The role of organic matter diversity on the Re-Os systematics of organic-rich sedimentary units: Insights into the controls of isochron age determinations from the lacustrine Green River Formation
Jeffrey T Pietras, Abby Dennett, David Selby, Justin E. Birdwell
2022, Chemical Geology (604)
The range of 187Re/188Os values measured from samples of five organic-rich lacustrine mudstones units in the Eocene Green River Formation in the...
Water-level fluctuations and water temperature effects on young-of-year Largemouth Bass in a southwest irrigation reservoir
Alexander Vaisvil, Colleen A. Caldwell, Eric Frey
2022, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (13) 534-543
The effects of a warming climate will alter the hydrological cycles of arid southwestern U.S. reservoirs which primarily support agricultural needs, provide flood control, and generate hydroelectric power while secondarily supporting fish communities and sport fishing opportunities. The success of littoral spawning fishes depends on the timing and variability of...
Comparison of water year 2021 streamflow to historical data at selected sites in the Snake River Basin, Wyoming
Ruth M. Law, James Campbell, Jerrod D. Wheeler, Cheryl A. Eddy-Miller
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3043
The headwaters of the Snake River are in the mountains of northwestern Wyoming on lands primarily administered by the National Park Service and the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Streamflow from the Snake River Basin has been measured at some sites for more than 100 years. Water from this drainage basin is...
Water quality monitoring: Exploring CMAP products
RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program
2022, Report
The RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP), administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), spatially and temporally inventoried programs in the Gulf of Mexico focused on water quality and habitat monitoring and mapping....
Habitat monitoring: Exploring CMAP products
RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program
2022, Report
The RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP), administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), spatially and temporally inventoried programs in the Gulf of Mexico focused on water quality and habitat monitoring and mapping....
RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program
RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program
2022, Report
The RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP), administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), spatially and temporally inventoried programs in the Gulf of Mexico focused on water quality and habitat monitoring and mapping....
Exploring CMAP products: Mapping
RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program
2022, Report
The RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP), administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), spatially and temporally inventoried programs in the Gulf of Mexico focused on water quality and habitat monitoring and mapping....
A numerical study of geomorphic and oceanographic controls on wave-driven runup on fringing reefs with shore-normal channels
Curt D. Storlazzi, Annouk Rey, Ap van Dongeren
2022, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (10)
Many populated, tropical coastlines fronted by fringing coral reefs are exposed to wave-driven marine flooding that is exacerbated by sea-level rise. Most fringing coral reef are not alongshore uniform, but bisected by shore-normal channels; however, little is known about the influence of such channels on alongshore variations on runup and...
Closing the gap on wicked urban stream restoration problems: A framework to integrate science and community values
Brian M. Murphy, Kathryn L Russell, Charles C. Stillwell, Robert J. Hawley, Mateo Scoggins, Kristina G. Hopkins, Matthew J. Burns, Kristine T. Taniguchi-Quan, Kate H Macneale, Robert F. Smith
2022, Freshwater Science (41) 521-531
Restoring the health of urban streams has many of the characteristics of a wicked problem. Addressing a wicked problem requires managers, academics, practitioners, and community members to make negotiated tradeoffs and compromises to satisfy the values and perspectives of diverse stakeholders involved in setting restoration project goals...
Possible effects of multiphase methane evolution during a glacial cycle on underpressure development in sedimentary basins: An analysis with application to the northeast Michigan Basin
Michelle R. Plampin, Alden M. Provost
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (127)
In low-permeability systems, groundwater may be accompanied by separate-phase fluids, and measured pore water pressures may deviate from those expected in steady-state, single-phase systems. These same systems may be of interest for storage of nuclear waste in Deep Geologic Repositories. Therefore, it is important to understand the...
Species distributions and the recognition of risk in restoration planning: A case study of salmonid fishes
Eric J. Walther, Mara S. Zimmerman, Jeffrey A. Falke, Peter A. H. Westley
2022, Ecological Applications (32)
One of the risks faced by habitat restoration practitioners is whether habitats included in restoration planning will be used by the target species or, conversely, whether habitats excluded from restoration planning would have benefited the target species. With the goal of providing a quantitative decision-making approach that represented varying levels...
Experimental reductions in sub-daily flow fluctuations increased gross primary productivity for 425 river kilometers downstream
Bridget R. Deemer, Charles B. Yackulic, Robert O Hall Jr., Michael J. Dodrill, Theodore Kennedy, Jeffrey Muehlbauer, David J. Topping, Nicholas Voichick, Michael D. Yard
2022, PNAS Nexus (1)
Aquatic primary production is the foundation of many river food webs. Dams change the physical template of rivers, often driving food webs toward greater reliance on aquatic primary production. Nonetheless, the effects of regulated flow regimes on primary production are poorly understood. Load following is a common dam flow...
Understanding the evolution of groundwater-contaminant plume chemistry emanating from legacy contaminant sources: An example from a long-term crude oil spill
Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, Mary Jo Baedecker, Adam C. Mumford, Jeanne B. Jaeschke, Tracey Spencer
2022, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation (42) 30-42
Understanding the evolution of plumes emanating from residual hydrocarbon contaminant sources requires evaluating how changes in source compositions over time cause changes in dissolved plume chemistry as residual sources age. This study investigates such changes at the site of a 1979 crude-oil pipeline spill and is...
Modeling impacts of drought-induced salinity intrusion on carbon dynamics in tidal freshwater forested wetlands
Hongqing Wang, Zhaohua Dai, Carl C. Trettin, Ken Krauss, Gregory E. Noe, Andrew J. Burton, Camille Stagg, Eric Ward
2022, Ecological Applications (32)
Tidal freshwater forested wetlands (TFFW) provide critical ecosystem services including essential habitat for a variety of wildlife species and significant carbon sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, large uncertainties remain concerning the impacts of climate change on the magnitude and variability of carbon fluxes and storage...
Effects of flow regulation and drought on geomorphology and floodplain habitat along the Colorado River in Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Paul E. Grams, Eric Head, Erich R. Mueller
2022, River Research and Applications (38) 1266-1276
Streamflow regulation compounded by regional drought has resulted in up to 22% reduction in channel width, changes in channel planform, expansion of riparian vegetation, and alterations to floodplain habitat on the Colorado River in Meander Canyon, Utah. Although some changes in channel width occurred between the 1940s and 1980s, coinciding...
Speciation with gene flow in a narrow endemic West Virginia cave salamander (Gyrinophilus subterraneus)
Evan H. Campbell Grant, Kevin P. Mulder, Adrianne B. Brand, Douglas B. Chambers, Addison H. Wynn, Grace Capshaw, Matthew L. Niemiller, John G. Phillips, Jeremy F. Jacobs, Shawn R. Kuchta, Rayna C. Bell
2022, Conservation Genetics (23) 727-744
Due to their limited geographic distributions and specialized ecologies, cave species are often highly endemic and can be especially vulnerable to habitat degradation within and surrounding the cave systems they inhabit. We investigated the evolutionary history of the West Virginia Spring Salamander (Gyrinophilus subterraneus), estimated the population trend from historic...
Prioritizing habitats based on abundance and distribution of molting waterfowl in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska
Paul L. Flint, Vijay P. Patil, Bradley Shults, Sarah J. Thompson
2022, Global Ecology and Conservation (38)
The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) encompasses more than 9.5 million hectares of federally managed land on the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska, where it supports a diversity of wildlife, including millions of migratory birds. Within the NPR-A, Teshekpuk Lake and the surrounding area provide important habitat for...
Integrating monitoring and optimization modeling to inform flow decisions for Chinook salmon smolts
Patti J. Wohner, Adam Duarte, John Wikert, Brad Cavallo, Steven C. Zeug, James T. Peterson
2022, Ecological Modelling (471)
Monitoring is usually among the first actions taken to help inform recovery planning for declining species, but these data are rarely used formally to inform conservation decision making. For example, Central Valley Chinook salmon were once abundant, but anthropogenic activities have led to widespread habitat loss and degradation resulting in...
Satellite remote sensing of crop water use across the Missouri River Basin for 1986–2018 period
Arun Bawa, Gabriel B. Senay, Sandeep Kumar
2022, Agricultural Water Management (271)
Understanding historical crop water use (CWU) dynamics is important to improve land and water management. In this study, well-validated (coefficient of determination = 0.91, percent bias = 4%, and percent root mean square error = 11.8%) Landsat-based actual evapotranspiration (ETa) time-series estimations were used...
Characterization of the partial oxidation products of crude oil contaminating groundwater at the U.S. Geological Survey Bemidji research site in Minnesota by elemental analysis, radiocarbon dating, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry
Kevin A. Thorn, Ananna Islam, Sunghwan Kim
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1042
In oil spill research, a topic of increasing attention during the last decade has been the environmental impact of the partial oxidation products that result from transformation of the petroleum in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. This report describes the isolation and characterization of the partial oxidation products from crude...
Using microbial source tracking to identify fecal contamination sources in Great South Bay on Long Island, New York
Tristen N. Tagliaferri, Shawn C. Fisher, Christopher M. Kephart, Natalie Cheung, Ariel P. Reed, Robert J. Welk
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5057
The U.S. Geological Survey worked in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to assess the potential sources of fecal contamination entering a part of Great South Bay (referred to as Great South Bay for the purposes of this report) near the hamlets of West Sayville, Sayville,...
Characterizing storm-induced coastal change hazards along the United States West Coast
James B. Shope, Li H. Erikson, Patrick L. Barnard, Curt D. Storlazzi, Katherine A. Serafin, Kara S. Doran, Hilary F. Stockdon, Borja G. Reguero, Fernando J. Mendez, Sonia Castanedo, Alba Cid, Laura Cagigal, Peter Ruggiero
2022, Nature--Scientific Data (9)
Traditional methods to assess the probability of storm-induced erosion and flooding from extreme water levels have limited use along the U.S. West Coast where swell dominates erosion and storm surge is limited. This effort presents methodology to assess the probability of erosion and flooding for the U.S. West Coast from...
Revisions to the Virginia Coastal Plain hydrogeologic framework southwest of the James River
Samuel H. Caldwell, E. Randolph McFarland
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5049
New drilling information reveals that altitudes of some hydrogeologic units of the Virginia Coastal Plain aquifer system differ by as much as 50 feet (ft) from those previously known, namely the Aquia and Potomac aquifers, the Potomac confining zone, and the Nanjemoy-Marlboro and Saint Marys confining units. In addition, the...
Mapping the altitude of the top of the Dockum Group and paleochannel analysis using surface geophysical methods on and near Cannon Air Force Base in Curry County, New Mexico, 2020
Jason D. Payne, Andrew P. Teeple, Jeremy McDowell, David Wallace, Walker A. Hancock
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5050
The hydrogeology on and near Cannon Air Force Base (AFB) in eastern New Mexico was assessed to gain a better understanding of preferential groundwater flow paths through paleochannels. In and near the study area, paleochannels incised the top surface of the Dockum Group (Chinle Formation) and were subsequently filled in...
Community for data integration 2020 annual report
Leslie Hsu, Amanda N. Liford, Grace C. Donovan
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1034
The Community for Data Integration is a community of practice whose purpose is to advance the data integration capabilities of the U.S. Geological Survey. In fiscal year 2020, the Community for Data Integration held 11 monthly forums, facilitated 13 collaboration areas, and supported 13 projects. The activities supported the broad...
