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Of these, the most substantial change was revision of Article III regarding membership composition of the Commission and the addition of new member organizations from Central and South America and the Caribbean region. As a result, the Commission also voted to change its name to be more inclusive of the expanding membership, with approval of the name: Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature of the Americas. A corresponding change to the Commission’s fundamental publication was also approved at the 2025 meeting as the Stratigraphic Code of the Americas (formerly the North American Stratigraphic Code). &nbsp;Additional revisions to the Articles include those aimed at ensuring gender neutrality of titles, permission to&nbsp;hold virtual meetings, and processes for designating new Commissioners. 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Leveraging NASA's new hyperspectral mission, PACE, we introduce Hyper-MoE-VAE, a deep-learning architecture that integrates a Mixture-of-Experts with a Variational Autoencoder to retrieve high-dimensional a<sub><i>phy</i></sub>&nbsp;and subsequent estimation of phytoplankton community composition (PCC) from PACE-OCI hyperspectral remote sensing reflectance (R<sub><i>rs</i></sub>). Pre-trained on global hyperspectral bio-optical datasets and fine-tuned using regional field R<sub><i>rs</i></sub>–a<sub><i>phy</i></sub>&nbsp;pairings from inland– estuarine–coastal waters, Hyper-MoE-VAE demonstrated strong transferability and effective adaptation across regions. Validation with in-situ Rrs&nbsp;showed accurate aphy&nbsp;retrievals in Lake Erie (NRMSE&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.12, ε = 17.10), Lake Pontchartrain (NRMSE&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.11, ε = 37.12), and the Barataria–Terrebonne Estuary (NRMSE&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.14, ε = 38.89). Using same-day PACE-OCI Level 2 Rrs, the model achieved comparable performance in Lake Erie (NRMSE&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.19, ε = 55.19), Lake Pontchartrain (NRMSE&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.14, ε = 51.39), and the Barataria–Terrebonne Estuary (NRMSE&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.17, ε = 47.92). Hyper-MoE-VAE derived PACE-OCI hyperspectral aphy&nbsp;was further decomposed against mass-specific absorption spectra to estimate group-specific contributions to total chlorophyll a. The resulting PCC showed strong agreement with HPLC–CHEMTAX in Lake Erie (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup>= 0.692) and Gulf estuarine–coastal systems (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.732). Monte Carlo noise experiments further revealed group-dependent sensitivities, with diatoms and dinoflagellates showing moderate susceptibility to noise, while cyanobacteria and cryptophytes exhibited narrow uncertainty distributions. 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Surface soil Hg storage was more strongly predicted by organic matter content (</span><i>R</i><sup>2</sup><span>&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.49;&nbsp;</span><i>p</i><span>&nbsp;&lt;&nbsp;0.01) and water retention (</span><i>R</i><sup>2</sup><span>&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.45;&nbsp;</span><i>p</i><span>&nbsp;&lt;&nbsp;0.01) than by elevation (</span><i>R</i><sup>2</sup><span>&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.21;&nbsp;</span><i>p</i><span>&nbsp;&lt;&nbsp;0.05). Alpine soils (66.3&nbsp;±&nbsp;25.3&nbsp;ng&nbsp;g</span><sup>−1</sup><span>) had significantly higher total Hg concentrations than lower elevations (&lt;41.0&nbsp;±&nbsp;12.7&nbsp;ng&nbsp;g</span><sup>−1</sup><span>;&nbsp;</span><i>p</i><span>&nbsp;&lt;&nbsp;0.01), likely reflecting slower organic matter turnover. Soils on north-facing slopes also retained significantly higher pools of Hg in surface soils compared with south- and east-facing slopes. Vegetation Hg pools were greatest in the alpine region, likely due to long-lived plant species. Methylmercury (MeHg) concentrations in chickadee feathers peaked at mid-elevations (205&nbsp;±&nbsp;155&nbsp;ng&nbsp;g</span><sup>−1</sup><span>), corresponding to higher ecosystem Hg inputs via throughfall. Our results show that deposition, canopy cover, and meteorological conditions—not elevation alone—predict Hg retention and bioaccumulation.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/2025JG009556","usgsCitation":"Miller, H.R., Janssen, S., Taylor, S.A., Gerson, J.R., McIntosh, T.L., and Hinckley, E.S., 2026, Mercury cycling across a U.S. semi-arid mountain ecosystem elevation gradient: JGR Biogeosciences, v. 131, no. 3, e2025JG009556, 19 p., https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG009556.","productDescription":"e2025JG009556, 19 p.","ipdsId":"IP-177248","costCenters":[{"id":37947,"text":"Upper Midwest Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":501443,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Colorado","otherGeospatial":"headwaters of the Boulder Creek Watershed","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -105.58,\n              40.06\n            ],\n            [\n              -105.58,\n              39.98\n            ],\n            [\n              -105.27,\n              39.98\n            ],\n            [\n              -105.27,\n              40.06\n            ],\n            [\n              -105.58,\n              40.06\n            ]\n          ]\n        ],\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"131","issue":"3","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-28","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Miller, Hannah R.","contributorId":367690,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Miller","given":"Hannah","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[{"id":16144,"text":"University of Colorado-Boulder","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":957444,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Janssen, Sarah E. 0000-0003-4432-3154","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4432-3154","contributorId":210991,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Janssen","given":"Sarah E.","affiliations":[{"id":677,"text":"Wisconsin Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":37947,"text":"Upper Midwest Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":957445,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Taylor, Scott A.","contributorId":367691,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Taylor","given":"Scott","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[{"id":16144,"text":"University of Colorado-Boulder","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":957446,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Gerson, Jacqueline R.","contributorId":367692,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Gerson","given":"Jacqueline","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[{"id":12722,"text":"Cornell University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":957447,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"McIntosh, Tyler L.","contributorId":367693,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"McIntosh","given":"Tyler","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[{"id":16144,"text":"University of Colorado-Boulder","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":957448,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Hinckley, Eve-Lyn S.","contributorId":367694,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Hinckley","given":"Eve-Lyn","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[{"id":16144,"text":"University of Colorado-Boulder","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":957449,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6}]}}
,{"id":70274197,"text":"70274197 - 2026 - Terrestrial ecosystem response to changing temperature and seasonality in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Shallow marine records from the Salisbury Embayment, USA","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-03-10T13:41:31.319054","indexId":"70274197","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-28T08:12:37","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":5790,"text":"Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Terrestrial ecosystem response to changing temperature and seasonality in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Shallow marine records from the Salisbury Embayment, USA","docAbstract":"<p><span>The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM, ∼56&nbsp;Ma) is marked by a massive and rapid rise in atmospheric CO</span><sub>2</sub><span>&nbsp;and ∼5°C of global warming. It is globally characterized by a negative carbon isotope excursion (CIE), and, at least locally, is preceded by a pre-onset excursion (POE). We present palynological and bioclimatic analyses from stratigraphically expanded marginal marine sediment sections from the eastern United States. Late Paleocene forests were dominated by needle-leaved gymnosperms and broad-leaved angiosperms characteristic of warm climates. The POE is marked by a minor expansion of angiosperms and pteridophytes, warmer winters, and altered seasonal precipitation, followed by a return to pre-POE conditions. Increased terrestrial palynomorph concentrations before the CIE are suggestive of increased fluvial discharge before the PETM. Early PETM assemblages are characterized by dominance of ferns, loss of conifers, and expansion of broad-leaved angiosperm forests. Bioclimatic analyses indicate warmer mean atmospheric temperatures in early PETM time, driven primarily by winter warming of ∼3°C. A shift in seasonality, associated with increased severity of storms and floods that scoured the late Paleocene floodplain, facilitated establishment of riparian fern communities at the CIE onset. These flooding events persisted through the early part of the PETM and were severe enough to transport Westphalian-age (Middle Pennsylvanian) reworked material from the central Appalachian Basin and flush large amounts of terrestrial material and carbon onto the continental shelf, resulting in decreased salinity, increased productivity, and water-column stratification.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/2025PA005278","usgsCitation":"Willard, D., Nelissen, M., Sluijs, A., Brinkhuis, H., Reichgelt, T., Robinson, M., and Self-Trail, J., 2026, Terrestrial ecosystem response to changing temperature and seasonality in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Shallow marine records from the Salisbury Embayment, USA: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 41, no. 3, e2025PA005278, 19 p., https://doi.org/10.1029/2025PA005278.","productDescription":"e2025PA005278, 19 p.","ipdsId":"IP-171569","costCenters":[{"id":40020,"text":"Florence Bascom Geoscience Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":501095,"rank":2,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2025pa005278","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":500858,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia","otherGeospatial":"Salisbury Embayment","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -74,\n              40\n            ],\n            [\n              -77,\n              40\n            ],\n            [\n              -77,\n              37\n            ],\n            [\n              -74,\n              37\n            ],\n            [\n              -74,\n              40\n            ]\n          ]\n        ],\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"41","issue":"3","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-28","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Willard, Debra A. 0000-0003-4878-0942","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4878-0942","contributorId":269840,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Willard","given":"Debra A.","affiliations":[],"preferred":true,"id":956904,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Nelissen, Mei","contributorId":362170,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Nelissen","given":"Mei","affiliations":[{"id":36885,"text":"Utrecht University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956905,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Sluijs, Appy","contributorId":215371,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Sluijs","given":"Appy","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":36885,"text":"Utrecht University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956906,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Brinkhuis, Henk","contributorId":328591,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Brinkhuis","given":"Henk","affiliations":[{"id":36885,"text":"Utrecht University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956907,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Reichgelt, Tammo","contributorId":215367,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Reichgelt","given":"Tammo","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":7171,"text":"Columbia University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956908,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Robinson, Marci M. 0000-0002-9200-4097","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9200-4097","contributorId":261664,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Robinson","given":"Marci M.","affiliations":[{"id":40020,"text":"Florence Bascom Geoscience Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":956909,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6},{"text":"Self-Trail, Jean 0000-0002-3018-4985 jstrail@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3018-4985","contributorId":147370,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Self-Trail","given":"Jean","email":"jstrail@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":40020,"text":"Florence Bascom Geoscience Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":243,"text":"Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":956910,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":7}]}}
,{"id":70274266,"text":"70274266 - 2026 - Extreme precipitation variability and soil texture controls on water-table response","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-03-24T16:31:28.917628","indexId":"70274266","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-27T09:28:04","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3709,"text":"Water","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Extreme precipitation variability and soil texture controls on water-table response","docAbstract":"<p><span id=\"_mce_caret\" data-mce-bogus=\"1\" data-mce-type=\"format-caret\"><span>Extreme precipitation events (EPEs), a key class of hydrometeorological extremes, are intensifying globally under climate change; however, their effects on water-table dynamics across varying soil textures remain poorly understood. To better understand the impacts of EPEs, we conducted one-dimensional modeling to evaluate water-table response time, displacement, recession time, and total recharge under EPEs of 0.20 m, 0.40 m, and 0.60 m amounts, applied over 1-, 7-, and 20-day durations across twelve soil textures. The results show that coarse soils (i.e., sand) respond within days, while fine soils (i.e., clay) may take over 200 days. Water-table displacement ranged from 0.30 to 1.64 m and increased with EPE magnitude. The time it took for water tables to recede ranged from 1.2 to 3.0 years. A first-order estimate of total possible recharge, calculated from porosity and displacement, ranged from 17% (clay) to 97% (sand), averaging ~63% across soil textures. These findings highlight that recharge is primarily governed by EPE magnitude and soil properties, not event duration. This modeling effort provides new insight into how soil texture modulates groundwater response to extreme precipitation, informing future water budget and resilience assessments.</span></span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"MDPI","doi":"10.3390/w18050587","usgsCitation":"Corona, C.R., Ge, S., Anderson, S.P., and Dickinson, J.E., 2026, Extreme precipitation variability and soil texture controls on water-table response: Water, v. 18, no. 5, 587, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.3390/w18050587.","productDescription":"587, 20 p.","ipdsId":"IP-160684","costCenters":[{"id":37778,"text":"WMA - Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":501680,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/w18050587","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":501472,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"18","issue":"5","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-28","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Corona, Claudia R.","contributorId":152548,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Corona","given":"Claudia","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[{"id":6690,"text":"San Francisco State University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":957469,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Ge, Shemin","contributorId":203465,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Ge","given":"Shemin","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":36627,"text":"University of Colorado, Boulder","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":957470,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Anderson, Suzanne P. 0000-0002-6796-6649","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6796-6649","contributorId":172732,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Anderson","given":"Suzanne","email":"","middleInitial":"P.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":957471,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Dickinson, Jesse E. 0000-0002-0048-0839 jdickins@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0048-0839","contributorId":152545,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Dickinson","given":"Jesse","email":"jdickins@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[{"id":128,"text":"Arizona Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":957472,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
,{"id":70276829,"text":"70276829 - 2026 - Deformed submarine terraces in Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest, indicate only one M >~7.5 earthquake on the Seattle fault zone in the past 11,000 yr","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-06-25T13:27:46.596429","indexId":"70276829","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-27T08:45:34","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1796,"text":"Geology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Deformed submarine terraces in Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest, indicate only one M >~7.5 earthquake on the Seattle fault zone in the past 11,000 yr","docAbstract":"Submerged marine terraces in Puget Sound, deformed across the Seattle fault zone (SFZ), indicate that only one earthquake as large as M~7.5 has occurred in at least the past 11 kyr. Previous paleoseismic studies document a M~7.5 earthquake between 923–4 CE, which uplifted coastal marine terraces by as much as 8 m. We demonstrate that this earthquake was the only such event since ~11 ka by mapping and quantifying deformation of older marine terraces, now submerged in Puget Sound. The submerged terraces, attributed to a late-glacial sea-level lowstand, record both glacial isostatic rebound and tectonic deformation. Vertical offset of the ~11 ka terraces within the SFZ is comparable to that of the marine terraces uplifted in 923 CE, implying no additional large (M>~7.5) earthquake on the SFZ since ~11 ka. This result implies a longer recurrence interval than current hazard estimates, which assumes recurrence of M>7.1 events every 5 kyr. Our mapping of SFZ deformation since ~11 ka also supports fault segmentation and contiguous block uplift between the Seattle and Tacoma fault zones.","language":"English","publisher":"Geological Society of America","doi":"10.1130/G53496.1","usgsCitation":"Davis, E.J., Crider, J.G., Haugerud, R.A., Roland, E., and Moore, G., 2026, Deformed submarine terraces in Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest, indicate only one M >~7.5 earthquake on the Seattle fault zone in the past 11,000 yr: Geology, v. 54, no. 6, p. 495-500, https://doi.org/10.1130/G53496.1.","productDescription":"6 p.","startPage":"495","endPage":"500","ipdsId":"IP-184622","costCenters":[{"id":237,"text":"Earthquake Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":505830,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Washington","otherGeospatial":"Puget Sound","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -123.46703802614081,\n              48.56386121387999\n            ],\n            [\n              -122.0482835891883,\n              48.56386121387999\n            ],\n            [\n              -122.0482835891883,\n              47.21199044613215\n            ],\n            [\n              -123.46703802614081,\n              47.21199044613215\n            ],\n            [\n              -123.46703802614081,\n              48.56386121387999\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"54","issue":"6","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Davis, Elizabeth J. 0009-0007-8076-018X","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8076-018X","contributorId":372723,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Davis","given":"Elizabeth","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":6934,"text":"University of Washington","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":963474,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Crider, Juliet G.","contributorId":372724,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Crider","given":"Juliet","middleInitial":"G.","affiliations":[{"id":6934,"text":"University of Washington","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":963475,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Haugerud, Ralph A. 0000-0001-7302-4351","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7302-4351","contributorId":204669,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Haugerud","given":"Ralph","email":"","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[{"id":312,"text":"Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":963476,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Roland, Emily","contributorId":247881,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Roland","given":"Emily","affiliations":[{"id":6934,"text":"University of Washington","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":963477,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Moore, Ginevra","contributorId":247897,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Moore","given":"Ginevra","affiliations":[{"id":6934,"text":"University of Washington","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":963478,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5}]}}
,{"id":70274150,"text":"70274150 - 2026 - Urbanization alters riverine fluorescent dissolved organic matter characteristics in a forested city – metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia (USA)","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-03-02T14:49:19.406602","indexId":"70274150","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-27T08:39:47","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1561,"text":"Environmental Research","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Urbanization alters riverine fluorescent dissolved organic matter characteristics in a forested city – metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia (USA)","docAbstract":"<p><span>Streams and rivers in urban watersheds are predicted to export more bioreactive, autochthonous dissolved organic matter (DOM) relative to forested watersheds. However, the spatial and temporal variations of DOM quality in forested urban watersheds remain uncertain, and their relationships with socioeconomic conditions, biological characteristics, and the built environment are understudied. We measured optical properties of fluorescent DOM (FDOM) in 93 streams spanning a gradient of land-use and land cover during four seasons in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Streamwater FDOM was dominated by humic substances from anthropogenic (41%) and terrestrial origin (41.5%). Impervious surface cover was the strongest predictor, which was positively correlated with anthropogenically- and autochthonously-derived FDOM. Overwater canopy cover was positively associated with autochthonous FDOM, and housing age increased diagenetic FDOM. FDOM was more proteinaceous during low-flow conditions (fall, winter), and more allochthonous humic-like FDOM was detected during periods of higher flows (spring, summer). Interestingly, wastewater-related FDOM proxies were highest during low flows, suggesting that sewer exfiltration is a pervasive source and is diluted by other inputs during high flows. Overall, seasonal patterns in FDOM quality were associated with changes in hydrology, and FDOM was primarily humic throughout the year, a pattern likely driven by ubiquitous forest canopy cover. Our results highlight the importance of urban forests in mediating aquatic carbon cycling and provide a template for future studies that integrate sociodemographic and infrastructure information into studies of watershed biogeochemistry, especially in regions undergoing rapid, intense, and localized urban development.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier","doi":"10.1016/j.envres.2026.124085","usgsCitation":"Chen, S., Hale, R., Hopkins, K.G., Ortiz Muñoz, L., Kominoski, J., Ledford, S., and Capps, K., 2026, Urbanization alters riverine fluorescent dissolved organic matter characteristics in a forested city – metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia (USA): Environmental Research, v. 297, 124085, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.124085.","productDescription":"124085, 15 p.","ipdsId":"IP-183715","costCenters":[{"id":622,"text":"Washington Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":500667,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Georgia","city":"Atlanta","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -84.1667,\n              34\n            ],\n            [\n              -84.7,\n              34\n            ],\n            [\n              -84.7,\n              33.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -84.1667,\n              33.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -84.1667,\n              34\n            ]\n          ]\n        ],\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"297","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Chen, Shuo","contributorId":343806,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Chen","given":"Shuo","affiliations":[{"id":13510,"text":"Smithsonian Environmental Research Center","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956692,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Hale, Rebecca","contributorId":348368,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Hale","given":"Rebecca","affiliations":[{"id":38154,"text":"Idaho State University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956693,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Hopkins, Kristina G. 0000-0003-1699-9384 khopkins@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1699-9384","contributorId":195604,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Hopkins","given":"Kristina","email":"khopkins@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"G.","affiliations":[{"id":13634,"text":"South Atlantic Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":242,"text":"Eastern Geographic Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":956694,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Ortiz Muñoz, Liz","contributorId":343807,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Ortiz Muñoz","given":"Liz","affiliations":[{"id":7017,"text":"Florida International University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956695,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Kominoski, John","contributorId":298258,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Kominoski","given":"John","affiliations":[{"id":7017,"text":"Florida International University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956696,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Ledford, Sarah","contributorId":300624,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Ledford","given":"Sarah","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":52554,"text":"Georgia State University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956697,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6},{"text":"Capps, Krista A.","contributorId":270490,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Capps","given":"Krista A.","affiliations":[{"id":12697,"text":"University of Georgia","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":956698,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":7}]}}
,{"id":70274269,"text":"70274269 - 2026 - Bird guilds exhibit varied responses to floodplain forest restoration in the Colorado River delta, Mexico","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-03-24T14:48:28.344876","indexId":"70274269","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-27T07:38:28","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2183,"text":"Journal of Arid Environments","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Bird guilds exhibit varied responses to floodplain forest restoration in the Colorado River delta, Mexico","docAbstract":"Grouping species into guilds can be useful to inform management decisions locally and at broader scales because guilds lack species-specificity. 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Conversely, the abundance of desert scrub bird specialists was highest in the driest and least vegetated restored reach. Generalists only exhibited decreased detections in the wettest restored reach. All this occurred while declines of riparian forest, wetland, desert scrub, and generalist bird species observed over a decade prior to restoration had stabilized in control sites. Detections of birds associated with agricultural fields increased in the study area, irrespective of restoration efforts. 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This study focused on the water balance across the Cinder Cone Butte Critical Groundwater Area (CGWA), Mountain Home Groundwater Management Area (GWMA), and the rest of the study area (RoSA), compiling data from various sources, including precipitation records, groundwater level measurements, metered groundwater pumpage data, surface water diversions and evapotranspiration (ET) estimates derived from remote sensing satellite imagery, and ground-based reference data. Key inflow components included recharge from applied surface water irrigation (which incorporates incidental recharge from irrigation practices and conveyance losses), estimated tributary streamflow, and estimated mountain block recharge. The key outflow components were groundwater pumpage for irrigation, municipal, industrial, and domestic uses, and ET. Recharge from applied irrigation and mountain block recharge were the largest inflows, and groundwater pumpage for irrigation was the largest outflow.</p><p>The CGWA had a positive groundwater budget residual of 2,170 acre-feet (acre-ft), which contrasts with observed long-term groundwater level declines and historical trends of storage depletion. This positive residual is likely associated with unquantified outflows, including lateral groundwater flow out of the subregion, or other complexities, such as overestimated tributary contributions relative to the actual recharge for the 2023 water budget. The GWMA exhibited a positive residual of 56,563 acre-ft, primarily owing to recharge from applied surface water irrigation and areal recharge during a wetter-than-average year, which allowed irrigation entities to deliver more water from in-basin and out-of-basin reservoirs. The RoSA showed a large positive residual of 124,933 acre-ft. The interpretation of these positive residuals must account for significant uncertainties, including estimations of areal recharge, tributary streamflow (particularly losses and diversions), ET, the volume of surface water loss to the Snake River, lateral groundwater flows between subregions and across study area boundaries, and the unquantified groundwater discharge to the Snake River. These uncertainties, in combination with the complex hydrogeologic controls on water movement and limitations of remotely sensed data, directly affect the accuracy of water availability assessments.</p><p>Future data collection efforts would help reduce these uncertainties and support water resource management decisions in the Mountain Home area. Key efforts could include installing additional streamflow gaging stations (particularly to quantify tributary losses and gains and surface water losses to the Snake River), improving groundwater pumpage metering, and validating remotely sensed ET data with ground-based measurements. Furthermore, to better quantify unrepresented or highly uncertain fluxes, focused investigations on groundwater discharge to the Snake River, lateral groundwater flows between subregions and across study area boundaries, and a more robust determination of the actual influence and volume of mountain block recharge would help refine future water availability assessments for the Mountain Home area.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/sir20265118","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the Idaho Department of Water Resources","usgsCitation":"Thomas, P.M., 2026, Groundwater budget for the Mountain Home area, southern Idaho, 2022–23: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2026–5118, 41 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20265118.","productDescription":"Report: ix, 41 p.; Data Release","numberOfPages":"56","onlineOnly":"Y","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-140358","costCenters":[{"id":343,"text":"Idaho Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":500654,"rank":7,"type":{"id":36,"text":"NGMDB Index Page"},"url":"https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_119277.htm","linkFileType":{"id":5,"text":"html"}},{"id":500532,"rank":5,"type":{"id":30,"text":"Data Release"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.5066/P13ZG67D","text":"USGS data release","linkHelpText":"Supporting data for 2022–2023 groundwater budget for the Mountain Home area, southern Idaho"},{"id":500531,"rank":4,"type":{"id":34,"text":"Image Folder"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2026/5118/images/"},{"id":500530,"rank":3,"type":{"id":31,"text":"Publication XML"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2026/5118/sir20265118.XML"},{"id":500528,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2026/5118/coverthb.jpg"},{"id":500529,"rank":2,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2026/5118/sir20265118.pdf","text":"Report","size":"4.8 MB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"SIR 2026-5118"},{"id":500533,"rank":6,"type":{"id":39,"text":"HTML Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20265118/full"}],"country":"United States","state":"Idaho","otherGeospatial":"Mountain Home area","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -116.5,\n              43.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.5,\n              42.833\n            ],\n            [\n              -115.0833,\n              42.833\n            ],\n            [\n              -115.0833,\n              43.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -116.5,\n              43.5\n            ]\n          ]\n        ],\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","contact":"<p>Director, <a href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/id-water\" data-mce-href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/id-water\">Idaho Water Science Center</a><br>U.S. Geological Survey<br>230 Collins Rd<br>Boise, Idaho 83702-4520</p><p><a href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/contact\" data-mce-href=\"../contact\">Contact Pubs Warehouse</a></p>","tableOfContents":"<ul><li>Acknowledgments</li><li>Abstract</li><li>Introduction</li><li>Description of Study Area</li><li>Groundwater Budget</li><li>Summary and Conclusions</li><li>References Cited</li></ul>","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":12,"text":"Tacoma PSC"},"publishedDate":"2026-02-26","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Thomas, Paul M. 0000-0001-6484-6636","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6484-6636","contributorId":347561,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Thomas","given":"Paul","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":343,"text":"Idaho Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":956568,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
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A 1:100,000 scale geologic map was made by combining previous geologic maps, regional soil maps, and recent field investigations. In addition to the geologic mapping, drill hole lithologic data from water wells and oil and gas exploration were compiled and lithologic units simplified to best represent the stratigraphy of the Quaternary deposits. From these subsurface data, a 3D subsurface model was constructed, trimmed at the surface by a digital elevation model, and a bedrock surface foundation gridded from drill hole data was added. The surface of the 3D model was then compared visually to the surficial geologic map. Cross sections were constructed from the 3D model and compared to site-specific drilling that was done as part of this project. Finally, the model was examined in detail to reconstruct the depositional history of the subsurface alluvial and eolian units. Alluvial and fluvial drainage basins exposed in the subsurface have a greater areal extent than the present-day narrow drainages. Older eolian sand in the subsurface tends to be interbedded with loess indicating coeval deposition. Holocene sand, both eroded from bedrock exposed at the surface north of the study area and reworked from the South Platte River, buries most of the interbedded older sand and loess.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston VA","doi":"10.3133/sir20255052","usgsCitation":"Taylor, E.M., Berry, M.E., Mahan, S.A., and Havens, J.C., 2026, Reconstructing the Quaternary depositional history using geologic mapping and three-dimensional modeling of the subsurface near Fort Morgan, northeastern Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2025–5052, 48 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20255052.","productDescription":"Report: iv, 48 p.; 2 Data Releases","onlineOnly":"Y","ipdsId":"IP-095650","costCenters":[{"id":318,"text":"Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":500655,"rank":5,"type":{"id":36,"text":"NGMDB Index 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,{"id":70274570,"text":"70274570 - 2026 - Boxed in or branching out? Movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in an urban green space","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-04-02T18:18:03.010667","indexId":"70274570","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-26T11:10:51","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3669,"text":"Urban Ecosystems","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"displayTitle":"Boxed in or branching out? Movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles (<i>Terrapene carolina carolina</i>) in an urban green space","title":"Boxed in or branching out? Movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in an urban green space","docAbstract":"<p><span id=\"_mce_caret\" data-mce-bogus=\"1\" data-mce-type=\"format-caret\"><span>The eastern box turtle (</span><i>Terrapene carolina carolina</i><span>) is a long-lived terrestrial turtle species distributed throughout the eastern United States that has experienced widespread population decline. Many eastern box turtle populations are persisting as remanent populations in small, fragmented urban green spaces. We investigated the movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles within a mid-Atlantic region urban forest in the eastern United States. We used a combination of turtle occurrence data (via visual encounter surveys) and radio telemetry to create resource selection functions. Additionally, we applied a simulation modeling approach and modeled activity areas via dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models to quantify interactions between turtles and roads or trails. We also used these models to determine the propensity for turtles to move outside of the managed urban forest boundary and into surrounding development. We observed that turtles selected for deciduous forest patches and avoided roads and trails despite the urban forest having very little available areas where anthropogenic features could be avoided. We also demonstrated observed (and probable) movements outside of the urban forest boundary. Although eastern box turtles are persisting within the urban green space we examined, our work determined that interactions with roads and trails, and movements outside of protected boundaries into developed areas present challenges to individuals navigating the urban forest.</span></span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Springer Nature","doi":"10.1007/s11252-026-01938-0","usgsCitation":"Jones, M.D., Ferebee, K.B., Ford, W., and Hunter, E.A., 2026, Boxed in or branching out? Movement and resource selection of eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in an urban green space: Urban Ecosystems, v. 29, 72, 14 p., https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-026-01938-0.","productDescription":"72, 14 p.","ipdsId":"IP-180260","costCenters":[{"id":199,"text":"Coop Res Unit Leetown","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":502096,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-026-01938-0","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":502028,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","otherGeospatial":"eastern United States, mid-Atlantic region","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -76.51749069483542,\n              39.74954311636529\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.30490645674448,\n              33.87108405455136\n            ],\n            [\n              -77.15471518629862,\n              32.58298528230786\n            ],\n            [\n              -73.67400827908685,\n              39.35915324575973\n            ],\n            [\n              -76.51749069483542,\n              39.74954311636529\n            ]\n          ]\n        ],\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"29","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Jones, Max D.","contributorId":369034,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Jones","given":"Max","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[{"id":12694,"text":"Virginia Tech","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":958334,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Ferebee, Kenneth B.","contributorId":369035,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Ferebee","given":"Kenneth","middleInitial":"B.","affiliations":[{"id":12694,"text":"Virginia Tech","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":958335,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Ford, W. 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,{"id":70275549,"text":"70275549 - 2026 - Activity, but not size of Black-tailed Praire Dog colonies, is associated with higher Athene cunicularia hypugaea (Western Burrowing Owl) occupancy and reproductive success in the shortgrass prairie","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-05-19T15:45:56.487131","indexId":"70275549","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-26T10:08:18","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":9101,"text":"Ornithological Applications","printIssn":"0010-5422","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"displayTitle":"Activity, but not size of Black-tailed Praire Dog colonies, is associated with higher <i>Athene cunicularia hypugaea</i> (Western Burrowing Owl) occupancy and reproductive success in the shortgrass prairie","title":"Activity, but not size of Black-tailed Praire Dog colonies, is associated with higher Athene cunicularia hypugaea (Western Burrowing Owl) occupancy and reproductive success in the shortgrass prairie","docAbstract":"<p><span>Conservation in fragmented ecosystems, such as grasslands, has historically put more value on larger habitat patches but recent research suggests that small, high-quality habitat patches hold important conservation value. In many grassland systems,&nbsp;</span><i>Athene cunicularia hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;(Western Burrowing Owl) relies on habitat patches created by&nbsp;</span><i>Cynomys ludovicianus</i><span>&nbsp;(Black-tailed Prairie Dog; hereafter prairie dog). Prairie dogs create important nesting habitat for&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;and other grassland birds. We examined the effect of size and characteristics of prairie dog colonies on&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;occupancy and reproductive success. We specifically looked at how colony size, prairie dog activity level, and vegetation characteristics influence these population parameters on 175 survey plots throughout eastern Colorado, U.S., across two sample years. Results are based on detections of adult and owlet&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;collected by paired observers traversing transects through study plots during the 2022 and 2023&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;nesting seasons (May–August). Our top multistate occupancy model indicated that latitude affects&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;occupancy probabilities. Occupancy was higher in southern Colorado compared to northern Colorado. In addition, prairie dog activity was positively associated with&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;reproductive success. Colony size and vegetation characteristics were generally uninformative predictors of&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;occupancy and reproductive success. We compared our results to a previous&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;population assessment conducted within our study area in 2005 and found that active prairie dog colonies positively affected&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;local colonization while local extinction was driven by a transition of active prairie dog colonies to inactive. This study highlights the importance of high-quality prairie dog habitat patches for&nbsp;</span><i>A. c. hypugaea</i><span>&nbsp;nesting in fragmented grassland ecosystems, regardless of patch size.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Oxford Academic","doi":"10.1093/ornithapp/duag027","usgsCitation":"Albright, S.R., Conrey, R.Y., and Kendall, W.L., 2026, Activity, but not size of Black-tailed Praire Dog colonies, is associated with higher Athene cunicularia hypugaea (Western Burrowing Owl) occupancy and reproductive success in the shortgrass prairie: Ornithological Applications, v. 128, no. 2, p. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithapp/duag027.","productDescription":"12 p.","startPage":"1","endPage":"12","ipdsId":"IP-177914","costCenters":[{"id":200,"text":"Coop Res Unit Seattle","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":504185,"rank":1,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithapp/duag027","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":503955,"rank":2,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Colorado","otherGeospatial":"eastern Colorado","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -105.09881670845924,\n              41.02213445686721\n            ],\n            [\n              -105.09881670845924,\n              37.00631611507919\n            ],\n            [\n              -102.10629629108591,\n              37.00631611507919\n            ],\n            [\n              -102.10629629108591,\n              41.02213445686721\n            ],\n            [\n              -105.09881670845924,\n              41.02213445686721\n            ]\n          ]\n        ],\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"128","issue":"2","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Albright, Sarah R.","contributorId":370997,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Albright","given":"Sarah","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[{"id":6621,"text":"Colorado State University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":960859,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Conrey, Reesa Y.","contributorId":370998,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Conrey","given":"Reesa","middleInitial":"Y.","affiliations":[{"id":39887,"text":"Colorado Parks and Wildlife","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":960860,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Kendall, William L. 0000-0003-0084-9891","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-9891","contributorId":204844,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Kendall","given":"William","email":"","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[{"id":200,"text":"Coop Res Unit Seattle","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":960861,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
,{"id":70274283,"text":"70274283 - 2026 - Short-term estuarine phytoplankton dynamics in response to hurricanes along the Gulf Coast of America: A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approach with satellite and bio-optical observations","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-03-24T14:57:45.149791","indexId":"70274283","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-26T09:52:46","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":7159,"text":"JGR Oceans","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Short-term estuarine phytoplankton dynamics in response to hurricanes along the Gulf Coast of America: A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approach with satellite and bio-optical observations","docAbstract":"<p><span>Hurricanes drive diverse estuarine phytoplankton responses and can trigger cascading ecological and physicochemical impacts. Capturing these short-term dynamics requires high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, we applied a globally-applicable coastal ocean color algorithm, Variational Autoencoder (VAE), to Sentinel-2 MSI imagery for chlorophyll-</span><i>a</i><span>&nbsp;(Chl-</span><i>a</i><span>) estimation and validated its strong performance across the northern Gulf coast of America (GoA) estuaries, including Galveston Bay (TX), Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary (LA), Apalachicola Estuary (FL) and Tampa Bay (FL). The test set showed strong performance (MAE: 1.44&nbsp;mg&nbsp;m</span><sup>−3</sup><span>; RMSE: 17.7&nbsp;mg&nbsp;m</span><sup>−3</sup><span>; slope: 0.86; median symmetric accuracy: 30.33%). The validated VAE was then applied to 76 Sentinel-2 MSI images to assess phytoplankton biomass responses to hurricanes Harvey (2017), Michael (2018), Ida (2021), Francine (2024), Helene (2024), and Milton (2024) in the GoA estuaries. Results showed that hurricane disturbances on Chl-</span><i>a</i><span>&nbsp;typically lasted 3–5&nbsp;weeks. Estuarine waters west (left) of hurricane tracks showed a rapid decline in Chl-</span><i>a</i><span>&nbsp;(∼5&nbsp;mg&nbsp;m</span><sup>−3</sup><span>) due to elevated turbidity from heavy rainfall, and wind-driven flushing in the estuary, followed by a rebound over about two weeks, with Chl-</span><i>a</i><span>&nbsp;increasing approximately 10–15&nbsp;mg&nbsp;m</span><sup>−3</sup><span>&nbsp;above pre-storm levels. In contrast, right-side waters showed a slower response, likely from oligotrophic seawater intrusion driven by the hurricane's counterclockwise rotation. Post-storm observations showed increased freshwater phytoplankton like chlorophytes and cyanobacteria dominating estuaries, while shelf-waters exhibited elevated dinoflagellates (e.g.,&nbsp;</span><i>Karenia brevis</i><span>&nbsp;bloom after Hurricane Milton). These results highlight the spatial heterogeneity of hurricane impacts on estuarine phytoplankton dynamics, which may trigger cascading effects on biogeochemical cycling and food webs, potentially prolonging ecosystem recovery.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/2025JC023274","usgsCitation":"Li, J., Liu, B., Lou, J., Yuan, X., D'Sa, E.J., Baustian, M.M., La Peyre, M., Freeman, A., Martins, V.S., and Habib, E., 2026, Short-term estuarine phytoplankton dynamics in response to hurricanes along the Gulf Coast of America: A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approach with satellite and bio-optical observations: JGR Oceans, v. 131, no. 3, e2025JC023274, 24 p., https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC023274.","productDescription":"e2025JC023274, 24 p.","ipdsId":"IP-179432","costCenters":[{"id":198,"text":"Coop Res Unit Atlanta","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":17705,"text":"Wetland and Aquatic Research 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,{"id":70273903,"text":"sir20265116 - 2026 - Erosion potential and flood vulnerability of streams and stream crossings at Acadia National Park, Maine","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-05-08T14:34:40.404083","indexId":"sir20265116","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-26T09:30:00","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":5,"text":"USGS Numbered Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":334,"text":"Scientific Investigations Report","code":"SIR","onlineIssn":"2328-0328","printIssn":"2328-031X","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":5}},"seriesNumber":"2026-5116","displayTitle":"Erosion Potential and Flood Vulnerability of Streams and Stream Crossings at Acadia National Park, Maine","title":"Erosion potential and flood vulnerability of streams and stream crossings at Acadia National Park, Maine","docAbstract":"<p>Acadia National Park has had increases in the frequency and magnitude of precipitation in recent years, leading to increased flood flows, stream erosion, and costly infrastructure damage. To improve infrastructure management in a changing climate, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Park Service, has developed multiple datasets that can help natural resource managers identify stream reaches and stream crossings that have the highest potential for erosion and flood damage within Acadia National Park. To develop these datasets, we first created a lidar-derived hydrography based on a 1-meter digital elevation model and then estimated peak flows at stream crossings and along the stream network using regional regression equations for Maine. We assessed the erosion potential of stream reaches by computing channel morphologic and hydrologic metrics associated with erosive power, such as stream steepness, topographic openness, and percent storage in the contributing watershed. Stream crossing flood vulnerability was assessed by comparing estimated peak flows to stream crossing conveyance capacities. Our results indicate that stream reaches in the headwaters of the Acadia National Park highlands such as Sargent, Penobscot, and Cadillac Mountain, have the highest erosion potential and generally coincide with reaches that have had erosion and infrastructure damage in the past. Stream crossings with the highest flood vulnerability are distributed throughout Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park, especially south of Jordan Pond, north of Sargent Mountain, and surrounding Eagle Lake. Over a quarter of the total stream crossings have insufficient information to compute flood vulnerability and are often on the parts of the stream with the highest potential for erosion. The datasets allow users to identify stream reaches with the highest erosion potential, stream crossings that are most vulnerable to flood damage, and to highlight areas where supplemental field assessments could most effectively be completed.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/sir20265116","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the National Park Service","usgsCitation":"Armstrong, I.P., McCallister, M.A., Hyslop, K.M., and Benthem, A.J., 2026, Erosion potential and flood vulnerability of streams and stream crossings at Acadia National Park, Maine: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2026–5116, 21 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20265116.","productDescription":"Report: vii, 21 p.; Data Release","numberOfPages":"21","onlineOnly":"Y","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-178032","costCenters":[{"id":466,"text":"New England Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":499817,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2026/5116/coverthb.jpg"},{"id":499818,"rank":2,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2026/5116/sir20265116.pdf","size":"7.83 MB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"SIR 2026-5116 PDF"},{"id":499819,"rank":3,"type":{"id":39,"text":"HTML Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20265116/full","linkFileType":{"id":5,"text":"html"},"description":"SIR 2026-5116 HTML"},{"id":499820,"rank":4,"type":{"id":31,"text":"Publication XML"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2026/5116/sir20265116.xml","linkFileType":{"id":8,"text":"xml"},"description":"SIR 2026-5116 XML"},{"id":500656,"rank":8,"type":{"id":36,"text":"NGMDB Index Page"},"url":"https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_119275.htm","linkFileType":{"id":5,"text":"html"}},{"id":499821,"rank":5,"type":{"id":34,"text":"Image Folder"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2026/5116/images/"},{"id":499822,"rank":6,"type":{"id":30,"text":"Data Release"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.5066/P1EHZNHN","text":"USGS data release","linkHelpText":"Data for an erosion potential and flood vulnerability assessment of streams and stream crossings at Acadia National Park, Maine"},{"id":500517,"rank":7,"type":{"id":22,"text":"Related Work"},"url":"https://geonarrative.usgs.gov/acadiaerosionfloodvulnerability/","text":"Interactive dashboard","linkHelpText":"- Erosion Potential and Flood Vulnerability of Streams and Stream Crossings at Acadia National Park"}],"country":"United States","state":"Maine","otherGeospatial":"Acadia National Park","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -68.45003175798666,\n              44.44178922865794\n            ],\n            [\n              -68.45003175798666,\n              44.21621316604151\n            ],\n            [\n              -68.13514216440173,\n              44.21621316604151\n            ],\n            [\n              -68.13514216440173,\n              44.44178922865794\n            ],\n            [\n              -68.45003175798666,\n              44.44178922865794\n            ]\n          ]\n        ],\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","contact":"<p>Director, <a href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/new-england-water-science-center\" data-mce-href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/new-england-water-science-center\">New England Water Science Center</a><br>U.S. Geological Survey<br>10 Bearfoot Rd.<br>Northborough, Massachusetts 01532</p><p><a href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/contact\" data-mce-href=\"../contact\">Contact Pubs Warehouse</a></p>","tableOfContents":"<ul><li>Acknowledgments</li><li>Abstract</li><li>Plain Language Summary</li><li>Introduction</li><li>Methods</li><li>Results</li><li>Discussion</li><li>Limitations</li><li>Conclusions</li><li>References Cited</li></ul>","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":11,"text":"Pembroke PSC"},"publishedDate":"2026-02-26","noUsgsAuthors":false,"plainLanguageSummary":"<p>The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Park Service, has developed multiple datasets that can help natural resource managers identify stream reaches with the highest potential for erosion and stream crossings most vulnerable to flood damage within Acadia National Park. 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,{"id":70276901,"text":"70276901 - 2026 - Ground-motion aleatory-variability models for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-06-25T14:22:44.72077","indexId":"70276901","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-26T09:19:30","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1436,"text":"Earthquake Spectra","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Ground-motion aleatory-variability models for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands","docAbstract":"<p><span>I develop independent logic trees for aleatory variability for crustal and subduction-zone (interface and intraslab) earthquakes for seismic hazards analyses in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (PRVI) from existing suites of ground-motion models (GMMs) and from ground-motion datasets, including a regional PRVI dataset. The aleatory variability models are parameterized using a partially nonergodic partitioning of standard deviation that consists of independently developed between-event (</span><img class=\"fallback__image\" src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/3b22c42a-e0a3-4b18-990a-c1fa3535f1d1/esp470037-math-0001.png\" alt=\"mathematical equation\" data-mce-src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/3b22c42a-e0a3-4b18-990a-c1fa3535f1d1/esp470037-math-0001.png\"><span>), site-to-site (</span><img class=\"fallback__image\" src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/d2a563e8-375b-47b1-939d-2803dc79e49c/esp470037-math-0002.png\" alt=\"mathematical equation\" data-mce-src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/d2a563e8-375b-47b1-939d-2803dc79e49c/esp470037-math-0002.png\"><span>), and event-corrected single-station (</span><img class=\"fallback__image\" src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/5d0f8873-3325-44c5-ae73-02e8847faad9/esp470037-math-0003.png\" alt=\"mathematical equation\" data-mce-src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/5d0f8873-3325-44c5-ae73-02e8847faad9/esp470037-math-0003.png\"><span>) standard deviation components. The effects of nonlinear site response on aleatory variability are incorporated through additional terms that modify the standard deviation components. Because one goal of this work is to develop independent logic trees for aleatory variability that synthesize the aleatory variability models from GMMs, I make use of the functional forms of the input GMMs. The PRVI dataset contains a limited number of stations with high-quality site metadata and does not contain records from earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 6.1, so I choose not to develop the aleatory variability models from the regional dataset alone. Instead, the standard deviation components from regional ground-motion data are evaluated against the components derived from GMMs and from available global datasets, and regionalized standard deviation components are incorporated where there is evidence that regional effects exhibit substantial differences. The resulting logic trees for aleatory variability consist of models of&nbsp;</span><img class=\"fallback__image\" src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/235b5727-f1b5-4c4d-90f8-b8aedc82be5f/esp470037-math-0004.png\" alt=\"mathematical equation\" data-mce-src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/235b5727-f1b5-4c4d-90f8-b8aedc82be5f/esp470037-math-0004.png\"><span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><img class=\"fallback__image\" src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/e2e8fa21-de22-496c-9e69-82f30a676fed/esp470037-math-0005.png\" alt=\"mathematical equation\" data-mce-src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/e2e8fa21-de22-496c-9e69-82f30a676fed/esp470037-math-0005.png\"><span>&nbsp;that are consistent with semiempirical GMMs for active crustal and subduction-zone regimes, and two alternative models of&nbsp;</span><img class=\"fallback__image\" src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/9dd8be25-88d1-47d9-8c99-6c6077e61a8f/esp470037-math-0006.png\" alt=\"mathematical equation\" data-mce-src=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/9dd8be25-88d1-47d9-8c99-6c6077e61a8f/esp470037-math-0006.png\"><span>, including one model that exhibits site-to-site variability informed by PRVI data, with values that exceed global models. The aleatory variability models may be considered in future hazards assessments in PRVI to simplify the hazard calculations, to incorporate regional ground-motion variability effects, and to enable direct logic-tree weighs of aleatory variability.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Wiley","doi":"10.1002/esp4.70037","usgsCitation":"Moschetti, M.P., 2026, Ground-motion aleatory-variability models for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands: Earthquake Spectra, v. 42, no. 1, e70037, 27 p., https://doi.org/10.1002/esp4.70037.","productDescription":"e70037, 27 p.","ipdsId":"IP-177205","costCenters":[{"id":78686,"text":"Geologic Hazards Science Center - Seismology / Geomagnetism","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":506093,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/esp4.70037","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":505902,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","otherGeospatial":"Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -64.8911748,\n              17.6691138\n            ],\n            [\n              -64.4804039,\n              17.690351\n            ],\n            [\n              -64.6364332,\n              18.3293081\n            ],\n            [\n              -64.728777,\n              18.395795\n            ],\n            [\n              -65.012177,\n              18.4380916\n            ],\n            [\n              -67.2061391,\n              18.5619\n            ],\n            [\n              -67.9703596,\n              18.1145598\n            ],\n            [\n              -67.9703596,\n              18.0328267\n            ],\n            [\n              -66.878155,\n              17.8692467\n            ],\n            [\n              -65.7604762,\n              17.89046\n            ],\n            [\n              -64.8911748,\n              17.6691138\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"42","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Moschetti, Morgan P. 0000-0001-7261-0295 mmoschetti@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7261-0295","contributorId":1662,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Moschetti","given":"Morgan","email":"mmoschetti@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"P.","affiliations":[{"id":300,"text":"Geologic Hazards Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":963634,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
,{"id":70276529,"text":"70276529 - 2026 - A tool for prioritizing gravel augmentation reaches for sediment starved rivers","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-06-09T15:50:50.079238","indexId":"70276529","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-26T08:44:07","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3301,"text":"River Research and Applications","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"A tool for prioritizing gravel augmentation reaches for sediment starved rivers","docAbstract":"<p><span id=\"_mce_caret\" data-mce-bogus=\"1\" data-mce-type=\"format-caret\"><span>Gravel augmentation is a widely used restoration technique used to improve habitat below dams, including salmonids spawning habitat. However, gravel augmentation can be cost-prohibitive, and it is often unclear which stream segments have the highest potential to benefit spawning salmonids. A tool to help prioritize reaches for gravel restoration could aid managers in making good decisions. To address this need, we convened a group of fishery managers to create Intrinsic Potential (IP) habitat models. We used stream attributes related to salmonid spawning habitat: elevation, width, and gradient from the synthetic stream channel dataset NetMap. We then used the IP models to develop an easy-to-use and flexible tool for identifying high spring-run Chinook Salmon (</span><i>Oncorhynchus tshawytscha</i><span>) IP along ~100 m reaches based on a conceptual model developed by the fishery managers. The tool allows for the inclusion of winter steelhead (</span><i>O. mykiss</i><span>) IP spawning habitat and allows users to incorporate mean August stream temperature maxima under recent conditions and projected under future climate change, land ownership (public or private or both), reach access distance, distance to and type of gravel sources, and relative gravel movement potential. We explore the prioritization tool with three demonstration strategies for the Upper Rogue River basin, Oregon, USA: (1) Spring Chinook Salmon Strategy, (2) Co-occurrence with winter steelhead Strategy, and (3) Climate Change Strategy. Our analysis demonstrates that altering management priorities directly influences which stream reaches are identified for gravel augmentation. In the three strategies we compared, a small number of current conservation reaches located downstream of spring Chinook Salmon spawning were identified using the tool. In addition, we identified a small number of reaches with no conservation strategy for winter steelhead spawning that meet prioritization criteria. Furthermore, under a climate change scenario, we highlight how new gravel source permitting could expand the set of viable augmentation reaches. 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,{"id":70275654,"text":"70275654 - 2026 - Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots C. c. rufa at the Delaware Bay, USA, 2025","interactions":[{"subject":{"id":70275654,"text":"70275654 - 2026 - Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots C. c. rufa at the Delaware Bay, USA, 2025","indexId":"70275654","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"displayTitle":"Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots <i>C. c. rufa</i> at the Delaware Bay, USA, 2025","title":"Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots C. c. rufa at the Delaware Bay, USA, 2025"},"predicate":"SUPERSEDED_BY","object":{"id":70275649,"text":"70275649 - 2026 - Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots C. c. rufa at Delaware Bay, USA, 2025","indexId":"70275649","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"title":"Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots C. c. rufa at Delaware Bay, USA, 2025"},"id":1}],"supersededBy":{"id":70275649,"text":"70275649 - 2026 - Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots C. c. rufa at Delaware Bay, USA, 2025","indexId":"70275649","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"title":"Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots C. c. rufa at Delaware Bay, USA, 2025"},"lastModifiedDate":"2026-05-07T15:38:45.695517","indexId":"70275654","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-26T08:38:17","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":27,"text":"Preprint"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":32,"text":"Preprint"},"seriesTitle":{"id":19846,"text":"BioRxiv","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":32}},"displayTitle":"Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots <i>C. c. rufa</i> at the Delaware Bay, USA, 2025","title":"Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots C. c. rufa at the Delaware Bay, USA, 2025","docAbstract":"<p><span>Red Knots (</span><i>Calidris canutus rufa</i><span>) rely on Atlantic horseshoe crab (</span><i>Limulus polyphemus</i><span>) eggs in the Delaware Bay to refuel during northward migration. Intensive harvest of horseshoe crabs in the 1990s contributed to declines in Red Knot numbers. In 2013, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission adopted an Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) framework to balance sustainable horseshoe crab harvest with ecosystem integrity and Red Knot recovery, requiring annual stopover population estimates. We estimated the 2025 passage population of Red Knots at Delaware Bay using a Bayesian analysis of a Jolly–Seber mark–resight model which accounts for population turnover and imperfect detection. We also evaluated change in migration timing between 2011 and 2025 with model-derived estimates of arrival at the Delaware Bay each year. The 2025 passage population was 54,043 individuals (95% credible interval: 47,926–61,928), an increase of approximately 17% over 2024 and only the second year since 2011 to exceed 50,000 individuals. Despite the increase, overlapping credible intervals across years indicate a stable stopover population. Migration timing has remained consistent, with 50% of the population typically arriving by 18 May and no evidence of advancement since 2011. These findings provide meaningful input for the ARM framework, supporting sustainable harvest of horseshoe crabs while maintaining adequate foraging opportunities for Red Knots and other shorebirds.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"BioRxiv","doi":"10.64898/2026.02.25.708011","usgsCitation":"Lyons, J., 2026, Stopover population estimate and migration ecology of Red Knots C. c. rufa at the Delaware Bay, USA, 2025: BioRxiv, preprint posted February 26, 2026, https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.25.708011.","productDescription":"19 p.","ipdsId":"IP-185336","costCenters":[{"id":50464,"text":"Eastern Ecological Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":504221,"rank":2,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.25.708011","text":"External Repository"},{"id":504081,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Lyons, James E. 0000-0002-9810-8751","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9810-8751","contributorId":228916,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lyons","given":"James E.","affiliations":[{"id":531,"text":"Patuxent Wildlife Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":961319,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
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,{"id":70275084,"text":"70275084 - 2026 - Towards global mapping of dynamic surface water extents using Sentinel-1 SAR data","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-04-15T15:02:05.992722","indexId":"70275084","displayToPublicDate":"2026-02-26T07:54:26","publicationYear":"2026","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3254,"text":"Remote Sensing of Environment","printIssn":"0034-4257","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Towards global mapping of dynamic surface water extents using Sentinel-1 SAR data","docAbstract":"<div id=\"sp0095\" class=\"u-margin-s-bottom\">We introduce a fully automated and scalable method for mapping surface water extents from single-acquisition Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. This approach integrates adaptive thresholding of radiometric terrain-corrected SAR backscatter data, fuzzy-logic classification, region growing, dark land estimation, and a bimodality test to minimize false positives in low-backscattering areas and false negatives in high-backscattering areas. By combining these steps, the algorithm achieves classification accuracies exceeding 85% in detecting surface water extents across diverse environmental conditions.</div><div class=\"u-margin-s-bottom\"><br data-mce-bogus=\"1\"></div><div id=\"sp0100\" class=\"u-margin-s-bottom\">Accuracy was first assessed at meter scale using 52 PlanetScope scenes acquired worldwide in September–October 2019; the algorithm achieved 93% overall accuracy, 86% user's accuracy, and 94% producer's accuracy. Global robustness was then evaluated by processing every Sentinel-1 acquisition from 1 to 12 November 2023 and cross-comparing the resulting maps with 6561 temporally matched observational products for end-users from remote sensing analysis (OPERA) dynamic surface water extent from Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (DSWx-HLS) products. This large-scale test yielded 90% user's and 94% producer's accuracies, confirming reliable performance at continental extent.</div><p><span>Additional case studies demonstrate the algorithm's ability to handle surface water extent in sand-dominated deserts, to track seasonal amplitude in Folsom Lake (California), drought-induced loss in Cerro&nbsp;Prieto Reservoir (Mexico), and rapid filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. These results show that the method scales across local to global domains and maintains high accuracy, providing a practical tool for near-real-time monitoring of floods, droughts, and water-resource management. 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The regression equations allow estimates of mean annual maximum, mean annual, mean seasonal, and mean monthly streamflows; frequency statistics for the 7-day mean low flows with 2-year and 10-year recurrence intervals, 14- and 30-day mean low flows with 5-year recurrence intervals, and 60- and 1-day mean high flow with 2-year and 5-year recurrence intervals, respectively; and the 0.1-, 0.2-, 0.5-, 1-, 2-, 4-, 5-, 10-, 20-, 25-, 30-, 50-, 60-, 70-, 75-, 80-, 90-, 95-, 98-, and 99-percent durations for annual streamflows and 0.1-, 0.5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-, 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-, 70-, 75-, 80-, 85-, 90-, 95-, and 99-percent durations for monthly streamflows for most months for ungaged locations in Wyoming that are largely unaltered by diversions or upstream reservoirs.</p><p>Regression equations were developed for 243 streamflow statistics. Best-subset selection was used to assess explanatory variables for respective streamflow statistics. Exploratory data analyses determined that, of the 81 basin characteristics evaluated as potential explanatory variables, characteristics such as drainage area and precipitation often produced models with the highest adjusted coefficient of determination and lowest mean squared error, as determined in the best-subset selection. To address heteroskedasticity of model residuals, model variables were regionalized using fixed-effects models; the percentages of the streamgage basins in selected ecoregions were defined as interaction terms, which represent the model slope for specific ecoregions. Most models were determined to be statistically significant for probability values less than or equal to 0.1 for one or more regional explanatory variables. 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Pseudo coefficient of determination (pseudo-<i>R</i><sup>2</sup>) values for regression equations ranged from 0.481 to 0.995 for all regions and AEPs. Performance metrics and diagnostic plots indicated that equations for 11 of the 12 regions showed generally good performance, with pseudo-<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> values ranging from 0.762 to 0.968 for the 0.01 AEP.</p><p>The overall average change in at-site 0.01 AEP annual peak streamflows at individual streamgages was 0.5 percent compared to the most recent 2011 Virginia study and 2.3 percent compared to the most recent 2010 West Virginia study. Changes from the previous studies for estimates from regional equations for the 0.01 AEP, solved specifically for a 50 mi<sup>2</sup> basin, ranged from a 30 percent increase to a 45 percent decrease in areas where the previous regions overlapped with the current regions by 750 mi<sup>2</sup> or more.</p><p>New regional skews were developed using Bayesian weighted least-squares/Bayesian generalized least-squares regression for two skew regions that included the study area. A constant regional skew of 0.50 was computed for streams in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland that drain to the Atlantic Ocean. A constant regional skew of 0.048 was computed for streams that drain to the Gulf of America, including streams in Kentucky and Tennessee, most of West Virginia, far southwestern Virginia, and part of western Maryland.</p><p>About 12 percent of the 418 streamgages with 30 or more gaged peaks had statistically significant (p-value [significance level] less than or equal to 0.05) trends, with 40 of these exhibiting positive trends and 11 exhibiting negative trends. Streamgages with 30 percent or greater development were excluded from regression analyses.</p><p>A regulation index was developed that accounted for storage and drainage area of dams and drainage area at the streamgage; a value of 0.0040 or more for the regulation index indicates regulated peak streamflow. Frequency analyses were done at 86 streamgages on regulated streams.</p><p>Regression procedures developed in this study are applicable only to rural, unregulated streams within Virginia and West Virginia with drainage basins that (1) are within the range of drainage areas used to develop the equations for each region, (2) included less than 30 percent of developed area, and (3) had a regulation index less than 0.0040.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/sir20255110","isbn":"978-1-4113-4656-7","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the West Virginia Department of Transportation, and the Virginia Department of Transportation","usgsCitation":"Messinger, T., Duda, J.M., Wagner, D.M., O'Shea, P.S., Scott, J.D., and Kandel, C., 2026, Estimation of magnitude and frequency of floods for rural, unregulated streams in and near Virginia and West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2025–5110, 85 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20255110.","productDescription":"Report: vii, 85 p.; Data Release","numberOfPages":"85","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-169653","costCenters":[{"id":37280,"text":"Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center ","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":500658,"rank":7,"type":{"id":36,"text":"NGMDB Index Page"},"url":"https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_119273.htm","linkFileType":{"id":5,"text":"html"}},{"id":500179,"rank":6,"type":{"id":30,"text":"Data Release"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RBZ8OJ","text":"USGS data release","linkHelpText":"Data in support of estimation of magnitude and frequency of floods for rural, unregulated streams in and near Virginia and West Virginia"},{"id":500174,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2025/5110/coverthb.jpg"},{"id":500175,"rank":2,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2025/5110/sir20255110.pdf","size":"34.5 MB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"SIR 2025-5110 PDF"},{"id":500176,"rank":3,"type":{"id":39,"text":"HTML Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20255110/full","linkFileType":{"id":5,"text":"html"},"description":"SIR 2025-5110 HTML"},{"id":500177,"rank":4,"type":{"id":31,"text":"Publication XML"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2025/5110/sir20255110.XML","linkFileType":{"id":8,"text":"xml"},"description":"SIR 2025-5110 XML"},{"id":500178,"rank":5,"type":{"id":34,"text":"Image Folder"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2025/5110/images/"}],"country":"United States","state":"Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -84,\n              41\n            ],\n            [\n              -84,\n              35\n            ],\n            [\n              -75,\n              35\n            ],\n            [\n              -75,\n              41\n            ],\n            [\n              -84,\n              41\n            ]\n          ]\n        ],\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","contact":"<p><a href=\"mailto:dc_va@usgs.gov\" data-mce-href=\"mailto:dc_va@usgs.gov\">Director</a>, <a href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/virginia-and-west-virginia-water-science-center\" data-mce-href=\"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/virginia-and-west-virginia-water-science-center\">Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center</a><br>U.S. Geological Survey<br>1730 East Parham Road<br>Richmond, Virginia 23228</p>","tableOfContents":"<ul><li>Abstract</li><li>Introduction</li><li>Magnitude and Frequency of Floods at Streamgages</li><li>Development of Flood-Frequency Regression Equations</li><li>Changes in 0.01 AEP Streamflows Since Most Recent Studies</li><li>Guidelines for Estimating Flood-Frequency Streamflows</li><li>Summary</li><li>Acknowledgments</li><li>References Cited</li><li>Appendix 1. 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Factors internal to estuarine waters that also play a role as drivers are described including biogeochemical processes, physical forces such as winddriven mixing of the water column and increase in rainfall intensity and volume, and biological factors such as phytoplankton biomass and the presence of submersed aquatic vegetation. Continuing to track water quality response and investigating these influencing factors are important steps to understanding water quality patterns and changes in the Lower Eastern Shore. The intended audiences for this report include, but are not limited to, 1) technical managers within jurisdictions who use tidal water quality to inform management decisions, 2) local watershed organizations that are trying to understand these analyses and working to connect them to their local area(s), and 3) federal, state, and academic researchers. Figure 1 presents a conceptual model highlighting these intended audiences. 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We assessed decadal step trends in groundwater quality for 145 water-quality constituents and geochemical indicators statewide and across geographic and land-use based network groups. We evaluated the statistical significance of directional changes (predominant increase or decrease of constituent concentrations) and the magnitude of those changes across all network groups.</span><br><br><span>Uranium showed the most widespread directional and high-magnitude increases of all constituents with regulatory benchmarks statewide, particularly in the agriculture-dominated Central Valley as well as urban- and desert-dominated regions of Southern California. Fluoride and perchlorate showed the most widespread directional and high-magnitude decreases of all constituents with regulatory benchmarks statewide, which were also most pronounced in Southern California. Although arsenic and nitrate did not often register significant directional changes across network groups, they showed widespread, high-magnitude changes in both directions (increase and decrease) at levels often exceeding 10 percent of respective regulatory benchmarks statewide. Triazine herbicides (atrazine and simazine) and the gasoline oxygenate methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) showed significant directional decreases statewide, but not at levels considered to be of high magnitude compared to respective regulatory benchmarks.</span><br><br><span>We observed significant directional and high-magnitude increases of total dissolved solids (TDS) statewide, which were most pronounced in agricultural areas. Analysis of explanatory geochemical indicators indicated that prevalent statewide increases of alkalinity and calcium were the predominant components of the observed statewide increases in TDS by mass. Widespread increases in groundwater alkalinity and calcium across agricultural and urban areas may be related, in part, to warm-season irrigation and other anthropogenic factors that have shifted soil weathering dynamics over the long term. Increasing alkalinity concentrations were related to increasing uranium concentrations, particularly in areas with aquifer materials derived from granitic rocks. Conversely, increasing calcium concentrations were related to decreasing fluoride concentrations, particularly in areas where fluoride occurred naturally at elevated concentrations. Decrease of perchlorate, triazine herbicides, and MTBE are likely related to decreased anthropogenic source inputs over time and natural attenuation in aquifers.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"EarthArXiv","doi":"10.31223/X5WR02","collaboration":"California State Water Resources Control Board","usgsCitation":"Levy, Z., and Soldavini, A., 2026, Decadal trends in the quality of groundwater used for public drinking-water supply in California, 2004–2023, California groundwater ambient monitoring and assessment program, priority basin project, preprint posted February 25, 2026, https://doi.org/10.31223/X5WR02.","productDescription":"141 p.","ipdsId":"IP-183415","costCenters":[{"id":154,"text":"California Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":500753,"rank":0,"type":{"id":30,"text":"Data Release"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.5066/P137ZTJE","text":"USGS data release","linkHelpText":"Data for Analysis of Decadal Trends in the Quality of Groundwater Used for Public Drinking-Water Supply in California, 2004-2023, California GAMA Priority Basin Project"},{"id":500552,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Levy, Zeno F. 0000-0003-4580-2309","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4580-2309","contributorId":222340,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Levy","given":"Zeno","middleInitial":"F.","affiliations":[{"id":154,"text":"California Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":956616,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Soldavini, Andrew Lee 0000-0001-5980-3009","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5980-3009","contributorId":291802,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Soldavini","given":"Andrew Lee","affiliations":[{"id":154,"text":"California Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":956617,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}}
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