Recovery of coded wire tags at a caspian tern colony in San Francisco Bay: A technique to evaluate impacts of avian predation on juvenile salmonids
A.F. Evans, D.D. Roby, K. Collis, B.M. Cramer, J.A. Sheggeby, L.J. Adrean, D.S. Battaglia, Donald E. Lyons
2011, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (31) 79-87
We recovered coded wire tags (CWTs) from a colony of Caspian terns Hydroprogne caspia on Brooks Island in San Francisco Bay, California, to evaluate predation on juvenile salmonids originating from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. Subsamples of colony substrate representing 11.7% of the nesting habitat used by the terns...
Hapke modeling of Rhea surface properties through Cassini-VIMS spectra
M. Ciarniello, F. Capaccioni, G. Filacchione, Roger N. Clark, D. P. Cruikshank, P. Cerroni, A. Coradini, R. H. Brown, B. J. Buratti, F. Tosi, K. Stephan
2011, Icarus (214) 541-555
TThe surface properties of the icy bodies in the saturnian system have been investigated by means of the Cassini-VIMS (Visual Infrared Mapping Spectrometer) hyperspectral imager which operates in the 0.35–5.1 μm wavelength range. In particular, we have analyzed 111 full disk hyperspectral images of Rhea ranging in solar phase between 0.08°...
Anthropogenic disturbance and landscape patterns affect diversity patterns of aquatic benthic macroinvertebrates
K.O. Maloney, P. Munguia, R.M. Mitchell
2011, Journal of the North American Benthological Society (30) 284-295
Measures of species diversity are valuable tools for assessing ecosystem health. However, most assessments have addressed individual sites or regional taxon pools, with few comparisons of differences in assemblage composition within or among regions. We examined the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on local richness (α diversity) and species turnover (β...
Watershed-scale response to climate change through the twenty-first century for selected basins across the United States
Lauren E. Hay, Steven L. Markstrom, Christian D. Ward-Garrison
2011, Earth Interactions (15) 1-37
The hydrologic response of different climate-change emission scenarios for the twenty-first century were evaluated in 14 basins from different hydroclimatic regions across the United States using the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS), a process-based, distributed-parameter watershed model. This study involves four major steps: 1) setup and calibration of the PRMS model...
Preparing for a "Big One": The great southern California shakeout
Lucile M. Jones, M. Benthien
2011, Earthquake Spectra (27) 575-595
The Great Southern California ShakeOut was a week of special events featuring the largest earthquake drill in United States history. On November 13, 2008, over 5 million Southern Californians pretended that the magnitude-7.8 ShakeOut scenario earthquake was occurring and practiced actions derived from results of the ShakeOut Scenario, to reduce...
GAGES-II: Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow
James A. Falcone
2011, Report
This dataset, termed "GAGES II", an acronym for Geospatial Attributes of Gages for Evaluating Streamflow, version II, provides geospatial data and classifications for 9,322 stream gages maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). It is an update to the original GAGES, which was published as a Data Paper on the...
Historical influence of soil and water management on sediment and carbon budgets in the United States
E.T. Sundquist, K.V. Ackerman, R.F. Stallard, N.B. Bliss
2011, Applied Geochemistry (26)
[No abstract available]...
Effectiveness of bowl trapping and netting for inventory of a bee community
R. Grundel, K.J. Frohnapple, R.P. Jean, N.B. Pavlovic
2011, Environmental Entomology (40) 374-380
Concern over the status of bees has increased the need to inventory bee communities and, consequently, has increased the need to understand effectiveness of different bee sampling methods. We sampled bees using bowl traps and netting at 25 northwest Indiana sites ranging from open grasslands to forests. Assemblages of bees...
Solid sample locations for Fanno Creek, Oregon
Steven Sobieszczyk
2011, Report
Fanno Creek is a tributary to the Tualatin River and flows though parts of the southwest Portland metropolitan area. The stream is heavily influenced by urban runoff and shows characteristic flashy streamflow and poor water quality commonly associated with urban streams. This data set represents the locations where solid samples...
A Digital Hydrologic Network Supporting NAWQA MRB SPARROW Modeling--MRB_E2RF1
J. W. Brakebill, S.E. Terziotti
2011, Report
A digital hydrologic network was developed to support SPAtially Referenced Regression on Watershed attributes (SPARROW) models within selected regions of the United States. These regions correspond with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program Major River Basin (MRB) study units 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 (Preston...
Microstructure and crystallographic preferred orientation of polycrystalline microgarnet aggregates developed during progressive creep, recovery, and grain boundary sliding
M.A. Massey, D.J. Prior, D.P. Moecher
2011, Journal of Structural Geology (33) 713-730
Optical microscopy, electron probe microanalysis, and electron backscatter diffraction methods have been used to examine a broad range of garnet microstructures within a high strain zone that marks the western margin of a major transpression zone in the southern New England Appalachians. Garnet accommodated variable states of finite strain, expressed...
CO2 plume management in saline reservoir sequestration
S.M. Frailey, R.J. Finley
2011, Conference Paper, Energy Procedia
A significant difference between injecting CO2 into saline aquifers for sequestration and injecting fluids into oil reservoirs or natural gas into aquifer storage reservoirs is the availability and use of other production and injection wells surrounding the primary injection well(s). Of major concern for CO2 sequestration using a single well...
Sea-level history of the past two interglacial periods: New evidence from U-series dating of reef corals from south Florida
Daniel R. Muhs, Kathleen Simmons, R. Randall Schumann, R. B. Halley
2011, Quaternary Science Reviews (30) 570-590
As a future warm-climate analog, much attention has been directed to studies of the Last Interglacial period or marine isotope substage (MIS) 5.5, which occurred ∼120,000 years ago. Nevertheless, there are still uncertainties with respect to its duration, warmth and magnitude of sea-level rise. Here we present new data from...
Q is for quartz
W. H. Langer
2011, Aggregates Manager (16) 36-36
This versatile mineral has been used in everything from ceremonial rattles to sonar transducers to quartz watches....
Factors associated with extirpation of sage-grouse
Michael J. Wisdom, Cara W. Meinke, Steven T. Knick, Michael A. Schroeder
2011, Book chapter, Greater Sage-Grouse: Ecology and conservation of a landscape species and Its habitats
Geographic ranges of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) and Gunnison Sage-Grouse (C. minimus) have contracted across large areas in response to habitat loss and detrimental land uses. However, quantitative analyses of the environmental factors most closely associated with range contraction have been lacking, results of which could be highly relevant to...
Stream Centerline for Fanno Creek, Oregon
Steven Sobieszczyk
2011, Report
Fanno Creek is a tributary to the Tualatin River and flows though parts of the southwest Portland metropolitan area. The stream is heavily influenced by urban runoff and shows characteristic flashy streamflow and poor water quality commonly associated with urban streams. This data set represents the stream centerline of the...
A buoyant plume adjacent to a headland-Observations of the Elwha River plume
Jonathan A. Warrick, Andrew W. Stevens
2011, Continental Shelf Research (31) 85-97
Small rivers commonly discharge into coastal settings with topographic complexities – such as headlands and islands – but these settings are underrepresented in river plume studies compared to more simplified, straight coasts. The Elwha River provides a unique opportunity to study the effects of coastal topography on a buoyant plume,...
Fifty-second supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds
R. Terry Chesser, Richard C. Banks, F. Keith Barker, Carla Cicero, Jon L. Dunn, Andrew W. Kratter, Irby J. Lovette, Pamela C. Rasmussen, J.V. Remsen Jr., James D. Rising, Douglas F. Stotz, Kevin Winker
2011, The Auk (128) 600-613
This is the 11th supplement since publication of the seventh edition of the Check-list of North American Birds (American Ornithologists' Union AOU 1998). It summarizes decisions made between 1 April 2010 and 15 April 2011 by the AOU's Committee on Classification and Nomenclature-North and Middle America. The Committee has continued...
Larval and juvenile Pacific herring Clupea pallasii are not susceptible to infectious hematopoietic necrosis under laboratory conditions
L.M. Hart, G.S. Traxler, K.A. Garver, J. Richard, J.L. Gregg, C.A. Grady, Gael Kurath, P.K. Hershberger
2011, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (93) 105-110
Infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) leads to periodic epidemics among certain wild and farmed fish species of the Northeast (NE) Pacific. The source of the IHN virus (IHNV) that initiates these outbreaks remains unknown; however, a leading hypothesis involves viral persistence in marine host species such as Pacific herring Clupea pallasii....
Age, composition, and areal distribution of the Pliocene Lawlor Tuff, and three younger Pliocene tuffs, California and Nevada
Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, Alan L. Deino, Robert J. Fleck, Robert J. McLaughlin, David Wagner, Elmira Wan, David B. Wahl, John W. Hillhouse, Michael Perkins
2011, Geosphere (7) 599-628
The Lawlor Tuff is a widespread dacitic tephra layer produced by Plinian eruptions and ash flows derived from the Sonoma Volcanics, a volcanic area north of San Francisco Bay in the central Coast Ranges of California, USA. The younger, chemically similar Huichica tuff, the tuff of Napa, and the...
Paleoceanographic changes on the Farallon Escarpment off central California during the last 16,000 years
M. McGann
2011, Quaternary International (235) 26-39
New benthic and planktic foraminiferal assemblage census data and Benthic Foraminiferal Oxygen Index (BFOI) values, previously published marine climate proxy data (stable isotopes and Ca/Cd), and unpublished results of total carbon, organic carbon, and calcium carbonate analyses of sediments recovered off central California on the Farallon Escarpment (1605m water depth;...
Final report on the Seventh International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters (ICAG 2005)
Z. Jiang, O. Francis, L. Vitushkin, V. Palinkas, A. Germak, M. Becker, G. D’Agostino, M. Amalvict, R. Bayer, M. Bilker-Koivula, S. Desogus, J. Faller, R. Falk, J. Hinderer, C. Gagnon, T. Jakob, E. Kalish, J. Kostelecky, C. Lee, J. Liard, Y. Lokshyn, B. Luck, J. Makinen, S. Mizushima, Moigne N. Le, C. Origlia, E.R. Pujol, P. Richard, L. Robertsson, D. Ruess, D. Schmerge, Y. Stus, S. Svitlov, S. Thies, C. Ullrich, M. Van Camp, A. Vitushkin, W. Ji, H. Wilmes
2011, Metrologia (48) 246-260
The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), Sevres, France, hosted the 7th International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters (ICAG) and the associated Relative Gravity Campaign (RGC) from August to September 2005.;ICAG 2005 was prepared and performed as a metrological pilot study, which aimed:;(1) To determine the gravity comparison reference values;;(2)...
Water sample locations for Fanno Creek, Oregon
Steven Sobieszczyk
2011, Report
Fanno Creek is a tributary to the Tualatin River and flows though parts of the southwest Portland metropolitan area. The stream is heavily influenced by urban runoff and shows characteristic flashy streamflow and poor water quality commonly associated with urban streams. This data set represents the locations where water-quality samples...
Oligocene and Miocene arc volcanism in northeastern California: evidence for post-Eocene segmentation of the subducting Farallon plate
J.P. Colgan, A.E. Egger, D. A. John, B. Cousens, R.J. Fleck, C.D. Henry
2011, Geosphere (7) 733-755
The Warner Range in northeastern California exposes a section of Tertiary rocks over 3 km thick, offering a unique opportunity to study the long-term history of Cascade arc volcanism in an area otherwise covered by younger volcanic rocks. The oldest locally sourced volcanic rocks in the Warner Range are Oligocene...
Change of impervious surface area between 2001 and 2006 in the conterminous United States
George Z. Xian, Collin G. Homer, Jon Dewitz, Joyce Fry, N. Hossain, J. Wickham
2011, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (77) 758-762
No abstract available....
