Groundwater-level monitoring from January 17 to March 3, 2022, Hālawa area, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i
Rylen K. Nakama, Jackson N. Mitchell, Delwyn S. Oki
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1069
A reported fuel release in November 2021 at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility within the naval reservation at Red Hill led to the shutdown of several production wells in the Hālawa area, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Red Hill Shaft—one of the high-capacity production wells that shut down—was reactivated on January...
Effects of warming winter embryo incubation temperatures on larval cisco (Coregonus artedi) survival, growth, and critical thermal maximum
Taylor R. Stewart, Mark Vinson, Jason D. Stockwell
2022, Journal of Great Lakes Research (48) 1042-1049
Freshwater whitefishes, Salmonidae Coregoninae, are cold stenothermic fishes of ecological and socio-economic importance in northern hemisphere lakes that are warming in response to climate change. To address the effect of warming waters on coregonine reproduction we experimentally evaluated different embryo incubation temperatures on post-hatching survival, growth, and critical thermal maximum...
The new lava dome growth of Nevado del Ruiz (2015–2021)
Milton Ordonez, Carlos La Verde, Maurizio Battaglia
2022, Journal of Vulcanological and Geothermal Research (430)
The morphology of the summit of Nevado del Ruiz volcano (Colombia) and its active Arenas crater is the product of complex interactions between effusive and explosive eruptions, and the dynamics of the summit glacier. Here, we document the morphologic evolution of the summit of...
Implications of habitat-driven survival and dispersal on recruitment in a spatially structured piping plover population
Rose J. Swift, Michael J. Anteau, Kristen S. Ellis, Megan M. Ring, Mark H. Sherfy, Dustin L. Toy, David N. Koons
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Natal survival and dispersal have important consequences for populations through the movement of genes and individuals. Metapopulation theory predicts either balanced natal dispersal among regions or source–sink dynamics, which can dramatically change population structure. For species reliant on dynamic, early-successional habitats, availability and location of habitat...
Comparison of structures used to estimate age and growth of Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout
Michael Quist, Darcy K. McCarrick, Lynsey Harris
2022, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (13) 544-551
Understanding age and growth of fishes is critical for making meaningful management decisions. Obtaining useful information is dependent on using the best structure (e.g., scale, otolith). The objective of this study was to evaluate precision and reader confidence in age estimates from sagittal...
Groundwater quality in selected Stream Valley aquifers, eastern United States
James A. Kingsbury
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3037
Groundwater provides nearly 50 percent of the Nation’s drinking water. To help protect this vital resource, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project assesses groundwater quality in aquifers that are important sources of drinking water (Burow and Belitz, 2014). The stream-valley aquifers constitute one of the important...
Temporal and spatial relationships of Yellowfin Tuna to deepwater petroleum platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Melissa E. Price, Michael T. Randall, Kenneth J. Sulak, Randy E. Edwards, Margaret Lamont
2022, Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science (14)
In 2006–2007, 110 Yellowfin Tuna Thunnus albacares were tagged with acoustic transmitters near deepwater oil platforms and one drillship in the northern Gulf of Mexico off the Mississippi River delta to determine the extent to which platforms act as fish aggregating devices (FADs). Vemco acoustic receivers were installed on six deepwater platforms...
Community established best practice recommendations for tephra studies— From collection through analysis
Kristi L. Wallace, Marcus Bursik, Stephen Kuehn, Andrei Kurbatov, Peter Abbot, Contanza Bonadonna, Katharine Cashman, Siwan Davies, Britta J.L. Jensen, Christine Lane, Gill Plunkett, Victoria Smith, Emma Tomlinson, Thor Thordarsson, J. Douglas Walker
2022, Scientific Data (9)
Tephra is a unique volcanic product with an unparalleled role in understanding past eruptions, long-term behavior of volcanoes, and the effects of volcanism on climate and the environment. Tephra deposits also provide spatially widespread, high-resolution time-stratigraphic markers across a range of sedimentary settings and thus are used in numerous disciplines (e.g.,...
Invasive brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis) move short distances and have small activity areas in a high prey environment
Scott M. Boback, Melia Gail Nafus, Amy A. Yackel Adams, Robert Reed
2022, Scientific Reports (12)
Animal movements reflect temporal and spatial availability of resources as well as when, where, and how individuals access such resources. To test these relationships for a predatory reptile, we quantified the effects of prey abundance on the spatial ecology of invasive brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis) on Guam. Five months after...
Geological reservoir characterization of a gas hydrate prospect associated with the Hydrate-01 Stratigraphic Test Well, Alaska North Slope
Machiko Tamaki, Akira Fujimoto, Ray Boswell, Timothy Collett
2022, Journal of Energy and Fuels (36) 8128-8149
Geological reservoir characterization is essential for accurate evaluation of gas production performance from gas hydrate reservoirs. Particularly, the understanding of reservoir architecture and heterogeneity is of great importance since these are considered as major controls on fluid hydrodynamic and thermodynamic conditions....
Broad Whitefish (Coregonus nasus) isotopic niches: Stable isotopes reveal diverse foraging strategies and habitat use in Arctic Alaska
Jason C. Leppi, Daniel J. Rinella, Mark S. Wipfli, Matthew S. Whitman
2022, PLoS ONE (17)
Understanding the ecological niche of some fishes is complicated by their frequent use of a broad range of food resources and habitats across space and time. Little is known about Broad Whitefish (Coregonus nasus) ecological niches in Arctic landscapes even though they are an important subsistence...
Crustal permeability changes observed from seismic attenuation: Impacts on multi-mainshock sequences
Luca Malagnini, Thomas E. Parsons, Irene Munafo, Simone Mancini, Margarita Segou, Eric L. Geist
2022, Frontiers in Earth Science (10)
We use amplitude ratios from narrowband-filtered earthquake seismograms to measure variations of seismic attenuation over time, providing unique insights into the dynamic state of stress in the Earth’s crust at depth. Our dataset from earthquakes of the 2016-2017 Central Apennines sequence allows us to obtain high-resolution time histories of seismic...
Water-quality trends in surface waters of the Jemez River and Middle Rio Grande Basin from Cochiti to Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2004–19
Allison K. Flickinger, Zachary M. Shephard
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5062
Municipal water supply for Albuquerque, New Mexico, is provided, in part, through diversion of surface water from the Rio Grande by way of the San Juan-Chama Drinking Water Project diversion structure. Changes in surface-water quality along the Rio Grande and its tributaries upstream from the San Juan-Chama Drinking Water Project...
Detrital zircon ages from upper Paleozoic–Triassic clastic strata on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: An enigmatic component of the Arctic Alaska–Chukotka microplate
Jeffrey M. Amato, Julie A. Dumoulin, Eric S. Gottlieb, Thomas E. Moore
2022, Geosphere (18) 1492-1523
New lithologic and detrital zircon (DZ) U-Pb data from Devonian–Triassic strata on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea and from the western Brooks Range of Alaska suggest affinities between these two areas. The Brooks Range constitutes part of the Arctic Alaska–Chukotka microplate, but the tectonic and paleogeographic affinities of...
Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world
Jose M Grunzweig, Hans J. De Boeck, Ana Rey, Maria J. Santos, Ori Adam, Michael Bahn, Jayne Belnap, Gaby Deckmyn, Stefan C Dekker, Omar Flores, Daniel Gliksman, David Helman, Kevin R. Hultine, Lingling Liu, Ehud Meron, Yaron Michael, Efrat Sheffer, Heather L. Throop, Omer Tzuk, Dan Yakir
2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution (6) 1064-1076
Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change have been explored in many regions worldwide. While continued drying and warming may alter process rates and deteriorate the state and performance of ecosystems, it could also lead to more fundamental changes in the mechanisms governing ecosystem functioning. Here...
Defining an epidemiological landscape that connects movement ecology to pathogen transmission and pace-of-life
Kezia R. Manlove, Mark Q. Wilber, Lauren White, Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau, Alan Yang, Marie L. J. Gilbertson, Meggan E. Craft, Paul C. Cross, George Wittemyer, K. M Pepin
2022, Ecology Letters (25) 1760-1782
Pathogen transmission depends on host density, mobility and contact. These components emerge from host and pathogen movements that themselves arise through interactions with the surrounding environment. The environment, the emergent host and pathogen movements, and the subsequent patterns of density, mobility and contact form an ‘epidemiological...
Shedding kinetics of Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV) in juvenile spring- and fall-run Chinook salmon of the Columbia River Basin
Daniel G. Hernandez, Gael Kurath
2022, Animals (12)
This investigation sought to characterize the shedding of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) in two populations of Columbia River Basin (CRB) Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Juvenile spring- and fall-run Chinook salmon were exposed by immersion to each of three IHN virus strains from the UC, MD, and L subgroups,...
Test of a screw-style fish lift for introducing migratory fish into a selective fish passage device
Daniel Zielinski, Scott M. Miehls, Sean A. Lewandoski
2022, Water (14)
Barriers are an effective mechanism for managing invasive species like sea lamprey in the Lau-rentian Great Lakes, but are detrimental because they limit the migration of desirable, native species. Fish passage technologies that selectively pass desirable species while blocking unde-sirable species are needed. Optical sorting tools combined with newly developed...
A framework for integrating inferred movement behavior into disease risk models
Eric R. Dougherty, Dana P. Seidel, Jason K. Blackburn, Wendy Christine Turner, Wayne M. Getz
2022, Movement Ecology (10)
Movement behavior is an important contributor to habitat selection and its incorporation in disease risk models has been somewhat neglected. The habitat preferences of host individuals affect their probability of exposure to pathogens. If preference behavior can be incorporated in ecological niche models (ENMs) when data on pathogen distributions are...
Barium enrichment in the non-spinose planktic foraminifer, Globorotalia truncatulinoides
Julie N. Richey, Jennifer S. Fehrenbacher, Caitlin E. Reynolds, Catherine Z. Davis, Howard J. Spero
2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (333) 184-199
Observations of elevated barium-to-calcium ratios (Ba/Ca) in Globorotalia truncatulinoides have been attributed to contaminant phases, deep calcification depth and diagenetic processes. Here we investigate intra- and inter-test Ba/Ca variability in the non-spinose planktic foraminifer, G. truncatulinoides, from a sediment trap time series in the northern Gulf of Mexico to...
Groundwater quality in the Surficial Aquifer System, Southeastern United States:
James A. Kingsbury
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3035
Groundwater provides nearly 50 percent of the Nation’s drinking water. To help protect this vital resource, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project assesses groundwater quality in aquifers that are important sources of drinking water (Burow and Belitz, 2014). The surficial aquifer system constitutes one of the...
Trends in groundwater levels, and orthophosphate and nitrate concentrations in the Middle Snake River Region, south-central Idaho
Kenneth D. Skinner
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5060
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) evaluated nitrate and orthophosphate concentrations in groundwater for temporal trends (monotonic and step trends) for the middle Snake River region (Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka, and Twin Falls Counties) in south-central Idaho using the Regional Kendall test (monotonic trends) and the Wilcoxon signed rank...
Cathodoluminescence response of barite at room and liquid nitrogen temperatures
Heather A. Lowers, Colin MacRae, Nick Wilson, Philip Verplanck
2022, Conference Paper
Rare earth element (REE) enrichment in the Elk Creek carbonatite, Nebraska USA, is comparable to ore grade enrichment in carbonatite-hosted REE deposits[1]. Petrographic examination of textures documents a complex history of crystallization, brecciation, recrystallization, oxidation, and near surface alteration. Barite (BaSO4) is present in most units, including REE-enriched zones, such...
A review of asteroid biology in the context of sea star wasting: Possible causes and consequences
Nathalie Oulhen, Maria Byrne, Paige Duffin, Marta Gomez-Chiarri, Ian Hewson, Jason Hodin, Brenda Konar, Erin K Lipp, Benjamin G Miner, Alisa L Newton, Lauren M Schiebelhut, Roxanna Smolowitz, Sarah J Wahltinez, Gary M Wessel, Thierry M. Work, Hossam A Zaki, John P Wares
2022, Biological Bulletin (234) 50-75
Sea star wasting—marked in a variety of sea star species as varying degrees of skin lesions followed by disintegration—recently caused one of the largest marine die-offs ever recorded on the west coast of North America, killing billions of sea stars. Despite the...
Early treatment of white-nose syndrome is necessary to stop population decline
John Forrest Grider, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Riley F. Bernard, Robin E. Russell
2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) 2531-2541
Since its introduction to North America, white-nose syndrome has been associated with declines greater than 90% in several bat species, prompting the development of treatments to reduce disease-related mortality. As treatment application is scaled up, predicting responses at the population level will help in the development of management plans.We...
