Diverse tsunamigenesis triggered by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption
Patrick Lynett, Maile McCann, Zili Zhou, Willington Renteria, Jose Borrero, Dougal Greer, ’Ofa Fa’anunu, Cyprien Bosserelle, Bruce E. Jaffe, SeanPaul La Selle, Andrew C. Ritchie, Alexander G. Snyder, Brandon Nasr, Jaqueline Bott, Nicholas A Graehl, Costas Synolakis, Behzad Ebrahimi, Ezgi Cinar
2022, Nature (609) 728-733
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New projections of 21st century climate and hydrology for Alaska and Hawaiʻi
Naoki Mizukami, Andrew J. Newman, Jeremy S. Littell, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Andrew W. Wood, Ethan D. Gutmann, Joseph J. Hamman, Diana R. Gergel, Bart Nijssen, Martyn . Clark, Jeffrey R. Arnold
2022, Climate Services (27)
In the United States, high-resolution, century-long, hydroclimate projection datasets have been developed for water resources planning, focusing on the contiguous United States (CONUS) domain. However, there are few statewide hydroclimate projection datasets available for Alaska and Hawaiʻi. The limited information on...
Temperature variations in the northern Gulf of Alaska across synoptic to century-long time scales
Seth L. Danielson, Tyler D. Hennon, Daniel Monson, Robert M. Suryan, Rob W. Cambell, Steven J. Baird, Kristine Holderied, Thomas J. Weingartner
2022, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography (203)
Surface and subsurface moored buoy, ship-based, remotely sensed, and reanalysis datasets are used to investigate thermal variability of northern Gulf of Alaska (NGA) nearshore, coastal, and offshore waters over synoptic to century-long time scales. NGA sea surface temperature (SST) showed a...
Soil carbon consequences of historic hydrologic impairment and recent restoration in coastal wetlands
Meagan J. Eagle, Kevin D. Kroeger, Amanda C. Spivak, Faming Wang, Jianwu Tang, Omar I. Abdul-Aziz, Khandker S. Ishtiaq, Jennifer A. O’Keefe Suttles, Adrian G. Mann
2022, Science of the Total Environment (848)
Coastal wetlands provide key ecosystem services, including substantial long-term storage of atmospheric CO2 in soil organic carbon pools. This accumulation of soil organic matter is a vital component of elevation gain in coastal wetlands responding to sea-level rise. Anthropogenic activities that alter coastal wetland function through disruption of tidal exchange...
Understanding impacts of sea-level rise and land management on critical coastal marsh habitat
Camille Stagg
2022, Report
Coastal wetlands in the Louisiana Mississippi River Deltaic Plain (MRDP) experience some of the highest rates of relative sea-level rise (SLR) in the world, leading to elevated surface water salinity and prolonged flooding. Elevated salinity causes a shift toward more salt-tolerant vegetation communities, associated with changes in ecosystem function and...
Microbial community response to a bioaugmentation test to degrade trichloroethylene in a fractured rock aquifer, Trenton, N.J
Jennifer C. Underwood, Denise M. Akob, Michelle M. Lorah, Thomas E. Imbrigiotta, Ronald W. Harvey, Claire R. Tiedeman
2022, Microbial Ecology (98)
Bioaugmentation is a promising strategy for enhancing trichloroethylene (TCE) degradation in fractured rock. However, slow or incomplete biodegradation can lead to stalling at degradation byproducts such as 1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) and vinyl chloride (VC). Over the course of 7 years, we examined the response of groundwater microbial populations in a...
Bedrock depth influences spatial patterns of summer baseflow, temperature and flow disconnection for mountainous headwater streams
Martin A. Briggs, Phillip J. Goodling, Zachary Johnson, Karli M. Rogers, Nathaniel P. Hitt, Jennifer H. Fair, Craig D. Snyder
2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (26) 3989-4011
In mountain headwater streams, the quality and resilience of summer cold-water habitat is generally regulated by stream discharge, longitudinal stream channel connectivity and groundwater exchange. These critical hydrologic processes are thought to be influenced by the stream corridor bedrock contact depth (sediment thickness), a parameter often inferred from sparse hillslope...
Status of water-level altitudes and long-term water-level changes in the Chicot and Evangeline (undifferentiated) and Jasper aquifers, greater Houston area, Texas, 2021
Christopher L. Braun, Jason K. Ramage
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5065
Since the early 1900s, groundwater withdrawn from the primary aquifers that compose the Gulf Coast aquifer system—the Chicot and Evangeline (undifferentiated) and Jasper aquifers—has been the primary source of water in the greater Houston area, Texas. This report, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Harris-Galveston Subsidence...
Treatment of the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers as a single hydrogeologic unit and use of geostatistical interpolation methods to develop gridded surfaces of water-level altitudes and water-level changes in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers (undifferentiated) and Jasper aquifer, greater Houston area, Texas, 2021
Jason K. Ramage, Christopher L. Braun, John H. Ellis
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5064
The greater Houston area of Texas includes approximately 11,000 square miles and encompasses all or part of 11 counties (Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, Chambers, Grimes, Liberty, San Jacinto, Walker, and Waller). From the early 1900s until the mid-1970s, groundwater withdrawn from the three primary aquifers that compose the...
Low levels of hybridization between sympatric cold-water-adapted Arctic cod and Polar cod in the Beaufort Sea confirm genetic distinctiveness
Robert E. Wilson, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, P. Lavretsky, A. Majewski, E. Arnason, K. Halldorsdottir, A.W. Einarsson, K. Wedemeyr, Sandra L. Talbot
2022, Arctic Science (8) 1082-1093
As marine ecosystems respond to climate change and other stressors, it is necessary to evaluate current and past hybridization events to gain insight on the outcomes and drivers of such events. Ancestral introgression within the gadids has been suggested to allow cod to inhabit a variety of habitats. Little attention...
Distribution and trends of endemic Hawaiian waterbirds
Eben H. Paxton, Kevin W. Brinck, Adonia Henry, Afsheen Siddiqi, Rachel A. Rounds, Jennifer Chutz
2022, Waterbirds (44) 425-437
Four endemic species of wetland-dependent waterbirds occur on the main Hawaiian Islands, all of which have experienced sharp population declines and are listed as endangered species. Twice per year, state-wide surveys are conducted to count waterbirds, but these surveys are evaluated only infrequently. We used a state-space approach...
Freshwater unionid mussels threatened by predation of Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus)
Kyle Clark, Deborah D. Iwanowicz, Luke R. Iwanowicz, Sara Mueller, Joshua Wisor, Casey Bradshaw-Wilson, W. Bane Schill, Jay R. Stauffer Jr., Elizabeth W. Boyer
2022, Scientific Reports (12)
Indigenous freshwater mussels (Unionidae) are integral to riverine ecosystems, playing a pivotal role in aquatic food webs and providing ecological services. With populations on the decline worldwide, freshwater mussels are of conservation concern. In this study, we explore the propensity of the invasive Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) fish to prey upon indigenous...
Sediment and nutrient retention on a reconnected floodplain of an Upper Mississippi River tributary, 2013–2018
Lynn A. Bartsch, Rebecca M. Kreiling, Lance R. Gruhn, Jessica D. Garrett, William B. Richardson, Greg M. Nalley
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5030
The connection of rivers with their floodplains has been greatly reduced in agricultural drainage basins, especially in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. The restriction of the Mississippi River from its floodplain has reduced the sediment trapping and nutrient deposition capabilities of the floodplain, exacerbating water quality problems in the river...
Modeled streamflow response to scenarios of Tundra Lake water withdrawal and seasonal climate extremes, Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska
Anne Gädeke, Christopher Arp, Anna K. Liljedahl, Ronald P. Daanen, Lei Cai, Vladimir Alexeev, Benjamin Jones, Mark S. Wipfli, Jörg Schulla
2022, Water Resources Research (58)
On the Arctic Coastal Plain (ACP) in Northern Alaska (USA), permafrost and abundant surface-water storage define watershed hydrological processes, which are increasingly subject to changes both in climate and land-use. In the last decades, the ACP landscape experienced extreme climate events and increased lake water withdrawal (LWW) for construction of...
Groundwater resources of the Harney Basin, southeastern Oregon
Stephen B. Gingerich, C. Amanda Garcia, Henry M. Johnson
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3052
In response to increasing groundwater demand and declining groundwater levels in the Harney Basin of southeastern Oregon, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Oregon Water Resources Department conducted a cooperative groundwater-availability study during 2016–22. This Fact Sheet summarizes the results of this study. Full details of the study are provided...
Evaluating hydrologic region assignment techniques for ungaged basins in Alaska, USA
Theodore B. Barnhart, William H. Farmer, John C. Hammond, Graham A. Sexstone, Janet H. Curran, Joshua C. Koch, Jessica M. Driscoll
2022, River Research and Applications (38) 1569-1584
Building continental-scale hydrologic models in data-sparse regions requires an understanding of spatial variation in hydrologic processes. Extending these models to ungaged locations requires techniques to group ungaged locations with gaged ones to make process importance and model parameter transfer decisions to ungaged locations. This analysis (1) tested...
Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win–win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control
Skylar R. Hopkins, Kevin D. Lafferty, Chelsea L. Wood, Sarah H Olson, Julia C Buck, Giulio A. De Leo, Kathryn Fiorella, Johanna Fornberg, Andres Garchitorena, Isabel J. Jones, Armand Kuris, Laura H Kwong, Christopher LeBoa, Ariel Elizabeth Leon, Andrea Lund, Andrew J MacDonald, Daniel Metz, Nicole Nova, Alison J. Peel, Justin V. Remais, Tara E. Stewart Merrill, Maya Wilson, Matthew Bonds, Andrew Dobson, David Lopez-Carr, Meghan Howard, Lisa Mandle, Susanne H. Sokolow
2022, The Lancet Planetary Health (6) e694-e705
As sustainable development practitioners have worked to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all” and “conserve life on land and below water”, what progress has been made with win–win interventions that reduce human infectious disease burdens while advancing conservation goals? Using...
Juvenile salmon habitat use drives variation in growth and highlights vulnerability to river fragmentation
Suresh Sethi, Michael P. Carey, Jonathon Gerken, Bradley P. Harris, Nathan Wolf, Curry Cunningham, Felipe Restrepo, Josh Ashline
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Widespread stream network fragmentation from dams and culverts has altered habitat connectivity in river ecosystems and presents an acute threat to migratory fish. To support watershed management for an iconic migratory fish group, we assessed juvenile salmon growth outcomes across habitat use strategies and characterized how these life histories may...
Longitudinal water-temperature profiles in Mill Creek, Mason County, Washington
Andrew S. Gendaszek, Richard W. Sheibley, Erica Marbet, Joe Puhn, Catherine Seguin
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5063
In streams supporting Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) within the southern Puget Lowland, high water temperatures during late summer are a primary water-quality concern. The metabolic rates of fish and other ectothermic (in other words, cold-blooded) species are regulated by water temperature; salmon and other cold-water fish have specific thermal...
Element concentrations and grain size of sediment from the Similkameen River above Enloe Dam (Enloe Reservoir) near Oroville, Washington, 2019
Stephen E. Cox, Christopher A. Curran, Andrew R. Spanjer, Chad C. Opatz, Renee K. Takesue, J. Lynn Bell
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5073
In 2019, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a reconnaissance survey of concentrations of 41 trace elements present in bed sediment in the reservoir on the Similkameen River upstream from Enloe Dam, near Oroville, Washington. The Similkameen River drains a watershed containing highly mineralized geologic deposits with current (2019) and...
Documenting the multiple facets of a subsiding landscape from coastal cities and wetlands to the continental shelf
James G. Flocks, Eileen McGraw, John Barras, Julie Bernier, Mike Bradley, Devin L. Galloway, James Landmeyer, W. Scott McBride, Christopher Smith, Kathryn E.L. Smith, Christopher Swarzenski, Lauren T. Toth
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1064
Land subsidence is a settling, sinking, or collapse of the land surface. In the southeastern United States, subsidence is frequently observed as sinkhole collapse in karst environments, wetland degradation and loss in coastal and other low-lying areas, and inundation of coastal urban communities. Human activities such as fluid extraction, mining,...
Sclerochronological records of environmental variability and bivalve growth in the Pacific Arctic
David J. Reynolds, Vanessa R. von Biela, Kenneth H. Dunton, David C. Douglas, Bryan A. Black
2022, Progress in Oceanography (206)
The Pacific Arctic region has experienced, and is projected to continue experiencing, rapid climate change. Large uncertainties exist in our understanding of the impact these physical changes have on the region’s ecology. This is, in part, due to the lack of long-term...
The 2018 eruption of Mount Veniaminof, Alaska
Christopher F. Waythomas, Hannah R. Dietterich, Gabrielle Tepp, Taryn M. Lopez, Matthew W. Loewen
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5075
The 2018 eruption of Mount Veniaminof occurred from September 3–4 to December 27, lasting about 114 days. This report summarizes the types of volcanic unrest that accompanied the eruption and provides a chronology of events and observations. Information about the 2018 eruption was derived from geophysical instrumentation on or near...
Physics-guided graph meta learning for predicting water temperature and streamflow in stream networks
Shengyu Chen, Jacob Aaron Zwart, Xiaowei Jia
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD conference on knowledge discovery and data mining
This paper proposes a graph-based meta learning approach to separately predict water quantity and quality variables for river segments in stream networks. Given the heterogeneous water dynamic patterns in large-scale basins, we introduce an additional meta-learning condition based on physical characteristics of stream segments, which allows learning different sets of...
Floodplains and climate change
Annika Keeley, Shruti Khanna, Nicole Kwan, Bryan G. Matthias, Catarina Pien, Marissa L. Wulff
Samuel M. Bashevkin, Larry R. Brown, Eva Bush, Gonzalo Castillo, Denise Colombano, Rosemary Hartman, Bruce Herbold, Shruti Khanna, Annika Keeley, Nicole Kwan, Peggy W. Lehman, Brian Mahardja, Timothy D. Malinich, Ryan McKenzie, Bryan G. Matthias, Catarina Pien, Marissa L. Wulff, editor(s)
2022, IEP Technical Report 99-4
Floodplains are landscape features that are periodically inundated by water from adjacent rivers (Opperman et al. 2010). Ecologically, functional floodplains are characterized by three primary elements: connectivity, flow regime, and spatial scale. Water quantity flowing over floodplains can vary greatly. Based on a flood’s effects on the floodplain, three flood...
