20th-century strain accumulation on the Lesser Antilles megathrust based on coral microatolls
Belle E. Philibosian, Nathalie Feuillet, Jennifer Weil-Accardo, Eric Jacques, Abel Guihou, Anne-Sophie Meriaux, Andre Anglade, Jean-Marie Saurel, Sebastien Deroussi
2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (579) 1-11
The seismic potential of the Lesser Antilles megathrust remains poorly known, despite the potential hazard it poses to numerous island populations and its proximity to the Americas. As it has not produced any large earthquakes in the instrumental era, the megathrust is...
A call to record stormwater control functions and to share network data
Benjamin Choat, Amber Pulido, Aditi S. Bhaskar, Rebecca Hale, Harry X. Zhang, Thomas Meixner, Lauren McPhillips, Kristina G. Hopkins, Jennifer Cherrier, Chingwen Cheng
2022, Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment (8) 1-10
Urban stormwater is an ongoing contributor to the degradation of the health of many watersheds and water bodies. In the United States, federal regulations (e.g., Clean Water Act) require monitoring and reporting of relevant water quality metrics in regulated waterbodies to ensure standards are being met, but decisions about how...
A web-based tool for assessing the condition of benthic diatom assemblages in streams and rivers of the conterminous United States
Daren Carlisle, Sarah Spaulding, Meredith Tyree, Nicholas O. Schulte, Sylvia S Lee, Richard M. Mitchell, Amina A. Pollard
2022, Ecological Indicators (135)
Benthic diatom assemblages are known to be indicative of water quality but have yet to be widely adopted in biological assessments in the United States due to several limitations. Our goal was to address some of these limitations by developing regional multi-metric indices (MMIs) that are robust to inter-laboratory taxonomic...
Active‐source interferometry in marine and terrestrial environments: Importance of directionality and stationary phase
Steven Plescia, Anne Sheehan, Seth S. Haines
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (112) 634-645
We utilize active‐source seismic interferometry with dense seismic arrays both offshore and onland to explore the utility of this method to create virtual sources and reveal body‐wave reflections in these two different environments. We first utilize data from an ocean‐bottom cable (OBC) array...
Importance of nonindigenous harpacticoids (Crustacea: Copepoda) decrease with depth in Lake Ontario
Joe K. Connolly, Brian O’Malley, Patrick Hudson, James M. Watkins, Lyubov E. Burlakova, Lars G. Rudstam
2022, Journal of Great Lakes Research (48) 412-427
Harpacticoid copepods can be a substantial component of the meiobenthic community in lakes and serve an ecological role as detritivores. Here we present the first species-level lake-wide quantitative assessment of the harpacticoid assemblage of Lake Ontario with emphasis on the status...
Inter-nesting movements, migratory pathways, and resident foraging areas of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) satellite-tagged in Southwest Florida
Kelly A Sloan, David S. Addison, Andrew T. Glinsky, Allison Benscoter, Kristen Hart
2022, Frontiers in Marine Science (8)
Globally, sea turtle research and conservation efforts are underway to identify important high-use areas where these imperiled individuals may be resident for weeks to months to years. In the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, recent telemetry studies highlighted post-nesting foraging sites for federally endangered green turtles (Chelonia mydas) around...
Extensive species diversification and marked geographic phylogenetic structure in the Mesoamerican genus Stenopelmatus (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Stenopelmatinae) revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear 3RAD data
Jorge S. Gutiérrez, Alejandro Zaldivar-Riveron, David B Weissman, Amy G. Vandergast
2022, Invertebrate Systematics (36)
The Jerusalem cricket subfamily Stenopelmatinae is distributed from south-western Canada through the western half of the United States to as far south as Ecuador. Recently, the generic classification of this subfamily was updated to contain two genera, the western North American Ammopelmatus, and the Mexican, and central and northern...
It’s complicated and it depends: A review of the effects of ecosystem changes on Walleye and Yellow Perch populations in North America
Gretchen J.A. Hansen, Jenna Ruzich, Corey A. Krabbenhoft, Holly Kundel, Shad Mahlum, Christopher I. Rounds, Amanda O. Van Pelt, Lawrence D. Eslinger, Dale E. Logsdon, Daniel A. Isermann
2022, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (42) 484-506
Walleye Sander vitreus and Yellow Perch Perca flavescens are culturally, economically, and ecologically significant fish species in North America that are affected by drivers of global change. Here, we review and synthesize the published literature documenting the effects of ecosystem changes on Walleye and Yellow Perch. We focus on four drivers: climate (including temperature...
Influence of anthropogenic subsidies on movements of common ravens
Adam E. Duerr, Peter H. Bloom, Kerry Ross, Tricia A. Miller, Melissa A. Braham, Amy L Fesnock, Todd E. Katzner
2022, Human-Wildlife Interactions (15) 1-13
Anthropogenic subsidies can benefit populations of generalist predators such as common ravens (ravens; Corvus corax), which in turn may depress populations of many types of species at lower-trophic levels, including desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) or greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Management of subsidized ravens often has targeted local breeding populations that...
System characterization report on the Satellogic NewSat multispectral sensor
James C. Vrabel, Paul C. Bresnahan, Gregory L. Stensaas, Cody Anderson, Jon Christopherson, Minsu Kim, Seonkyung Park
2022, Open-File Report 2021-1030-L
Executive SummaryThis report addresses system characterization of Satellogic’s NewSat satellite (also known as ÑuSat) and is part of a series of system characterization reports produced and delivered by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of Excellence. These reports present and detail the methodology and procedures...
Open-source resources help navigate new IM regulations
N. Simon Kwong, Kishor S. Jaiswal, J. W. Baker, Nico Luco, K. A. Ludwig, Vasey J. Stephens
2022, Oil & Gas Journal (120) 46-53
The revision of federal safety regulations for integrity management of gas transmission pipelines to require explicit consideration of seismicity increases the importance for operators to be actively identifying high-consequence areas (HCAs), evaluating seismic-related threats, and choosing a risk model to support risk management decisions. To ensure equal access to information...
Watershed-scale risk to aquatic organisms from complex chemical mixtures in the Shenandoah River
Larry B. Barber, Kaycee E. Faunce, David Bertolatus, Michelle L. Hladik, Jeramy Roland Jasmann, Steffanie H. Keefe, Dana W. Kolpin, Michael T. Meyer, Jennifer L. Rapp, David A. Roth, Alan M. Vajda
2022, Environmental Science & Technology (56) 845-861
River waters contain complex chemical mixtures derived from natural and anthropogenic sources. Aquatic organisms are exposed to the entire chemical composition of the water, resulting in potential effects at the organismal through ecosystem level. This study applied a holistic approach to assess...
Knowledge sharing for shared success in the decade on ecosystem restoration
Emma Ladouceur, Nancy Shackelford, Karma Bouazza, Lars Brudvig, Anna Bucharova, Timo Conradi, Todd E. Erickson, Magda Garbowski, Kelly Garvy, W. Stanley Harpole, Holly P. Jones, Tiffany Knight, Mlungele M. Nsikani, Gustavo B. Paterno, Katharine Suding, Vicky M. Temperton, Peter Torok, Daniel E. Winkler, Johnathan M. Chase
2022, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (3)
The Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to provide the means and incentives for upscaling restoration efforts worldwide. Although ecosystem restoration is a broad, interdisciplinary concept, effective ecological restoration requires sound ecological knowledge to successfully restore biodiversity and ecosystem services in degraded landscapes.We emphasize the critical role of knowledge and...
Matching of resource use and investment according to waterbody size in recreational fisheries
M.A. Kaemingk, R. Arlinghaus, M.H. Birdsong, C.J. Chizinski, R. Lyach, K.L. Wilson, Kevin L. Pope
2022, Fisheries Research (254)
The size of an ecosystem affects ecological interactions, but less is known about how ecosystem size may affect social interactions. We posit that ecosystem size could serve as a basis for understanding and contextualizing social interactions, connecting how ecosystem size influences natural resource investment decisions and the use of ecosystem services. We...
Pathways for avian influenza virus spread: GPS reveals wild waterfowl in commercial livestock facilities and connectivity with the natural wetland landscape
Fiona McDuie, Elliott Matchett, Diann Prosser, John Y. Takekawa, Maurice E. Pitesky, Austen Lorenz, Madeline M McCuen, Cory T. Overton, Josh T. Ackerman, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Michael L. Casazza
2022, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (69) 2898-2912
Zoonotic diseases are of considerable concern to the human population and viruses such as avian influenza (AIV) threaten food security, wildlife conservation and human health. Wild waterfowl and the natural wetlands they use are known AIV reservoirs, with birds capable of virus transmission to domestic poultry...
Biology: Integrating core to essential variables (Bio-ICE) task team report for marine mammals
Samantha E. Simmons, Abigail Benson, Matthew Biddle, Gabrielle Canonico, Maggie Chory, Kruti Desai, Masha Edmondson, Jason Gedamke, Stacie K. Hardy, Margaret Hunter, Anu Kumar, Laura Lorenzoni, Brian D. Melzian, Keith Mullin, Kim M. Parsons, James Price, Shannon Rankin, Patricia E. Rosel, Heather R. Spence, Sofie M. van Parijs, Michael J. Weise
2022, Report
Marine mammals are wide-ranging, relatively long-lived organisms that play a crucial role in maintaining healthy ocean ecosystems. Often referred to as ecosystem engineers and sentinel species in marine ecosystems, these charismatic megafauna feed at a variety of trophic levels, affecting food web dynamics and cycling of chemicals and nutrients in...
Status and trends of pelagic and benthic prey fish populations in Lake Michigan, 2021
David Warner, Ralph W. Tingley III, Charles P. Madenjian, Benjamin A. Turschak, Dale Hanson
2022, Report
Lake wide acoustic (AC) and bottom trawl (BT) surveys are conducted annually to generate indices of pelagic and benthic prey fish densities in Lake Michigan. The BT survey has been conducted each fall since 1973 using 12-m trawls at depths ranging from 9 to 110 m and includes 70 fixed...
Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) watershed hydrology assessment for the Neches River basin. Appendix A: Statistical hydrology
David S. Wallace
2022, Report
Statistical analysis of the observational record from U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamgaging stations and other historical information provides an informative means of estimating flood flow frequency. Flood flow frequency is defined by values or quantiles of discharge for selected annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs) (England and others, 2018). The annual peak...
Broadscale population structure and hatchery introgression of Midwestern brook trout: Midwestern brook trout population genetics
Bradley Erdman, Matthew G. Mitro, Joanna D.T. Griffin, David Rowe, David C. Kazyak, Keith Turnquist, Michael Siepker, Loren Miller, Wendylee Stott, Michael Hughes, Brian Sloss, Michael T. Kinnison, Wesley Larson
2022, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (151) 81-99
Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis have faced significant declines throughout their native range and have been stocked in Midwestern waters since the late 1800s to offset such losses. Several studies have investigated the genetic effects of these stockings, but these efforts have been confined to relatively small spatial scales. In this study, we...
Response in the water level of Anvil Lake, Wisconsin, to changes in meteorological and climatic changes, Wisconsin
Dale M. Robertson
2022, Report
Anvil Lake, a relatively shallow seepage lake in northern Wisconsin, USA, has experienced dramatic changes in water level since elevation records began in 1938 in response to changes in meteorological and climatic conditions (Figure 1. Robertson et al., 2018). Anvil Lake’s water level record shows a pronounced 10–15-yr cycle, with...
Kirtland’s Warbler breeding productivity and habitat use in red pine-dominated habitat in Wisconsin, USA
Ashley Olah, Christine Ribic, Kim Grveles, Sarah Warner, Davin Lopez, Anna Pidgeon
2022, Avian Conservation and Ecology (17)
During the breeding season, Kirtland’s Warblers (Setophaga kirtlandii) are strongly associated with young jack pine (Pinus banksiana) forests in northern Lower Michigan, USA. Since 2007, the species has been breeding in unusual habitat, red pine (Pinus resinosa) dominated plantations, in central Wisconsin, USA. Kirtland’s Warbler productivity and habitat use in...
A shared vision for enhancing ecological resilience in the U.S. - Mexico borderlands: The Sky Island Restoration Collaborative
Laura M. Norman, Michele Girard, H. Ron Pulliam, Miguel L. Villarreal, Valer Austin Clark, Aaron D. Flesch, Roy Petrakis, Jeremiah Leibowitz, Deborah Tosline, Kurt Vaughn, Tess Wagner, Caleb Weaver, Trevor Hare, Jose Manuel Perez, Oscar E. Lopez Bujanda, Josiah T. Austin, Carianne Funicelli Campbell, James B. Callegary, Natalie R. Wilson, Jeff Conn, Tom Sisk, Gary L. Nabhan
2022, Newsletter
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Status and trends of the Lake Huron prey fish community, 1976-2020
Darryl W. Hondorp, Timothy P. O’Brien, Peter C. Esselman, Edward F. Roseman
2022, Report
The USGS Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) has assessed annual changes in the offshore prey fish community of Lake Huron since 1973. Assessments are based on a bottom trawl survey conducted in October and an acoustics-midwater trawl survey conducted in September-October. In 2020, USGS-GLSC vessels were not permitted...
Agent-based modeling of movements and habitat selection by mid-continent mallards
Florian G. Weller, Elisabeth B. Webb, William S. Beatty, Sean Fogenburg, Dylan Kesler, Robert H. Blenk, John M. Eadie, Kevin Ringelman, Matt L. Miller
2022, Cooperator Science Series FWS/CSS-143-2022
We found that the absence of existing conservation measures would reduce wintering mallard population size by ~70-80%, underlining the importance of current wetland easements for waterfowl foraging. Under standard conditions, the partial active flooding of easements later in the season and the upgrading of unmanaged wetlands to managed status resulted...
Gas hydrates on Alaskan marine margins
Carolyn D. Ruppel, Patrick E. Hart
2022, Book chapter, World atlas of submarine gas hydrates in continental margins
Gas hydrate distributions on the marine margins of the U.S. state of Alaska are more poorly known than those on other U.S. margins, where bottom simulating reflections have been systematically mapped on marine seismic data to support modern, quantitative assessments of gas-in-place in gas hydrates. The extent of bottom simulating...
