Loss of street trees predicted to cause 6000 L/tree increase in leaf-on stormwater runoff for Great Lakes urban sewershed
Robert C. Coville, James Kruegler, William R. Selbig, Satoshi Hirabayashi, Stephen Loheid, William Avery, William Shuster, Ralph J. Haefner, Bryant C. Scharenbroch, Theodore A. Endreny, Dave Nowak
2022, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (74)
Urban forests are recognized as a nature-based solution for stormwater management. This study assessed the underlying processes and extent of runoff reduction due to street trees with a paired-catchment experiment conducted in two sewersheds of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Computer models are flexible, fast, and low-cost options to generalize and...
Choosing an optimal duck season: Integrating hunter values and duck abundance
Joshua C. Stiller, William F. Siemer, Kelly A. Perkins, Angela K. Fuller
2022, The Journal of Wildlife Management (46)
State wildlife agencies have long struggled to identify optimal hunting season dates for migratory game bird species that meet the diverse and often competing interests of stakeholders. Many approaches have been used to ensure the regulated community participates in the decision-making process, including public hearings, hunter season-date preference surveys, and...
Increased landscape disturbance and streamflow variability threaten fish biodiversity in the Red River catchment, USA
R. Mollenhauer, J.B. Mouser, Victor L. Roland, Shannon K. Brewer
2022, Diversity and Distributions (28) 1934-1950
AimStream fish distributions are hypothesized to be strongly associated with landscape characteristics at multiple scales. Variation in flow regimes and intensity of landscape disturbance are associated with stream fish distributions; however, relationships are poorly understood in many high-diversity regions. Our objective was to identify occurrence relationships between...
A model of the spatiotemporal dynamics of soil carbon following coastal wetland loss applied to a Louisiana salt marsh in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain
Donald R. Schoolmaster Jr., Camille Stagg, Courtney Creamer, Claudia Laurenzano, Eric Ward, Mark Waldrop, Melissa M. Baustian, Tiong Aw, Sergio Merino, Rachel Katherine Villani, Laura Scott
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (127)
The potential for carbon sequestration in coastal wetlands is high due to protection of carbon (C) in flooded soils. However, excessive flooding can result in the conversion of the vegetated wetland to open water. This transition results in the loss of wetland habitat in addition to the potential loss of...
Genome-wide genetic diversity may help identify fine-scale genetic structure among lake whitefish spawning groups in Lake Erie
Peter T. Euclide, Joseph Schmitt, Richard Kraus, Andy Cook, Jim Markham
2022, Journal of Great Lakes Research (48) 1298-1305
In Lake Erie, lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis supported lucrative fisheries before populations were decimated by overfishing and water quality degradation. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in lake whitefish and management of the fishery they support. Lake whitefish spawn on several reefs...
Using transcriptomics to predict and visualize disease status in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
Lizabeth Bowen, Kezia R. Manlove, Annette Roug, Shannon C. Waters-Dynes, Nate LaHue, Peregrine Wolff
2022, Conservation Physiology (10)
Increasing risk of pathogen spillover coupled with overall declines in wildlife population abundance in the Anthropocene make infectious disease a relevant concern for species conservation worldwide. While emerging molecular tools could improve our diagnostic capabilities and give insight into mechanisms underlying wildlife disease risk, they have rarely been applied...
A structured decision-making framework for managing cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in New York State parks
Jennifer L. Graham, Gabriella M. Cebada Mora, Rebecca M. Gorney, Lianne C. Ball, Claudia Mengelt, Michael C. Runge
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5053
Cyanobacteria are increasingly a global water-quality concern because of the potential for these organisms to develop into potentially harmful blooms that affect ecological, economic, and public health. Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) can lead to a decrease in water quality and affect many of the recreational and ecological benefits of...
Modelagem de qualidade da agua: Aplicação do SPARROW
Flavio Hadler Troger, Sergio Rodrigues Ayrimoraes Soares, Diana Leite Cavalcanti, Marcelo Luiz de Souza, Daniel Edmund Restivo, Olivia L. Miller
2022, Report
No abstract available....
The importance of phenology and thermal exposure to early life history success of nonnative Smallmouth Bass in the Yellowstone River
Nicholas S. Voss, Robert K. Al-Chokhachy, Adam Sepulveda, Christine E. Verhille, Michael P. Ruggles, Alexander V. Zale
2022, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (151) 527-542
Knowledge of potential spread by introduced species is critical to effective management and conservation. The Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu is an example of a fish that has been introduced globally, often spreads after introduction, and has substantial predatory impacts on fish assemblages. Nonnative Smallmouth Bass in the free-flowing Yellowstone River, Montana, have...
Continental shelves as detrital mixers: U-Pb and Lu-Hf detrital zircon provenance of the Pleistocene–Holocene Bering Sea and its margins
Matthew A. Malkowski, Samuel Johnstone, Glenn R. Sharman, Colin J. White, Daniel S. Scheirer, Ginger Barth
2022, The Depositional Record (8) 1008-1030
Continental shelves serve as critical transfer zones in sediment-routing systems, linking the terrestrial erosional and deep-water depositional domains. The degree to which clastic sediment is mixed and homogenized during transfer across broad shelves has important implications for understanding deep-sea detrital records. Wide continental shelves are thought to act as capacitors...
Functional composition of plant communities mediates biomass effects on ecosystem service recovery across an experimental dryland restoration network
Kathleen R. Balazs, Seth M. Munson, Bradley J. Butterfield
2022, Functional Ecology (36) 2317-2330
Land degradation can result in a loss of critical ecosystem services that we often seek to restore through re-establishment of desired plant communities. Trait-based approaches have the potential to target specific ecosystem services based on associations between the functional composition of plant communities and ecosystem properties that serve as...
Rapid implementation of high-frequency wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2
Meghan M. Holst, John Person, Wiley Jennings, Rory M. Welsh, Michael J. Focazio, Paul M. Bradley, W. Bane Schill, Amy E. Kirby, Zachary A. Marsh
2022, ES&T: Water (2) 2201-2210
There have been over 507 million cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), resulting in 6 million deaths globally. Wastewater surveillance has emerged as a valuable tool in understanding SARS-CoV-2 burden in communities. The...
Over a third of groundwater in USA public-supply aquifers is Anthropocene-age and susceptible to surface contamination
Bryant C. Jurgens, Kirsten Faulkner, Peter B. McMahon, Andrew G. Hunt, Gerolamo C. Casile, Megan B. Young, Kenneth Belitz
2022, Nature Communications Earth & Environment (2)
The distribution of groundwater age is useful for evaluating the susceptibility and sustainability of groundwater resources. Here, we compute the aquifer-scale cumulative distribution function to characterize the age distribution for 21 Principal Aquifers that account for ~80% of public-supply pumping in the United States. The aquifer-scale...
Characterization of and temporal changes in groundwater quality of the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Basin, El Paso County, Colorado, 2018–20
Zachary D. Kisfalusi, Nancy J. Bauch, Carleton R. Bern
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5061
In 2018–20, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District, sampled 48 wells for Phase III of a multiphase plan investigating groundwater quality in the alluvial aquifer of the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Basin (UBSB), El Paso County, Colorado. Results for samples collected...
West Virginia and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3044
Many may recall “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” made famous by John Denver, leads with the lyric “almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.” The descriptors are apt. Nicknamed the “Mountain State,” West Virginia inspires thoughts of coal mining or logging in the Appalachian Mountains and valleys, or...
Lake Tahoe clarity and associated conditions, 2022
Alan Heyvaert, Ramon C. Naranjo, John Melack, Shohei Watanabe, Geoffrey Schladow, Sudeep Chandra
2022, Report
Lake Tahoe’s clarity remains a key indicator of overall ecosystem status, and scientific understanding about factors affecting lake clarity continues to evolve. The purpose of this briefing memorandum is to summarize the status of clarity metrics and drivers of change discussed in the 2022 TSAC Data Synthesis and Analysis report....
What’s It worth? Estimating the potential value of early warnings of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms for managing freshwater reservoirs in Kansas, United States
Emily Pindilli, Keith A. Loftin
2022, Frontiers in Enviornmental Science (10)
Cyanobacterial blooms are an issue drawing increasing concern in freshwater lakes and reservoirs in the United States due to the real and sometimes perceived harms they can cause through cyanotoxin production or other effects. These types of blooms are often referred to as cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs)....
New England WSC WaterMarks Summer '22
Tomas W. Smieszek
2022, Newsletter
No abstract available....
Microplastic particles in dust-on-snow, Upper Colorado River Basin, Colorado Rocky Mountains, 2013–16
Richard L. Reynolds, Harland L. Goldstein, Raymond F. Kokaly, Jeff Derry
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1061
Atmospheric dust deposited to snow cover (dust-on-snow) diminishes snow-surface albedo (SSA) to result in early onset and accelerated rate of melting, effects that challenge management of downstream water resources. During ongoing investigations to identify the light-energy absorbing dust particles most responsible for diminished SSA in the Upper Colorado River Basin...
U.S. Geological Survey response to Hurricane Maria flooding in Puerto Rico and characterization of peak streamflows observed September 20–22, 2017
Julieta M. Gómez-Fragoso, Mark Smith, Marilyn Santiago
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5040
Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, as a Category 4 storm. The hurricane traversed the island from southeast to northwest and produced recorded 48-hour rainfall totals of up to 30.01 inches. Estimates of the human death toll range from 2,975 to 4,645, possibly more.The...
Elevated nitrogen deposition to fire-prone forests adjacent to urban and agricultural areas, Colorado front range, USA
Ruth C. Heindel, Sheila F. Murphy, Deborah A. Repert, Gregory A. Wetherbee, Alexander Liethen, David W. Clow, Toby A. Halamka
2022, Earth’s Future (10)
As humans increasingly dominate the nitrogen cycle, deposition of reactive nitrogen (Nr) will continue to have adverse consequences for ecosystems. In the Rocky Mountains, Nr deposition remains elevated and has become increasingly dominated by ammonium, despite efforts to reduce emissions. Currently, spatial models of Nr deposition do...
Migration and transformation of coastal wetlands in response to rising seas
Michael Osland, Bogdan Chivoiu, Nicholas Enwright, Karen M. Thorne, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, James Grace, Leah Dale, William Brooks, Nathaniel Herold, John W. Day, Fred H. Sklar, Christopher M. Swarzenski
2022, Science Advances (8)
Coastal wetlands are not only among the world’s most valued ecosystems but also among the most threatened by high greenhouse gas emissions that lead to accelerated sea level rise. There is intense debate regarding the extent to which landward migration of wetlands might compensate for seaward wetland losses....
Hydrogeology and simulation of groundwater flow in the Lucerne Valley groundwater basin, California
Christina Stamos-Pfeiffer, Joshua Larsen, Robert E. Powell, Jonathan C. Matti, Peter Martin
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5048
The Lucerne Valley is in the southwestern part of the Mojave Desert and is about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California. The Lucerne Valley groundwater basin encompasses about 230 square miles and is separated from the Upper Mojave Valley groundwater basin by splays of the Helendale Fault. Since its...
Assessment of persistent chemicals of concern in white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River, southeastern Washington, 2009
Sean E. Payne, Daniel R. Wise, Jay W. Davis, Elena B. Nilsen
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5020
White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) are long-lived, late-maturing, benthic-feeding fish that are ideal candidates for assessing the bioaccumulation of persistent chemicals. In this study, composite tissue samples of brain, liver, gonad, and fillet were collected from white sturgeon in 2009 from five sites in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia...
Medium spatial resolution mapping of global land cover and land cover change across multiple decades from Landsat
Mark A. Friedl, Curtis E. Woodcock, Pontus Olofsson, Zhe Zhu, Thomas R. Loveland, Radost Stanimirova, Paulo Arevalo, Eric L. Bullock, Kai-Ting Hu, Yingtong Zhang, Konrad Turlej, Katelyn Tarrio, McAvoy Kristina, Noel Gorelick, Jonathan A. Wang, Christopher P. Barber, Carlos Souza Jr.
2022, Frontiers in Remote Sensing (3)
Land cover maps are essential for characterizing the biophysical properties of the Earth’s land areas. Because land cover information synthesizes a rich array of information related to both the ecological condition of land areas and their exploitation by humans, they are widely used for basic and applied research that requires...
