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Indeed, hybridization between red wolves (</span><i>Canis rufus</i><span>) and coyotes (</span><i>Canis latrans</i><span>) poses a significant challenge to red wolf recovery. We considered seven hypotheses to assess factors influencing hybridization between red wolves and coyotes via pair‐bonding between the two species. Because long‐term monogamy and defense of all‐purpose territories are core characteristics of both species, mate choice has long‐term consequences. Therefore, red wolves may choose similar‐sized mates to acquire partners that behave similarly to themselves in the use of space and diet. We observed multiple factors influencing breeding pair formation by red wolves and found that most wolves paired with similar‐sized conspecifics and wolves that formed congeneric pairs with nonwolves (coyotes and hybrids) were mostly female wolves, the smaller of the two sexes. Additionally, we observed that lower red wolf abundance relative to nonwolves and the absence of helpers increased the probability that wolves consorted with nonwolves. However, successful pairings between red wolves and nonwolves were associated with wolves that maintained small home ranges. Behaviors associated with territoriality are energetically demanding and behaviors (e.g., aggressive interactions, foraging, and space use) involved in maintaining territories are influenced by body size. Consequently, we propose the hypothesis that size disparities between consorting red wolves and coyotes influence positive assortative mating and may represent a reproductive barrier between the two species. We offer that it may be possible to maintain wild populations of red wolves in the presence of coyotes if management strategies increase red wolf abundance on the landscape by mitigating key threats, such as human‐caused mortality and hybridization with coyotes. 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Here, we show that over the past century the degree and spatial extent of this covariance (synchrony) has substantially increased, and is coincident with rising variance in the winter NPH. Furthermore, centuries‐long blue oak (</span><i>Quercus douglasii</i><span>) growth chronologies sensitive to the winter NPH provide robust evidence that modern levels of synchrony are among the highest observed in the context of the last 250 years. These trends may ultimately be linked to changing impacts of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on mid‐latitude ecosystems of North America. Such a rise in synchrony may destabilize ecosystems, expose populations to higher risks of extinction, and is thus a concern given the broad biological relevance of winter climate to biological systems.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Wiley","doi":"10.1111/gcb.14128","usgsCitation":"Black, B.A., van der Sleen, P., Di Lorenzo, E., Griffin, D., Sydeman, W., Dunham, J.B., Rykaczewski, R.R., Garcia-Reyes, M., Safeeq, M., Arismendi, I., and Bograd, S.J., 2018, Rising synchrony controls western North American ecosystems: Global Change Biology, v. 24, no. 6, p. 2305-2314, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14128.","productDescription":"10 p.","startPage":"2305","endPage":"2314","ipdsId":"IP-091880","costCenters":[{"id":290,"text":"Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center","active":false,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":468855,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14128","text":"External 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,{"id":70196335,"text":"70196335 - 2018 - An epidemiological model of virus transmission in salmonid fishes of the Columbia River Basin","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-04-03T11:10:18","indexId":"70196335","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-03T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1458,"text":"Ecological Modelling","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"An epidemiological model of virus transmission in salmonid fishes of the Columbia River Basin","docAbstract":"<p><span>We have developed a dynamic epidemiological model informed by records of viral presence and genotypes to evaluate potential transmission routes maintaining a viral pathogen in economically and culturally important anadromous fish populations. In the Columbia River Basin, infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) causes severe disease, predominantly in juvenile steelhead trout (</span><i>Oncorhynchus mykiss</i><span>) and less frequently in Chinook salmon (</span><i>O. tshawytscha</i><span>). Mortality events following IHNV infection can be devastating for individual hatchery programs. Despite reports of high local mortality and extensive surveillance efforts, there are questions about how viral transmission is maintained. Modeling this system offers important insights into disease transmission in natural aquatic systems, as well as about the data requirements for generating accurate estimates about transmission routes and infection probabilities. We simulated six scenarios in which testing rates and the relative importance of different transmission routes varied. The simulations demonstrated that the model accurately identified routes of transmission and inferred infection probabilities accurately when there was testing of all cohort-sites. When testing records were incomplete, the model accurately inferred which transmission routes exposed particular cohort-sites but generated biased infection probabilities given exposure. After validating the model and generating guidelines for result interpretation, we applied the model to data from 14 annual cohorts (2000–2013) at 24 focal sites in a sub-region of the Columbia River Basin, the lower Columbia River (LCR), to quantify the relative importance of potential transmission routes in this focal sub-region. We demonstrate that exposure to IHNV via the return migration of adult fish is an important route for maintaining IHNV in the LCR sub-region, and the probability of infection following this exposure was relatively high at 0.16. Although only 1% of cohort-sites experienced self-exposure by infected juvenile fish, this transmission route had the greatest probability of infection (0.22). Increased testing and/or determining whether transmission can occur from cohort-sites without testing records (e.g., determining there was no testing record because there were no fish at the cohort-site) are expected to improve inference about infection probabilities. Increased use of secure water supplies and continued use of biosecurity protocols may reduce IHNV transmission from adult fish and juvenile fish within the site, respectively, to juvenile salmonids at hatcheries. Models and conclusions from this study are potentially relevant to understanding the relative importance of transmission routes for other important aquatic pathogens in salmonids, including the agents of bacterial kidney disease and coldwater disease, and the basic approach may be useful for other pathogens and hosts in other geographic regions.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.03.002","usgsCitation":"Ferguson, P.F., Breyta, R., Brito, I.L., Kurath, G., and LaDeau, S.L., 2018, An epidemiological model of virus transmission in salmonid fishes of the Columbia River Basin: Ecological Modelling, v. 377, p. 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.03.002.","productDescription":"15 p.","startPage":"1","endPage":"15","ipdsId":"IP-091422","costCenters":[{"id":654,"text":"Western Fisheries Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":468859,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.03.002","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":353082,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"377","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":12,"text":"Tacoma PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5afee6eae4b0da30c1bfbf4f","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Ferguson, Paige F. 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,{"id":70196336,"text":"70196336 - 2018 - The aerosphere as a network connector of organisms and their diseases","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-04-03T11:45:55","indexId":"70196336","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-03T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":5,"text":"Book chapter"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":24,"text":"Book Chapter"},"title":"The aerosphere as a network connector of organisms and their diseases","docAbstract":"<p><span>Aeroecological processes, especially powered flight of animals, can rapidly connect biological communities across the globe. This can have profound consequences for evolutionary diversification, energy and nutrient transfers, and the spread of infectious diseases. The latter is of particular consequence for human populations, since migratory birds are known to host diseases which have a history of transmission into domestic poultry or even jumping to human hosts. In this chapter, we present a scenario under which a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) strain enters North America from East Asia via post-molting waterfowl migration. We use an agent-based model (ABM) to simulate the movement and disease transmission among 10</span><sup>6</sup><span><span>&nbsp;</span>generalized waterfowl agents originating from ten molting locations in eastern Siberia, with the HPAI seeded in only ~10</span><sup>2</sup><span><span>&nbsp;</span>agents at one of these locations. Our ABM tracked the disease dynamics across a very large grid of sites as well as individual agents, allowing us to examine the spatiotemporal patterns of change in virulence of the HPAI infection as well as waterfowl host susceptibility to the disease. We concurrently simulated a 12-station disease monitoring network in the northwest USA and Canada in order to assess the potential efficacy of these sites to detect and confirm the arrival of HPAI. Our findings indicated that HPAI spread was initially facilitated but eventually subdued by the migration of host agents. Yet, during the 90-day simulation, selective pressures appeared to have distilled the HPAI strain to its most virulent form (i.e., through natural selection), which was counterbalanced by the host susceptibility being conversely reduced (i.e., through genetic predisposition and acquired immunity). The monitoring network demonstrated wide variation in the utility of sites; some were clearly better at providing early warnings of HPAI arrival, while sites further from the disease origin exposed the selective dynamics which slowed the spread of the disease albeit with the result of passing highly virulent strains into southern wintering locales (where human impacts are more likely). Though the ABM presented had generalized waterfowl migration and HPAI disease dynamics, this exercise demonstrates the power of such simulations to examine the extremely large and complex processes which comprise aeroecology. We offer insights into how such models could be further parameterized to represent HPAI transmission risks as well as how ABMs could be applied to other aeroecological questions pertaining to individual-based connectivity.</span></p>","largerWorkType":{"id":4,"text":"Book"},"largerWorkTitle":"Aeroecology","language":"English","publisher":"Springer","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-68576-2_17","usgsCitation":"Ross, J.D., Bridge, E.S., Prosser, D.J., and Takekawa, J., 2018, The aerosphere as a network connector of organisms and their diseases, chap. <i>of</i> Aeroecology, p. 427-464, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68576-2_17.","productDescription":"38 p.","startPage":"427","endPage":"464","ipdsId":"IP-072061","costCenters":[{"id":531,"text":"Patuxent Wildlife Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":353096,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"publishingServiceCenter":{"id":10,"text":"Baltimore PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2018-03-24","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5afee6eae4b0da30c1bfbf4d","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Ross, Jeremy D.","contributorId":189958,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Ross","given":"Jeremy","email":"","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":732378,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Bridge, Eli S.","contributorId":203804,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Bridge","given":"Eli","email":"","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[{"id":36723,"text":"Oklahoma Biological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":732379,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Prosser, Diann J. 0000-0002-5251-1799 dprosser@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5251-1799","contributorId":2389,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Prosser","given":"Diann","email":"dprosser@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":531,"text":"Patuxent Wildlife Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":732377,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Takekawa, John Y. 0000-0003-0217-5907","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0217-5907","contributorId":203805,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Takekawa","given":"John Y.","affiliations":[{"id":36724,"text":"Audubon California, Richardson Bay Audubon Center and Sanctuary, Tiburon, CA","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":732380,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
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This report, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Mining and Minerals Division of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, describes results of a hydrogeologic assessment, including numerical groundwater modeling, to identify the timing of groundwater recovery and potential pathways for groundwater transport of metals that may be leached from stored CCBs and reach hydrologic receptors after operations cease. Data collected for the hydrologic assessment indicate that groundwater in at least one centrally located reclaimed surface-mining pit has already begun to recover.</p><p>The U.S. Geological Survey numerical modeling package&nbsp;MODFLOW–NWT was used with MODPATH particle-tracking software to identify advective flow paths from CCB storage areas toward potential hydrologic receptors.&nbsp;Results indicate that groundwater at CCB storage areas will recover to the former steady state, or in some locations, groundwater may recover to a new steady state in 6,600 to 10,600 years at variable rates depending on the proximity to a residual cone-of-groundwater depression caused by mine dewatering and regional oil and gas pumping as well as on actual, rather than estimated, groundwater recharge and evapotranspirational losses. Advective particle-track modeling indicates that the number of particles and rates of advective transport will vary depending on hydraulic properties of the mine spoil, particularly hydraulic conductivity and porosity. Modeling results from the most conservative scenario indicate that particles can migrate from CCB repositories to either the Shumway Arroyo alluvium after 1,320 years and from there to the San Juan River alluvium after 1,520 years or from southernmost CCB repositories directly to the San Juan River alluvium after 2,400 years after the cessation of mining.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/sir20175155","collaboration":"Prepared in cooperation with the Mining and Minerals Division of the State of New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department","usgsCitation":"Stewart, A.M., 2018, Hydrologic assessment and numerical simulation of groundwater flow, San Juan Mine, San Juan County, New Mexico, 2010–13: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2017–5155, 94 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20175155.","productDescription":"Report: xi, 94 p.; Data Releases","numberOfPages":"110","onlineOnly":"Y","additionalOnlineFiles":"Y","ipdsId":"IP-080017","costCenters":[{"id":472,"text":"New Mexico Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":352877,"rank":3,"type":{"id":30,"text":"Data Release"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.5066/F7Q81BJK","text":"USGS data release","description":"USGS Data Release","linkHelpText":"Chemical analyses for arsenic, calcium, chloride, sodium, sulfate, sulfide and dissolved solids, August 2011 through December 2013, from groundwater sampled at or in the vicinity of the San Juan Coal Mine, New Mexico"},{"id":353249,"rank":4,"type":{"id":30,"text":"Data Release"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.5066/F75719JV","text":"USGS data release","description":"USGS Data Release","linkHelpText":"MODFLOW–NWT and MODPATH5 models used to identify potential flow paths from San Juan Mine to hydrologic receptors, San Juan County, New Mexico"},{"id":352876,"rank":2,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2017/5155/sir20175155.pdf","text":"Report","size":"6.00 MB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"SIR 2017–5155"},{"id":352875,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2017/5155/coverthb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"New Mexico","county":"San Juan County","otherGeospatial":"San Juan Mine","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -108.5,\n              36.7167\n            ],\n            [\n              -108.1,\n              36.72099868793134\n            ],\n            [\n              -108.1,\n              37\n            ],\n            [\n              -108.5,\n              37\n            ],\n            [\n              -108.5,\n              36.7167\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","contact":"<p><a href=\"mailto: dc_nm@usgs.gov\" data-mce-href=\"mailto: dc_nm@usgs.gov\">Director</a>, <a href=\"https://nm.water.usgs.gov/\" data-mce-href=\"https://nm.water.usgs.gov/\">New Mexico Water Science Center</a><br>U.S. Geological Survey<br>6700 Edith Blvd NE<br>Albuquerque, NM 87113<br></p>","tableOfContents":"<ul><li>Acknowledgments<br></li><li>Abstract<br></li><li>Introduction<br></li><li>Purpose and Scope<br></li><li>Description of Study Area<br></li><li>Hydrologic Assessment of the San Juan Mine Study Area<br></li><li>Numerical Simulation of Groundwater Flow<br></li><li>Suggestions for Further Data Collection<br></li><li>Summary<br></li><li>References<br></li></ul>","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":5,"text":"Lafayette PSC"},"publishedDate":"2018-04-03","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2018-04-03","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5afee6eae4b0da30c1bfbf55","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Stewart, Anne M. astewart@usgs.gov","contributorId":3938,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Stewart","given":"Anne","email":"astewart@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":472,"text":"New Mexico Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":725092,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
,{"id":70194955,"text":"sir20185007 - 2018 - Data analysis considerations for pesticides determined by National Water Quality Laboratory schedule 2437","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2021-05-28T14:27:51.335925","indexId":"sir20185007","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-02T14:00:00","publicationYear":"2018","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":"2018-5007","title":"Data analysis considerations for pesticides determined by National Water Quality Laboratory schedule 2437","docAbstract":"In 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) made a new method available for the analysis of pesticides in filtered water samples: laboratory schedule 2437. Schedule 2437 is an improvement on previous analytical methods because it determines the concentrations of 225 fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and associated degradates in one method at similar or lower concentrations than previously available methods. Additionally, the pesticides included in schedule 2437 were strategically identified in a prioritization analysis that assessed likelihood of occurrence, prevalence of use, and potential toxicity.  When the NWQL reports pesticide concentrations for analytes in schedule 2437, the laboratory also provides supplemental information useful to data users for assessing method performance and understanding data quality. That supplemental information is discussed in this report, along with an initial analysis of analytical recovery of pesticides in water-quality samples analyzed by schedule 2437 during 2013–2015. A total of 523 field matrix spike samples and their paired environmental samples and 277 laboratory reagent spike samples were analyzed for this report (1,323 samples total). These samples were collected in the field as part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment groundwater and surface-water studies and as part of the NWQL quality-control program. This report reviews how pesticide samples are processed by the NWQL, addresses how to obtain all the data necessary to interpret pesticide concentrations, explains the circumstances that result in a reporting level change or the occurrence of a raised reporting level, and describes the calculation and assessment of recovery. This report also discusses reasons why a data user might choose to exclude data in an interpretive analysis and outlines the approach used to identify the potential for decreased data quality in the assessment of method recovery. The information provided in this report is essential to understanding pesticide data determined by schedule 2437 and should be reviewed before interpretation of these data.","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/sir20185007","collaboration":"National Water Quality Program","usgsCitation":"Shoda, M.E., Nowell, L.H., Stone, W.W., Sandstrom, M.W., and Bexfield, L.M., 2018, Data analysis considerations for pesticides determined by National Water Quality Laboratory schedule 2437: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5007, 458 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20185007.","productDescription":"Report: vi, 458 p.; 2 Data Releases; Table","onlineOnly":"Y","additionalOnlineFiles":"Y","ipdsId":"IP-088656","costCenters":[{"id":451,"text":"National Water Quality Assessment Program","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":452,"text":"National Water Quality Laboratory","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":352965,"rank":2,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5007/sir20185007.pdf","text":"Report","size":"7.75 MB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"SIR 2018-5007"},{"id":352964,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5007/coverthb.jpg"},{"id":352966,"rank":3,"type":{"id":3,"text":"Appendix"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5007/sir20185007_table4-v4.xlsx","text":"Table 4","size":"75.5 KB","linkFileType":{"id":3,"text":"xlsx"},"linkHelpText":"- Summary statistics for the recovery of schedule 2437 pesticides in lab reagent spikes, and groundwater and surface-water spike samples"},{"id":352967,"rank":4,"type":{"id":30,"text":"Data Release"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.5066/F75H7DS8","text":"USGS data release","description":"USGS data release","linkHelpText":"National Water-Quality Assessment Project replicate surface water and groundwater pesticide data analyzed by the USGS National Water Quality Laboratory schedule 2437, water years 2013–15"},{"id":352968,"rank":5,"type":{"id":30,"text":"Data Release"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.5066/F7QZ28G4","text":"USGS data release","description":"USGS data release","linkHelpText":"Recovery data for surface water, groundwater and lab reagent samples analyzed by the USGS National Water Quality Laboratory schedule 2437, water years 2013–15"}],"contact":"<p>Program Coordinator, <a href=\"https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/\" data-mce-href=\"https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/\">National Water Quality Program</a><br>U.S. Geological Survey<br> 413 National Center<br> 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive<br> Reston, VA 20192</p>","tableOfContents":"<ul><li>Foreword</li><li>Abstract</li><li>Introduction</li><li>Data-Analysis Considerations</li><li>Schedule 2437 Pesticide Data Characterization</li><li>Further Analysis</li><li>Summary</li><li>Acknowledgments</li><li>References Cited</li><li>Appendix 1. Supporting Tables and Figures</li></ul>","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":15,"text":"Madison PSC"},"publishedDate":"2018-04-02","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5afee6eae4b0da30c1bfbf57","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Shoda, Megan E. 0000-0002-5343-9717 meshoda@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5343-9717","contributorId":4352,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Shoda","given":"Megan","email":"meshoda@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[{"id":346,"text":"Indiana Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":35860,"text":"Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":466,"text":"New England Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":27231,"text":"Indiana-Kentucky Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":37277,"text":"WMA - Earth System Processes Division","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":451,"text":"National Water Quality Assessment Program","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":726274,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Nowell, Lisa H. 0000-0001-5417-7264 lhnowell@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5417-7264","contributorId":490,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Nowell","given":"Lisa","email":"lhnowell@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"H.","affiliations":[{"id":451,"text":"National Water Quality Assessment Program","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":37277,"text":"WMA - Earth System Processes Division","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":154,"text":"California Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":726275,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Stone, Wesley W. 0000-0003-0239-2063 wwstone@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0239-2063","contributorId":1496,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Stone","given":"Wesley","email":"wwstone@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[{"id":27231,"text":"Indiana-Kentucky Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":451,"text":"National Water Quality Assessment Program","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":346,"text":"Indiana Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":726276,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Sandstrom, Mark W. 0000-0003-0006-5675 sandstro@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0006-5675","contributorId":706,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Sandstrom","given":"Mark","email":"sandstro@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[{"id":503,"text":"Office of Water Quality","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":452,"text":"National Water Quality Laboratory","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":5046,"text":"Branch of Analytical Serv (NWQL)","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":37464,"text":"WMA - Laboratory & Analytical Services Division","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":726277,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Bexfield, Laura M. 0000-0002-1789-654X bexfield@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1789-654X","contributorId":1273,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Bexfield","given":"Laura","email":"bexfield@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":472,"text":"New Mexico Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":726278,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5}]}}
,{"id":70198730,"text":"70198730 - 2018 - Evaluating micrometeorological estimates of groundwater discharge from Great Basin desert playas","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-11-14T09:52:43","indexId":"70198730","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-02T11:33:10","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1861,"text":"Ground Water","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Evaluating micrometeorological estimates of groundwater discharge from Great Basin desert playas","docAbstract":"<p>Groundwater availability studies in the arid southwestern United States traditionally have assumed that groundwater discharge by evapotranspiration (ETg) from desert playas is a significant component of the groundwater budget. However, desert playa ETg rates are poorly constrained by Bowen Ratio energy budget (BREB) and eddy-covariance (EC) micrometeorological measurement approaches. Best attempts by previous studies to constrain ETg from desert playas have resulted in ETg rates that are within the measurement error of micrometeorological approaches. This study uses numerical models to further constrain desert playa ETg rates that are within the measurement error of BREB and EC approaches, and to evaluate the effect of hydraulic properties and salinity-based groundwater-density contrasts on desert playa ETg rates. Numerical models simulated ETg rates from desert playas in Death Valley, California and Dixie Valley, Nevada. Results indicate that actual ETg rates from desert playas are significantly below the uncertainty thresholds of BREB- and EC-based micrometeorological measurements. Discharge from desert playas likely contributes less than 2 percent of total groundwater discharge from Dixie and Death Valleys, which suggests discharge from desert playas also is negligible in other basins. Simulation results also show that ETg from desert playas primarily is limited by differences in hydraulic properties between alluvial fan and playa sediments and, to a lesser extent, by salinity-based groundwater density contrasts. <br><br></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Wiley","doi":"10.1111/gwat.12647","usgsCitation":"Jackson, T., Halford, K.J., Gardner, P.M., and Garcia, A., 2018, Evaluating micrometeorological estimates of groundwater discharge from Great Basin desert playas: Ground Water, v. 56, no. 6, p. 909-920, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12647.","productDescription":"12 p.","startPage":"909","endPage":"920","ipdsId":"IP-067348","costCenters":[{"id":465,"text":"Nevada Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":488351,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1429589","text":"External Repository"},{"id":356588,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"56","issue":"6","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":1,"text":"Sacramento PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2018-03-26","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5b98a2e1e4b0702d0e843003","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Jackson, Tracie 0000-0001-8553-0323 tjackson@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8553-0323","contributorId":193845,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Jackson","given":"Tracie","email":"tjackson@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":465,"text":"Nevada Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":742760,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Halford, Keith J. 0000-0002-7322-1846 khalford@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7322-1846","contributorId":1374,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Halford","given":"Keith","email":"khalford@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":465,"text":"Nevada Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":742761,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Gardner, Philip M. 0000-0003-3005-3587 pgardner@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3005-3587","contributorId":962,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Gardner","given":"Philip","email":"pgardner@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":465,"text":"Nevada Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":610,"text":"Utah Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":742762,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Garcia, Amanda 0000-0003-3776-3565 cgarcia@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3776-3565","contributorId":208515,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Garcia","given":"Amanda","email":"cgarcia@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":465,"text":"Nevada Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":747519,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
,{"id":70200547,"text":"70200547 - 2018 - Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2017 to Thomas W. Sisson","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-10-24T11:32:50","indexId":"70200547","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-02T11:32:42","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":738,"text":"American Mineralogist","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2017 to Thomas W. Sisson","docAbstract":"I have the pleasure of introducing Thomas W. Sisson, the Mineralogical Society of America Dana Medalist for 2017. Tom is known for his scientific rigor and landmark publications that have contributed to a diverse spectrum of fields closely tied to the mineralogical sciences. He is particularly recognized for his work on magma differentiation and the role of water in subduction-related magmatism. Beginning with his Ph.D. research with Tim Grove, Tom's early papers showcase difficult high-temperature experiments on hydrous basalt and magmatic processes recorded by the Sierra Nevada batholith. This landmark work was soon followed by ion microprobe measurements of dissolved water concentrations in melt inclusions from a range of arc basalts and by infrared spectrometric determinations of dissolved H2O and CO2 concentrations in unusually primitive arc basalt.","language":"English","publisher":"Mineralogical Society of America","doi":"10.2138/am-2018-AP10345","usgsCitation":"Bacon, C.R., 2018, Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2017 to Thomas W. Sisson: American Mineralogist, v. 103, no. 4, p. 651-652, https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-AP10345.","productDescription":"2 p.","startPage":"651","endPage":"652","ipdsId":"IP-091475","costCenters":[{"id":617,"text":"Volcano Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":468860,"rank":0,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-ap10345","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":358737,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"103","issue":"4","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":14,"text":"Menlo Park PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5c10a9e0e4b034bf6a7e54f0","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Bacon, Charles R. 0000-0002-2165-5618 cbacon@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2165-5618","contributorId":2909,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Bacon","given":"Charles","email":"cbacon@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[{"id":617,"text":"Volcano Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":749480,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
,{"id":70248920,"text":"70248920 - 2018 - High frequency data exposes nonlinear seasonal controls on dissolved organic matter in a large watershed","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2023-09-26T12:10:32.30659","indexId":"70248920","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-02T07:08:53","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":5925,"text":"Environmental Science and Technology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"High frequency data exposes nonlinear seasonal controls on dissolved organic matter in a large watershed","docAbstract":"<div id=\"abstractBox\" class=\"article_abstract-content hlFld-Abstract\"><p class=\"articleBody_abstractText\">We analyzed a five year, high frequency time series generated by an in situ fluorescent dissolved organic matter (fDOM) sensor installed near the Connecticut River’s mouth, investigating high temporal resolution DOM dynamics in a larger watershed and longer time series than previously addressed. We identified a gradient between large, saturating summer fDOM responses to discharge and linear, subdued responses during colder months. Seasonal response patterns were not consistent with multiple linear regression. Alternatively, we binned measurements across the yearly cycle using environmental indices, such as temperature, and applied moving regression, a novel approach which produced superior fits to calendar day binning. Spatially averaged watershed soil temperature at 10 cm was the best overall index of discharge-fDOM response. DOM fractionation showed fDOM was primarily a surrogate for hydrophobic organic acid (HPOA) concentrations. HPOAs were highly correlated with discharge, but hydrophilics (HPIs) were not. Discharge dependent DOM concentrations driven by the HPOA fraction may be controlled by soil temperature and water table position relative to organic and mineral soil horizons. HPI concentrations were correlated with average watershed soil temperature at 10 cm but were rather stationary throughout the year, further indicating a consistent groundwater source for this nonfluorescent DOM. We present a resolved subseasonal empirical model of DOM concentrations and fluxes, showing that riverine DOM flux and quality depend heavily on seasonal terrestrial carbon dynamics and hydrologic flow paths. High frequency monitoring reveals readily discernible patterns demonstrating that upland biogeochemical signals are maintained even at this large watershed scale.</p></div>","language":"English","publisher":"American Chemical Society","doi":"10.1021/acs.est.7b04579","usgsCitation":"Shultz, M., Pellerin, B., Aiken, G., Martin, J., and Raymond, P., 2018, High frequency data exposes nonlinear seasonal controls on dissolved organic matter in a large watershed: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 52, no. 10, p. 5644-5652, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b04579.","productDescription":"9 p.","startPage":"5644","endPage":"5652","ipdsId":"IP-090811","costCenters":[{"id":466,"text":"New England Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":37786,"text":"WMA - Observing Systems Division","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":421163,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"52","issue":"10","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Shultz, Matthew","contributorId":330173,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Shultz","given":"Matthew","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":6986,"text":"Stanford University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":884211,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Pellerin, Brian A. 0000-0003-3712-7884","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3712-7884","contributorId":204324,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Pellerin","given":"Brian A.","affiliations":[{"id":503,"text":"Office of Water Quality","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":37786,"text":"WMA - Observing Systems Division","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":884212,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Aiken, George 0000-0001-8454-0984","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8454-0984","contributorId":208803,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Aiken","given":"George","affiliations":[],"preferred":true,"id":884213,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Martin, Joseph W. 0000-0002-5995-9385","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5995-9385","contributorId":203256,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Martin","given":"Joseph W.","affiliations":[{"id":466,"text":"New England Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":884214,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Raymond, Peter","contributorId":330174,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Raymond","given":"Peter","affiliations":[{"id":37550,"text":"Yale University","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":884215,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5}]}}
,{"id":70196189,"text":"ofr20181039 - 2018 - Phase 1 studies summary of major findings of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, South San Francisco Bay, California","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-04-03T14:43:48","indexId":"ofr20181039","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-02T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":5,"text":"USGS Numbered Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":330,"text":"Open-File Report","code":"OFR","onlineIssn":"2331-1258","printIssn":"0196-1497","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":5}},"seriesNumber":"2018-1039","title":"Phase 1 studies summary of major findings of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, South San Francisco Bay, California","docAbstract":"<h1>Executive Summary</h1><p class=\"p1\">The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project (Project) is one of the largest restoration efforts in the United States. It is located in South San Francisco Bay of California. It is unique not only for its size—more than 15,000 acres—but also for its location adjacent to one of the nation’s largest urban areas, home to more than 4 million people (Alameda, Santa Clara, and San Mateo Counties). The Project is intended to restore and enhance wetlands in South San Francisco Bay while providing for flood management, wildlife-oriented public access, and recreation. Restoration goals of the project are to provide a mosaic of saltmarsh habitat to benefit marsh species and managed ponds to benefit waterbirds, throughout 3 complexes and 54 former salt ponds.</p><p class=\"p1\">Although much is known about the project area, significant uncertainties remain with a project of this geographic and temporal scale of an estimated 50 years to complete the restoration. For example, in order to convert anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of the existing managed ponds to saltmarsh habitat, conservation managers first enhance the habitat of managed ponds in order to increase use by waterbirds, and provide migratory, wintering, and nesting habitat for more than 90 species of waterbirds. Project managers have concluded that the best way to address these uncertainties is to carefully implement the project in phases and learn from the outcome of each phase. The Adaptive Management Plan (AMP) identifies specific restoration targets for multiple aspects of the Project and defines triggers that would necessitate some type of management action if a particular aspect is trending negatively. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) biologist Laura Valoppi served as the project Lead Scientist and oversaw implementation of the AMP in coordination with other members of the Project Management Team (PMT), comprised of representatives from the California State Coastal Conservancy, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Santa Clara Valley Water District, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.</p><p class=\"p1\">To implement the AMP, the PMT have selected and funded applied studies and monitoring projects to address key uncertainties. This information is used by the PMT to make decisions about current management of the project area and future restoration actions in order to meet project.</p><p class=\"p1\">This document summarizes the major scientific findings from studies conducted from 2009 to 2016, as part of the science program that was conducted in conjunction with Phase 1 restoration and management actions. Additionally, this report summarizes the management response to the study results under the guidance of the AMP framework and provides a list of suggested studies to be conducted in “Phase 2–A scorecard summarizing the Project’s progress toward meeting the AMP goals for a range of Project objectives.” The scoring to date indicates that the Project is meeting or exceeding expectations for sediment accretion and western snowy plover (<i>Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus</i>) recovery. There is uncertainty with respect to objectives for California gulls (<i>Larus californicus</i>), California least tern (<i>Sternula antillarum</i>), steelhead trout (<i>Oncorhynchus mykiss</i>), and regulatory water quality objectives. Water quality and algal blooms, specifically of the managed ponds, is indicated as trending negative. However, the vast majority of objectives are trending positive, including increased abundance for a number of bird guilds, increasing marsh habitat, maintenance of mudflats, visitor experience, estuarine fish numbers, and special-status marsh species numbers.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/ofr20181039","collaboration":"Prepared for South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project","usgsCitation":"Valoppi, L., 2018, Phase 1 studies summary of major findings of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, South San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018–1039, 58 p., plus appendixes, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181039.","productDescription":"Report: vi, 58 p.; 3 Appendixes","numberOfPages":"68","onlineOnly":"Y","additionalOnlineFiles":"Y","ipdsId":"IP-081943","costCenters":[{"id":651,"text":"Western Ecological Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":353042,"rank":2,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2018/1039/ofr20181039.pdf","text":"Report","size":"10 MB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"OFR 2018-1039"},{"id":353041,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2018/1039/coverthb.jpg"},{"id":353043,"rank":3,"type":{"id":3,"text":"Appendix"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2018/1039/ofr20181039_appendix01.pdf","text":"Appendix 1","size":"401 KB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"OFR 2018-1039 Appendix 1"},{"id":353044,"rank":4,"type":{"id":3,"text":"Appendix"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2018/1039/ofr20181039_appendix02.pdf","text":"Appendix 2","size":"265 KB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"OFR 2018-1039 Appendix 2"},{"id":353045,"rank":5,"type":{"id":3,"text":"Appendix"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2018/1039/ofr20181039_appendix03.pdf","text":"Appendix 3","size":"216 KB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"OFR 2018-1039 Appendix 3"}],"country":"United States","state":"California","otherGeospatial":"South San Francisco Bay","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -122.33688354492188,\n              37.36797435878155\n            ],\n            [\n              -121.86309814453124,\n              37.36797435878155\n            ],\n            [\n              -121.86309814453124,\n              37.654470456416256\n            ],\n            [\n              -122.33688354492188,\n              37.654470456416256\n            ],\n            [\n              -122.33688354492188,\n              37.36797435878155\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","contact":"<p>Director, <a href=\"https://www.werc.usgs.gov/\" target=\"blank\" data-mce-href=\"https://www.werc.usgs.gov/\">Western Ecological Research Center</a><br> U.S. Geological Survey<br> 3020 State University Drive East<br> Sacramento, California 95819</p>","tableOfContents":"<ul><li>Acknowledgments<br></li><li>Executive Summary<br></li><li>Introduction<br></li><li>Marsh, Mice, and Rails<br></li><li>Sediment Dynamics<br></li><li>Bird Use of Changing Habitats<br></li><li>Mercury<br></li><li>Effects on Aquatic Species<br></li><li>Water Quality<br></li><li>Invasive and Nuisance Species<br></li><li>Public Access and Wildlife<br></li><li>Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise<br></li><li>References Cited<br></li><li>Appendixes 1–3<br></li></ul>","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":1,"text":"Sacramento PSC"},"publishedDate":"2018-04-02","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2018-04-02","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5afee6ebe4b0da30c1bfbf6b","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Valoppi, Laura 0000-0001-9177-3858 laura_valoppi@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9177-3858","contributorId":203471,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Valoppi","given":"Laura","email":"laura_valoppi@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":651,"text":"Western Ecological Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":731585,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
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However, hundreds of thousands of waterbirds use these ponds over winter and during fall and spring migration. To ensure that existing waterbird populations are supported while tidal marsh is restored in the Project area, managers plan to enhance the habitat suitability of ponds by adding islands and berms to change pond topography, manipulating water salinity and depth, and selecting appropriate ponds to maintain for birds. To help inform these actions, we used 13 years of monthly (October–April) bird abundance data from Project ponds to (1) assess trends in waterbird abundance since the inception of the Project, and (2) evaluate which pond habitat characteristics were associated with highest abundances of different avian guilds and species. For comparison, we also evaluated waterbird abundance trends in active salt production ponds using 10 years of monthly survey data.</p><p class=\"p1\">We assessed bird guild and species abundance trends through time, and created separate trend curves for Project and salt production ponds using data from every pond that was counted in a year. We divided abundance data into three seasons—fall (October–November), winter (December–February), and spring (March–April). We used the resulting curves to assess which periods had the highest bird abundance and to identify increasing or decreasing trends for each guild and species.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","publisherLocation":"Reston, VA","doi":"10.3133/ofr20181040","usgsCitation":"De La Cruz, S.E.W., Smith, L.M., Moskal, S.M., Strong, C., Krause, J., Wang, Y., and Takekawa, J.Y., 2018, Trends and habitat associations of waterbirds using the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018–1040, 136 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181040.","productDescription":"viii, 136 p.","numberOfPages":"148","onlineOnly":"Y","ipdsId":"IP-080192","costCenters":[{"id":651,"text":"Western Ecological Research 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,{"id":70196305,"text":"70196305 - 2018 - Common hydraulic fracturing fluid additives alter the structure and function of anaerobic microbial communities","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-07-23T12:45:45","indexId":"70196305","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-02T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":850,"text":"Applied and Environmental Microbiology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Common hydraulic fracturing fluid additives alter the structure and function of anaerobic microbial communities","docAbstract":"<p><span>The development of unconventional oil and gas (UOG) resources results in the production of large volumes of wastewater containing a complex mixture of hydraulic fracturing chemical additives and components from the formation. The release of these wastewaters into the environment poses potential risks that are poorly understood. Microbial communities in stream sediments form the base of the food chain and may serve as sentinels for changes in stream health. Iron-reducing organisms have been shown to play a role in the biodegradation of a wide range of organic compounds, and so to evaluate their response to UOG wastewater, we enriched anaerobic microbial communities from sediments collected upstream (background) and downstream (impacted) of an UOG wastewater injection disposal facility in the presence of hydraulic fracturing fluid (HFF) additives: guar gum, ethylene glycol, and two biocides, 2,2-dibromo-3-nitrilopropionamide (DBNPA) and bronopol (C</span><sub>3</sub><span>H</span><sub>6</sub><span>BrNO</span><sub>4</sub><span>). Iron reduction was significantly inhibited early in the incubations with the addition of biocides, whereas amendment with guar gum and ethylene glycol stimulated iron reduction relative to levels in the unamended controls. Changes in the microbial community structure were observed across all treatments, indicating the potential for even small amounts of UOG wastewater components to influence natural microbial processes. The microbial community structure differed between enrichments with background and impacted sediments, suggesting that impacted sediments may have been preconditioned by exposure to wastewater. These experiments demonstrated the potential for biocides to significantly decrease iron reduction rates immediately following a spill and demonstrated how microbial communities previously exposed to UOG wastewater may be more resilient to additional spills.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"American Society for Microbiology","doi":"10.1128/AEM.02729-17","usgsCitation":"Mumford, A.C., Akob, D.M., Klinges, J.G., and Cozzarelli, I.M., 2018, Common hydraulic fracturing fluid additives alter the structure and function of anaerobic microbial communities: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, v. 84, no. 8, p. 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02729-17.","productDescription":"e02729-17; 16 p.","startPage":"1","endPage":"16","ipdsId":"IP-089088","costCenters":[{"id":436,"text":"National Research Program - Eastern Branch","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":37273,"text":"Advanced Research Computing (ARC)","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":468862,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02729-17","text":"External Repository"},{"id":353032,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"84","issue":"8","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":9,"text":"Reston PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5afee6eae4b0da30c1bfbf67","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Mumford, Adam C. 0000-0002-8082-8910 amumford@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8082-8910","contributorId":197795,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Mumford","given":"Adam","email":"amumford@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"C.","affiliations":[{"id":37277,"text":"WMA - Earth System Processes Division","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":222,"text":"Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":436,"text":"National Research Program - Eastern Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":732248,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Akob, Denise M. 0000-0003-1534-3025 dakob@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1534-3025","contributorId":4980,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Akob","given":"Denise","email":"dakob@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":5058,"text":"Office of the Chief Scientist for Water","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":436,"text":"National Research Program - Eastern Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":732249,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Klinges, J. 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,{"id":70196307,"text":"70196307 - 2018 - Reduced swimming performance repeatedly evolves upon loss of migration in landlocked populations of Alewife","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-05-01T16:44:14.305205","indexId":"70196307","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-02T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3075,"text":"Physiological and Biochemical Zoology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Reduced swimming performance repeatedly evolves upon loss of migration in landlocked populations of Alewife","docAbstract":"<p><span>Whole-organism performance tasks are accomplished by the integration of morphological traits and physiological functions. Understanding how evolutionary change in morphology and physiology influences whole-organism performance will yield insight into the factors that shape its own evolution. We demonstrate that nonmigratory populations of alewife (</span><i>Alosa pseudoharengus</i><span>) have evolved reduced swimming performance in parallel, compared with their migratory ancestor. In contrast to theoretically and empirically based predictions, poor swimming among nonmigratory populations is unrelated to the evolution of osmoregulation and occurs despite the fact that nonmigratory alewives have a more fusiform (torpedo-like) body shape than their ancestor. Our results suggest that elimination of long-distance migration from the life cycle has shaped performance more than changes in body shape and physiological regulatory capacity.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"The University of Chicago Press","doi":"10.1086/696877","usgsCitation":"Velotta, J.P., McCormick, S.D., Jones, A.W., and Schultz, E.T., 2018, Reduced swimming performance repeatedly evolves upon loss of migration in landlocked populations of Alewife: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, v. 91, no. 2, p. 814-825, https://doi.org/10.1086/696877.","productDescription":"12 p.","startPage":"814","endPage":"825","ipdsId":"IP-086023","costCenters":[{"id":365,"text":"Leetown Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":468861,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"https://hdl.handle.net/1912/9540","text":"External Repository"},{"id":353039,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"91","issue":"2","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":10,"text":"Baltimore PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5afee6eae4b0da30c1bfbf65","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Velotta, Jonathan P.","contributorId":86281,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Velotta","given":"Jonathan","email":"","middleInitial":"P.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":732263,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"McCormick, Stephen D. 0000-0003-0621-6200 smccormick@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0621-6200","contributorId":139214,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"McCormick","given":"Stephen","email":"smccormick@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[{"id":365,"text":"Leetown Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":732262,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Jones, Andrew W.","contributorId":203766,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Jones","given":"Andrew","email":"","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[{"id":36711,"text":"Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":732264,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Schultz, Eric T.","contributorId":139206,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Schultz","given":"Eric","email":"","middleInitial":"T.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":732265,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
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To investigate whether exposure to environmental contaminants is associated with alterations in male common carp (</span><i>Cyprinus carpio</i><span><span>)<span> gamete</span><span><span>&nbsp;</span>quality and endocrine- and reproductive parameters, data were collected among sub-basins over 7 years (1999–2006). Endpoints included&nbsp;sperm quality parameters of motility</span></span><span>, viability, mitochondrial membrane potential, count, morphology, and&nbsp;DNA<span><span><span><span>&nbsp;</span>fragmentation; plasma components were vitellogenin (VTG), 17ß-estradiol, 11-keto-testosterone, triiodothyronine, and thyroxine. Fish condition factor, gonadosomatic index, and gonadal histology parameters were also measured. Diminished biomarker effects were noted in 2006, and sub-basin differences were indicated by the irregular occurrences of contaminants and by several associations between chemicals (e.g.,<span> polychlorinated biphenyls, hexachlorobenzene</span></span>, galaxolide, and methyl triclosan) and biomarkers (e.g., plasma thyroxine, sperm motility and DNA fragmentation). By 2006, sex<span> steroid</span></span><span>&nbsp;</span>hormone and VTG levels decreased with subsequent reduced endocrine disrupting effects. 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This paper reports the analysis of a distinct aeolian deposit preserved in Gale crater, Mars, and evaluates its palaeomorphology, the processes responsible for its deposition, and its implications for Gale crater geological history and regional palaeoclimate. Whilst exploring the sedimentary succession cropping out on the northern flank of Aeolis Mons, Gale crater, the Mars Science Laboratory rover&nbsp;</span><i>Curiosity</i><span><span>&nbsp;</span>encountered a decametre‐thick sandstone succession, named the Stimson formation, unconformably overlying lacustrine deposits of the Murray formation. The sandstone contains sand grains characterized by high roundness and sphericity, and cross‐bedding on the order of 1&nbsp;m in thickness, separated by sub‐horizontal bounding surfaces traceable for tens of metres across outcrops. The cross‐beds are composed of uniform thickness cross‐laminations interpreted as wind‐ripple strata. Cross‐sets are separated by sub‐horizontal bounding surfaces traceable for tens of metres across outcrops that are interpreted as dune migration surfaces. Grain characteristics and presence of wind‐ripple strata indicate deposition of the Stimson formation by aeolian processes. The absence of features characteristic of damp or wet aeolian sediment accumulation indicate deposition in a dry aeolian system. Reconstruction of the palaeogeomorphology suggests that the Stimson dune field was composed largely of simple sinuous crescentic dunes with a height of<span>&nbsp;</span></span><i>ca</i><span>10 m, and wavelengths of<span>&nbsp;</span></span><i>ca</i><span><span>&nbsp;</span>150 m, with local development of complex dunes. Analysis of cross‐strata dip‐azimuths indicates that the general dune migration direction and hence net sediment transport was towards the north‐east. The juxtaposition of a dry aeolian system unconformably above the lacustrine Murray formation represents starkly contrasting palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic conditions. Stratigraphic relationships indicate that this transition records a significant break in time, with the Stimson formation being deposited after the Murray formation and stratigraphically higher Mount Sharp group rocks had been buried, lithified and subsequently eroded.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Wiley","doi":"10.1111/sed.12469","usgsCitation":"Banham, S.G., Gupta, S., Rubin, D.M., Watkins, J.A., Sumner, D.Y., Edgett, K.S., Grotzinger, J.P., Lewis, K.W., Edgar, L.A., Stack, K.M., Barnes, R., Bell, J.F., Day, M.D., Ewing, R.C., Lapotre, M.G., Stein, N.T., Rivera-Hernandez, F., and Vasavada, A.R., 2018, Ancient Martian aeolian processes and palaeomorphology reconstructed from the Stimson formation on the lower slope of Aeolis Mons, Gale crater, Mars: Sedimentology, v. 65, no. 4, p. 993-1042, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12469.","productDescription":"50 p.","startPage":"993","endPage":"1042","ipdsId":"IP-095878","costCenters":[{"id":131,"text":"Astrogeology Science 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,{"id":70196330,"text":"70196330 - 2018 - Computational fluid dynamics simulations of the Late Pleistocene Lake Bonneville flood","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-04-03T13:48:19","indexId":"70196330","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-02T00:00:00","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2342,"text":"Journal of Hydrology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Computational fluid dynamics simulations of the Late Pleistocene Lake Bonneville flood","docAbstract":"<p><span>At approximately 18.0 ka, pluvial Lake Bonneville reached its maximum level. At its northeastern extent it was impounded by alluvium of the Marsh Creek Fan, which breached at some point north of Red Rock Pass (Idaho), leading to one of the largest floods on Earth. About 5320 km</span><sup>3</sup><span><span>&nbsp;</span>of water was discharged into the Snake River drainage and ultimately into the Columbia River. We use a 0D model and a 2D non-linear depth-averaged hydrodynamic model to aid understanding of outflow dynamics, specifically evaluating controls on the amount of water exiting the Lake Bonneville basin exerted by the Red Rock Pass outlet lithology and geometry as well as those imposed by the internal lake geometry of the Bonneville basin. These models are based on field evidence of prominent lake levels, hypsometry and terrain elevations corrected for post-flood isostatic deformation of the lake basin, as well as reconstructions of the topography at the outlet for both the initial and final stages of the flood. Internal flow dynamics in the northern Lake Bonneville basin during the flood were affected by the narrow passages separating the Cache Valley from the main body of Lake Bonneville. This constriction imposed a water-level drop of up to 2.7 m at the time of peak-flow conditions and likely reduced the peak discharge at the lake outlet by about 6%. The modeled peak outlet flow is 0.85·10</span><sup>6</sup><span> m</span><sup>3</sup><span> s</span><sup>−1</sup><span>. Energy balance calculations give an estimate for the erodibility coefficient for the alluvial Marsh Creek divide of ∼0.005 m y</span><sup>−1</sup><span> Pa</span><sup>−1.5</sup><span>, at least two orders of magnitude greater than for the underlying bedrock at the outlet. Computing quasi steady-state water flows, water elevations, water currents and shear stresses as a function of the water-level drop in the lake and for the sequential stages of erosion in the outlet gives estimates of the incision rates and an estimate of the outflow hydrograph during the Bonneville Flood: About 18 days would have been required for the outflow to grow from 10% to 100% of its peak value. At the time of peak flow, about 10% of the lake volume would have already exited; eroding about 1 km</span><sup>3</sup><span><span>&nbsp;</span>of alluvium from the outlet, and the lake level would have dropped by about 10.6 m.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Elsevier","doi":"10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.03.065","usgsCitation":"Abril-Hernandez, J.M., Perianez, R., O'Connor, J., and Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2018, Computational fluid dynamics simulations of the Late Pleistocene Lake Bonneville flood: Journal of Hydrology, v. 561, p. 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.03.065.","productDescription":"15 p.","startPage":"1","endPage":"15","ipdsId":"IP-096400","costCenters":[{"id":312,"text":"Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":487510,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/129885","text":"External Repository"},{"id":353067,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","otherGeospatial":"Lake Bonneville","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -114.5,\n              38\n            ],\n            [\n              -111.5,\n              38\n            ],\n            [\n              -111.5,\n              42.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -114.5,\n              42.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -114.5,\n              38\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"561","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":14,"text":"Menlo Park PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5afee6eae4b0da30c1bfbf5b","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Abril-Hernandez, Jose M.","contributorId":203798,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Abril-Hernandez","given":"Jose","email":"","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":36718,"text":"University of Seville, Departamento de Física Aplicada I, ETSIA, Sevilla, Spain.","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":732348,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Perianez, Raul","contributorId":203799,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Perianez","given":"Raul","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":36719,"text":"University of Seville, Departamento de Física Aplicada I, ETSIA, Sevilla, Spain","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":732349,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"O'Connor, Jim E. 0000-0002-7928-5883 oconnor@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7928-5883","contributorId":140771,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"O'Connor","given":"Jim E.","email":"oconnor@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":518,"text":"Oregon Water Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":312,"text":"Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":732347,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel","contributorId":203800,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Garcia-Castellanos","given":"Daniel","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":36720,"text":"Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera, ICTJA-CSIC, Solé i Sabarís s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":732350,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
,{"id":70199670,"text":"70199670 - 2018 - Validation of stable isotope ratio analysis to document the biodegradation and natural attenuation of RDX, ESTCP Project ER-201208","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-11-16T17:12:55","indexId":"70199670","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-01T17:12:46","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":4,"text":"Other Government Series"},"title":"Validation of stable isotope ratio analysis to document the biodegradation and natural attenuation of RDX, ESTCP Project ER-201208","docAbstract":"<p>Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) is a common soil contaminant at current and former military facilities, including many training and testing ranges. Because RDX is readily transported through soils to the subsurface, this nitramine explosive now also impacts groundwater and drinking water at numerous locations across the country. A significant issue with RDX contamination on ranges and at other military installations is that it often occurs over expansive areas, where in situ or ex situ treatment technologies are difficult to implement. One potential alternative for military ranges and other facilities is monitored natural attenuation (MNA), in which contaminant degradation by natural processes, including biodegradation, are evaluated. However, one limitation of this approach for RDX is the inability to accurately evaluate whether the nitramine is biodegrading under field conditions, as rates may be relatively slow. One potential technique to overcome this limitation is the use of compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA), where biological contaminant destruction can be documented as changes in the ratio of stable isotopes of specific elements in a molecule; for RDX, ratios of <sup>15</sup>N/<sup>14</sup>N and <sup>13</sup>C/<sup>12</sup>C are relevant. The objective of this project is to validate a CSIA method to confirm and constrain rates of aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation of RDX at field sites. This technique can be utilized by DoD to provide critical data to support MNA as a remedy for treating this energetic in groundwater, and confirm the effectiveness of in situ enhanced bioremediation remedies. The stable isotopic composition of NO<sub>3</sub>- and NO<sub>2</sub>- was also measured when these anions co-occurred with RDX to evaluate whether these potential degradation products from RDX could be used to further demonstrate MNA in the field. </p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Department of Defense, Environmental Science and Technology Certification Program","usgsCitation":"Hatzinger, P.B., Fuller, M.E., Sturchio, N.C., and Bohlke, J., 2018, Validation of stable isotope ratio analysis to document the biodegradation and natural attenuation of RDX, ESTCP Project ER-201208, 144 p.","productDescription":"144 p.","ipdsId":"IP-097005","costCenters":[{"id":436,"text":"National Research Program - Eastern Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":359533,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"},{"id":357693,"type":{"id":15,"text":"Index Page"},"url":"https://www.serdp-estcp.org/Program-Areas/Environmental-Restoration/Contaminated-Groundwater/Persistent-Contamination/ER-201208"}],"publishingServiceCenter":{"id":9,"text":"Reston PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5befe5bde4b045bfcadf7f46","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Hatzinger, Paul B.","contributorId":149376,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Hatzinger","given":"Paul","email":"","middleInitial":"B.","affiliations":[{"id":17721,"text":"Shaw Environmental, Princeton, NJ","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":746143,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Fuller, Mark E.","contributorId":192618,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Fuller","given":"Mark","email":"","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":746144,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Sturchio, Neil C.","contributorId":149375,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Sturchio","given":"Neil","email":"","middleInitial":"C.","affiliations":[{"id":15289,"text":"University of Illinois, Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":746145,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Bohlke, J.K. 0000-0001-5693-6455 jkbohlke@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5693-6455","contributorId":191103,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Bohlke","given":"J.K.","email":"jkbohlke@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":436,"text":"National Research Program - Eastern Branch","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":36183,"text":"Hydro-Ecological Interactions Branch","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":37277,"text":"WMA - Earth System Processes Division","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":746142,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
,{"id":70200890,"text":"70200890 - 2018 - Characterizing the source of potentially asbestos-bearing commercial vermiculite insulation using in situ IR spectroscopy","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2025-01-29T16:56:13.712949","indexId":"70200890","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-01T15:16:23","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":738,"text":"American Mineralogist","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Characterizing the source of potentially asbestos-bearing commercial vermiculite insulation using in situ IR spectroscopy","docAbstract":"<p><span>Commercially produced vermiculite insulation from Libby, Montana, contains trace levels of asbestiform amphibole, which is known to cause asbestos-related diseases. When vermiculite insulation is found in a building, evaluation for its potential asbestos content traditionally involves collecting a sample from an attic or wall and submitting it for time-consuming analyses at an off-site laboratory. The goal of this study was to determine if in situ near-infrared reflectance measurements could be used to reliably identify the source of vermiculite ore and therefore its potential to contain asbestos. Spectra of 52 expanded ore samples, including attic insulation, commercial packing materials, and horticultural products from Libby, Montana; Louisa, Virginia; Enoree, South Carolina; Palabora, South Africa; and Jiangsu, China, were measured with a portable spectrometer. The mine sources for these vermiculite ores were identified based on collection location, when known, and on differences in elemental composition as measured by electron probe microanalysis. Reflectance spectra of the insulation samples show vibrational overtone and combination absorptions that vary in wavelength position and relative intensity depending on elemental composition and proportions of their constituent micas (i.e., vermiculite ore usually consists of a mixture of hydrobiotite and vermiculite mineral flakes). Band depth ratios of the 1.38/2.32, 1.40/1.42, and 2.24/2.38 μm absorptions allow determination of a vermiculite insulation's source and detection of its potential to contain amphibole, talc, and/or serpentine impurities. Spectroscopy cannot distinguish asbestiform vs. non-asbestiform amphiboles. However, if the spectrally determined mica composition and mineralogy of an insulation sample is consistent with ore from Libby, then it is likely that some portion of the sodic-calcic amphibole it contains is asbestiform, given that all of the nearly two dozen Libby vermiculite insulation samples examined with scanning electron microscopy in this study contain amphiboles. One sample of expanded vermiculite ore from multiple sources was recognized as a limitation of the spectral method, therefore an additional test (i.e., 2.24 μm absorption position vs. 2.24/2.38 μm band depth ratio) was incorporated into the spectral method to eliminate misclassification caused by such mixtures. With portable field spectrometers, the methodology developed can be used to determine vermiculite insulation's source and estimate its potential amphibole content, thereby providing low-cost analysis with onsite reporting to property owners.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Mineralogical Society of America","doi":"10.2138/am-2018-6022","usgsCitation":"Swayze, G.A., Lowers, H.A., Benzel, W., Clark, R.N., Driscoll, R.L., Perlman, Z.S., Hoefen, T.M., and Dyar, M., 2018, Characterizing the source of potentially asbestos-bearing commercial vermiculite insulation using in situ IR spectroscopy: American Mineralogist, v. 103, no. 4, p. 517-549, https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2018-6022.","productDescription":"33 p.","startPage":"517","endPage":"549","ipdsId":"IP-077538","costCenters":[{"id":211,"text":"Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":359431,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"},{"id":362678,"rank":2,"type":{"id":42,"text":"Open Access USGS Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/ja/70200890/70200890.pdf","text":"USGS open-access version of article","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"}}],"volume":"103","issue":"4","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":2,"text":"Denver PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5bed4275e4b0b3fc5cf91c96","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Swayze, Gregg A. 0000-0002-1814-7823 gswayze@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1814-7823","contributorId":518,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Swayze","given":"Gregg","email":"gswayze@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[{"id":309,"text":"Geology and Geophysics Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":211,"text":"Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":751258,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Lowers, Heather A. 0000-0001-5360-9264 hlowers@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5360-9264","contributorId":191307,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lowers","given":"Heather","email":"hlowers@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[{"id":35995,"text":"Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":171,"text":"Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":751259,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Benzel, William 0000-0002-4085-1876 wbenzel@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4085-1876","contributorId":3594,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Benzel","given":"William","email":"wbenzel@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":171,"text":"Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":211,"text":"Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":751260,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Clark, Roger N. 0000-0002-7021-1220 rclark@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7021-1220","contributorId":515,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Clark","given":"Roger","email":"rclark@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"N.","affiliations":[{"id":211,"text":"Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":751261,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Driscoll, Rhonda L. 0000-0001-7725-8956 rdriscoll@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7725-8956","contributorId":745,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Driscoll","given":"Rhonda","email":"rdriscoll@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[{"id":171,"text":"Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":751262,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Perlman, Zac S.","contributorId":210618,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Perlman","given":"Zac","email":"","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":751263,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6},{"text":"Hoefen, Todd M. 0000-0002-3083-5987 thoefen@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3083-5987","contributorId":403,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Hoefen","given":"Todd","email":"thoefen@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":211,"text":"Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":171,"text":"Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":751264,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":7},{"text":"Dyar, M. Darby","contributorId":14314,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Dyar","given":"M. Darby","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":751265,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":8}]}}
,{"id":70198423,"text":"70198423 - 2018 - Spatial factors of white-tailed deer herbivory assessment in the central Appalachian Mountains","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-08-03T14:31:56","indexId":"70198423","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-01T14:31:38","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1552,"text":"Environmental Monitoring and Assessment","onlineIssn":"1573-2959","printIssn":"0167-6369","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Spatial factors of white-tailed deer herbivory assessment in the central Appalachian Mountains","docAbstract":"<p><span>Because moderate to over-abundant white-tailed deer (</span><i class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Odocoileus virginianus</i><span>) herbivory impacts biodiversity and can alter community function, ecological benchmarks of herbivory impact are needed to assess deer impacts. We evaluated spatial patterns of deer herbivory and their relation to herbivory assessment by evaluating woody vegetation along 20 transects at each of 30 sites spread across a wide range of deer herd densities and vegetative condition throughout the biodiverse Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, USA. Surprisingly, herbivory patterns and the availability of woody forage generally were unchanged among physiographic regions and land use diversity classes. However, some relationships between browsing pattern and vegetation varied with scale. The total quantity of vegetation browsed on a given site and at the transect scale were related positively to the availability of forage, as the proportion of stems browsed decreased as stem density increased. However, this was only true when all stems were considered equally. When stem densities by species were weighted for deer preference, the proportion of stems browsed had no relationship or increased with stem density. Compared to the value from all transects sampled, on average, the mean of ≥ 3 transects within a site was within 0.1 of the browsing ratio and stem densities were within 0.5 stems m</span><sup>−2</sup><span>. Our results suggest that one transect per square kilometer with a minimum of three transects may be sufficient for most browsing intensity survey requirements to assess herbivory impacts in the Appalachian region of Virginia. Still, inclusion of spatial factors to help partition variation of deer herbivory potentially may allow for improved precision and accuracy in the design of field herbivory impact assessment methods and improve their application across various landscape contexts.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Springer","doi":"10.1007/s10661-018-6627-1","usgsCitation":"Kniowski, A.B., and Ford, W., 2018, Spatial factors of white-tailed deer herbivory assessment in the central Appalachian Mountains: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, v. 190, p. 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-018-6627-1.","productDescription":"Article 248; 13 p.","startPage":"1","endPage":"13","ipdsId":"IP-084036","costCenters":[{"id":199,"text":"Coop Res Unit Leetown","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":468865,"rank":0,"type":{"id":41,"text":"Open Access External Repository Page"},"url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99349","text":"External Repository"},{"id":356154,"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              -83.69384765625,\n              36.589068371399115\n            ],\n            [\n              -77.442626953125,\n              36.589068371399115\n            ],\n            [\n              -77.442626953125,\n              39.51251701659638\n            ],\n            [\n              -83.69384765625,\n              39.51251701659638\n            ],\n            [\n              -83.69384765625,\n              36.589068371399115\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"190","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":9,"text":"Reston PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2018-03-25","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5b6fc473e4b0f5d57878ea8a","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Kniowski, Andrew B.","contributorId":191558,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Kniowski","given":"Andrew","email":"","middleInitial":"B.","affiliations":[{"id":33131,"text":"Dept of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":741598,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Ford, W. Mark 0000-0002-9611-594X wford@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9611-594X","contributorId":172499,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Ford","given":"W. Mark","email":"wford@usgs.gov","affiliations":[{"id":199,"text":"Coop Res Unit Leetown","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":198,"text":"Coop Res Unit Atlanta","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":741378,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}}
,{"id":70200757,"text":"70200757 - 2018 - Incorporating spatially heterogeneous infiltration capacity into hydrologic models with applications for simulating post‐wildfire debris flow initiation","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-10-31T14:06:03","indexId":"70200757","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-01T14:05:57","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1924,"text":"Hydrological Processes","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Incorporating spatially heterogeneous infiltration capacity into hydrologic models with applications for simulating post‐wildfire debris flow initiation","docAbstract":"<p><span>Soils in post‐wildfire environments are often characterized by a low infiltration capacity with a high degree of spatial heterogeneity relative to unburned areas. Debris flows are frequently initiated by run‐off in recently burned steeplands, making it critical to develop and test methods for incorporating spatial variability in infiltration capacity into hydrologic models. We use Monte Carlo simulations of run‐off generation over a soil with a spatially heterogenous saturated hydraulic conductivity (</span><i>K</i><sub><i>s</i></sub><span>) to derive an expression for an aerially averaged saturated hydraulic conductivity (&nbsp;</span><img class=\"section_image\" src=\"https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/53b77d9a-9f07-4c30-b06f-388e3f4ed5e7/hyp11458-math-0001.png\" alt=\"urn:x-wiley:hyp:media:hyp11458:hyp11458-math-0001\" data-mce-src=\"https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/53b77d9a-9f07-4c30-b06f-388e3f4ed5e7/hyp11458-math-0001.png\"><span>) that depends on the rainfall rate, the statistical properties of&nbsp;</span><i>K</i><sub><i>s</i></sub><span>, and the spatial correlation length scale associated with&nbsp;</span><i>K</i><sub><i>s</i></sub><span>. The proposed method for determining&nbsp;</span><img class=\"section_image\" src=\"https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/37036384-9143-4392-a70f-ddd0fb52b15b/hyp11458-math-0002.png\" alt=\"urn:x-wiley:hyp:media:hyp11458:hyp11458-math-0002\" data-mce-src=\"https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/37036384-9143-4392-a70f-ddd0fb52b15b/hyp11458-math-0002.png\"><span>&nbsp;is tested by simulating run‐off on synthetic topography over a wide range of spatial scales. Results provide a simplified expression for an effective saturated hydraulic conductivity that can be used to relate a distribution of small‐scale&nbsp;</span><i>K</i><sub><i>s</i></sub><span>&nbsp;measurements to infiltration and run‐off generation over larger spatial scales. Finally, we use a hydrologic model based on&nbsp;</span><img class=\"section_image\" src=\"https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/6986a8a2-1a1b-41b6-89c5-9bb9898fd515/hyp11458-math-0003.png\" alt=\"urn:x-wiley:hyp:media:hyp11458:hyp11458-math-0003\" data-mce-src=\"https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/6986a8a2-1a1b-41b6-89c5-9bb9898fd515/hyp11458-math-0003.png\"><span>&nbsp;to simulate run‐off and debris flow initiation at a recently burned catchment in the Santa Ana Mountains, CA, USA, and compare results to those obtained using an infiltration model based on the Soil Conservation Service Curve Number.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Wiley","doi":"10.1002/hyp.11458","usgsCitation":"McGuire, L.A., Rengers, F.K., Kean, J.W., Staley, D.M., and Mirus, B.B., 2018, Incorporating spatially heterogeneous infiltration capacity into hydrologic models with applications for simulating post‐wildfire debris flow initiation: Hydrological Processes, v. 32, no. 9, p. 1175-1187, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.11458.","productDescription":"13 p.","startPage":"1175","endPage":"1187","ipdsId":"IP-093401","costCenters":[{"id":300,"text":"Geologic Hazards Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":437968,"rank":0,"type":{"id":30,"text":"Data Release"},"url":"https://doi.org/10.5066/F70K27R0","text":"USGS data release","linkHelpText":"Post-wildfire debris-flow monitoring data, 2014 Silverado Fire, Orange County, California, November 2014 to January 2016"},{"id":359040,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"California","otherGeospatial":"Santa Ana Mountains","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -117.5917,\n              33.7458\n            ],\n            [\n              -117.5833,\n              33.7458\n            ],\n            [\n              -117.5833,\n              33.7625\n            ],\n            [\n              -117.5917,\n              33.7625\n            ],\n            [\n              -117.5917,\n              33.7458\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"32","issue":"9","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":2,"text":"Denver PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2018-04-06","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5c10a9e0e4b034bf6a7e54f4","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"McGuire, Luke A. 0000-0001-8178-7922 lmcguire@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8178-7922","contributorId":203420,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"McGuire","given":"Luke","email":"lmcguire@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[{"id":7042,"text":"University of Arizona","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":750392,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Rengers, Francis K. 0000-0002-1825-0943 frengers@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0943","contributorId":150422,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Rengers","given":"Francis","email":"frengers@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"K.","affiliations":[{"id":300,"text":"Geologic Hazards Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":750393,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Kean, Jason W. 0000-0003-3089-0369 jwkean@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3089-0369","contributorId":1654,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Kean","given":"Jason","email":"jwkean@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[{"id":300,"text":"Geologic Hazards Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":750394,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Staley, Dennis M. 0000-0002-2239-3402 dstaley@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2239-3402","contributorId":4134,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Staley","given":"Dennis","email":"dstaley@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":300,"text":"Geologic Hazards Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":750395,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Mirus, Benjamin B. 0000-0001-5550-014X bbmirus@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5550-014X","contributorId":4064,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Mirus","given":"Benjamin","email":"bbmirus@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"B.","affiliations":[{"id":5061,"text":"National Cooperative Geologic Mapping and Landslide Hazards","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":300,"text":"Geologic Hazards Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":5077,"text":"Northwest Regional Director's Office","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":750396,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5}]}}
,{"id":70200793,"text":"70200793 - 2018 - Plague in a colony of Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni) despite three years of infusions of burrows with 0.05% deltamethrin to kill fleas","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-11-01T12:34:13","indexId":"70200793","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-01T12:34:04","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2507,"text":"Journal of Wildlife Diseases","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Plague in a colony of Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni) despite three years of infusions of burrows with 0.05% deltamethrin to kill fleas","docAbstract":"<p><span>At Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico, US, infusing Gunnison's prairie dog (</span><i>Cynomys gunnisoni</i><span>) burrows with an insecticide dust containing 0.05% deltamethrin killed fleas which transmit bubonic plague. The reduction in the number of fleas per prairie dog was significant and dramatic immediately after infusions, with a suggestion that the reduction persisted for as long as 12 mo. Despite the lower flea counts, however, a plague epizootic killed &gt;95% of prairie dogs after 3 yr of infusions (once per year). More research is necessary for a better understanding of the efficacy of insecticide dusts at lowering flea counts and protecting prairie dogs from plague.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Wildlife Disease Association","doi":"10.7589/2017-04-089","usgsCitation":"Hoogland, J.L., Biggins, D.E., Blackford, N., Eads, D., Long, D., Rivera Rodriguez, M., Ross, L.M., Tobey, S., and White, E.M., 2018, Plague in a colony of Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni) despite three years of infusions of burrows with 0.05% deltamethrin to kill fleas: Journal of Wildlife Diseases, v. 54, no. 2, p. 347-351, https://doi.org/10.7589/2017-04-089.","productDescription":"5 p.","startPage":"347","endPage":"351","ipdsId":"IP-092807","costCenters":[{"id":291,"text":"Fort Collins Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":359073,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"54","issue":"2","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":2,"text":"Denver PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5c10a9e0e4b034bf6a7e54f7","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Hoogland, John L.","contributorId":210357,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Hoogland","given":"John","email":"","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[{"id":7083,"text":"University of Maryland","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":750542,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Biggins, Dean E. 0000-0003-2078-671X bigginsd@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2078-671X","contributorId":2522,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Biggins","given":"Dean","email":"bigginsd@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[{"id":291,"text":"Fort Collins Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":750543,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Blackford, Nathaniel","contributorId":210359,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Blackford","given":"Nathaniel","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":27844,"text":"Middlebury College","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":750544,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Eads, David deads@usgs.gov","contributorId":200549,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Eads","given":"David","email":"deads@usgs.gov","affiliations":[],"preferred":true,"id":750541,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Long, Dustin","contributorId":210360,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Long","given":"Dustin","affiliations":[{"id":38107,"text":"Turner Endangered Species Fund","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":750545,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5},{"text":"Rivera Rodriguez, Mariana","contributorId":210366,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Rivera Rodriguez","given":"Mariana","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":750546,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":6},{"text":"Ross, Lauren M.","contributorId":210362,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Ross","given":"Lauren","email":"","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":38108,"text":"NA","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":750547,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":7},{"text":"Tobey, Sarah","contributorId":210363,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Tobey","given":"Sarah","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":38108,"text":"NA","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":750548,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":8},{"text":"White, Emma M.","contributorId":210364,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"White","given":"Emma","email":"","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":36913,"text":"Occidental College","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":750549,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":9}]}}
,{"id":70201113,"text":"70201113 - 2018 - Defining “atmospheric river”: How the Glossary of Meteorology helped resolve a debate","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-11-29T11:51:57","indexId":"70201113","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-01T11:51:49","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1112,"text":"Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society","onlineIssn":"1520-0477","printIssn":"0003-0007","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"displayTitle":"Defining “atmospheric river”: How the <i>Glossary of Meteorology</i> helped resolve a debate","title":"Defining “atmospheric river”: How the Glossary of Meteorology helped resolve a debate","docAbstract":"<p><span>Since the term “atmospheric river” (AR) first appeared in modern scientific literature in the early 1990s, it has generated debate about the meaning of the concept. A common popular definition is something along the lines of a “river in the sky,” albeit as a river of water vapor rather than of liquid. This general concept has come into regular use in the western United States and in some other regions affected by ARs, partly due to its use by media, and due to the intuitive nature of the concept. However, over the last 20 years there have been varying perspectives on the term in the technical community. These perspectives range roughly from considering it duplicative of preexisting concepts, such as the warm conveyor belt (WCB), to arguments that the analogy to terrestrial rivers is inappropriate, to being a primary topic of focused research, applications, and usage by water managers.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"American Meteorological Society","doi":"10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0157.1","usgsCitation":"Ralph, F.M., Dettinger, M.D., Cairns, M.M., Galarneau, T.J., and Eylander, J., 2018, Defining “atmospheric river”: How the Glossary of Meteorology helped resolve a debate: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, v. 99, no. 4, p. 837-839, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0157.1.","productDescription":"3 p.","startPage":"837","endPage":"839","ipdsId":"IP-086996","costCenters":[{"id":438,"text":"National Research Program - Western Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":359792,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"99","issue":"4","publishingServiceCenter":{"id":14,"text":"Menlo Park PSC"},"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"5c0108d7e4b0815414cc2e07","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Ralph, F. Martin","contributorId":150276,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Ralph","given":"F.","email":"","middleInitial":"Martin","affiliations":[{"id":17953,"text":"Earth Systems Research Lab, NOAA","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":752726,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Dettinger, Michael D. 0000-0002-7509-7332 mddettin@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7509-7332","contributorId":149896,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Dettinger","given":"Michael","email":"mddettin@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[{"id":37277,"text":"WMA - Earth System Processes Division","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":436,"text":"National Research Program - Eastern Branch","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":438,"text":"National Research Program - Western Branch","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":752725,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Cairns, Mary M.","contributorId":210945,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Cairns","given":"Mary","email":"","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":752727,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Galarneau, Thomas J.","contributorId":210914,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Galarneau","given":"Thomas","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[{"id":7042,"text":"University of Arizona","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":752728,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4},{"text":"Eylander, John","contributorId":210915,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Eylander","given":"John","email":"","affiliations":[{"id":13502,"text":"US Army Corps of Engineers","active":true,"usgs":false}],"preferred":false,"id":752729,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":5}]}}
,{"id":70227844,"text":"70227844 - 2018 - Genetic integrity, population status, and long-term viability of isolated populations of shoal bass in the upper Chattahoochee River basin, Georgia","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2022-02-01T17:36:45.094706","indexId":"70227844","displayToPublicDate":"2018-04-01T11:32:44","publicationYear":"2018","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":1,"text":"Federal Government Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":53,"text":"Natural Resource Report","active":false,"publicationSubtype":{"id":1}},"seriesNumber":"NPS/CHAT/NRR-2018/1620","title":"Genetic integrity, population status, and long-term viability of isolated populations of shoal bass in the upper Chattahoochee River basin, Georgia","docAbstract":"<p>This report characterizes the status of multiple isolated Shoal Bass (<i>Micropterus cataractae</i>) populations in the upper Chattahoochee River basin (UCRB), Georgia. The Shoal Bass, a sport fish endemic to the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River (ACF) basin, is a fluvial-specialist species considered vulnerable to local extirpations and extinction due to habitat fragmentation and introgression with non-native congeners. Perhaps one of the most isolated populations of Shoal Bass exists in a 2-km reach of Big Creek, a tributary of the Chattahoochee River located near Roswell, Georgia. Big Creek is partially contained within the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, although the Big Creek watershed is riddled with urban land cover. Roswell Mill Dam limits the upstream extent of the Shoal Bass population at Big Creek, and the downstream extent is presumably limited to the confluence of Big Creek and the Chattahoochee River. This reach of the Chattahoochee River is thermally depressed because of coldwater releases from Lake Lanier, and is considered unsuitable for Shoal Bass. Herein, we examine the genetic integrity, population status, and long-term viability of the Shoal Bass population in Big Creek. We also examine two additional Shoal Bass populations that occur in the UCRB, specifically the Chestatee River and the upper Chattahoochee River, both of which are impounded at Lake Lanier. Together, the Shoal Bass inhabiting these three stream systems comprise a distinct genetic stock of Shoal Bass (Taylor 2017), underscoring the importance of conserving these populations towards maintaining the overall diversity and adaptive potential of the species. We assessed genetic diversity and estimated effective population sizes within these three rivers by genotyping fish with 16 microsatellite DNA markers. Results demonstrated that the Shoal Bass population in Big Creek has experienced high rates of introgression with non-native Smallmouth Bass (M. dolomieu), purportedly introduced into the Chattahoochee River in the past 10-15 years. Alarmingly, only 24% (15 of 62) of putative Shoal Bass collected from Big Creek were genetically pure Shoal Bass, whereas the majority of fish were first-filial (F1) generation hybrids and unidirectional backcrosses towards Shoal Bass. Fleeting opportunity may remain to conserve the native genome of the Shoal Bass population in Big Creek. High hybridization rates prevented genetic diversity analysis for the Big Creek population. Shoal Bass populations in the Chestatee and Chattahoochee rivers displayed levels of genetic diversity similar to populations that persist in other rivers in the ACF basin, namely the Flint and Chipola rivers. Effective population sizes of 93.8– 197.4 for the Chestatee and Chattahoochee rivers (combined) suggest that the conservation status of these populations is stable for the short-term, but may be at risk of losing genetic diversity and adaptive potential in the long-term. To estimate age and mortality of the three populations, we used fish scales and capture-markrecapture (CMR) as complementary, non-lethal methods for age estimation. Estimated ages of phenotypic Shoal Bass ranged from 1-12 years in all three populations, demonstrating increased longevity compared to populations elsewhere within the native range. Catch-curve estimates of annual mortality ranged from 18.4-23.7%, which are markedly lower than those observed in other Shoal Bass populations in the ACF basin. These differences in life-history characteristics underscore the need for the development of population-specific management and conservation strategies for Shoal Bass in the UCRB. The lowest recruitment variability (i.e., the variation in year-class strength) was observed in the Chestatee River, a forested watershed, whereas the highest variability was observed in Big Creek, an urbanized watershed. Recruitment strength in Big Creek was negatively influenced by discharge variability in the summer months, suggesting that flashy, sediment-laden flows hinder survival of recently hatched young. Other statistically significant models from Big Creek and the Chattahoochee River indicated that over-winter survival could be an important pinch-point for recruitment in UCRB populations. A multi-agency sampling effort was conducted from May 2013-May 2016 to estimate the population size of Shoal Bass occupying the 1-km of wadeable shoal habitats in Big Creek. Using CMR models, we estimated that approximately 219-348 Shoal Bass (≥ 70 mm total length) occupied the area throughout the duration of our study. These estimates largely reflect abundance of individuals aged 0-2 years, as only 9% (36 of 408) tagged fish were aged ≥ 7 years. Local abundance appeared similar to that reported for a population that inhabited Little Uchee Creek, a similar-sized tributary of the Chattahoochee River, prior to its recent functional extirpation. The low abundance of large, adult Shoal Bass further suggests the long-term viability of the Big Creek population may be in jeopardy. Perhaps most importantly, CMR estimates reflect abundance of phenotypic Shoal Bass – genetic analyses suggest the abundance of pure Shoal Bass could be an order of magnitude smaller. To evaluate the potential for adult Shoal Bass to emigrate from Big Creek into the mainstem Chattahoochee River, we tagged eight adults with acoustic telemetry tags and assessed their seasonal residency at two stationary receiver locations located in increasing proximity to the confluence with the Chattahoochee River. Fish took up residency near the confluence during the fall and winter months, during which time water temperatures in Big Creek were periodically colder than the Chattahoochee River. Although we were unable to document emigration, we conclude that the potential for emigration is highest during the winter months when the Chattahoochee River may be warmer than Big Creek. Two of the tagged fish were caught by anglers near the confluence, suggesting that angling pressure at Big Creek may be higher than previously suspected. Overall, this study observed unique life-history characteristics and characterized the population status of multiple Shoal Bass populations in the UCRB. Populations in the Chestatee and Chattahoochee rivers appear stable at present and likely represent the last remaining strongholds for pure Shoal Bass in the UCRB. Efforts to preserve forested watershed conditions, natural hydrology, and shoal habitats would contribute to the long-term persistence of Shoal Bass populations in these two rivers. Additionally, the detection of non-native Alabama Bass and their associated hybrids in both rivers is cause for concern. Diligent monitoring of hybridization dynamics between Alabama Bass and Shoal Bass is warranted, along with an assessment of Alabama Bass invasion extent upstream of Lake Lanier. The Shoal Bass population in Big Creek is threatened by elevated levels of introgression with nonnative Smallmouth Bass, recruitment variability, low abundance of adults, and isolation from other populations. Conservation intervention is urgently needed to restore and preserve this genetically distinct population, which would contribute to preservation of range wide genetic diversity and adaptability of the species. Additionally, an urban sport fishery for Shoal Bass at Big Creek has the potential to serve as a tool for increasing public awareness, engagement, and support of Shoal Bass conservation efforts in the UCRB. We suggest strategies for conservation of the remnant shoal habitats and Shoal Bass population in Big Creek, including potential development of a supplemental stocking program, selective removal of non-native congeners, and delivery of environmental education programs that could bolster awareness and appreciation. </p>","language":"English","publisher":"National Park Service","usgsCitation":"Taylor, A.T., and Long, J.M., 2018, Genetic integrity, population status, and long-term viability of isolated populations of shoal bass in the upper Chattahoochee River basin, Georgia: Natural Resource Report NPS/CHAT/NRR-2018/1620, x, 49 p.","productDescription":"x, 49 p.","ipdsId":"IP-093252","costCenters":[{"id":198,"text":"Coop Res Unit Atlanta","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":395220,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"},{"id":395219,"rank":1,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/600778"}],"country":"United States","state":"Georgia","otherGeospatial":"Big Creek, Chattahoochee River, Chestatee River","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -83.397216796875,\n              34.54954921593403\n            ],\n            [\n              -83.70758056640625,\n              34.73484137177769\n            ],\n            [\n              -84.4024658203125,\n              34.03900467904445\n            ],\n            [\n              -84.22119140625,\n              33.87269600798948\n            ],\n            [\n              -83.397216796875,\n              34.54954921593403\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Taylor, Andrew T.","contributorId":177197,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Taylor","given":"Andrew","email":"","middleInitial":"T.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":832509,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Long, James M. 0000-0002-8658-9949 jmlong@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8658-9949","contributorId":3453,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Long","given":"James","email":"jmlong@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"M.","affiliations":[{"id":198,"text":"Coop Res Unit Atlanta","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":832415,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}}
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Their spread into the state, including reservoirs in both Brazos River and Colorado River basins, has resulted in a need to delimit suitable dreissenid habitat and dispersal potential in Texas. The objective of our research was to assess invasion risk in Texas by 1) predicting distribution of suitable habitat of zebra and quagga mussels using Maxent models; 2) refining lake-specific predictions for present zebra mussels via collection of physicochemical data; and 3) assessing the potential for downstream spread of zebra mussels by applying environmental DNA (eDNA) methods in the Leon and Lampasas Rivers downstream from the invaded Lakes Belton and Stillhouse Hollow, respectively. </p><p>Maxent models did not predict the occurrence of suitable habitat for quagga mussels within Texas. However, our models accurately identified global zebra mussel habitat (AUC = 0.919), and Bioclim layers representing temperature and precipitation data both strongly influenced predictions. Predicted “hotspots” of suitable zebra mussel habitat in Texas occurred along the Red and Sabine Rivers of north and east Texas, as well as patches of suitable habitat in central Texas between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers and extending inland along the Gulf Coast. Most of the Texas panhandle, west Texas extending toward El Paso, and the Rio Grande valley were predicted to provide poor habitat suitability. </p><p>Collection of physicochemical data (dissolved oxygen, pH, specific conductance, and temperature on-site as well as laboratory analysis for Ca, N, and P) from zebra mussel invaded lakes and a subset of identified high-risk lakes of North and Central Texas, did not aid predictions. Visual inspection of biplots of the first three components of a principle component analysis, which together accounted for ~80% of data variability, did not reveal separation between invaded and uninvaded lakes, and logistic regression analysis also failed to identify predictive relationships between measured variables and invasion status. </p><p>Using eDNA analysis, we detected the presence of zebra mussel eDNA at 11 of 12 sites and up to at least 90.7 river km downstream from a pair of infested reservoirs. Rate of positive detection among water samples at each site ranged from 1/5 to 5/5, and within positive water samples, rate of detection among technical replicates ranged from 1/8 to 8/8, suggesting considerable heterogeneity in the zebra mussel eDNA signal in both rivers. Furthermore, no clear spatial pattern in detection rate occurred. </p><p>Thus, a monitoring strategy that combines traditional sampling (e.g. settlement substrate samplers and microscopy) at sites immediately below a dam, and transitioning to more sensitive eDNA analysis at distances further from the dam may represent the most successful strategy for detection of dreissenid mussel downstream dispersal. Overall, we have demonstrated that while quagga mussels do not appear to represent an invasive threat in Texas, suitable habitat for continuing zebra mussel invasion exists within Texas, and stream and river connections may contribute to their spread. 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