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To address this need, we present a combination of hydrometric and water stable isotopic observations in the wet Andean p&aacute;ramo ecosystem of the Zhurucay Ecohydrological Observatory (7.53 km2). The catchment is located in the Andes of south Ecuador between 3400 and 3900 m a.s.l. Water samples for stable isotopic analysis were collected during 2 years (May 2011 &ndash; May 2013), while rainfall and runoff measurements were continuously recorded since late 2010. The isotopic data reveal that Andosol soils predominantly situated on hillslopes drain laterally to Histosols (Andean p&aacute;ramo wetlands) mainly located at the valley bottom. Histosols, in turn, feed water to creeks and small rivers throughout the year, establishing hydrologic connectivity between wetlands and the drainage network. Runoff is primarily comprised of pre-event water stored in the Histosols, which is replenished by rainfall that infiltrates through the Andosols. Contributions from the mineral horizon and the top of the fractured bedrock are small and only seem to influence discharge in small catchments during low flow generation (non-exceedance flows &lt; Q35). Variations in source contributions are controlled by antecedent soil moisture, rainfall intensity, and duration of rainy periods. Saturated hydraulic conductivity of the soils, higher than the year-round low precipitation intensity, indicates that Hortonian overland flow rarely occurs during high intensity precipitation events. Deep groundwater contributions to discharge seem to be minimal. These results suggest that, in this high-elevation tropical ecosystem: 1) subsurface flow is a dominant hydrological process and 2) (Histosols) wetlands are the major source of stream runoff. 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We used fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (FO-DTS), seepage meters, and vertical temperature profiling to locate, quantify, and monitor areas of focused groundwater discharge in a geomorphically simple sand-bed stream. This combined approach allowed us to rapidly focus efforts at locations where prodigious amounts of groundwater discharged to the Quashnet River on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, northeastern USA. FO-DTS detected numerous anomalously cold reaches one to several m long that persisted over two summers. Seepage meters positioned upstream, within, and downstream of 7 anomalously cold reaches indicated that rapid groundwater discharge occurred precisely where the bed was cold; median upward seepage was nearly 5 times faster than seepage measured in streambed areas not identified as cold. Vertical temperature profilers deployed next to 8 seepage meters provided diurnal-signal-based seepage estimates that compared remarkably well with seepage-meter values. 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The N aquifer is unconfined in areas surrounding Black Mesa, and most recharge occurs where the Navajo Sandstone is exposed in the area near Shonto, Arizona. Overlying the N aquifer is the D aquifer, which includes the Dakota Sandstone, Morrison Formation, Entrada Sandstone, and Carmel Formation. The aquifer is named for the Dakota Sandstone, which is the primary water-bearing unit.</p><p class=\"p1\">The NGS is located near Page, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. The KMC, which delivers coal to NGS by way of a dedicated electric railroad, is located approximately 83 miles southeast of NGS (about 125 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona). The Kayenta Mine permit area is located on about 44,073 acres of land leased within the boundaries of the Hopi and Navajo Indian Reservations. KMC has been conducting mining and reclamation operations within the Kayenta Mine permit boundary since 1973.</p><p class=\"p1\">The KMC part of the proposed project requires approval by the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) of a significant revision of the mine’s permit to operate in accordance with the Surface Mine Control and Reclamation Act (Public Law 95-87, 91 Stat. 445 [30 U.S.C. <i>1201 et seq.</i>])<i>. </i>The revision will identify coal resource areas that may be used to continue extracting coal at the present rate of approximately 8.2 million tons per year. The Kayenta Mine Complex uses water pumped from the D and N aquifers beneath PWCC’s leasehold to support mining and reclamation activities. Prior to 2006, water from the PWCC well field also was used to transport coal by way of a coal-slurry pipeline to the now-closed Mohave Generating Station. Water usage at the leasehold was approximately 4,100 acre-feet per year (acre-ft/yr) during the period the pipeline was in use, and declined to an average 1,255 acre-ft/yr from 2006 to 2011. The Probable Hydrologic Consequences (PHC) section of the mining and reclamation permit must be modified to project the consequences of extended water use by the mine for the duration of the KMC part of the project, including a post-mining reclamation period.</p><p class=\"p2\">Since 1971, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has conducted the Black Mesa Monitoring Program, which consists of monitoring water levels and water quality in the N aquifer, compiling information on water use by PWCC and tribal communities, maintaining several stream-gaging stations, measuring discharge at selected springs, conducting special studies, and reporting findings. 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Recently acquired data have allowed for a more comprehensive understanding of the hydrology of the creek and the topography of the watershed. To evaluate the impact of the culvert replacements and recent hydrologic data, a Hydrologic Engineering Center-River Analysis System hydraulic model was developed to estimate water-surface elevations during high-flow events. Longitudinal surface-water profiles were modeled to evaluate current conditions and future conditions using the design plans for the culverts to be installed in 2016. Additional profiles were created to compare with the results from the most recent flood model approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Crystal Springs Creek and to evaluate model sensitivity.</p><p>Model simulation results show that water-surface elevations during high-flow events will be lower than estimates from previous models, primarily due to lower estimates of streamflow associated with the 0.01 and 0.002 annual exceedance probability (AEP) events. Additionally, recent culvert replacements have resulted in less ponding behind crossings. Similarly, model simulation results show that the proposed replacement culverts at Glenwood Street and Bybee Boulevard will result in lower water-surface elevations during high-flow events upstream of the proposed project. 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Deliverables include high-resolution orthorectified imagery of Topock Marsh; a DSS tool that can be used by Havasu NWR to compare habitat availability associated with three hydrologic scenarios (dry, average, wet years); and this final report which details study results. This project, therefore, has addressed critical FWS management questions by integrating ecologic and hydrologic information into a DSS framework. This DSS will assist refuge management to make better informed decisions about refuge operations and better understand the ecological results of those decisions by providing tools to identify the effects of water operations on species-specific habitat and ecological processes. 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,{"id":70176221,"text":"70176221 - 2016 - Biological soil crusts: An organizing principle in dryland ecosystems (aka: the role of biocrusts in arid land hydrology)","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-09-06T13:27:23","indexId":"70176221","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-22T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":5,"text":"Book chapter"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":24,"text":"Book Chapter"},"title":"Biological soil crusts: An organizing principle in dryland ecosystems (aka: the role of biocrusts in arid land hydrology)","docAbstract":"<p>Biocrusts exert a strong influence on hydrological processes in drylands by modifying numerous soil properties that affect water retention and movement in soils. Yet, their role in these processes is not clearly understood due to the large number of factors that act simultaneously and can mask the biocrust effect. The influence of biocrusts on soil hydrology depends on biocrust intrinsic characteristics such as cover, composition, and external morphology, which differ greatly among climate regimes, but also on external factors as soil type, topography and vegetation distribution patterns, as well as interactions among these factors. This chapter reviews the most recent literature published on the role of biocrusts in infiltration and runoff, soil moisture, evaporation and non-rainfall water inputs (fog, dew, water absorption), in an attempt to elucidate the key factors that explain how biocrusts affect land hydrology. In addition to the crust type and site characteristics, recent studies point to the crucial importance of the type of rainfall and the spatial scale at which biocrust effects are analyzed to understand their role in hydrological processes. Future studies need to consider the temporal and spatial scale investigated to obtain more accurate generalizations on the role of biocrusts in land hydrology.</p>","largerWorkType":{"id":4,"text":"Book"},"largerWorkTitle":"Ecological studies","language":"English","publisher":"Springer International Publishing","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-30214-0_17","usgsCitation":"Chamizo, S., Belnap, J., Elridge, D.J., and Issa, O., 2016, Biological soil crusts: An organizing principle in dryland ecosystems (aka: the role of biocrusts in arid land hydrology), chap. <i>of</i> Ecological studies, p. 321-346, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30214-0_17.","productDescription":"26 p.","startPage":"321","endPage":"346","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-070333","costCenters":[{"id":568,"text":"Southwest Biological Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":328249,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"publishingServiceCenter":{"id":14,"text":"Menlo Park PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2016-05-22","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"57cfe8b0e4b04836416a0d2f","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Chamizo, Sonia 0000-0002-2980-1683","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2980-1683","contributorId":174264,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Chamizo","given":"Sonia","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":27406,"text":"Department of Agronomy, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":647888,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Belnap, Jayne 0000-0001-7471-2279 jayne_belnap@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7471-2279","contributorId":1332,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Belnap","given":"Jayne","email":"jayne_belnap@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":568,"text":"Southwest Biological Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":647887,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Elridge, David J","contributorId":174265,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Elridge","given":"David","email":"","middleInitial":"J","affiliations":[{"id":27407,"text":"Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences,  University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":647889,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Issa, Oumarou M","contributorId":174266,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Issa","given":"Oumarou M","affiliations":[{"id":27408,"text":"URCA, GEGENAA EA 3795, 51100 Reims – France / UMR 242 IEES-Paris, IRD representation au Niger BP11416 Niamey, Niger","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":647890,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
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,{"id":70171126,"text":"ofr20161080 - 2016 - Spatially explicit modeling of annual and seasonal habitat for greater sage-grouse (<em>Centrocercus urophasianus</em>) in Nevada and Northeastern California—An updated decision-support tool for management","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-06-23T16:23:54","indexId":"ofr20161080","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-20T17:00:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":5,"text":"USGS Numbered Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":330,"text":"Open-File Report","code":"OFR","onlineIssn":"2331-1258","printIssn":"0196-1497","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":5}},"seriesNumber":"2016-1080","title":"Spatially explicit modeling of annual and seasonal habitat for greater sage-grouse (<em>Centrocercus urophasianus</em>) in Nevada and Northeastern California—An updated decision-support tool for management","docAbstract":"<p>Successful adaptive management hinges largely upon integrating new and improved sources of information as they become available. As a timely example of this tenet, we updated a management decision support tool that was previously developed for greater sage-grouse (<i>Centrocercus urophasianus</i>, hereinafter referred to as “sage-grouse”) populations in Nevada and California. Specifically, recently developed spatially explicit habitat maps derived from empirical data played a key role in the conservation of this species facing listing under the Endangered Species Act. This report provides an updated process for mapping relative habitat suitability and management categories for sage-grouse in Nevada and northeastern California (Coates and others, 2014, 2016). These updates include: (1) adding radio and GPS telemetry locations from sage-grouse monitored at multiple sites during 2014 to the original location dataset beginning in 1998; (2) integrating output from high resolution maps (1–2 m<sup>2</sup>) of sagebrush and pinyon-juniper cover as covariates in resource selection models; (3) modifying the spatial extent of the analyses to match newly available vegetation layers; (4) explicit modeling of relative habitat suitability during three seasons (spring, summer, winter) that corresponded to critical life history periods for sage-grouse (breeding, brood-rearing, over-wintering); (5) accounting for differences in habitat availability between more mesic sagebrush steppe communities in the northern part of the study area and drier Great Basin sagebrush in more southerly regions by categorizing continuous region-wide surfaces of habitat suitability index (HSI) with independent locations falling within two hydrological zones; (6) integrating the three seasonal maps into a composite map of annual relative habitat suitability; (7) deriving updated land management categories based on previously determined cut-points for intersections of habitat suitability and an updated index of sage-grouse abundance and space-use (AUI); and (8) masking urban footprints and major roadways out of the final map products.</p><p>Seasonal habitat maps were generated based on model-averaged resource selection functions (RSF) derived for 10 project areas (813 sage-grouse; 14,085 locations) during the spring season, 10 during the summer season (591 sage-grouse, 11,743 locations), and 7 during the winter season (288 sage-grouse, 4,862 locations). RSF surfaces were transformed to HSIs and averaged in a GIS framework for every pixel for each season. Validation analyses of categorized HSI surfaces using a suite of independent datasets resulted in an agreement of 93–97 percent for habitat versus non-habitat on an annual basis. Spring and summer maps validated similarly well at 94–97 percent, while winter maps validated slightly less accurately at 87–93 percent.</p><p>We then provide an updated example of how space use models can be integrated with habitat models to help inform conservation planning. We used updated lek count data to calculate a composite abundance and space use index (AUI) that comprised the combination of probabilistic breeding density with a non-linear probability of occurrence relative to distance to nearest lek. The AUI was then classified into two categories of use (high and low-to-no) and intersected with the HSI categories to create potential management prioritization scenarios based on information about sage-grouse occupancy coupled with habitat suitability. Compared to Coates and others (2014, 2016), the amount of area classified as habitat across the region increased by 6.5 percent (approximately 1,700,000 acres). For management categories, core increased by 7.2 percent (approximately 865,000 acres), priority increased by 9.6 percent (approximately 855,000 acres), and general increased by 9.2 percent (approximately 768,000 acres), while non-habitat decreased (that is, classified non-habitat occurring outside of areas of concentrated use) by 11.9 percent (approximately 2,500,000 acres). Importantly, seasonal and annual maps represent habitat for all age and sex classes of sage-grouse (that is, sample sizes of marked grouse were insufficient to only construct models for reproductive females). This revised sage-grouse habitat mapping product helps improve adaptive application of conservation planning tools based on intersections of spatially explicit habitat suitability, abundance, and space use indices.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/ofr20161080","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the State of Nevada Sagebrush Ecosystem Program, Bureau of Land Management, Nevada Department of Wildlife, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Idaho State University","usgsCitation":"Coates, P.S., Casazza, M.L., Brussee B.E., Ricca, M.A., Gustafson, K.B., Sanchez-Chopitea, E., Mauch, K., Niell, L., Gardner, S., Espinosa, S., and Delehanty, D.J., 2016, Spatially explicit modeling of annual and seasonal habitat for greater sage-grouse (<em>Centrocercus urophasianus</em>) in Nevada and Northeastern California—An updated decision-support tool for management: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1080, 160 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161080.","productDescription":"Report: viii, 160 p.; 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,{"id":70171103,"text":"70171103 - 2016 - Dendritic network models: Improving isoscapes and quantifying influence of landscape and in-stream processes on strontium isotopes in rivers","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2017-11-22T17:33:57","indexId":"70171103","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-20T10:30:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1807,"text":"Geophysical Research Letters","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Dendritic network models: Improving isoscapes and quantifying influence of landscape and in-stream processes on strontium isotopes in rivers","docAbstract":"<p><span>A critical challenge for the Earth sciences is to trace the transport and flux of matter within and among aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric systems. Robust descriptions of isotopic patterns across space and time, called &ldquo;isoscapes,&rdquo; form the basis of a rapidly growing and wide-ranging body of research aimed at quantifying connectivity within and among Earth's systems. However, isoscapes of rivers have been limited by conventional Euclidean approaches in geostatistics and the lack of a quantitative framework to apportion the influence of processes driven by landscape features versus in-stream phenomena. Here we demonstrate how dendritic network models substantially improve the accuracy of isoscapes of strontium isotopes and partition the influence of hydrologic transport versus local geologic features on strontium isotope ratios in a large Alaska river. This work illustrates the analytical power of dendritic network models for the field of isotope biogeochemistry, particularly for provenance studies of modern and ancient animals.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"AGU Publications","doi":"10.1002/2016GL068904","usgsCitation":"Brennan, S.R., Torgersen, C.E., Hollenbeck, J.P., Fernandez, D.P., Jensen, C.K., and Schindler, D.E., 2016, Dendritic network models: Improving isoscapes and quantifying influence of landscape and in-stream processes on strontium isotopes in rivers: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 43, no. 10, p. 5043-5051, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068904.","productDescription":"9 p.","startPage":"5043","endPage":"5051","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-073082","costCenters":[{"id":290,"text":"Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center","active":false,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":470972,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gl068904","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":321442,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"43","issue":"10","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":12,"text":"Tacoma PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5740271be4b07e28b65dcfd4","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Brennan, Sean R.","contributorId":149334,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Brennan","given":"Sean","email":"","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[{"id":6752,"text":"University of Alaska Fairbanks","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":629872,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Torgersen, Christian E. 0000-0001-8325-2737 ctorgersen@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8325-2737","contributorId":146935,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Torgersen","given":"Christian","email":"ctorgersen@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[{"id":289,"text":"Forest and Rangeland Ecosys Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":290,"text":"Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center","active":false,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":629871,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Hollenbeck, Jeff P. 0000-0001-6481-5354 jhollenbeck@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6481-5354","contributorId":5130,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Hollenbeck","given":"Jeff","email":"jhollenbeck@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"P.","affiliations":[{"id":289,"text":"Forest and Rangeland Ecosys Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":290,"text":"Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center","active":false,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":629873,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Fernandez, Diego P.","contributorId":138701,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Fernandez","given":"Diego","email":"","middleInitial":"P.","affiliations":[{"id":12499,"text":"Univ. of Utah","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":629874,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Jensen, Carrie K","contributorId":169520,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Jensen","given":"Carrie","email":"","middleInitial":"K","affiliations":[{"id":25550,"text":"Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":629876,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Schindler, Daniel E.","contributorId":83485,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Schindler","given":"Daniel","email":"","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629875,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6}]}}
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In this 2013 study, stormwater runoff and streambed sediments were analyzed for 91 pesticides dissolved in water and 118 pesticides on sediment. Detections included 33 pesticides, including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, degradates, and a synergist. Patterns in pesticide occurrence reveal transport of dissolved and sediment-bound pesticides, including pyrethroids, from upland areas through stormwater outfalls to receiving streams. Nearly all streams contained at least one insecticide at levels exceeding an aquatic-life benchmark, most often for bifenthrin and (or) fipronil. Multiple U.S. EPA benchmark or criterion exceedances occurred in 40&nbsp;% of urban streams sampled. Bed sediment concentrations of bifenthrin were highly correlated (</span><i class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">p</i><span>&thinsp;&lt;&thinsp;0.001) with benthic invertebrate assemblages. Non-insects and tolerant invertebrates such as amphipods, flatworms, nematodes, and oligochaetes dominated streams with relatively high concentrations of bifenthrin in bed sediments, whereas insects, sensitive invertebrates, and mayflies were much more abundant at sites with no or low bifenthrin concentrations. The abundance of sensitive invertebrates, % EPT, and select mayfly taxa were strongly negatively correlated with organic-carbon normalized bifenthrin concentrations in streambed sediments. Our findings from western Clackamas County, Oregon (USA), expand upon previous research demonstrating the transport of pesticides from urban landscapes and linking impaired benthic invertebrate assemblages in urban streams with exposure to pyrethroid insecticides.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Springer","doi":"10.1007/s10661-016-5215-5","usgsCitation":"Carpenter, K.D., Kuivila, K., Hladik, M., Haluska, T., and Cole, M.B., 2016, Storm-event-transport of urban-use pesticides to streams likely impairs invertebrate assemblages: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, v. 188, art345: 18 p., https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-016-5215-5.","productDescription":"art345: 18 p.","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-063257","costCenters":[{"id":154,"text":"California Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":518,"text":"Oregon Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":589,"text":"Toxic Substances Hydrology 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The PEM can simulate age distributions for wells screened over any finite interval of an aquifer that has an exponential distribution of age with depth. The PEM has 3 parameters &ndash; the ratio of saturated thickness to the top and bottom of the screen and mean age, but these can be reduced to 1 parameter (mean age) by using well construction information and estimates of the saturated thickness. The PEM was tested with data from 30 production wells in a heterogeneous alluvial fan aquifer in California, USA. Well construction data were used to guide parameterization of a PEM for each well and mean age was calibrated to measured environmental tracer data (</span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>3</sup></span><span class=\"s1\">H, </span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>3</sup></span><span class=\"s1\">He, CFC-113, and </span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>14</sup></span><span class=\"s1\">C). Results were compared to age distributions generated for individual wells using advective particle tracking models (PTMs). Age distributions from PTMs were more complex than PEM distributions, but PEMs provided better fits to tracer data, partly because the PTMs did not simulate </span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>14</sup></span><span class=\"s1\">C accurately in wells that captured varying amounts of old groundwater recharged at lower rates prior to groundwater development and irrigation. Nitrate trends were simulated independently of the calibration process and the PEM provided good fits for at least 11 of 24 wells. This work shows that the PEM, and lumped parameter models (LPMs) in general, can often identify critical features of the age distributions in wells that are needed to explain observed tracer data and nonpoint source contaminant trends, even in systems where aquifer heterogeneity and water-use complicate distributions of age. While accurate PTMs are preferable for understanding and predicting aquifer-scale responses to water use and contaminant transport, LPMs can be sensitive to local conditions near individual wells that may be inaccurately represented or missing in an aquifer-scale flow model.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier","doi":"10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.011","usgsCitation":"Jurgens, B.C., Bohlke, J.K., Kauffman, L.J., Belitz, K., and Esser, B.K., 2016, A partial exponential lumped parameter model to evaluate groundwater age distributions and nitrate trends in long-screened wells: Journal of Hydrology, v. 543, no. 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Little is known about how these rates vary and covary in regional groundwater settings, as few studies have focused on regional datasets with multiple tracers and methods of analysis that account for effects of mixed residence times on apparent reaction rates. This study provides insight into the characteristics of residence times and rates of O</span><sub>2</sub><span>&nbsp;reduction and denitrification (NO</span><sub>3</sub><sup>&minus;</sup><span>&nbsp;reduction) by comparing reaction rates using multi-model analytical residence time distributions (RTDs) applied to a data set of atmospheric tracers of groundwater age and geochemical data from 141 well samples in the Central Eastern San Joaquin Valley, CA. The RTD approach accounts for mixtures of residence times in a single sample to provide estimates of in-situ rates. Tracers included SF</span><sub>6</sub><span>, CFCs,&nbsp;</span><sup>3</sup><span>H, He from&nbsp;</span><sup>3</sup><span>H (tritiogenic He),</span><sup>14</sup><span>C, and terrigenic He. Parameter estimation and multi-model averaging were used to establish RTDs with lower error variances than those produced by individual RTD models. The set of multi-model RTDs was used in combination with NO</span><sub>3</sub><sup>&minus;</sup><span>&nbsp;and dissolved gas data to estimate zero order and first order rates of O</span><sub>2</sub><span>&nbsp;reduction and denitrification. Results indicated that O</span><sub>2</sub><span>&nbsp;reduction and denitrification rates followed approximately log-normal distributions. Rates of O</span><sub>2</sub><span>&nbsp;and NO</span><sub>3</sub><sup>&minus;</sup><span>&nbsp;reduction were correlated and, on an electron milliequivalent basis, denitrification rates tended to exceed O</span><sub>2</sub><span>&nbsp;reduction rates. Estimated historical NO</span><sub>3</sub><sup>&minus;</sup><span>&nbsp;trends were similar to historical measurements. Results show that the multi-model approach can improve estimation of age distributions, and that relatively easily measured O</span><sub>2</sub><span>&nbsp;rates can provide information about trends in denitrification rates, which are more difficult to estimate.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"European Geophysical Society","doi":"10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.018","usgsCitation":"Green, C.T., Jurgens, B.C., Zhang, Y., Starn, J., Singleton, M.J., and Esser, B.K., 2016, Regional oxygen reduction and denitrification rates in groundwater from multi-model residence time distributions, San Joaquin Valley, USA: Journal of Hydrology, v. 145, p. 47-55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.018.","productDescription":"9 p.","startPage":"47","endPage":"55","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-067486","costCenters":[{"id":154,"text":"California Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":438,"text":"National Research Program - Western Branch","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":589,"text":"Toxic Substances Hydrology Program","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":470992,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.018","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":321295,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"California","otherGeospatial":"San Joaquin Valley","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -121.5,\n              37\n            ],\n            [\n              -121.5,\n              38\n            ],\n            [\n              -120,\n              38\n            ],\n            [\n              -120,\n              37\n            ],\n            [\n              -121.5,\n              37\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"145","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":14,"text":"Menlo Park PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"574d566fe4b07e28b667f7a0","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Green, Christopher T. 0000-0002-6480-8194 ctgreen@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6480-8194","contributorId":1343,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Green","given":"Christopher","email":"ctgreen@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"T.","affiliations":[{"id":438,"text":"National Research Program - Western Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":629354,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Jurgens, Bryant C. 0000-0002-1572-113X bjurgens@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1572-113X","contributorId":127842,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Jurgens","given":"Bryant","email":"bjurgens@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"C.","affiliations":[{"id":154,"text":"California Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":629355,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Zhang, Yong","contributorId":19029,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Zhang","given":"Yong","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629356,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Starn, Jeffrey jjstarn@usgs.gov","contributorId":149231,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Starn","given":"Jeffrey","email":"jjstarn@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":196,"text":"Connecticut Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":629357,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Singleton, Michael J.","contributorId":44400,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Singleton","given":"Michael","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629358,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Esser, Bradley K.","contributorId":33161,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Esser","given":"Bradley","email":"","middleInitial":"K.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629359,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6}]}}
,{"id":70176281,"text":"70176281 - 2016 - Decadal-scale export of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment from the Susquehanna River basin, USA: Analysis and synthesis of temporal and spatial patterns","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-09-07T12:00:19","indexId":"70176281","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-14T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3352,"text":"Science of the Total Environment","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Decadal-scale export of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment from the Susquehanna River basin, USA: Analysis and synthesis of temporal and spatial patterns","docAbstract":"<p>The export of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and suspended sediment (SS) is a long-standing management concern for the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA. Here we present a comprehensive evaluation of nutrient and sediment loads over the last three decades at multiple locations in the Susquehanna River basin (SRB), Chesapeake's largest tributary watershed. Sediment and nutrient riverine loadings, including both dissolved and particulate fractions, have generally declined at all sites upstream of Conowingo Dam (non-tidal SRB outlet). Period-of-record declines in riverine yield are generally smaller than those in source input, suggesting the possibility of legacy contributions. Consistent with other watershed studies, these results reinforce the importance of considering lag time between the implementation of management actions and achievement of river quality improvement. Whereas flow-normalized loadings for particulate species have increased recently below Conowingo Reservoir, those for upstream sites have declined, thus substantiating conclusions from prior studies about decreased reservoir trapping efficiency. In regard to streamflow effects, statistically significant log-linear relationships between annual streamflow and annual constituent load suggest the dominance of hydrological control on the inter-annual variability of constituent export. Concentration-discharge relationships revealed general chemostasis and mobilization effects for dissolved and particulate species, respectively, both suggesting transport-limitation conditions. In addition to affecting annual export rates, streamflow has also modulated the relative importance of dissolved and particulate fractions, as reflected by its negative correlations with dissolved P/total P, dissolved N/total N, particulate P/SS, and total N/total P ratios. For land-use effects, period-of-record median annual yields of N, P, and SS all correlate positively with the area fraction of non-forested land but negatively with that of forested land under all hydrological conditions. Overall, this work has informed understanding with respect to four major factors affecting constituent export (<i>i.e.</i>, source input, reservoir modulation, streamflow, and land use) and demonstrated the value of long-term river monitoring.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier","doi":"10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.104","usgsCitation":"Zhang, Q., Ball, W.P., and Moyer, D.L., 2016, Decadal-scale export of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment from the Susquehanna River basin, USA: Analysis and synthesis of temporal and spatial patterns: Science of the Total Environment, v. 563-564, p. 1016-1029, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.104.","productDescription":"14 p.","startPage":"1016","endPage":"1029","ipdsId":"IP-070367","costCenters":[{"id":614,"text":"Virginia Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":471000,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.104","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":328310,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania","otherGeospatial":"Chesapeake Bay, Susquehanna River","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -77.51953125,\n              39.30029918615029\n            ],\n            [\n              -77.51953125,\n              42.309815415686664\n            ],\n            [\n              -75.73974609375,\n              42.309815415686664\n            ],\n            [\n              -75.73974609375,\n              39.30029918615029\n            ],\n            [\n              -77.51953125,\n              39.30029918615029\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"563-564","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":8,"text":"Raleigh PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"57d13a39e4b0571647cf8dbb","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Zhang, Qian 0000-0003-0500-5655","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-5655","contributorId":174393,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Zhang","given":"Qian","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":38802,"text":"University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":648192,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Ball, William P.","contributorId":174394,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Ball","given":"William","email":"","middleInitial":"P.","affiliations":[{"id":27446,"text":"Johns Hopkins University, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":648193,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Moyer, Douglas L. 0000-0001-6330-478X dlmoyer@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6330-478X","contributorId":174389,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Moyer","given":"Douglas","email":"dlmoyer@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[{"id":37759,"text":"VA/WV Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":648191,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
,{"id":70161744,"text":"70161744 - 2016 - Tidal saline wetland regeneration of sentinel vegetation types in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: An overview","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-06-13T09:51:08","indexId":"70161744","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-12T09:45:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1587,"text":"Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Tidal saline wetland regeneration of sentinel vegetation types in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: An overview","docAbstract":"<p><span>Tidal saline wetlands in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (NGoM) are dynamic and frequently disturbed systems that provide myriad ecosystem services. For these services to be sustained, dominant macrophytes must continuously recolonize and establish after disturbance. Macrophytes accomplish this regeneration through combinations of vegetative propagation and sexual reproduction, the relative importance of which varies by species. Concurrently, tidal saline wetland systems experience both anthropogenic and natural hydrologic alterations, such as levee construction, sea-level rise, storm impacts, and restoration activities. These hydrologic alterations can affect the success of plant regeneration, leading to large-scale, variable changes in ecosystem structure and function. This review describes the specific regeneration requirements of four dominant coastal wetland macrophytes along the NGoM (</span><i>Spartina alterniflora</i><span>,&nbsp;</span><i>Avicennia germinans</i><span>,&nbsp;</span><i>Juncus roemerianus</i><span>, and&nbsp;</span><i>Batis maritima</i><span>) and compares them with current hydrologic alterations to provide insights into potential future changes in dominant ecosystem structure and function and to highlight knowledge gaps in the current literature that need to be addressed.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier","doi":"10.1016/j.ecss.2016.02.010","usgsCitation":"Jones, S.F., Stagg, C.L., Krauss, K.W., and Hester, M.W., 2016, Tidal saline wetland regeneration of sentinel vegetation types in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: An overview: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 174, p. 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,{"id":70174265,"text":"70174265 - 2016 - Latest Miocene-earliest Pliocene evolution of the ancestral Rio Grande at the Española-San Luis Basin boundary, northern New Mexico","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-07-06T17:31:05","indexId":"70174265","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-12T02:30:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2860,"text":"New Mexico Geology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Latest Miocene-earliest Pliocene evolution of the ancestral Rio Grande at the Española-San Luis Basin boundary, northern New Mexico","docAbstract":"<div data-canvas-width=\"364.989\">We use stratigraphic relations, paleoflow data, and <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar dating to interpret net aggradation, punctuated by at least two minor incisional events, along part of the upper ancestral Rio Grande fluvial system between 5.5 and 4.5 Ma (in northern New Mexico). The studied fluvial deposits, which we informally call the Sandlin unit of the Santa Fe Group, overlie a structural high between the San Luis and Espa&ntilde;ola Basins. The Sandlin unit was deposited by two merging, west- to southwest-flowing, ancestral Rio Grande tributaries respectively sourced in the central Taos Mountains and southern Taos Mountains-northeastern Picuris Mountains. The river confluence progressively shifted southwestward (downstream) with time, and the integrated river (ancestral Rio Grande) flowed southwards into the Espa&ntilde;ola Basin to merge with the ancestral Rio Chama. Just prior to the end of the Miocene, this fluvial system was incised in the southern part of the study area (resulting in an approximately 4&ndash;7 km wide paleovalley), and had sufficient competency to transport cobbles and boulders. Sometime between emplacement of two basalt flows dated at 5.54&plusmn; 0.38 Ma and 4.82&plusmn;0.20 Ma (groundmass <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar&nbsp;ages), this fluvial system deposited 10&ndash;12 m of sandier sediment (lower Sandlin subunit) preserved in the northern part of this paleovalley. The fluvial system widened between 4.82&plusmn;0.20 and 4.50&plusmn;0.07 Ma, depositing coarse sand and fine gravel up to 14 km north of the present-day Rio Grande. This 10&ndash;25 m-thick sediment package (upper Sandlin unit) buried earlier south- to southeast-trending paleovalleys (500&ndash;800 m wide) inferred from aeromagnetic data. Two brief incisional events are recognized. The first was caused by the 4.82&plusmn;0.20 Ma basalt flow impounding south-flowing paleodrainages, and the second occurred shortly after emplacement of a 4.69&plusmn;0.09 Ma basalt flow in the northern study area. Drivers responsible for Sandlin unit aggradation may include climate-modulated hydrologic factors (i.e., variable sediment supply and water discharge) or a reduction of eastward tilt rates of the southern San Luis Basin half graben. If regional in extent, these phenomena could also have promoted fluvial spillover that occurred in the southern Albuquerque Basin at about 6&ndash;5 Ma, resulting in southward expansion of the Rio Grande to southern New Mexico.<br /><br /></div>","language":"English","publisher":"New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources","usgsCitation":"Daniel J. Koning, Aby, S.B., Grauch, V.J., and Matthew J. 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,{"id":70170886,"text":"70170886 - 2016 - Climate regulates alpine lake ice cover phenology and aquatic ecosystem structure","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-06-24T11:29:43","indexId":"70170886","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-11T12:15:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1807,"text":"Geophysical Research Letters","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Climate regulates alpine lake ice cover phenology and aquatic ecosystem structure","docAbstract":"<p><span>High-elevation aquatic ecosystems are highly vulnerable to climate change, yet relatively few records are available to characterize shifts in ecosystem structure or their underlying mechanisms. Using a long-term dataset on seven alpine lakes (3126 to 3620&thinsp;m) in Colorado, USA, we show that ice-off dates have shifted seven days earlier over the past 33&thinsp;years and that spring weather conditions &ndash; especially snowfall &ndash; drive yearly variation in ice-off timing. In the most well-studied lake, earlier ice-off associated with increases in water residence times, thermal stratification, ion concentrations, dissolved nitrogen, pH, and chlorophyll-a. Mechanistically, low spring snowfall and warm temperatures reduce summer stream flow (increasing lake residence times) but enhance melting of glacial and permafrost ice (increasing lake solute inputs). The observed links among hydrological, chemical, and biological responses to climate factors highlight the potential for major shifts in the functioning of alpine lakes due to forecasted climate change.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"AGU Publications","doi":"10.1002/2016GL069036","usgsCitation":"Preston, D.L., Caine, N., McKnight, D.M., Williams, M.W., Hell, K., Miller, M.P., Hart, S.J., and Johnson, P.T., 2016, Climate regulates alpine lake ice cover phenology and aquatic ecosystem structure: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 43, no. 10, p. 5353-5360, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069036.","productDescription":"8 p.","startPage":"5353","endPage":"5360","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-065721","costCenters":[{"id":610,"text":"Utah Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":471008,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doaj.org/article/74a41412b86246d8b0d27b74c0bce459","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":321123,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Colorado","volume":"43","issue":"10","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":1,"text":"Sacramento PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2016-05-28","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5734499be4b0dae0d5dd68f4","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Preston, Daniel L.","contributorId":58581,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Preston","given":"Daniel","email":"","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629149,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Caine, Nel","contributorId":169277,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Caine","given":"Nel","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629150,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"McKnight, Diane M.","contributorId":59773,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"McKnight","given":"Diane","email":"","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":16833,"text":"INSTAAR, University of Colorado","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":629151,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Williams, Mark W.","contributorId":43046,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Williams","given":"Mark","email":"","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629152,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Hell, Katherina","contributorId":169278,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Hell","given":"Katherina","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629153,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Miller, Matthew P. 0000-0002-2537-1823 mamiller@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2537-1823","contributorId":3919,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Miller","given":"Matthew","email":"mamiller@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"P.","affiliations":[{"id":610,"text":"Utah Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":628924,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6},{"text":"Hart, Sarah J.","contributorId":169279,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Hart","given":"Sarah","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629154,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":7},{"text":"Johnson, Pieter T.J.","contributorId":28508,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Johnson","given":"Pieter","email":"","middleInitial":"T.J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629155,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":8}]}}
,{"id":70170932,"text":"70170932 - 2016 - Three-dimensional flow structure and patterns of bed shear stress in an evolving compound meander bend","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-07-07T10:04:44","indexId":"70170932","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-11T11:45:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1425,"text":"Earth Surface Processes and Landforms","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Three-dimensional flow structure and patterns of bed shear stress in an evolving compound meander bend","docAbstract":"<p><span>Compound meander bends with multiple lobes of maximum curvature are common in actively evolving lowland rivers. Interaction among spatial patterns of mean flow, turbulence, bed morphology, bank failures and channel migration in compound bends is poorly understood. In this paper, acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) measurements of the three-dimensional (3D) flow velocities in a compound bend are examined to evaluate the influence of channel curvature and hydrologic variability on the structure of flow within the bend. Flow structure at various flow stages is related to changes in bed morphology over the study timeframe. Increases in local curvature within the upstream lobe of the bend reduce outer bank velocities at morphologically significant flows, creating a region that protects the bank from high momentum flow and high bed shear stresses. The dimensionless radius of curvature in the upstream lobe is one-third less than that of the downstream lobe, with average bank erosion rates less than half of the erosion rates for the downstream lobe. Higher bank erosion rates within the downstream lobe correspond to the shift in a core of high velocity and bed shear stresses toward the outer bank as flow moves through the two lobes. These erosion patterns provide a mechanism for continued migration of the downstream lobe in the near future. Bed material size distributions within the bend correspond to spatial patterns of bed shear stress magnitudes, indicating that bed material sorting within the bend is governed by bed shear stress. Results suggest that patterns of flow, sediment entrainment, and planform evolution in compound meander bends are more complex than in simple meander bends. Moreover, interactions among local influences on the flow, such as woody debris, local topographic steering, and locally high curvature, tend to cause compound bends to evolve toward increasing planform complexity over time rather than stable configurations.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"John Wiley & Sons","doi":"10.1002/esp.3895","usgsCitation":"Engel, F.L., and Rhoads, B.L., 2016, Three-dimensional flow structure and patterns of bed shear stress in an evolving compound meander bend: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 41, no. 9, p. 1211-1226, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3895.","productDescription":"16 p.","startPage":"1211","endPage":"1226","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-059802","costCenters":[{"id":344,"text":"Illinois Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":321116,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"41","issue":"9","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":6,"text":"Columbus PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5734499ee4b0dae0d5dd691b","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Engel, Frank L. 0000-0002-4253-2625 fengel@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4253-2625","contributorId":5463,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Engel","given":"Frank","email":"fengel@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[{"id":344,"text":"Illinois Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":583,"text":"Texas Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":629142,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Rhoads, Bruce L.","contributorId":20248,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Rhoads","given":"Bruce","email":"","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629143,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}}
,{"id":70170902,"text":"70170902 - 2016 - The ecology of methane in streams and rivers: Patterns, controls, and global significance","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-05-11T10:34:05","indexId":"70170902","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-11T11:30:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1459,"text":"Ecological Monographs","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"The ecology of methane in streams and rivers: Patterns, controls, and global significance","docAbstract":"<p><span>Streams and rivers can substantially modify organic carbon (OC) inputs from terrestrial landscapes, and much of this processing is the result of microbial respiration. While carbon dioxide (CO</span><sub><span>2</span></sub><span>) is the major end-product of ecosystem respiration, methane (CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>) is also present in many fluvial environments even though methanogenesis typically requires anoxic conditions that may be scarce in these systems. Given recent recognition of the pervasiveness of this greenhouse gas in streams and rivers, we synthesized existing research and data to identify patterns and drivers of CH</span><span><sub>4</sub>,</span><span>&nbsp;knowledge gaps, and research opportunities. This included examining the history of lotic CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;research, creating a database of concentrations and fluxes (MethDB) to generate a global-scale estimate of fluvial CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;efflux, and developing a conceptual framework and using this framework to consider how human activities may modify fluvial CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;dynamics. Current understanding of CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;in streams and rivers has been strongly influenced by goals of understanding OC processing and quantifying the contribution of CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;to ecosystem C fluxes. Less effort has been directed towards investigating processes that dictate in situ CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;production and loss. CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;makes a meager contribution to watershed or landscape C budgets, but streams and rivers are often significant CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;sources to the atmosphere across these same spatial extents. Most fluvial systems are supersaturated with CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;and we estimate an annual global emission of 26.8&nbsp;Tg CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>, equivalent to ~15-40% of wetland and lake effluxes, respectively. Less clear is the role of CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;oxidation, methanogenesis, and total anaerobic respiration to whole ecosystem production and respiration. Controls on CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;generation and persistence can be viewed in terms of proximate controls that influence methanogenesis (organic matter, temperature, alternative electron acceptors, nutrients) and distal geomorphic and hydrologic drivers. Multiple controls combined with its extreme redox status and low solubility result in high spatial and temporal variance of CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;in fluvial environments, which presents a substantial challenge for understanding its larger-scale dynamics. Further understanding of CH</span><sub><span>4</span></sub><span>&nbsp;production and consumption, anaerobic metabolism, and ecosystem energetics in streams and rivers can be achieved through more directed studies and comparison with knowledge from terrestrial, wetland, and aquatic disciplines.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Ecological Society of America","doi":"10.1890/15-1027.1","usgsCitation":"Stanley, E.H., Casson, N.J., Christel, S.T., Crawford, J.T., Loken, L., and Oliver, S., 2016, The ecology of methane in streams and rivers: Patterns, controls, and global significance: Ecological Monographs, v. 86, no. 2, p. 146-171, https://doi.org/10.1890/15-1027.1.","productDescription":"16 p.","startPage":"146","endPage":"171","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-066395","costCenters":[{"id":5044,"text":"National Research Program - Central Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":471013,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10680/1574","text":"External Repository"},{"id":321111,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"86","issue":"2","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":2,"text":"Denver PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2015-12-07","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5734499de4b0dae0d5dd690d","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Stanley, Emily H.","contributorId":55725,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Stanley","given":"Emily","email":"","middleInitial":"H.","affiliations":[{"id":12951,"text":"Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin Madison","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":629004,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Casson, Nora J.","contributorId":169271,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Casson","given":"Nora","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629005,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Christel, Samuel T.","contributorId":169272,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Christel","given":"Samuel","email":"","middleInitial":"T.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629006,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Crawford, John T. 0000-0003-4440-6945 jtcrawford@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4440-6945","contributorId":4081,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Crawford","given":"John","email":"jtcrawford@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"T.","affiliations":[{"id":37277,"text":"WMA - Earth System Processes Division","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":5044,"text":"National Research Program - Central Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":629003,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Loken, Luke C. lloken@usgs.gov","contributorId":169218,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Loken","given":"Luke C.","email":"lloken@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":677,"text":"Wisconsin Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":629007,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Oliver, Samantha K.","contributorId":169273,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Oliver","given":"Samantha K.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":629008,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6}]}}
,{"id":70170912,"text":"70170912 - 2016 - POLARIS: A 30-meter probabilistic soil series map of the contiguous United States","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2017-08-29T09:50:15","indexId":"70170912","displayToPublicDate":"2016-05-10T13:00:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1760,"text":"Geoderma","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"POLARIS: A 30-meter probabilistic soil series map of the contiguous United States","docAbstract":"<p><span>A new complete map of soil series probabilities has been produced for the contiguous United States at a 30&nbsp;m spatial resolution. This innovative database, named POLARIS, is constructed using available high-resolution geospatial environmental data and a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm (DSMART-HPC) to remap the Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database. This 9 billion grid cell database is possible using available high performance computing resources. POLARIS provides a spatially continuous, internally consistent, quantitative prediction of soil series. It offers potential solutions to the primary weaknesses in SSURGO: 1) unmapped areas are gap-filled using survey data from the surrounding regions, 2) the artificial discontinuities at political boundaries are removed, and 3) the use of high resolution environmental covariate data leads to a spatial disaggregation of the coarse polygons. The geospatial environmental covariates that have the largest role in assembling POLARIS over the contiguous United States (CONUS) are fine-scale (30&nbsp;m) elevation data and coarse-scale (~&nbsp;2&nbsp;km) estimates of the geographic distribution of uranium, thorium, and potassium. A preliminary validation of POLARIS using the NRCS National Soil Information System (NASIS) database shows variable performance over CONUS. In general, the best performance is obtained at grid cells where DSMART-HPC is most able to reduce the chance of misclassification. The important role of environmental covariates in limiting prediction uncertainty suggests including additional covariates is pivotal to improving POLARIS' accuracy. This database has the potential to improve the modeling of biogeochemical, water, and energy cycles in environmental models; enhance availability of data for precision agriculture; and assist hydrologic monitoring and forecasting to ensure food and water security.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier","doi":"10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.03.025","usgsCitation":"Chaney, N.W., Wood, E.F., McBratney, A., Hempel, J.W., Nauman, T.W., Brungard, C.W., and Odgers, N.P., 2016, POLARIS: A 30-meter probabilistic soil series map of the contiguous United States: Geoderma, v. 274, p. 54-67, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.03.025.","productDescription":"14 p.","startPage":"54","endPage":"67","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-069596","costCenters":[{"id":568,"text":"Southwest Biological Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":471014,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index 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