Field application of carbon dioxide as a behavioral control method for invasive red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) in southeastern Michigan water retention ponds
Justin Smerud, Jose Rivera, Todd Johnson, John Tix, Kim T. Fredricks, Matthew Barbour, Seth Herbst, Sara Thomas, Lucas Nathan, Brian Roth, Kelley Smith, Ann Allert, Jim Stoeckel, Aaron R. Cupp
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1105
This study evaluated carbon dioxide (CO2) injected into water as a possible behavioral stimulant to enhance capture and removal of invasive red swamp crayfish (RSC, Procambarus clarkii [Girard, 1852]) from a retention pond in southeastern Michigan. Objectives of this study were (1) to determine if target CO2 concentrations were attainable...
State of the Regional Preserve System in western San Diego County
Kristine L. Preston, Emily E. Perkins, Christopher W. Brown, Sarah Joelle McCutcheon, Annabelle E Bernabe, Emilie Luciani, Barbara E. Kus, Susan Wynn
2022, Report
No abstract available....
Assessment of significant sand resources in Federal and California State Waters of the San Francisco, Oceanside, and Silver Strand littoral cell study areas along the continental shelf of California
Jonathan A. Warrick, James E. Conrad, Antoinette Papesh, Tom Lorenson, Ray Sliter
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1095
Executive SummaryThe Sand Resources Project was established through collaborative agreements between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) with the purpose of evaluating sand and gravel resources in Federal and California State Waters for potential use in...
Biofouling of a unionid mussel by dreissenid mussels in nearshore zones of the Great Lakes
James H. Larson, Sean Bailey, Mary Anne Evans
2022, Ecology and Evolution (12)
In North America, native unionid mussels are imperiled due to factors such as habitat degradation, pollution, and invasive species. One of the most substantial threats is that posed by dreissenid mussels, which are invasive mussels that attach to hard substrates including unionid shells and can restrict movement and feeding of...
Compilation of existing data for sand resource studies in Federal and California State Waters of the San Francisco, Oceanside, and Silver Strand littoral cell study areas along the continental shelf of California—Strategy for field studies and sand resource assessment
Jonathan A. Warrick, James E. Conrad, Antoinette Papesh, Tom Lorenson, Ray Sliter
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1094
Executive SummaryThe Sand Resources Project was established through collaborative agreements between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) with the purpose of evaluating sand and gravel resources in Federal and California State Waters for potential use in...
Landsat Collection 2 Level-3 Burned Area science product
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3083
Accurate and complete data on fire locations and burned areas are needed to quantify trends and patterns of fire occurrence, characterize drivers of fire, project future fire pattern behavior, and help with assessments of fire effects on natural and social systems. The Landsat Collection 2 Level-3 Burned Area science product...
Landsat Collection 2 Level-3 Dynamic Surface Water Extent science product
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3084
The Landsat Collection 2 Level-3 Dynamic Surface Water Extent science product provides raster data that represent surface water inundation per pixel in Landsat 4–9 imagery. The Collection 2 Dynamic Surface Water Extent science product contains six acquisition-based raster products relating to surface water. Surface water extent is modulated by weather...
Water-quality trends in the Delaware River Basin calculated using multisource data and two methods for trend periods ending in 2018
Megan E. Shoda, Jennifer C. Murphy
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5097
Many organizations in the Delaware River Basin (DRB) monitor surface-water quality for regulatory, scientific, and decision-making purposes. In support of these purposes, over 260,000 water-quality records provided by 8 different organizations were compiled, screened, and used to generate water-quality trends in the DRB. These trends, for periods of record that...
The Seamless Integrated Geologic Mapping (SIGMa) extension to the Geologic Map Schema (GeMS)
Kenzie J. Turner, Jeremiah B. Workman, Joseph Colgan, Amy K. Gilmer, Margaret E. Berry, Samuel Johnstone, Kathleen F. Warrell, Marieke Dechesne, D. Paco VanSistine, Ren A. Thompson, Adam M. Hudson, Kristine L. Zellman, Donald S. Sweetkind, Chester A. Ruleman
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5115
Geologic maps are the fundamental building blocks of surface and subsurface three-dimensional geologic framework models of the Earth’s crust. However, as the production and availability of geologic map databases continues to increase, inconsistent data models and the lack of synthesized, national geologic map data at scales appropriate for informed decision...
Flood-inundation maps for Schoharie Creek in North Blenheim, New York
Elizabeth A. Nystrom
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5119
Digital flood-inundation maps for a 2.4-mile reach of the Schoharie Creek in North Blenheim, New York, were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the New York Power Authority. The flood-inundation maps, which can be accessed through the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Science website at <a href="https://fim.wim.usgs.gov/fim/"...
Harnessing island–ocean connections to maximize marine benefits of island conservation
Stuart A. Sandin, Penny A. Becker, Ceiba Becker, Kate Brown, Natalia G. Erazo, Cielo Figuerola, Robert N. Fisher, Alan M. Friedlander, Tadashi Fukami, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Daniel S. Gruner, Nick D. Holmes, Wieteke A. Holthuijzen, Holly P. Jones, Mariela Rios, Araceli Samaniego, Wes Sechrest, Brice X. Semmens, Hazel E. Thornton, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Christy Wails, Coral A. Wolf, Brian J. Zgliczynski
2022, PNAS (119)
Islands support unique plants, animals, and human societies found nowhere else on the Earth. Local and global stressors threaten the persistence of island ecosystems, with invasive species being among the most damaging, yet solvable, stressors. While the threat of invasive terrestrial mammals on island flora and fauna is well recognized,...
A channel sampling strategy for measurement of mineral modal and chemical composition of drill cores: Application to lower oceanic crustal rocks from IODP Expedition 345 to the Hess Deep rift
Robert P. Wintsch, Romain Meyer, David Bish, Ryan Thomas Deasy, Toshio Nozaka, Carley Johnson
2022, Scientific Drilling (31) 71-84
We report a new sampling strategy for collecting representative samples of drill core. By splitting the core with a diamond saw into working and archive halves, the saw cuttings constitute a “channel” sample, the best subsample from which to obtain an average mineralogical and geochemical composition of a core....
Evaluating the sensitivity of multi-dimensional model predictions of salmon habitat to the source of remotely sensed river bathymetry
Lee R. Harrison, Carl J. Legleiter, Vamsi K Sridharana, Peter Dudley, Miles E. Daniels
2022, Water Resources Research (58)
Multi-dimensional numerical models are fundamental tools for investigating biophysical processes in aquatic ecosystems. Remote sensing techniques increase the feasibility of applying such models at riverscape scales, but tests of model performance on large rivers have been limited. We evaluated the potential to develop two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional...
Quantifying aspects of rangeland health at watershed scales in Colorado using remotely sensed data products
Nathan J. Kleist, Christopher T Domschke, S E Litschert, J Hunter Seim, Sarah K. Carter
2022, Rangelands (44) 398-410
During grazing permit renewals, the Bureau of Land Management assesses land health using indicators typically measured using field-based data collected from individual sites within grazing allotments. However, agency guidance suggests assessments be completed at larger spatial scales.We explored how the current generation of...
Decades of global sturgeon conservation efforts are threatened by an expanding captive culture industry
Shannon L. White, Dewayne A. Fox, Tamar Beridze, Stephania K Bolden, Robin L. Johnson, Thomas F Savoy, Fleur Scheele, Andrea D Schreier, David C. Kazyak
2022, Fisheries Magazine (48) 54-61
After centuries of overexploitation and habitat loss, many of the world's sturgeon (Acipenseridae) populations are at the brink of extinction. Although significant resources are invested into the conservation and restoration of imperiled sturgeons, the burgeoning commercial culture industry poses an imminent threat to the persistence of many populations. In the...
The economic costs of chronic wasting disease in the United States
Scott J. Chiavacci
2022, PLoS ONE (17)
Cervids are economically important to a wide range of stakeholders and rights holders in the United States. The continued expansion of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting wild and farmed cervids, poses a direct and indirect threat to state and federal government agency operations and cervid related...
Assessment of vulnerabilities and opportunities to restore marsh sediment supply at Nisqually River Delta, west-central Washington
Eric E. Grossman, Sean C. Crosby, Andrew W. Stevens, Daniel J. Nowacki, Nathan R. vanArendonk, Christopher A. Curran
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1088
A cascading set of hazards to coastal environments is intimately tied to sediment transport and includes the flooding and erosion of shorelines and habitats that support communities, industry, infrastructure, and ecosystem functions (for example, habitats critical to fisheries). This report summarizes modeling and measurement data used to evaluate...
Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain
Zachary Miller, Erich Peitzsch, Eric A. Sproles, Karl W. Birkeland, Ross T. Palomaki
2022, The Cryosphere (16) 4907-4930
Dynamic natural processes govern snow distribution in mountainous environments throughout the world. Interactions between these different processes create spatially variable patterns of snow depth across a landscape. Variations in accumulation and redistribution occur at a variety of spatial scales, which are well established for moderate mountain terrain. However, spatial patterns...
Quantifying permanent uplift due to lithosphere-hotspot interaction
Guy Lang, Uri S. ten Brink
2022, Tectonics (41)
Vertical motions that accompany the passage of the lithosphere over a mantle hotspot can shed light on the nature of the hotspot and its effect on the lithosphere. However, quantifying the temporal vertical and spatial extent, is challenging due to the paucity of evidence in the geological...
Working toward a National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network: Vision, progress, and future directions
C. Bruce Baker, Michael H. Cosh, John Bolten, Mark Brusberg, Todd Caldwell, Stephanie Connolly, Iliyana Dobreva, Nathan Edwards, Peter E. Goble, Tyson E. Ochsner, Steven M. Quiring, Michael Robotham, Marina Skumanich, Mark Svoboda, W. Alex White, Molly Woloszyn
2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (103) E2719-E2732
Soil moisture is a critical land surface variable, impacting the water, energy, and carbon cycles. While in situ soil moisture monitoring networks are still developing, there is no cohesive strategy or framework to coordinate, integrate,...
Water quality of sand and gravel aquifers in McHenry County, Illinois, 2020 and comparisons to conditions in 2010
Amy M. Gahala, Lance R. Gruhn, Jennifer C. Murphy, Lisa A. Matson
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5110
McHenry County, Illinois, obtains most of its drinking water from shallow sand and gravel aquifers (groundwater). To evaluate this groundwater resource, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with McHenry County, Illinois, collected water-quality samples from 41 of 42 monitoring wells in the McHenry County Groundwater Monitoring Network and 4 monitoring...
Abundance and distribution of large thecosome pteropods in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Sarah Shedler, Brad Seibel, Michael Vecchione, Dale W. Griffin, Heather Judkins
2022, American Malacological Bulletin (39) 1-11
The ecological role of large thecosome pteropods in the pelagic ecosystem of the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) may be substantial, both in the food web and biogeochemical cycling. We analyzed species abundances, vertical and horizontal distributions of large species with calcareous shells (those collected in 3-mm mesh nets). Pteropod...
Physical controls on the hydrology of perennially ice-covered lakes, Taylor Valley, Antarctica (1996-2013)
Julian Cross, Andrew Fountain, Matthew Hoffman, Maciej Obryk
2022, JGR Earth Surface (127)
The McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, are a polar desert populated with numerous closed-watershed, perennially ice-covered lakes primarily fed by glacial melt. Lake levels have varied by as much as 8 m since 1972 and are currently rising after a decade of decreasing. Precipitation falls as snow, so...
Divergent Serpentoviruses in free-ranging invasive pythons and native colubrids in southern Florida, United States
Steven B Tillis, Jillian M. Josimovich, Melissa A. Miller, Hoon-Hanks Laura L., Arik M. Hartmann, Natalie M. Claunch, Marley E. Iredale, Tracey D. Logan, Amy A. Yackel Adams, Ian A. Bartoszek, John S. Humphrey, Bryan M. Kluever, Mark D. Stenglein, Robert Reed, Christina M. Romagosa, James FX. Wellehan Jr., Robert J. Ossiboff
2022, Viruses (14)
Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is an invasive snake that has significantly affected ecosystems in southern Florida, United States. Aside from direct predation and competition, invasive species can also introduce nonnative pathogens that can adversely affect native species. The subfamily Serpentovirinae (order Nidovirales) is composed of positive-sense RNA viruses primarily...
Climate-modulated range expansion of reef-building coral communities off southeast Florida during the late Holocene
Alex B. Modys, Anton E. Olenik, Richard A. Mortlock, Lauren Toth, William F. Precht
2022, Frontiers in Marine Science (9)
The Holocene reefs off southeast Florida provide unique insights into the biogeographical and ecological response of western Atlantic coral reefs to past climate change that can be used to evaluate future climate impacts. However, previous studies have focused on millennial-scale change during the stable mid-Holocene, making it difficult to...
