PUBLICATIONS
 

Miller, R. L., 1970, A combination flame atomic fluorescence-flame atomic emission instrument for trace metals in oil: M. S. Thesis, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 36 p.

Miller, R. L., and Winefordner, J. D. 1971, Calculation of excess air for combustion processes using 0₂-to-N₂ ratio: Env. Science and Tech., V.5, no. 5, p. 444-445.   View Report

Miller, R. L., Fraser, L. M., and Winefordner, J. D., 1971, A combination flame atomic fluorescence-atomic emission dc spectrometer for analysis of trace wear metals in jet engine oils: Applied Spectroscopy, V.25, no. 4, p. 477-482. View Report 

Miller, R. L., 1978, Application of four input-output models for nutrients in Lake Okeechobee, Florida: U.S. Geol. Survey Journal of Research, V.6, no. 6, p. 82l-828.

Grove, D. B., Miller, R. L., Konikow, L. F., and O'Boyle, P.S., 1979, Hexavalent chromium in ground and surface waters near Telluride, Colorado-a preliminary data report: U.S. Geol. Survey Open-File Rept. 79-700, Denver, Colo., 18 p.

Sutcliffe, H., Jr., and Miller, R. L., 1980, Data on ground-water quality with emphasis on radionuclides, Sarasota County, Florida: U.S. Geol. Survey Open-File Rept. 80-l223, 13 p.  Click Here For Power Point Presentation

Miller, R. L., and Sutcliffe, H., Jr., 1982, Water-quality and hydrogeologic data for three phosphate industry waste-disposal sites in central Florida, 1979-80: U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-84, 77 p.

Miller, R. L., and Sutcliffe, H., Jr., 1984, Effects of three phosphate industrial sites on ground-water quality in central Florida, 1979 to 1980: U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4256, 184 p.  Abstract and Summary

Miller, R. L., Grove, D. B., and Stollenwerk, K. G., 1984, A solution chemistry model of the interference of CdCO₃ precipitation on the determination of cation exchange separation factors: in Selected Papers in the Hydrologic Sciences, 1984; U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2262, p. 33-41.

Miller, R. L., and Sutcliffe, H., Jr., 1985, Occurrence of natural radium-226 radioactivity in ground water of Sarasota County, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, 84-4237, 34 p.

Sinclair, W. C., Stewart, J. W., Knutilla, R. L., Gilboy, A. E., and Miller, R. L., 1985, Types, features, and occurrence of sink holes in the karst of west-central Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4126, 91 p.  http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/wri/wri854126

McPherson, B. F., and Miller, R. L., 1987, The vertical attenuation of light in Charlotte Harbor, a shallow, subtropical estuary, Southwestern Florida: Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science, no. 25, p. 721-737.
 

Miller, R. L., Bradford, W. L., and Peters, N. E., 1988, Specific conductance: Theoretical considerations and application to analytical quality control, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2311, 16p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/wsp/wsp2311

Miller, R. L., Kraemer, T. F., and McPherson, B. F., 1990, Radium and radon in Charlotte Harbor Estuary, Florida: Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science, v. 31, no. 4, p. 439-457. Click Here For Power Point Presentation

McPherson, B. F., and Miller, R. L., 1990, Nutrient distribution and variability in the Charlotte Harbor Estuarine system, Florida: Water Resources Bulletin, v. 26,no. 1, p.67-80.

Miller, R. L., 1992, Ion-exchange control of Ra-226 activities in ground water of Sarasota County, Florida, in Gohn, G.S., ed., Proceedings of the 1988 U.S. Geological Survey Workshop on the Geology and Geohydrology of the Atlantic Coastal Plain: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1059, p. 135- 137.  Click Here For Power Point Presentation MS Word version of this publication

McCartan, L., Plummer, L.N., Hosterman, J.W., Busenburg, E., Dwornik, E.J., Duerr, A.D., Miller, R.L., and Kessler, J.L., 1992, Celestine (SrSO4) in Hardee and DeSoto Counties, Florida, in Gohn, G.S., ed., Proceedings of the 1988 U.S. Geological Survey Workshop on the Geology and Geohydrology of the Atlantic Coastal Plain: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1059.

Miller, R.L., and McPherson, B.F., 1993, Modeling the effects of solar elevation angle and cloud cover on the vertical attenuation coefficient and the fraction of incident photosynthetically active radiation entering the water of Tampa, Bay Florida, in Proceedings and Conclusions of Workshops on: Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Initiative and Photosynthetically Active Radiation, St. Johns River Water Management District and Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program, Jan. 7-8, 1993, Melbourne, Fl

McPherson, B.F., and Miller, R.L., 1993, Causes of light attenuation in Estuarine water of Southwestern Florida, in Proceedings and Conclusions of Workshops on: Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Initiative and Photosynthetically Active Radiation, St. Johns River Water Management District and Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program, Jan. 7-8, 1993, Melbourne, Fl.

McPherson, B.F., and Miller, R.L., 1994, Causes of light attenuation in Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor, Southwestern Florida, Water Resources Bulletin, v. 30, No. 1, p. 43-53.

Miller, R.L., and McPherson, B.F., 1995, Modeling photosynthetically active radiation in water of Tampa Bay, Florida, with emphasis on the geometry of incident irradiance, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. v. 40, No. 4, p. 359-377.

Haag, K. H., Miller, R. L., Bradner, L. A., and McCulloch, D. S., 1996, Water-quality assessment of southern Florida: An overview of available information on surface- and ground-water quality and ecology, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 96-4177, 42 p.
http://fl.water.usgs.gov/PDF_files/wri96_4177_haag.pdf 

McPherson, B.F., Miller, R.L., and Stoker, Y.E., 1997, Physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the Charlotte Harbor Basin and estuarine system in southwestern Florida -- A summary of the 1982-89 U.S. Geological Survey Charlotte Harbor assessment and other studies, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2486.
http://fl.water.usgs.gov/PDF_files/wsp2486_mcpherson.pdf 

Haag, K.H., Bernard, B.A., Bradner, L.A., McCulloch, D.S.,  McPherson, B.F., and Miller, R.L., 1998, National Water-Quality Assessment Program; Study design for data collection in the Southern Florida Study Unit, 1996-98, U. S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 061-98, 4 p.
http://fl.water.usgs.gov/PDF_files/fs061_98_haag.pdf

Hanlon, C.G., Miller, R.L., and McPherson, B.F., 1998, Relationships between wind velocity and underwater irradiance in a shallow lake (Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA): Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 34, no. 4, p. 951-961.

Miller, R.L., McPherson, B.F., Haag, K.H., 1999, Water-quality in the southern Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp in the vicinity of the Tamiami Trail, 1996-97, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 99-4062, 16p.
http://fl.water.usgs.gov/Sofl/wri99_4062.pdf

McPherson, B.F., Miller, R.L., Haag, K.H., Bradner, L.A., 2000, Water-quality in southern Florida, Florida, 1996-98, U. S. Geological Survey Circular 1207, 32p.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1207/pdf/circ1207.pdf 

Miller, R.L., and McPherson, B.F., 2001, Occurrence and distribution of contaminants in bottom sediment and water of the Barron River Canal, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, October 1998, Florida Scientist, v. 64, no. 1, p. 1-19.
http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/papers/bottom_sed/index.html 

Miller, R.L., McPherson, B.F., 2004, Sobczak, R.V., and Clark, C.J., Water quality in Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park-Trends and spatial characteristics of selected constituents, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 03-4249, 34p.
http://sflwww.er.usgs.gov/publications/wri/03-4249/wri03_4249.pdf

Bradner, A., McPherson, B.F., Miller, R.L., Kish, G., and Bernard, B.A., 2005, Quality of ground water in the Biscayne Aquifer in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties, Florida, 1996-1998, U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1438, 20p.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1438/pdf/ofr20041438.pdf

ABSTRACTS

Seaber, P. R., Miller, R. L., and Sutcliffe, H., Jr., 1982, Movement and chemical modification of phosphogypsum process water in ground water, central Florida, (Abstracts with program, 1982): Geological Society of America annual meeting, Oct. 18-21, 1982 in New Orleans, La., P. 613.

Seaber, P. R., Miller, R. L., and Sutcliffe, H., Jr., 1982, Seepage of contaminants into ground water from two phosphogypsum disposal sites in central Florida [abs. Phosphate technical session]. The Fertilizer Institute Environmental Symposium 82, Mar. 10, 1982, San Antonio, Texas, 1 p.

High Radium-226 Radioactivities in Sarasota County - Piecing the Puzzle Together. American Water Resources Association, State Chapter, Tampa, Florida, 1983.  (Presentation)

Case Study of a Ground-Water monitoring Program for Phosphogypsum Stacks. Florida association for Water Quality Control - 1983 Annual Meeting, Daytona, FL, 1983. (Presentation)

Miller, R. L., and McPherson, B. F., "Concentration and transport of phosphorus and radium-226 in the Peace River and Charlotte Harbor, southwestern, Florida": Preprints of Papers Presented at the 194th National Meeting, Div. of Environmental Chemistry, American Chemical Society, New Orleans, La., Aug. 30 - Sept. 4, 1987, vol. 27, no. 2, p. 389-391. (Presentation)

"Ion exchange control of Ra-226 activities in ground water of Sarasota County, Florida", Atlantic Coastal Plain workshop, Reston, Va., Sept. 1988.  (Presentation at joint Water Resources Division and Geologic Division workshop)

Miller, R.L., and McPherson, B.F., 1990, "Estimating estuarine flushing and residence times in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, using salt balance and a mixing model": abstract for poster session, U.S. Geol. Survey Ecology-Surface Water Chemistry Joint Discipline Meeting, Estes Park, Co., May 22-25, 1990, p. 40. (Poster session)

Levesque, V.A., Schoellhamer, D.H., McPherson, B.F., Miller, R.L., 1991, "Light attenuation and light availability in Tampa Bay": in Treat, S. F., and Clark, P. A., eds., Proceedings, Tampa Bay Area Scientific Information Symposium 2., Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 1991, Tampa, Fla. 528 p. (Presentation)

Miller, R.L., and McPherson, B.F., 1993, "Modeling light available to seagrasses in Tampa Bay, Florida": Abstracts with program, Florida Academy of Sciences, 57th Annual Meeting, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Fl., March 26-28, 1993. (Presentation)

"Modeling the effects of solar elevation angle and cloud cover on the vertical attenuation coefficient and the fraction of incident photosynthetically active radiation entering the water of Tampa, Bay Florida", Workshops on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Initiative and Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Jan. 7-8, 1993, Melbourne, Fl. (Presentation)

Miller, R.L., 2000, Computerized water-quality data review, National Conference on water-quality field activities, New Orleans, La., Dec. 5-8. (Invited oral presentation) PowerPoint presentation available at: Click Here For Power Point Presentation

/agenda_presentations.htm under data review software. (Presentation)

Miller, R.L., 2001, Ground water in Tampa Bay area, as part of the Gulf of Mexico Estuaries Integrated Science Workshop, Jan. 23-26, 2001, St. Petersburg, Fla. (Presentation)

Miller, R.L., 2007, An approach for using land-based TSR and PAR to predict light in water, Florida Academy of Science meeting, Mar. 16, 2007, St. Petersburg, Fla. (Poster session)