Guidance manual for forensic analysis of perchlorate in groundwater using chlorine and oxygen isotopic analyses
2011, Report
Increased health concerns about perchlorate (ClO4-) during the past decade and subsequent regulatory considerations have generated appreciable interest in source identification. The key objective of the isotopic techniques described in this guidance manual is to provide evidence concerning the origin of ClO4- in soils and groundwater and, more specifically, whether...
DDT, DDD, and DDE in birds
Lawrence J. Blus
W. Nelson Beyer, James P. Meador, editor(s)
2011, Book chapter, Environmental contaminants in biota: Interpreting tissue concentrations
This chapter summarizes residue levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), DDD, and DDE three compounds in birds that are diagnostic for or are associated with mortality and important sublethal effects and suggests improvements in design of contemporary field studies that will result in maximum usefulness in interpreting residue data. Heath et al....
Environmental contaminants in biota: Interpreting tissue concentrations
W. Nelson Beyer, James P. Meador
2011, Book
Discussing the interpretation of tissue concentrations of contaminants in wildlife, this updated edition of a bestseller draws on current scientific research and includes new chapters and greater emphasis on aquatic organisms. Each chapter provides a summary and review of a specific chemical along with direction on research methods and the...
Nearshore bathymetric evolution on a high-energy beach during the 2009-10 El Nino winter
Patrick L. Barnard, Daniel J. Hoover, Jeffrey A. Hansen
2011, Conference Paper, The proceedings of the coastal sediments 2011
The nearshore bathymetric evolution of a high-energy beach at the mouth of San Francisco Bay, California (USA), was tracked before, during, and after the powerful El Niño winter of 2009-10 to quantify alongshore bar formation and migration as well as the magnitude and alongshore variability of cross-shore transport. The observed...
A transect across the basement massifs of the central Green Mountains, Vermont
Gregory J. Walsh, Nicholas M. Ratcliffe, Michael J. Kunk
2011, Conference Paper, Guidebook for field trips in Vermont and adjacent New York
No abstract available....
The role of backbarrier infilling in the formation of barrier island systems
Christopher J. Hein, Duncan M. FitzGerald, Emily A. Carruthers, Byron D. Stone, Allen M. Gontz
2011, Conference Paper, The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2011
Barrier islands develop through a variety of processes, including spit accretion, barrier elongation, and inlet filling. New geophysical and sedimentological data provide a means of documenting the presence of a paleoinlet within a barrier lithosome in the western Gulf of Maine, illuminating the process of backbarrier infilling and its effect...
Revelations from ambient shaking data of a recently instrumented unique building at MIT campus
Mehmet Celebi, N. Toksoz, O. Buyukozturk
2011, Conference Paper, IOMAC 2011. Proceedings
A state-of-the-art seismic monitoring system comprising 36 accelerometers and a data-logger with real-time capability was recently installed at Building 54 on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT], Cambridge, Massachusetts. The system is designed to record translational, torsional and rocking motions, and to facilitate computation of drift between select pairs...
Lithogeochemistry of the Devonian Popovich Formation in the northern Carlin Trend, Nevada
Albert H. Hofstra, William Christiansen, B Pamela Zohar Pamela, Gilles Tousignant Gilles
2011, Conference Paper, Great basin evolution and metallogeny: 2010 symposium proceedings
No abstract available....
Hotspot: The Snake River geothermal drilling project - An overview
John W. Shervais, James P. Evans, Eric J. Christiansen, Douglas R. Schmitt, Lee M. Liberty, David D. Blackwell, Jonathan M. Glen, James E. Kessler, Katherine E. Potter, Marlon M. Jean, Christopher J. Sant, Thomas Freeman
2011, GRC Transactions (35) 995-1003
The Snake River volcanic province (SRP) overlies a thermal anomaly that extends deep into the mantle; it represents one of the highest heat flow provinces in North America, and an area with the highest calculated geothermal gradients. This makes the SRP one of the potentially highest producing geothermal districts in...
Field guide to the accretionary complex and neotectonics of south-central Alaska, Anchorage to Seward
Susan M. Karl, Dwight C. Bradley, Rodney Combellick, Marti L. Miller
2011, Report
No abstract available....
Traverse of the major fault systems of the Taconian deformational front, the Vermont Valley and core of the Green Mountain massif, southern Vermont
Nicholas M. Ratcliffe, Michael J. Kunk, William C. Burton, Gregory J. Walsh
2011, Conference Paper, Guidebook for field trips in Vermont and adjacent New York
No abstract available....
Simulations of historical and future trends in snowfall and groundwater recharge for basins draining to Long Island Sound
David M. Bjerklie, Roland J. Viger, Thomas J. Trombley
2011, Earth Interactions (15) 1-35
A regional watershed model was developed for watersheds contributing to Long Island Sound, including the Connecticut River basin. The study region covers approximately 40 900 km2, extending from a moderate coastal climate zone in the south to a mountainous northern New England climate zone dominated by snowmelt in the north....
Walleye and sauger life history: Chapter 7
Michael A. Bozek, Dominic A. Baccante, Nigel P. Lester
2011, Book chapter, Biology, management, and culture of walleye and sauger
No abstract available....
Bias-adjusted satellite-based rainfall estimates for predicting floods: Narayani Basin
Guleid A. Artan, S.A. Tokar, D.K. Gautam, S.R. Bajracharya, M.S. Shrestha
2011, Journal of Flood Risk Management (4) 360-373
In Nepal, as the spatial distribution of rain gauges is not sufficient to provide detailed perspective on the highly varied spatial nature of rainfall, satellite-based rainfall estimates provides the opportunity for timely estimation. This paper presents the flood prediction of Narayani Basin at the Devghat hydrometric station (32 000 km2) using bias-adjusted...
2011 statistical abstract of the United States
Joseph M. Krisanda
2011, Report
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print...
Managing white-tailed deer: Eastern North America
Duane R. Diefenbach, Stephen M. Shea
2011, Book chapter, Biology and management of white-tailed deer
The ability of the white-tailed deer to adapt to and thrive in a wide variety of habitats requires different approaches to managing this species. Variation in both the population dynamics of the species and in the social and political factors that inuence how humans value white-tailed deer also necessitate different...
Water and heat transport in boreal soils: Implications for soil response to climate change
Zhaosheng Fan, Jennifer W. Harden, G.C. Winston, Jonathan A. O’Donnell, Jason C. Neff, Tingjun Zhang, Hugo Veldhuis, C.I. Czimczik
2011, Science of the Total Environment (409) 1836-1842
Soil water content strongly affects permafrost dynamics by changing the soil thermal properties. However, the movement of liquid water, which plays an important role in the heat transport of temperate soils, has been under-represented in boreal studies. Two different heat transport models with and without convective heat transport were compared...
Sparrow modeling to understand water quality conditions in major regions of the United States: A featured collection introduction
Stephen D. Preston, Richard B. Alexander, David M. Wolock
2011, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (47) 887-890
No abstract available....
Leopard density estimates at a park/farmland boundary in north-central Namibia
A.B. Stein, Todd K. Fuller, Stephen DeStefano, L.L. Marker
2011, African Journal of Ecology (49) 383-387
No abstract available....
Methane hydrate-bearing seeps as a source of aged dissolved organic carbon to the oceans
John W. Pohlman, William F. Waite, James E. Bauer, Christopher L. Osburn, N. Ross Chapman
2011, Nature Geoscience (4) 37-41
Marine sediments contain about 500–10,000 Gt of methane carbon1, 2, 3, primarily in gas hydrate. This reservoir is comparable in size to the amount of organic carbon in land biota, terrestrial soils, the atmosphere and sea water combined1, 4, but it releases relatively little methane to the ocean and atmosphere5. Sedimentary...
Novel primers for complete mitochondrial cytochrome b genesequencing in mammals
Ashwin Naidu, Robert R. Fitak, Adrian Munguia-Vega, Melanie Culver
2011, Molecular Ecology Resources (12) 191-196
Sequence-based species identification relies on the extent and integrity of sequence data available in online databases such as GenBank. When identifying species from a sample of unknown origin, partial DNA sequences obtained from the sample are aligned against existing sequences in databases. When the sequence from the matching species is...
Using regional-scale pre- and post Hurricane Katrina lidar for monitoring and modeling: Chapter 30
Jason M. Stoker, D. Phil Turnipseed, Kenneth V. Wilson
2011, Book chapter, Recent Hurricane Research - Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts
Hurricane Katrina was one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. Due to the sheer size of the affected areas, an unprecedented regional analysis at very high resolution and accuracy was needed to properly quantify and understand the effects of the hurricane and the storm tide. Many disparate sources of lidar data...
Exploring life history characteristics of naturalized versus stocked chinook
Mark W. Rogers, Janice A Kerns, David B. Bunnell, Randall M. Claramunt, Paris D. Collingsworth
2011, Report
Naturalization of stocked populations can result in divergence of life-history traits from domestic stocks. Lake Michigan supports popular Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Salmon fisheries that have been sustained by stocking since the late 1960s. Natural recruitment of Chinook Salmon in Lake Michigan has increased in the last few decades and currently...
Introduction
Peter D. Warwick
2011, Natural Resources Research (20) 279-280
The Energy Minerals Division (EMD) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) is a membership-based, technical interest group having the primary goal of advancing the science of geology, especially as it relates to exploration, discovery, and production of unconventional energy resources. Current research on unconventional energy resources is rapidly...
Far from superficial: microbial diversity associated with the skin and mucus of fish
Rocco C. Cipriano, Alistair Dove
R. C. Cipriano, A.W. Bruckner, I.S. Shchelkunov, editor(s)
2011, Conference Paper, Bridging America and Russia with shared perspectives on aquatic animal health: Proceedings of the Third Bilateral Conference between Russia and the United States, 12-20 July, 2009, held in Shepherdstown, West Virginia
During horizontal or water-borne infection involving an obligate pathogen (e.g. – Aeromonas salmonicida, cause of furunculosis), the pathogen interacted with and influenced the microbial diversity of the dermal mucus of fish. Prior to infection, the prevalent bacterial flora cultured from juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) included Pseudomonas fluorescens, Comomonas terrigenia,...
