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The ADVM can account for wind, seiche, and changing flow direction in hydrologically complex areas. The objectives were to (1) estimate discharge and document the direction of water flow, (2) assess whether specific conductance can be used to determine flow direction, and (3) document nutrient and chlorophyll&nbsp;</span><i>a</i><span>&nbsp;concentrations at the narrows. The discharge direction through the narrows was seasonal. Water generally flowed out of Kabetogama Lake and into Namakan Lake throughout the ice-covered season. During spring, water flow was generally from Namakan Lake to Kabetogama Lake. During the summer and fall, the water flowed in both directions, affected in part by wind. Water flowed into Namakan Lake 70% of water year 2011 and 56% of water year 2012. Nutrient and chlorophyll&nbsp;</span><i>a</i><span>&nbsp;concentrations were highest during the summer months when water-flow direction was unpredictable. The use of an ADVM was effective for assessing flow direction and provided flow direction under ice. The results indicated the eutrophic Kabetogama Lake may have a negative effect on the more pristine Namakan Lake. 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,{"id":70173701,"text":"70173701 - 2016 - Monitoring the status of Gray Bats (Myotis grisescens in Virginia, 2009-2014, and potential impacts of White-nose Syndrome","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2026-02-05T16:28:37.501902","indexId":"70173701","displayToPublicDate":"2016-06-07T14:00:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3444,"text":"Southeastern Naturalist","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"displayTitle":"Monitoring the status of Gray Bats (<i>Myotis grisescens</i>) in Virginia, 2009-2014, and potential impacts of White-nose Syndrome","title":"Monitoring the status of Gray Bats (Myotis grisescens in Virginia, 2009-2014, and potential impacts of White-nose Syndrome","docAbstract":"<p><i>Myotis grisescens</i><span>&nbsp;(Gray Bat) is a federally endangered species distributed over the mid-South with a summer range that extends across the upper Tennessee River Basin, including southwest Virginia. Given the onset of White-nose Syndrome (WNS) in the Commonwealth in the winter of 2009, we initiated yearly surveys in late summer 2009 to monitor the status of known summer populations. Our objectives were to examine the relative health of these bats using body mass index (BMI), and determine any changes in juvenile recruitment across sites and years. We did not find any marked changes in BMI across years after WNS for Gray Bats. This finding suggests that surviving bats are either not negatively impacted by WNS or have recovered sufficiently by late summer as to not document obvious differences across years. After limiting our analyses of juvenile recruitment to only the individuals that we had definitively aged via backlit photos (2010&ndash;2014), we found a non-significant declining trend in juvenile recruitment; a trend that merits continued monitoring in the years to come. As Gray Bats have only recently shown to be susceptible to WNS infection, it is possible that observable population declines are forthcoming.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Eagle Hill Institute","doi":"10.1656/058.015.0114","usgsCitation":"Powers, K.E., Reynolds, R., Orndorff, W., Hyzy, B.A., Hobson, C.S., and Ford, W.M., 2016, Monitoring the status of Gray Bats (Myotis grisescens in Virginia, 2009-2014, and potential impacts of White-nose Syndrome: Southeastern Naturalist, v. 15, no. 1, p. 127-137, https://doi.org/10.1656/058.015.0114.","productDescription":"11 p.","startPage":"127","endPage":"137","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-068509","costCenters":[{"id":199,"text":"Coop Res Unit Leetown","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":474,"text":"New York Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":503819,"rank":2,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/VVDV64GP","text":"External Repository"},{"id":323108,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Virginia","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -80.74951171875,\n              37.37015718405753\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.7440185546875,\n              36.54936246839778\n            ],\n            [\n              -83.69384765625,\n              36.5978891330702\n            ],\n            [\n              -83.12255859375,\n              36.74328605437939\n            ],\n            [\n              -82.71881103515625,\n              37.125286284966805\n            ],\n            [\n              -82.33428955078125,\n              37.28497995025375\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.97174072265625,\n              37.53804390907164\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.74652099609375,\n              37.276238364942955\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.595458984375,\n              37.204081555898526\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.34552001953125,\n              37.34177550214858\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.21917724609375,\n              37.23907530202184\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.92529296875,\n              37.31338308990806\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.85937499999999,\n              37.42252593456307\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.74951171875,\n              37.37015718405753\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"15","issue":"1","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":9,"text":"Reston PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5757e220e4b04f417c2426aa","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Powers, Karen E.","contributorId":171456,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Powers","given":"Karen","email":"","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":637535,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Reynolds, Richard J.","contributorId":343165,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Reynolds","given":"Richard J.","affiliations":[{"id":56188,"text":"Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":637536,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Orndorff, Wil","contributorId":127487,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Orndorff","given":"Wil","affiliations":[{"id":6970,"text":"Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Natural Heritage Program","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":637537,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Hyzy, Brenna A.","contributorId":171457,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Hyzy","given":"Brenna","email":"","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":637538,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Hobson, Christopher S.","contributorId":171458,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Hobson","given":"Christopher","email":"","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":637539,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Ford, W. 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,{"id":70173702,"text":"70173702 - 2016 - Seeing the forest through the trees: Considering roost-site selection at multiple spatial scales","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-06-07T12:52:20","indexId":"70173702","displayToPublicDate":"2016-06-07T13:45:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2980,"text":"PLoS ONE","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Seeing the forest through the trees: Considering roost-site selection at multiple spatial scales","docAbstract":"<p><span>Conservation of bat species is one of the most daunting wildlife conservation challenges in North America, requiring detailed knowledge about their ecology to guide conservation efforts. Outside of the hibernating season, bats in temperate forest environments spend their diurnal time in day-roosts. In addition to simple shelter, summer roost availability is as critical as maternity sites and maintaining social group contact. To date, a major focus of bat conservation has concentrated on conserving individual roost sites, with comparatively less focus on the role that broader habitat conditions contribute towards roost-site selection. We evaluated roost-site selection by a northern population of federally-endangered Indiana bats (</span><i>Myotis sodalis</i><span>) at Fort Drum Military Installation in New York, USA at three different spatial scales: landscape, forest stand, and individual tree level. During 2007&ndash;2011, we radiotracked 33 Indiana bats (10 males, 23 females) and located 348 roosting events in 116 unique roost trees. At the landscape scale, bat roost-site selection was positively associated with northern mixed forest, increased slope, and greater distance from human development. At the stand scale, we observed subtle differences in roost site selection based on sex and season, but roost selection was generally positively associated with larger stands with a higher basal area, larger tree diameter, and a greater sugar maple (</span><i>Acer saccharum</i><span>) component. We observed no distinct trends of roosts being near high-quality foraging areas of water and forest edges. At the tree scale, roosts were typically in American elm (</span><i>Ulmus americana</i><span>) or sugar maple of large diameter (&gt;30 cm) of moderate decay with loose bark. Collectively, our results highlight the importance of considering day roost needs simultaneously across multiple spatial scales. Size and decay class of individual roosts are key ecological attributes for the Indiana bat, however, larger-scale stand structural components that are products of past and current land use interacting with environmental aspects such as landform also are important factors influencing roost-tree selection patterns.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"PLoS","doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0150011","usgsCitation":"Jachowski, D.S., Rota, C., Dobony, C.A., Ford, W.M., and Edwards, J.W., 2016, Seeing the forest through the trees: Considering roost-site selection at multiple spatial scales: PLoS ONE, v. 11, no. 3, e0150011; 19 p., https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150011.","productDescription":"e0150011; 19 p.","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-064338","costCenters":[{"id":199,"text":"Coop Res Unit Leetown","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":470905,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150011","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":323107,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"11","issue":"3","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":9,"text":"Reston PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2016-03-30","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5757e220e4b04f417c2426b0","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Jachowski, David S.","contributorId":82966,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Jachowski","given":"David","email":"","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":637531,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Rota, Christopher T.","contributorId":92547,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Rota","given":"Christopher T.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":637532,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Dobony, Christopher A.","contributorId":171455,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Dobony","given":"Christopher","email":"","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":637533,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Ford, W. Mark wford@usgs.gov","contributorId":169828,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Ford","given":"W.","email":"wford@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"Mark","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":637528,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Edwards, John W.","contributorId":169827,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Edwards","given":"John","email":"","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":637534,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5}]}}
,{"id":70173634,"text":"70173634 - 2016 - Efficiency of two-way weirs and prepositioned electrofishing for sampling potamodromous fish migrations","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-06-07T11:45:11","indexId":"70173634","displayToPublicDate":"2016-06-07T12:45:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2886,"text":"North American Journal of Fisheries Management","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Efficiency of two-way weirs and prepositioned electrofishing for sampling potamodromous fish migrations","docAbstract":"<p><span>Potamodromy (i.e., migration entirely in freshwater) is a common life history strategy of North American lotic fishes, and efficient sampling methods for potamodromous fishes are needed to formulate conservation and management decisions. Many potamodromous fishes inhabit medium-sized rivers and are mobile during spawning migrations, which complicates sampling with conventional gears (e.g., nets and electrofishing). We compared the efficiency of a passive migration technique (resistance board weirs) and an active technique (prepositioned areal electrofishers; [PAEs]) for sampling migrating potamodromous fishes in Valley River, a southern Appalachian Mountain river, from March through July 2006 and 2007. A total of 35 fish species from 10 families were collected, 32 species by PAE and 19 species by weir. Species richness and diversity were higher for PAE catch, and species dominance (i.e., proportion of assemblage composed of the three most abundant species) was higher for weir catch. Prepositioned areal electrofisher catch by number was considerably higher than weir catch, but biomass was lower for PAE catch. Weir catch decreased following the spawning migration, while PAEs continued to collect fish. Sampling bias associated with water velocity was detected for PAEs, but not weirs, and neither gear demonstrated depth bias in wadeable reaches. Mean fish mortality from PAEs was five times greater than that from weirs. Catch efficiency and composition comparisons indicated that weirs were effective at documenting migration chronology, sampling nocturnal migration, and yielding samples unbiased by water velocity or habitat, with low mortality. Prepositioned areal electrofishers are an appropriate sampling technique for seasonal fish occupancy objectives, while weirs are more suitable for quantitatively describing spawning migrations. Our comparative results may guide fisheries scientists in selecting an appropriate sampling gear and regime for research, monitoring, conservation, and management of potamodromous fishes.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"American Fisheries Society","doi":"10.1080/02755947.2015.1114537","usgsCitation":"Favrot, S.D., and Kwak, T.J., 2016, Efficiency of two-way weirs and prepositioned electrofishing for sampling potamodromous fish migrations: North American Journal of Fisheries Management, v. 36, no. 1, p. 167-182, https://doi.org/10.1080/02755947.2015.1114537.","productDescription":"16 p.","startPage":"167","endPage":"182","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-055612","costCenters":[{"id":198,"text":"Coop Res Unit Atlanta","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":323100,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"36","issue":"1","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":8,"text":"Raleigh PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2016-02-02","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5757e21ee4b04f417c242697","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Favrot, Scott D.","contributorId":171445,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Favrot","given":"Scott","email":"","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":637490,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Kwak, Thomas J. 0000-0002-0616-137X tkwak@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0616-137X","contributorId":834,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Kwak","given":"Thomas","email":"tkwak@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":198,"text":"Coop Res Unit Atlanta","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":637427,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}}
,{"id":70170488,"text":"sir20165043 - 2016 - Flood-Inundation Maps for Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville, Indiana","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-06-08T10:45:32","indexId":"sir20165043","displayToPublicDate":"2016-06-06T15:30:00","publicationYear":"2016","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":"2016-5043","title":"Flood-Inundation Maps for Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville, Indiana","docAbstract":"<p>Digital flood-inundation maps for a 6.5-mile reach of Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville, Indiana, were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs. The flood-inundation maps, which can be accessed through the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Science Web site at <a href=\"http://water.usgs.gov/osw/flood_inundation/\" data-mce-href=\"http://water.usgs.gov/osw/flood_inundation/\">http://water.usgs.gov/osw/flood_inundation/</a>, depict estimates of the areal extent and depth of flooding corresponding to selected water levels (stages) at the USGS streamgage 03339500, Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville, Ind. Near-real-time stages at this streamgage may be obtained on the Internet from the USGS National Water Information System at <a href=\"http://waterdata.usgs.gov/\" data-mce-href=\"http://waterdata.usgs.gov/\">http://waterdata.usgs.gov/</a> or the National Weather Service (NWS) Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service at <a href=\"http://water.weather.gov/ahps/\" data-mce-href=\"http://water.weather.gov/ahps/\">http://water.weather.gov/ahps/</a>, which also forecasts flood hydrographs at this site (NWS site CRWI3).</p><p>Flood profiles were computed for the USGS streamgage 03339500, Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville, Ind., reach by means of a one-dimensional step-backwater hydraulic modeling software developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The hydraulic model was calibrated using the current stage-discharge rating at the USGS streamgage 03339500, Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville, Ind., and high-water marks from the flood of April 19, 2013, which reached a stage of 15.3 feet. The hydraulic model was then used to compute 13 water-surface profiles for flood stages at 1-foot (ft) intervals referenced to the streamgage datum ranging from 4.0 ft (the NWS “action stage”) to 16.0 ft, which is the highest stage interval of the current USGS stage-discharge rating curve and 2 ft higher than the NWS “major flood stage.” The simulated water-surface profiles were then combined with a Geographic Information System digital elevation model (derived from light detection and ranging [lidar]) data having a 0.49-ft root mean squared error and 4.9-ft horizontal resolution) to delineate the area flooded at each stage.</p><p>The availability of these maps, along with Internet information regarding current stage from the USGS streamgage and forecasted high-flow stages from the NWS, will provide emergency management personnel and residents with information that is critical for flood response activities such as evacuations and road closures, as well as for post-flood recovery efforts.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/sir20165043","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs","usgsCitation":"Martin, Z.W., 2016, Flood-inundation maps for Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville, Indiana: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016–5043, 11 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sir20165043.","productDescription":"Report: vi, 11 p.; 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,{"id":70171306,"text":"70171306 - 2016 - Insights into methane dynamics from analysis of authigenic carbonates and chemosynthetic mussels at newly-discovered Atlantic Margin seeps","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-07-07T10:02:39","indexId":"70171306","displayToPublicDate":"2016-06-03T07:45:00","publicationYear":"2016","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1427,"text":"Earth and Planetary Science Letters","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Insights into methane dynamics from analysis of authigenic carbonates and chemosynthetic mussels at newly-discovered Atlantic Margin seeps","docAbstract":"<p><span>The recent discovery of active methane venting along the US northern and mid-Atlantic margin represents a new source of global methane not previously accounted for in carbon budgets from this region. However, uncertainty remains as to the origin and history of methane seepage along this tectonically inactive passive margin. Here we present the first isotopic analyses of authigenic carbonates and methanotrophic deep-sea mussels,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span><i>Bathymodiolus &nbsp;</i><span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>sp., and the first direct constraints on the timing of past methane emission, based on samples collected at the upper slope Baltimore Canyon (&sim;385 m water depth) and deepwater Norfolk (&sim;1600 m) seep fields within the area of newly-discovered venting. The authigenic carbonates at both sites were dominated by aragonite, with an average<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span><span id=\"mmlsi1\" class=\"mathmlsrc\"><a class=\"mathImg\" title=\"View the MathML source\" data-mathurl=\"/science?_ob=MathURL&amp;_method=retrieve&amp;_eid=1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400&amp;_mathId=si1.gif&amp;_user=111111111&amp;_pii=S0012821X16302400&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_issn=0012821X&amp;md5=e4af81721271906e1d56932247b0631a\"><img class=\"imgLazyJSB inlineImage\" title=\"View the MathML source\" src=\"http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400-si1.gif\" alt=\"View the MathML source\" width=\"29\" height=\"13\" data-inlimgeid=\"1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400-si1.gif\" data-loaded=\"true\" /></a></span><span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>signature of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span><span id=\"mmlsi2\" class=\"mathmlsrc\"><span class=\"formulatext stixSupport mathImg\" title=\"Click to view the MathML source\" data-mathurl=\"/science?_ob=MathURL&amp;_method=retrieve&amp;_eid=1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400&amp;_mathId=si2.gif&amp;_user=111111111&amp;_pii=S0012821X16302400&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_issn=0012821X&amp;md5=712ebbd3a609aac7d57c411e11886f7b\">&minus;47&permil;</span></span><span>, a value consistent with microbially driven anaerobic oxidation of methane-rich fluids occurring at or near the sediment&ndash;water interface. Authigenic carbonate U and Sr isotope data further support the inference of carbonate precipitation from seawater-derived fluids rather than from formation fluids from deep aquifers. Carbonate stable and radiocarbon (</span><span id=\"mmlsi1\" class=\"mathmlsrc\"><a class=\"mathImg\" title=\"View the MathML source\" data-mathurl=\"/science?_ob=MathURL&amp;_method=retrieve&amp;_eid=1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400&amp;_mathId=si1.gif&amp;_user=111111111&amp;_pii=S0012821X16302400&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_issn=0012821X&amp;md5=e4af81721271906e1d56932247b0631a\"><img class=\"imgLazyJSB inlineImage\" title=\"View the MathML source\" src=\"http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400-si1.gif\" alt=\"View the MathML source\" width=\"29\" height=\"13\" data-inlimgeid=\"1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400-si1.gif\" data-loaded=\"true\" /></a></span><span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span><span id=\"mmlsi4\" class=\"mathmlsrc\"><a class=\"mathImg\" title=\"View the MathML source\" data-mathurl=\"/science?_ob=MathURL&amp;_method=retrieve&amp;_eid=1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400&amp;_mathId=si4.gif&amp;_user=111111111&amp;_pii=S0012821X16302400&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_issn=0012821X&amp;md5=c59326a458cb002bf0129ad1c69ded4e\"><img class=\"imgLazyJSB inlineImage\" title=\"View the MathML source\" src=\"http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400-si4.gif\" alt=\"View the MathML source\" width=\"33\" height=\"13\" data-inlimgeid=\"1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400-si4.gif\" data-loaded=\"true\" /></a></span><span>) isotope values from living<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span><i>Bathymodiolus &nbsp;</i><span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>sp. specimens are lighter than those of seawater dissolved inorganic carbon, highlighting the influence of fossil carbon from methane on carbonate precipitation. U&ndash;Th dates on authigenic carbonates suggest seepage at Baltimore Canyon between<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span><span id=\"mmlsi5\" class=\"mathmlsrc\"><span class=\"formulatext stixSupport mathImg\" title=\"Click to view the MathML source\" data-mathurl=\"/science?_ob=MathURL&amp;_method=retrieve&amp;_eid=1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400&amp;_mathId=si5.gif&amp;_user=111111111&amp;_pii=S0012821X16302400&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_issn=0012821X&amp;md5=87ff9092112a48f72be84c37fcf1c19f\">14.7&plusmn;0.6&nbsp;ka</span></span><span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span><span id=\"mmlsi6\" class=\"mathmlsrc\"><span class=\"formulatext stixSupport mathImg\" title=\"Click to view the MathML source\" data-mathurl=\"/science?_ob=MathURL&amp;_method=retrieve&amp;_eid=1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400&amp;_mathId=si6.gif&amp;_user=111111111&amp;_pii=S0012821X16302400&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_issn=0012821X&amp;md5=29394fb7438735b2b6955bc24ea2e7f6\">15.7&plusmn;1.6&nbsp;ka</span></span><span>, and at the Norfolk seep field between<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span><span id=\"mmlsi114\" class=\"mathmlsrc\"><span class=\"formulatext stixSupport mathImg\" title=\"Click to view the MathML source\" data-mathurl=\"/science?_ob=MathURL&amp;_method=retrieve&amp;_eid=1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400&amp;_mathId=si114.gif&amp;_user=111111111&amp;_pii=S0012821X16302400&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_issn=0012821X&amp;md5=7d6150ecc589707a77e49048aa0b388c\">1.0&plusmn;0.7&nbsp;ka</span></span><span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></span><span id=\"mmlsi8\" class=\"mathmlsrc\"><span class=\"formulatext stixSupport mathImg\" title=\"Click to view the MathML source\" data-mathurl=\"/science?_ob=MathURL&amp;_method=retrieve&amp;_eid=1-s2.0-S0012821X16302400&amp;_mathId=si8.gif&amp;_user=111111111&amp;_pii=S0012821X16302400&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_issn=0012821X&amp;md5=be509822d85b96002e68d438d031e7dc\">3.3&plusmn;1.3&nbsp;ka</span></span><span>, providing constraint on the longevity of methane efflux at these sites. The age of the brecciated authigenic carbonates and the occurrence of pockmarks at the Baltimore Canyon upper slope could suggest a link between sediment delivery during Pleistocene sea-level lowstand, accumulation of pore fluid overpressure from sediment compaction, and release of overpressure through subsequent venting. Calculations show that the Baltimore Canyon site probably has not been within the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) in the past 20 ka, meaning that in-situ release of methane from dissociating gas hydrate cannot be sustaining the seep. We cannot rule out updip migration of methane from dissociation of gas hydrate that occurs farther down the slope as a source of the venting at Baltimore Canyon, but consider that the history of rapid sediment accumulation and overpressure may play a more important role in methane emissions at this site.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier BV","doi":"10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.023","usgsCitation":"Prouty, N.G., Sahy, D., Ruppel, C., Roark, E., Condon, D., Brooke, S., Ross, S., and Demopoulos, A.W., 2016, Insights into methane dynamics from analysis of authigenic carbonates and chemosynthetic mussels at newly-discovered Atlantic Margin seeps: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 449, p. 332-344, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.023.","productDescription":"13 p.","startPage":"332","endPage":"344","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-070389","costCenters":[{"id":520,"text":"Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":470913,"rank":2,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1398679","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":322142,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","otherGeospatial":"Baltimore Canyon seep fields, Norfolk seep fields","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -73,\n              36\n            ],\n            [\n              -73,\n              39\n            ],\n            [\n              -76,\n              39\n            ],\n            [\n              -76,\n              36\n            ],\n            [\n              -73,\n              36\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"449","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":14,"text":"Menlo Park PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"57529c1ae4b053f0edd0824c","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Prouty, Nancy G. 0000-0002-8922-0688 nprouty@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8922-0688","contributorId":3350,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Prouty","given":"Nancy","email":"nprouty@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"G.","affiliations":[{"id":520,"text":"Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":630511,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Sahy, Diana","contributorId":169649,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Sahy","given":"Diana","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":25567,"text":"British Geological Survey","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":630513,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Ruppel, Carolyn D. 0000-0003-2284-6632 cruppel@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2284-6632","contributorId":145770,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Ruppel","given":"Carolyn D.","email":"cruppel@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":678,"text":"Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":630519,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Roark, E. 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To reconstruct temporal patterns of early to late Holocene permafrost and thermokarst dynamics, site-specific palaeo-records are needed. Here we present a multi-proxy study of a 350-cm-long permafrost core from a drained lake basin on the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, revealing Lateglacial to&nbsp;Holocene thermokarst lake dynamics in a central location of Beringia. Use of radiocarbon dating, micropalaeontology (ostracods and testaceans), sedimentology (grain-size analyses, magnetic susceptibility, tephra analyses), geochemistry (total nitrogen and carbon, total organic carbon, &delta;<sup>13</sup>C<sub>org</sub>) and stable water isotopes (&delta;<sup>18</sup>O, &delta;D, d&nbsp;excess) of ground ice allowed the reconstruction of several distinct thermokarst lake phases. These include a pre-lacustrine environment at the base of the core characterized by the Devil Mountain Maar tephra (22&nbsp;800&plusmn;280&nbsp;cal. a BP, Unit A), which has vertically subsided in places due to subsequent development of a deep thermokarst lake that initiated around 11&nbsp;800&nbsp;cal. a BP (Unit B). At about 9000&nbsp;cal. a BP this lake transitioned from a stable depositional environment to a very dynamic lake system (Unit C) characterized by fluctuating lake levels, potentially intermediate wetland development, and expansion and erosion of shore deposits. Complete drainage of this lake occurred at 1060&nbsp;cal. a BP, including post-drainage sediment freezing from the top down to 154&nbsp;cm and gradual accumulation of terrestrial peat (Unit D), as well as uniform upward talik refreezing. This core-based reconstruction of multiple thermokarst lake generations since 11&nbsp;800&nbsp;cal. a BP improves our understanding of the temporal scales of thermokarst lake development from initiation to drainage, demonstrates complex landscape evolution in the ice-rich permafrost regions of Central Beringia during the Lateglacial and Holocene, and enhances our understanding of biogeochemical cycles in thermokarst-affected regions of the Arctic.</p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;</span></p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","language":"English","publisher":"John Wiley & Sons","doi":"10.1111/bor.12186","usgsCitation":"Lenz, J., Wetterich, S., Jones, B.M., Meyer, H., Bobrov, A., and Grosse, G., 2016, Evidence of multiple thermokarst lake generations from an 11800-year-old permafrost core on the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Boreas, v. 45, no. 4, p. 584-603, https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12186.","productDescription":"20 p.","startPage":"584","endPage":"603","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-071524","costCenters":[{"id":118,"text":"Alaska Science Center Geography","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":470912,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"text":"External Repository"},{"id":322153,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Alaska","otherGeospatial":"Cape Espenberg lowlands, Mama Rhonda, Seward Peninsula","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -164.4,\n              66.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -164.4,\n              66.6\n            ],\n            [\n              -164.5,\n              66.6\n            ],\n            [\n              -164.5,\n              66.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -164.4,\n              66.5\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"45","issue":"4","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":12,"text":"Tacoma PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"57529c1ae4b053f0edd08234","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Lenz, Josefine","contributorId":146181,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Lenz","given":"Josefine","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":12916,"text":"Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":631790,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Wetterich, Sebastian","contributorId":146186,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Wetterich","given":"Sebastian","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":12916,"text":"Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":631791,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Jones, Benjamin M. 0000-0002-1517-4711 bjones@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1517-4711","contributorId":2286,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Jones","given":"Benjamin","email":"bjones@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":118,"text":"Alaska Science Center Geography","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":114,"text":"Alaska Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":631789,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Meyer, Hanno","contributorId":170018,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Meyer","given":"Hanno","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":25654,"text":"AWI","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":631792,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Bobrov, Anatoly","contributorId":146184,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Bobrov","given":"Anatoly","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":16615,"text":"Moscow State University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":631793,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Grosse, Guido","contributorId":146182,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Grosse","given":"Guido","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":12916,"text":"Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":631794,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6}]}}
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To address this need, we present a combination of hydrometric and water stable isotopic observations in the wet Andean p&aacute;ramo ecosystem of the Zhurucay Ecohydrological Observatory (7.53 km2). The catchment is located in the Andes of south Ecuador between 3400 and 3900 m a.s.l. Water samples for stable isotopic analysis were collected during 2 years (May 2011 &ndash; May 2013), while rainfall and runoff measurements were continuously recorded since late 2010. The isotopic data reveal that Andosol soils predominantly situated on hillslopes drain laterally to Histosols (Andean p&aacute;ramo wetlands) mainly located at the valley bottom. Histosols, in turn, feed water to creeks and small rivers throughout the year, establishing hydrologic connectivity between wetlands and the drainage network. Runoff is primarily comprised of pre-event water stored in the Histosols, which is replenished by rainfall that infiltrates through the Andosols. Contributions from the mineral horizon and the top of the fractured bedrock are small and only seem to influence discharge in small catchments during low flow generation (non-exceedance flows &lt; Q35). Variations in source contributions are controlled by antecedent soil moisture, rainfall intensity, and duration of rainy periods. Saturated hydraulic conductivity of the soils, higher than the year-round low precipitation intensity, indicates that Hortonian overland flow rarely occurs during high intensity precipitation events. Deep groundwater contributions to discharge seem to be minimal. These results suggest that, in this high-elevation tropical ecosystem: 1) subsurface flow is a dominant hydrological process and 2) (Histosols) wetlands are the major source of stream runoff. Our study highlights that detailed isotopic characterization during short time periods provides valuable information about ecohydrological processes in regions where very few basins are gauged.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"Wiley","doi":"10.1002/hyp.10927","usgsCitation":"Mosquera, G.M., Celleri, R., Lazo, P.X., Vache, K.B., Perakis, S.S., and Crespo, P., 2016, Combined use of isotopic and hydrometric data to conceptualize ecohydrological processes in a high-elevation tropical ecosystem: Hydrological Processes, v. 30, no. 17, p. 2930-2947, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10927.","productDescription":"18 p.","startPage":"2930","endPage":"2947","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-069702","costCenters":[{"id":290,"text":"Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center","active":false,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":470917,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10927","text":"External 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A two-person U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) team was sent to Maine to conduct an intensity survey and document the damage. The only damage we observed was the failure of a chimney and plaster cracks in two buildings in East and North Waterboro, 6 kilometers (km) west of the epicenter. We photographed the damage and interviewed residents to determine the intensity distribution in the epicentral area. The damage and shaking reports are consistent with a maximum Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) of 5&ndash;6 for an area 1&ndash;8 km west of the epicenter, slightly higher than the maximum Community Decimal Intensity (CDI) of 5 determined by the USGS &ldquo;Did You Feel It?&rdquo; Web site. 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One well was completed in the Lower Floridan aquifer at a depth of 1,080 feet (ft) below land surface; the other well was completed in the Upper Floridan aquifer at a depth of 440 ft below land surface. At the Barbour Pointe test site, the U.S. Geological Survey completed electromagnetic (EM) flowmeter surveys, collected and analyzed water samples from discrete depths, and completed a 72-hour aquifer test of the Floridan aquifer system withdrawing from the Lower Floridan aquifer.</p><p>Based on drill cuttings, geophysical logs, and borehole EM flowmeter surveys collected at the Barbour Pointe test site, the Upper Floridan aquifer extends 369 to 567 ft below land surface, the middle semiconfining unit, separating the two aquifers, extends 567 to 714 ft below land surface, and the Lower Floridan aquifer extends 714 to 1,056 ft below land surface.</p><p>A borehole EM flowmeter survey indicates that the Upper Floridan and Lower Floridan aquifers each contain four water-bearing zones. The EM flowmeter logs of the test hole open to the entire Floridan aquifer system indicated that the Upper Floridan aquifer contributed 91 percent of the total flow rate of 1,000 gallons per minute; the Lower Floridan aquifer contributed about 8 percent. Based on the transmissivity of the middle semiconfining unit and the Floridan aquifer system, the middle semiconfining unit probably contributed on the order of 1 percent of the total flow.</p><p>Hydraulic properties of the Upper Floridan and Lower Floridan aquifers were estimated based on results of the EM flowmeter survey and a 72-hour aquifer test completed in Lower Floridan aquifer well 36Q398. The EM flowmeter data were analyzed using an AnalyzeHOLE-generated model to simulate upward borehole flow and determine the transmissivity of water-bearing zones. Aquifer-test data were analyzed with a two-dimensional, axisymmetric, radial, transient, groundwater-flow model using MODFLOW–2005. The flowmeter-survey and aquifer-test simulations provided an estimated transmissivity of about 60,000 square feet per day for the Upper Floridan aquifer and about 5,000 square feet per day for the Lower Floridan aquifer.</p><p>Water in discrete-depth samples collected from the Upper Floridan aquifer, middle semiconfining unit, and Lower Floridan aquifer during the EM flowmeter survey in August 2013 was low in dissolved solids. Tested constituents were in concentrations within established U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking water-quality criteria. Concentrations of measured constituents in water samples from Lower Floridan aquifer well 36Q398 collected at the end of the 72-hour aquifer test in November 2013 were generally higher than in the discrete-depth samples collected during EM flowmeter testing in August 2013 but remained within established drinking water-quality criteria.</p><p>Water-level data for the aquifer test were filtered for external influences such as barometric pressure, earth-tide effects, and long-term trends to enable detection of small (less than 1 ft) water-level responses to aquifer-test withdrawal. During the 72-hour aquifer test, the Lower Floridan aquifer was pumped at a rate of 750 gallons per minute resulting in a drawdown response of 35.5 ft in the pumped well; 1.6 ft in the Lower Floridan aquifer observation well located about 6,000 ft west of the pumped well; and responses of 0.7, 0.6, and 0.4 ft in the Upper Floridan aquifer observation wells located about 36 ft, 6,000 ft, and 6,800 ft from the pumped well, respectively</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/sir20165028","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with Consolidated Utilities LLC, Chatham County, Georgia","usgsCitation":"Gonthier, G.J., and Clarke, J.S., 2016, Hydrogeology and water quality of the Floridan aquifer system and effect of Lower Floridan aquifer withdrawals on the Upper Floridan aquifer at Barbour Pointe Community, Chatham County, Georgia, 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2016–5028, 56 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sir20165028.","productDescription":"viii, 56 p.","startPage":"1","endPage":"56","numberOfPages":"68","onlineOnly":"Y","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","ipdsId":"IP-045188","costCenters":[{"id":13634,"text":"South Atlantic Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":321737,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2016/5028/coverthb.jpg"},{"id":321738,"rank":2,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2016/5028/sir20165028.pdf","text":"Report","size":"1.68 MB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"SIR  2016–5028"}],"country":"United States","state":"Georgia","county":"Chatham County","city":"Savannah","otherGeospatial":"Barbour Pointe Community","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -80.75,\n              32.25\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.75,\n              31.75\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.75,\n              31.75\n            ],\n            [\n              -81.75,\n              32.25\n            ],\n            [\n              -80.75,\n              32.25\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","contact":"<p>Director, Georgia Water Science Center<br>U.S. Geological Survey<br>1770 Corporate Drive, Suite 500<br>Norcross, Georgia 30093</p><p><a href=\"http://ga.water.usgs.gov/\" data-mce-href=\"http://ga.water.usgs.gov/\">http://ga.water.usgs.gov/</a></p>","tableOfContents":"<ul><li>Abstract</li><li>Introduction</li><li>Hydrogeology and Water Quality of the Floridan Aquifer System</li><li>Effect of Lower Floridan Aquifer Withdrawals on the Upper Floridan Aquifer</li><li>Summary and Conclusions</li><li>References Cited</li><li>Appendix 1—Estimation of Hydraulic Properties and Drawdown Response</li></ul>","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":5,"text":"Lafayette PSC"},"publishedDate":"2016-06-02","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2016-06-02","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"57514a9de4b053f0edd01764","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Gonthier, Gerard  0000-0003-4078-8579 gonthier@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4078-8579","contributorId":3141,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Gonthier","given":"Gerard ","email":"gonthier@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":13634,"text":"South Atlantic Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":628841,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Clarke, John S. jsclarke@usgs.gov","contributorId":400,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Clarke","given":"John","email":"jsclarke@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[{"id":316,"text":"Georgia Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":628842,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}}
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The GFT has also attracted interest as a tool for rapid assessment flood inundation mapping for the Flood Inundation Mapping Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. The GFT can fill an important gap for communities that lack flood inundation mapping by providing a first-estimate of inundation zones, pending availability of resources to complete an engineering study. The tool can also help identify priority areas for application of scarce flood inundation mapping resources. The technical basis of the GFT is an application of the Manning equation for steady flow in an open channel, operating on specially processed digital elevation data. The GFT is implemented as a software extension in ArcGIS. Output maps from the GFT were validated at 11 sites with inundation maps produced previously by the Flood Inundation Mapping Program using standard one-dimensional hydraulic modeling techniques. In 80 percent of the cases, the GFT inundation patterns matched 75 percent or more of the one-dimensional hydraulic model inundation patterns. Lower rates of pattern agreement were seen at sites with low relief and subtle surface water divides. 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Overall capture per unit effort (CPUE) in traps declined with time during an intensive 76-d trapping bout, but CPUE trends varied considerably among traplines and it is unlikely that the overall decline in CPUE represented a major decrease in the snake population size. 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To estimate the change in Hg concentration due to release of eggs at spawning, Hg concentration in the somatic tissue and ovaries of 5 of the 23 female summer flounder were also determined. To ascertain whether most of the Hg in the summer flounder was methylmercury (MeHg), whole-fish MeHg concentrations were determined in all 50 summer flounder. Whole-fish Hg concentrations averaged 113 ng/g for females and 111 ng/g for males. Thus, females were 2% higher in Hg concentration than males, on average, but the difference was not statistically significant. Based on Hg determinations in the somatic tissue and ovaries, we predicted that Hg concentration of females would increase by 3.6%, on average, immediately after spawning due to release of eggs. On average, 92% of the Hg in the summer flounder was MeHg. To determine whether the effect of sex on Hg concentration was significantly different from the effect of sex on polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentration, we paired our Hg determinations with PCB determinations from a previous study, and applied regression analysis. Sex significantly interacted with contaminant type (Hg or PCBs), as males were 43% higher in PCB concentration than females, whereas females were 2% higher in Hg concentration than males. Males eliminating Hg from their bodies at a faster rate than females was a likely explanation for this discrepancy between the two contaminant types. 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