National Gas Hydrate Program expedition 02: Identification of gas hydrate prospects in the Krishna-Godavari Basin, offshore India
K.M. Shukla, U.S. Yadav, Pushpendra Kumar, Timothy Collett, R. Boswell, M. Frye, M. Riedel, I. Kaurf, K. Vishwanathf
2019, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology (108) 167-184
After completing the first expedition of India's National Gas Hydrate Program (NGHP-01) in 2006, it was concluded that for the next expedition (National Gas Hydrate Program 02; NGHP-02), a new drill site review effort should focus on identifying potential deep-water offshore gas hydrate accumulations in sand dominated depositional environments. Therefore,...
Numerical simulations of depressurization-induced gas production from an interbedded turbidite gas hydrate-bearing sedimentary section in the offshore India: Site NGHP-02-16 (Area-B)
Evgeniy M. Myshakin, Yongkoo Seol, Jeen-Shang Lin, Shun Uchida, Timothy Collett, Ray Boswell
2019, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology (108) 619-638
The recent National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02 (NGHP-02) identified the existence of gas hydrate-bearing sand reservoirs at a number of sites in the offshore of India including Site NGHP-02-16 in Area-B of the Krishna-Godavari Basin. The architecture of that gas hydrate accumulation is characterized by thin, gas hydrate-bearing, high...
India National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02 summary of scientific results: Numerical simulation of reservoir response to depressurization
Ray Boswell, Evgeniy Myshakin, George Moridis, Yoshihiro Konno, Timothy S. Collett, Matthew Reagan, Taiwo Ajayi, Yongkoo Seol
2019, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology (108) 154-166
The India National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02 (NGHP-02) discovered gas hydrate at high saturation in sand reservoirs at several sites in the deepwater Bay of Bengal. To assess the potential response of those deposits to scientific depressurization experiments, comprehensive geologic models were constructed to enable numerical simulation for...
Discrete Zr and REE mineralization of the Baerzhe rare-metal deposit, China
Kunfeng Qiu, Haocheng Yu, Mingqian Wu, Jianzhen Geng, Xiangkun Ge, Zongyang Gou, Ryan D. Taylor
2019, American Mineralogist (104) 1487-1502
Although REE (lanthanides + Y) mineralization in alkaline silicate systems is commonly accompanied with Zr mineralization worldwide, our understanding of the relationship between Zr and REE mineralization is still incomplete (e.g. Škoda and Novák, 2007; Linnen et al., 2014; Petrella et al., 2014; Möller and Williams-Jones, 2016; Wu et al.,...
Reanalysis of the U.S. Geological Survey Benchmark Glaciers: Long-term insight into climate forcing of glacier mass balance
Shad O’Neel, Christopher J. McNeil, Louis C. Sass, Caitlyn Florentine, Emily Baker, Erich Peitzsch, Daniel J McGrath, Andrew G. Fountain, Daniel B. Fagre
2019, Journal of Glaciology 850-866
Mountain glaciers integrate climate processes to provide an unmatched signal of regional climate forcing. However, extracting the climate signal via intercomparison of regional glacier mass balance records can be problematic when methods for extrapolating and calibrating direct glaciological measurements are mixed or inconsistent. To address this problem, we reanalyzed and...
Ensembles of ETAS models provide optimal operational earthquake forecasting during swarms: Insights from the 2015 San Ramon, California swarm
Andrea L. Llenos, Andrew J. Michael
2019, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (109) 2145-2158
Earthquake swarms, typically modeled as time-varying changes in background seismicity that are driven by external processes such as fluid flow or aseismic creep, present challenges for operational earthquake forecasting. While the time decay of aftershock sequences can be estimated with the modified Omori law, it is difficult to forecast...
Character of community response to volcanic crises at Sinabung and Kelud volcanoes
S.L. Andreastuti, E.T. Paripurno, H. Gunawan, A. Budianto, D.K. Syahbana, John S. Pallister
2019, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (382) 298-310
Volcano disaster mitigation is a priority in Indonesia's national development plan due to the large number of active volcanoes, high frequency of eruptions and dense population within volcanic hazards zones. As a consequence of these factors and the many decades...
Analytical framework to estimate water use associated with continuous oil and gas development
Joshua F. Valder, Ryan R. McShane, Theodore B. Barnhart, Spencer L. Wheeling, Janet M. Carter, Kathleen M. Macek-Rowland, Gregory C. Delzer, Joanna N. Thamke
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5100
An analytical framework was designed to estimate water use associated with continuous oil and gas (COG) development in support of the U.S. Geological Survey Water Availability and Use Science Program. This framework was developed to better understand the relation between the production of COG resources for energy and the amount...
Debris-flow initiation promoted by extension within a slow-moving landslide
Mark E. Reid, Dianne L. Brien
2019, Conference Paper, 7th International Conference on Debris-flow Hazards Mitigation
The dynamics of slow landslide motion can predispose oversteepened and extended slide regions to debris-flow initiation. For more than 20 years, our real-time monitoring, combined with repeat high-precision GPS surveys, of the Cleveland Corral landslide complex, California, USA, reveals that debris flows initiate from slow-moving kinematic elements of this complex....
Linking sedimentation and erosion patterns with reservoir morphology and dam operations during streambed drawdowns in a flood-control reservoir in the Oregon Cascades
Mackenzie K. Keith, Laurel E. Stratton
2019, Conference Paper, Proceedings of SEDHYD 2019
Since water-year (WY) 2011, pool levels at Fall Creek Lake, Oregon, are temporarily lowered to an elevation near historical streambed each fall, creating free-flowing channel conditions that facilitate downstream passage of juvenile spring Chinook salmon. These drawdown operations have also mobilized substantial quantities of predominantly fine (<2 mm) reservoir sediment...
Assessment of continuous oil and gas resources in the niobrara interval of the Cody Shale, Bighorn Basin Province, Wyoming and Montana, 2019
Thomas M. Finn, Christopher J. Schenk, Tracey J. Mercier, Marilyn E. Tennyson, Phuong A. Le, Michael E. Brownfield, Kristen R. Marra, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller, Ronald M. Drake II, Cheryl A. Woodall, Janet K. Pitman, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Scott A. Kinney
2019, Fact Sheet 2019-3045
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated means of 534 million barrels of oil and 939 billion cubic feet of gas in the Niobrara interval of the Cody Shale in the Bighorn Basin Province, Wyoming and Montana....
International Organizations and Programs for Wildlife Conservation
John F. Organ, Gonzalo Medina-Vogel, T. Yoshida
2019, Book chapter, International wildlife management: Conservation challenges in a changing world
Historically, private non-governmental entities in the developed world took interest in wildlife in developing nations. Nineteenth and early twentieth century explorers of Africa, Asia, and South America reported fascinating encounters with magnificent species that were previously cryptic or unknown (Robinson et al. 2017). Organizations such as the Royal...
Restoration of Lake Trout in Lake Superior through Interagency Cooperative Management
Michael J. Hansen, Charles R. Bronte
2019, Book chapter, From catastrophe to recovery: stories of fish management success
The lake trout is a keystone species in the Laurentian Great Lakes that supported valuable fisheries throughout the basin. However, lake trout populations declined to near extirpation in nearly all of the lakes because of the combined effects of over-fishing, sea lamprey predation, and habitat degradation. To restore...
Anderson Ranch wetlands hydrologic characterization in Taos County, New Mexico
Amy E. Galanter, Zachary M. Shephard, Pamela Herrera-Olivas
2019, Open-File Report 2019-1100
The Anderson Ranch property (study area), located in Taos County, north-central New Mexico, was transferred from Chevron Mining, Inc. (CMI) to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as part of a Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) court-ordered settlement. The study area supports freshwater emergent wetlands and freshwater ponds....
Can geologic factors be predictive for distinguishing between productive and non-productive geothermal wells?
Drew L. Siler, Erick R. Burns, James E Faulds
2019, Geothermal Resources Council Transactions (43) 884-901
Geologic data are examined to evaluate whether certain geologic characteristics occur in higher abundance or higher magnitude along production geothermal wells relative to non-productive wells. We perform 3D geologic mapping, 3D stress modeling, and fault-slip modeling to estimate fourteen different geologic factors that are hypothesized to control or correlate with...
Integration of eDNA-based biological monitoring within the US Geological Survey’s national streamgage network
David S. Pilliod, Matthew Laramie, Dorene McCoy, Scott Maclean
2019, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (55) 1505-1518
This study explores the feasibility and utility of integrating environmental DNA (eDNA) assessments of species occurrences into the United States (U.S.) Geological Survey’s national streamgage network. We used an existing network of five gages in southwest Idaho to explore the type of information that could be gained as well as...
Benefits and limitations of installing driving surface aggregate at two federal lands sites
Bethany K. Kunz, Eric H. Chase, Steve M. Bloser, Maureen A. Kestler, Brandon Jutz
2019, Conference Paper
The worldwide network of unpaved roads is estimated to include at least 14 million km (8.7 million miles; 1). Although they are vital for local communities, these roads are expensive to maintain and may cause environmental damage through sediment and dust pollution (e.g., 2). Among aggregate-surfaced roads, locally available materials...
Water resources on Guam—Potential impacts of and adaptive response to climate change
Stephen B. Gingerich, Adam G. Johnson, Sarah N. Rosa, Mathieu D. Marineau, Scott Wright, Lauren E. Hay, Matthew J. Widlansky, John W. Jenson, Corinne I. Wong, Jay L. Banner, Melissa L. Finucane, Victoria W. Keener
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5095
The goals of this joint U.S. Geological Survey, University of Hawaiʻi, University of Guam, University of Texas, and East-West Center study were to (1) provide basic understanding about water resources for U.S. Department of Defense installations on Guam and (2) assess the resulting effect of sea-level rise and a changing...
A fuzzy logic approach for estimating recovery factors of miscible CO2-EOR projects in the United States
C. Ozgen Karacan
2019, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering (184)
"Recovery factor (RF) is one of the most fundamental parameters that define engineering and economical success of any operational phase in oil and gas production. The effectiveness of the operation, e.g. CO2-EOR (enhanced oil recovery with carbon dioxide injection), is usually defined by multiplying the resultant recovery factor by the...
DNA Sequencing confirms Tundra Bean Goose (Anser serrirostris serrirostris) occurrence in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley in Arkansas, USA
Douglas C. Osborne, Robert E. Wilson, Lindsay Carlson, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, Sandra L. Talbot
2019, Waterbirds (42) 333-342
—First sighting records of rare occurrences may become increasingly important for recognizing changes in distribution, changes in migratory strategies, or increases in hybridization. We focumented the first record of a Tundra Bean Goose in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, the outlet and historic floodplain for much of North America and one...
Value of migratory bird recreation at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico
Christopher Huber, Natalie Sexton
2019, Western Economics Forum (17) 52-62
Each fall, thousands of Rocky Mountain Sandhill Cranes and other migratory birds congregate at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley in search of wintering habitat. As such, this refuge is known as one of the premier destinations for bird viewing and photography in...
Finding the sweet spot: Shifting climate optima for maple syrup production in North America
Joshua M. Rapp, David A. Lutz, Ryan H. Huish, Boris Dufour, Selena Ahmed, Toni Lyn Morelli, Kristina A. Stinson
2019, Forest Ecology and Management (448) 187-197
Climate change is affecting the benefits society derives from forests. One such forest ecosystem service is maple syrup, which is primarily derived from Acer saccharum (sugar maple), currently an abundant and widespread tree species in eastern North America. Two climate sensitive components of sap affect syrup production: sugar content...
Hemidactylus parvimaculatus (Sri Lankan spotted house gecko)
C. M. Pellacchia, Brad M. Glorioso, R. W. Mendyk, C. A. Collen, V. C. Montross, W. McGighan, K. Macedo, B. R. Maldonado, I. N. Morenc
2019, Herpetological Review (50) 525-526
USA: LOUISIANA: PLAQUEMINES PARISH: 0.15 km S of the intersection of LA-23 and Jump road, Venice (29.266630°N, 89.35570°W; WGS 84). 2 May 2019. V. C. Montross and W. McGighan. Verified by Aaron M. Bauer. Florida Museum of Natural History (UF 189238; photo voucher). New parish record. On 2 May 2019,...
Trout as native and non-native species: A management paradox
Michael J. Hansen, Christopher S. Guy, Phaedra Budy, Thomas E. McMahon
2019, Book chapter, Trout and Char of the World
Native trout are threatened worldwide by introductions of non-native trout that in many cases are themselves threatened within their native range and historical habitats. This chapter focuses on this paradox and addresses how information gained to protect and restore a species in its native range can be used to...
Status of groundwater-level altitudes and long-term groundwater-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas, 2019
Christopher L. Braun, Jason K. Ramage, Sachin D. Shah
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5089
Since the early 1900s, most of the groundwater withdrawals in the Houston-Galveston region, Texas, have been from the three primary aquifers that compose the Gulf Coast aquifer system—the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers. Withdrawals from these aquifers are used for municipal supply, commercial and industrial use, and irrigation. This report,...
