Drivers and timing of grass carp movement within the Sandusky River, Ohio: Implications to potential spawning barrier response strategy
Justin Bopp, Travis O. Brenden, Matthew D. Faust, Christopher Vandergoot, Richard Kraus, James Roberts, Lucas Nathan
2023, Biological Invasions (25) 2439-2459
Understanding the timing and drivers of migration can be beneficial for improving response efforts aimed at reducing invasive species densities. Efforts by management agencies to remove grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), an invasive species to the Laurentian Great Lakes, have been ongoing in Lake Erie tributaries since 2018. To bolster efforts,...
The Everglades vulnerability analysis: Linking ecological models to support ecosystem restoration
Laura D’Acunto, Leonard G. Pearlstine, Saira Haider, Caitlin E. Hackett, Dilip Shinde, Stephanie Romanach
2023, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (11)
Understanding of the Everglades’ ecological vulnerabilities and restoration needs has advanced over the past decade but has not been applied in an integrated manner. To address this need, we developed the Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA), a decision support tool that uses modular Bayesian networks to predict the ecological outcomes...
Influence of lamprey rearing type on measures of performance
Theresa L. Liedtke, Lisa K. Weiland, Mary L. Moser, Kinsey Frick, Ralph Lampman, Aaron D. Jackson, Ann Gannam, James Baron, Brian K. Ekstrom
2023, Report
Declines in populations of Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) have raised concerns by the Columbia River tribes, who then initiated efforts to protect and restore them throughout their historical range. The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) devised a restoration plan for lamprey in the Columbia River Basin which highlights the...
Temporal variability of runup and total water level on Cape Cod sandy beaches
Alfredo Aretxabaleta, Christopher R. Sherwood, B.O. Blanton, Jin-Si R. Over, Peter A. Traykovski, Erdinc Sogut
2023, Conference Paper, The proceedings of the coastal sediments 2023
In the present study, we evaluate the temporal variability in runup and total water level for sandy beaches along Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA), and their impact on dune and beach erosion. We use a 43-year hindcast of waves and water levels and calculate runup and total water level based on...
Fusing geophysical and remotely sensed data for observing overwash occurrence, frequency, and impact
Nicholas Enwright, P. Soupy Dalyander, Robert L Jenkins, Elizabeth S. Godsey, Spencer J. Stelly
2023, Conference Paper, The proceedings of the coastal sediments 2023
Overwash is an important process that enables a barrier island to migrate landward to adapt to rising sea levels but can also impact vegetated areas and create coastal hazards for populated barrier islands. Our overall objectives were to hindcast overwash events from September 2008 to November 2009 and assess whether...
Monkeypox virus in animals: Current knowledge of viral transmission and pathogenesis in wild animal reservoirs and captive animal models
Elizabeth Falendysz, Juan G. Lopera, Tonie E. Rocke, Jorge E. Osorio
2023, Viruses (15)
Mpox, formerly called monkeypox, is now the most serious orthopoxvirus (OPXV) infection in humans. This zoonotic disease has been gradually re-emerging in humans with an increasing frequency of cases found in endemic areas, as well as an escalating frequency and size of epidemics outside of endemic areas in Africa....
Assessing arthropod diversity metrics derived from stream environmental DNA: Spatiotemporal variation and paired comparisons with manual sampling
Aaron Aunins, Sara J. Mueller, Jennifer A. Fike, Robert S. Cornman
2023, PeerJ (11)
BackgroundBenthic invertebrate (BI) surveys have been widely used to characterize freshwater environmental quality but can be challenging to implement at desired spatial scales and frequency. Environmental DNA (eDNA) allows an alternative BI survey approach, one that can potentially be implemented more rapidly and cheaply than traditional methods.MethodsWe evaluated...
Holocene vegetation dynamics of circum-Arctic permafrost peatlands
Richard Fewster, Paul J. Morris, Graeme T. Swindles, Ruza F. Ivanovic, Claire C. Treat, Miriam C. Jones
2023, Quaternary Science Reviews (307)
Vegetation shifts in circum-Arctic permafrost peatlands drive feedbacks with important consequences for peatland carbon budgets and the extent of permafrost thaw under changing climate. Recent shrub expansion across Arctic tundra environments has led to an increase in above-ground biomass, but the long-term spatiotemporal dynamics of shrub and tree growth in...
Soil medium and watering frequency alter growth and allocation for Blue Diamond cholla (Cylindropuntia multigeniculata), a rare cactus of the northeast Mojave Desert, USA
Sara J. Scoles-Sciulla, Alexander Stosich, Lesley A. DeFalco
2023, Native Plants Journal (24) 4-17
Blue Diamond cholla (Cylindropuntia multigeniculata (Clokey) Blackb. [Cactaceae]) is a rare cactus of the Mojave Desert. We explored whether cultivation from joint cuttings is a viable method for supporting threatened populations. Terminal joints were collected from adult plants at the type locality and grown in a shade house: We tested...
Ediacaran-Ordovician magmatism and REE mineralization in the Wet Mountains, Colorado, USA: Implications for failed continental rifting
Benjamin Patrick Magnin, Yvette Kuiper, Eric D. Anderson
2023, Tectonics (42)
Structures associated with Ediacaran-Ordovician alkaline magmatism and the timing of rare earth element (REE) mineralization in the Wet Mountains, CO, were analyzed using field, geophysical, and U-Th-Pb isotope methods to interpret their tectonic setting in the context of previously proposed rift models. The Wet Mountains are known...
Assessing tradeoffs between current and desired vegetation condition in a National Park using historical maps and high resolution lidar data
John A. Young, Carolyn Mahan
2023, Restoration Ecology (31)
In the United States, National Park Service Civil War battlefield units are managed for both historical accuracy (i.e., to represent landscape conditions at the time of the conflict for historical interpretation), and for natural resource protection. However, managing for both goals can create conflicts as many battlefields were largely open...
The invasive plant data landscape: A synthesis of spatial data and applications for research and management in the United States
Emily J. Fusco, Evelyn M. Beaury, Bethany A. Bradley, Michelle Cox, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Adam L. Mahood, R. Chelsea Nagy, Ty Nietupski, Jessica E. Halofsky
2023, Landscape Ecology (38) 3825-3843
ContextAn increase in the number and availability of datasets cataloging invasive plant distributions offers opportunities to expand our understanding, monitoring, and management of invasives across spatial scales. These datasets, created using on-the-ground observations and modeling techniques, are made both for and by researchers and managers.ObjectivesThe large...
Mercury bioaccumulation and cortisol interact to influence endocrine and immune biomarkers in a free-ranging marine mammal
Sarah H. Peterson, Josh T. Ackerman, Rachel R. Holser, Birgitte I. McDonald, Daniel P. Costa, Daniel E. Crocker
2023, Environmental Science & Technology (57) 5678-5692
Mercury bioaccumulation from deep-ocean prey and the extreme life history strategies of adult female northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) provide a unique system to assess the interactive effects of mercury and stress on animal health by quantifying blood biomarkers in relation to...
I Am A...Science careers book for kids
Steven Sobieszczyk, Suzanna C. Soileau, Annie Scott
2023, General Information Product 222
This activity book is an illustrative guide designed to introduce young minds about the exciting world of science careers. From ichthyologists to wildlife biologists, this book showcases a variety of science-based professions through fun and engaging activities. Each section of the book features a different science career and includes information...
Geochronologic and geochemical data from metasedimentary and associated rocks in the Lane Mountain area, San Bernardino County, California
Paul Stone, M. Robinson Cecil, Howard J. Brown, Jorge A. Vazquez
2023, Open-File Report 2022-1115
Eugeoclinal metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks in the Lane Mountain area, California, are considered part of the El Paso terrane, which is commonly thought to have been displaced several hundred kilometers (km) southeastward from its place of origin during late Paleozoic truncation of the North American continental margin. Uranium-lead dating of...
Rapid active thrust faulting at the northern Alaska Range front
Adrian Bender, Richard O. Lease, Tammy M. Rittenour, James V. Jones III
2023, Geology (51) 527-531
Plate convergence rates strongly influence seismicity and mountain building inboard of convergent margins, but the distribution and kinematics of structures accommodating farfield convergence can be elusive. In interior Alaska, Yakutat microplate convergence drives late Pleistocene–recent right slip on the Denali fault, but westward-decreasing slip rates leave substantial residual Yakutat motion...
A research agenda for the science of actionable knowledge: Drawing from a review of the most misguided to the most enlightened claims in the science-policy interface literature
Kripa Jagannathan, Geniffer Emmanuel, James Arnott, Katharine Mach, Aparna Bamzai-Dodson, Kristen Goodrich, Ryan Meyer, Mark Neff, Dana Sjostrom, Kristin Timm, Esther Turnhout, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Angela Bednarek, Alison Meadow, Art Dewulf, Christine J. Kirchhoff, Richard C. Moss, Leah Nichols, Eliza Oldach, Maria Carmen Lemos, Nicole Klenk
2023, Environmental Science & Policy (144) 174-186
Linking science with action affords a prime opportunity to leverage greater societal impact from research and increase the use of evidence in decision-making. Success in these areas depends critically upon processes of producing and mobilizing knowledge, as well as supporting and making decisions. For decades, scholars have idealized and described...
Synthesizing professional opinion and published science to build a conceptual model of Walleye recruitment
Corey Krabbenhoft, Stuart A. Ludsin, Elizabeth A. Marschall, Richard Budnik, Zoe Almeida, Chris Cahill, Holly Susan Embke, Zachary S. Feiner, Patrick J Schmalz, Matt Thorstensen, Michael Weber, Melissa R. Wuellner, Gretchen Hansen
2023, Fisheries Magazine (48) 141-156
Understanding and predicting recruitment, longstanding goals in fisheries science and ecology, are complicated by variation in the importance of environmental drivers coupled with the dynamic nature of individual ecosystems. Developing an understanding of recruitment from well-monitored stocks offers an opportunity to overcome these complexities. We used a systematic literature review,...
60 years and beyond of Reviews of Geophysics
Fabio Florindo, Valerio Acocella, Ann Marie Carlton, Paolo D’Odorico, Qingyun Duan, Andrew Gettelman, Jasper Halekas, Ruth A. Harris, Gesine Mollenhauer, Alan Robock, Claudine Stirling, Yusuke Yokoyama
2023, Reviews of Geophysics (61)
Reviews of Geophysics is an AGU journal, first established in February 1963. It is a hybrid open access invitation-only journal that publishes comprehensive review articles across various disciplines within the Earth and Space Sciences. The selection criteria are rigorous and many submissions are declined without review. The journal...
Bivalve effects on the food web supporting delta smelt—A spatially intensive study of bivalve recruitment, biomass, and grazing rate patterns with varying freshwater outflow in 2019
Emily L. Zierdt Smith, Kelly H. Shrader, Janet K. Thompson, Francis Parchaso, Karen Gehrts, Elizabeth Wells
2023, Open-File Report 2022-1102
Phytoplankton are an important and limiting food source in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay. The decline of phytoplankton biomass is one potential factor in the decline of the protected Hypomesus transpacificus (delta smelt) and other pelagic organisms. The bivalves Corbicula fluminea and Potamocorbula amurensis (hereafter C. fluminea...
Completion summary for Borehole TAN-2336 at Test Area North, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho
Brian V. Twining, Kerri C. Treinen, Allison R. Trcka
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5020
In 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy, drilled and constructed borehole TAN-2336 for stratigraphic framework analyses and long-term groundwater monitoring of the eastern Snake River Plain aquifer at the Idaho National Laboratory in southeastern Idaho. Borehole TAN-2336 initially was cored from the depths...
Pandemic-driven changes in the nearshore non-commercial fishery in Hawai'i: Catch photos posted to social media capture changes in fisher behavior
Timothy B. Grabowski, Michelle E. Benedum, Andrew Curley, Cole Dill-De, Michelle L. Shuey
2023, PeerJ (11)
Using social media, we collect evidence for how nearshore fisheries are impacted by the global COVID-19 pandemic in Hawai’i. We later confirm our social media findings and obtain a more complete understanding of the changes in nearshore non-commercial fisheries in Hawai’i through a more conventional approach—speaking directly with fishers. Resource...
Satellite remote sensing of river discharge: A framework for assessing the accuracy of discharge estimates made from satellite remote sensing observations
David M. Bjerklie, Michael Durand, James M. LeNoir, Robert W. Dudley, Charon Birkett, John Jones, Merritt Elizabeth Harlan
2023, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (17)
This research presents an evaluation of the accuracy and uncertainty of estimates of river discharge made using satellite observed data sources as input to a modified form of Manning’s equation. Conventional U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamflow gaging station...
Land cover differentially affects abundance of common and rare birds
Kristin P. Davis, Paul C. Banko, Liba Pejchar
2023, Global Change Biology (29) 2999-3009
While rare species are vulnerable to global change, large declines in common species (i.e., those with large population sizes, large geographic distributions, and/or that are habitat generalists) also are of conservation concern. Understanding if and how commonness mediates species' responses to global change, including...
A web-based application for exploring potential changes in design peak flow of U.S. urban areas driven by land cover change
Kul Bikram Khand, Gabriel B. Senay
2023, Journal of Remote Sensing (3)
Floods have become increasingly prominent in recent decades, especially in urban areas causing devastating effects on lives and livelihoods worldwide. Efficient tools to assess the drivers of floods, such as increasing urbanization could help to minimize flood hazards. A Google Earth Engine (GEE) application was developed to explore the potential...
