Integrated conceptual ecological model and habitat indices for the southwest Florida coastal wetlands
G. Lynn Wingard, J. L. Lorenz
2014, Ecological Indicators (44) 92-107
The coastal wetlands of southwest Florida that extend from Charlotte Harbor south to Cape Sable, contain more than 60,000 ha of mangroves and 22,177 ha of salt marsh. These coastal wetlands form a transition zone between the freshwater and marine environments of the South Florida Coastal Marine Ecosystem (SFCME). The coastal wetlands...
Disease and community structure: white-nose syndrome alters spatial and temporal niche partitioning in sympatric bat species
David S. Jachowski, Christopher A. Dobony, Laci S. Coleman, W. Mark Ford, Eric R. Britzke, Jane L. Rodrigue
2014, Diversity and Distributions (20) 1002-1015
AimEmerging infectious diseases present a major perturbation with apparent direct effects such as reduced population density, extirpation and/or extinction. Comparatively less is known about the potential indirect effects of disease that likely alter community structure and larger ecosystem function. Since 2006, white-nose syndrome (WNS) has resulted in the loss of...
Recent population size, trends, and limiting factors for the double-crested Cormorant in Western North America
Jessica Y. Adkins, Daniel D. Roby, Donald E. Lyons, Karen N. Courtot, Ken Collis, Harry R. Carter, W. David Shuford, Phillip J. Capitolo
2014, Journal of Wildlife Management (78) 1131-1142
The status of the double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) in western North America was last evaluated during 1987–2003. In the interim, concern has grown over the potential impact of predation by double-crested cormorants on juvenile salmonids (Oncorhynchusspp.), particularly in the Columbia Basin and along the Pacific coast where some salmonids are...
Modification of the Quaternary stratigraphic framework of the inner-continental shelf by Holocene marine transgression: An example offshore of Fire Island, New York
William C. Schwab, Wayne E. Baldwin, Jane F. Denny, Cheryl J. Hapke, Paul T. Gayes, Jeffrey H. List, John C. Warner
2014, Marine Geology (355) 346-360
The inner-continental shelf off Fire Island, New York was mapped in 2011 using interferometric sonar and high-resolution chirp seismic-reflection systems. The area mapped is approximately 50 km long by 8 km wide, extending from Moriches Inlet to Fire Island Inlet in water depths ranging from 8 to 32 m. The morphology of this...
Evaluation of a regional monitoring program's statistical power to detect temporal trends in forest health indicators
Stephanie J. Perles, Tyler Wagner, Brian J. Irwin, Douglas R. Manning, Kristina K. Callahan, Matthew R. Marshall
2014, Environmental Management (54) 641-655
Forests are socioeconomically and ecologically important ecosystems that are exposed to a variety of natural and anthropogenic stressors. As such, monitoring forest condition and detecting temporal changes therein remain critical to sound public and private forestland management. The National Parks Service’s Vital Signs monitoring program collects information on many...
Analysis of regional scale risk to whirling disease in populations of Colorado and Rio Grande cutthroat trout using Bayesian belief network model
Kimberley Kolb Ayre, Colleen A. Caldwell, Jonah Stinson, Wayne G. Landis
2014, Risk Analysis (34) 1589-1605
Introduction and spread of the parasite Myxobolus cerebralis, the causative agent of whirling disease, has contributed to the collapse of wild trout populations throughout the intermountain west. Of concern is the risk the disease may have on conservation and recovery of native cutthroat trout. We employed a Bayesian belief network to...
Structure and tectonics of the northwestern United States from EarthScope USArray magnetotelluric data
Paul A. Bedrosian, Daniel W. Feucht
2014, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (402) 275-289
The magnetotelluric component of the EarthScope USArray program has covered over 35% of the continental United States. Resistivity tomography models derived from these data image lithospheric structure and provide constraints on the distribution of fluids and melt within the lithosphere. We present a three-dimensional resistivity model of the northwestern United...
230Th/U ages Supporting Hanford Site‐Wide Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis
James B. Paces
2014, Report
This product represents a USGS Administrative Report that discusses samples and methods used to conduct uranium-series isotope analyses and resulting ages and initial 234U/238U activity ratios of pedogenic cements developed in several different surfaces in the Hanford area middle to late Pleistocene. Samples were collected and dated to provide calibration...
Manganese: it turns iron into steel (and does so much more)
William F. Cannon
2014, Fact Sheet 2014-3087
Manganese is a common ferrous metal with atomic weight of 25 and the chemical symbol Mn. It constitutes roughly 0.1 percent of the Earth’s crust, making it the 12th most abundant element. Its early uses were limited largely to pigments and oxidants in chemical processes and experiments, but the significance...
Hydroclimate of the Spring Mountains and Sheep Range, Clark County, Nevada
Michael T. Moreo, Gabriel B. Senay, Alan L. Flint, Nancy A. Damar, Randell J. Laczniak, James Hurja
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5142
Precipitation, potential evapotranspiration, and actual evapotranspiration often are used to characterize the hydroclimate of a region. Quantification of these parameters in mountainous terrains is difficult because limited access often hampers the collection of representative ground data. To fulfill a need to characterize ecological zones in the Spring Mountains and Sheep...
Assessment of ethylene dibromide, dibromochloropropane, other volatile organic compounds, radium isotopes, radon, and inorganic compounds in groundwater and spring water from the Crouch Branch and McQueen Branch aquifers near McBee, South Carolina, 2010-2012
James Landmeyer, Bruce G. Campbell
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5114
Public-supply wells near the rural town of McBee, in southwestern Chesterfield County, South Carolina, have provided potable water to more than 35,000 residents throughout Chesterfield County since the early 1990s. Groundwater samples collected between 2002 and 2008 in the McBee area by South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control...
Hydrogeology and hydrology of the Punta Cabullones wetland area, Ponce, southern Puerto Rico, 2007-08
Jesús Rodríguez-Martínez, Luis R. Soler-Lopez
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5102
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Municipio Autónomo de Ponce and the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, conducted a study of the hydrogeology and hydrology of the Punta Cabullones area in Ponce, southern Puerto Rico. (Punta Cabullones is also referred to as Punta Cabullón.) The...
Two hundred years of magma transport and storage at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i, 1790-2008
Thomas L. Wright, Fred W. Klein
2014, Professional Paper 1806
This publication summarizes the evolution of the internal plumbing of Kīlauea Volcano on the Island of Hawaiʻi from the first documented eruption in 1790 to the explosive eruption of March 2008 in Halemaʻumaʻu Crater. For the period before the founding of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in 1912, we rely on...
Streamflow statistics for development of water rights claims for the Jarbidge Wild and Scenic River, Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness, Idaho, 2013-14: a supplement to Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5212
Molly S. Wood
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5143
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), estimated streamflow statistics for stream segments designated “Wild,” “Scenic,” or “Recreational” under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System in the Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness in southwestern Idaho. The streamflow statistics were used by the BLM to...
Geologic framework of thermal springs, Black Canyon, Nevada and Arizona
L. Sue Beard, Zachary W. Anderson, Tracey J. Felger, Gustav B. Seixas
2014, Open-File Report 2013-1267-B
Thermal springs in Black Canyon of the Colorado River, downstream of Hoover Dam, are important recreational, ecological, and scenic features of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. This report presents the results from a U.S. Geological Survey study of the geologic framework of the springs. The study was conducted in...
Preliminary geologic map of Black Canyon and surrounding region, Nevada and Arizona
Tracey J. Felger, L. Sue Beard, Zachary W. Anderson, Robert J. Fleck, Joseph L. Wooden, Gustav B. Seixas
2014, Open-File Report 2013-1267-A
Thermal springs in Black Canyon of the Colorado River, downstream of Hoover Dam, are important recreational, ecological, and scenic features of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. This report presents the results from a U.S. Geological Survey study of the geologic framework of the springs. The study was conducted in...
Spring migration ecology of the mid-continent sandhill crane population with an emphasis on use of the Central Platte River Valley, Nebraska
Gary L. Krapu, David A. Brandt, Paul J. Kinzel, Aaron T. Pearse
2014, Wildlife Monographs (189) 1-41
We conducted a 10-year study (1998–2007) of the Mid-Continent Population (MCP) of sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) to identify spring-migration corridors, locations of major stopovers, and migration chronology by crane breeding affiliation (western Alaska–Siberia [WA–S], northern Canada–Nunavut [NC–N], west-central Canada–Alaska [WC–A], and east-central Canada–Minnesota [EC–M]). In the Central Platte River Valley...
Sediment accretion in tidal freshwater forests and oligohaline marshes of the Waccamaw and Savannah Rivers, USA
Scott H. Ensign, Cliff R. Hupp, Gregory B. Noe, Ken W. Krauss, Camille L. Stagg
2014, Estuaries and Coasts (37) 1107-1119
Sediment accretion was measured at four sites in varying stages of forest-to-marsh succession along a fresh-to-oligohaline gradient on the Waccamaw River and its tributary Turkey Creek (Coastal Plain watersheds, South Carolina) and the Savannah River (Piedmont watershed, South Carolina and Georgia). Sites included tidal freshwater forests, moderately salt-impacted forests at...
Quality of groundwater in the Denver Basin aquifer system, Colorado, 2003-5
MaryLynn Musgrove, Jennifer A. Beck, Suzanne S. Paschke, Nancy J. Bauch, Shana L. Mashburn
2014, Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5051
Groundwater resources from alluvial and bedrock aquifers of the Denver Basin are critical for municipal, domestic, and agricultural uses in Colorado along the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains. Rapid and widespread urban development, primarily along the western boundary of the Denver Basin, has approximately doubled the population since about...
Detailed north-south cross section showing environments of deposition, organic richness, and thermal maturities of lower Tertiary rocks in the Uinta Basin, Utah
Ronald C. Johnson
2014, Scientific Investigations Map 3304
The Uinta Basin of northeast Utah has produced large amounts of hydrocarbons from lower Tertiary strata since the 1960s. Recent advances in drilling technologies, in particular the development of efficient methods to drill and hydraulically fracture horizontal wells, has spurred renewed interest in producing hydrocarbons from unconventional low-permeability dolomite and...
California State Waters Map Series: Offshore of Coal Oil Point, California
Samuel Y. Johnson, Peter Dartnell, Guy R. Cochrane, Nadine E. Golden, Eleyne L. Phillips, Andrew C. Ritchie, Rikk G. Kvitek, Bryan E. Dieter, James E. Conrad, T.D. Lorenson, Lisa M. Krigsman, H. Gary Greene, Charles A. Endris, Gordon G. Seitz, David P. Finlayson, Ray W. Sliter, Florence L. Wong, Mercedes D. Erdey, Carlos I. Gutierrez, Ira Leifer, Mary M. Yoklavich, Amy E. Draut, Patrick E. Hart, Frances D. Hostettler, Kenneth E. Peters, Keith A. Kvenvolden, Robert J. Rosenbauer, Grace Fong
Samuel Y. Johnson, Susan A. Cochran, editor(s)
2014, Scientific Investigations Map 3302
In 2007, the California Ocean Protection Council initiated the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP), designed to create a comprehensive seafloor map of high-resolution bathymetry, marine benthic habitats, and geology within the 3-nautical-mile limit of California’s State Waters. The CSMP approach is to create highly detailed seafloor maps through collection, integration,...
Karst in the United States: A digital map compilation and database
David J. Weary, Daniel H. Doctor
2014, Open-File Report 2014-1156
This report describes new digital maps delineating areas of the United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, having karst or the potential for development of karst and pseudokarst. These maps show areas underlain by soluble rocks and also by volcanic rocks, sedimentary deposits, and permafrost that have...
Preliminary simulation of chloride transport in the Equus Beds aquifer and simulated effects of well pumping and artificial recharge on groundwater flow and chloride transport near the city of Wichita, Kansas, 1990 through 2008
Brian J. Klager, Brian P. Kelly, Andrew C. Ziegler
2014, Open-File Report 2014-1162
The Equus Beds aquifer in south-central Kansas is a primary water-supply source for the city of Wichita. Water-level declines because of groundwater pumping for municipal and irrigation needs as well as sporadic drought conditions have caused concern about the adequacy of the Equus Beds aquifer as a future water supply...
Powder X-ray diffraction laboratory, Reston, Virginia
Nadine M. Piatak, Frank T. Dulong, John C. Jackson, Helen W. Folger
2014, Fact Sheet 2014-3063
The powder x-ray diffraction (XRD) laboratory is managed jointly by the Eastern Mineral and Environmental Resources and Eastern Energy Resources Science Centers. Laboratory scientists collaborate on a wide variety of research problems involving other U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) science centers and government agencies, universities, and industry. Capabilities include identification and...
Refining the link between the Holocene development of the Mississippi River Delta and the geologic evolution of Cat Island, MS: implications for delta-associated barrier islands
Jennifer L. Miselis, Noreen A. Buster, Jack L. Kindinger
2014, Marine Geology (355) 274-290
The geologic evolution of barrier islands is profoundly influenced by the nature of the deposits underlying them. Many researchers have speculated on the origin and evolution of Cat Island in Mississippi, but uncertainty remains about whether or not the island is underlain completely or in part by deposits associated with...
