Fisheries research and monitoring activities of the Lake Erie Biological Station, 2022
Mark Richard Dufour, Corbin David Hilling, Kevin R. Keretz, Richard Kraus, Richard Cole Oldham, James Roberts, Joseph Schmitt
2022, Report
This report presents biomass-based summaries of fish communities in western Lake Erie derived from USGS bottom trawl surveys conducted from 2013 to 2022 in June and September. The survey design compliments the August ODNR- OMNDMNRF effort by reinforcing stock assessments with more robust data. Analyses herein evaluated trends in total...
Sea otters in a California estuary: Detecting temporal and spatial dynamics with volunteer monitoring
Ron Eby, Susan Rosso, John Copriviza, Robert Scoles, Yohn Gideon, Joseph Mancino, Karl A. Mayer, Julie L. Yee, Kerstin Wasson
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Volunteer monitoring can support conservation of imperiled wildlife, by providing higher resolution data in space and time than those available from professional scientists. However, concerns have been raised that data collected by amateurs are inaccurate or inconsistent and thus do not allow for robust detection of spatial or temporal trends....
Regional water table in the Antelope Valley and Fremont Valley groundwater basins, Southwestern Mojave Desert, California, March 2014
Meghan C. Dick, Nicholas F. Teague
2022, Scientific Investigations Map 3420
Water levels were measured during March 2014 in wells in the Antelope Valley and Fremont Valley groundwater basins, southwestern Mojave Desert, California, in cooperation with the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water District, Palmdale Water District, and Littlerock Creek Irrigation District. A regional water-table map was constructed. Historical water-level data from the...
VIMTS: Variational-based Imputation for Multi-modal Time Series
Xiaowei Jia, Jennifer H. Fair, Benjamin Letcher
2022, Conference Paper, IEEE International Conference on Big Data Proceedings
Multi-modal time series data in real applications often contain data of different dimensionalities, e.g., high-dimensional modality such as image data series, and low-dimensional univariate time series. Multi-modal time series data with missing high-dimensional modal values are ubiquitous in real-world classification and regression applications. To accurately...
New indicators of ecological resilience and invasion resistance to support prioritization and management in the sagebrush biome, United States
Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessi L. Brown, John B. Bradford, David I. Board, Steven B. Campbell, Karen J. Clause, Brice Hanberry, Daniel Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Alexandra K. Urza
2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (10)
Ecosystem transformations to altered or novel ecological states are accelerating across the globe. Indicators of ecological resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasion can aid in assessing risks and prioritizing areas for conservation and restoration. The sagebrush biome encompasses parts of 11 western states and is experiencing rapid transformations...
Geologic map of the Silver Zone Pass quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada
David M. Miller, Linda L. Berg
2022, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 192
This 1:24,000-scale geologic map of the Silver Zone Pass quadrangle lies in the southern Toano Range in Elko County, Nevada. Metamorphic and sedimentary strata of the quadrangle range from Neoproterozoic to Permian in age. Important intrusions include the Late Jurassic (ca. 159 Ma) Silver Zone Pass pluton and Cretaceous Toano...
Hydrogen isotope behavior during rhyolite glass hydration under hydrothermal conditions
Michael R. Hudak, Ilya N. Bindeman, James M. Watkins, Jacob B. Lowenstern
2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (337) 33-48
The diffusion of molecular water (H2Om) from the environment into volcanic glass can hydrate the glass up to several wt% at low temperature over long timescales. During this process, the water imprints its hydrogen isotope composition (δDH2O) to the glass (δDgl) offset by a glass-H2O fractionation factor (ΔDgl-H2O = δDgl – δDH2O) which is approximately −33‰ at Earth...
Characterization of a small population of the orangeblack Hawaiian damselfly (Megalagrion xanthomelas) in anchialine pools at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park, Hawai‘i Island
Robert W. Peck, Sarah Nash
2022, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society (54) 93-109
The endangered orangeblack Hawaiian damselfly (Megalagrion xanthomelas) is a lowland inhabitant of freshwater and brackish wetland environments. Formerly one of the most widely distributed native insects in Hawai‘i, it now appears restricted to small populations on the islands of O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Maui, and Hawai‘i. On Hawai‘i island, anchialine pools provide...
Inferring hatchery effects using spawner-recruit data: Comment on Courter et al. (2022)
Matthew Richard Falcy
2022, Canadian Journal Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (80) 420-421
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The source, fate, and transport of arsenic in the Yellowstone hydrothermal system - An overview
R. Blaine McCleskey, D. Kirk Nordstrom, Shaul Hurwitz, Daniel R. Colman, David A. Roth, Madeline Oxner Johnson, Eric S. Boyd
2022, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (432)
The Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field (YPVF) contains >10,000 thermal features including hot springs, pools, geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles with diverse chemical compositions. Arsenic (As) concentrations in YPVF thermal waters typically range from 0.005 to 4 mg/L, but an As concentration of 17 mg/L has been reported. Arsenic data from thermal springs,...
Water and endangered fish in the Klamath River Basin: Do Upper Klamath Lake surface elevation and water quality affect adult Lost River and Shortnose Sucker survival?
Jacob Richard Krause, Eric C. Janney, Summer M. Burdick, Alta C. Harris, Brian S. Hayes
2022, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (42) 1414-1432
In the western United States, water allocation decisions often incorporate the needs of endangered fish. In the Klamath River basin, an understanding of temporal variation in annual survival rates of Shortnose Suckers Chasmistes brevirostris and Lost River Suckers Deltistes luxatus and their relation to environmental drivers is critical to water...
Machine learning for understanding inland water quantity, quality, and ecology
Alison P. Appling, Samantha K. Oliver, Jordan Read, Jeffrey Michael Sadler, Jacob Aaron Zwart
Thomas Mehner, Klement Tockner, editor(s)
2022, Book chapter, Encyclopedia of inland waters
This chapter provides an overview of machine learning models and their applications to the science of inland waters. Such models serve a wide range of purposes for science and management: predicting water quality, quantity, or ecological dynamics across space, time, or hypothetical scenarios; vetting and distilling raw data for further...
Landslides triggered by the 2002 M 7.9 Denali Fault earthquake, Alaska, USA
William H. Schulz
Ikuo Towhata, Gonghui Wang, Qiang Xu, Chris Massey, editor(s)
2022, Book chapter, Coseismic landslides: Phenomena, long-term effects and mitigation
The 2002 M 7.9 Denali earthquake in Alaska, USA, was the largest inland earthquake in North America in nearly 150 years. The earthquake involved oblique thrusting but mostly strike-slip motion, and faults ruptured the ground surface over 330 km. Fault rupture occurred in a rugged, mountainous, subarctic environment with extensive...
Modeling reservoir release using pseudo-prospective learning and physical simulations to predict water temperature
Xiaowei Jia, Shengyu Chen, Yiqun Xie, Haoyu Yang, Alison P. Appling, Samantha K. Oliver, Zhe Jiang
Arindam Banerjee, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Matteo Riondato, editor(s)
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 2022 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
This paper proposes a new data-driven method for predicting water temperature in stream networks with reservoirs. The water flows released from reservoirs greatly affect the water temperature of downstream river segments. However, the information of released water flow is often not available for many reservoirs, which makes it difficult for...
Ground motion selection for nonlinear response history analyses of concrete dams
N. Simon Kwong
2022, Conference Paper, 2022 USSD annual conference & exhibition
Evaluating the seismic performance of a 3D concrete dam using nonlinear response history analysis (NLRHA) requires three orthogonal components of ground acceleration histories, or ground motions (GMs) for brevity. Although much progress has been made for the topic of ground motion selection and modification (GMSM) in the context of multistory...
Three-decades of Rocky Intertidal Photo Series Documenting interannual variability in western Prince William Sound
Alan Mearns, Dave Janka, Scott Pegau, Robert Campbell, Brian H. Robinson
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the forty-forth AMOP technical seminar
During summer 2021 we re-visited and re-photographed intertidal community scenes at seven rocky intertidal sites in Western Prince William Sound, adding another year of photos to a 32-year monitoring effort. The sites include both previously-oiled and un-oiled locations that were the subject of repeated annual photos beginning in 1990, one...
Assessing the efficacy of oblique bubble screens for control of aquatic invasive species
Vindhyawasini Prasad, C.D. Suski, P. Ryan Jackson, Amy E. George, Duane Chapman, Jesse Robert Fischer, Rafael O. Tinoco
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 39th IAHR World Congress, Granada, Spain
Non-physical barriers, such as bubble screens (or curtains), are promising low-impact strategies to deter the spread of Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) in streams. Bubble screens have been successfully implemented to redirect and/or deter adult fish and to capture plastics in some rivers, but their efficacy on invasive fish at multiple...
Status and trends in the Lake Superior fish community, 2021
Mark Vinson, Daniel L. Yule, Lori M. Evrard, Owen T. Gorman, Sydney B Phillips
2022, Report
The Lake Superior nearshore fish community was sampled in May-June 2021 with daytime bottom trawl tows at 45 stations located in USA waters. The 45 locations sampled were long-term monitoring sites that had been annually sampled since 1978. All comparisons to 2021 results were limited to past collections from USA...
Status and trends in the Lake Superior fish community, 2020
Mark Vinson, Lori M. Evrard, Owen Gorman, Daniel L. Yule
2022, Report
The Lake Superior fish community within Management Unit WI-2 was sampled in July 2020 with daytime bottom trawls at 11 nearshore stations. The 11 locations sampled were long-term monitoring sites that had been annually sampled since 1974. In 2020, the number of species collected at each site ranged from 0...
Nuclear magnetic resonance logging of a deep test well for estimation of aquifer and confining-unit hydraulic properties, Long Island, New York
Frederick Stumm, John Williams
2022, Conference Paper
A 1,200-foot deep well in southwestern Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. was selected to evaluate the application of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging tool. Technological advances in NMR borehole systems have allowed for reduced probe length and diameter, and focused measurement at specific diameters beyond the disturbed zone surrounding...
Environmental geochemistry of an epigenetic Pb-Zn-Ag deposit at the abandoned Cecilia mine, Puno region, Peru
S. Palomino, Robert R. Seal, II, F. Garcia, M. Ochoa, D. Machaca, A. Condorhuaman, M. Valencia
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 12th international conference on acid rock drainage
The abandoned Cecilia Pb-Zn-Ag mine is located at the headwaters of the Lake Titicaca watershed in the Altiplano of Peru. The site is characterized by three months of high precipitation and nine months of limited precipitation. The environmental geochemical characterization of the abandoned mine was done to evaluate environmental risks...
A review of Arctomecon californica (Papaveraceae) with a focus on the species’ potential for propagation and reintroduction and conservation needs
Alexander Stosich, Lesley A. DeFalco, Sara J. Scoles-Sciulla
2022, Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist (14) 1-22
Las Vegas bearpoppy (Arctomecon californica) occurrences have fluctuated during the past several decades, in part due to interannual variability in rainfall that influences recruitment and mortality events; yet, development in the Las Vegas Valley continues to threaten habitat supporting this species. Arctomecon californica was petitioned for listing under the Endangered Species Act...
Utilization of genetic data to inform native Brook Trout conservation in North Carolina
Jacob Rash, David C. Kazyak, Shannon L. White, Barbara A. Lubinski
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of Wild Trout XIII
As North Carolina’s only native salmonid, Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis is a fish of considerable ecological and cultural significance in the state, but anthropogenic alterations to the landscape and introductions of nonnative salmonids have fragmented and reduced its native range. As a result, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC)...
Effect of repeated fire on annual brome invasion at Badlands National Park
Amy Symstad
2022, Report
Prescribed fire is used to combat exotic plant species in mixed-grass prairie of Northern Great Plains parks. However, prescribed fires rarely occur at a frequency likely to maintain any gains against exotic species. The unusual circumstance of experimental plots being burned twice in 2 years provides a unique opportunity to...
Characterization of subsurface conditions and recharge at the irrigated four-plex baseball field, Fort Irwin National Training Center, California, 2018–20
Jill N. Densmore, Meghan C. Dick, Krishangi D. Groover, Christopher P. Ely, Anthony A. Brown
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1118
The U.S. Geological Survey performed subsurface and geophysical site characterization of the irrigated four-plex baseball field in the Langford Valley–Irwin Groundwater Subbasin, as part of a research study in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Agricultural Research Service, and the Fort Irwin National Training Center, California. To help...
