Reptiles under the conservation umbrella of the greater sage‐grouse
David S. Pilliod, Michelle I. Jeffries, Robert Arkle, Deanna H. Olson
2020, Journal of Wildlife Management (84) 478-491
In conservation paradigms, management actions for umbrella species also benefit co‐occurring species because of overlapping ranges and similar habitat associations. The greater sage‐grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is an umbrella species because it occurs across vast sagebrush ecosystems of western North America and is the recipient of extensive...
Management of the brown-headed cowbird: Implications for endangered species and agricultural damage mitigation
Brian D Peer, Barbara E. Kus, Mary J. Whitfield, Linnea S. Hall, Stephen I Rothstein
2020, Human-Wildlife Interactions (14)
The brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater; cowbird) is unique among North American blackbirds (Icteridae) because it is managed to mitigate the negative effects on endangered songbirds and economic losses in agricultural crops. Cowbird brood parasitism can further affect species that are considered threatened or endangered due to anthropogenic land...
DGMETA (version 1)—Dissolved gas modeling and environmental tracer analysis computer program
Bryant C. Jurgens, J. K. Böhlke, Karl Haase, Eurybiades Busenberg, Andrew G. Hunt, Jeffrey A. Hansen
2020, Techniques and Methods 4-F5
DGMETA (Dissolved Gas Modeling and Environmental Tracer Analysis) is a Microsoft Excel-based computer program that is used for modeling air-water equilibrium conditions from measurements of dissolved gases and for computing concentrations of environmental tracers that rely on air-water equilibrium model results. DGMETA can solve for the temperature, salinity, excess...
Underwater photographic reconnaissance and habitat data collection in the Florida Keys—A procedure for ground truthing remotely sensed bathymetric data
Zachery W. Fehr, Kimberly K. Yates
2020, Open-File Report 2020-1118
Bathymetric geoprocessing analyses of the Florida Reef Tract have provided insights into trends of seafloor accretion and seafloor erosion over time and following major storm events. However, bathymetric surveys sometimes capture manmade structures and vegetation, which do not represent the desired bare-earth data. Therefore, ground truthing is essential to maintain...
Energy and minerals division tight oil and gas committee: Activities and commodity report for 2019-2020
Justin E. Birdwell, Kent Bowker, Ben Burke, Thomas Chidsey, Ursula Hammes, Bo Henk, Zachary Hollon, Shu Jiang, Peng Li, Kristen R. Marra, Jock McCracken, Richard Nyahay, Abbas Seyedolali, Katie Schmid, Beau Tinnin, Katherine J. Whidden
2020, Report
In 2019, total daily tight oil and gas production increased in the United States month over month, with annualized growth of 14% for oil and 12% for gas. Those gains leveled off in the first quarter of 2020 due to aggressive price competition and increases in international production. Then came...
Using biodiversity metrics to guide conservation planning in altered tropical landscapes
K. E. Battle, Krishna Pacifici, Jaime A. Collazo, B. J. Reigh
2020, Caribbean Naturalist (77)
Biodiversity metrics are frequently used to guide conservation planning because they can summarize biogeographical attributes of plant and animal communities quickly and at multiple scales. Attributes include habitat features of high conservation value, representativeness, and redundancy of biological communities. We conducted a rapid ecological assessment of resident avian species in...
Response of the tallest California building during the Mw7.1 July 5, 2019 Ridgecrest, California earthquake
Mehmet Celebi, S. F. Ghahari, Hamid Haddadi, Ertugrul Taciroglu
2020, Conference Paper
The 73-story Wilshire Grand in downtown Los Angeles is the recently constructed tallest building in California. It is designed in conformance with performance-based design procedures. The lateral load resisting system of the building is designed with concrete core shear walls, three outriggers with buckling restrained braces (BRBs) located along the...
North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) scenario planning summary report
Diane Borggaard, Dori Dick, Jonathan Star, Barbara Zoodsma, Michael A. Alexander, Michael J. Asaro, Lynne Barre, Shannon Bettridge, Peter Burns, Julie Crocker, Quay Dortch, Lance Garrison, Frances Gulland, Ben Haskell, Sean Hayes, Allison Henry, K. Hyde, Henry Milliken, David Morin, John Quinlan, Teri Rowles, Vincent Saba, Michelle Staudinger, Harvey Walsh
2020, Technical Memorandum MNFS-OPR-68
Scenario planning provides a structured framework that can be used in strategic planning to help manage risk and prioritize actions (Schwartz 1996; Peterson et al. 2003). By providing a mechanism to communicate about complex situations, scenario planning encourages “out-of-the-box” thinking to help groups assess the impacts of plausible future scenarios...
Early warning pesticide monitoring in Nevada’s surface waters
Jena M. Huntington, Derek C. Entz, Carl E. Thodal
2020, Fact Sheet 2020-3070
A pesticide is a substance, or mixture of substances, used to kill or control insects, weeds, plant diseases, and other pest organisms. Commercial pesticide applicators, farmers, and homeowners apply about 1.1 billion pounds of pesticides annually to agricultural land, non-crop land, and urban areas throughout the United States. Although intended...
The response of streams to changes in atmospheric deposition of sulfur and nitrogen in the Adirondack Mountains
Charles T. Driscoll, Shuai Shao, Timothy J. Sullivan, Todd C. McDonnell, Barry P. Baldigo, Douglas A. Burns, Gregory B. Lawrence
2020, Final Report 20-19
Acidic deposition is the result of upwind sulfur (S) and nitrogen (N) emissions into the atmosphere from human activities. Environmental impacts from acidic deposition across forested landscapes include acidification of soil and drainage water, depletion of available soil nutrient bases, and impacts to and changes in forest and aquatic species...
Potentiometric surface maps of selected confined aquifers in southern Maryland and Maryland's eastern shore, 2019
Andrew W. Staley, David C. Andreasen, Elizabeth H. Marchand
2020, Open-File Report 20-02-01
This report presents potentiometric-surface maps of the Aquia and Magothy aquifers and the Upper Patapsco, Lower Patapsco, and Patuxent aquifer systems using water levels measured during the fall season of 2019. The potentiometric surface maps show water levels ranging from 56 feet above sea level to 163 feet below sea...
Council monitoring and assessment program (CMAP): Common monitoring program attributes and methodologies for the Gulf of Mexico Region
Julie Bosch, Heidi B Burkart, Bogdan Chivoiu, Randy Clark, Chris Clement, Nicholas Enwright, Steve Giordano, Chris Jeffrey, Ed Johnson, Rheannon Hart, Sarah D Hile, Jacob S Howell, Claudia Laurenzano, Michael Lee, Terrance McCloskey, Terry McTigue, Michelle B Meyers, Katie E Miller, Scott Mize, Mark E. Monaco, Kevin Owen, Richard Rebich, Samuel H. Rendon, Ali Robertson, Thomas Sample, Kelly Marie Sanks, Gregory Steyer, Kevin Suir, Christopher M. Swarzenski, Hana Rose Thurman
2020, NOAA Technical Memorandum 285
Executive Summary Under the Resources and Ecosystem Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (RESTORE Act), the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council (RESTORE Council or Council) is required to report on the progress of funded projects and programs. Systematic monitoring of restoration at...
Case study 1: Acoustic Surveys at Fort Drum Military Installation – the Value of Long-term Monitoring
W. Mark Ford, Christopher A. Dobony, David S. Jachowski, Laci S. Coleman, Tomas Nocera, Eric R. Britzke
2020, Book chapter, Bat echolocation research: A handbook for planning and conducting acoustic studies
Prior to the advent of white-nose syndrome (WNS), most bat conservation in the eastern United States consisted of one issue: the known or suspected presence of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). The National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act requires Department of Defense land managers to prioritize...
Mapa metalogenético de América Central y El Caribe
Eduardo O Zappettini, Gloria Prieto-Rincon, Natalia Amezcua, Santiago Munoz-Tapia, Janeth Sepulveda-Ospina, Carlos M. Celada-Arango, David Jara, X Cazanas-Diaz, Jorge L. Torres-Zafra, Jorge L. Cobiella-Reguera, Lukas Zurcher, Greta J. Orris, Floyd Gray, Carolina Maldonado-Diaz, Noe Rodriguez, Ramon Merida-Montiel, Carlos A. Zarruk
2020, Report
La Asociación de Servicios Geológicos y Mineros de Iberoamérica (ASGMI), bajo los auspicios de la Comisión de la Carta Geológica del Mundo (CCGM) preparó la primera versión del Mapa Metalogénico de América Central y el Caribe. La coordinación general estuvo a cargo del Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino (SEGEMAR), con tres...
Smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) growth across a 1200km human use and ecological disturbance gradient in the Upper Mississippi River System
Brian Ickes
2020, Report
Smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) is a common and widely distributed large-bodied species of the family Catostomidae. It inhabits large rivers and reservoirs of the eastern continental United States (east of the continental Divide) and is most abundant and common in the large rivers of the Midwest and Central Plains,...
Identifying and assessing priority transboundary aquifers along the United States- Mexico border
Nathaniel Kyle Pasley
2020, Report
Many of the 15 million inhabitants along the United States-Mexico border derive fresh water from transboundary aquifers straddling and extending far beyond the political boundary separating the two countries. The previous lack of a large-scale cooperative and structured data collection effort and groundwater management strategy for the region has left...
An analysis of Twitter responses to the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake sequence
Tao Ruan, Qingkai Kong, Yawen Zhang, Sara K. McBride, Qin Lv
2020, Conference Paper, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, Big Data & Cloud Computing
Previous research has shown that online social networks can provide valuable insights regarding collective human responses to extreme natural events, such as earthquakes. Most previous studies focused on one large earthquake, while the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes involved two significant earthquakes occurring within a short period of time (a M6.4 foreshock...
Assessing the state of water resource knowledge and tools for future planning in the lower Rio Grande-Rio Bravo Basin
Ilana Renae Casarez, Samuel Sandoval-Solis, Jose P. Ortiz-Partida
2020, Report
The Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Basin (hereinafter referred to as the Rio Grande) is a transboundary basin, with the Rio Grande forming the border between the United States and Mexico for approximately 2,034 km. The waters of the Rio Grande serve as a critical drinking source for 13 million people, connecting...
Coastal permafrost erosion
Benjamin M. Jones, Anna M. Irrgang, Louise M. Farquharson, Hugues Lantuit, Dustin Whalen, Stanislav Ogorodov, Mikhail Grigoriev, Craig E. Tweedie, Ann E. Gibbs, Matt C Strzelecki, Alisa Baranskaya, Nataliya Belova, Anatoly Sinitsyn, Art Kroon, Alexey Maslakov, Goncalo Vieira, Guido Grosse, Paul Overduin, Ingmar Nitze, Christopher V. Maio, Jacquelyn R. Overbeck, Mette Bendixen, Piotr Zagorski, Vladimir Romanovsky
2020, Report
Highlights• Since the early 2000s, erosion of permafrost coasts in the Arctic has increased at 13 of 14 sites with observational data that extend back to ca. 1960 and ca. 1980, coinciding with warming temperatures, sea ice reduction, and permafrost thaw.• Permafrost coasts along the US and Canadian Beaufort Sea...
Geologic map of the Dog River and northern part of the Badger Lake 7.5′ quadrangles, Hood River County, Oregon
Jason D. McClaughry, William E. Scott, Carlie J. M. Duda, Richard M. Conrey
2020, Geological Map 126
The Dog River and northern part of the Badger Lake 7.5' quadrangles encompasses an area of ~201 km2 (77.6 mi2) of the High Cascades of north-central Oregon, lying across the eastern slopes of Mount Hood volcano (Figure 1-1; Plate 1; referred to herein as Dog River–Badger Lake area). Mount Hood,...
Biology characterization breakout report
Amanda Demopoulos, Daniel Wagner, Amy Baco-Taylor, David Itano, Diva Amon, Erik E. Cordes, Lisa Levin, Peter H. Edwards, Randall Kosaki, Shirley Pomponi, Steve Gittings
2020, Conference Paper, Report on the Workshop to Identify National Ocean Exploration Priorities in the Pacific
The primary goal of the biology characterization breakout group was to identify the strategies, tools, data priorities, and key partnerships needed to conduct baseline biological characterizations of deep-sea benthic environments across the U.S. EEZ in the Pacific. Discussions focused primarily on priorities for the characterization of deep-water (>200-meter depths) benthic biological...
Evaluating and optimizing the use of logistic regression for tree mortality models in the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM)
C. Alina Cansler, Sharon Hood, J. Morgan Varner, Phillip J. van Mantgem
Sharon M. Hood, Stacy Drury, Toddi A Steelman, Ron Steffens, editor(s)
2020, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Fire Continuum-Preparing for the future of wildland fire
Wildland fires burn millions of forested hectares annually around the world, affecting biodiversity, carbon storage, hydrologic processes, and ecosystem services largely through fire-induced tree mortality (Bond-Lamberty et al. 2007; Dantas et al. 2016). In spite of this widespread importance, the underlying mechanisms of fire-caused tree mortality remain poorly understood, (Hood...
America’s offshore critical mineral wealth
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, United States Geological Survey
2020, Report
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Recent planform changes in the Upper Mississippi River
James T. Rogala, Faith A. Fitzpatrick, Jon S. Hendrickson
2020, Long Term Resource Monitoring Technical Report LTRM-2019GC8
Geomorphic changes in the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) have long been a concern of river agencies charged with maintaining and restoring river habitat (GREAT 1980; Jackson et al. 1981; USFWS 1992). Large meandering alluvial rivers like the UMR are expected to constantly change and adjust their fluvial landforms within their...
2020 Four-band aerial imagery testing and acquisition for 2020 land cover/land use mission
Larry R. Robinson
2020, Long Term Resource Monitoring Technical Report LTRM-2018CAM4
The aerial camera testing project lays the groundwork for the collection of aerial imagery that will be used in the creation of the next iteration of systemic land cover/land use data for the Upper Mississippi River System. Prior to acquisition in the summer of 2020, the new 4-band aerial camera...
