The global wildland-urban interface
F. Schug, Avi Bar-Massada, Amanda Renee Carlson, H. Cox, Todd Hawbaker, D. Helmers, Patrick Hostert, D. Kaim, Neda K. Kasraee, S. Martinuzzi, Miranda H. Mockrin, Kira A. Pfoch, Volker C. Radeloff
2023, Nature (621) 94-99
The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is where buildings and wildland vegetation meet or intermingle. It is where human–environmental conflicts and risks can be concentrated, including the loss of houses and lives to wildfire, habitat loss and fragmentation and the spread of zoonotic diseases. However, a global analysis of the WUI has...
ECCOE Landsat quarterly Calibration and Validation report—Quarter 1, 2023
Md Obaidul Haque, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, Mark Lubke, Nahid Hasan, Ashish Shrestha, Fatima Tuz Zafrin Tuli, Jerad L. Shaw, Alex Denevan, Shannon Franks, Esad Micijevic, Michael J. Choate, Cody Anderson, Kurt Thome, Ed Kaita, Julia Barsi, Raviv Levy, Jeff Miller
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1050
Executive SummaryThe U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) Center of Excellence (ECCOE) focuses on improving the accuracy, precision, calibration, and product quality of remote-sensing data, leveraging years of multiscale optical system geometric and radiometric calibration and characterization experience. The ECCOE Landsat Cal/Val Team continually...
Turbulence near a sandbar island in the lower Missouri River
Geng Li, Caroline M. Elliott, Bruce Call, Brandon James Sansom, R. B. Jacobson, Bin Wang
2023, River Research and Applications (39) 1857-1874
River turbulence is spatially variable due to interactions between morphology of rivers and physical mechanics of flowing water. Understanding the variation of turbulence in rivers is important for characterizing transport processes of soluble and particulate materials in these systems. We present an exploratory effort to...
Closing the gap between science and management of cold-water refuges in rivers and streams
Francine H. Mejia, Valerie Ouellet, Martin A. Briggs, Stephanie M. Carlson, Rose Casas-Mulet, Mollie Chapman, Matthias J. Collins, Stephen J. Dugdale, Joseph L. Ebersole, Danielle M. Frechette, Aimee H. Fullerton, Carol-Anne Gillis, Zachary Johnson, Christa Kelleher, Barret L. Kurylyk, Rebecca Lave, Benjamin Letcher, Knut M. Myrvold, Tracie-Lynn Nadeau, Helen Neville, Herve Piégay, Kathryn E. Smith, Diego Tonolla, Christian E. Torgersen
2023, Global Change Biology (29) 5482-5508
Human activities and climate change threaten coldwater organisms in freshwater ecosystems by causing rivers and streams to warm, increasing the intensity and frequency of warm temperature events, and reducing thermal heterogeneity. Cold-water refuges are discrete patches of relatively cool water that are used by...
Tire-derived transformation product 6PPD-quinone induces mortality and transcriptionally disrupts vascular permeability pathways in developing coho salmon
Justin Blaine Greer, Ellie Maureen Dalsky, Rachael F. Lane, John Hansen
2023, Environmental Science & Technology (57) 10940-10950
Urban stormwater runoff frequently contains the car tire transformation product 6PPD-quinone, which is highly toxic to juvenile and adult coho salmon (Onchorychus kisutch). However, it is currently unclear if embryonic stages are impacted. We addressed this by exposing developing coho salmon embryos...
Crustal structure across the central Dead Sea Transform and surrounding areas: Insights into tectonic processes in continental transforms
Uri S. ten Brink, Eldad Levi, Claudia Flores, Ivan Koulakov, Nadav Bronshtein, Zvi Ben-Avraham
2023, Tectonics (42)
New geophysical profiles across the central Dead Sea Transform (DST) near the Sea of Galilee, Israel, and surrounding highlands, augmented by static stress modeling, allow us to study continental transform plate deformation. The DST separates a ∼10 km thick sedimentary column above a thinned (16–23 km) crust to the...
Camera trap distance sampling survey design, Andersen Airforce Base, Guam
Richard J. Camp, Trevor M. Bak
2023, Report, Hawai‘i Cooperative Studies Unit Technical Report
Reliable population estimates of animal density is one of the most elementary needs for the control and management of wildlife, particularly for introduced ungulates on oceanic islands. On Guam, Philippine deer (Rusa marianna) and wild pigs (Sus scrofa; wild boar and descendants of domestic pigs) cause agricultural and ecological damage...
Assessment of factors that influence human water demand for Providence, Rhode Island
Timothy J. Stagnitta, Laura Medalie
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5057
To determine the most relevant climatic and economic factors driving water demand for Providence, Rhode Island, and to further the understanding of human interactions with water availability, linear regression models were developed to estimate single-family and multifamily residential, commercial, and industrial water demand for the service area of Providence Water...
Behavior and movement of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) near Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Washington and Oregon, March–October 2022
Tobias J. Kock, Gabriel S. Hansen
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1046
A telemetry study was conducted during March–October 2022 to evaluate behavior and movement patterns of adult smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) in the forebay of Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon. This study was a follow-up to a previous study conducted at the site during August–December 2020....
Multiple-well monitoring site within the Poso Creek Oil Field, Kern County, California
Rhett R. Everett, Peter B. McMahon, Michael J. Stephens, Janice M. Gillespie, Mackenzie M. Shepherd, Nicole C. Fenton
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1047
IntroductionThe Poso Creek Oil Field is one of the many fields selected for regional groundwater mapping and monitoring by the California State Water Resources Control Board as part of the Oil and Gas Regional Monitoring Program (RMP; California State Water Resources Control Board, 2015, 2022b; U.S. Geological Survey, 2022a). The...
Comparison of turbidity sensors at U.S. Geological Survey supergages in Indiana from November 2018 to December 2021
Madelyn L. Messner, Mary Kate Perkins, Aubrey R. Bunch
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5077
Beginning in September 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey installed continuous water-quality monitors at several streamgages across Indiana as part of a network of supergages to meet cooperator information needs. Two types (or models) of water-quality monitors deployed at each site measured and recorded water temperature, dissolved oxygen, specific conductance, pH,...
Coevolution with host fishes shapes parasitic life histories in a group of freshwater mussels (Unionidae: Quadrulini)
Sakina Neemuchwala, Nathan Johnson, John M. Pfeiffer, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Andre Gomes-dos-Santos, Elsa Froufe, David M. Hillis, Chase H. Smith
2023, Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists (2)
Ecological interactions among species often lead to parasitic lineages coevolving with host resources, which is often suggested as the primary driver of parasite diversification. Freshwater mussels are bivalves that possess a parasitic life cycle requiring larval encystment on freshwater vertebrates to complete metamorphosis. The North American freshwater mussel tribe Quadrulini...
New insights into the relationship between mass eruption rate and volcanic column height based on the IVESPA dataset
Thomas J. Aubry, Samantha Engwell, Costanza Bonadonna, Larry G. Mastin, Guillaume Carazzo, Alexa R. Van Eaton, David E. Jessop, Roy G. Grainger, Simona Scollo, Isabelle A Taylor, A. Mark Jellinek, Anja Schmidt, Sebastien Biass, Mathieu Gouhier
2023, Geophysical Research Letters (50)
Rapid and simple estimation of the mass eruption rate (MER) from column height is essential for real-time volcanic hazard management and reconstruction of past explosive eruptions. Using 134 eruptive events from the new Independent Volcanic Eruption Source Parameter Archive (IVESPA, v1.0), we explore empirical MER-height relationships for four measures of...
Water quality impacts of climate change, land use, and population growth in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
Gopal Bhatt, Lewis C. Linker, Gary W. Shenk, Isabella Bertani, Richard Tian, Jessica Rigelman, Kyle E. Hinson, Peter Claggett
2023, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (59) 1313-1341
The 2010 Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load was established for the water quality and ecological restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. In 2017, the latest science, data, and modeling tools were used to develop revised Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs). In this article, we examine the vulnerability of the Chesapeake Bay...
Current and future sinkhole susceptibility in karst and pseudokarst areas of the conterminous United States
Nathan J. Wood, Daniel H. Doctor, Jay R. Alder, Jeanne M. Jones
2023, Frontiers in Earth Science (11)
Sinkholes in karst and pseudokarst regions threaten infrastructure, property, and lives. We mapped closed depressions in karst and pseudokarst regions of the conterminous United States (U.S.) from 10-m-resolution elevation data using high-performance computing, and then created a heuristic additive model of sinkhole susceptibility that also included nationally consistent data for...
What is “big data” and how should we use it? The role of large datasets, secondary data, and associated analysis techniques in outdoor recreation research
Dani T. Dagan, Emily J. Wilkins
2023, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (44)
With researchers increasingly interested in big data research, this conceptual paper describes how large datasets, secondary data, and associated analysis techniques can be used to understand outdoor recreation. Some types of large, secondary datasets that have been increasingly used in...
Influence of electrofishing boat operation and driving techniques on reservoir fish catches
Joshua D. Grant, Steven J. Ingram, Scott A. Bonar
2023, Fisheries Magazine (48) 368-376
We compared three methods of boat driving and pedal operation using 600-s transects: these were the parallel continuous (PC), parallel intermittent (PI), and arc-intermittent (AI) methods for surveying warmwater fishes in reservoirs. We tested differences in total time and distance per transect, CPUE (fish/h, fish/m),...
Perceptions of volcanic air pollution and exposure reduction practices on the Island of Hawai‘i: Working towards socially relevant risk communication
Claire J. Horwell, Tamar Elias, J. Covey, R. Bhandari, J. Truby
2023, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, (95)
Kīlauea volcano, on the Island of Hawai‘i, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Over the past four decades it has released large amounts of volcanic gases and aerosols which form volcanic air pollution known as ‘vog’. Communities downwind of Kīlauea have been chronically or...
Heterotrophy, microbiome, and location effects on restoration efficacy of the threatened coral Acropora palmata
Leila Chapron, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Dustin W. Kemp, Ann M. Hulver, Elise Keister, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Lucy Bartlett, Erin O. Lyons, Andrea G. Grottoli
2023, Communications Earth & Environment (4)
The iconic and threatened Caribbean coral, Acropora palmata, is an essential reef-ecosystem engineer. Understanding the processes underpinning this coral’s survival and growth is essential to restoring this foundational species. Here, we compared replicate A. palmata colonies transplanted along 350 km of Florida’s offshore coral reef to determine holobiont and/or environmental...
Sexual dimorphism in endangered Jemez Mountains Salamanders (Plethodon neomexicanus)
Nancy E. Karraker, Rachel A. Loehman, Samantha Cordova
2023, Journal of Herpetology (57) 204-210
Sex ratio is a key demographic characteristic indicative of the condition of populations. Despite over 70 yr of study, researchers have not fully evaluated morphological characteristics that differentiate sex in Jemez Mountains Salamanders (Plethodon neomexicanus; federally endangered). Populations of this endemic salamander, which are...
Modeling non-structural strategies to reduce pedestrian evacuation times for mitigating local tsunami threats in Guam
Nathan J. Wood, Jeff Peters, Kwok Fai Cheung, Yoshiki Yamazaki, Denille Calvo, Charles Guard
2023, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (95)
Reducing the potential for loss of life from local tsunamis is challenging for emergency managers given the need for self-protective behavior of at-risk individuals within brief windows of time to evacuate. There has been considerable attention paid to discussing the...
Mammalian resistance to megafire in western U.S. woodland savannas
Kendall L. Calhoun, Benjamin R. Goldstein, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Michael C Mcinturff, Leonel Solorio, Justin S. Brashares
2023, Ecosphere (14)
Increasingly frequent megafires are dramatically altering landscapes and critical habitats around the world. Across the western United States, megafires have become an almost annual occurrence, but the implication of these fires for the conservation of native wildlife remains relatively unknown. Woodland savannas are among...
Distribution of large boulders on the deposit of the West Salt Creek rock avalanche, western Colorado
Adrian C. Lewis, Rex L. Baum, Jeffrey A. Coe
2023, Data Report 1178
On May 25, 2014, a 54.5-million cubic meter rock avalanche in the West Salt Creek valley, Mesa County, Colorado, traveled 4.6 kilometers, leaving a deposit that covers about 2.2 square kilometers. To check the particle-size distribution of the deposit for information about the high mobility of the avalanche, we estimated...
Forecasts of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) land use in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, 2040–65
Karyn D. Rode, David C. Douglas, Todd C. Atwood, Ryan R. Wilson
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1048
This report provides analysis to extend the 2040 forecasts of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) land use for the southern Beaufort and Chukchi Sea populations presented in a recent publication (Rode and others, 2022) through the year 2065. To inform long-term polar bear management considerations, we provide point-estimate forecasts and 95-percent...
Debris-flow process controls on steepland morphology in the San Gabriel Mountains, California
William Struble, Luke A. McGuire, Scott W. McCoy, Katherine R. Barnhart, Odin Marc
2023, JGR Earth Surface (128)
Steep landscapes evolve largely by debris flows, in addition to fluvial and hillslope processes. Abundant field observations document that debris flows incise valley bottoms and transport substantial sediment volumes, yet their contributions to steepland morphology remain uncertain. This has, in turn, limited the development of debris-flow incision rate formulations that...
