Salt load transfer and changing salinities across a new causeway breach in Great Salt Lake: Implications for adaptive management

Great Salt Lake Past and Present: Elevation and Salinity Changes to Utah's Great Salt Lake from Railroad Causeway Alterations

How Do Changes to the Railroad Causeway in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Affect Water and Salt Flow?

Managing terminal lake elevation and salinity are emerging problems worldwide. We contribute to terminal lake management research by quantitatively assessing water and salt flow for Utah's Great Salt Lake. In 1959, Union Pacific Railroad constructed a rock-filled causeway across the Great Salt Lake, separating the lake into a north and south arm. Flow between the two arms was limited to two 4.6...

Great Salt Lake Selenium Standard

The Great Salt Lake ecosystem is widely recognized to be unique and to have very high environmental and commercial value. Great Salt Lake is recognized regionally, nationally, and hemispherically for its extensive wetlands, and its tremendous and often unparalleled values to migratory birds. These values are derived from the lake’s unique physical features, including its immense size, dynamic w...

Crustal loading near Great Salt Lake, Utah

[1] Two sites of the BARGEN GPS network are located 30 km south of Great Salt Lake (GSL). Lake-level records since mid-1996 indicate seasonal water elevation variations of 0.3 m amplitude superimposed on a roughly ‘‘decadal’’ feature of amplitude 0.6 m. Using an elastic Green’s function and a simplified load geometry for GSL, we calculate that these variations translate into radial crustal load...

Conceptual Model for Selenium Cycling in the Great Salt Lake

This document describes a conceptual model for selenium cycling in the Great Salt Lake. The document consists of four parts: A) Introduction to the problem & Overview (page 1) B) The framework of the model and underlying assumptions (page 7) C) Visual depiction of conceptual model (page 17) D) Relevant references supporting the model framework (page 22) During the Fall of 2005 a panel of nation...