Hazus Estimated Annualized Earthquake Losses for the United States: FEMA P-366, 2023
Kishor S. Jaiswal, Jesse Rozelle, Mike Tong, Anne Sheehan, Sean McNabb, Maureen Kelly, Casey Zuzak, Doug Bausch, Jennifer Sims
2023, Report
The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Pub.L. 115–307) requires that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “shall support the implementation of a comprehensive earthquake education, outreach, and public awareness program, including development of materials and their wide dissemination to all appropriate audiences and support public...
Simulating the migration dynamics of juvenile salmonids through rivers and estuaries using a hydrodynamically driven enhanced particle tracking model
Vamsi Krishna Sridharan, Doug Jackson, Andrew M. Hein, Russell W. Perry, Adam C. Pope, Noble Hendrix, Eric M. Danner, Steven T. Lindley
2023, Ecological Modeling (482)
Juvenile salmonids migrate hundreds of kilometers from their natal streams to mature in the ocean. Throughout this migration, they respond to environmental cues such as local water velocities and other stimuli to direct and modulate their movements, often through heavily modified...
Accuracy of shoreline forecasting using sparse data
Amy S. Farris, Joseph W Long, Emily A. Himmelstoss
2023, Ocean and Coast Management (239)
Sandy beaches are important resources providing recreation, tourism, habitat, and coastal protection. They evolve over various time scales due to local winds, waves, storms, and changes in sea level. A common method used to monitor change in sandy beaches is...
The changing dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: Next steps for management & science in North America
Johanna Harvey, Jennifer M. Mullinax, Michael C. Runge, Diann Prosser
2023, Biological Conservation (282)
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H5N1 was introduced in North America in late 2021 through trans-Atlantic pathways via migratory birds. These introductions have resulted in an unprecedented epizootic, a widespread disease event in animals, heavily affecting poultry, wild birds, and...
Potential effects of habitat change on migratory bird movements and avian influenza transmission in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
John Takekawa, Diann Prosser, Jeffery D. Sullivan, Shenglai Yin, Xinxin Wang, Geli Zhang, Xiangming Xiao
2023, Diversity (15)
Wild waterbirds, and especially wild waterfowl, are considered to be a reservoir for avian influenza viruses, with transmission likely occurring at the agricultural-wildlife interface. In the past few decades, avian influenza has repeatedly emerged in China along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF), where extensive habitat conversion has occurred. Rapid...
Public-supply water use in 2010 and projections of use in 2020 and 2030, Tennessee
John A. Robinson, W. Scott Gain
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5041
Future water use was projected for public-water systems in Tennessee. Water-use information was compiled for Tennessee for 2010, and projections were made to 2020 and 2030. The water-use models were based on two primary datasets: baseline water-use information for 2010 for Tennessee and projected population in Tennessee.Population and water withdrawals...
Chemical characterization of San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) Phase 3 core
Diane E. Moore, Kelly K. Bradbury
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1019
We present new X-ray fluorescence compositions of 27 core samples from Phase 3, Hole G of the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth, nearly doubling the published dataset for the core. The new analyses consist of major and trace element compositions and the first published data for rare earth elements...
Developing a habitat model to support management of threatened seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus) at Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia
Benjamin T. Gutierrez, Erika E. Lentz
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5034
Amaranthus pumilus (seabeach amaranth) is a federally threatened plant species that has been the focus of restoration efforts at Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS). Despite several years with strong population numbers prior to 2010, monitoring efforts have revealed a significant decline in the seabeach amaranth population since that time, the...
Movement and genomic methods reveal mechanisms promoting connectivity in a declining shorebird: The lesser yellowlegs
Katherine Christie, Robert E. Wilson, James A. Johnson, Christian Friis, Christopher Harwood, Laura Anne McDuffie, Erica Nol, Sarah A. Sonsthagen
2023, Diversity (15)
Integrating tracking technology and molecular approaches provides a comprehensive picture of contemporary and evolutionary mechanisms promoting connectivity. We used mitochondrial DNA and double digest restriction-site associated DNA (ddRAD) sequencing combined with satellite telemetry to investigate the connectivity of geographically disparate breeding populations of a declining boreal shorebird, the lesser yellowlegs...
Challenges and solutions for automated avian recognition in aerial imagery
Zhonqgi Miao, Stella X Yu, Kyle Lawrence Landolt, Mark D. Koneff, Timothy White, Luke J. Fara, Enrika Hlavacek, Bradley A. Pickens, Travis J. Harrison, Wayne M. Getz
2023, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (9) 439-453
Remote aerial sensing provides a non-invasive, large geographical-scale technology for avian monitoring, but the manual processing of images limits its development and applications. Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be used to mitigate this manual image processing requirement. The implementation of AI methods, however, has several...
Assessment of potential recovery viability for Colorado Pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon
Kimberly L. Dibble, Charles B. Yackulic, Kevin R. Bestgen, Keith B. Gido, Tildon Jones, Mark McKinstry, Doug Osmundson, Dale Ryden, Robert C. Schelly
2023, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (14) 239-268
Colorado Pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius, the Colorado River’s top native predatory fish, was historically distributed from the Gulf of California delta to the upper reaches of the Green, Colorado, and San Juan rivers in the Colorado River basin in the Southwestern US. In recent...
Summary and conclusions
John A. Izbicki, Krishangi D. Groover, Whitney A. Seymour, David M. Miller, John G. Warden, Laurence G. Miller
2023, Professional Paper 1885-J
Executive SummaryChromium concentrations in rock and aquifer material in Hinkley and Water Valleys in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California, are generally low compared to the average chromium concentration of 185 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) in the average bulk continental crust. Chromium concentrations in felsic, coarse-textured...
Sequestration and reoxidation of chromium in experimental microcosms
Laurence G. Miller, Callum E. Bobb, Andrea L. Foster, Emily G. Wright, Stacy C. Bennett, Krishangi D. Groover, John A. Izbicki
2023, Professional Paper 1885-I
Groundwater containing hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), downgradient from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Hinkley compressor station in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California, is undergoing bioremediation using added ethanol as a reductant in a volume of the aquifer defined as the in situ reactive zone...
Predevelopment water levels, groundwater recharge, and selected hydrologic properties of aquifer materials, Hinkley and Water Valleys, California
Krishangi D. Groover, John A. Izbicki, Whitney A. Seymour, Anthony A. Brown, Randall E. Bayless, Carole D. Johnson, Katherine L. Pappas, Gregory A. Smith, Dennis A. Clark, Joshua Larsen, Meghan C. Dick, Lorraine E. Flint, Christina L. Stamos, John G. Warden
2023, Professional Paper 1885-H
Hydrologic and geophysical data were collected to support updates to an existing groundwater-flow model of Hinkley Valley, California, in the Mojave Desert about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. These data provide information on predevelopment (pre-1930) water levels, groundwater recharge, and selected hydrologic properties of aquifer materials.A predevelopment groundwater-level...
Evaluation of natural and anthropogenic (human-made) hexavalent chromium
John A. Izbicki, John G. Warden, Krishangi D. Groover, Whitney A. Seymour
2023, Professional Paper 1885-G
Hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), was released between 1952 and 1964 from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Hinkley compressor station, in the Mojave Desert about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. Geologic, geochemical, and hydrologic data from more than 100 wells collected between March 2015 and November 2017 were...
Environmental tracers of groundwater source, age, and geochemical evolution
John G. Warden, John A. Izbicki, Jurgen Sultenfuss, Kathleen Scheiderich, John Fitzpatrick
2023, Professional Paper 1885-F
Hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), was discharged in cooling wastewater to unlined surface ponds from 1952 to 1964 and reached the underlying unconsolidated aquifer at the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Hinkley compressor station in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. A suite of environmental tracers was...
Groundwater chemistry and hexavalent chromium
John A. Izbicki, R. Blaine McCleskey, Carmen A. Burton, Dennis A. Clark, Gregory A. Smith
2023, Professional Paper 1885-E
Water samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from more than 100 wells between March 2015 and November 2017 in Hinkley and Water Valleys, in the Mojave Desert 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California, were analyzed for field parameters, major ions, nutrients, and selected trace elements, including hexavalent chromium,...
Analyses of regulatory water-quality data
John A. Izbicki, Whitney A. Seymour
2023, Professional Paper 1885-D
Between 1952 and 1964, hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), was released into groundwater from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Hinkley compressor station in the Mojave Desert 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company has monitored groundwater near Hinkley, California, for Cr(VI) and other constituents...
Chromium in minerals and selected aquifer materials
Krishangi D. Groover, John A. Izbicki, William Benzel, Jean M. Morrison, Andrea L. Foster
2023, Professional Paper 1885-C
Between 1952 and 1964, hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), was released into groundwater from a Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) compressor station in Hinkley, California, in the western Mojave Desert 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. In 2015, the extent of anthropogenic Cr(VI) in groundwater in Hinkley and Water Valleys...
Survey of chromium and selected element concentrations in rock, alluvium, and core material
John A. Izbicki, Krishangi D. Groover
2023, Professional Paper 1885-B
Between 1952 and 1964, hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), was released into groundwater from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) compressor station in Hinkley, California, in the western Mojave Desert 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. In 2015, the extent of anthropogenic Cr(VI) in groundwater in Hinkley and Water Valleys...
The concept of land bridge marshes in the Mississippi River Delta and implications for coastal restoration
John W. Day, Robert R. Twilley, Angelina Freeman, Brady Couvillion, Tracy Quirk, Navid H. Jafari, Giulio Mariotti, Rachael Hunter, Charles Norman, G. Paul Kemp, John R. White, Ehab Meselhe
2023, Nature Based Solutions (3)
Louisiana has high coastal wetland loss rates due to natural processes such as subsidence and anthropogenic activities such as construction of river levees and dams, pervasive alteration of surface hydrology by local industries such as oil and gas, and navigation. With...
Groundwater prospecting using a multi-technique framework in the lower Casas Grandes Basin, Chihuahua, México
Alfredo Granados Olivas, Ezequiel Rascon-Mendoza, Francisco J. Gomez-Dominguez, Carlo I. Romero-Gameros, Andrew J. Robertson, Luis C. Bravo-Pena, Ali Mirchi, Ana C. Garcia-Vazquez, Alexander Fernald, John W. Hawley, Luis Alfonso Gandara-Ruiz, Luis C. Alatorre-Cejudo, Maryam Samimi, Felipe A. Vazquez-Galvez, Adan Pinales-Munguia, Oscar F. Ibanez-Hernandez, Josiah M. Heyman, Alex Mayer, William L. Hargrove
2023, Water (15)
Groundwater is a strategic resource for economic development, social justice, environmental sustainability, and water governance. The lower Casas Grandes River Basin, located in the state of Chihuahua, México, is in a semi-arid region with increasing groundwater demand and regional challenges such as drought and depletion of aquifers. Even though...
Near-field receiving-water monitoring of trace metals and a benthic community near the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant in south San Francisco Bay, California—2020
Daniel J. Cain, Marie Noele Croteau, Janet K. Thompson, Francis Parchaso, A. Robin Stewart, Emily L. Zierdt Smith, Kelly H. Shrader, Le H. Kieu, Samuel N. Luoma
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1017
Trace-metal concentrations in sediment and in the clam Limecola petalum (World Register of Marine Species, 2020; formerly reported as Macoma balthica and M. petalum), clam reproductive activity, and benthic macroinvertebrate community structure were investigated in a mudflat 1 kilometer (km) south of the discharge of the Palo Alto Regional Water...
Distribution and abundance of Southwestern Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii extimus) on the upper San Luis Rey River, San Diego County, California—2022 data summary
Scarlett L. Howell, Barbara E. Kus
2023, Data Report 1173
Executive SummaryWe surveyed for Southwestern Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii extimus; flycatcher) along the upper San Luis Rey River near Lake Henshaw in Santa Ysabel, California, in 2022. Surveys were completed at four locations: three downstream from Lake Henshaw, where surveys occurred from 2015 to 2021 (Rey River Ranch [RRR], Cleveland...
A novel assembly pipeline and functional annotations for targeted sequencing: A case study on the globally threatened Margaritiferidae (Bivalvia: Unionida)
André Gomes-dos-Santos, Elsa Froufe, John M. Pfeiffer, Nathan Johnson, Chase H. Smith, Andre M. Machado, L. Filipe C. Castro, Van Tu Do, Akimasa Hattori, Nicole Garrison, Nathan V. Whelan, Ivan N. Bolotov, Ilya V. Vikhrev, Alexander V. Kondakov, Mohamed Ghamizi, Vincent Prie, Arthur E. Bogan, Manuel Lopes Lima
2023, Molecular Ecology Resources (23) 1403-1422
The proliferation of genomic sequencing approaches has significantly impacted the field of phylogenetics. Target capture approaches provide a cost-effective, fast and easily applied strategy for phylogenetic inference of non-model organisms. However, several existing target capture processing pipelines are incapable of incorporating whole genome sequencing (WGS)....
