 p.

Anderson, C.W. (Ed.), 1999, Interagency long-term monitoring plan to assess water quality, sediment quality, aquatic health, and biological integrity in the lower Columbia River—A report to the Lower Columbia River Estuary Program, Prepared by the lower Columbia River Estuary Program, Long Term Monitoring Subcommittee: Portland

Anderson, C. W., 2000, Framework for regional, coordinated monitoring in the upper Deschutes River Basin: U. S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 00-358, 81 p. (http://oregon.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Abstracts/00-358.html)

Anderson, C.W., 2001, Ecological effects on streams from forest fertilization—Literature review and conceptual framework for future study in the western Cascades: U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4047, 49 p., (http://oregon.usgs.gov/pubs/WRIR01-4047/)

Anderson, C.W., 2004, Turbidity (Version 2.0, 8/2004): U. S. Geological Survey Techniques of Water Resources Investigations Book 9, Chapter A6, Section 6.7, 64 p., (http://water.usgs.gov/owq/FieldManual/Chapter6/6.7_contents.html)

Anderson, C.W., 2007, Influence of Cougar Reservoir drawdown on sediment and DDT transport and deposition in the McKenzie River basin, Oregon, 2002-04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5164, 42 p. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5164/)

Anderson, C.W., and Carpenter, K.D., 1998, Water-quality and algal conditions in the North Umpqua River Basin, Oregon, 1992-95, and implications for resource management: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 98-4125 (http://oregon.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Pdf/98-4125.pdf)

Anderson, C.W., Rinella, F.A., and Rounds, S.A., (1996), Occurrence and distribution of organic pesticides and trace elements in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 96-4234, 68 p. (http://oregon.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Pdf/96-4234.pdf)

Anderson, C. W., and Rounds, S. A., 2003, Phosphorus and E. Coli and their relation to selected constituents during storm runoff conditions in Fanno Creek, Oregon, 1998-99: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4232, 35 p. (http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri024232/)

Anderson, C.W., and Rounds, S.A., 2010, Use of continuous monitors and autosamplers to predict unmeasured water-quality constituents in tributaries of the Tualatin River, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5008, 76 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5008/

Anderson, C. W., Wood, T. M., and 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: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 97-4268, 87 p. [plus CD-ROM] (http://oregon.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Pdf/97-4268.pdf)

Harrison, H.E., Anderson, C. W., Rinella, F.A, Gasser, T.M., and Pogue, T.R., 1995, Analytical data from Phase I and Phase II of the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, 1991-1994: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-373, 176 p. (http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Abstracts/95-373.html)

Jacoby, J., Anderson, C. W., and Welch, E.B., 1998, Response of Pine Lake to diversion of wetland inflow: Lake and Reservoir Management, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 302-314

Kirshtein, J., Anderson, C.W., Wood, J.S., Longcore, J.E., and Voytek, M.A., 2007, Quantitative PCR detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis from sediments and water: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, v. 71, no. 1, pp. 11-15. (http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/dao/v77/n1/p11-15/)

Pogue, T.R., and Anderson, C.W., 1995, Factors controlling dissolved oxygen and pH in the upper Willamette River and major tributaries, Oregon: U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 95-4205, 71 p. (http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Pdf/95-4205.pdf)

Power , M.E., Parker, M.S., Rainey, W.E., Pierson, E.D., Finlay, J.C., Anderson, C.W., Carpenter, K.D., and Ligon, F.K., 1997, Dams, diversions, droughts, and river food webs (Abstract): Bulletin of the North American Benthological Society, v. 14, no. 1, p. 47

Qian, S.S., and Anderson, C.W., 1999, Factors controlling the variability of pesticide concentrations in the Willamette River Basin: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 33, p. 3332-3340 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac960370z)

Tanner, D. Q., and Anderson, C. W., 1996, Water-quality, nutrients, and algal metabolism during low flow conditions in the South Umpqua River Basin, Oregon: U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4082, 71 p. (http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Abstracts/96-4082.html)

Selected Presentations

Distribution of dissolved pesticides and other water quality constituents in small streams, and their relation to land use, in the Willamette River Basin, Speaker and panelist, Conference on noncropland management, Oregon State University, March 1998

The effects of impoundments on downstream periphyton communities in a Wild and Scenic River in Oregon, St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota, August 1998

When is an NTU not an NTU? New Reporting Procedures by USGS and ASTM Address Turbidity Data Comparability and Storage Issues, National Water Quality and Monitoring Council annual meeting, Chattanooga, Tennessee, May 2004

Pesticides in surface waters of the Pacific Northwest—Overview of USGS regional findings, Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) World Congress, Portland, Oregon, November 2004