Water availability drives instream conditions and life-history of an imperiled desert fish: A case study to inform water management
Robert K. Al-Chokhachy, Roger Peka, Erik Horgen, Daniel J. Kaus, Tim Loux, Lisa Heki
2022, Science of the Total Environment (832)
In arid ecosystems, available water is a critical, yet limited resource for human consumption, agricultural use, and ecosystem processes—highlighting the importance of developing management strategies to meet the needs of multiple users. Here, we evaluated how water availability influences stream thermal regimes and life-history expressions of...
Ecological consequences of neonicotinoid mixtures in streams
Travis S. Schmidt, Janet L. Miller, Barbara Mahler, Peter C. Van Metre, Lisa H. Nowell, Mark W. Sandstrom, Daren M. Carlisle, Patrick W. Moran, Paul M. Bradley
2022, Science Advances (8)
Neonicotinoid mixtures are common in streams worldwide, but corresponding ecological responses are poorly understood. We combined experimental and observational studies to narrow this knowledge gap. The mesocosm experiment determined that concentrations of the neonicotinoids imidacloprid and clothianidin (range of exposures, 0 to 11.9 μg/liter) above the hazard concentration...
Surface-water-quality data to support implementation of revised freshwater aluminum water-quality criteria in Massachusetts, 2018–19
David S. Armstrong, Jennifer G. Savoie, Leslie A. DeSimone, Kaitlin L. Laabs, Richard O. Carey
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5144
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, performed a study to inform the development of the department’s guidelines for the collection and use of water-chemistry data to support calculation of site-dependent aluminum criteria values. The U.S. Geological Survey collected and analyzed discrete water-quality samples...
Lack of evidence for indirect effects from stonefly predators on primary production under future climate warming scenarios
Scott G. Morton, Travis S. Schmidt, N. LeRoy Poff
2022, Écoscience (29) 283-291
Consumptive and non-consumptive interactions of predators and prey can have strong direct and indirect effects on primary producers, such as stream algae. Increasing water temperatures may alter these interactions and thus influence productivity in streams. For each of 3 temperature treatments (‘ambient’, +2°C and +4°C), we measured the...
Bathymetric contour maps, surface area and capacity tables, and bathymetric change maps for selected water-supply lakes in northwestern Missouri, 2019 and 2020
Richard J. Huizinga, Lindi D. Oyler, Benjamin C. Rivers
2022, Scientific Investigations Map 3486
Bathymetric data were collected at 12 water-supply lakes in northwestern Missouri by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and in collaboration with various local agencies, as part of a multiyear effort to establish or update the surface area and capacity tables for the...
Groundwater resources of the Harney Basin, southeastern Oregon
Stephen B. Gingerich, Henry M. Johnson, Darrick E. Boschmann, Gerald H. Grondin, C. Amanda Garcia
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5103
Groundwater development has increased substantially in southeastern Oregon’s Harney Basin since 2010, mainly for the purpose of large-scale irrigation. Concurrently, some areas of the basin experienced groundwater-level declines of more than 100 feet, and some shallow wells have gone dry. The Oregon Water Resources Department has limited new groundwater...
Hydrologic budget of the Harney Basin groundwater system, southeastern Oregon
C. Amanda Garcia, Nicholas T. Corson-Dosch, Jordan P. Beamer, Stephen B. Gingerich, Gerald H. Grondin, Brandon T. Overstreet, Jonathan V. Haynes, Mellony D. Hoskinson
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5128
Groundwater-level declines and limited quantitative knowledge of the groundwater-flow system in the Harney Basin prompted a cooperative study between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Oregon Water Resources Department to evaluate the groundwater-flow system and budget. This report provides a hydrologic budget of the Harney Basin groundwater system that...
Composite regional groundwater hydrographs for selected principal aquifers in New Mexico, 1980–2019
Nathan C. Myers
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1008
Groundwater is an important source of water for New Mexico. An estimated 48 percent of the total water used comes from groundwater sources, and groundwater levels generally are declining over large areas of New Mexico. Groundwater levels are affected by local and regional recharge or discharge processes. Groundwater hydrographs show...
Extent of sedge-grass meadow in a Lake Michigan drowned river mouth wetland dictated by topography and lake level
Douglas A. Wilcox, John A Bateman, Kurt P. Kowalski, James E Meeker, Nicole Dunn
2022, Wetlands (42)
Water-level fluctuations are critical in maintaining diversity of plant communities in Great Lakes wetlands. Sedge-grass meadows are especially sensitive to such fluctuations. We conducted vegetation sampling in a sedge-grass dominated Lake Michigan drowned river mouth wetland in 1995, 2002, and 2010 following high lake levels in 1986 and 1997. We...
Increased mercury and reduced insect diversity in linked stream-riparian food webs downstream of a historical mercury mine
Johanna M. Kraus, JoAnn M. Holloway, Michael J. Pribil, Ben N. Mcgee, Craig A. Stricker, Danny Rutherford, Andrew S. Todd
2022, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (41) 1696-1710
Historical mining left a legacy of abandoned mines and waste rock in remote headwaters of major river systems in the western United States. Understanding the influence of these legacy mines on culturally and ecological important downstream ecosystems is not always straight-forward because of elevated natural levels of mineralization in mining-impacted...
Annual summer submersed macrophyte standing stocks estimated from long-term monitoring data in the Upper Mississippi River
Deanne C. Drake, Eric M. Lund, Rebecca M. Kreiling
2022, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (13) 205-222
System-scale restoration efforts within the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge have included annual monitoring of submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) since 1998 in four representative reaches spanning ∼ 440 river kilometers. We developed predictive models relating monitoring data (site-scale SAV abundance indices)...
Occurrence of water and thermogenic gas from oil-bearing formations in groundwater near the Orcutt Oil Field, California, USA
Robert Anders, Matthew K. Landon, Peter B. McMahon, Justin T. Kulongoski, Andrew G. Hunt, Tracy Davis
2022, Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies (41)
Study regionSanta Barbara County, California, USA.Study focusTo analyze a wide array of newly collected chemical, isotopic, dissolved gas, and age dating tracers in conjunction with historical data from groundwater and oil wells to determine if water and/or thermogenic...
Food web perspectives and methods for riverine fish conservation
Sean M. Naman, Seth M. White, J. Ryan Bellmore, Peter A. McHugh, Matthew J. Kaylor, Colden V. Baxter, Robert J. Danehy, Robert J. Naiman, Amy L. Puls
2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Water (9)
Food web analyses offer useful insights into understanding how species interactions, trophic relationships, and energy flow underpin important demographic parameters of fish populations such as survival, growth, and reproduction. However, the vast amount of food web literature and the diversity of approaches can be a deterrent to fisheries practitioners engaged...
Pink-footed Shearwater Ardenna creatopus
Ryan D. Carle, Valentina Colodro, Jonathan J. Felis, Josh Adams, Peter J. Hodum
2022, Birds of the World
The Pink-footed Shearwater’s life history is tied to the Humboldt and California upwelling currents in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. It is larger than other shearwaters in its range, other than Flesh-footed Shearwater Ardenna carneipes. It is also distinct in appearance with pinkish bill and feet, pale underparts, and brown to...
Adaptation strategies and approaches for managing fire in a changing climate
Martha Sample, Andrea E. Thode, Courtney Peterson, Michael Gallagher, William T. Flatley, Megan Friggens, Alexander Evans, Rachel A. Loehman, Shaula Hedwall, Leslie A. Brandt, Maria Janowiak, Christopher W. Swanston
2022, Climate (10)
As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with the direct effects of climate change on resources in addition to climate-induced disruptions to fire regimes and subsequent ecosystem effects. In systems stressed...
High-resolution observations of submarine groundwater discharge reveal the fine spatial and temporal scales of nutrient exposure on a coral reef: Faga'alu, AS
Ferdinand K.J. Oberle, Nancy G. Prouty, Segun B. Adebayo, Curt D. Storlazzi
2022, Coral Reefs (41) 849-854
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) can deliver substantial nutrient and contaminant loads to nearshore coral reefs. Correctly scaling SGD rates from a point source to a reef is generally a linear process involving simplified assumptions on the hydrogeology, bathymetry, and nearshore hydrodynamics that are essential to properly...
Implementing a rapid deployment bridge scour monitoring system in Colorado, 2019
Mark F. Henneberg, Rodney J. Richards
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5023
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Transportation, installed and operated real-time scour monitoring instrumentation at two bridges in Colorado in 2016 and 2017 to measure streambed elevations in real-time. The instrumentation included acoustic echosounder depth sensors mounted to the bridge substructure units with rigid conduit...
Historical development of the U.S. Geological Survey hydrological monitoring and investigative programs at the Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, 2002–2020
Roy C. Bartholomay
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1027
This report summarizes the historical development and operations, from 2002 to 2020, of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) hydrologic monitoring and investigative programs at the Idaho National Laboratory in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy. The report covers the USGS’s programs for water-level monitoring, water-quality sampling, geochemical studies,...
Global food-security-support-analysis data at 30-m resolution (GFSAD30) cropland-extent products—Download Analysis
Adam Oliphant, Prasad Thenkabail, Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1001
IntroductionThe global food-security-support-analysis data at 30-meter resolution (GFSAD30) cropland-extent product is a project to provide high-resolution global cropland-extent data relating to water use. It is the first global-land-cover map focusing exclusively on agriculture with a 30-meter spatial resolution. The overarching goal of the GFSAD30 project is to produce consistent and...
Quality of surface water in Missouri, water year 2020
Camille E. Buckley
2022, Data Report 1153
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, monitors stations designed for the Ambient Water-Quality Monitoring Network, a collection of stations that monitor streams and springs in Missouri. During water year 2020 (October 1, 2019, through September 30, 2020), the U.S. Geological Survey collected water-quality...
Late season movement and habitat use by Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) in a large reservoir in Oregon, USA
Christopher Pearl, Jennifer Rowe, Brome McCreary, Michael J. Adams
2022, Journal of Herpetology (56) 8-17
Dam-created reservoirs are common landscape features that can provide habitat for amphibians, but their water level fluctuations and nonnative predators can differ markedly from more natural habitats. We compared fall movement and habitat use by the Oregon Spotted Frog (Rana pretiosa) in the reservoir pool with nearby river...
Fate and seasonality of antimicrobial resistance genes during full-scale anaerobic digestion of cattle manure across seven livestock production facilities
Tucker R. Burch, Aaron D. Firnstahl, Susan K. Spencer, Rebecca A. Larson, Mark A. Borchardt
2022, Journal of Environmental Quality (51) 352-363
Anaerobic digestion has been suggested as an intervention to attenuate antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in livestock manure but supporting data have typically been collected at laboratory scale. Few studies have quantified ARG fate during full-scale digestion of livestock manure. We sampled untreated manure and digestate from...
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic
Julia Guimond, Aaron Mohammad, Michelle A. Walvoord, Victor F. Bense, Barret L. Kurylyk
2022, Environmental Research Letters (17)
Groundwater discharge is an important mechanism through which fresh water and associated solutes are delivered to the ocean. Permafrost environments have traditionally been considered hydrogeologically inactive, yet with accelerated climate change and permafrost thaw, groundwater flow paths are activating and opening subsurface connections to the coastal zone....
Using dissolved organic matter fluorescence to predict total mercury and methylmercury in forested headwater streams, Sleepers River, Vermont USA
James B. Shanley, Vivien F. Taylor, Kevin A. Ryan, Ann T. Chalmers, Julia Perdrial, Aron Stubbins
2022, Hydrological Processes (36)
Aqueous transport of mercury (Hg) across the landscape is closely linked to dissolved organic matter (DOM). Both quantity and quality of DOM affect Hg mobility, as well as the formation and transport of toxic methylmercury (MeHg), but only a limited number of field studies have investigated Hg and MeHg with...
Using microbial source tracking to identify fecal contamination sources in Sag Harbor 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 2022-5028
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 Sag Harbor, an embayment complex on the northern shore of the south fork of Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Water samples are routinely collected...
