Could Kı̄lauea's 2020 post caldera-forming eruption have been anticipated?
Paul Segall, Kyle R. Anderson, Taiyi Wang
2022, Geophysical Research Letters (49)
In 2018 Kīlauea volcano erupted a decade’s worth of basalt, given estimated magma supply rates, triggering caldera collapse. Yet, less than 2.5 years later Kīlauea re-erupted. At the 2018 eruption onset, pressure within the summit reservoir was ~20 MPa above magmastatic. By the onset of collapse this decreased by ~17...
Impacts of the ocean-atmosphere coupling into the very short range prediction system during the impact of Hurricane Matthew on Cuba
Liset Vazquez Proveyer, Maibys Sierra Lorenzo, Roberto Carlos Cruz Rodriguez, John C. Warner
2022, Ciência e Natura (44)
The main goal of this investigation is analyzing the impact of insert the ocean-atmosphere coupling into the very short range prediction system of Cuba. The ocean-atmosphere coupled components of the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport Modeling System are used for this purpose and the hurricane Matthew is selected as study case....
Plague and trace metals in natural systems
Michael Kosoy, Dean E. Biggins
2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. (19)
All pathogenic organisms are exposed to abiotic influences such as the microclimates and chemical constituents of their environments. Even those pathogens that exist primarily within their hosts or vectors can be influenced directly or indirectly. Yersinia pestis, the flea-borne bacterium causing plague, is influenced by climate and its survival in...
Quantifying large-scale surface change using SAR amplitude images: Crater morphology changes during the 2019-2020 Shishaldin Volcano eruption
Mario Angarita, Ronni Grapenthin, Simon Plank, Franz Meyer, Hannah R. Dietterich
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (127)
Morphological processes often induce meter-scale elevation changes. When a volcano erupts, tracking such processes provides insights into the style and evolution of eruptive activity and related hazards. Compared to optical remote-sensing products, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observes surface change during inclement weather and at night. Differential SAR...
In hot water? Patterns of macroinvertebrate abundance in Arctic thaw ponds and relationships with environmental variables
Kirsty E. B. Gurney, Joshua C. Koch, Joel A. Schmutz, J. H. Schmidt, Mark S. Wipfli
2022, Freshwater Biology (67) 1832-1844
Ongoing environmental change across the Arctic is affecting many freshwater ecosystems, including small thaw ponds that support macroinvertebrates, thus potentially affecting important forage for fish and bird species. To accurately predict how fish and wildlife that depend on these macroinvertebrates will be affected by ecosystem change at high latitudes,...
The distribution of clay minerals and their impact on diagenesis in Glen Torridon, Gale crater, Mars
Amanda Rudolph, Briony H. N. Horgan, Jeffrey B. Johnson, Kristen A. Bennett, James Haber, James F. Bell, V. F. Fox, Samantha Jacob, S. Maurice, Elizabeth B. Rampe, Melissa Rice, Christina Seeger, Roger C. Wiens
2022, JGR Planets (127)
Glen Torridon (GT) is a recessive-trough feature on the northwestern slope of “Mt. Sharp” in Gale crater, Mars with the highest Fe-/Mg-phyllosilicates abundances detected by the Curiosity rover to date. Understanding the origin of these clay minerals and their relationship with diagenetic processes is critical for reconstructing...
Using microbial source tracking to identify fecal contamination sources in South Oyster Bay on Long Island, New York
Tristen N. Tagliaferri, Shawn C. Fisher, Christopher M. Kephart, Natalie Cheung, Ariel P. Reed, Robert J. Welk
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5082
The U.S. Geological Survey worked in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to assess the potential sources of fecal contamination entering South Oyster Bay, a shallow embayment on the southern shore of Long Island, New York. Water samples are routinely collected by the New York State...
Using paleoecological data to inform decision making: A deep-time perspective
Harry J. Dowsett, Peter Jacobs, Kim de Mutsert
2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (10)
Latest climate models project conditions for the end of this century that are generally outside of the human experience. These future conditions affect the resilience and sustainability of ecosystems, alter biogeographic zones, and impact biodiversity. Deep-time records of paleoclimate provide insight into the climate system over millions of years and...
Growth and survival rates of dispersing free embryos and settled larvae of pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) in the Missouri River, Montana and North Dakota
Patrick Braaten, R.J. Holm, J. A. Powell, E.J. Heist, Amy C. Buhman, Colt Taylor Holley, Aaron J. Delonay, T.M. Haddix, R.H. Wilson, R. B. Jacobson
2022, Environmental Biology of Fishes (105) 993-1014
We released nearly 1.0 million 1-day post-hatch (dph) and 5-dph pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) free embryos in the Missouri River on 1 July 2019 and sequentially captured survivors at multiple sites through a 240-km river reach to quantify daily growth and survival rates during the early life stages. Genetic analysis...
One shell of a problem: Cumulative threat analysis of male sea turtles indicates high anthropogenic threat for migratory individuals and Gulf of Mexico residents
Micah Ashford, James I. Watling, Kristen Hart
2022, Remote Sensing (14)
Human use of oceans has dramatically increased in the 21st century. Sea turtles are vulnerable to anthropogenic stressors in the marine environment because of lengthy migrations between foraging and breeding sites, often along coastal migration corridors. Little is known about how movement and threat interact specifically for...
Effects of an early mass-flowering crop on wild bee communities and traits in power line corridors vary with blooming plants and landscape context
Brianne Du Clos, Francis A. Drummond, Cyndy Loftin
2022, Landscape Ecology (37) 2619-2634
ContextPower line corridors have been repeatedly assessed as habitat for wild bees; however, few studies have examined them as bee habitat relative to nearby crop fields and surrounding landscape context.ObjectivesWe surveyed bee communities in power line corridors near to and isolated from lowbush blueberry fields in...
Tracking geomorphic changes after suburban development with a high density of green stormwater infrastructure practices in Montgomery County, Maryland
Brianna Williams, Kristina G. Hopkins, Marina J. Metes, Daniel K. Jones, Stephanie E. Gordon, William B. Hamilton
2022, Geomorphology (414)
Stream morphology is affected by changes on the surrounding landscape. Understanding the effects of urbanization on stream morphology is a critical factor for land managers to maintain and improve vulnerable stream corridors in urbanizing landscapes. Stormwater practices are used in urban landscapes to...
Sedimentological and geochemical perspectives on a marginal lake environment recorded in the Hartmann’s Valley and Karasburg members of the Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars
Samantha Gwizd, Christopher M. Fedo, John P. Grotzinger, Steven G. Banham, Frances Rivera-Hernandez, Kathryn M. Stack, Kirsten L. Siebach, Michael T. Thorpe, Lucy Thompson, Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Nathan Stein, Lauren A. Edgar, Sanjeev Gupta, David M. Rubin, Dawn Sumner, Ashwin R. Vasavada
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Planets (127)
This study utilizes instruments from the Curiosity rover payload to develop an integrated paleoenvironmental and compositional reconstruction for the 65-m thick interval of stratigraphy comprising the Hartmann's Valley and Karasburg members of the Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars. The stratigraphy consists of cross-stratified sandstone (Facies 1), planar-laminated...
Lacunarity as a tool for assessing landscape configuration over time and informing long-term monitoring: An example using seagrass
Nicholas Enwright, Kelly M. Darnell, Greg A. Carter
2022, Landscape Ecology (37) 2689-2705
ContextSeagrasses are submerged marine plants that have been declining globally at increasing rates. Natural resource managers rely on monitoring programs to detect and understand changes in these ecosystems. Technological advancements are allowing for the development of patch-level seagrass maps, which can be used to explore seagrass meadow spatial...
Navigating the space between policy and practice: Toward a typology of collaborators in a federal land management agency
Nina Burkardt, Rebecca Thomas
2022, Society and Natural Resources (35) 1333-1351
Navigating the space between policy and on-the-ground natural resource management presents unique challenges. We interviewed 22 U.S. Bureau of Land Management Field Office Managers to understand their perceptions toward, and applications of, collaboration with public and private stakeholders. Interviews were transcribed and open-coded using qualitative data analysis software....
Bathymetry retrieval from CubeSat image sequences with short time lags
Milad Niroumand-Jadidi, Carl J. Legleiter, Francesca Bovolo
2022, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (112)
The rapid expansion of CubeSat constellations could revolutionize the way inland and nearshore coastal waters are monitored from space. This potential stems from the ability of CubeSats to provide daily imagery with global coverage at meter-scale spatial resolution. In this study, we...
A model to assess industry vulnerability to disruptions in mineral commodity supplies
Ross Manley, Elisa Alonso, Nedal T. Nassar
2022, Resources Policy (78)
Mineral commodity supply disruptions have the potential to ripple through and impact the economy in many ways. Industrial vulnerability is a crucial component of mineral commodity criticality tools as it provides guidance on the economic importance of these commodities to regional criticality indices. Using an economic model that links mineral commodity end-use data to...
Diatom influence on the production characteristics of hydrate-bearing sediments: Examples from Ulleung Basin, offshore South Korea
Junbong Jang, William F. Waite, Laura A. Stern, Joo Yong Lee
2022, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology (144)
The Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate field expeditions in 2007 (UBGH1) and 2010 (UBGH2) sought to assess the Basin's gas hydrate resource potential. Coring operations in both expeditions recovered evidence of gas hydrate, primarily as fracture-filling (or vein type) morphologies in mainly silt-sized, fine-grained...
Deciphering natural and anthropogenic nitrate and recharge sources in arid region groundwater
Benjamin S. Linhoff
2022, Science of the Total Environment (848)
Recently, the subsoils of ephemeral stream (arroyos) floodplains in the northern Chihuahuan Desert were discovered to contain large naturally occurring NO3− reservoirs (floodplain: ~38,000 kg NO3-N/ha; background: ~60 kg NO3-N/ha). These reservoirs may be mobilized through land use change or natural stream channel migration which makes differentiating between anthropogenic and natural groundwater NO3− sources challenging. In this...
Local groundwater decline exacerbates response of dryland riparian woodlands to climatic drought
Jared Williams, John C Stella, Steven L. Voelker, Adam M Lambert, Lissa Pelletier, John E Drake, Jonathan M. Friedman, Dar A. Roberts, Michael B. Singer
2022, Global Change Biology (28) 6771-6788
Dryland riparian woodlands are considered to be locally buffered from droughts by shallow and stable groundwater levels. However, climate change is causing more frequent and severe drought events, accompanied by warmer temperatures, collectively threatening the persistence of these groundwater dependent ecosystems through a combination of increasing evaporative demand and decreasing...
Assembling a safe and effective toolbox for integrated flea control and plague mitigation: Fipronil experiments with prairie dogs
David A. Eads, Travis Livieri, Tyler Tretten, John Hughes, Nick Kaczor, Emily Halsell, Shaun M. Grassel, Phillip Dobesh, Eddie Childers, David Lucas, Lauren Noble, Michele Vasquez, Anna Catherine Grady, Dean E. Biggins
Heike Lutermann, editor(s)
2022, PLoS ONE (17)
BackgroundPlague, a widely distributed zoonotic disease of mammalian hosts and flea vectors, poses a significant risk to ecosystems throughout much of Earth. Conservation biologists use insecticides for flea control and plague mitigation. Here, we evaluate the use of an insecticide grain bait, laced with 0.005% fipronil (FIP) by weight, with...
Global dataset of species-specific inland recreational fisheries harvest for consumption
Holly Susan Embke, Elizabeth A. Nyboer, Ashley M. Robertson, Robert Arlinghaus, L. Akintola, Tuncay Atessahin, Laamiri Mohamed Badr, Claudio Baigun, Zeenatul Basher, T. Douglas Beard Jr., Gergely Boros, Shannon D. Bower, Steven J. Cooke, Ian G. Cowx, Adolfo Franco, Ma. Teresa Gaspar-Dillanes, Vladimir Puentes Granada, Robert John Hart, Carlos Heinsohn, Vincent Jalabert, Andrzej Kapusta, Tibor Krajc, John D. Koehn, Goncalo Lopes, Roman Lyach, Terence Magqina, Marco Milardi, Juliet Nattabi, Hilda Nyaboke, Sui C. Phang, Warren M. Potts, Filipe Ribeiro, Norman Mercado-Silva, Naren Sreenivasan, Andy Thorpe, Tomislav Treer, Didzis Ustups, Olaf L.F. Weyl, Louisa E. Wood, Mustafa Zengin, Abigail Lynch
2022, Scientific Data (9)
Inland recreational fisheries, found in lakes, rivers, and other landlocked waters, are important to livelihoods, nutrition, leisure, and other societal ecosystem services worldwide. Although recreationally-caught fish are frequently harvested and consumed by fishers, their contribution to food and nutrition has not been adequately quantified due to...
Cumulative effects of piscivorous colonial waterbirds on juvenile salmonids: A multi predator-prey species evaluation
Allen F. Evans, Quinn Payton, Nathan J. Hostetter, Ken Collis, Bradley M. Cramer, Daniel D. Roby
2022, PLoS ONE (17)
We investigated the cumulative effects of predation by piscivorous colonial waterbirds on the survival of multiple salmonid (Oncorhynchus spp.) populations listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) and determined what proportion of all sources of fish mortality (1 –survival) were due to birds in the Columbia...
Butler’s Gartersnake, Thamnophis butleri (Cope 1889)
Eric Thomas Hileman, Danielle R. Bradke
Joshua M. Kapfer, Donald J. Brown, editor(s)
2022, Book chapter, Amphibians and reptiles of Wisconsin
No abstract available....
Massasauga, Sistrurus catenatus (Rafinesque 1818)
Richard S. King, Robert W. Hay, Billie C. Harrison, Eric Thomas Hileman, Craig S. Berg
Joshua M. Kapfer, Donald J. Brown, editor(s)
2022, Book chapter, Amphibians and reptiles of Wisconsin
No abstract available....
