Year-round movements of a Wahlberg's eagle Aquila wahlbergi tracked by satellite
B.-U. Meyburg, J.M. Mendelsohn, D. H. Ellis, D.G. Smith, C. Meyburg, A.C. Kemp
1995, Ostrich (66) 135-140
An adult female Wahlberg's Eagle from northern Namibia was tracked by satellite ovcr a total distance of 8816 km and located 104 times between 11 February and 4 November 1994. It migrated on an almost due north heading to northern Cameroon, north-eastern Nigeria and western Chad through the rain forest...
Point count length and detection of forest neotropical migrant birds
D.K. Dawson, D. R. Smith, C.S. Robbins
C. John Ralph, John R. Sauer, Sam Droege, editor(s)
1995, Report, Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts
Comparisons of bird abundances among years or among habitats assume that the rates at which birds are detected and counted are constant within species. We use point count data collected in forests of the Mid-Atlantic states to estimate detection probabilities for Neotropical migrant bird species as a function of count...
Water-quality conditions at selected landfills in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1986-92
G.M. Ferrell, D.G. Smith
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4067
Water-quality conditions at five municipal landfills in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, were studied during 1986-92. Analytical results of water samples from monitoring wells and streams at and near the landfills were used to evaluate effects of leachate on surface and ground water. Ground-water levels at monitoring wells were used to...
Map showing the distribution, mineralogy, and geochemistry of hydrothermally altered rocks in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada and California
L. C. Rowan, B. A. Eiswerth, D. B. Smith, W. J. Ehmann, T. L. Bowers
1995, IMAP 2473
No abstract available....
Point count length and detection of forest neotropical migrant birds
D.K. Dawson, D. R. Smith, C.S. Robbins
1995, Report PSW-GTR-149
No abstract available at this time...
Global sea surface temperatures and associated long-range predictability of the northern hemisphere circulation and local climatological variables
E.C. Kung, J.G. Chern, D.E. Smith
1995, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (6) 553-577
Abstract has not been submitted...
Prerelease disease treatment with potassium permanganate for Fall Chinook salmon smolts
Stanley D. Smith, Rowan W. Gould, Wally S. Zaugg, Lee W. Harrell, Conrad V.W. Mahnken
1995, Progressive Fish-Culturist (57) 102-106
Standard potassium permanganate treatment (2 mg KMnO4/L freshwater for 1 h on three consecutive days) was applied to presmolts (parr) and smolts of fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Smoltification was determined by gill Na+,K+-ATPase activity. Treatments were conducted 73, 59, 45, 31, 16, and 2 d prior to full-strength seawater...
Efficiency of adaptive cluster sampling for estimating density of wintering waterfowl
D. R. Smith, M.J. Conroy, D.H. Brakhage
1995, Biometrics (51) 777-788
No abstract available....
Water resources data, North Carolina, water year 1994. Volume 1. Surface-water records
B.C. Ragland, D.G. Smith, R.G. Barker, J.F. Rinehardt
1995, Water Data Report NC-94-1
No abstract available....
Water resources data, North Carolina, water year 1994. Volume 2: Ground-water records
D.G. Smith, E.D. George, P.L. Breton
1995, Water Data Report NC-94-2
No abstract available. ...
Should we terminate an 'artificial,' tree-nesting raptor population in Arizona?
D. H. Ellis, D.G. Smith, F.B.P. Trahan
1994, Journal of Raptor Research (28) 56 (abs)
The Altar Valley in southcentral Arizona was once a iallgrass prairie. Overgrazing prevented fire and spread mesquite, allowing the area, now a savanna, to be heavily used by tree-nesting raptors in summer and heavily hunted by perch-hunting raptors in winter. The breeding raptor community (over 150 pairs) consists primarily of...
Diurnal raptors in the fragmented rain forest of the Sierra Imataca, Venezuela
E. Alvarez, D. H. Ellis, D.G. Smith, C.T. LaRue
1994, Journal of Raptor Research (28) 45 (abs)
The rain forest of the Sierra Imataca in eastern Venezuela has been subjected to extensive deforestation for pastures and agricultural settlements. In the last decade the opening of access roads combined with intensified logging and mining activities have fragmented a significant portion of the remaining forest. We noted local distribution...
The Clementine mission to the Moon: Scientific overview
Stewart Nozette, P. Rustan, L. P. Pleasance, J. F. Kordas, I. T. Lewis, H. S. Park, R. E. Priest, D. M. Horan, P. Regeon, C. L. Lichtenberg, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, E. M. Eliason, A. S. McEwen, M. S. Robinson, P. D. Spudis, C. H. Acton, B. J. Buratti, T. C. Duxbury, D. N. Baker, B. M. Jakosky, J. E. Blamont, M. P. Corson, J. H. Resnick, C. J. Rollins, M. E. Davies, P. G. Lucey, E. Malaret, M. A. Massie, C.M. Pieters, R. A. Reisse, D. E. Smith, T. C. Sorenson, R. W. Vorder Breugge, M.T. Zuber
1994, Science (266) 1835-1839
In the course of 71 days in lunar orbit, from 19 February to 3 May 1994, the Clementine spacecraft acquired just under two million digital images of the moon at visible and infrared wavelengths. These data are enabling the global mapping of the rock types of the lunar...
Water resources data, North Carolina, water year 1993. Volume 2: Ground-water records
R. W. Coble, D.G. Smith, B.C. Ragland
1994, Water Data Report NC-93-2
No abstract available. ...
Designing large-scale surveys of wildlife abundance and diversity using statistical sampling principles
M.J. Conroy, D. R. Smith
1994, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (59) 159-169
Survival rates of American woodcock wintering along the Atlantic coast
David G. Krementz, John T. Seginak, David R. Smith, Grey W. Pendleton
1994, Journal of Wildlife Management (58) 147-155
Because American woodcock (Scolopax minor) populations have been declining, we attached radio transmitters to woodcock at coastal plain sites to determine if survival during winter was involved in the decline. Sites were in Georgia (1982-84, 1989-92), South Carolina (1988-89), and Virginia (1991-92). Survival rates were not different between age or...
Coal resources of the Joplin 1° x 2° quadrangle, Kansas and Missouri
L. L. Brady, L. M. Nuelle, D. B. Haug, D. C. Smith, J. L. Bostic, J. C. Jcquess
1994, IMAP 2426-A
No abstract available....
Preliminary report of extensive gyrfalcon and snowy owl mortality in northern Siberia
D. H. Ellis, D.G. Smith
1993, Raptor-link (1) 3-4
Social foraging classes in raptorial birds
D. H. Ellis, J.C. Bednarz, D.G. Smith, S.P. Flemming
1993, BioScience (43) 14-20
No abstract available....
Surface- and ground-water quality data at selected landfill sites in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1979-92
D.G. Smith
1993, Open-File Report 93-437
The U.S. Geological Survey initiated an urban water-quality study in 1979 in cooperation with the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. As part of this study, a water-quality monitoring network was established at selected landfill sites in Mecklenburg County. Water-quality samples were collected at 27 surface-water sites and...
The Hatu gold anomaly, Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region, China - testing the hypothesis of aeolian transport of gold
D. B. Smith, P. K. Theobald, S. Shiquan, R. Tianxiang, H. Zhihui
1993, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (47) 201-216
In 1987, a cooperative project between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Institute of Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration was initiated to evaluate the origin of the Hatu gold anomaly. The anomaly is located in the Hatu mining district in the northwest corner of Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. The...
Preliminary studies of the CHIM electrogeochemical method at the Kokomo Mine, Russell Gulch, Colorado
D. B. Smith, D. B. Hoover, R.F. Sanzolone
1993, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (46) 257-278
The CHIM electrogeochemical exploration technique was developed in the former Soviet Union about 20 years ago and is claimed to be effective in exploration for concealed mineral deposits that are not detectable by other geochemical or geophysical techniques. The method involves...
Determining sex of eastern screech-owls using discriminant function analysis
D.G. Smith, Stanley N. Wiemeyer
1992, Journal of Raptor Research (26) 24-26
Seven morphometric characteristics and weight of males and females of a captive colony of Eastern Screech-Owls (Otus asio) were compared. Females were significantly larger than males in weight, total length, and length of tail, wing and bill. A discriminant function analysis based on weight, wing and tail length...
Techniques for rearing and releasing nonmigratory cranes: Lessons from the Mississippi Sandhill Crane program
D. H. Ellis, Glenn H. Olsen, G.F. Gee, Jane M. Nicolich, K.E. O'Malley, Meenakshi Nagendran, Scott G. Hereford, P. Range, W.T. Harper, R.P. Ingram, D.G. Smith
1992, Book chapter, Proceedings of the Sixth North American Crane Workshop.
Captive-reared Mississippi sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis pulla) reared at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (Patuxent) have been released at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge (MSCNWR) since 1981. Of 131 birds released through December 1990, 103 were reared by foster parents. The remaining 28 were experimentally hand-reared in 1989...
Progress in satellite tracking cranes
D. H. Ellis, D.G. Smith, Glenn H. Olsen, M.R. Fuller, S.E. Landfried, H. Higuchi, C.H. Vermillion
1992, Book chapter, Proceedings of the Sixth North American Crane Workshop
We review the history of tracking cranes with satellite telemetry and identify some of the difficulties in designing satellite transmitters and harnesses for cranes. Miniaturization of these transmitters and a plethora of harnessing experiments since 1989 allow us to recommend limited application of this technology to all species of cranes....
