Unraveling Alleghanian orogenesis in southern Connecticut: The history of the Lyme Dome
Gregory J. Walsh, John N. Aleinikoff, Robert P. Wintsch
2012, Conference Paper, Guidebook for fieldtrips in Connecticut and Massachusetts
No abstract available....
Bedrock basins in the Sierra Nevada, Alta California
James G. Moore, Mary A. Gorden, Thomas W. Sisson
2012, California Archaeology (4) 99-122
A 360-km-long belt of more than 1,400 meter-sized granitic bedrock basins occurs at 1,200 to 2,500 m elevation on the west flank of the Sierra Nevada. The circular, smooth basins are 0.7 to 1.7 min diameter and are commonly 50 to 1,000 liters in volume. They are man-made as shown by their restricted...
Landslide inventory maps of the Gales Creek quadrangle, Washington County, Oregon
W. J. Burns, S. Duplantis, K. A. Mickelson, J. M. Spritzer, Ray Wells
2012, Interactive Map Series 46
No abstract available....
Long-term impacts of invasive species on a native top predator in a large lake system
Scott A. Rush, Gordon Paterson, Tim B. Johnson, Ken G. Drouillard, Gordon D. Haffner, Craig E. Hebert, Michael T. Arts, Daryl J. McGoldrick, Sean M. Backus, Brian F. Lantry, Jana R. Lantry, Ted Schaner, Aaron T. Fisk
2012, Freshwater Biology (57) 2342-2355
1. Declining abundances of forage fish and the introduction and establishment of non-indigenous species have the potential to substantially alter resource and habitat exploitation by top predators in large lakes. 2. We measured stable isotopes of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in field-collected and archived samples of Lake Ontario lake trout (Salvelinus...
Life history characteristics of a recovering lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis stock in the Detroit River, North America
Edward F. Roseman, Gregory W. Kennedy, Bruce A. Manny, James Boase, James McFee
Ross F. Tallman, Kimberly L. Howland, Michael D. Rennie, Kenneth Mills, editor(s)
2012, Advances in Limnology (63) 477-501
The Detroit River is part of a channel connecting Lakes Huron and Erie and was once a prolific spawning area for lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis. Large numbers of lake whitefish migrated into the river to spawn where they were harvested by commercial fisheries and for fish culture operations. Prior to...
Subsidy or subtraction: how do terrestrial inputs influence consumer production in lakes?
Stuart E. Jones, Christopher T. Solomon, Brian Weidel
2012, Freshwater Reviews (5) 37-49
Cross-ecosystem fluxes are ubiquitous in food webs and are generally thought of as subsidies to consumer populations. Yet external or allochthonous inputs may in fact have complex and habitat-specific effects on recipient ecosystems. In lakes, terrestrial inputs of organic carbon contribute to basal resource availability, but can also reduce resource...
Significant motions between GPS sites in the New Madrid region: implications for seismic hazard
Arthur Frankel, Robert Smalley, J. Paul
2012, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (102) 479-489
Position time series from Global Positioning System (GPS) stations in the New Madrid region were differenced to determine the relative motions between stations. Uncertainties in rates were estimated using a three‐component noise model consisting of white, flicker, and random walk noise, following the methodology of Langbein, 2004. Significant motions of...
The crustal magma storage system of Volcán Quizapu, Chile, and the effects of magma mixing on magma diversity
George W. Bergantz, Kari M. Cooper, Edward Hildreth, Phillipp Ruprecht
2012, Journal of Petrology (53) 801-840
Crystal zoning as well as temperature and pressure estimates from phenocryst phase equilibria are used to constrain the architecture of the intermediate-sized magmatic system (some tens of km3) of Volcán Quizapu, Chile, and to document the textural and compositional effects of magma mixing. In contrast to most arc magma systems,...
Productivity and sedimentary δ15N variability for the last 17,000 years along the northern Gulf of Alaska continental slope
Jason A. Addison, Bruce P. Finney, Walter E. Dean, Maureen H. Davies, Alan C. Mix, John M. Jaeger
2012, Paleoceanography (27)
Biogenic opal, organic carbon, organic matter stable isotope, and trace metal data from a well-dated, high-resolution jumbo piston core (EW0408–85JC; 59° 33.3′N, 144° 9.21′W, 682 m water depth) recovered from the northern Gulf of Alaska continental slope reveal changes in productivity and nutrient utilization over the last 17,000 years. Maximum...
Sexual selection and mating chronology of Lesser Prairie-Chickens
Adam C. Behney, Blake A. Grisham, Clint W. Boal, Heather A. Whitlaw, David A. Haukos
2012, Wilson Journal of Ornithology (124) 96-105
Little is known about mate selection and lek dynamics of Lesser Prairie-Chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). We collected data on male territory size and location on leks, behavior, and morphological characteristics and assessed the importance of these variables on male Lesser Prairie-Chicken mating success during spring 2008 and 2009 in the Texas...
Provisioning of nestling Dickcissels in native warm-season grass field buffers
K. L. Mitchell, Samuel K. Riffell, L. Wes Burger Jr., Francisco Vilella
2012, Wilson Journal of Ornithology (124) 298-309
We used video cameras in 2008–2009 to record provisioning activities at Dickcissel (Spiza americana) nests in and around Conservation Reserve Program field buffers in north-central Mississippi, USA. We simultaneously observed foraging flight distances of parents. Provisioning rate (P = 0.412), biomass (P = 0.161), and foraging distance (P = 0.159)...
Basin thickness variations at the Junction of the Eastern California Shear Zone and the San Bernardino Mountains, California: How thick could the Pliocene sections be?
Victoria E. Langenheim, Tammy L. Surko, Phillip A. Armstrong, Jonathan C. Matti
2012, Conference Paper, Searching for the Pliocene: southern exposures, Annual Desert Symposium Proceedings
We estimate the thickness of Neogene basin fill along the junction of the Eastern California Shear Zone and the North Frontal thrust system of the San Bernardino Mountains using gravity data with geologic and well log constraints. The geometry of the basin fill is of interest for groundwater assessment and location of potential...
Population genetic structure of a widespread coniferous tree, Taxodium distichum [L.] Rich. (Cupressaceae), in the Mississippi River Alluvial Valley and Florida
Ayako Tanaka, Masato Ohtani, Yoshihisa Suyama, Nobuyuki Inomata, Yoshihiko Tsumura, Beth A. Middleton, Hidenori Tachida, Junko Kusumi
2012, Tree Genetics and Genomes (8) 1135-1147
Studies of genetic variation can elucidate the structure of present and past populations as well as the genetic basis of the phenotypic variability of species. Taxodium distichum is a coniferous tree dominant in lowland river flood plains and swamps of the southeastern USA which exhibits morphological variability and adaption to...
Aftershocks halted by static stress shadows
Shinji Toda, Ross S. Stein, Gregory C. Beroza, David Marsan
2012, Nature Geoscience (5) 410-413
Earthquakes impart static and dynamic stress changes to the surrounding crust. Sudden fault slip causes small but permanent—static—stress changes, and passing seismic waves cause large, but brief and oscillatory—dynamic—stress changes. Because both static and dynamic stresses can trigger earthquakes within several rupture dimensions of a mainshock, it has proven difficult...
Thermal infrared remote sensing of water temperature in riverine landscapes
R. N Handcock, Christian E. Torgersen, K. A Cherkauer, A. R Gillespie, K Tockner, R. N. Faux, Jing Tan
Patrice E. Carbonneau, Hervé Piégay, editor(s)
2012, Book chapter, Fluvial remote sensing for science and management
Water temperature in riverine landscapes is an important regional indicator of water quality that is influenced by both ground- and surface-water inputs, and indirectly by land use in the surrounding watershed (Brown and Krygier, 1970; Beschta et al., 1987; Chen et al., 1998; Poole and Berman, 2001). Coldwater fishes such...
Concurrent speciation in the eastern woodland salamanders (Genus Plethodon):DNA sequences of the complete albumin nuclear and partialmitochondrial 12s genes
Richard Highton, Amy Picard Hastings, Catherine Palmer, Richard Watts, Carla A. Hass, Melanie Culver, Stevan Arnold
2012, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (63) 278-290
Salamanders of the North American plethodontid genus Plethodon are important model organisms in a variety of studies that depend on a phylogenetic framework (e.g., chemical communication, ecological competition, life histories, hybridization, and speciation), and consequently their systematics has been intensively investigated over several decades. Nevertheless, we lack a synthesis of...
Sources of shaking and flooding during the Tohoku-Oki earthquake: a mixture of rupture styles
Shengji Wei, Robert Graves, Don Helmberger, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Junle Jiang
2012, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (333-334) 91-100
Modeling strong ground motions from great subduction zone earthquakes is one of the great challenges of computational seismology. To separate the rupture characteristics from complexities caused by 3D sub-surface geology requires an extraordinary data set such as provided by the recent Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. Here we combine deterministic inversion and...
Repeat surveys of spawning cisco (Coregonus artedi) in western Lake Superior: Timing, distribution and composition of spawning stocks
Daniel L. Yule, Donald R. Schreiner, Peter A. Addison, Michael J. Seider, Lori M. Evrard, Steven A. Geving, Henry R. Quinlan
2012, Advances in Limnology (63) 65-87
Acoustic (AC) and midwater trawl (MT) surveys of spawning cisco (Coregonus artedi) in Lake Superior have been combined with commercial yield to estimate exploitation. To time surveys properly, it is important to understand when adults typically arrive at spawning grounds and how numbers change as the spawning season progresses. We...
A general theory of multimetric indices and their properties
Donald R. Schoolmaster Jr., James B. Grace, E. William Schweiger
2012, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (3) 773-781
1. Stewardship of biological and ecological resources requires the ability to make integrative assessments of ecological integrity. One of the emerging methods for making such integrative assessments is multimetric indices (MMIs). These indices synthesize data, often from multiple levels of biological organization, with the goal of deriving a single index...
Digital elevation model generation from satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar: Chapter 5
Zhong Lu, Daniel Dzurisin, Hyung-Sup Jung, Lei Zhang, Wonjin Lee, Chang-Wook Lee
2012, Book chapter, Advances in mapping from remote sensor imagery
An accurate digital elevation model (DEM) is a critical data set for characterizing the natural landscape, monitoring natural hazards, and georeferencing satellite imagery. The ideal interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) configuration for DEM production is a single-pass two-antenna system. Repeat-pass single-antenna satellite InSAR imagery, however, also can be used to...
A Bayesian method to rank different model forecasts of the same volcanic ash cloud: Chapter 24
Roger P. Denlinger, P. Webley, Larry G. Mastin, Hans F. Schwaiger
2012, Book chapter, Lagrangian Modeling of the Atmosphere
Volcanic eruptions often spew fine ash high into the atmosphere, where it is carried downwind, forming long ash clouds that disrupt air traffic and pose a hazard to air travel. To mitigate such hazards, the community studying ash hazards must assess risk of ash ingestion for any flight path and...
Status and trends of pelagic prey fishes in Lake Huron, 2012
David M. Warner, Timothy P. O’Brien, Steve A. Farha, Jeff Schaeffer, Stephen Lenart
2012, Report
The USGS Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) conducted acoustic/midwater trawl surveys of Lake Huron during 1997 and annually during 2004-2012. The 2012 survey was conducted during September and October, and included transects in Lake Huron’s Main Basin, Georgian Bay, and North Channel. Pelagic fish density (638 fish/ha) was lower in...
Status of pelagic prey fishes in Lake Michigan, 2012
David M. Warner, Timothy P. O’Brien, Steve A. Farha, Randall M. Claramunt, Dale Hanson
2012, Report
Acoustic surveys were conducted in late summer/early fall during the years 1992-1996 and 2001-2012 to estimate pelagic prey fish biomass in Lake Michigan. Midwater trawling during the surveys as well as target strength provided a measure of species and size composition of the fish community for use in scaling acoustic...
Mineralogy and environmental geochemistry of historical iron slag, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, Pennsylvania, USA
Nadine M. Piatak, Robert R. Seal
2012, Applied Geochemistry (27) 623-643
The Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Pennsylvania, which features an Fe smelter that was operational in the 18th and 19th centuries, is dominated by three slag piles. Pile 1 slag, from the Hopewell Furnace, and pile 2 slag, likely from the nearby Cornwall Furnace, were both produced...
Status and trends of prey fish populations in Lake Michigan, 2012
David B. Bunnell, Charles P. Madenjian, Timothy J. Desorcie, Melissa Jean Kostich, Kelley Smith, Jean V. Adams
2012, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey Great Lakes Science Center has conducted lake-wide surveys of the fish community in Lake Michigan each fall since 1973 using standard 12-m bottom trawls towed along contour at depths of 9 to 110 m at each of seven index transects. The resulting data on relative abundance,...
