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 Sa, 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...
Diverse portfolios: Investing in tributaries for restoration of large river fishes in the Anthropocene
Kristen L. Bouska, Brian Daniel Healy, Michael James Moore, Corey Garland Dunn, Jonathan J Spurgeon, Craig Paukert
2023, Frontiers in Environmental Science (11)
Rehabilitation of large Anthropocene rivers requires engagement of diverse stakeholders across a broad range of sociopolitical boundaries. Competing objectives often constrain options for ecological restoration of large rivers whereas fewer competing objectives may exist in a subset of tributaries. Further, tributaries contribute toward building a “portfolio” of river...
A framework for estimating global river discharge from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission
Michael Durand, Colin Gleason, Tamlin Pavelsky, Renato Frasson, Michael Turmon, Cedric H. David, Elizabeth Altenau, Nikki Tebaldi, Kevin Larnier, Jerome Monnier, Pierre Olivier Malaterre, Hind Oubanas, George Allen, Brian Astifan, Craig Brinkerhoff, Paul Bates, David M. Bjerklie, Stephen Coss, Robert W. Dudley, Luciana Fengolio, Pierre-Andre Garambois, Augusto Getirana, Peirong Lin, Steven A. Margulis, Pascal Matte, J.Toby Minear, Aggrey Muhebwa, Ming Pan, Daniel L. Peters, Ryan Riggs, Md Safat Sikder, Travis Simmons, Cassie Stuurman, Jay Taneja, Angelica Tarpanelli, Kerstin Schulze, Mohammad Tourian, Jida Wang
2023, Water Resources Research (59)
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will vastly expand measurements of global rivers, providing critical new data sets for both gaged and ungaged basins. SWOT discharge products (available approximately 1 year after launch) will provide discharge for all river that reaches wider than 100 m. In this...
Forage fish species prefer habitat within designated offshore wind energy areas on the US Northeast Shelf ecosystem
Kevin Friedland, Evan M. Adams, Chandra Goetsch, Julia Gulka, Damien Brady, Everett Rzeszowski, Daniel Crear, Sarah Gaichas, Andrew Gill, M. Conor McManus, Elizabeth T. Methratta, Janelle L. Morano, Michelle Staudinger
2023, Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science (15)
As the world develops sources of renewable energy, there is an intensifying interest in offshore wind energy production. The Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf (NES) ecosystem has favorable wind dynamics, with active development of wind energy. In this study, we present species distribution models that...
Increased utilization of storm surge barriers: A research agenda on estuary impacts
Philip M. Orton, David K. Ralston, Bram C. van Prooijen, David Secor, Neil K. Ganju, Ziyu Chen, Sarah Fernald, Bennett Brooks, Kristin Marcell
2023, Earth's Future (11)
Rising coastal flood risk and recent disasters are driving interest in the construction of gated storm surge barriers worldwide, with current studies recommending barriers for at least 11 estuaries in the United States alone. Surge barriers partially block estuary-ocean exchange with infrastructure across an estuary or its...
Nitrifying microorganisms linked to biotransformation of perfluoroalkyl sulfonamido precursors from legacy aqueous film forming foams
Bridger J. Ruyle, Lara Schultes, Denise M. Akob, Cassandra Rashan Harris, Michelle Lorah, Simon Vojta, Jitka Becanova, Shelly McCann, Heidi M. Pickard, Ann Pearson, Rainer Lohmann, Chad D. Vecitis, Elsie M. Sunderland
2023, Environmental Science and Technology (14) 5592-5602
Drinking water supplies across the United States have been contaminated by firefighting and fire-training activities that use aqueous film-forming foams (AFFF) containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Much of the AFFF is manufactured using electrochemical fluorination by 3M. Precursors with six perfluorinated...
Uptake of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances by fish, mussel, and passive samplers in mobile laboratory exposures using groundwater from a contamination plume at a historical fire training area, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Larry B. Barber, Heidi M. Pickard, David Alvarez, Jitka Becanova, Steffanie H. Keefe, Denis R. LeBlanc, Rainer Lohmann, Jeffery Steevens, Alan M. Vajda
2023, Environmental Science and Technology (57) 5544-5557
Aqueous film-forming foams historically were used during fire training activities on Joint Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and created an extensive per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) groundwater contamination plume. The potential for PFAS bioconcentration from exposure to the contaminated groundwater, which discharges to...
Compensatory recruitment unlikely in high-elevation amphibian populations challenged with disease
Bennett Hardy, Erin L. Muths, Bradley Lambert, Scott C. Schneider, W. C. Funk, Larissa L. Bailey
2023, Journal of Applied Ecology (60) 121-131
Understanding the causes of population variation in host response to disease, and the mechanisms of persistence, can serve as vital information for species conservation. One such mechanism of population persistence that has gained support is the demographic process of compensatory recruitment. Host populations may persist by increasing recruitment to...
Rock-to-metal ratios of the rare earth elements
Nedal T. Nassar, Graham W. Lederer, Abraham J. Padilla, Joseph Gambogi, Daniel James Cordier, Jaime L. Brainard, Joseph D. Lessard, Ryan Charab
2023, Journal of Cleaner Production (405)
The relative quantities of ore mined and waste rock (i.e., overburden) removed to produce the rare earth elements—their rock-to-metal ratios—were calculated for 21 individual operations or regions covering nearly all mine production in 2018. The results indicate that the rock-to-metal ratios for the total...
The geometry and kinematics of the latest paleozoic Allatoona Fault, one of the youngest thrusts in the southernmost Appalachian Hinterland, Alabama and Georgia, U.S.A.
James F. Tull, Christopher Holm-Denoma, Nawwaf A. Almuntshry, Ericka L. McMahan
2023, American Journal of Science (323)
The Allatoona thrust fault in the southernmost hinterland of the Appalachian Blue Ridge-Piedmont megathrust sheet is among the latest structures in the kinematic sequence of events along the west flank of the orogen. It is an out-of-sequence, craton-directed thrust fault that cuts metamorphic isograds and...
Drought survival strategies differ between coastal and montane conifers in northern California
Wallis Robinson, Lucy P. Kerhoulas, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Gabriel Roletti, Phillip J. van Mantgem
2023, Ecosphere (14)
Increasingly severe and prolonged droughts are contributing to tree stress and forest mortality across western North America. However, in many cases, we currently have poor information concerning how drought responses in forests vary in relation to competition, climate, and site and tree characteristics. We...
Long-term relationships between seed bank communities and wildfire across four North American desert sites
Rachel K Hosna, Sasha C. Reed, Akasha M. Faist
2023, Ecosphere (14)
It is well documented that the recovery of dryland plant communities following wildfire can be variable, and that legacies of fire can have long-lasting effects on aboveground plant communities. However, our understanding of the degree to which dryland soil seed banks, or the viable...
Drawdown, habitat, and kokanee populations in a western U.S. reservoir
John S. McLaren, Robert W. Van Kirk, Arthur J. Mabaka, Soren Brothers, Phaedra E. Budy
2023, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (43) 339-351
Greater drought frequency and severity due to climate change will result in greater drawdown of water storage reservoirs. However, changes to oxythermal regimes due to drawdown are reservoir specific and interface with fish species-specific habitat requirements, producing varying effects on coldwater fish populations. We examined the effect of drawdown on...
Biophysical drivers for predicting the distribution and abundance of invasive yellow sweetclover in the Northern Great Plains
Sakshi Saraf, Ranjeet John, Reza Goljani Amirkhiz, Venkatesh Kolluru, Khushboo Jain, Matthew B. Rigge, Vincenzo Giannico, Stephen P. Boyte, Jiquan Chen, Geoffrey M. Henebry, Meghann Jarchow, Raffaele Lafortezza
2023, Landscape Ecology (38) 1463-1479
ContextYellow sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis; YSC) is an invasive biennial legume that bloomed across the Northern Great Plains in 2018–2019 in response to above-average precipitation. YSC can increase nitrogen (N) levels and potentially cause substantial changes in the composition of native plant species communities. There is little knowledge of the spatiotemporal variability and conditions...
Genesis of the Questa Mo porphyry deposit and nearby polymetallic mineralization, New Mexico, USA
Sean P. Gaynor, Joshua Mark Rosera, Drew S. Coleman
2023, Economic Geology (118) 1319-1339
The Oligocene Latir magmatic center in northern New Mexico is an exceptionally well-exposed volcanoplutonic complex that hosts a variety of magmatic-hydrothermal deposits, ranging from relatively deep, F-rich porphyry Mo mineralization to shallower epithermal deposits. We present new whole-rock chemical and isotopic data for plutonic rocks from the Latir magmatic center,...
Dense geophysical observations reveal a triggered, concurrent multi-fault rupture at the Mendocino Triple Junction
William L. Yeck, David R. Shelly, Dara Elyse Goldberg, Kathryn Zerbe Materna, Paul S. Earle
2023, Nature Communications Earth and Environment (4)
A central question of earthquake science is how far ruptures can jump from one fault to another, because cascading ruptures can increase the shaking of a seismic event. Earthquake science relies on earthquake catalogs and therefore how complex ruptures get documented and cataloged has important implications....
Periodical cicada emergences affect masting behavior of oaks
Walter D. Koenig, Andrew Leibhold, Jalene LaMontagne, Ian Pearse
2023, The American Naturalist (201) 755-762
Oaks (Quercus spp.) are masting species exhibiting highly variable and synchronized acorn production. We investigated the hypothesis that periodical cicadas (Magicada spp.), well known to have strong effects on the ecosystems in which they occur, affect acorn production of oaks through their xylem feeding habits as nymphs, the oviposition damage they inflict...
