Can migration mitigate the effects of ecosystem change? Patterns of dispersal, energy acquisition and allocation in Great Lakes lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)
Michael D. Rennie, Mark P. Ebener, Tyler Wagner
2012, Advances in Limnology (63) 455-476
Migration can be a behavioural response to poor or declining home range habitat quality and can occur when the costs of migration are overcome by the benefi ts of encountering higher-quality resources elsewhere. Despite dramatic ecosystem-level changes in the benthic food web of the Laurentian Great Lakes since the colonization...
Vegetation model technical report
M Jenneke Visser Jenneke, M Scott Duke-Sylvester Scott, W.L. Broussard, Jacoby Carter
2012, Report, Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast
The vegetation model (LAVegMod) described in this appendix is the next generation of a similar model (habitat switching module) initially developed as part of the Louisiana Coastal Area study. LAVegMod divides the original 5-habitat model for the Louisiana coast into 19 vegetation types. LAVegMod provides longer estimates of interannual variation...
Version 3.0 of EMINERS - Economic Mineral Resource Simulator
Joseph S. Duval
2012, Open-File Report 2004-1344
Quantitative mineral resource assessment, as developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), consists of three parts: (1) development of grade and tonnage mineral deposit models; (2) delineation of tracts permissive for each deposit type; and (3) probabilistic estimation of the numbers of undiscovered deposits for each deposit type. The estimate...
Chapter A6. Section 6.6. Alkalinity and acid neutralizing capacity
Stewart A. Rounds, Franceska D. Wilde
2012, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 09-A6.6
Alkalinity (determined on a filtered sample) and Acid Neutralizing Capacity (ANC) (determined on a whole-water sample) are measures of the ability of a water sample to neutralize strong acid. Alkalinity and ANC provide information on the suitability of water for uses such as irrigation, determining the efficiency of wastewater processes,...
Evaluation of two forms of electroanesthesia and carbon dioxide for short-term anesthesia in walleye
Christopher S. Vandergoot, Karen J Murchie, Steven J. Cooke, John M. Dettmers, Roger A. Bergstedt, David G. Fielder
2011, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (31) 914-922
Anesthetics immobilize fish, reducing physical damage and stress during aquaculture practices, stock assessment, and experimental procedures. Currently, only tricaine methanesulfonate (MS-222) is approved for use as an anesthetic for food fish in Canada and the United States; however, MS-222 can only be used with certain fish species, and treated fish...
Notes on interpretation of geophysical data over areas of mineralization in Afghanistan
Benjamin J. Drenth
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1258
Afghanistan has the potential to contain substantial metallic mineral resources. Although valuable mineral deposits have been identified, much of the country’s potential remains unknown. Geophysical surveys, particularly those conducted from airborne platforms, are a well-accepted and cost-effective method for obtaining information on the geological setting of a given area. This...
Identification of mineral resources in Afghanistan—Detecting and mapping resource anomalies in prioritized areas using geophysical and remote sensing (ASTER and HyMap) data
Trude V. V. King, Michaela R. Johnson, Bernard E. Hubbard, Benjamin J. Drenth, editor(s)
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1229
As part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Department of Defense Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO) natural resources revitalization activities in Afghanistan (Peters and others, 2011), three new datasets have been collected, compiled, and analyzed. These data have been used to more fully evaluate the areas...
Real-time seismic monitoring of structures: Data handling and case studies
Mehmet Celebi
2011, Book chapter, Earthquake data in engineering seismology: Predictive models, data management and networks
Within the last decade, advances in the acquisition, processing and transmission of data from real-time seismic monitoring systems has contributed to the growth in the number structures instrumented with such systems. An equally important factor for such growth can be attributed to the demands by stakeholders to find rapid answers...
Evaluation of approaches and associated uncertainties in the estimation of temperatures in the upper crust of the western United States
2011, Book
No abstract available ...
Arsenic in Chinese coals: Distribution, modes of occurrence, and environmental effects
Y. Kang, Guijian Liu
2011, Article
Arsenic, one of the most hazardous elements occurring in coals, can be released to the environment during coal processing and combustion. Based on the available literature and published results obtained in our laboratory, the content, distribution and the modes of occurrence of As in Chinese coals, and its environmental and...
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2010
Julie A. Dumoulin, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, editor(s)
2011, Professional Paper 1784
The collection of papers that follows continues the series of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) investigative reports in Alaska under the broad umbrella of the geologic sciences. This series represents new and sometimes-preliminary findings that are of interest to Earth scientists in academia, government, and industry; to land and resource managers;...
Strong ground motion in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during the M7.0 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake
Susan E Hough, Doug Given, Tomoyo Taniguchi, J.R. Altidor, Dieuseul Anglade, S-L. Mildor
2011, Conference Paper
No strong motion records are available for the 12 January 2010 M7.0 Haiti earthquake. We use aftershock recordings as well as detailed considerations of damage to estimate the severity and distribution of mainshock shaking in Port-au-Prince. Relative to ground motions at a hard - rock reference site, peak accelerations...
LiDAR: Providing structure
Lee A. Vierling, Sebastián Martinuzzi, Gregory P. Asner, Jason M. Stoker, Brian R. Johnson
2011, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (9) 261-262
Since the days of MacArthur, three-dimensional (3-D) structural information on the environment has fundamentally transformed scientific understanding of ecological phenomena (MacArthur and MacArthur 1961). Early data on ecosystem structure were painstakingly laborious to collect. However, as reviewed and reported in recent volumes of Frontiers(eg Vierling et al. 2008; Asner et...
Groundwater–surface-water exchange and the geologic setting of northern Minnesota's lakes, wetlands, and streams—Modern-day relevance of Tom Winter's legacy
Donald O. Rosenberry, Robert C. Melchior, Perry M. Jones, Andrew Strietz, Kelton D. Barr, David R. Lee, James J. Piegat
2011, GSA Field Guides (24) 545-585
Tom Winter spent nearly 50 years conducting research in earth science, and he specialized in the exchange between groundwater and surface water. Tom's highly productive career began in Minnesota. This fi eld trip revisits many of the places where Tom conducted his early research and demonstrates the continuing relevance of...
Distribution and abundance of stream fishes in relation to barriers: implications for monitoring stream recovery after barrier removal
Joseph D. Zydlewski, Stephen M. Coghlan Jr., C. Gardner, R. Saunders
2011, River Research and Applications (29) 65-78
Dams are ubiquitous in coastal regions and have altered stream habitats and the distribution and abundance of stream fishes in those habitats by disrupting hydrology, temperature regime and habitat connectivity. Dam removal is a common restoration tool, but often the response of the fish assemblage is not monitored rigorously. Sedgeunkedunk...
Survival of migrating Atlantic salmon smolts through the Penobscot River, Maine: A pre-restoration assessment
Joseph D. Zydlewski, Michael T. Kinnison, Christopher M. Holbrook
2011, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (140) 1255-1268
Survival, distribution, and behavior of hatchery (n = 493) and naturally reared (n = 133) smolts of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar migrating through the Penobscot River and estuary in Maine were evaluated with acoustic telemetry in 2005 and 2006. Survival and use of a secondary migration path (the Stillwater Branch)...
Landsat Update: Volume 5 Issue 1
2011, Report
LANDFIRE 2001 and 2008 Refresh Geographic Area Report--Pacific Southwest
Henry Bastion, Don Long, Brenda Lundberg, Jay Kost, Jeffrey A. Natharius, Heather Kreilick, Charley Martin, Tobin Smail, James Napoli, Wendel Hann
2011, Report
The LANDFIRE National project (LF_1.0.0) was successfully completed in 2009. The goal of LANDFIRE National was to generate consistent 2001 vintage 30 meter spatial data sets for all 50 states for fire and other natural resource applications. This report highlights results from the continuation of LANDFIRE as a program to...
Biological review of 82 species of coral petitioned to be included in the Endangered Species Act
Russell E. Brainard, Charles Birkeland, C. Mark Eakin, Paul McElhany, Margaret W. Miller, Matt Patterson, G.A. Piniak
2011, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS‐PIFSC‐27
list 83 coral species as threatened or endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The petition was based on a predicted decline in available habitat for the species, citing anthropogenic climate change and ocean acidification as the lead factors among the various stressors responsible for the potential decline. The NMFS...
ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model Version 2 - summary of validation results
Tetushi Tachikawa, Manabu Kaku, Akira Iwasaki, Dean B. Gesch, Michael J. Oimoen, Z. Zhang, Jeffrey J. Danielson, Tabatha Krieger, Bill Curtis, Jeff Haase, Michael Abrams, C. Carabajal
2011, Report
On June 29, 2009, NASA and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan released a Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) to users worldwide at no charge as a contribution to the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS). This “version 1” ASTER GDEM (GDEM1) was compiled from...
Nearshore disposal of fine-grained sediment in a high-energy environment: Santa Cruz Harbor case study
Katherine Cronin, Maarten van Ormondt, Curt D. Storlazzi, Katherine Presto, Pieter K. Tonnon
Julie D. Rosati, Ping Wang, Tiffany M. Roberts, editor(s)
2011, Book, The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2011
Current regulations in California prohibit the disposal of more than 20% fine-grained sediment in the coastal zone; this threshold is currently being investigated to determine if this environmental regulation can be improved upon. A field monitoring and numerical modeling experiment took place late 2 009 to determine the fate...
Measuring the impacts of natural amenities and the US-Mexico Border, on housing values in the Santa Cruz Watershed, using spatially-weighted hedonic modeling
Gladys Amaya, Laura M. Norman, George Frisvold
2011, Conference Paper, Proceedings of Santa Cruz River Researchers' Day
Assessing the sustainability of International policy or urban development requires consideration of the impacts of these decisions on Ecosystem Services, or the values that humans receive from the ecosystem, including market-land price, environmental, and human well-being values. Hedonic modeling helps to identify the market land price, considering the price is...
Evaluation of the flathead catfish population and fishery on Lake Carl Blackwell, Oklahoma, with emphasis on the effects of noodling
Dana L. Winkelman
Paul H. Michaletz, Vincent H. Travnichek, editor(s)
2011, Book chapter, Conservation, Ecology, and Management of Catfish: The Second International Symposium
I conducted a 3-year study at Lake Carl Blackwell, Oklahoma to estimate effects of various fishing gears on the flathead catfish Pylodictis olivaris population. Managers were particularly interested in the effect of handfishing or noodling on this population. I used a phone survey to assess angler effort and electrofishing and...
Evaluation of environmental contaminants and elements in bigheaded carps of the Missouri River at Easley, Missouri, USA
Carl E. Orazio, Duane Chapman, Thomas W. May, John C. Meadows, Michael J. Walther, Kathy R. Echols, Joseph E. Deters, Ellen S. Dierenfeld
Duane Chapman, Michael H. Hoff, editor(s)
2011, Conference Paper, Invasive Asian carps of North America: American Fisheries Symposium
No abstract available....
Merging climate and multi-sensor time-series data in real-time drought monitoring across the U.S.A.
Jesslyn F. Brown, T. Miura, B. Wardlow, Yingxin Gu
2011, Conference Paper, 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment: The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring
Droughts occur repeatedly in the United States resulting in billions of dollars of damage. Monitoring and reporting on drought conditions is a necessary function of government agencies at multiple levels. A team of Federal and university partners developed a drought decision- support tool with higher spatial resolution relative to traditional...
