Habitat-specific foraging by striped bass (Morone saxatilis) in the San Francisco Estuary, California: Implications for tidal restoration
Matthew J. Young, Frederick V. Feyrer, Collin D. Smith, Dennis A. Valentine
2022, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (20)
Non-native predatory fish strongly impact aquatic communities, and their impacts can be exacerbated by anthropogenic habitat alterations. Loss of natural habitat and restoration actions reversing habitat loss can modify relationships between non-native predators and prey. Predicting how these relationships will change is...
Endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow ecology: Actions towards recovery through landscape-scale ecosystem restoration
Allison Benscoter, Stephanie Romanach
2022, Endangered Species Research (49) 199-215
Understanding the ecology of endangered taxa and the factors affecting their population growth and decline is imperative for their recovery. In the southeastern USA, the Everglades wetland ecosystem supports a high diversity of species and communities, including many endemic and imperiled taxa, such as the federally endangered Cape Sable...
A case study: Temporal trends of environmental stressors and reproductive health of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) from a site in the Potomac River Watershed, Maryland, USA
Heather L. Walsh, Stephanie E. Gordon, Adam J. Sperry, Michael Kashiwagi, John E. Mullican, Vicki S. Blazer
2022, Ecotoxicology (31) 1536-1553
Decades of poor reproductive success and young-of-the-year survival, combined with adult mortality events, have led to a decline in the smallmouth bass (SMB; Micropterus dolomieu) population in sections of the Potomac River. Previous studies have identified numerous biologic and environmental stressors associated with negative effects on SMB...
Verification of irrigated agricultural land acreage in 55 counties in Florida, 2013–21
Richard L. Marella, Joann F. Dixon
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5098
In 2012, the Florida Legislature mandated that the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), Office of Agricultural Water Policy, promote an agricultural water-conservation program that would include a cost-share program and best management practices and that would aid the five water management districts in the development of consistent...
The influence of drying on the aeolian transport of river-sourced sand
Joel B. Sankey, Joshua Caster, Alan Kasprak, Helen C. Fairley
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface (127)
Transgression and regression of water levels (stages) have impacted the evolution of aeolian landforms and sedimentary deposits throughout geologic history. We studied this phenomenon over a five-day period of reduced flow on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, AZ, USA, in March 2021. These transient low flows exposed...
Ingested toxicity of antimycin A to grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella and black carp Mylopharyngodon piceus in two carriers
Patrick Kroboth, Duane Chapman, Jeffery A. Steevens, Curtis G. Byrd
2022, Management of Biological Invasions (13) 737-749
Toxic baits are a potential control mechanism for nuisance carps, but rotenone-based baits for grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella have been ineffective. Failures have been attributed to the palatability of rotenone because innocuous training pellets are readily consumed prior to provision of piscicide baits. Several studies suggest antimycin A, a common...
Biofilms as potential reservoirs of stony coral tissue loss disease
James S. Evans, Valerie J. Paul, Christina A. Kellogg
2022, Frontiers in Marine Science (9)
Since 2014, corals throughout Florida’s Coral Reef have been plagued by an epizootic of unknown etiology, colloquially termed stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). Although in Florida the movement of this waterborne coral disease has been consistent with natural transport via water currents, outbreaks in the Caribbean have been more sporadic,...
Validation of a portable eDNA detection kit for invasive carps
Stacie A. Kageyama, Matthew Regh Hoogland, Tariq Tajjioui, Theresa M. Schreier, Richard A. Erickson, Christopher M. Merkes
2022, Fishes (7)
Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a rapid molecular detection technique that has been used as a diagnostic tool for detecting human and animal pathogens for over 20 years and is promising for detecting environmental DNA shed by invasive species. We designed a LAMP assay to detect the invasive carps,...
Hydrology, water quality, and biological characteristics of Levittown Lake, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, April 2010–June 2011
Luis R. Soler-Lopez, Julieta M. Gómez-Fragoso, Nicole A. Val-Merniz
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5096
Levittown Lake is a 30-hectare, brackish waterbody located in the municipality of Toa Baja, on the northern coast of Puerto Rico. The lake is a small, man-made feature formed by draining the marshland over which the Levittown community was built. Levittown Lake has an average depth of about 5 meters...
U.S. Geological Survey Colorado River Basin Actionable and Strategic Integrated Science and Technology (ASIST)—Information Management Technology Plan
Eric D. Anderson, Jennifer R. Erxleben, Sharon L. Qi, Adrian P. Monroe, Katharine G. Dahm
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3051
IntroductionMore than 840 publications, 575 data releases, and 330 project web pages from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) pertain to the Colorado River Basin. Limited interconnections between Colorado River Basin publications, data, and web pages restrict the ability to synthesize and interpret scientific resources. Currently, these pieces are spread across...
Elevated winter stream temperatures below wastewater treatment plants shift reproductive development of female Johnny Darter Etheostoma nigrum: A field and histologic approach
Catherine M. Adams, Dana L. Winkelman, Paula A. Schaffer, Daniel L. Villeneuve, Jenna E. Cavallin, Michael Ellman, Kelvin Santana Rodriguez, Ryan M. Fitzpatrick
2022, Fishes (7)
River water temperatures are increasing globally, particularly in urban systems. In winter, wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent inputs are of particular concern because they increase water temperatures from near freezing to ~7–15 °C. Recent laboratory studies suggest that warm overwinter temperatures impact the reproductive timing of some fishes. To evaluate...
Regional-scale mapping of landscape response to extreme precipitation using repeat lidar and object-based image analysis
Stephen B. DeLong, Morena N Hammer, Zachary T. Engle, Emilie Richard, Andrew Breckenridge, Karen B. Gran, Carrie E. Jennings, Andre Jalobeanu
2022, Earth and Space Science (19)
Extreme precipitation events may cause flooding, slope failure, erosion, deposition, and damage to infrastructure over a regional scale, but the impacts of these events are often difficult to fully characterize. Regional-scale landscape change occurred during an extreme rain event in June 2012 in northeastern Minnesota. Landscape change...
Characterization of water quality, biology, and habitat of the Pearl River and selected tributaries contiguous to and within Tribal lands of the Pearl River Community of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 2017–18
Lucas J. Driver, Matthew B. Hicks, Amy C. Gill
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5090
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI), conducted a baseline assessment of the physical, chemical, and biological quality of selected streams and rivers within and contiguous to the Pearl River Community (PRC) in 2017 and 2018. The MBCI is a federally recognized tribe...
Groundwater-level altitudes and groundwater-flow direction and nature and extent of volatile and semivolatile organic compounds at Petro-Chemical Systems, Inc. (Turtle Bayou), Superfund site, Liberty County, Texas, 2020
Christopher L. Braun, Kent D. Becher
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5104
The Petro-Chemical Systems, Inc. (Turtle Bayou), Superfund site is 15 miles southeast of Liberty, Texas, in Liberty County. Improper disposal of waste oils led to contamination of soil and groundwater at the site. In cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey collected water-quality samples from 11...
Ordovician geology of Alaska
Julie A. Dumoulin, Justin V. Strauss, John Repetski
2022, Geological Society, London, Special Publications (533)
Ordovician rocks, found in northern, east-central, interior and southern Alaska, formed in a variety of depositional and palaeogeographic settings. Shallow- and deep-water strata deposited along the northwestern Laurentian margin occur in east-central Alaska (Yukon River area) and probably correlative rocks crop out to the north in the...
An extrapolation method for estimating loads from unmonitored areas using watershed model load ratios
Dale M. Robertson, David A. Saad, Greg F. Koltun
2022, Journal of Great Lakes Research (48) 1550-1562
It is important to routinely estimate loads from an entire watershed to describe current conditions and evaluate how watershed-wide management efforts have affected the nutrient and sediment export that affect downstream water quality. However, monitoring in most areas, including the Great Lakes watershed,...
Minimum requirements for publishing hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur stable-isotope delta results (IUPAC Technical Report)
Grzegorz Skrzypek, Colin Allison, J.K. Bohlke, Luana Bontempo, Paul Brewer, Federica Camin, James F. Carter, Michelle M.G. Chartrand, Tyler B. Coplen, Manfred Groning, Jean-Francois Helie, Germain Esquivel-Hernandez, Rebecca Kraft, Dana A. Magdas, Jacqueline L. Mann, Juris Meija, Harro A. J. Meijer, Heiko Moossen, Nives Ogrinc, Matteo Perini, Antonio Possolo, Karyne Rogers, Arndt Schimmelmann, Aldo Shemesh, David X. Soto, Freddy Thomas, Robert Wielgosz, Michael R. Winchester, Zhao Yan, Philip J. H. Dunn
2022, Pure and Applied Chemistry (94) 1249-1255
Stable hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur (HCNOS) isotope compositions expressed as isotope-delta values are typically reported relative to international standards such as Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water (VSMOW), Vienna Peedee belemnite (VPDB) or Vienna Cañon Diablo Troilite (VCDT). These international standards are chosen by convention and the calibration methods...
An assessment of future tidal marsh resilience in the San Francisco Estuary through modeling and quantifiable metrics of sustainability
James Morris, Judith Z. Drexler, Lydia Smith Vaughn, April Robinson
2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science (10)
Quantitative, broadly applicable metrics of resilience are needed to effectively manage tidal marshes into the future. Here we quantified three metrics of temporal marsh resilience: time to marsh drowning, time to marsh tipping point, and the probability of a regime shift, defined as the conditional probability of a...
Editorial: Plant phenology shifts and their ecological and climatic consequences
Yongshuo H. Fu, Janet S. Prevey, Yann Vitasse
2022, Frontiers in Plant Science (13)
Climate change is causing plant phenology to shift, with consequences for ecosystems and the Earth’s climate. Over the last decades, the timing of many important phenological events has advanced in spring, such as leaf emergence and flowering, or been delayed in fall, such as leaf coloration and leaf fall. The...
Natural resource system size can be used for managing recreational use
Derek S. Kane, Kevin L. Pope, Keith D. Koupal, Mark A. Pegg, Christopher J. Chizinski, Mark A. Kaemingk
2022, Ecological Indicators (145)
Outdoor recreation provides societal benefits that are often measured by the amount of use natural resource systems receive. Still, the amount of resource use natural resource systems receive is often unknown or unstudied. Monitoring and quantifying resource use is often logistically difficult and costly but is paramount to optimize societal benefits. Identifying...
Stormwater quantity and quality in selected urban watersheds in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2016–2020
Aaron J. Porter
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5111
Urbanization can substantially alter sediment and nutrient loadings to streams. Although a growing body of literature has documented these processes, conditions may vary widely by region and physiographic province (PP). Substantial investments are made by localities to meet federal, state, and local water-quality goals and locally relevant monitoring data are...
Violent groundwater eruption triggered by a distant earthquake
Xin Yan, Zheming Shi, Chi-Yuen Wang, Steven E. Ingebritsen, Michael Manga
2022, Geophysical Research Letters (49)
It is now well established that earthquakes cause various hydrogeological responses at distances thousands of kilometers from the epicenter. What remains unexplained is the large amplitude and intensity of some responses. Following the 2004 Mw 9.1 Sumatra earthquake, groundwater 3,200 km from the epicenter erupted violently from a well and formed...
A review of current capabilities and science gaps in water supply data, modeling, and trends for water availability assessments in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Fred D. Tillman, Natalie K. Day, Matthew P. Miller, Olivia L. Miller, Christine Rumsey, Daniel Wise, Patrick C. Longley, Morgan C. McDonnell
2022, Water (14)
The Colorado River is a critical water resource in the southwestern United States, supplying drinking water for 40 million people in the region and water for irrigation of 2.2 million hectares of land. Extended drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCOL) and the prospect of a warmer climate...
Piñon and juniper tree removal increases available soil water, driving understory response in a sage-steppe ecosystem
James D. McIver, James Grace, Bruce A. Roundy
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Over the past century, piñon and juniper trees have encroached into sagebrush steppe lands of the interior United States, and managers have for many years removed trees to stimulate the favored understory. While consistent understory response to tree removal in these semiarid lands suggests that trees...
Using continuous measurements of turbidity to predict suspended-sediment concentrations, loads, and sources in Flat Creek through the town of Jackson, Wyoming, 2019−20 — A pilot study
Jason S. Alexander, Carlin Girard, James Campbell, Christopher A. Ellison, Elyce Gosselin, Emily Smith
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1103
Flat Creek, a tributary to the Snake River in northwestern Wyoming, is an important source of irrigation water, fish and wildlife habitat, and local recreation. Since 1996, a section of Flat Creek within the town of Jackson has failed to meet Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality’s surface-water-quality standards for total...
