User’s Guide to planetary image analysis and geologic mapping in ArcGIS Pro
Sarah R. Black
2023, Techniques and Methods 11-B14
Geologic maps are valuable tools in planetary science. Though planetary geologic maps are similar to terrestrial (Earthbased) geologic maps, the nature of planetary exploration introduces unique challenges for geologic mappers. Terrestrial geologic mappers prepare products from field-based observation, often comparing or refining those with aerial and (or) orbital images. Planetary...
The relative stability of planktic foraminifer thermal preferences over the past 3 million years
Harry J. Dowsett, Marci M. Robinson, Kevin M. Foley, Timothy D. Herbert, Steve Hunter, Carin Andersson, Whittney Spivey
2023, Geosciences (13)
Stationarity of species’ ecological tolerances is a first-order assumption of paleoenvironmental reconstruction based upon analog methods. To test this and other assumptions used in quantitative analysis of foraminiferal faunas for paleoceanographic reconstruction, we analyzed paired alkenone unsaturation ratio (U37K′) "><span id="MathJax-Span-3"...
Simulation of monthly mean and monthly base flow of streamflow using random forests for the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, 1901 to 2018
Benjamin J. Dietsch, William H. Asquith, Brian Breaker, Stephen M. Westenbroek, Wade H. Kress
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5079
Improved simulations of streamflow and base flow for selected sites within and adjacent to the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain area are important for modeling groundwater flow because surface-water flows have a substantial effect on groundwater levels. One method for simulating streamflow and base flow, random forest (RF) models, was developed...
Improved calculation of hydraulic conductivity for small-disk tension infiltrometers
John R. Nimmo, Paige R. Voss
2023, Water Resources Research (59)
Because tension infiltrometers apply water through a disk of finite size, the infiltrated water moves laterally as well as downward. Only the vertical component of this flow is indicative of the hydraulic conductivity K, so the algorithm for computing K must include a way of isolating that component from the total flow. Some...
Distribution of northern long-eared bat summer-habitat derived from historical data collected on the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, USA
J.L. De La Cruz, W. Mark Ford, S. Beaux Jones, J.R. Johnson, A. Silvis
2023, Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (10) 114-124
Species distribution models enable resource managers to avoid and mitigate impacts to, or enhance habitat of, target species at the landscape level. Persistent declines of northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) due to white-nose syndrome have made acquisition of contemporary data difficult. Therefore, use of legacy data may be necessary for creation...
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands
Alison C. Foster, Sarah K. Carter, Travis S. Haby, Leigh Espy, Malia K. Barton
2023, Ecology and Society (28)
Relevant science is essential for effective natural resource decision making, including on public lands managed by the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM), that cover 1/10th of the United States. Most of the BLM’s management decisions require analyses under the National Environmental Policy Act,...
Size structure, age, growth, and mortality of flathead catfish in the Robert C. Byrd Pool of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers
Joseph V Siegel, Stuart A. Welsh, Nate D. Taylor, Quinton Phelps
2023, Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (10) 10-16
Flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) were sampled in the Robert C. Byrd Pool of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, West Virginia, to inform management decisions based on population characteristics of size structure, age, growth, and mortality. Sampling was conducted with low-frequency boat electrofishing during late May to early June over a four-year...
Northern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) population abundance and distribution across the southeast Alaska stock, summer 2022
Paul Schuette, Joseph Michael Eisaguirre, Benjamin P Weitzman, Collin Power, Evan Wetherington, Jenipher Cate, Jamie N. Womble, Linnea Pearson, Daniel Melody, Chelsea Merriman, Kat Hanks, George G. Esslinger
2023, Technical Report 2023-01
In the summer of 2022, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and partners successfully completed the first single-year, aerial photo survey of sea otters across the entire Southeast stock of northern sea otters. This document presents the latest findings from the 2022 Southeast Alaska Sea Otter Survey, providing up-to-date information...
Thematic accuracy assessment of the NLCD 2019 land cover for the conterminous United States
James Wickham, Stephen V. Stehman, Daniel G. Sorenson, Leila Gass, Jon Dewitz
2023, GIScience & Remote Sensing (60)
The National Land Cover Database (NLCD), a product suite produced through the MultiResolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium, is an operational land cover monitoring program. Starting from a base year of 2001, NLCD releases a land cover database every 2–3-years. The recent release of NLCD2019 extends the database to 18 years. We...
Unravelling the influence of landscape alteration from flow alteration on benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage response in the Delaware River Basin
Jonathan G. Kennen, Thomas F. Cuffney
2023, Ecohydrology (16)
Quantifying the effects of streamflow alteration on assemblage response is central to understanding the role humans play in shaping aquatic environments. These changes represent a level of complexity that impedes developing quantitative links between flow and ecological response because stream hydrology is strongly intertwined with natural and anthropogenic factors. Better...
Large increases in methane emissions expected from North America’s largest wetland complex
Sheel Bansal, Max Post van der Burg, Rachel Fern, John W. Jones, Rachel Lo, Owen P. McKenna, Brian Tangen, Zhen Zhang, Robert A. Gleason
2023, Science Advances (9)
Natural methane (CH4) emissions from aquatic ecosystems may rise because of human-induced climate warming, although the magnitude of increase is highly uncertain. Using an exceptionally large CH4 flux dataset (~19,000 chamber measurements) and remotely sensed information, we modeled plot- and landscape-scale wetland CH4 emissions from the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR), North America’s...
Wildfire-induced shifts in groundwater discharge to streams identified with paired air and stream water temperature analyses
David M. Rey, Martin A. Briggs, Michelle A. Walvoord, Brian A. Ebel
2023, Journal of Hydrology (619)
Within the western United States, increasingly severe and frequent wildfires may alter the magnitude, timing, and quality of water exported from burned areas by streams. Post-fire hydrologic studies often focus on peak stream flow responses to shifts in runoff generation or...
Tracking anadromous fish over successive freshwater migrations reveals the influence of tagging effect, previous success and abiotic factors on upstream passage over barriers
Peter Davies, J. Robert Britton, Theodore R. Castro-Santos, Charles Crundwell, Jamie R. Dodd, Andrew D. Nunn, Randolph Velterop, Jonathan D. Bolland
2023, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (80) 1110-1125
Predicting and mitigating the impact of anthropogenic barriers on migratory fish requires an understanding of the individual and environmental factors that influence barrier passage. Here, the upstream spawning migrations of iteroparous twaite shad Alosa fallax were investigated over three successive spawning migrations in a highly fragmented river...
Imaging the magmatic plumbing of the Clear Lake Volcanic Field using 3-D gravity inversions
Michael Albert Mitchell, Jared R. Peacock, Seth D. Burgess
2023, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (435)
The Quaternary Clear Lake Volcanic Field (CLVF) in the Northern California Coast Range is the youngest of a string of northward-younging volcanic centers in the state. The CLVF is located within the broad San Andreas Transform Fault System and has been active intermittently for ∼2 million years. Heat beneath...
A review of lethal thermal tolerance among freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) within the North American faunal region
Kaelyn J. Fogelman, Jennifer M. Archambault, Elise R. Irwin, Maureen Walsh, Shannon K. Brewer, James A. Stoeckel
2023, Environmental Reviews (31)
Freshwater mussels of the order Unionida are currently one of the most imperiled groups of organisms in the North American faunal region. Accurate risk assessments and development of effective management strategies for remaining populations require knowledge of thermal limits in the face of increasing surface water temperature...
Flood warning toolset for the Sabinal River near Utopia, Texas
Namjeong Choi
2023, Fact Sheet 2023-3001
IntroductionFloods are one of the most frequent and expensive natural disasters that occur across the United States. Rapid, high-water events that occur in local areas—flash floods—are especially difficult for emergency managers to predict and provide advance warning to the public, and insufficient data can hamper postflood recovery efforts. Central Texas...
City-scale geothermal energy everywhere to support renewable resilience – A transcontinental cooperation
Gregor Goetzl, Erick R. Burns, Andrew J. Stumpf, Yu-Feng Lin, Amanda Kolker, Maciej R. Klonowski, Cornelia Steiner, Ryan Cain Cahalan, Jeff D. Pepin
2023, Conference Paper, Proceedings, 48th workshop on geothermal reservoir engineering
Cities have important and varying incentives to transform their energy sector to all-electric with low carbon emissions. However, they often encounter a number of impediments when attempting to implement such a change. For example, while urban areas have the highest energy demand-density, cities often lack the space for installing additional...
Development and application of a coastal change likelihood assessment for the northeast region, Maine to Virginia
Elizabeth A. Pendleton, Erika E. Lentz, Travis K. Sterne, Rachel E. Henderson
2023, Data Report 1169
Coastal resources are increasingly affected by erosion, extreme weather events, sea level rise, tidal flooding, and other potential hazards related to climate change. These hazards have varying effects on coastal landscapes because of the compounding of geologic, oceanographic, ecologic, and socioeconomic factors that exist at a given location. An assessment...
Experimental manipulation of soil-surface albedo alters phenology and growth of Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass)
Toby M. Maxwell, Matthew J. Germino, Seth Romero, Lauren M. Porensky, Dana M. Blumenthal, Cynthia S. Brown, Peter B. Adler
2023, Plant and Soil (487) 325-339
PurposeThe sensitivity of wildland plants to temperature can be directly measured using experimental manipulations of temperature in situ. We show that soil surface temperature and plant density (per square meter) have a significant impact on the germination, growth, and phenology of Bromus tectorum L., cheatgrass, a short-statured invasive winter-annual grass,...
Modeling flow and water quality in reservoir and river reaches of the Mahoning River Basin, Ohio
Annett B. Sullivan, Gabrielle M. Georgetson, Christina E. Urbanczyk, Gabriel W. Gordon, Susan A. Wherry, William B. Long
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5125
Executive SummaryThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is considering changes to the management of water surface elevation in four lakes in the Mahoning River Basin. These changes would affect the timing and amounts of water released to the Mahoning River and could affect the water quality of those releases....
Insights into the metamorphic history and origin of flake graphite mineralization at the Graphite Creek graphite deposit, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA
George N.D. Case, Susan M. Karl, Sean P. Regan, Craig A. Johnson, Eric T Ellison, Jonathan Saul Caine, Christopher S. Holm-Denoma, Laura Pianowski, Jeff A. Benowitz
2023, Mineralium Deposita (58) 939-962
Graphite Creek is an unusual flake graphite deposit located on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA. We present field observations, uranium-lead (U–Pb) monazite and titanite geochronology, carbon (C) and sulfur (S) stable isotope geochemistry, and graphite Raman spectroscopy data from this deposit that support a new model of flake graphite ore...
Laboratory and field comparisons of TFM bar formulations used to treat small streams for larval sea lamprey
James A. Luoma, Justin R. Schueller, Nicholas Schloesser, Todd Johnson, Courtney A. Kirkeeng
2023, Management of Biological Invasions (14) 347-362
A solid formulation of the pesticide TFM (4-nitro-3-(trifluoromethyl)-phenol) was developed in the 1980s for application in small tributaries during treatments to control invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus Linnaeus, 1758). Several initial inert ingredients were discontinued and substituted, culminating with an interim formulation that unacceptably softens and rapidly decays in warm...
A big data–model integration approach for predicting epizootics and population recovery in a keystone species
Gabriel M. Barrile, David J. Augustine, Lauren M. Porensky, Courtney J. Duchardt, Kevin T. Shoemaker, Cynthia R. Hartway, Justin D. Derner, Elizabeth Ann Hunter, Ana D. Davidson
2023, Ecological Applications (33)
Infectious diseases pose a significant threat to global health and biodiversity. Yet, predicting the spatiotemporal dynamics of wildlife epizootics remains challenging. Disease outbreaks result from complex nonlinear interactions among a large collection of variables that rarely adhere to the assumptions of parametric regression modeling. We adopted a nonparametric machine learning...
Can angler-assisted broodstock collection programs improve harvest rates of hatchery-produced steelhead?
Marc A. Johnson, Michelle K. Jones, Matthew Richard Falcy, John Spangler, Ryan B. Couture, David Noakes
2023, Environmental Biology of Fishes 1079-1092
Fish that exhibit high foraging activity or bold behavior can be particularly vulnerable to angling. If these traits are heritable, selection through harvest can drive phenotypic change, eventually rendering a target population less vulnerable to angling and consequently impacting the quality of the fishery. In this...
Status and trends of total nitrogen and total phosphorus concentrations, loads, and yields in streams of Mississippi, water years 2008–18
Matthew B. Hicks, Angela S. Crain, Natalie G. Segrest
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5003
To assess the status and trends of conditions of surface waters throughout Mississippi, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), summarized concentrations and estimated loads, yields, trends, and spatial and temporal patterns of total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) at 20 stream...
