TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission
A. Coustenis, S.K. Atreya, T. Balint, R. H. Brown, M.K. Dougherty, F. Ferri, M. Fulchignoni, D. Gautier, R.A. Gowen, C.A. Griffith, L.I. Gurvits, R. Jaumann, Y. Langevin, M.R. Leese, J. I. Lunine, C.P. McKay, X. Moussas, I. Muller-Wodarg, F. Neubauer, T.C. Owen, F. Raulin, E.C. Sittler, F. Sohl, Christophe Sotin, G. Tobie, T. Tokano, E. P. Turtle, J.-E. Wahlund, J.H. Waite, K. H. Baines, J. E. Blamont, A.J. Coates, I. Dandouras, T. Krimigis, E. Lellouch, R. D. Lorenz, A. Morse, C.C. Porco, M. Hirtzig, J. Saur, T. Spilker, J.C. Zarnecki, E. Choi, N. Achilleos, R. Amils, P. Annan, D.H. Atkinson, Y. Benilan, C. Bertucci, B. Bezard, G.L. Bjoraker, M. Blanc, L. Boireau, J. Bouman, M. Cabane, M.T. Capria, E. Chassefiere, P. Coll, M. Combes, J.F. Cooper, A. Coradini, F. Crary, T. Cravens, I.A. Daglis, E. de Angelis, C. De Bergh, I. de Pater, C. Dunford, G. Durry, O. Dutuit, D. Fairbrother, F.M. Flasar, A.D. Fortes, R. Frampton, M. Fujimoto, M. Galand, O. Grasset, M. Grott, T. Haltigin, A. Herique, F. Hersant, H. Hussmann, W. Ip, R. Johnson, E. Kallio, S. Kempf, M. Knapmeyer, W. Kofman, R. Koop, T. Kostiuk, N. Krupp, M. Kuppers, H. Lammer, L.-M. Lara, P. Lavvas, Stéphane Le Mouélic, S. Lebonnois, S. Ledvina, Ji Li, T.A. Livengood, R.M. Lopes, J. #NAME? Lopez-Moreno, D. Luz, P.R. Mahaffy, U. Mall, J. Martinez-Frias, B. Marty, T. McCord, C.M. Salvan, A. Milillo, D.G. Mitchell, R. Modolo, O. Mousis, M. Nakamura, Catherine D. Neish, C.A. Nixon, D.N. Mvondo, G. Orton, M. Paetzold, J. Pitman, S. Pogrebenko, W. Pollard, O. Prieto-Ballesteros, P. Rannou, K. Reh, L. Richter, F.T. Robb, R. Rodrigo, S. Rodriguez, P. Romani, M.R. Bermejo, E.T. Sarris, P. Schenk, B. Schmitt, N. Schmitz, D. Schulze-Makuch, K. Schwingenschuh, A. Selig, B. Sicardy, L. Soderblom, L.J. Spilker, D. Stam, A. Steele, K. Stephan, D.F. Strobel, K. Szego, Szopa
2009, Experimental Astronomy (23) 893-946
TandEM was proposed as an L-class (large) mission in response to ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 Call, and accepted for further studies, with the goal of exploring Titan and Enceladus. The mission concept is to perform in situ investigations of two worlds tied together by location and properties, whose remarkable natures...
Global circulation as the main source of cloud activity on Titan
S. Rodriguez, Stéphane Le Mouélic, P. Rannou, G. Tobie, K. H. Baines, J. W. Barnes, C.A. Griffith, M. Hirtzig, K.M. Pitman, Christophe Sotin, R. H. Brown, B. J. Buratti, R. N. Clark, P. D. Nicholson
2009, Nature (459) 678-682
Clouds on Titan result from the condensation of methane and ethane and, as on other planets, are primarily structured by circulation of the atmosphere. At present, cloud activity mainly occurs in the southern (summer) hemisphere, arising near the pole and at mid-latitudes from cumulus updrafts triggered by surface heating and/or...
Warmwater fish in large standing waters
L.E. Miranda, Jeff Boxrucker
Scott A. Bonar, Wayne A. Hubert, David W. Willis, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
Large standing waters are defined as those larger than 200 ha. Water temperature is a major determinant of fish assemblages in large standing water of North America (Matthews 1998 ). From a thermal perspective, eaters are broadly classified into coldwater (inhabited by trout and salmon) and warmwater (intolerable to trout...
Ice and water on Newberry Volcano, central Oregon
Julie M. Donnelly-Nolan, Robert A. Jensen
Jim O’Connor, Ian P. Madin, Rebecca Dorsey, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Volcanoes to vineyards: Geologic field trips through the dynamic landscape of the Pacific Northwest
Newberry Volcano in central Oregon is dry over much of its vast area, except for the lakes in the caldera and the single creek that drains them. Despite the lack of obvious glacial striations and well-formed glacial moraines, evidence indicates that Newberry was glaciated. Meter-sized foreign blocks, commonly with smoothed...
Warmwater and coldwater fish in two-story stranding waters
Phaedra E. Budy, Gary P. Thiede, Chris Luecke, Roger W. Schneidervin
Scott A. Bonar, Wayne A. Hubert, David W. Willis, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
Two-story fisheries occur in lakes or reservoirs characterized by two distinct spatial strata, warmwater and coldwater. These strata develop as the system begins to warm in the spring or summer in response to solar radiation and then separate into an upper warmwater stratum (epilimnion, hereafter referred to as the upper...
Status and trends of the Lake Huron deepwater demersal fish ommunity, 2008
Edward F. Roseman, Timothy P. O’Brien, Stephen C. Riley, Steven A. Farha, John R. French
2009, Conference Paper
The U.S.Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Center has conducted trawl surveys to assess annual changes in the deepwater demersal fish community of Lake Huron since 1973. Since 1992, surveys have been carried out using a 21 m wing trawl towed on-contour at depths ranging from 9 to 110 m on...
Detection and attribution of streamflow timing changes to climate change in the Western United States
H.G. Hidalgo, T. Das, M. D. Dettinger, D.R. Cayan, D.W. Pierce, T.P. Barnett, G. Bala, A. Mirin, A.W. Wood, Celine Bonfils, B.D. Santer, T. Nozawa
2009, Journal of Climate (22) 3838-3855
This article applies formal detection and attribution techniques to investigate the nature of observed shifts in the timing of streamflow in the western United States. Previous studies have shown that the snow hydrology of the western United States has changed in the second half of the twentieth century. Such changes...
Influence of flow variability on floodplain formation and destruction, Little Missouri River, North Dakota
J.R. Miller, Jonathan M. Friedman
2009, Geological Society of America Bulletin (121) 752-759
Resolving observations of channel change into separate planimetric measurements of floodplain formation and destruction reveals distinct relations between these processes and the flow regime. We analyzed a time sequence of eight bottomland images from 1939 to 2003 along the Little Missouri River, North Dakota, to relate geomorphic floodplain change to...
Warmwater fish in wadeable streams
Charles F. Rabeni, John J. Lyons, Norman Mercado-Silva, James T. Peterson
Scott A. Bonar, Wayne A. Hubert, David W. Willis, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
Both “warmwater” and “wadeable” are terms of convenience without precise definition and are used by biologists to describe streams that are generally too warm to have sustainable salmonid populations and can be safely traversed by walking (i.e., a section of stream should have the majority of its length less than...
Gene-expression signatures of Atlantic salmon's plastic life cycle
N. Aubin-Horth, B. H. Letcher, H.A. Hofmann
2009, General and Comparative Endocrinology (163) 278-284
How genomic expression differs as a function of life history variation is largely unknown. Atlantic salmon exhibits extreme alternative life histories. We defined the gene-expression signatures of wild-caught salmon at two different life stages by comparing the brain expression profiles of mature sneaker males and immature males, and early migrants...
Assessing reservoir operations risk under climate change
L.D. Brekke, E.P. Maurer, J.D. Anderson, M. D. Dettinger, E.S. Townsley, A. Harrison, T. Pruitt
2009, Water Resources Research (45)
Risk-based planning offers a robust way to identify strategies that permit adaptive water resources management under climate change. This paper presents a flexible methodology for conducting climate change risk assessments involving reservoir operations. Decision makers can apply this methodology to their systems by selecting future periods and risk metrics relevant...
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolt production: the relative importance of survival and body growth
G.E. Horton, B. H. Letcher, M.M. Bailey, M.T. Kinnison
2009, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (66) 471-483
The complex life history of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) coupled with interacting abiotic and biotic factors leads to extreme demographic variability across the species' range. Our goal was to evaluate the relative importance of survival and body growth in determining smolt production across space and time. We used passive integrated...
Evaluation of procedures for prediction of unconventional gas in the presence of geologic trends
E. D. Attanasi, T.C. Coburn
2009, Natural Resources Research (18) 153-171
This study extends the application of local spatial nonparametric prediction models to the estimation of recoverable gas volumes in continuous-type gas plays to regimes where there is a single geologic trend. A transformation is presented, originally proposed by Tomczak, that offsets the distortions caused by the trend. This article reports...
Social, political, and institutional setting: Water management problems of the Rio Grande
A. J. Douglas
2009, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (135) 493-501
This paper discusses various water management issues facing federal, state, and local agencies charged with managing the water resources of the Rio Grande River Basin and its major tributaries. The Rio Grande - 3,058 km (=1,900 mi) long - is the fourth longest river in the United States. The river's...
Coldwater fish in large standing waters
David A. Beauchamp, Donna L. Parrish, Roy A. Whaley
Scott A. Bonar, Wayne A. Hubert, David W. Willis, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
Large coldwater lakes are defined here as standing freshwater bodies with surface area greater than 200 ha that support coldwater fishes such as trouts and salmons throughout the year. These large water bodies can be exposed to extensive wind fetch, which will affect the timing, mobility, and safety of personnel...
Monitoring and assessing trail conditions at Acadia National Park
Jeffrey L. Marion, Jeremy Wimpey, Logan Park
Robert E. Manning, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Parks and people: Managing outdoor recreation at Acadia National Park
No abstract available....
The post-Mazama northwest rift zone eruption at Newberry Volcano, Oregon
Daniele McKay, Julie M. Donnelly-Nolan, Robert A. Jensen, Duane E. Champion
Jim O’Connor, Rebecca Dorsey, Ian Madin, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Volcanoes to vineyards: Geologic field trips through the dynamic landscape of the Pacific Northwest (GSA Field Guides 15)
The northwest rift zone (NWRZ) eruption took place at Newberry Volcano ~7000 years ago after the volcano was mantled by tephra from the catastrophic eruption that destroyed Mount Mazama and produced the Crater Lake caldera. The NWRZ eruption produced multiple lava flows from a variety of vents including cinder cones,...
Coldwater fish in small standing waters
Nigel P. Lester, Paul E. Bailey, Wayne A. Hubert
Scott A. Bonar, Wayne A. Hubert, David W. Willis, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
This chapter describes standard techniques for sampling coldwater fishes in small standing waters. Within the context of this book, coldwater fish species are those that prefer water temperatures less than 15°C, and small standing waters are lakes and reservoirs where surface area is less than 200 ha. Chapter 7 of...
Length frequency, condition, growth, and catch per effort indices for common North American fishes
Mark J. Brouder, Alison C. Ilses, Scott A. Bonar
Scott A. Bonar, Wayne A. Hubert, David W. Willis, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
One of the greatest advantages to using standard sampling is the ability of compare sample data to those data collected from an array of other populations over a wide geographic area using similar techniques. A biologist can then ascertain if the sampling data are within an expected range or are...
Multifunctional grass farming: Science and policy considerations
George Boody, Prasanna H. Gowda, John Westra, Caroline van Schaik, Patrick Welle, Bruce C. Vondracek, Dennis Johnson
Alan J. Franzluebbers, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Farming with frass: Achieving sustainable mixed agricultural landscapes
No abstract available....
Coldwater fish in wadeable streams
Jason B. Dunham, Amanda E. Rosenberger, Russell F. Thurow, C. Andrew Dolloff, Philip J. Howell
Scott A. Bonar, Wayne A. Hubert, David W. Willis, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
Standardizing sampling methods for fish populations across large regions is important for consistent measurement of large-scale effects of climate or geography. In addition, pooling samples creates larger sample sizes and can facilitate data sharing among scientists and land managers. Sampling freshwater fish has largely not been standardized due to the...
Analysis of a cryolava flow-like feature on Titan
L. Le Corre, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Christophe Sotin, J. #NAME? Combe, S. Rodriguez, J. W. Barnes, R. H. Brown, B. J. Buratti, R. Jaumann, J. Soderblom, L.A. Soderblom, R. Clark, K. H. Baines, P. D. Nicholson
2009, Planetary and Space Science (57) 870-879
This paper reports on the analysis of the highest spatial resolution hyperspectral images acquired by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) onboard the Cassini spacecraft during its prime mission. A bright area matches a flow-like feature coming out of a caldera-like feature observed in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data...
Re-greening the Sahel: Farmer-led innovation in Burkina Faso and Niger
Chris Reij, Melinda Smale, G. Gray Tappan
David J. Spielman, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Millions fed: Proven successes in agricultural development
The Sahel—the belt of land that stretches across Africa on the southern edge of the Sahara—has always been a tough place to farm. Rainfall is low and droughts are frequent. The crust of hard soil is, at times, almost impermeable, and harsh winds threaten to sweep away everything in their...
Historic geomorphology of the San Pedro River: archival and physical evidence
R. Hereford, Julio L. Betancourt
J. Stromberg, B. Tellman, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Ecology and Conservation of Desert Riparian Ecosystems: The San Pedro River Example
An introduction to standardized sampling
Scott A. Bonar, Salvador Contreras-Balderas, Alison C. Iles
Scott A. Bonar, Wayne A. Hubert, David W. Willis, editor(s)
2009, Book chapter, Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
It was probably one of the oddest riots in the history of the United States. In Erie, Pennsylvania during 1853. federal marshals were called to restore order during bloody uprisings. A mob of women, equipped with sledgehammers, was tearing up railroad rack to protest standardization of track width (Nesmith 1985)....
