Phosphorus sources, forms, and abundance as a function of streamflow and field conditions in a Maumee River tributary, 2016-2019
Tanja N. Williamson, Edward G. Dobrowolski, Rebecca Kreiling
2023, Journal of Environmental Quality (52) 492-507
Total phosphorus (TP), dissolved P (DP), and suspended sediment (SS) were sampled in Black Creek, Indiana, monthly during base flow and for 100 storm events during water years 2016–2019, enabling analysis of how each of these varied as a function of streamflow and field conditions at nested edge-of-field sites. Particulate...
Age-0 Silver Carp otolith microchemistry and microstructure reveal multiple early life environments and protracted spawning in the upper Mississippi River
Jesse A. Williams, Gregory W. Whitledge, Brent C. Knights, Nicholas C. Bloomfield, James T. Lamer
2023, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (43) 141-153
Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix are highly mobile and fecund planktivorous cyprinids that have invaded much of the Mississippi River and are known to alter food webs and compete with native planktivores. In 2016, for the first time, an abundance of age-0 Silver Carp (n = 12,208; 16–231 mm) were...
An assessment of fish herding techniques: Management implications for mass removal and control of silver carp
Josey Lee Ridgway, Katelyn M. Lawson, Stephen August Shier, Robin Calfee, Duane Chapman
2023, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (43) 176-188
We assessed the effectiveness of herding techniques on adult Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix in a tributary to the Missouri River. Sites (600 m) were contained using block nets and treated with one of five herding techniques: (1) a method commonly used by commercial fishers in the United States (commercial technique), (2) pulsed-DC electrofishing...
Grass carp reproduction in small tributaries of Truman Reservoir, Missouri: Implications for establishment in novel habitats
Cari-Ann Hayer, Michael F. Bayless, Cathy A. Richter, Amy E. George, Duane Chapman
2023, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (43) 154-163
Substantial work has been conducted to estimate the river length required for recruitment of invasive Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella and bigheaded carps (Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis and Silver Carp H. molitrix); however, the distance upstream and size of stream required for spawning remain...
Insects in high-elevation streams: Life in extreme environments imperiled by climate change
Jackson H. Birrell, Alisha A. Shah, Scott Hotaling, J. Joseph Giersch, Craig E. Williamson, Dean Jacobsen, H. Arthur Woods
2023, Global Change Biology (26) 6667-6684
Climate change is altering conditions in high-elevation streams worldwide, with largely unknown effects on resident communities of aquatic insects. Here, we review the challenges of climate change for high-elevation aquatic insects and how they may respond, focusing on current gaps in knowledge. Understanding current...
Efficient mammal biodiversity surveys for ecological restoration monitoring
Nicholas S. Green, Mark L. Wildhaber, Janice L. Albers, Thomas W. Pettit, Michael J. Hooper
2023, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Efficient biodiversity surveys are critical for successful restoration monitoring and management. We studied the effect of varying sampling effort on the observed species richness of surveys of small mammals (trapping transects), bats (passive acoustic detection), and medium to large mammals (trail cameras). Field studies provided mammalian biodiversity data for 4...
During Nearshore Event Experiment (DUNEX): A collaborative community field data collection effort
Mary Cialone, Nicole Elko, Jeff Lillycrop, Hilary F Stockdon, Britt Raubenheimer, Julie D. Rosati
2023, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference
The DUring Nearshore Event eXperiment (DUNEX) is an academic, federal agency, and non-government collaborative community experiment supported by and planned under the U.S. Coastal Research Program (USCRP) to study nearshore coastal processes during storms. The motivation for DUNEX is to improve understanding, numerical representation, and prediction of storm processes and...
MTAB 102, November 2022
Kyra Harvey, Jennifer L. McKay
2022, Newsletter
This Memo to All Banders (MTAB 102) was released in November 2022. Subjects in this this memo are 1. The Chiefs Chirp; 2. Alerts Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza; 3. Staff updates BBL Staff Attends IOU Meeting, Banders Without Borders Attends Euring General Assembly, BBL Expands Knowledge of WRP...
Effect of wave skewness and asymmetry on the evolution of Fire Island, New York
Muhammed Parlak, Bilal Ayhan, John C. Warner, Tarandeep S. Kalra, Ilgar Safak
2022, Conference Paper
Bedload transport of sediment by waves and currents is one of the key physical processes that affect the evolution of coasts, nearshore areas, and the engineering practices there. Wave skewness and asymmetry, both of which increase as waves shoal, result in a net bedload sediment flux over a wave cycle....
Storm and tsunami overwash sediment transport inferred from recent deposits
Bruce E. Jaffe, SeanPaul La Selle
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of 37th conference on coastal engineering
Overwash deposits from storms and tsunamis record information about sediment transport and flow that can be used to inform hazard assessments. Here we explore deposits from two extreme wave events: (1) the 2012 Hurricane Sandy, a Category 5 hurricane that is the largest storm in the Atlantic basin on historical...
Evaluating the influence of the Forestry Reclamation Approach on throughfall quantity in eastern Kentucky
Morgan Gerlitz, Carmen T. Agouridis, Tanja N. Williamson, Chris D. Barton
2022, Reclamation Sciences (1) 13-24
The Appalachian Region is a rich forested ecosystem that has been impacted by coal mining. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 was enacted to resolve many of the environmental problems caused by surface mining. Reclamation practices resulted in excessive soil compaction and use of nonnative grasses and...
Salinification of coastal wetlands and freshwater management to support resilience
Beth Middleton, Jere Boudell
2022, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability (9)
Climates are rapidly changing in wetland ecosystems around the world and historical land-use change is not always given enough consideration in climate adaptation discussions. Historical changes to hydrology and other key environments can exacerbate vegetation stress; e.g., recent drought and flood episodes are likely more extreme because of climate change....
Density-dependent processes and population dynamics of native sculpin in a mountain river
Casey A. Pennock, Gary P. Thiede, Phaedra E. Budy
2022, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (32) 593-605
Understanding the processes governing population dynamics is important for effective conservation and environmental management. Disentangling the relative role of density-dependent versus density-independent processes on population dynamics is often made difficult by the inability to control for abiotic or biotic factors, but long-term datasets are...
Extending body condition scoring beyond measurable rump fat to estimate full range of nutritional condition for moose
Rebecca L. Levine, Rachel A. Smiley, Brett R. Jesmer, Brendan A. Oates, Jacob R. Goheen, Thomas R. Stephenson, Matthew Kauffman, Gary L. Fralick, Kevin L. Monteith
2022, Alces (58) 91-99
Moose (Alces alces) populations along the southern extent of their range are largely declining, and there is growing evidence that nutritional condition — which influences several vital rates – is a contributing factor. Moose body condition can presently be estimated only when there is measurable subcutaneous rump fat, which equates...
Fisheries research and monitoring activities of the Lake Erie Biological Station, 2022
Mark Richard Dufour, Corbin David Hilling, Kevin R. Keretz, Richard Kraus, Richard Cole Oldham, James Roberts, Joseph Schmitt
2022, Report
This report presents biomass-based summaries of fish communities in western Lake Erie derived from USGS bottom trawl surveys conducted from 2013 to 2022 in June and September. The survey design compliments the August ODNR- OMNDMNRF effort by reinforcing stock assessments with more robust data. Analyses herein evaluated trends in total...
Sea otters in a California estuary: Detecting temporal and spatial dynamics with volunteer monitoring
Ron Eby, Susan Rosso, John Copriviza, Robert Scoles, Yohn Gideon, Joseph Mancino, Karl A. Mayer, Julie L. Yee, Kerstin Wasson
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Volunteer monitoring can support conservation of imperiled wildlife, by providing higher resolution data in space and time than those available from professional scientists. However, concerns have been raised that data collected by amateurs are inaccurate or inconsistent and thus do not allow for robust detection of spatial or temporal trends....
Regional water table in the Antelope Valley and Fremont Valley groundwater basins, Southwestern Mojave Desert, California, March 2014
Meghan C. Dick, Nicholas F. Teague
2022, Scientific Investigations Map 3420
Water levels were measured during March 2014 in wells in the Antelope Valley and Fremont Valley groundwater basins, southwestern Mojave Desert, California, in cooperation with the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water District, Palmdale Water District, and Littlerock Creek Irrigation District. A regional water-table map was constructed. Historical water-level data from the...
VIMTS: Variational-based Imputation for Multi-modal Time Series
Xiaowei Jia, Jennifer Burlingame Hoyle Fair, Benjamin Letcher
2022, Conference Paper, IEEE International Conference on Big Data Proceedings
Multi-modal time series data in real applications often contain data of different dimensionalities, e.g., high-dimensional modality such as image data series, and low-dimensional univariate time series. Multi-modal time series data with missing high-dimensional modal values are ubiquitous in real-world classification and regression applications. To accurately...
New indicators of ecological resilience and invasion resistance to support prioritization and management in the sagebrush biome, United States
Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessi L. Brown, John B. Bradford, David I. Board, Steven B. Campbell, Karen J. Clause, Brice Hanberry, Daniel Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Alexandra K. Urza
2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (10)
Ecosystem transformations to altered or novel ecological states are accelerating across the globe. Indicators of ecological resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasion can aid in assessing risks and prioritizing areas for conservation and restoration. The sagebrush biome encompasses parts of 11 western states and is experiencing rapid transformations...
Geologic map of the Silver Zone Pass quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada
David M. Miller, Linda L. Berg
2022, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 192
This 1:24,000-scale geologic map of the Silver Zone Pass quadrangle lies in the southern Toano Range in Elko County, Nevada. Metamorphic and sedimentary strata of the quadrangle range from Neoproterozoic to Permian in age. Important intrusions include the Late Jurassic (ca. 159 Ma) Silver Zone Pass pluton and Cretaceous Toano...
Hydrogen isotope behavior during rhyolite glass hydration under hydrothermal conditions
Michael R. Hudak, Ilya N. Bindeman, James M. Watkins, Jacob B. Lowenstern
2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (337) 33-48
The diffusion of molecular water (H2Om) from the environment into volcanic glass can hydrate the glass up to several wt% at low temperature over long timescales. During this process, the water imprints its hydrogen isotope composition (δDH2O) to the glass (δDgl) offset by a glass-H2O fractionation factor (ΔDgl-H2O = δDgl – δDH2O) which is approximately −33‰ at Earth...
Characterization of a small population of the orangeblack Hawaiian damselfly (Megalagrion xanthomelas) in anchialine pools at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park, Hawai‘i Island
Robert W. Peck, Sarah Nash
2022, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society (54) 93-109
The endangered orangeblack Hawaiian damselfly (Megalagrion xanthomelas) is a lowland inhabitant of freshwater and brackish wetland environments. Formerly one of the most widely distributed native insects in Hawai‘i, it now appears restricted to small populations on the islands of O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Maui, and Hawai‘i. On Hawai‘i island, anchialine pools provide...
Breaking up is hard to do: Magmatism during oceanic arc breakup, subduction reversal, and cessation
James F. Gill, Erin Todd, Kaj Hoernle, Folkmar Hauff, Alison Ann Price, Matthew G. Jackson
2022, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (23)
The formerly continuous Vitiaz Arc broke into its Vanuatu and Fijian portions during a reversal of subduction polarity in the Miocene. Basaltic volcanism in Fiji that accompanied the breakup ranged from shoshonitic to low-K and boninitic with increasing distance from the broken edge of the arc that, presumably, marks the...
Inferring hatchery effects using spawner-recruit data: Comment on Courter et al. (2022)
Matthew Richard Falcy
2022, Canadian Journal Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (80) 420-421
No abstract available....
The source, fate, and transport of arsenic in the Yellowstone hydrothermal system - An overview
R. Blaine McCleskey, D. Kirk Nordstrom, Shaul Hurwitz, Daniel R. Colman, David A. Roth, Madeline Oxner Johnson, Eric S. Boyd
2022, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (432)
The Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field (YPVF) contains >10,000 thermal features including hot springs, pools, geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles with diverse chemical compositions. Arsenic (As) concentrations in YPVF thermal waters typically range from 0.005 to 4 mg/L, but an As concentration of 17 mg/L has been reported. Arsenic data from thermal springs,...
