Diminishing Arctic lakes
Rebecca A Finger-Higgens
2022, Nature Climate Change
The Arctic is home to the largest surface water fraction of any terrestrial biome, containing thousands of low-lying lakes. Now, it appears that some Arctic lakes are drying due to rising air temperatures and autumn rains, causing permafrost to thaw and water bodies to drain....
Bayesian applications in environmental and ecological studies with R and Stan
Song S. Qian, Mark Richard Dufour, Ibrahim Alameddine
2022, Book
Modern ecological and environmental sciences are dominated by observational data. As a result, traditional statistical training often leaves scientists ill-prepared for the data analysis tasks they encounter in their work. Bayesian methods provide a more robust and flexible tool for data analysis, as they enable information from different sources to...
Geoelectric constraints on the Precambrian assembly and architecture of southern Laurentia
Benjamin Scott Murphy, Paul A. Bedrosian, Anna Kelbert
2022, Book chapter, Laurentia: Turning points in the evolution of a continent
Using images from an updated and expanded three-dimensional electrical conductivity synthesis model for the contiguous United States (CONUS), we highlight the key continent-scale geoelectric structures that are associated with the Precambrian assembly of southern Laurentia. Conductivity anomalies are associated with the Trans-Hudson orogen, the Penokean suture, the ca. 1.8–1.7 Ga...
Updates for Wake Atoll biosecurity management, biological control, survey, and management, and integrated pest management plans
Stacie A. Hathaway, James D. Jacobi, Robert Peck, Robert N. Fisher
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1067
Pests and invasive species have been defined as any organism that can have real or perceived adverse effects on operations, or the well-being of personnel, native plants, animals, their environment and ecosystem processes; attack or damage real property, supplies, equipment, or are otherwise undesirable (paraphrased from many sources including 53...
A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus)
Elsa M. Cárdenas-Canales, Andres Velasco-Villa, James A. Ellison, Panayampalli S. Satheshkumar, Jorge E. Osario, Tonie E. Rocke
2022, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (16)
Vampire bat transmitted rabies (VBR) is a continuing burden to public health and agricultural sectors in Latin America, despite decades-long efforts to control the disease by culling bat populations. Culling has been shown to disperse bats, leading to an increased spread of rabies. Thus, non-lethal strategies to control VBR, such...
TSAW — An exercise in consensus
Tyler B. Coplen
2022, Chemistry International (44) 23-23
No abstract available....
Confirmation that eagle fatalities can be reduced by automated curtailment of wind turbines
Christopher J. W. McClure, Brian W. Rolek, Leah Dunn, Jennifer D. McCabe, Luke Martinson, Todd E. Katzner
2022, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (3)
Automated curtailment is potentially a powerful technique to reduce collision mortality of wildlife with wind turbines. Previously, we used a before–after–control–impact framework to demonstrate that eagle fatalities declined after automated curtailment was implemented with the IdentiFlight system at a wind power facility in Wyoming, USA. We received substantial interest...
Using tissue cysteine to predict the trophic transfer of methylmercury and selenium in lake food webs
Jennifer C Thera, Karen A. Kidd, Robin Stewart, Robert F Bertolo, Nelson J. O'Driscoll
2022, Environmental Pollution (311)
The biomagnification of toxic methylmercury (MeHg) and selenium (Se) through aquatic food webs using nitrogen stable isotopes (δ15N) varies among ecosystems but underlying mechanisms are yet unexplained. Given the strong links between MeHg and thiol-containing amino acids and proteins containing selenocysteine, our hypothesis was that cysteine content is a better...
The capacity of freshwater ecosystems to recover from exceedances of aquatic life criteria
Christopher A. Mebane
2022, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (41) 2887-2910
In the United States, national chemical water quality criteria for the protection of aquatic life assume that aquatic ecosystems have sufficient resiliency to recover from criteria exceedences occurring up to once every 3 years. This resiliency assumption was critically reviewed through two approaches: 1) synthesis of case studies and 2)...
Database of biodiversity, habitat, and aquatic-resource quantification tools used in market-based conservation — 2022 update
Scott J. Chiavacci, Emily D. French, Joseph A. Morgan
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3068
Market-based conservation makes use of economic incentives to promote actions that avoid, minimize, or compensate for detrimental effects on natural resources and the environment. Examples of market-based conservation mechanisms include aquatic-resource (such as, streams, wetlands, and estuaries) compensatory mitigation, conservation banking, habitat exchanges, and payments for ecosystem services. A critical...
Examination of dissolved uranium concentrations in regional shallow groundwater relative to Operable Unit 8 of the Denver Radium Superfund Site
Carleton R. Bern
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5085
A radium industry existed between about 1914 and 1920 in Denver, Colorado, with operations located along the South Platte River. Sites associated with that industry were contaminated with radium and uranium processing residues and were incorporated into clean-up efforts as Operating Units (OUs) of the Denver Radium Superfund Site. Concentrations...
Green infrastructure in the Great Lakes—Assessment of performance, barriers, and unintended consequences
Nancy T. Baker, Daniel J. Sullivan, William R. Selbig, Ralph J. Haefner, David C. Lampe, E. Randall Bayless, Michael R. McHale
2022, Circular 1496
The Great Lakes Basin covers around 536,393 square kilometers, and the Great Lakes hold more than 5,400 cubic miles of water, accounting for more than 20 percent of the world’s fresh surface water supply. The Great Lakes provide a source of drinking water to tens of millions of people in...
Modeling the spatial and temporal dynamics of land-based polar bear denning in Alaska
Vijay P. Patil, George M. Durner, David C. Douglas, Todd C. Atwood
2022, Journal of Wildlife Management (86)
Although polar bears (Ursus maritimus) of the Southern Beaufort Sea (SBS) subpopulation have commonly created maternal dens on sea ice in the past, maternal dens on land have become increasingly prevalent as sea ice declines. This trend creates conditions for increased human–bear interactions associated with local communities and industrial activity....
Can lava flow like water? Assessing applications of critical flow theory to channelized basaltic lava flows
Hannah R. Dietterich, Gordon E. Grant, Becky Fasth, J. J. Major, Katharine V. Cashman
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface (127)
Flowing lava and water have dramatically different physical properties but can form similar hydraulic structures, including undular hydraulic jumps, or standing wave trains. In water flows, undular hydraulic jumps are evidence of critical flow (Froude number ∼1) and open-channel hydraulic theory provides a powerful tool for estimating flow depth and velocity....
Effects of formaldehyde (Parasite-S®) on biofilter nitrification from a cold- and a warm freshwater RAS
Kim T. Fredricks, Susan M. Schleis, Justin Smerud, Mark P. Gaikowski, Richard A. Erickson, Jillian Lee Hebert, Gregory J. Fischer, Kendall Holmes, Christopher F Hartleb
2022, Aquaculture Research (53) 5647-5655
The effect of Parasite-S® (an aqueous formaldehyde solution) on the nitrification processes of biofilters was evaluated in two recirculating aquaculture systems (RASs). Rearing tanks in the warmwater RAS contained yellow perch (Perca flavescens) and grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) with an initial weight of 166.8 kg and a mean density of 39.5 kg/m3....
Wildfire influences individual growth and breeding dispersal, but not survival and recruitment in a montane amphibian
Gabriel M. Barrile, Anna D. Chalfoun, Wendy A. Estes-Zumpf, Annika W. Walters
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Global wildfire regimes are changing rapidly, with widespread increases in the size, frequency, duration, and severity of wildfires. Whereas the effects of wildfire on ecological state variables such as occupancy, abundance, and species diversity are relatively well documented, changes in population vital rates (e.g., survival, recruitment) and individual responses (e.g.,...
Incorporating habitat suitability, landscape distance, and resistant kernels to estimate conservation units for an imperiled terrestrial snake
Javan Mathias Bauder, H. C. Chandler, M. Elmore, C. L. Jenkins
2022, Landscape Ecology (37) 2533
ContextWildlife distributions are often subdivided into discrete conservation units to aid in implementing management and conservation objectives. Habitat suitability models, resistance surfaces, and resistant kernels provide tools for delineating spatially explicit conservation units but guidelines for parameterizing resistant kernels are generally lacking.ObjectivesWe used the federally threatened...
The influence of submerged coastal structures on nearshore flows and wave runup
Renan F. da Silva, Jeff Hansen, Dirk P. Rijnsdorp, Ryan Lowe, Mark L. Buckley
2022, Coastal Engineering (177)
Engineered and natural submerged coastal structures (e.g., submerged breakwaters and reefs) modify incident wave fields and thus can alter hydrodynamic processes adjacent to coastlines. Although submerged structures are generally assumed to promote beach protection by dissipating waves offshore and creating sheltered conditions in...
Genome resequencing clarifies phylogeny and reveals patterns of selection in the toxicogenomics model Pimephales promelas
Katy E. Klymus, Robert A. Hrabik, Nathan Thompson, Robert S. Cornman
2022, PeerJ (10)
BackgroundThe fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) is a model species for toxicological research. A high-quality genome reference sequence is available, and genomic methods are increasingly used in toxicological studies of the species. However, phylogenetic relationships within the genus remain incompletely known and little population-genomic data are available for fathead minnow...
Aqueously altered igneous rocks sampled on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars
K.A. Farley, K.M. Stack, D.L. Shuster, B.H.N. Horgan, J.A. Hurowitz, J. D. Tarnas, J.I. Simon, V.Z. Sun, E.L. Scheller, K.R. Moore, S.M. McLennan, P.M. Vasconcelos, R. C. Wiens, A.H. Treiman, L.E. Mayhew, O. Beyssac, T.V. Kizovski, N. J. Tosca, K.H. Williford, L.S. Crumpler, L.W. Beegle, J.F. Bell III, B.L. Ehlmann, Y. Liu, J.N. Maki, M. E. Schmidt, A.C. Allwood, H.E.F. Amundsen, R. Ghartia, T. Bosak, A.J. Brown, B. C. Clark, A. Cousin, O. Forni, Travis S. J. Gabriel, Y. Goreva, S. Gupta, S.-E. Hamran, C.D.K. Herd, K. Hickman-Lewis, J.R. Johnson, L.C. Kah, P. B. Kelemen, K.B. Kinch, L. Mandon, N. Mangold, C. Quantun-Nataf, M.S. Rice, P.S. Russell, S. Sharma, S. Siljestroem, A. Steele, R. Sullivan, M. Wadhwa, B. P. Weiss, A.J. Williams, B.V. Wogsland, P.A. Willis, T.A. Acosta-Maeda, B. Peck, K. Benzerara, S. Bernard, A.S. Burton, E. L. Cardarelli, B. Chide, E. Clave, E.A. Cloutis, A.D. Czaja, V. Debaille, E. Dehouck, A.G. Fairen, D.T. Flannery, S.Z. Fleron, T. Fouchet, J. Frydenvang, B.J. Garczynski, E.F. Gibbons, E. M. Hausrath, A.G. Hayes, J. Henneke, J.L. Jorgensen, E.M. Kelly, J. Lasue, S. Le Mouelic, J. M. Madariaga, S. Maurice, M. Merusi, P. -Y. Meslin, S.M. Milkovich, C.C. Million, R.C. Moeller, J.I. Nunez, A.M. Ollila, G. Paar, D.A. Paige, D.A.K. Pedersen, P. Pilleri, C. Pilorget, P.C. Pinet, J.W. Rice Jr., C. Royer, V. Sautter, M. Schulte, M. A. Sephton, S.K. Sharma, S.F. Sholes, N. Spanovich, M. St. Clair, C.D. Tate, K. Uckert, S.J. VanBommel, A.G. Yanchilina, M. -P. Zorzano
2022, Science (377)
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, to investigate ancient lake and river deposits. We report observations of the crater floor, below the crater’s sedimentary delta, finding the floor consists of igneous rocks altered by water. The lowest exposed unit, informally named Séítah, is a coarsely crystalline...
Methods for robust estimates of tree biomass from pollen accumulation rates: Quantifying paleoecological reconstruction uncertainty
Clarke Alexandra Knight, John J. Battles, M. Jane Bunting, Marie Rhondelle Champagne, James A. Wanket, David Wahl
2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (10)
Pollen accumulation rates (PAR, grains cm–2 year–1) have been shown to be a reliable but methodologically complex bioproxy for quantitative reconstruction of past tree abundance. In a prior study, we found that the PARs of major tree taxa – Pseudotsuga, Pinus, Notholithocarpus, and the pollen group TC (Taxaceae and Cupressaceae families) –...
Incorporating streambank wells in stream mass loading studies to more effectively identify sources of solutes in stream water
Andrew H. Manning, Robert L. Runkel, Jean Morrison, Richard Wanty, Katherine Walton-Day
2022, Applied Geochemistry (145)
Stream synoptic sampling studies that include flow estimates derived from the stream tracer dilution method are now commonly performed to identify sources and processes controlling solute transport to streams. However, a limitation of this mass-loading approach is its inability to identify the side of the stream on which a source is located...
Stakeholder engagement to guide decision-relevant water data delivery
Diana Restrepo-Osorio, Amanda D. Stoltz, Nicole M. Herman-Mercer
2022, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) (58) 1531-1546
Water resources management and policy making require access to reliable scientific data. However, water managers may need to overcome various obstacles to accessing data. For example, insufficient technological infrastructures, low data literacy, and data format complexities often inhibit data user access. Thus, it is imperative to include stakeholders in the...
Tracing the sources and depositional history of mercury to coastal northeastern U.S. lakes
Vivien F. Taylor, Joshua D. Landis, Sarah E. Janssen
2022, Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts (24) 1805-1820
Mercury (Hg) deposition was reconstructed in sediment cores from lakes in two coastal U.S. National Parks: Acadia National Park (ANP) and Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS), to fill an important spatial gap in Hg deposition records and to explore changing sources of Hg and processes affecting Hg accumulation in these...
Trace elements in olivine fingerprint the source of 2018 magmas and shed light on explosive-effusive eruption cycles at Kīlauea Volcano
Adrien Mourey, Thomas Shea, Kendra J. Lynn, Allan Lerner, Sarah Lambart, Fidel Costa, Jeffrey Oalmann, R. Lopaka Lee, Cheryl Gansecki
2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (595)
Understanding magma genesis and the evolution of intensive parameters (temperature, pressure, composition, degree of melting) in the mantle source of highly active volcanic systems is crucial for interpreting magma supply changes over time and recognizing cyclic behavior to anticipate future volcanic behavior. Major and trace elements in olivine are commonly used to study variations...
