Relationship of basin structure and bedrock lithology to faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake region, California, from gravity and aeromagnetic data
Victoria Langenheim, Elizabeth Haddon
2025, Conference Paper, Friends of the Pleistocene Pacific Cell annual meeting fieldtrip guidebook
We investigate patterns of cumulative offsets on the faults that ruptured in 2019 and along the Garlock Fault in the Ridgecrest region, California using recently published gravity and aeromagnetic data. We also examine the relationship of basin structure and bedrock structure to the 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake ruptures (Fig. 1A),...
Lake sturgeon behavioral diversity in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Migratory patterns across populations and habitats
Skye D. Fissette, Charles C. Krueger, Lisa M. O'Connor, Thomas C. Pratt, Daniel A. Isermann, Dan Wilfond, John A. Sweka, Darryl W. Hondorp
2025, Movement Ecology (13)
BackgroundCharacterizing the diversity of migration behaviors from the individual to the population level is essential for understanding how organisms respond to environmental variation and how these responses affect survival and habitat use. Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) is a species of special concern in the Laurentian Great Lakes that...
Linking bathythermal habitat selection to management of a migratory freshwater fish
Richard Kraus, Matthew Faust, Scott F. Colborne, Christopher Vandergoot
2025, Movement Ecology (13)
BackgroundFor migratory fishes, habitat selection in dimensions of temperature and depth may be jointly used to define the bathythermal niche. Seasonal and long-term changes in the availability of bathythermal habitat can cause behavioral responses that have consequences for managing interjurisdictional fisheries that target migratory fishes. Management of such...
Satellite assessment of winter cover crop and conservation tillage outcomes to support adaptive management in working landscapes
W. Dean Hively, Feng Gao, Gregory W. McCarty, Craig S.T. Daughtry, Xuesong Zhang, Jyoti Jennewein, Alison Thieme, Brian T. Lamb, Jason Keppler, Cathleen J. Hapeman, Michael Cosh, Steven B. Mirsky
2025, Journal of Environmental Quality (54) 1548-1571
The use of winter cover crops and conservation tillage are agricultural practices promoted to reduce nutrient and sediment loss from cropland, improve soil health, increase infiltration, and support farm nutrient cycling and ecosystem services. However, environmental performance of these practices is variable in the working farm landscape. The Lower Chesapeake...
Red spruce forest stand structure and Virginia northern flying squirrel habitat suitability
Tanner R. Humbert, Abigail W. McKellips, David R. Carter, P. Corey Green, Jesse L. De La Cruz, Corinne A. Diggins, W. Mark Ford
2025, International Journal of Forestry Research (2025)
The Virginia northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus; VNFS) is a rare, Pleistocene-relict, disjunct subspecies of the northern flying squirrel. The squirrel occurs only in high-elevation red spruce (Picea rubens) forests of the central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia—a forest type that was substantially reduced by exploitative logging...
Correspondence between satellite-derived and long-term field observations of vegetation cover at Great Basin experimental treatments.
Matthew B. Rigge, Madelon Florence Case, Scott E. Shaff, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Brett Bunde, Kory Postma
2025, Rangeland Ecology & Management (103) 341-355
Vegetation treatments are frequently utilized in Western US rangelands to reduce woody plant cover in sagebrush stands threatened by increased wildfire risk and in pinyon-juniper woodlands expanding into formerly high-value sagebrush habitats. Despite widespread use of these treatments, monitoring data to evaluate long-term vegetation responses are often...
Museum records provide unique information about the distribution of the Yellow Lampmussel Lampsilis cariosa (Unionidae)
Jillian Fedarick, Christina Amy Murphy, Sydne Record, Allison H. Roy
2025, Freshwater Science (44) 434-442
Natural history museum records may provide unique information on the distribution of species that can supplement survey data collected by resource managers. However, there can be challenges to using museum data for analyses, such as spurious geographic information, misidentifications, and incorrect labeling. Museum records have been centralized...
Re-oligotrophy in the Upper Mississippi River, USA, occurred in just a few years
Killian Davis, Wako Bungula, Danelle M. Larson
2025, Freshwater Science (44) 409-421
Ecological systems can undergo large changes and regime shifts that are either catastrophic, neutral, or desirable. Rivers worldwide have recently undergone desirable regime shifts related to re-oligotrophy, which is a notable and ongoing reduction in concentrations of total suspended solids (TSS), total N, total P, or phytoplankton. For example, the...
Summer roost site suitability analyses for 4 special status bat species in the Eastern United States
Richard D. Inman, Andrea Nichole Schuhmann, Sarah Sawyer, Sarah Mccrimmon Gaulke, Frank Charles Tousley, Helen Trice Davis, Bradley James Udell, Bethany R. Straw, Jonathan D. Reichard, Brian E. Reichert
2025, Journal of Mammalogy (106) 1399-1411
Data describing habitat suitability are crucial for implementing effective conservation planning but are often lacking at regional and continental scales. We address this gap for 4 bat species that are listed, proposed for listing, or under Endangered Species Act listing review by highlighting a framework for estimating summer roost suitability...
VIPER site analysis
Ross A. Beyer, Mark Shirley, Anthony Colaprete, Caleb I. Fassett, Benjamin Fernando, Tanish P. Himani, Myriam Lemelin, José Martinez-Comacho, Matthew Siegler, Andrew M. Annex, Edward Balaban, Valentin T. Bickel, Joshua A. Coyan, Ariel N. Deutsch, Jennifer L. Heldmann, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Laszlo P. Keszthelyi, Kevin W. Lewis, Darlene S.S. Lim, Eldar Noe Dobrea
2025, The Planetary Science Journal (6)
We needed to evaluate available orbital data of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission area in order to derive a variety of maps to help the science team identify scientifically interesting places for the rover to visit and to provide scientific context for our mission....
Genetic and environmental factors associated with survival of a rare songbird in a fragmented urban landscape
Amy G. Vandergast, Anna Mitelberg, Barbara E. Kus, Kristine L. Preston, Suellen Lynn, Alexandra Houston, Robert C. Klinger
2025, Conservation Science and Practice (7)
The coastal Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) persists in small and fragmented populations throughout southern California that are subject to genetic drift and inbreeding. We combined individual banding and resighting data and genotyped individuals at 22 microsatellite loci to assess whether heterozygosity was associated with survival across three...
Estimating recruitment of Largemouth Bass to exceptional weights using angler-reported catches
Leandro E. Miranda, Frank Griffin, Natalie Goldstrohm, J. Wesley Neal, Thomas J. Lang
2025, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (45) 1001-1011
ABSTRACTObjectiveAlthough most facets of Largemouth Bass Micropterus nigricans ecology have been researched, the upper tiers of weight distributions (i.e., ≥3.6 kg; herein, “lunkers”) have received little attention due to the challenges of collecting sufficient sample sizes. Our aim was to estimate Largemouth Bass recruitment to higher...
Near real-time indicators of burn severity in the western U.S. from active fire tracking
Elijah Orland, Tempest McCabe, Yang Chen, Rebecca C. Scholten, Zeb Becker, Rachel A. Loehman, James T. Randerson, Shane R. Coffield, Tianjia Liu, Alexey N. Shiklomanov, Kurtis Nelson, Birgit Peterson, Melanie B. Follette-Cook, Douglas C. Morton
2025, Fire Ecology (21)
BackgroundTimely information on wildfire burn severity is critical to assess and mitigate potential post-fire impacts on soils, vegetation, and hillslope stability. Tracking individual fire spread and intensity using satellite active fire data provides a pathway to near real-time (NRT) information. Here, we generated a large database (n = 2177) of wildfire events...
Ambient field seismology in critical zone hydrological sciences
Marine A. Denolle, Qibin Shi, Timothy Hugh Clements, Loic Viens, Veronica Rodriguez-Tribaldos, Fabrice Cotton
2025, Comptes Rendus. Géoscience (357) 425-451
Passive ambient noise monitoring is an emerging tool in environmental seismology, leveraging the ambient seismic field to assess temporal variations in shallow subsurface properties. This review focuses on the potential and challenges of using scattered coda waves from noise correlation functions to monitor critical zone dynamics. The sensitivity of seismic...
Assessing flood water infiltration and storage in a restored floodplain
Nicholas Corson-Dosch, Faith Fitzpatrick, Paul Juckem, James D. Blount, Wonsook S. Ha
2025, Hydological Processes (39)
In urban areas, floodplain restoration is gaining prominence as a strategy for restoring the natural functions of floodplain ecosystems and reducing flood risk. This has spurred research into potential interactions between floodwaters, the hyporheic zone, and the floodplain aquifer. An urban restored stream in Wisconsin, USA, was used as a...
Case study of deep learning image segmentation for the purposes of rapid 2D petrographic analysis in volcanic rocks
Brenna A. Halverson, Matthew W. Loewen, Hannah R. Dietterich, Alan Whittington
2025, Volcanica (8) 427-443
Automation using deep learning methods is a useful alternative to manual methods of petrographic segmentation, but often requires user familiarity with coding and/or algorithms. We examine the DragonflyTM program's deep learning tools for application by users with a variety of skill levels as a method for petrographic image segmentation. An...
Magma fragmentation and tephra deposition from a small-volume phreatomagmatic eruption: Blue Lake crater, Oregon, USA
Sophia Leiter, Pierre-Simon Ross, Emily Renee Johnson
2025, Bulletin of Volcanology
Maars pose considerable hazards due to their more explosive nature (compared with more common scoria cones) and likelihood that eruptions produce pyroclastic surges. Blue Lake crater is a maar in the Oregon High Cascades that erupted within the last 3000 years, making it one of the youngest eruptions in the Oregon...
UAS and high-resolution satellite imagery improve the accuracy of cheatgrass detection across an invaded Yellowstone landscape
Jason R. Kreitler, Joshua W. Von Nonn, Seth M. Munson, Alex C. Zaideman, Steven T. Bekedam, Ann Rodman, Miguel L. Villarreal
2025, Landscape Ecology (40)
ContextCheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) is a problem across the western United States, where it outcompetes and replaces native grass species, alters habitats, and increases the risk of wildfires. Cheatgrass greens up earlier in the growing season compared to native grasses, making it classifiable with multi-temporal and multi-spectral remote sensing.ObjectivesWe mapped cheatgrass...
Monitoring Pacific walrus coastal haulouts by satellite to estimate herd abundance and distribution
Anthony S. Fischbach, Rebecca L. Taylor, David C. Douglas
2025, Wildlife Society Bulletin (49)
The Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) has a single, panmictic stock that ranges across the Bering and Chukchi Seas. However, its seasonal distribution is incompletely described, particularly in autumn when herds gather on shore, and abundance is of interest to management entities. We monitored walrus herds using satellite imagery on...
Fitness consequences of catastrophic wildfire are mitigated by behavioral responses of an iconic bird
Bryan S. Stevens, Courtney J. Conway, Shane B. Roberts, Devin K. Englestead
2025, Fire Ecology (21)
BackgroundDrought, human disturbance, and invasive species are reshaping disturbance regimes and increasing the scale, severity, and frequency of wildfire in many ecosystems around the globe, including the sagebrush steppe of western North America. Recent studies suggested greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) adhere to strong site fidelity in the aftermath...
One hundred ninety-nine dead birds: Review of the scientific basis of ecological incident reporting requirements for pesticide registrants under Fifra § 6(A)(2)
Nimish B. Vyas, Cynthia Palmer
2025, Buffalo Environmental Law Journal (31)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates pesticide use in the United States. The EPA is charged by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) with ensuring that a pesticide will not cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment. Incident reports (documentation of exposure and injury from pesticide applications)...
A systematic literature review of forecasting and predictive models of harmful algal blooms in flowing waters
Jennifer C. Murphy, Rebecca Michelle Gorney, Lisa Lucas, Jacob Aaron Zwart, Jennifer L. Graham
2025, Preprint
Occurrences of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in rivers challenge the belief that rivers are not susceptible to HABs because of their short residence times and fluctuating hydrology. Here we present a systematic literature review of predictive and forecasting models for HABs in flowing waters, including rivers, flowing in-stream reservoirs (e.g.,...
Texas coastal wetland surface elevation static survey campaign report
Brett Patton, Colt R. Sanspree, Jena A. Moon, Sierra R. Moran
2025, Report
Surface elevation data along the Texas Coast is limited, despite having some of the highest rates of relative sea-level rise in the country (Sweet et al., 2022). To narrow these knowledge and data gaps, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) established the first landscape-scale rod surface elevation table (RSET)...
Potentiometric surface maps and groundwater-level hydrographs for confined aquifers of the New Jersey Coastal Plain, 2018
Alex R. Fiore, Stephen J. Cauller, Eileen J. Brown
2025, Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5080
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), prepared potentiometric surface maps for 10 confined aquifers of the New Jersey Coastal Plain physiographic province based on water-level measurements collected during late 2018 and early 2019 from 951 wells in New Jersey and parts...
Long Term Resource Monitoring procedures—Aquatic vegetation monitoring
Danelle M. Larson, Eric Lund, Alicia M. Carhart, Seth Fopma, Stephanie Szura
2025, Techniques and Methods 2-A22
This standard operating procedure (SOP) manual describes the collection of standardized, long-term data for aquatic vegetation communities in selected study pools of the Upper Mississippi River System in the United States. The primary intent of the data collection is to assess the status and trends that aid in understanding the...
