GPS data from 2019 and 2020 campaigns in the Chesapeake Bay region towards quantifying vertical land motions
Gabrielle Troia, Sarah Stamps, R. Russell Lotspeich, James M. Duda, Kurt J. McCoy, William Moore, Philippe Hensel, Ryan Hippenstiel, Thomas McKenna, David C. Andreasen, Charles Geoghegan, Thomas P Ulizo, Madeline Kronebusch, Joel A. Carr, David Walters, Neil Winn
2022, Scientific Data (9)
The Chesapeake Bay is a region along the eastern coast of the United States where sea-level rise is confounded with poorly resolved rates of land subsidence, thus new constraints on vertical land motions (VLM) in the region are warranted. In this paper, we provide a description of two campaign-style Global...
Giant planet observations in NASA's Planetary Data System
Nancy J. Chanover, James M. Bauer, John Joe Jeremiah Blalock, Mitchell K. Gordon, Lyle F. Huber, Mia J. T. Mace, Lynn D. V. Neakrase, Matthew S. Tiscareno, Raymond J. Walker
2022, Remote Sensing (14)
While there have been far fewer missions to the outer Solar System than to the inner Solar System, spacecraft destined for the giant planets have conducted a wide range of fundamental investigations, returning data that continues to reshape our understanding of these complex systems, sometimes decades after the data were...
Analog field-scale acoustic study of volcanic eruption directivity using a tiltable liquid nitrogen-charged water cannon
A.D. Jolly, Benjamin Kennedy, Robin S. Matoza, Alexandra M. Iezzi, Bruce W. Christensen, Richard Johnson, Amilea Sork, David Fee
2022, Earth, Planets and Space (74)
Laterally directed explosive eruptions are responsible for multiple fatalities over the past decade and are an increasingly important volcanology problem. To understand the energy dynamics for these events, we collected field-scale explosion data from nine acoustic sensors surrounding a tiltable cannon as part of an exploratory experimental design. For each...
Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs
Onil Banerjee, Martin Cicowiez, Marcia N. Macedo, Ziga Malek, Peter H. Verburg, Sean Goodwin, Renato Vargas, Ludmila Rattis, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Paulo M. Brando, Michael T. Coe, Christopher Neill, Octavio Damiani Marti, Josue Avila Murillo
2022, Environmental Research Letters (17)
The Amazon biome is being pushed by unsustainable economic drivers towards an ecological tipping point where restoration to its previous state may no longer be possible. This degradation is the result of self-reinforcing interactions between deforestation, climate change and fire. We assess the economic, natural capital and...
Wetland ecosystem health and biodiversity
Laurie C. Alexander, Whitney S. Beck, James N. Carleton, Christopher M. Clark, Henriette I. Jager, Andrew James, Ken Kriese, Leigh C. Moorhead, David M. Mushet
2022, Report, Third Triennial Report to Congress on Biofuels
• Cropland expansion from 2008 to 2016 was mostly from losses of grassland (88%), with 3% losses from wetlands (a total of nearly 275,000 acres of wetlands, concentrated in the Prairie Pothole Region). Given the lack of national or regional datasets to track changes in RFS acreage, the extent of...
Appendix 7: Application of joint dynamic species distribution models to at-sea survey data for seabirds in the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea
Mayumi L. Arimitsu, Kathy Kuletz
2022, Report, Marine bird distribution and abundance in offshore waters
Mitigating risk to migratory birds from energy development requires information on the distribution and abundance of seabirds in offshore waters. Seabirds are highly mobile, with species-specific seasonal migrations that result in variable patterns of distribution in space and time. In remote offshore marine areas, obtaining useful and current information on...
Assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources of the United States
Peter D. Warwick, E. D. Attanasi, Madalyn S. Blondes, Sean T. Brennan, Marc L. Buursink, Steven M. Cahan, Colin A. Doolan, Philip A. Freeman, C. Ozgen Karacan, Celeste D. Lohr, Matthew D. Merrill, Ricardo A. Olea, Jenna L. Shelton, Ernie R. Slucher, Brian A. Varela
2022, Conference Paper
In 2020, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed a probabilistic assessment of the volume of technically recoverable oil resources that could be produced using current carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) technologies in amenable conventional oil reservoirs underlying onshore and State-owned offshore waters (herein after, onshore and State waters areas)...
Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model
Amy Symstad, Steven Bekedam
2022, Report
The Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data...
Stormwater reduction and water budget for a rain garden on sandy soil, Gary, Indiana, 2016–18
David C. Lampe, E. Randall Bayless, Danielle D. Follette
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5101
Stormwater reduction measures, or green infrastructure, were implemented in the parking area at Gary City Hall, Gary, Indiana, with the intention of reducing stormwater discharge to the sewers. A study area, including a centrally located rain garden and the surrounding paved surfaces and green space, was instrumented during both a...
Fort Laramie National Historic Site 2022 ABAM Investigator Annual Report
Amy Symstad
2022, Report
The Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data from...
Landscape change, fire and erosion
Anne C. Tillery, Leslie D. McFadden, Craig Allen
2022, Report, Climate change in New Mexico over the next 50 years: Impacts on water resources (Bulletin 164)
New Mexico has a dynamic landscape, which will become even more so in response to climate change over the next 50 years, in part because of increasing incidence of wildfire. As the climate changes to warmer conditions, less rainfall will infiltrate into aquifers, leading to increased overland runoff....
Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Wind Cave National Park to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model
Amy Symstad, Timm Richardson
2022, Report
The Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data...
PHREEQ-N-AMDTreat+REYs water-quality modeling tools to evaluate acid mine drainage treatment strategies for recovery of rare-earth elements
Charles A. Cravotta III
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Acid Mine Drainage
The PHREEQ-N-AMDTreat+REYs water-quality modeling tools have the fundamental capability to simulate aqueous chemical reactions and predict the formation of metal-rich solids during the treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD). These new user-friendly, publicly available tools were expanded from the PHREEQ-N-AMDTreat tools to include the precipitation of rare-earth elements plus yttrium (REYs)...
Understory structure and heterospecifics influence the occupancy of a ground-nesting species of conservation concern, the Canada Warbler
Gordon W. Dimmig, Christopher T. Rota, Petra B. Wood, Christopher M. Lituma
2022, Avian Conservation and Ecology (17)
Forest structure and composition in eastern U.S. forests are changing because of forest regeneration after farmland abandonment, less frequent occurrence of severe disturbances, and climate change. Some of these changes may disproportionally affect birds that rely on gap dynamics or other forest canopy disturbances to create understory habitat. The Canada...
Soils
Leslie D. McFadden, Anne C. Tillery, Craig Allen
2022, Report, Climate change in New Mexico over the next 50 years: Impacts on water resources (Bulletin 164)
Soils play a strong role in determining how New Mexico’s diverse landscapes will respond to climate change. Soil cover acts like a sponge, holding in water that falls as rain or snow. The presence of soil supports vegetation, and substantially reduces runoff and erosion. Soil enhances other processes such as...
Voluntary Guidance for States to Incorporate Climate Adaptation in State Wildlife Action Plans and Other Management Plans
Aimee Delach, Alison B Cariveau, Brian Hess, Bruce Stein, Caroline Jezierski, Diana Swan-Pinion, Jacob Blandford, Janet Alice Cushing, Jason Goldberg, Junko Hoshi, Karen Cozzetto, Kimberly E Szcodronski, Laurel James, Leona Svancara, Lindsey Thurman, Logan Benedict, Maggie Ernest Johnson, Mark Humpert, Molly S. Cross, Rebecca M. Quinones, Robert Newman, Roger Mangham, Ginny Seamster
2022, Report
The Voluntary Guidance for States to Incorporate Climate Adaptation into State Wildlife Actions Plans and other Management Plans aims to help state fish and wildlife agencies incorporate climate change adaptation for fish and wildlife and their habitats into State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) and other natural resource management plans. This...
#150: Improving our understanding of the population structure and harvest composition of American common eiders in the US and Canada
Chris Dwyer, Scott Gilliland, Sarah A. Sonsthagen
2022, Annual Report FY2022
No abstract available....
Determination and prediction of rare earth element eeochemical associations in acid mine drainage treatment wastes
B.C. Hedin, Charles A. Cravotta III, M.Y. Stuckman, C.L. Lopano, R.C. Capo, R.S. Hedin
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage
Acid mine drainage (AMD) has been proposed by various researchers as a novel source of rare earth elements (REE), a group of elements that include critical metals for clean energy and modern technologies. REE tend to be sequestered in the Fe-Al-Mn-rich solids produced during the treatment of AMD. These solids...
Maintaining wetland ecosystem services in a changing climate
W. Carter Johnson, Glenn R. Guntenspergen
2022, Book chapter, Soil hydrology in a changing climate
A changing climate is causing challenges for soil and water management in many parts of the world. Current soil management practices need to be redesigned to effectively address present and future fluctuating climates. Soil Hydrology in a Changing Climate explores how soil management practices impact soil hydrological characteristics, and how we...
USGS invasive carp database management and integration support
Enrika Hlavacek, Travis J. Harrison
2022, Report, 2022 Invasive carp monitoring and response plan (MRP)
No abstract available....
Gene flow and spatial population structure of Brook Trout in a large headwater stream network in Colorado
Audrey Harris, Matthew P. Fairchild, Sara J. Oyler-McCance, Jennifer A. Fike, Christopher Kennedy, Dana Winkleman, Yoichiro Kanno
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Wild Trout XIII Symposium
We studied gene flow of non-native Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis in a 60-km section of continuous stream network in the upper Cache la Poudre River basin, where a large-scale reclamation effort to restore federally threatened Greenback Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus clarkii stomias (GBCT) is taking place. This effort—the Poudre Headwaters Project—represents...
Effects of megafire on woody species in the mixed-grass prairie
Matthias W. Sirch, Daniel S. Sullins, Nicholas J. Parker, David A. Haukos, John D. Kraft, Christian A. Hagen, Kent A. Fricke
2022, Prairie Naturalist (54) 11-23
Lack of fire in contemporary grasslands has contributed to the invasion of woody plants that can survive low-intensity fire upon maturity, but knowledge of the effects of megafires (>40,000 ha) on grassland tree mortality is limited. We used remote sensing and ground surveys to estimate tree canopy cover change and...
Conservation genetics and wild trout: Evolving opportunities to support management
David C. Kazyak, Shannon L. White, N. Mamoozadeh, John Hargrove, Mariah Meek
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Wild Trout XIII Symposium
It is increasingly apparent that our planet is undergoing rapid, unprecedented environmental change. These changes are already impacting wild trout populations, leading to declines in occupancy and abundance across increasingly fragmented landscapes. Many changes are projected to intensify in the coming decades, which are likely to be crucial to the...
Increasing the efficiency and power of camera traps for EDRR & ecological monitoring
Gretchen Erika Anderson, Amy A. Yackel Adams
2022, Newsletter
Invasive species are an ever-growing concern for Florida, especially in important environments like the Greater Everglades Ecosystem. One of the best ways to fight back against invasives is the use of the “Early Detection, Rapid Response” (EDRR) system. The earlier we can detect the presence of a nonnative species, and...
Benefits of genetic data for the design of Brook Trout translocation efforts
Shannon L. White, Thomas C Johnson, Jacob M Rash, Barbara A. Lubinski, David C. Kazyak
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Wild Trout XIII Symposium
With wild trout populations in decline, many conservation practitioners are evaluating the feasibility of incorporating reintroduction and genetic rescue into management frameworks. As interest in these conservation tools continues to grow, so too has the need for rigorous science to evaluate translocation success and improve the efficacy of future efforts....
