Editorial: From cold seeps to hydrothermal vents: Geology, chemistry, microbiology, and ecology in marine and coastal environments
Glen T. Snyder, Andrew R. Thurber, Stephanie Dupre, Marcelo Ketzer, Carolyn D. Ruppel
2024, Frontiers in Earth Science (12)
This Research Topic compiles contemporary studies on cold seeps, hydrothermal vents, mud volcanoes, and related seafloor features that are associated with focused fluid emissions and the transfer of carbon, other chemical species, and sometimes heat from the geosphere to the ocean. Because these features sometimes tap fluids and gas...
New insights on the origin of the Richardson-Richards equation
John R. Nimmo
2024, Hydrological Sciences Journal (69) 2153-2158
The Richardson-Richards equation (RRE), despite known shortcomings especially in regard to preferential flow, provides the basis of the vast majority of unsaturated flow models in use today. L.F. Richardson published this equation in 1922, nine years before L.A. Richards. Whereas Richards approached this problem directly from the groundbreaking developments of...
Dust in the Critical Zone: North American case studies
Janice Brahney, Ruth C. Heindel, Thomas E. Gill, Gregory Carling, Juan M Gonzalez-Olalla, Jenny L. Hand, Derek V. Mallia, Jeffrey S. Munroe, Kevin Perry, Annie L. Putman, S. McKenzie Skiles, Brad R. Adams, Zachary T. Aanderud, Sarah M. Aarons, Daniela Aguirre, Karin Ardon-Dryer, Molly A. Blakowski, Jessie M. Creamean, Diego P. Fernandez, Hosein Foroutan, Cassandra J. Gaston, Maura Hahnenberger, Sebastian W. Hoch, Daniel K. Jones, Kerry E. Kelly, Otto I. Lang, Josh Lemonte, Richard L. Reynolds, Ramesh P. Singh, Mark Sweeney, Thorn K. Merrill
2024, Earth-Science Reviews (258)
The dust cycle facilitates the exchange of particles among Earth's major systems, enabling dust to traverse ecosystems, cross geographic boundaries, and even move uphill against the natural flow of gravity. Dust in the atmosphere is composed of a complex and ever-changing mixture that reflects the evolving human footprint on the...
Quantifying fine sediment infiltration in spawning gravel used by Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Sauk River Basin, Washington, 2018–21
Kristin L. Jaeger, Scott W. Anderson, Anya C. Leach, Scott T. Morris
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5077
Fine sediment can infiltrate into river substrate that salmonid fish species (Oncorhynchus spp.) use to spawn. High levels of sediment infiltration can increase egg-to-fry mortality, which corresponds to the period when salmonids are still residing in the subsurface gravels. This study quantifies fine sediment infiltration of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)...
Boundary spanning increases knowledge and action on invasive species in a changing climate
Annette E. Evans, Eva M. Colberg, Jenica M. Allen, Evelyn M. Beaury, Carrie Jean Brown-Lima, Toni Lyn Morelli, Bethany A. Bradley
2024, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (5)
Challenges associated with global change stressors on ecosystems have prompted calls to improve actionable science, including through boundary-spanning activities, which aim to build connections and communication between researchers and natural resource practitioners. By synthesizing and translating research and practitioner knowledge, boundary-spanning activities could support proactive, research-informed conservation practice, but...
Comparison of water quality in shallow groundwater near agricultural areas in the Delaware Coastal Plain, 2014 and 2019
Alexander M. Soroka, Betzaida Reyes, Brandon J. Fleming, Michael Brownley
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5076
The State of Delaware has encouraged agricultural conservation practices to improve nutrient uptake by crops and mitigate nutrient transport to groundwater in the surficial aquifer. To study recent changes in groundwater quality, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Delaware Department of Agriculture (DDA) developed a network of shallow wells near...
Coastal wetlands in the Anthropocene
John W. Day, Edward Anthony, Robert Costanza, Douglas Edmonds, Joel Gunn, Charles Hopkinson, Michael E. Mann, James Morris, Michael Osland, Tracy Quirk, Andre S. Rovai, John M Rybczyk, Thomas Spencer, Jessica Stephens, Jaia Syvitski, Robert R. Twilley, Jenneke Visser, John R. White
2024, Annual Review of Environment and Resources (49) 105-135
We review the functioning and sustainability of coastal marshes and mangroves. Urbanized humans have a 7,000-year-old enduring relationship to coastal wetlands. Wetlands include marshes, salt flats, and saline and freshwater forests. Coastal wetlands occur in all climate zones but are most abundant in deltas. Mangroves are tropical, whereas marshes occur...
Adapting standardized trout monitoring to a changing climate for the upper Yellowstone River, Montana, USA
Michelle A. Briggs, Hayley Corrine Glassic, Christopher S. Guy, Scott T. Opitz, Jay J. Rotella, David A. Schmetterling
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 947-961
ObjectiveLong‐term standardized monitoring programs are fundamental to assessing how fish populations respond to anthropogenic stressors. Standardized monitoring programs may need to adopt new methods to adapt to rapid environmental changes that are associated with a changing climate. In the upper Yellowstone River, Montana, biologists have used a standardized,...
Onset of aftershocks: Constraints on the Rate-and-State model
Sebastian Hainzl, Morgan T. Page, Nicholas van der Elst
2024, Seismological Research Letters (95) 3507-3516
Aftershock rates typically decay with time t after the mainshock according to the Omori–Utsu law, R(t)=K(c+t)−p, with parameters K, c, and p. The rate‐and‐state (RS) model, which is currently the most popular physics‐based seismicity model, also predicts an Omori–Utsu decay with p = 1 and a c‐value that depends on the size of the coseismic stress change....
Understanding the role of recreational angling technology in angler expectations of catch, trip catch, and angler satisfaction
Amanda M. Kerkhove, Ashley Trudeau, Olaf P. Jensen, Daniel A. Isermann, Patricia A. Dombrowski, Alexandra M. Latimer, Zachary S. Feiner
2024, Fisheries Magazine (49) 463-474
Rapid technological advancement often receives a mix of criticism and welcome implementation. Fishing technologies, such as sonar, are believed to enable anglers to be more efficient and effective in their angling. There are concerns from anglers and managers of increased catch by technology users. We assessed the relationships between technology...
Bison Shared Stewardship Strategy
Jason Baldes, Linda Cardenas, Gerald Cobbell, Wayne Frederick, Christina Justice, Ted Knife Jr., Robert Magnan, Thomas Mendez, Brendan Moynahan, Paul Santavy, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Brandon Small, Thomas Swecichowski
2024, Report
No abstract available....
Bacteriological analysis of unionid hemolymph collected from freshwater mussel populations in the Pacific northwestern United States
Eric Leis, Sara Dziki, Emilie Blevins, Diane L. Waller, Jordan Richard, Susan Knowles, Tony Goldberg
2024, Invertebrate Biology (143)
Native freshwater mussel (Unionidae) mortality events have been occurring with increased frequency in recent decades, with few investigations into potential etiological agents. In the western United States, no surveys have been published regarding the bacteria associated with unionid mussels. Herein, we examine locations of known mussel mortality events in the...
Utilizing artificial nesting platforms to enhance breeding of Western Cordilleran Flycatchers on Mt Lemmon
Charles van Riper III
2024, Newsletter
No abstract available....
Declines in brook trout abundance linked to atmospheric warming in Maryland, USA
Nathaniel P. Hitt, Karli M. Rogers, Zachary A. Kelly
2024, Hydrobiology (3) 310-324
Salmonid fishes provide an important indicator of climate change given their reliance on cold water. We evaluated temporal changes in the density of stream-dwelling brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) from surveys conducted over a 36-year period (1988–2023) by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources in Eastern North America. Nonparametric trend...
Fall 2024
Katrina Rossos
2024, Newsletter
This issue highlights our long history of outreach on Cape Cod in an article and video. It also features a story about our crest-stage gage network in Vermont, which provisionally hit high-water records during flash floods this summer. Also, we discuss a USGS study that examined trends of extreme low-flows...
Special flora and vegetation of Indiana Dunes National Park
Noel B. Pavlovic, Barbara Plampin, Gayle S. Tonkovich, David R. Hamilla
2024, Natural Resource Report NPS/INDU/NRR—2024/262
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Preliminary observations of the April 5th, 2024, Mw4.8 New Jersey earthquake
Oliver S. Boyd, William D. Barnhart, James Bourke, Martin C. Chapman, Paul S. Earle, Guo-chin Dino Huang, Jessica Ann Thompson Jobe, Won-Young Kim, Frederick Link, Mairi Maclean Litherland, Andrew Lloyd, Maureen Long, Sara K. McBride, Andrew J. Michael, Walter D. Mooney, Gregory Moutain, Sissy Nikolaou, Alexandros Savvaidas, Felix Waldhauser, Cecily J. Wolfe, Clara Yoon
2024, The Seismic Record (4) 240-250
On 5 April 2024, 10:23 a.m. local time, a moment magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Tewksbury Township, New Jersey, about 65 km west of New York City. Millions of people from Virginia to Maine and beyond felt the ground shaking, resulting in the largest number (>180,000)...
Overcoming low detectability in snake conservation research: Case studies from the Southeast USA
John D. Willson, Jacquelyn C. Guzy, Andrew M. Durso
2024, Book chapter, Strategies for Conservation Success in Herpetology
Goals of conservation research include detecting and monitoring changes in abundance, understanding species interactions, detecting extinction events of imperiled species, and detecting colonization events and spread of non-native species. Achieving these goals is difficult or impossible when the target species is rarely encountered or when the number of individuals detected...
Scale-dependence in elk habitat selection for a reintroduced population in Wisconsin, USA
Jennifer L. Merems, Anna L. Brose, Jennifer Price Tack, Shawn M. Crimmins, Timothy R. Van Deelen
2024, Ecology and Evolution (14)
Habitat selection is a critical aspect of a species' ecology, requiring complex decision-making that is both hierarchical and scale-dependent, since factors that influence selection may be nested or unequal across scales. Elk (Cervus canadensis) ranged widely across diverse ecoregions in North America prior to European settlement and subsequent eastern extirpation....
Adapting standardized trout monitoring to a changing climate for the upper Yellowstone River, Montana, USA
Michelle A. Briggs, Hayley Corrine Glassic, Christopher S. Guy, Scott T. Opitz, Jay J. Rotella, David A. Schmetterling
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 947-961
ObjectiveLong-term standardized monitoring programs are fundamental to assessing how fish populations respond to anthropogenic stressors. Standardized monitoring programs may need to adopt new methods to adapt to rapid environmental changes associated with a changing climate. In the upper Yellowstone River, Montana, biologists have used a standardized, mark-recapture monitoring protocol to...
Effects of recent wildfires on giant sequoia groves were anomalous at millennial timescales: a response to Hanson et al.
Nathan L. Stephenson, David Nicolas Bertil Soderberg, Joshua A. Flickinger, Anthony C. Caprio, Adrian Das
2024, Fire Ecology (20)
BackgroundThe giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum [Lindley] Buchholz) of California’s Sierra Nevada recently suffered historically unprecedented wildfires that killed an estimated 13–19% of seed-bearing sequoias across their native range. Hanson et al. recently sought to characterize post-fire reproduction in two severely burned sequoia groves, but their two papers (1) inaccurately...
Brodifacoum isomer formulations with potentially lower risk to non-target wildlife
Barnett A. Rattner, Richard A. Erickson, Julia S. Lankton, Etienne Benoit, Virginie Lattard
2024, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 31st vertebrate pest conference
Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) have a long history of successful use in controlling vertebrate pest and invasive species. Despite regulatory efforts to mitigate risk, non-target wildlife may be unintentionally exposed to ARs through various trophic pathways, and depending on dose, exposure can result in adverse effects and mortality. Second-generation ARs (SGARs)...
Evaluation of the lakes and impoundments drought index for the Massachusetts Drought Management Plan
Travis L. Smith
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5081
The condition of surface water storage in lakes and impoundments is used as an index of drought in the Massachusetts drought management plan. The U.S. Geological Survey visited 28 of these lakes and impoundments at 14 single and multiple waterbody systems to evaluate their appropriateness for characterizing drought. The data...
Statistical analysis of Lake Tahoe secchi depth data
Ramon C. Naranjo
2024, Report
Secchi depth measurements in Lake Tahoe have been collected at a Long-Term Profile (LTP) monitoring site since 1968. Periodic updates in Secchi trend analysis are needed to understand changes in the long-term record, changes in seasonal pattern, and to provide insight into the progress of restoration efforts in improving lake...
Microplastic and associated black particles from road-tire wear: Implications for radiative effects across the cryosphere and in the atmosphere
Richard L. Reynolds, Heather A. Lowers, George N. Breit, Harland L. Goldstein, Elizabeth Kellisha Williams, Corey Lawrence, Raymond F. Kokaly, Jeff Derry
2024, JGR - Atmospheres (129)
The environmental effects of airborne micro- and nano-size plastic particles are poorly understood. Microscopy and chemical analyses of atmospherically deposited particles on snow surfaces at high elevation (2,865–3,690 m) in the Upper Colorado River basin (UCRB; Colorado Rocky Mountains) revealed the presence of black substances intimately associated with...
