Resilient riverine social–ecological systems: A new paradigm to meet global conservation targets
Denielle M. Perry, Sarah J. Praskievicz, Ryan McManamay, Alark Saxena, K. C. Grimm, Nicholas Zegre, Lucas Bair, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Richard Rushforth
2024, WIREs Water (11)
The United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity set forth the 30 × 30 target, an agenda for countries to protect at least 30% of their terrestrial, inland water, and coastal and marine areas by 2030. With <6 years to reach that goal, riverine conservation professionals are faced with the difficult decision of prioritizing...
Genetic origins of a resurging lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, population in the Detroit River, Laurentian Great Lakes
Wendylee Stott, Robin L. DeBruyne, Edward F. Roseman
2024, International Journal of Limnology (60)
The Detroit River connects Lake Huron and Lake Erie of the Laurentian Great Lakes. The river once supported a substantial lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) fishery until the early 1900s, when habitat loss, pollution, and overfishing contributed to the collapse of the fishery and loss of spawning populations in the river....
Estimating species-specific U.S. waterfowl harvest
Ben Augustine, Andy Royle
2024, Preprint
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service monitors species-specific waterfowl (ducks, seaducks, geese, and brant) harvest through two hunter surveys, one that estimates the total harvest for each waterfowl group, and a second that estimates the species composition of each waterfowl group. Point estimates for species-specific harvest can be computed by...
3-D geological modeling for numerical flow simulation studies of gas hydrate reservoirs at the Kuparuk State 7-11-12 Pad in the Prudhoe Bay Unit on the Alaska North Slope
Machiko Tamaki, Misuzu Taninaka, Satoshi Ohtsuki, Aung Than Tin, Naoyuki Shimoda, Timothy Collett, Ray Boswell
2024, Energy and Fuels (28) 15248-15269
Accurate reservoir evaluation requires reliable three-dimensional (3-D) geological models. This study conducted 3-D geological modeling for numerical flow simulation of the B1 sand gas hydrate reservoir at the Kuparuk State 7-11-12 pad, Prudhoe Bay Unit, Alaska North Slope. The model integrates well logs, core, and seismic...
Incorporating projected climate conditions to map future riparian refugia
Kimberly E Szcodronski, Alisa A. Wade, Sarah Elizabeth Burton, Blake R. Hossack
2024, Conservation Science and Practice (6)
Identifying areas expected to remain buffered from climate change and maintain biodiversity and ecological function (i.e., climate refugia) is important for climate adaptation planning. As structurally diverse transitional zones between terrestrial and aquatic environments, riparian areas are often biological hotspots and provide critical corridors for...
Evidence of long-range transport of selenium downstream of coal mining operations in the Elk River Valley, Canada
Madison Jo Foster, Meryl Biesiot Storb, Johanna Blake, Travis S. Schmidt, Rochelle A. Nustad, Ashley Morgan Bussell
2024, Environmental Science and Technology Letters (11) 856-861
Expanding coal-mining operations in the Elk River Valley (British Columbia, Canada) have increased total selenium (Se) concentrations in the transboundary Lake Koocanusa (Canada and United States), but the spatial extent of Se transport from the Elk River Mines is unknown. We evaluated multiple lines of evidence...
A Bayesian age from dispersed plagioclase and zircon dates in the Los Chocoyos ash, Central America
Alec Baudry, Bradley S. Singer, Brian Jicha, Christine E. Jilly-Rehak, Jorge A. Vazquez, C. Brenhin Keller
2024, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (643)
The eruption that produced the modern Atitlán caldera in Guatemala has a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) greater than 8, making it the largest of the Quaternary in the Central American Volcanic Arc (CAVA). It generated ∼1220 km3 (730 km3 dense rock equivalent)...
Significant challenges to the sustainability of the California coast considering climate change
Karen M. Thorne, Glen M. MacDonald, Francisco P. Chavez, Richard F. Ambrose, Patrick L. Barnard
2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (121)
Climate change is an existential threat to the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability of the coastal zone and impacts will be complex and widespread. Evidence from California and across the United States shows that climate change is impacting coastal communities and challenging managers with a plethora of stressors already present. Widespread...
Near-real-time earthquake-induced fatality estimation using crowdsourced data and few-shot large-language models
Chenguang Wang, Davis T. Engler, Xuechun Li, James Hou, David J. Wald, Kishor S. Jaiswal, Susu Xu
2024, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (111)
When a damaging earthquake occurs, immediate information about casualties (e.g., fatalities and injuries) is critical for time-sensitive decision-making by emergency response and aid agencies in the first hours and days. Systems such as the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)...
Evaluation of classified ground points from National Agriculture Imagery program photogrammetrically derived point clouds
Jung-Kuan Liu, Samantha Arundel, Ethan J. Shavers
2024, Remote Sensing Letters (15)
Studies have shown that digital surface models and point clouds generated by the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) can measure basic forest parameters such as canopy height. However, all measured forest parameters from these studies are evaluated using the differences between NAIP digital...
High resolution identification and quantification of diffuse deep groundwater discharge in mountain rivers using continuous boat-mounted helium measurements
Connor P. Newman, Eric Humphrey, Matthias Brennwald, W. Payton Gardner, Kelli M Palko, Michael Gooseff, Kip Solomon
2024, Journal of Hydrology (640)
Discharge of deeply sourced groundwater to streams is difficult to locate and quantify, particularly where both discrete and diffuse discharge points exist, but diffuse discharge is one of the primary controls on solute budgets in mountainous watersheds. The noble gas helium is a unique identifier...
Use of otolith microchemistry to determine natal origin for Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix in the lower Mississippi River basin
CE Barshinger, MA Eggleton, Jonathan J. Spurgeon
2024, Biological Invasions (26) 3091-3106
Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) populations have established and expanded throughout the lower Mississippi River basin (LMRB). Information pertaining to Silver Carp population mixing among rivers within the LMRB is lacking. Documented relations between Silver Carp otolith and river water barium (Ba) and strontium (Sr) microchemical signatures...
Assisted migration of coho salmon: Influences of passage and habitat availability on population dynamics
Joseph R. Benjamin, Jason B. Dunham, Nicholas Scheidt, Carla Rothenbuecher, Cory Sipher
2024, River Research and Applications (40) 2009-2021
Assisted migration is a means of introducing a species into a previously unoccupied area. Although this idea is relatively new for many species, there are many extant examples involving fish that can be instructive. We studied a case of assisted migration where upstream access of migrating adult coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch over...
Little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) are resistant to SARS-CoV-2 infection
Jeffrey S. Hall, Sean Nashold, Erik K. Hofmeister, Ariel Elizabeth Leon, Elizabeth Falendysz, Hon S. Ip, Carly M. Malave, Tonie E. Rocke, Mariano Carossino, Udeni B.R. Balasuriya, Susan Knowles
2024, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (60) 924-930
It has been proposed that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus that spread through human populations as a pandemic originated in Asian bats. There is concern that infected humans could transmit the virus to native North American bats; therefore, the susceptibility of several North American bat species...
Disturbance amplifies sensitivity of dryland productivity to precipitation variability
Tyson J. Terry, Osvaldo E. Sala, Scott Ferrenberg, Sasha C. Reed, Brooke B. Osborne, Samuel E. Jordan, Steven R. Lee, Peter B. Adler
2024, Science Advances (10)
Variability of the terrestrial global carbon sink is largely determined by the response of dryland productivity to annual precipitation. Despite extensive disturbance in drylands, how disturbance alters productivity-precipitation relationships remains poorly understood. Using remote-sensing to pair more than 5600 km of natural gas pipeline corridors with neighboring undisturbed areas in...
Computational approaches improve evidence synthesis and inform broad fisheries trends
Gretchen L. Stokes, Abigail Lynch, John V. Flores, Jesse P. Wong, Connor Morang, Chelsie Romulo, Simon Funge-Smith, John Valbo-Jorgensen, Samuel J. Smidt
2024, Conservation Science and Practice (6)
Addressing ecological impacts with effective conservation actions requires information on the links between human pressures and localized responses. Understanding links is a priority for many conservation contexts, including the world's fresh waters, which face intensifying threats to disproportionately high species diversity, including more than half of the world's fish species. Literature...
Modeling the effects of spatial distribution on dynamics of an invading Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) Blake population
Yuanming Lu, Junfei Xia, Robert D. Holt, Don DeAngelis
2024, Forests (15)
To predict the potential success of an invading non-native species, it is important to understand its dynamics and interactions with native species in the early stages of its invasion. In spatially implicit models, mathematical stability criteria are commonly used to predict whether an invading population grows in number in an...
Experimental changes in food and ectoparasites affect dispersal timing in juvenile burrowing owls
Victoria Garcia, Courtney J. Conway, Christopher P. Nadeau
2024, PLoS ONE (06)
Natal dispersal is a key demographic trait that affects population dynamics, and intraspecific variation in dispersal affects gene flow among populations and source-sink dynamics. However, relatively little is known about the selective pressures and trade-offs that animals face when departing their natal area due to the logistical difficulties associated with...
Insights on using solid bitumen reflectance as a thermal maturity proxy in the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, USA
Paul C. Hackley, Clint Scott, Justin E. Birdwell, Jennifer Nedzweckas, Brett J. Valentine, Tongwei Zhang, Timothy O Nesheim
2024, ACS Omega (9) 33983-33997
To further refine the use of solid bitumen reflectance (BRo in %) as a measurement of thermal maturity in source-rock reservoirs, we examined its relationship to other thermal proxies in the Bakken Formation. Comparisons included criteria from programmed temperature pyrolysis, gas chromatography (GC), and Fourier transform infrared...
Reversal in estuarine sand supply driven by Holocene sea level rise: A model for sand transport in large structural estuaries, San Francisco Bay, California, USA
M.A. Malkowski, Z.T. Sickmann, Theresa A. Fregoso, Lester McKee, D. Stockli, Bruce E. Jaffe
2024, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (643)
Reversal in estuarine sand supply driven by Holocene sea level rise: A model for sand transport in large structural estuaries, San Francisco Bay, California, USA...
Discordance between taxonomy and population genomic data: An avian example relevant to the United States Endangered Species Act
Andrew N. Black, Andrew J. Mularo, Jong Yoon Jeon, David A. Haukos, Kristin J. Bondo, Kent A. Fricke, Andy Gregory, Blake Grisham, Zachary E. Lowe, J. Andrew DeWoody
2024, PNAS Nexus (3)
Population genomics can reveal cryptic biological diversity that may impact fitness while simultaneously serving to delineate relevant conservation units. Here, we leverage the power of whole-genome resequencing for conservation by studying 433 individual lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus; LEPC, a federally endangered species of conservation concern in the United States) and...
Aftershock forecasting
Jeanne L. Hardebeck, Andrea L. Llenos, Andrew J. Michael, Morgan T. Page, Max Schneider, Nicholas van der Elst
2024, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (52) 61-84
Aftershocks can compound the impacts of a major earthquake, disrupting recovery efforts and potentially further damaging weakened buildings and infrastructure. Forecasts of the probability of aftershocks can therefore aid decision-making during earthquake response and recovery. Several countries issue authoritative aftershock forecasts. Most aftershock forecasts are based on...
Crop type classification, trends, and patterns of central California agricultural fields from 2005 to 2020
Britt Windsor Smith, Christopher E. Soulard, Jessica J. Walker
2024, Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment (7)
California produces many key agricultural products in the United States. Current geospatial agricultural datasets are limited in mapping accuracy, spatial context, or observation period. This study uses machine learning and high-resolution imagery to produce a time series of crop maps to assess crop type trends and patterns across central California...
Shallow storage of the explosive Earthquake Flat Pyroclastics magma body, Okataina Volcanic Center, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: Evidence from phase-equilibria experiments
Elizabeth R. G. Grant, Dawnika L. Blatter, Thomas W. Sisson, Kari M Cooper
2024, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (179)
Rhyolitic tuffs range widely in their crystal contents from nearly aphyric to crystal-rich, and their crystal cargoes inform concepts of upper crustal magma reservoirs. The Earthquake Flat pyroclastics (Okataina Volcanic Center, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand) are 10 km3 of rhyolitic tuffs with abundant (~ 40 vol.%) plagioclase and quartz, minor biotite,...
Collision structures of the Prince William terrane and Chugach terrane docking along the Shumagin and Unimak convergent margins, Alaska, USA
Roland E. von Huene, John J. Miller
2024, Geosphere (20) 1276-1285
Western Alaska’s convergent margins are composed of tectonostratigraphic terranes. On land, terrane assembly is recognized along boundaries or sutures between neighboring geologic elements with distinctly different origins. In marine areas where rock outcrops are covered by sediment, recognizing terrane sutures is problematic. A fault in seismic dip line 5 of...
