Regenerable membrane sensors for ultrasensitive nanoplastic quantification enabled by a data-driven Raman spectral processing algorithm
Ziyan Wu, Sarah E. Janssen, Michael Tate, Mohan Qin, Haoran Wei
2025, Environmental Science and Technology (59) 16652-16661
The detection of nanoplastics (NPs) in complex natural water systems is hindered by matrix interferences and limitations in current analytical techniques. This study presents Pre_seg, a Raman spectral processing algorithm integrated with regenerable anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane sensors, for ultrasensitive, rapid, and quantitative NP detection at the single-particle level....
Larger larval sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) have longer survival times when exposed to the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol
Allison Nalesnik, Emily Martin, Ian Kovacs, Connor Johnson, Emma Carroll, Aaron K. Jubar, William Hemstrom, Michael Wilkie, Erin S. Dunlop, Maria S. Sepulveda, Nicholas S. Johnson, Mark R. Christie
2025, Journal of Great Lakes Research (51)
Invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Laurentian Great Lakes have negatively impacted ecologically and economically important fishes for nearly a century. To mitigate these effects, the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) is applied annually on a rotating basis to selected Great Lakes tributaries to kill larval lamprey before they become juveniles,...
Climate and land use drivers of freshwater fish biodiversity in the northeastern United States
Jennifer B. Rogers, Graziella Vittoria DiRenzo, Rebecca M. Quiñones, Todd Richards, Allison H. Roy
2025, Biological Conservation (310)
Freshwater habitats can sustain high biodiversity, but habitat degradation, species invasion, and overexploitation have imperiled freshwater species. The multiple threats to freshwater habitats and changing stream characteristics due to climate change make it challenging to identify the drivers of fish vulnerability, especially given that the importance of drivers may vary...
Rapid Holocene deposition in the Mackenzie Trough and Barrow Canyon areas in the western Arctic Ocean
Masanobu Yamamoto, Kenta Suzuki, Masafumi Murayama, Laura Gemery, Koji Seike, Leonid Polyak, Young Jin Joe, Shoma Uchida, Minoru Kobayashi, J. Onodera, Keiji Horikawa, Yuhji Yamamoto, Takayuki Omori, Michinobu Kuwae, Tomohisa Irino, Yutaka Watanabe, Motoyo Itoh, Eiji Watanabe
2025, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (12)
The Arctic Ocean and terrestrial environment have recently been reported to be changing drastically, but it is unclear whether these changes are similar to natural variations in the past or how sudden and large the changes are compared to natural variations. This premise served as motivation to collect sediment cores...
Arctic fold-and-thrust belts
Sergey S. Drachev, Andrey K. Khudoley, Iwona Klonowska, Jaroslaw Majka, Thomas E. Moore, Karsten Piepjohn, Andrey V. Prokopiev
2025, Book chapter, Geological Society of London Memoir
The modern Arctic has been formed through a series of continent–continent collisions, accretion of terranes and phases of crustal extension. The Neoproterozoic Timanian, Paleozoic Caledonian and Uralian, and late Mesozoic Verkhoyansk–Kolyma, Chukotkan and Brookian orogenies formed several large fold-and-thrust belts (FTBs). The FTBs are exposed across vast areas of continents...
Potential impacts of 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus infection on Snow Goose (Anser caerulescens) movement ecology
Jeffery D. Sullivan, Michael L. Casazza, Rebecca L. Poulson, Elliott Matchett, Cory T. Overton, Mike Carpenter, Austen Lorenz, Fiona McDuie, Michael Derico, Elizabeth Howerth, David E. Stallknecht, Diann Prosser
2025, PLoS ONE (20)
While wild waterfowl are known reservoirs of avian influenza viruses and facilitate the movement of these viruses, there are notable differences in the response to infection across species. This study explored differential responses to infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza in Snow Geese (Anser caerulescens) located in the California Central...
Dietary bioavailability of uranium to a model freshwater invertebrate
Marie Noele Croteau, Christopher C. Fuller, Daniel J. Cain, Kate M. Campbell
2025, Environmental Science and Technology (59) 16641-16651
Uranium (U) mining increases environmental exposures. Understanding how U is taken up by organisms can aid in evaluating the potential for bioaccumulation and toxicity. Although the importance of aqueous geochemical speciation is well recognized for U bioavailability after dissolved exposures, far less is known about the processes controlling U bioavailability...
Suturing fragmented landscapes: Mosaic hybrid zones in plants may facilitate ecosystem resiliency
Robert Massatti, Trevor Morgan Faske, Ivana M. Barnes, Elizabeth A. Leger, Thomas L. Parchman, Bryce A. Richardson, L. Lacey Knowles
2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (122)
Many widespread plant taxa of western North America have diversified into phenotypically and genetically divergent lineages due to complex biogeographic histories across heterogeneous landscapes. Mosaic hybrid zones can form when geographically co-occurring, yet environmentally distinct, lineages cross-pollinate and form hybrids that occupy unique environmental niches absent of a geographic cline....
Contributions of erosion, deposition, and human activities to a change in sand storage in the bed of San Francisco Bay, California, 1980s to 2010s
Theresa A. Fregoso, Bruce E. Jaffe, Amy C. Foxgrover, Donald L. Woodrow, Bethany Kharrazi, Kevin Orzech
2025, Open-File Report 2025-1022
This study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides estimates of the change in sand storage in bed sediments from the 1980s to 2010s in the San Francisco Bay area, California. The study is part of a larger project called “Research to Understand Impacts of Bay Sand Mining on Sand...
Valuing recreational fishing using creel survey statistics
Luke Boehm, Richard T. Melstrom, Kevin L. Pope
2025, Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (4) 378-390
Recreation demand analysis has relied on mail and internet surveys to collect information on individual recreators. However, conducting these surveys is costly and time-consuming. Alternative sources that report aggregate visitation may go unused due to a lack of information about trip starting points. We set up and solve a system...
Cold-induced vomiting of a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) by an invasive Burmese python (Python bivitattus) in Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, USA
Travis R. Mangione, Grant S. McCargar, Matthew Fox Metcalf, Lisa Marie McBride, Eli X. Suastegui, Josue I. Perez, Cohen W. Eastridge, Matthew F. McCollister, Christina Romagosa, Amanda Marie Kissel, Amy A. Yackel Adams, Mark Robert Sandfoss
2025, Ecology and Evolution (15)
The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is native to Southeast Asia and has an established invasive population throughout South Florida. As part of the effort to understand invasive python biology and potential impacts to the native ecosystem, we have been using radio-telemetry to investigate feeding rates of adult female pythons. The...
The conundrum of taxonomic uniformitarianism in planktic foraminifera
Harry J. Dowsett, Marci M. Robinson, Kevin M. Foley, Whittney Spivey
2025, Palaeontology (68)
Planktic foraminiferal species distributions in the modern ocean track environmental features like sea surface temperature (SST). Species shift their distributions as the marine environment changes, providing an analogue for past behaviour. Stationarity of species' ecological tolerances is therefore a first-order assumption of all palaeoenvironmental reconstructions based upon modern analogue methods....
Real-time oil spill concentration assessment through fluorescence imaging and deep learning
Biplab Poudel, Jiacheng Xie, Congyu Guo, Olivia Watt, Erin L. Pulster, Rishi J. Patel, Jeffery A. Steevens, Dong Xu
2025, Journal of Hazardous Materials (496)
Oil spills may pose severe ecological and socioeconomic threats, necessitating rapid and accurate environmental assessment. Traditional assessment methods used to determine the extent of a spill including gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, satellite imaging, and visual surveys, are often time-consuming, expensive, and limited by weather conditions or sampling constraints. Furthermore, these methods...
Wet meadow regeneration through restoration of biophysical feedbacks
Michael Pollock, Laura M. Norman
2025, Frontiers in Environmental Science (13)
Wet meadows are globally significant ecosystems that provide critical hydrological, ecological, and biogeochemical functions, yet their extent has declined dramatically due to land use changes and hydrologic alteration. These sedge-dominated wetlands exist at the drier end of the wetland gradient, maintained by shallow groundwater and periodic inundation. This paper is...
Cyanotoxin and domoic acid occurrence, relation with salinity, and potential recreational health risks in U.S. coasts in the 2015 US EPA National Coastal Condition Assessment
Ariel R. Donovan, Zachary R. Laughrey, Robin A. Femmer, Sarena L. Senegal, Keith A. Loftin
2025, Harmful Algae (149)
In the first nationwide study of cyanotoxins in U.S. estuaries, algal toxins, cyanotoxins, chlorophyll, and salinity were measured in samples collected during the National Coastal Condition Assessment 2015. Anatoxin-a (ANAA), cylindrospermopsin (CYLS), domoic acid (DMAC), and microcystins (MCs) were detected by LC/MS/MS in 0.6, 0.9, 8.3, and 2.0 % of...
A spatial analysis of the groundwater emergence flood hazard in Long Island, New York and near coastal areas surrounding Long Island Sound in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
Kristina Kirkyla Masterson, Robert J. Welk, Janet R. Barclay, Kalle Jahn, Liv M. Herdman
2025, Preprint
Long Island, New York and near coastal areas surrounding Long Island Sound are densely populated and, like other coastal areas, are susceptible to flooding from several potential sources, including stormwater from precipitation events, tidal flooding and storm surge, and groundwater inundation or groundwater emergence flooding. The latter refers to the...
Reflections on a trio of North American earthquakes in 1925
Susan E. Hough, Maurice Lamontagne, John E. Ebel, L. Baise
2025, Seismological Research Letters (97) 548-563
In 1925, three moderately large damaging earthquakes occurred in North America over four months: the 28 February (local time; LT) M 6.2 Charlevoix, 27 June (LT) M 6.6 Montana, and 29 June M 6.5 Santa Barbara earthquakes. The centennial anniversaries of these events motivated this retrospective consideration focused on the ground motions generated by the three...
The impact of the May 1921 superstorm on American telecommunication systems
Jeffrey J. Love, Greg M. Lucas, Anna Kelbert, Neesha R. Schnepf, Paul A. Bedrosian, Sara K. McBride
2025, Space Weather (23)
A compilation is presented of impacts (interference and damage) realized on long-line telegraph and telephone systems across North America during the 13-16 May 1921 magnetic storm. Impacts occurred primarily during local nighttime, after the third of four sudden commencements, and during the storm’s most-prominent main phase. Impacts are attributed to rapid and high-amplitude geomagnetic...
Detroit River becoming a crucible for boundary organization experimentation
John H. Hartig, Robin L. DeBruyne, Katie Stammler, James C. Boase, Edward F. Roseman
2025, Journal of Great Lakes Research (51)
The Detroit River has a long history of human use and abuse, resulting in public outcry over water pollution and resource degradation. This public outcry helped catalyze the enactment of many laws and the Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement which led to enhanced research, monitoring, and water pollution control....
Benchmarking shoreline prediction models over multi-decadal timescales
Yongjing Mao, Giovanni Coco, Sean Vitousek, Jose A. A. Antolinez, Georgios Azorakos, Masayuki Banno, Clément Bouvier, Karin R. Bryan, Laura Cagigal, Kit Calcraft, Bruno Castelle, Xinyu Chen, Maurizio D'Anna, Lucas de Freitas Pereira, Iñaki de Santiago, Aditya N. Deshmukh, Bixuan Dong, Ahmed Elghandour, Amirmahdi Gohari, Eduardo Gomez-de la Peña, Mitchell D. Harley, Michael Ibrahim, Déborah Idier, Camilo Jaramillo Cardona, Changbin Lim, Ivana Mingo, Julian O'Grady, Daniel Pais, Oxana Repina, Arthur Robinet, Dano Roelvink, Joshua Simmons, Erdinc Sogut, Katie Wilson, Kristen Splinter
2025, Communications Earth & Environment (6)
Robust predictions of shoreline change are critical for sustainable coastal management. Despite advancements in shoreline models, objective benchmarking remains limited. Here we present results from ShoreShop2.0, an international collaborative benchmarking workshop, where 34 groups submitted shoreline change predictions in a blind competition. Subsets of shoreline observations at an undisclosed site...
Spatially explicit demographics of Mojave Desert Tortoises on a demography plot in California, USA
Sarah Doyle, Sean M. Murphy, K. Kristina Drake, Julie Hendrix, Todd C. Esque
2025, Herpetologica (81) 215-223
Obtaining reliable estimates of demographic parameters is critical to effective wildlife conservation and management. Densities of Mojave Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) were historically derived from capture–mark–recapture surveys on small, often strategically placed demography plots, or demographic study areas, that also provided information on demographic composition and vital rates. After protection...
Advancing the implementation of coastal restoration in Louisiana through a co-production of science framework
Jacob M. Oster, Jessica R. Henkel, Alyssa Dausman, Eva D. Windhoffer, Bingqing Liu, Melissa Millman Baustian, Denise Reed, Summer Langlois, David C. Lindquist
2025, Estuaries and Coasts (48)
Coastal Louisiana faces complex challenges from the compounding effects of coastal land loss and climate change. The State of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and the RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana (LA-COE) have adopted a co-production of science framework to help ensure that scientific research funded...
Ice thickness regulates heat flux in permanently ice-covered lakes
Hilary A. Dugan, Maciej Obryk, Michael Gooseff, Peter Doran, Amy Chiuchiolo, Jade Lawrence, John Priscu
2025, Limnology and Oceanography (70) 2556-2568
The permanently ice-covered lakes of Taylor Valley, Antarctica, are rare ecosystems where permanent ice cover and year-round vertically stable water columns provide critical redox zones for cold-adapted microorganisms. Using 30 yr of limnological data from the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research program, we assessed the water column heat flux of...
The pre-maria geologic history of the Imbrium basin preserved by remnant highlands massifs
Ben D. Byron, Catherine M. Elder, Lori M. Pigue, Jean-Pierre Williams
2025, JGR Planets (130)
The Imbrium basin is one of the largest and youngest impact basins on the Moon. It has experienced multiple phases of volcanism that filled the basin with basaltic lavas, obscuring most evidence of geologic activity prior to the emplacement of mare basalts. Elevated basin ring massifs, however, can retain some...
Rupture process of the Mw7.0 December 5, 2024 Offshore Cape Mendocino earthquake
Frederick Pollitz, Katherine Anna Guns, Clara Yoon
2025, Geophysical Research Letters (52)
The Mw7.0 December 5, 2024 Offshore Cape Mendocino earthquake ruptured a km long portion of the east-west trending Mendocino fault zone (MFZ). In order to clarify the rupture process, we assemble three-component seismograms from regional seismic stations, horizontal coseismic displacement vectors derived from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) time series, and...
