Heterogeneous multi-stage accretionary orogenesis — Evidence from the Gunnison block in the Yavapai Province, southwest USA
Ian William Hillenbrand, Amy K. Gilmer, Michael L. Williams, Karl E. Karlstrom, Amanda Souders, Jorge A. Vazquez, Wayne R. Premo
2024, Precambrian Research (401)
Proterozoic rocks exposed in the southwestern U.S.A. represent one of the best examples of crustal growth by arc-related magmatism and accretionary orogenesis. Within the Southwest the 1.8–1.7 Ga Yavapai Province is widely regarded as a classic example of juvenile arc crust, however...
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data
Joshua P. Twining, David Kramer, Kelly A. Perkins, Angela K. Fuller
2024, Biological Conservation (290)
Accurate estimation and monitoring of wildlife population trends is foundational to evidence-based conservation. Here, we use hierarchical modelling to estimate population trends for six species of management interest (coyotes; <a class="topic-link" title="Learn more about red foxes from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages"...
Spawning habitat selection and egg deposition by reintroduced Lake Sturgeon in a tributary to Cayuga Lake, NY
Dawn E. Dittman, Marc Chalupnicki, Phyllis Randall, Emily C. Zollweg-Horan
2024, Journal of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (9) 9-13
In June 2017, we documented the first observed spawning event by a reintroduced population of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in Fall Creek, a tributary to Cayuga Lake, New York, USA. This is the first observed spawning encounter of adult Lake Sturgeon since the beginning of the multi-agency...
The importance of nodal plane orientation diversity for earthquake focal mechanism stress inversions
Jens-Erik Lundstern, Eric Beauce, Orlando J. Teran
2024, Geological Society of London Special Publications (546) 93-118
Inversions of earthquake focal mechanisms are among the most accessible and reliable methods for determining crustal stress. However, the use of this method varies widely, and assumptions that underpin it are often violated, potentially compromising stress estimates. We investigate the consequences of violating the little-studied assumption that the focal mechanisms...
Reply to comment on "Five decades of observed daily precipitation reveal longer and more variable drought events across much of the western United States"
Joel A. Biederman, Fangyue Zhang, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Dong Yan, Sasha C. Reed, William K. Smith
2024, Journal of Geophysical Research (51)
Paciorek and Wehner raise important questions around our use of the Mann-Kendall nonparametric trend test on smoothed data for analyzing long-term hydrometeorological trends in Zhang et al. (2021, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl092293). We thank them for initiating this important conversation and their gracious cooperation in exploring the issues addressed in their comment....
Using local monitoring results to inform the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Watershed Model
Karl Berger, Katherine C. Filippino, Gary W. Shenk, Normand Goulet, Michael Lookenbill, Douglas L. Moyer, Gregory E. Noe, Aaron J. Porter, James Shallenberger, Bryant Thomas, Guido Yactayo
2024, STAC Workshop Report 24-002
The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Watershed Model (CBWM) has been used as an accounting tool for the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). However, some of the fundamental parameters that underpin the watershed model may not represent local watershed characteristics at all scales. Significant investments have been made by...
Contrasting demographic responses under future climate for two populations of a montane amphibian
Amanda M. Kissel, Wendy J. Palen, Michael J. Adams, Justin M Garwood
2024, Climate Change Ecology (7)
For species with complex life histories, climate change can have contrasting effects for different life stages within locally adapted populations and may result in responses counter to general climate change predictions. Using data from two, 14-year demographic studies for a North...
Major fluvial erosion and a 500-Mt sediment pulse triggered by lava-dam failure, Río Coca, Ecuador
Pedro D. Barrera Crespo, Pablo Espinoza Giron, Renan Bedoya, Stanford Gibson, Amy E. East, Eddy J. Langendoen, Paul M Boyd
2024, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (49) 1058-1080
The failure of a 144-m-high lava-dam waterfall on the Río Coca, Ecuador, in February 2020 initiated a catastrophic watershed reset—regressive erosion upstream and a massive sediment pulse downstream—as the river evolves towards a new equilibrium grade. The evolution of this river corridor after a...
A dataset of amphibian species in U.S. National Parks
Benjamin Lafrance, Andrew M. Ray, Robert N. Fisher, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Charles Shafer, David Beamer, Stephen Frank Spear, Todd W Pierson, Jon M. Davenport, Matthew L. Niemiller, R. Alexander Pyron, Brad Glorioso, William Barichivich, Brian J. Halstead, Kory Roberts, Blake R. Hossack
2024, Scientific Data (11)
National parks and other protected areas are important for preserving landscapes and biodiversity worldwide. An essential component of the mission of the United States (U.S.) National Park Service (NPS) requires understanding and maintaining accurate inventories of species on protected lands. We describe a new, national-scale synthesis...
Non-negligible near-term risk of extinction to the eastern migratory population of monarch butterflies—An updated assessment (2006–22)
Wayne E. Thogmartin
2024, Open-File Report 2023-1097
The eastern migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) started declining as early as the mid-1970s and seemed to stop declining by the early 2000s; the population now (about 2022) persists at a much-reduced abundance. Stochastic variation in abundance, at levels typical of monarch butterflies and other insects, was assessed...
Slope Unit Maker (SUMak): An efficient and parameter-free algorithm for delineating slope units to improve landslide modeling
Jacob Bryson Woodard, Benjamin B. Mirus, Nathan J. Wood, Kate E. Allstadt, Ben Leshchinsky, Matthew Crawford
2024, Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences (NHESS) (24) 1-12
Slope units are terrain partitions bounded by drainage and divide lines. In landslide modeling, including susceptibility modeling and event-specific modeling of landslide occurrence, slope units provide several advantages over gridded units, such as better capturing terrain geometry, improved incorporation of geospatial landslide-occurrence data in...
Global potential distribution of mangroves: Taking into account salt marsh interactions along latitudinal gradients
Lina Cui, Don DeAngelis, Uta Berger, Minmin Cao, Yaqi Zhang, Xiaomin Zhang, Jiang Jiang
2024, Journal of Environmental Management (351)
Mangrove is one of the most productive and sensitive ecosystems in the world. Due to the complexity and specificity of mangrove habitat, the development of mangrove is regulated by several factors. Species distribution models (SDMs) are effective tools to identify the potential habitats for establishing and regenerating the ecosystem. Such...
Estimating lithium concentrations in groundwater used as drinking water for the conterminous United States
Melissa A. Lombard, Eric E. Brown, Daniel Saftner, Monica M. Arienzo, Esme Fuller-Thomson, Craig J. Brown, Joseph D. Ayotte
2024, Environmental Science and Technology (58) 1255-1264
Lithium (Li) concentrations in drinking-water supplies are not regulated in the United States; however, Li is included in the 2022 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list of unregulated contaminants for monitoring by public water systems. Li is used pharmaceutically to treat bipolar disorder, and studies have linked its occurrence in drinking...
Rapid estimation of single-station earthquake magnitudes with machine learning on a global scale
Sydney Dybing, William L. Yeck, Hank M. Cole, Diego Melgar
2024, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (114) 1523-1538
The foundation of earthquake monitoring is the ability to rapidly detect, locate, and estimate the size of seismic sources. Earthquake magnitudes are particularly difficult to rapidly characterize because magnitude types are only applicable to specific magnitude ranges, and location errors propagate to substantial magnitude errors. We developed a method for...
Note to All Banders - January 2024
Antonio Celis-Murillo
2024, Newsletter
Note to All Banders was a special extra communication with more urgent information relevant to banders. . This note includes holiday greetings and a review of the 2023 successes at the Bird Banding Laboratory. Throughout 2022, the BBL increased communication, engagement, and collaboration, within the Eastern Ecological Science Center, U.S....
Mass-balance-consistent geological stock accounting: A new approach toward sustainable management of mineral resources
Mark U. Simoni, Johannes A. Drielsma, Magnus Ericsson, Andrew G. Gunn, Sigurd Heiberg, Tom A. Heldal, Nedal T. Nassar, Evi Petavratz, Daniel B. Muller
2024, Environmental Science and Technology (58) 971-990
Global resource extraction raises concerns about environmental pressures and the security of mineral supply. Strategies to address these concerns depend on robust information on natural resource endowments, and on suitable methods to monitor and model their changes over time. However, current mineral resources and reserves reporting and accounting workflows are...
Identifying conditions where reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) functions as a driver of forest loss in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain under different hydrological scenarios
Nathan R. De Jager, Jason J. Rohweder, Molly Van Appledorn, Enrika Hlavacek, Andy Meier
2024, Wetlands Ecology and Management (32) 153-170
Most of the world’s river-floodplain ecosystems are simultaneously undergoing modifications to their hydrological regimes and experiencing species invasions, making it unclear whether invasive species are the main drivers of ecosystem change or simply responding to changes in the hydrological regime.We simulated patterns of forest recruitment and...
Slowly but surely: Exposure of communities and infrastructure to subsidence on the US east coast
Leonard O. Ohenhen, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Patrick L. Barnard
2024, PNAS Nexus (3)
Coastal communities are vulnerable to multihazards, which are exacerbated by land subsidence. On the US east coast, the high density of population and assets amplifies the region's exposure to coastal hazards. We utilized measurements of vertical land motion rates obtained from analysis of radar datasets to evaluate the subsidence-hazard...
K-12 trade books’ representation of earthquake safety and protective actions: A content analysis
Samuel Nyarko, Danielle F. Sumy, Sara K. McBride
2024, Journal of Geoscience Education (73) 28-45
Meaningful learning resources for earthquake safety and survival have become an increasingly important topic among geoscientists, especially educators and researchers. Various members of the public, especially K-12 (ages 5–18) learners, continue to depend on scientific trade books available at their local public and school libraries for information about earthquake concepts....
Drought prediction and water availability: A report on the 2022 USGS-NIDIS National Listening Session Series
Marina Skumanich, Erik Smith, Joel Lisonbee, John C. Hammond
2024, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) conducted a series of four Listening Sessions in 2022 – each with a different application or topical focus – to seek input on priorities and needs related to predicting water availability changes under drought conditions at national...
Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon research and monitoring
Russell Perry, Dalton Hance, John Plumb, Kenneth F. Tiffan, Brad Bickford, Scott Louis Benson, Tobyn Rhodes, Steve Brink, Brad Alcorn
Kenneth F. Tiffan, editor(s)
2024, Report
In Chapter 1, we report on development and application of an integrated population model (IPM) for the natural-origin fall Chinook salmon population upstream of Lower Granite Dam. This year’s efforts represent the third update to the model. Initial efforts focused on generating juvenile and adult abundance estimates, with...
Using geologic mapping to understand temporal and spatial relations of closely clustered to concurrent latest Holocene surface ruptures on two intersecting faults, south-central Mojave Desert, California
Christopher M. Menges, Stephanie L. Dudash, Shannon A. Mahan
2024, Conference Paper, Geologic Mapping Forum 23/24 abstracts
The Pinto Mountain Fault Zone (PMFZ) marks a major structural boundary between east-oriented sinistral faults of the eastern Transverse Ranges (to the south) and northwest-oriented dextral faults of the south-central Mojave Desert (to the north). These structural fault systems comprise sinistral and dextral deformational domains of the Eastern California Shear...
Broad scale community-level larval fish survey of southern Lake Erie
Robin L. DeBruyne, Zachary A. Amidon, Matthew Joseph Angelosanto, Emily Ann Eberly, Dimitry Gorsky, Stacey Ireland, Christine Mayer, Stacy Provo, Haley VanScoyoc, James M. Watkins, Edward F. Roseman
2024, Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management (27) 97-114
The early-life history stages of fish are sensitive to environmental change and therefore can indicate habitat quality as well as help predict recruitment of resident and transient fishes. In 2019, as part of the Lake Erie Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative, we conducted a lake-wide assessment of the ichthyoplankton community...
Recent applications of the USGS National Crustal Model for Seismic Hazard Studies
Oliver S. Boyd, James Andrew Smith, Morgan P. Moschetti, Brad T. Aagaard, Robert Graves, Evan Tyler Hirakawa, Sean Kamran Ahdi
2024, Conference Paper, Geologic mapping forum 23/24 abstracts
The U.S. Geological Survey is developing the National Crustal Model (NCM) for seismic hazard studies to facilitate modeling site, path, and source components of seismic hazard across the conterminous United States. The NCM is composed of a 1km grid of geophysical profiles, extending from the Earth’s surface into the upper...
Burmese python seen on camera consuming an endangered species for the first time
Isaac Lord, Jacquelyn C. Guzy
2024, Newsletter
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