Thermal mapping of Hawaiian volcanoes with ASTER satellite data
Matthew R. Patrick, Coral-Nadine Witzke
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5110
Thermal mapping of volcanoes is important to determine baseline thermal behavior in order to judge future thermal activity that may precede an eruption. We used cloud-free kinetic temperature images from the ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) sensor obtained between 2000 and 2010 to produce thermal maps for...
Comparison of statistical and theoretical habitat models for conservation planning: The benefit of ensemble prediction
D. Todd Jones-Farrand, Todd M. Fearer, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Frank R. Thompson III, Mark D. Nelson, John M. Tirpak
2011, Ecological Applications (21) 2269-2282
Selection of a modeling approach is an important step in the conservation planning process, but little guidance is available. We compared two statistical and three theoretical habitat modeling approaches representing those currently being used for avian conservation planning at landscape and regional scales: hierarchical spatial count (HSC), classification and regression...
Aeolian and fluvial processes in dryland regions: The need for integrated studies
Jayne Belnap, Seth M. Munson, Jason P. Field
2011, Ecohydrology (4) 615-622
Aeolian and fluvial processes play a fundamental role in dryland regions of the world and have important environmental and ecological consequences from local to global scales. Although both processes operate over similar spatial and temporal scales and are likely strongly coupled in many dryland systems, aeolian and fluvial processes have...
Electrical conductivity of electrolytes applicable to natural waters from 0 to 100 degrees C
R. Blaine McCleskey
2011, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data (56) 317-327
The electrical conductivities of 34 electrolyte solutions found in natural waters ranging from (10-4 to 1) mol•kg-1 in concentration and from (5 to 90) °C have been determined. High-quality electrical conductivity data for numerous electrolytes exist in the scientific literature, but the data do not span the concentration or temperature...
Bridging the conservation design and delivery gap for wetland bird habitat maintenance and restoration in the Midwestern United States
W.E. Thogmartin, B. Potter, G. Soulliere
2011, Journal of Conservation Planning (7) 1-12
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's adoption of Strategic Habitat Conservation is intended to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of conservation delivery by targeting effort in areas where biological benefits are greatest. Conservation funding has not often been allocated in accordance with explicit biological endpoints, and the gap between conservation...
Digitized data from ground geophysical surveys in Afghanistan: A website for distribution of data
Sarah W. Polster, Benjamin J. Drenth
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1270
This document describes the process of digitization of a 1974 report on geophysical work undertaken by Soviet geophysicists in southern and eastern Afghanistan. These data, uncovered in Afghanistan, represent magnetic and electrical ground surveys for which locations are not well defined. Due to lack of location information, these surveys were...
Selenium in birds
Harry M. Ohlendorf, Gary H. Heinz
2011, Book chapter, Environmental contaminants in biota: Interpreting tissue concentrations
No abstract available....
Polymethylene-interrupted fatty acids: Biomarkers for native and exotic mussels in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Tadej Mezek, Ed Sverko, Martina D. Ruddy, Donna Zaruk, Alfredo Capretta, Craig E. Hebert, Aaron T. Fisk, Daryl J. McGoldrick, Teresa J. Newton, Trent M. Sutton, Marten A. Koops, Andrew M. Muir, Timothy B. Johnson, Mark P. Ebener, Michael T. Arts
2011, Journal of Great Lakes Research (37) 289-297
Freshwater organisms synthesize a wide variety of fatty acids (FAs); however, the ability to synthesize and/or subsequently modify a particular FA is not universal, making it possible to use certain FAs as biomarkers. Herein we document the occurrence of unusual FAs (polymethylene-interrupted fatty acids; PMI-FAs) in select freshwater organisms in...
Physiological effects of potassium chloride, formalin and handling stress on bonytail
Catherine L. Sykes, Colleen A. Caldwell, William R. Gould
2011, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (31) 291-298
We characterized the sublethal physiological changes in bonytail Gila elegans subjected to consecutive 750-mg/L potassium chloride (KCl) and 25-mg/L formalin treatments for the removal of zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha and quagga mussel D. bugensis veligers. Plasma cortisol, glucose, and osmolality were measured over 24 h and at 14 d posthandling after exposing bonytail to KCl and...
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in harbor sediments from Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Azad Mohammed, Paul Peterman, Kathy Echols, Kevin Feltz, George Tegerdine, Anton Manoo, Dexter Maraj, John Agard, Carl Orazio
2011, Marine Pollution Bulletin (62) 1324-1332
Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) were determined in nearshore marine surficial sediments from three locations in Trinidad. Sediments were sampled at Sea Lots on the west coast, in south Port-of-Spain Harbor, south of Sea Lots at Caroni Lagoon National Park, and on Trinidad's east coast at...
Petrologic, tectonic, and metallogenic evolution of the Ancestral Cascades magmatic arc, Washington, Oregon, and northern California
Edward A. du Bray, David A. John
2011, Geosphere (7) 1102-1133
Present-day High Cascades arc magmatism was preceded by ∼40 m.y. of nearly cospatial magmatism represented by the ancestral Cascades arc in Washington, Oregon, and northernmost California (United States). Time-space-composition relations for the ancestral Cascades arc have been synthesized from a recent compilation of more than 4000 geochemical analyses and associated...
Physical properties of sediment from the Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well, Alaska North Slope
William J. Winters, Michael Walker, Robert Hunter, Timothy S. Collett, Ray M. Boswell, Kelly K. Rose, William F. Waite, Marta Torres, Shirish Patil, Abhijit Dandekar
2011, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology (28) 361-380
This study characterizes cored and logged sedimentary strata from the February 2007 BP Exploration Alaska, Department of Energy, U.S. Geological Survey (BPXA-DOE-USGS) Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well on the Alaska North Slope (ANS). The physical-properties program analyzed core samples recovered from the well, and in conjunction with downhole...
Petrogenesis of postcollisional magmatism at Scheelite Dome, Yukon, Canada: Evidence for a lithospheric mantle source for magmas associated with intrusion-related gold systems
John L. Mair, G. Lang Farmer, David I. Groves, Craig J. R. Hart, Richard J. Goldfarb
2011, Economic Geology (106) 451-480
The type examples for the class of deposits termed intrusion-related gold systems occur in the Tombstone-Tungsten belt of Alaska and Yukon, on the eastern side of the Tintina gold province. In this part of the northern Cordillera, extensive mid-Cretaceous postcollisional plutonism took place following the accretion of exotic terranes to...
Earthquake scenario ground motions for the urban area of Evansville, Indiana
Jennifer S. Haase, Robert L. Nowack, Chris H. Cramer, Oliver S. Boyd, Robert A. Bauer
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1260
The Wabash Valley seismic zone and the New Madrid seismic zone are the closest large earthquake source zones to Evansville, Indiana. The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, over 180 kilometers (km) from Evansville, produced ground motions with a Modified Mercalli Intensity of VII near Evansville, the highest intensity observed in...
Characterization of salinity and selenium loading and land-use change in Montrose Arroyo, western Colorado, from 1992 to 2010
Jennifer L. Moore
2011, Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5106
Salinity and selenium are naturally occurring and perva-sive in the lower Gunnison River Basin of Colorado, includ-ing the watershed of Montrose Arroyo. Although some of the salinity and selenium loading in the Montrose Arroyo study area is from natural sources, additional loading has resulted from the introduction of intensive irrigation...
Simulating potential structural and operational changes for Detroit Dam on the North Santiam River, Oregon-Interim Results
Norman L. Buccola, Stewart A. Rounds
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1268
Prior to operational changes in 2007, Detroit Dam on the North Santiam River in western Oregon had a well-documented effect on downstream water temperature that was problematic for endangered salmonid fish species. In this U.S. Geological Survey study, done in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, an existing...
Summary of the stratigraphy and structural elements related to plate convergence of the Quetta-Muslim Bagh-Sibi region, Balochistan, west-central Pakistan
Florian Maldonado, Jan M. Mengal, Shahid H. Khan, Peter D. Warwick
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1224
Obduction of an ophiolite complex onto the northwestern continental margin of the India plate occurred during the Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene, followed by collision of the ophiolitic complex of the India plate with the Eurasia plate in the Eocene. Lower Eocene marine strata overlie the ophiolitic complex suggesting that...
Distribution of transmissivity and yield of the surficial, Castle Hayne, and Peedee aquifers in Northern New Hanover County, North Carolina
Kristen Bukowski McSwain, Laura A. Nagy
2011, Open-File Report 2011-1205
Data were collected from more than 230 wells in northern New Hanover County, North Carolina, to evaluate the distribution of transmissivity and yield of the surficial, Castle Hayne, and Peedee aquifers of the Coastal Plain Physiographic Province. Constant-rate,single-well aquifer test data were obtained and analyzed to calculate additional transmissivity values...
Continuous resistivity profiling data from the Corsica River Estuary, Maryland
V.A. Cross, J.F. Bratton, C.R. Worley, John Crusius, K.D. Kroeger
2011, Open-File Report 2010-1094
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) into Maryland's Corsica River Estuary was investigated as part of a larger study to determine its importance in nutrient delivery to the Chesapeake Bay. The Corsica River Estuary represents a coastal lowland setting typical of much of the eastern bay. An interdisciplinary U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)...
Ecosystem ecology meets adaptive management: food web response to a controlled flood on the Colorado River, Glen Canyon
Wyatt F. Cross, Colden V. Baxter, Kevin C. Donner, Emma J. Rosi-Marshall, Theodore A. Kennedy, Robert O. Hall Jr., Holly A. Wellard Kelly, R. Scott Rogers
2011, Ecological Applications (21) 2016-2033
Large dams have been constructed on rivers to meet human demands for water, electricity, navigation, and recreation. As a consequence, flow and temperature regimes have been altered, strongly affecting river food webs and ecosystem processes. Experimental high‐flow dam releases, i.e., controlled floods, have been implemented on the Colorado River, USA,...
Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative data management and integration
Natalie Latysh, R. Sky Bristol
2011, WLCI Fact Sheet 1
Six Federal agencies, two State agencies, and two local entities formally support the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) and work together on a landscape scale to manage fragile habitats and wildlife resources amidst growing energy development in southwest Wyoming. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) was tasked with implementing targeted research...
Dealing with zeros
Josep Antoni Martin-Fernandez, Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Ricardo A. Olea
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Antonella Buccianti, editor(s)
2011, Book chapter, Compositional data analysis: Theory and applications
No abstract available....
Bioaccumulation dynamics and exposure routes of Cd and Cu among species of aquatic mayflies
Daniel Cain, Marie-Noële Croteau, Samuel Luoma
2011, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (30) 2532-2541
Consumption of periphyton is a potentially important route of metal exposure to benthic invertebrate grazers. The present study examined the bioaccumulation kinetics of dissolved and dietary Cd and Cu in five species of mayflies (class Insecta). Artificial stream water and benthic diatoms were separately labeled with enriched stable metal isotopes...
Book review: Extreme ocean waves
Eric L. Geist
2011, Pure and Applied Geophysics (168) 1887-1888
‘‘Extreme Ocean Waves’’ is a collection of ten papers edited by Efim Pelinovsky and Christian Kharif that followed the April 2007 meeting of the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union. A note on terminology: extreme waves in this volume broadly encompass different types of waves, includ- ing deep-water and...
Site characterization and site response in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Susan E. Hough, Alan K. Yong, Jean Robert Altidor, Dieuseul Anglade, Douglas D. Given, Saint-Louis Mildor
2011, Earthquake Spectra (27) 137-155
Waveform analysis of aftershocks of the Mw7.0 Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010 reveals amplification of ground motions at sites within the Cul de Sac valley in which Port-au-Prince is situated. Relative to ground motions recorded at a hard-rock reference site, peak acceleration values are amplified by a factor of...
