Food, beverage, and feedstock processing facility wastewater: A unique and underappreciated source of contaminants to U.S. streams
Laura E. Hubbard, Dana W. Kolpin, Carrie E. Givens, Bradley D. Blackwell, Paul M. Bradley, James L. Gray, Rachael F. Lane, Jason R. Masoner, R. Blaine McCleskey, Kristin M. Romanok, Mark W. Sandstrom, Kelly L. Smalling, Daniel L. Villeneuve
2022, Environmental Science & Technology (56) 1028-1040
Process wastewaters from food, beverage, and feedstock facilities, although regulated, are an under-investigated environmental contaminant source. Food process wastewaters (FPWWs) from 23 facilities in 17 U.S. states were sampled and documented for a plethora of chemical and microbial contaminants. Of the 576 analyzed organics, 184 (32%) were detected at least...
Acoustic and genetic data can reduce uncertainty regarding populations of migratory tree-roosting bats impacted by wind energy
Amanda Hale, Cris D. Hein, Bethany R. Straw
2022, Animals (12)
Wind turbine-related mortality may pose a population-level threat for migratory tree-roosting bats, such as the hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) in North America. These species are dispersed within their range, making it impractical to estimate census populations size using traditional survey methods. Nonetheless, understanding population size and...
Acquisition of Moon measurements by Earth orbiting sensors for lunar calibration
Thomas C. Stone
2022, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (60)
The reflected light from the Moon can be utilized as a reference for radiometric calibration by employing a model to generate reference values corresponding to the Moon observations made by instruments. Using a calibration target that is outside the atmosphere provides a distinct advantage for...
Representing plant diversity in land models: An evolutionary approach to make ‘Functional Types’ more functional
Leander D.L. Anderegg, Daniel Mark Griffith, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, William J. Riley, Joseph A. Berry, Todd E. Dawson, Christopher J. Still
2022, Global Change Biology (28) 2541-2554
Plants are critical mediators of terrestrial mass and energy fluxes, and their structural and functional traits have profound impacts on local and global climate, biogeochemistry, biodiversity, and hydrology. Yet Earth System Models (ESMs), our most powerful tools for predicting the effects of humans on the coupled...
Relational database for horizontal‐to‐vertical spectral ratios
Pengfei Wang, Paolo Zimmaro, Tristan E Buckreis, Tatiana Gospe, Scott J Brandenberg, Sean Kamran Ahdi, Alan Yong, Jonathan P. Stewart
2022, Seismological Research Letters (93) 1075-1088
Frequency‐dependent horizontal‐to‐vertical spectral ratios (HVSRs) of Fourier amplitudes from three‐component recordings can provide useful information for site response modeling. However, such information is not incorporated into most ground‐motion models, including those from Next‐Generation Attenuation projects, which instead use the time‐averaged shear‐wave velocity (VS"><span...
Reservoir attributes display cascading spatial patterns along river basins
N.M. Faucheux, A.R. Sample, C.A. Aldridge, D.M. Norris, C. Owens, Victoria R. Starnes, S. VanderBloemen, Leandro E. Miranda
2022, Water Resources Research (58)
Considering reservoirs as linear fragments in a basin's river network could improve understanding, predictability, and management efficiency. We looked for general cascading spatial patterns across five categories of reservoir attributes: land cover, morphology and hydrology, fish habitat, fish assemblages, and fisheries. Attributes were pulled from various databases for large reservoirs...
Modeling the occurrence of M ∼ 5 caldera collapse-related earthquakes in Kīlauea volcano, Hawai'i
Andrea L. Llenos, Andrew J. Michael
2022, Geophysical Research Letters (49)
During the 2018 Kīlauea eruption and caldera collapse, M ∼ 5 caldera collapse earthquakes occurred almost daily from mid-May until the beginning of August. While caldera collapses happen infrequently, the collapse-related seismicity damaged nearby structures, and so these events should be included in a complete seismic hazard assessment. Here,...
A quantitative soil-geomorphic framework for developing and mapping ecological site groups
Travis W. Nauman, Samuel S Burch, Joel T. Humphries, Anna C. Knight, Michael C. Duniway
2022, Rangeland Ecology and Management (81) 9-33
Land management decisions need context about how landscapes will respond to different circumstances or actions. As ecologists’ understanding of nonlinear ecological dynamics has evolved into state-and-transition models (STMs), they have put more emphasis on defining and mapping the soil, geomorphological, and climate...
Demographic response of brown treesnakes to extended population suppression
Melia G. Nafus, Shane R. Siers, Brenna A. Levine, Zachary C. Quiogue, Amy A. Yackel Adams
2022, Journal of Wildlife Management (86)
From a management perspective, reptiles are relatively novel invasive taxa. Few methods for reptile control have been developed and very little is known about their effectiveness for reducing reptile populations, particularly when the goal is eradication. Many reptiles, and especially snakes, are cryptic, secretive, and undergo...
Reconstructing the paleoceanographic and redox conditions responsible for variations in uranium content in North American Devonian black shales
Michelle L. Abshire, Natascha Riedinger, John M. Clymer, Clint Scott, Silke Severmann, Stephen J. Romaniello, James O. Puckette
2022, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (587)
The uranium (U) content, and more recently, the ratio between 238U and 235U in black shales are commonly applied as a proxy to determine redox conditions and infer organic-richness. Uranium contents typically display a linear relationship with total organic carbon (TOC) in shales. This relationship is due to...
Synthetic evaluation of infrasonic multipole waveform inversion
Alexandra M. Iezzi, Robin S Matoza, David Fee, Keehoon Kim, A.D. Jolly
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth (127)
Acoustic source inversions estimate the mass flow rate of volcanic explosions or yield of chemical explosions and provide insight into potential source directionality. However, the limitations of applying these methods to complex sources and their ability to resolve a stable solution have not been investigated in detail....
Geochemical insights into formation of enigmatic ironstones from Rio Grande rise, South Atlantic Ocean
Mariana Benites, James R. Hein, Kira Mizell, Kenneth A. Farley, Jonathon Treffkorn, Luigi Jovane
2022, Marine Geology (444)
Rio Grande Rise (RGR) is an intraplate oceanic elevation in the South Atlantic Ocean that formed at a hotspot on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the Cretaceous. In spreading center and hotspot environments, ironstones form mainly by biomineralization of reduced Fe from hydrothermal fluids or oxidation of sulfide deposits. However, RGR...
Effects of salinity and a glucocorticoid antagonist, RU486, on waterborne aldosterone and corticosterone of northern leopard frog larvae
Brian J. Tornabene, Creagh W Breuner, Blake R. Hossack, Erica J Crespi
2022, General and Comparative Endocrinology (317)
Increased salinity is an emerging contaminant of concern for aquatic taxa. For amphibians exposed to salinity, there is scarce information about the physiological effects and changes in osmoregulatory hormones such as corticosterone (CORT) and aldosterone (ALDO). Recent studies have quantified effects of salinity on CORT physiology of amphibians based on...
Phytoplankton community interactions and cyanotoxin mixtures in three recurring surface blooms within one lake
Victoria Christensen, Hayley T. Olds, Jack E. Norland, Eakalak Khan
2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials (427)
Cyanobacteria can produce numerous secondary metabolites (cyanotoxins) with various toxicities, yet data on cyanotoxins in many lakes are limited. Moreover, little research is available on complex relations among cyanobacteria that produce toxins. Therefore, we studied cyanobacteria and 19 cyanotoxins at three sites with recurring blooms in Kabetogama Lake (USA). Seven of 19...
New insights into organic matter accumulation from high-resolution geochemical analysis of a black shale: Middle and Upper Devonian Horn River Group, Canada
Haolin Zhou, Nicholas B. Harris, Tian Dong, Korhan Ayranci, Jilu Feng, Benoit Rivard, Paul C. Hackley, Javin J. Hatcherian
2022, Geological Society of America Bulletin (134) 2130-2144
Organic matter (OM) accumulation in organic matter-rich mudstones, or black shales, is generally recognized to be controlled by combinations of bioproductivity, preservation, and dilution. However, specific triggers of OM deposition in these formations are commonly difficult to identify with geochemical proxies, in part because of feedbacks that cause geochemical proxies...
Mapped predictions of manganese and arsenic in an alluvial aquifer using boosted regression trees
Katherine J. Knierim, James A. Kingsbury, Kenneth Belitz, Paul E. Stackelberg, Burke J. Minsley, James R. Rigby
2022, Groundwater (60) 362-376
Manganese (Mn) concentrations and the probability of arsenic (As) exceeding the drinking-water standard of 10 μg/L were predicted in the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer (MRVA) using boosted regression trees (BRT). BRT, a type of ensemble-tree machine-learning model, were created using predictor variables that affect Mn and...
Does where they start affect where they finish? A multimethod investigation of the role of stocking location on survival and dispersal of hatchery-reared Lake Sturgeon in Missouri River tributaries
M.J. Moore, Craig P. Paukert, T.W. Bonnot, B. Brooke, T. Moore
2022, River Research and Applications (38) 627-638
Despite ongoing Lake Sturgeon recovery efforts, little is known about the role of stocking location on survival and dispersal to nursery habitats. We stocked age-0 Lake Sturgeon at four sites in two adjacent Missouri River tributaries and used telemetry to examine whether survival and dispersal differed among stocking sites and...
Relationship of trout growth to frequent electrofishing and diet collection in a headwater stream
Niall G. Clancy, James L. Dunnigan, Phaedra E. Budy
2022, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (42) 109-114
Research on fishes sometimes requires that individual fish be captured and subjected to invasive procedures multiple times over a relatively short time span. Electrofishing is one of the most common techniques used to capture fish, and it is known to cause injury to fish under certain circumstances. We evaluated the...
Salinity contributions from geothermal waters to the Rio Grande and shallow aquifer system in the transboundary Mesilla (United States)/Conejos-Médanos (Mexico) Basin
Jeffrey D. Pepin, Andrew J. Robertson, Shari A. Kelley
2022, Water (14)
Freshwater scarcity has raised concerns about the long-term availability of the water supplies within the transboundary Mesilla (United States)/Conejos-Médanos (Mexico) Basin in Texas, New Mexico, and Chihuahua. Analysis of legacy temperature data and groundwater flux estimates indicates that the region’s known geothermal systems may contribute more than 45,000 tons of...
Improving groundwater model calibration with repeat microgravity measurements
Jeffrey R. Kennedy, Libby M. Wildermuth, Jacob E. Knight, Joshua D. Larson
2022, Groundwater (60) 393-403
Groundwater-flow models depend on hydraulic head and flux observations for evaluation and calibration. A different type of observation—change in storage measured using repeat microgravity—can also be used for parameter estimation by simulating the expected change in gravity from a groundwater model and including the observation misfit...
2021 U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model for the State of Hawaii
Mark D. Petersen, Allison M. Shumway, Peter M. Powers, Morgan P. Moschetti, Andrea L. Llenos, Andrew J. Michael, Charles Mueller, Arthur D. Frankel, Sanaz Rezaeian, Kenneth S. Rukstales, Daniel E. McNamara, P. Okubo, Yuehua Zeng, Kishor S. Jaiswal, Sean Kamran Ahdi, Jason M. Altekruse, Brian Shiro
2022, Earthquake Spectra (38) 865-916
The 2021 U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) for the State of Hawaii updates the two-decades-old former model by incorporating new data and modeling techniques to improve the underlying ground shaking forecasts of tectonic-fault, tectonic-flexure, volcanic, and caldera collapse earthquakes. Two earthquake ground shaking hazard models (public policy and research)...
Automated detection of clipping in broadband earthquake records
James Kael Kleckner, Kyle B. Withers, Eric M. Thompson, J.M. Rekoske, Emily Wolin, Morgan P. Moschetti
2022, Seismological Research Letters (93) 880-896
Because the amount of available ground‐motion data has increased over the last decades, the need for automated processing algorithms has also increased. One difficulty with automated processing is to screen clipped records. Clipping occurs when the ground‐motion amplitude exceeds the dynamic range of the linear...
Exposure of cultural resources to 21st-century climate change: Towards a risk management plan
Jorie Clark, Jeremy S. Littell, Jay R. Alder, Nathan Teats
2022, Climate Risk Management (35)
Anthropogenic climate change during the 21st century presents a significant challenge to the protection of cultural resources (CRs) on federal lands that encompass ∼ 28% of the U.S. In particular, CRs on this...
Exploring local riverbank sediment controls on the occurrence of preferential groundwater discharge points
Martin A. Briggs, Kaetlyn Jackson, F. Liu, Eric Moore, Alaina Bisson, A. M. Helton
2022, Water (14)
Groundwater discharge to rivers takes many forms, including preferential groundwater discharge points (PDPs) along riverbanks that are exposed at low flows, with multi-scale impacts on aquatic habitat and water quality. The physical controls on the spatial distribution of PDPs along riverbanks are not well-defined, rendering their prediction...
Assessing spontaneous howling rates in captive wolves using automatic passive recorders
Vicente Palacios, Shannon Barber-Meyer, Barbara Marti-Domken, Lori J. Schmidt
2022, Bioacoustics: The International Journal of Animal Sound and its Recording (31) 562-574
We studied the spontaneous vocal behaviour of captive wolves at the International Wolf Center (IWC) in Minnesota (spring 2019 and winter 2020), and the Centro del Lobo Ibérico Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (CLIFRF) in Spain (winter 2020). We used AudioMoth recording devices to record wolf howling 24 hr/day. We...
