Multisystem dating of modern river detritus from Tajikistan and China: Implications for crustal evolution and exhumation of the Pamir
Barbara Carappa, F.S. Mustapha, Michael A. Cosca, George E. Gehrels, L Schoenbhohm, E. Sobel, DeCelles.P., Joellen Russell, Paul Goodman
2014, Lithosphere (6) 443-455
The Pamir is the western continuation of Tibet and the site of some of the highest mountains on Earth, yet comparatively little is known about its crustal and tectonic evolution and erosional history. Both Tibet and the Pamir are characterized by similar terranes and sutures that can be correlated along...
UCODE_2014, with new capabilities to define parameters unique to predictions, calculate w eights using simulated values, estimate parameters w ith SVD, evaluate uncertainty with MCMC, and more
Eileen P. Poeter, Mary C. Hill, Dan Lu, Claire R. Tiedeman, Steffen W. Mehl
2014, Report
Is white-nose syndrome causing insectivory release and altering ecosystem function in the eastern US?
W. Mark Ford, David S. Jachowski, Cahterine M.B. Jachowski
2014, Bat Research News (55) 21-24
No abstract available....
Seismic monitoring at the Decatur, Ill., CO2 sequestration demonstration site
J. Ole Kaven, Stephen H. Hickman, Arthur F. McGarr, Steve R. Walter, William L. Ellsworth
2014, Conference Paper, Energy Procedia
The viability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases depends on the ability to safely sequester large quantities of CO2 over geologic time scales. One concern with CCS is the potential of induced seismicity. We report on ongoing seismic monitoring by the U.S. Geological Survey...
Effects of fine sediment, hyporheic flow, and spawning site characteristics on survival and development of bull trout embryos
Tracy Bowerman, Bethany Neilson, Phaedra E. Budy
2014, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (71) 1059-1071
Successful spawning is imperative for the persistence of salmonid populations, but relatively little research has been conducted to evaluate factors affecting early life-stage survival for bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus), a threatened char. We conducted a field experiment to assess the relationship between site-specific environmental factors and bull trout embryo survival...
Characterization of microsatellite loci from two-spotted octopus Octopus bimaculatus Verrill 1883 from pyrosequencing reads
J. F. Dominguez-Contreras, A. Munguía-Vega, B. P. Ceballos-Vazquez, M. Arellano-Martinez, Melanie Culver
2014, Conservation Genetics Resources (6) 465-468
We characterized 22 novel microsatellite loci in the two-spotted octopus Octopus bimaculatus using 454 pyrosequencing reads. All loci were polymorphic and will be used in studies of marine connectivity aimed at increasing sustainability of the resource. The mean number alleles per locus was 13.09 (range 7–19) and observed heterozygosities ranged...
Spawning patterns of Pacific Lamprey in tributaries to the Willamette River, Oregon
M.P. Mayfield, Luke Schultz, Lance A. Wyss, B. J. Clemens, Carl B. Schreck
2014, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (143) 1544-1554
Addressing the ongoing decline of Pacific Lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus across its range along the west coast of North America requires an understanding of all life history phases. Currently, spawning surveys (redd counts) are a common tool used to monitor returning adult salmonids, but the methods are in their infancy for Pacific Lamprey....
Instream habitat restoration and stream temperature reduction in a whirling disease-positive Spring Creek in the Blackfoot River Basin, Montana
Ron Pierce, Craig Podner, Laurie B Marczak, Leslie A. Jones
2014, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (143) 1188-1198
Anthropogenic warming of stream temperature and the presence of exotic diseases such as whirling disease are both contemporary threats to coldwater salmonids across western North America. We examined stream temperature reduction over a 15-year prerestoration and postrestoration period and the severity of Myxobolus cerebralisinfection (agent of whirling disease) over a 7-year...
Auroral omens of the American Civil War
Jeffrey J. Love
2014, Weatherwise (67) 34-41
Aurorae are a splendid night-time sight: coruscations of green, purple, and red fluorescent light in the form of gently wafting ribbons, billowing curtains, and flashing rays. Mostly seen at high latitudes, in the north aurorae are often called the northern lights or aurora borealis, and, in the south, the southern...
A new species of in the Rhyacophila vagrita group (Trichoptera: Rhyacophilidae) from Olympic National Park, Washington, USA.
Jonathan J Lee, J. Joseph Giersch
2014, Pan-Pacific Entomologist (90) 53-56
Rhyacophila vagrita Milne, 1936 was described from specimens collected in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Ross (1950), while examining R. vagrita paratypes from Alberta, discovered four males that did not fi t the R. vagrita description. These he described and named R. milnei Ross, 1950. Ross (1956) established the R....
Comparison of fishes in nearshore areas of the St. Lawrence River, New York over 35 years
Douglas M. Carlson, James E. McKenna Jr.
2014, NYSDEC Lake Ontario Annual Report 2013-21
Fishes of the nearshore waters of the St. Lawrence River provide forage for valuable sport fisheries and are important biological indicators of condition and change. This fish community differs slightly among various reaches of the St. Lawrence River from New York to Quebec (Carlson et al. 2006, Eckert and Hanlon...
Volcanoes of the passive margin: The youngest magmatic event in eastern North America
Sarah E Mazza, Esteban Gazel, Elizabeth A Johnson, Michael J. Kunk, Ryan J. McAleer, James A Spotila, Michael Bizimis, Drew S Coleman
2014, Geology (42) 483-486
The rifted eastern North American margin (ENAM) provides important clues to the long-term evolution of continental margins. An Eocene volcanic swarm exposed in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province of Virginia and West Virginia (USA) contains the youngest known igneous rocks in the ENAM. These magmas provide the only window...
Reanalysis of historical U.S. Geological Survey sediment samples for geochemical data from the western part of the Wrangellia terrane, Anchorage, Gulkana, Healy, Mt. Hayes, Nabesna, and Talkeetna Mountains quadrangles, Alaska
Melanie B. Werdon, Jaime S. Azain, Matthew Granitto
2014, Report
The State of Alaska’s Strategic and Critical Minerals (SCM) Assessment project, a State-funded Capital Improvement Project (CIP), is designed to evaluate Alaska’s statewide potential for SCM resources. The SCM Assessment is being implemented by the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS), and involves obtaining new airborne-geophysical, geological, and...
Chemical mixtures in potable water in the U.S.
Sarah J. Ryker
2014, Book chapter, Comprehensive water quality and purification
In recent years, regulators have devoted increasing attention to health risks from exposure to multiple chemicals. In 1996, the US Congress directed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study mixtures of chemicals in drinking water, with a particular focus on potential interactions affecting chemicals' joint toxicity. The task is...
Concealed basalt-matrix diatremes with Cu-Au-Ag-(Mo)-mineralized xenoliths, Santa Cruz Porphyry Cu-(Mo) System, Pinal County, Arizona
Peter G. Vikre, Frederick Graybeal, Fleetwood R. Koutz
2014, Economic Geology (109) 1271-1289
The Santa Cruz porphyry Cu-(Mo) system near Casa Grande, Arizona, includes the Sacaton mine deposits and at least five other concealed, mineralized fault blocks with an estimated minimum resource of 1.5 Gt @ 0.6% Cu. The Late Cretaceous-Paleocene system has been dismembered and rotated by Tertiary extension, partially eroded, and...
Preslip and cascade processes initiating laboratory stick slip
Gregory C. McLaskey, David A. Lockner
2014, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (119) 6323-6336
Recent modeling studies have explored whether earthquakes begin with a large aseismic nucleation process or initiate dynamically from the rapid growth of a smaller instability in a “cascade-up” process. To explore such a case in the laboratory, we study the initiation of dynamic rupture (stick slip) of a smooth saw-cut...
Lateritic, supergene rare earth element (REE) deposits
Mark D. Cocker
2014, Conference Paper, Arizona Geological Survey Special Paper 9
Intensive lateritic weathering of bedrock under tropical or sub-tropical climatic conditions can form a variety of secondary, supergene-type deposits. These secondary deposits may range in composition from aluminous bauxites to iron and niobium, and include rare earth elements (REE). Over 250 lateritic deposits of REE are currently known and many...
Introduction: Hazard mapping
Rex L. Baum, Toyohiko Miyagi, Saro Lee, Oleksandr M Trofymchuk
2014, Book chapter, Landslide science for a safer geoenvironment
Twenty papers were accepted into the session on landslide hazard mapping for oral presentation. The papers presented susceptibility and hazard analysis based on approaches ranging from field-based assessments to statistically based models to assessments that combined hydromechanical and probabilistic components. Many of the studies have taken advantage of increasing availability...
Optimally managing water resources in large river basins for an uncertain future
Jr. Edwin A. Roehl, Paul Conrads
2014, Book
Managers of large river basins face conflicting needs for water resources such as wildlife habitat, water supply, wastewater assimilative capacity, flood control, hydroelectricity, and recreation. The Savannah River Basin for example, has experienced three major droughts since 2000 that resulted in record low water levels in its reservoirs, impacting local...
The Lepanto Cu–Au deposit, Philippines: A fossil hyperacidic volcanic lake complex
Byron R. Berger, Richard W. Henley, Heather A. Lowers, Michael J. Pribil
2014, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (271) 70-82
Hyperacidic lakes and associated solfatara in active volcanoes are the expression of magmatic gas expansion from source to surface. Here we show for the first time, that the vein system that comprises the ~ 2 Ma high-sulfidation, Lepanto copper–gold deposit in the Mankayan district (Philippines) was associated with a contemporary hyperacidic volcanic...
The environmental and medical geochemistry of potentially hazardous materials produced by disasters
Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Suzette A. Morman, G.P. Meeker, Todd M. Hoefen, Philip L. Hageman, Ruth E. Wolf
2014, Book chapter, Treatise on Geochemistry
Many natural or human-caused disasters release potentially hazardous materials (HM) that may pose threats to the environment and health of exposed humans, wildlife, and livestock. This chapter summarizes the environmentally and toxicologically significant physical, mineralogical, and geochemical characteristics of materials produced by a wide variety of recent disasters, such as...
Book review: Conservation by proxy: Indicator, umbrella, keystone, flagship, and other surrogate species
Tyler J. Grant, Peter G. Eyheralde, Melissa S. C. Telemeco, Amy L. Moorhouse, Rebecca A. Reeves, Karin Grimlund, Amy Podaril, Sarah E. Emeterio, Robert W. Klaver
2014, Prairie Naturalist (46) 109-110
No abstract available....
The USGS-National Park Service Water Quality Partnership
Alan C. Ellsworth, Mark A. Nilles, Gary Rosenlieb
2014, The George Wright Forum (31) 191-197
No abstract available....
Can managers compensate for coyote predation of white-tailed deer?
Kelly F. Robinson, Duane R. Diefenbach, Angela K. Fuller, Jeremy E. Hurst, Christopher S. Rosenberry
2014, Journal of Wildlife Management (78) 571-579
Many studies have documented that coyotes (Canis latrans) are the greatest source of natural mortality for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) neonates (<3 months old). With the range expansion of coyotes eastward in North America, many stakeholders are concerned that coyote predation may be affecting deer populations adversely. We hypothesized that...
Effects of urbanization on mercury deposition and accumulation in New England
Ann T. Chalmers, David P. Krabbenhoft, Peter C. Van Metre, Mark A. Nilles
2014, Environmental Pollution (192) 104-112
We compare total mercury (HgT) loading and methylmercury (MeHg) accumulation in streams and lakes from an urbanized area (Boston, Massachusetts) to rural regions of southern New Hampshire and Maine. The maximum HgT loading, as indicated by HgT atmospheric deposition, HgT emissions, and sediment HgT concentrations, did not coincide with maximum MeHg concentrations in...
