Hydraulics of freshwater mussel habitat in select reaches of the Big River, Missouri
Maura O. Roberts, Robert B. Jacobson, Susannah O. Erwin
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5002
The Big River is a tributary to the Meramec River in south-central Missouri. It drains an area that has been historically one of the largest lead producers in the world, and associated mine wastes have contaminated sediments in much of the river corridor. This study investigated hydraulic conditions in four...
Detection of aseismic slip and poroelastic reservoir deformation at the North Brawley Geothermal Field from 2009 to 2019
Kathryn Zerbe Materna, Andrew J. Barbour, Junle Jiang, Mariana Eneva
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (127)
The North Brawley Geothermal Field, located within the Brawley Seismic Zone of Southern California, presents a case study for understanding seismic hazards linked to fluid injection and geothermal energy extraction. An earthquake swarm near the geothermal field in 2012 included two earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 5 and was potentially...
Detection and characterization of coastal tidal wetland change in the northeastern US using Landsat time series
Xiucheng Yang, Zhe Zhu, Shirley Qiu, Kevin D. Kroeger, Zhiliang Zhu, Scott Covington
2022, Remote Sensing of Environment (276)
Coastal tidal wetlands are highly altered ecosystems exposed to substantial risk due to widespread and frequent land-use change coupled with sea-level rise, leading to disrupted hydrologic and ecologic functions and ultimately, significant reduction in climate resiliency. Knowing where and when the...
Integration of satellite-based optical and synthetic aperture radar imagery to estimate winter cover crop performance in cereal grasses
Jyoti Jennewein, Brian T. Lamb, W. Dean Hively, Alison Thieme, Resham Thapa, Avi Goldsmith, Phillip Dennison
2022, Remote Sensing (14)
The magnitude of ecosystem services provided by winter cover crops is linked to their performance (i.e., biomass and associated nitrogen content, forage quality, and fractional ground cover), although few studies quantify these characteristics across the landscape. Remote sensing can produce landscape-level assessments of cover crop performance. However,...
Prairie wetlands as sources or sinks of nitrous oxide: Effects of land use and hydrology
Brian Tangen, Sheel Bansal
2022, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (320)
National and global greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets are continually being refined as data become available. Primary sources of the potent GHG nitrous oxide (N2O) include agricultural soil management and burning of fossil fuels, but comprehensive N2O budgets also incorporate less prominent factors such as wetlands. Freshwater wetland GHG flux estimates,...
Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network
Corey Krabbenhoft, George H. Allen, Peirong Lin, Sarah E Godsey, Daniel C. Allen, Ryan Burrows, Amanda DelVecchia, Ken M. Fritz, Margaret Shanafield, Amy J. Burgin, Margaret Zimmer, Thibault Datry, Walter K. Dodds, C. Nathan Jones, Meryl Mimms, Catherin Franklin, John C. Hammond, Samuel Zipper, Adam S Ward, Katie H. Costigan, Hylke Beck, Julian D. Olden
2022, Nature Sustainability (5) 586-592
Knowing where and when rivers flow is paramount to managing freshwater ecosystems. Yet stream gauging stations are distributed sparsely across rivers globally and may not capture the diversity of fluvial network properties and anthropogenic influences. Here we evaluate the placement bias of a global stream gauge dataset on its representation...
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients
Valentin Journe, Robert A. Andrus, Marie-Claire Aravena Acuna, Davide Ascoli, Roberta Berretti, Daniel Berveiller, Michal Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Raul Bonal, Thomas Caignard, Rafael Calama, J. Julio Camarero, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Benoit Courbaud, Francois Courbet, Thomas Curt, Adrian Das, Evangelia Daskalakou, Hendrik Davi, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael Dietze, Sergio Donoso Calderon, Laurent Dormont, Josep Maria Espelta, Timothy J. Fahey, William Farfan-Rios, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Ines Ibanez, Jill F. Johnstone, Daisuke Kabeya, Roland Kays, Thomas Kitzberger, Johannes M. H. Knops, Richard K. Kobe, Georges Kunstler, Jonathan G. A. Lageard, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Theodor Leininger, Jean-Marc Limousin, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Eliot J. B. McIntire, Christopher M. Moore, Emily V. Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Kyotaro Noguchi, Jean-Marc Ourcival, Robert Parmenter, Ian S. Pearse, Ignacio M. Perez-Ramos, Lukasz Piechnik, John Poulsen, Renata Poulton-Kamakura, Tong Qiu, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez, Javier D Sanguinetti, C. Lane Scher, Harald Schmidt Van Marle, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Miles Silman, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jacob N. Straub, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A. Thomas, Maria Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Boyd Wright, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess K. Zimmerman, Roman Zlotin, Magdalena Zywiec, James S. Clark
2022, Ecology Letters (25) 1471-1482
Lack of tree fecundity data across climatic gradients precludes the analysis of how seed supply contributes to global variation in forest regeneration and biotic interactions responsible for biodiversity. A global synthesis of raw seedproduction data shows a 250-fold increase in seed abundance from cold-dry to warm-wet climates, driven primarily by...
A suction pump sampler for invertebrate drift detects exceptionally high concentrations of small invertebrates that drift nets miss
Jason R. Neuswanger, Erik R. Schoen, Mark S. Wipfli, Carol J. Volk, James W. Savereide
2022, Hydrobiologia (849) 2077-2089
Invertebrate drift is a key process in riverine ecosystems controlling aquatic invertebrate movement, distribution, and availability to fish as prey. However, accurately sampling drift across a wide range of invertebrate sizes is difficult because small invertebrates slip through coarse-mesh drift nets, and fine mesh clogs more easily, which reduces filtration...
Complex magmatic-tectonic interactions during the 2020 Makushin Volcano, Alaska, earthquake swarm
Federica Lanza, Diana Roman, John Power, Clifford H. Thurber, Thomas Hudson
2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (587)
On June 15, 2020, at 21:16 UTC, a locally-felt earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck Unalaska Island, Alaska, ∼15 km west of the town of Unalaska and the large fishing port of Dutch Harbor. The event was followed by a M4.1 earthquake at 00:34 UTC and several M3+ aftershocks, initiating a prolific...
Sandhill crane colt survival in Minnesota
William J. Severud, David Wolfson, John Fieberg, David E. Andersen
2022, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (13) 494-501
Age-structured population models require reliable estimates of cohort-specific survival rates, yet vital rates of younger age classes are often difficult to estimate because of the logistical challenges of monitoring young animals. As part of a study of sandhill cranes Antigone canadensis in the zone of contact between breeding distributions of the Eastern...
Biogeochemical and ecosystem properties in three adjacent semiarid grasslands are resistant to nitrogen deposition but sensitive to edaphic variability
Brooke Bossert Osborne, Carla M Roybal, Robin H. Reibold, Christopher D Collier, Erika L. Geiger, Michala Lee Phillips, Michael N Weintraub, Sasha C. Reed
2022, Journal of Ecology (110) 1615-1631
Drylands have low nitrogen stocks and are predicted to be sensitive to modest increases in reactive nitrogen availability, but direct evidence that atmospheric nitrogen deposition will have sustained effects on dryland ecosystems is sparse and conflicting.We used three long-running in situ nitrogen deposition simulation experiments and a complementary laboratory incubation experiment...
Evaluating the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to bats in the context of wildlife research, rehabilitation, and control
Jonathan D. Cook, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Jeremy T. H. Coleman, Jonathan M. Sleeman, Michael C. Runge
2022, Wildlife Society Bulletin (46)
Preventing wildlife disease outbreaks is a priority for natural resource agencies, and management decisions can be urgent, especially in epidemic circumstances. With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, wildlife agencies were concerned whether the activities they authorize might increase the risk of viral transmission from humans to North American bats, but had...
Central Andean (28–34°S) flood record 0–25 ka from Salinas del Bebedero, Argentina
Jay Quade, Elad Dente, Allison Cartwright, Adam M. Hudson, Sebastian Jimenez, David McGee
2022, Quaternary Research (109) 102-127
The Salinas del Bebedero occupies an isolated basin in the foreland of central Argentina at 33°S and was flooded repeatedly over past 25 ka. Isotopic evidence demonstrates that this flooding was due to overflow of the nearby Río Desaguadero with waters derived from the distant (≥300 km)...
Integrated hydrologic model development and postprocessing for GSFLOW using pyGSFLOW
Joshua Larsen, Ayman H. Alzraiee, Richard G. Niswonger
2022, Journal of Open Source Software (7)
pyGSFLOW is a python package designed to create new GSFLOW integrated hydrologic models, read existing models, edit model input data, run GSFLOW models, process output, and visualize model data....
The economic effects of the HayWired Scenario using the association of Bay Area governments regional growth forecast—A focus on network disruption and resilience
Cynthia Kroll, Bobby Lu, Anne Wein, Aksel Olsen
2022, Conference Paper
This paper describes how impacts to infrastructure networks within the San Francisco Bay Area may exacerbate the effects of building damage and how policies addressing these networks can improve resilience before and after the earthquake. The analysis uses existing modeling techniques...
Noninvasive sampling of mountain lion hair using modified foothold traps
Tricia S. Rossettie, Travis W. Perry, James W. Cain III
2022, Wildlife Society Bulletin (46)
Genetic analysis of non-invasively obtained samples is an increasingly affordable option for many wildlife studies, but it has remained difficult to obtain high-quality samples from many species. We modified 8” Belisle foot snares (Belisle Enterprises, Quebec, Canada) to non-invasively obtain mountain lion (Puma concolor) hair samples in unbaited trail sets....
System characterization report on PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa (PRISMA)
Minsu Kim, Seonkyung Park, Cody Anderson, Gregory L. Stensaas
2022, Open-File Report 2021-1030-K
Executive SummaryThis report addresses system characterization of the Italian Space Agency’s PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa (PRISMA) and is part of a series of system characterization reports produced and delivered by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of Excellence. These reports present and detail the...
Development of continuous bathymetry and two-dimensional hydraulic models for the Willamette River, Oregon
James S. White, J. Rose Wallick
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5025
The Willamette River is home to at least 69 species of fish, 33 of which are native, including Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). These fish need suitable hydraulic conditions, such as water depth and velocity, to fulfill various stages of their life. Hydraulic conditions are driven...
Conceptual models of groundwater flow in the Grand Canyon region, Arizona
Jacob E. Knight, Peter W. Huntoon
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5037
The conceptual models of groundwater flow outlined herein synthesize what is known and hypothesized about the groundwater-flow systems that discharge to the Grand Canyon of Arizona. These models interpret the hydrogeologic characteristics and hydrologic dynamics of the physical systems into a framework for understanding key aspects of the physical systems...
Prescribed fire and other fuel-reduction treatments alter ground spider assemblages in a Southern Appalachian hardwood forest
Joshua W. Campbell, Steven Mark Grodsky, Marc Milne, Patrick Viguiera, Cynthia C. Viguiera, Emily Stern, Cathryn H. Greenberg
2022, Forest Ecology and Management (510)
Prescribed burns and understory thinnings are forest management practices aimed at reducing fuel loads to lessen wildfire threat in the Southern Appalachians, USA. Spiders play a critical role in forest ecosystems by controlling insect populations and providing an important food source for vertebrates. We used pitfall and colored pan traps...
Aquatic-life criteria compared to concentrations of cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc in streams near Fort Polk Military Reservation, Louisiana, December 2015–August 2016
Roland W. Tollett
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5101
The primary focus of this study was to document cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc concentrations in selected streams near the U.S. Army Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and Fort Polk Military Reservation and to compare those values to Federal and State aquatic-life criteria guidelines. The acute aquatic-life criteria used for...
Improved resolution across the Global Seismographic Network: A new era in low-frequency seismology
Adam T. Ringler, Robert Anthony, P. Thompson Davis, Carl Ebeling, K. Hafner, R. Mellors, S. Schneider, David C. Wilson
2022, The Seismic Record (2) 78-87
The Global Seismographic Network (GSN)—a global network of ≈150 very broadband stations—is used by researchers to study the free oscillations of the Earth (≈0.3–10 mHz) following large earthquakes. Normal‐mode observations can provide information about the radial density and anisotropic velocity structure of the Earth (including near the core–mantle boundary), but only...
Monitoring climate impacts on annual forage production across U.S. semi-arid grasslands
Marketa Podebradska, Bruce K. Wylie, Deborah J. Bathke, Yared A. Bayissa, Devendra Dahal, Justin D. Derner, Philip A. Fay, Michael J. Hayes, Walter H. Schacht, Jerry D. Volesky, Pradeep Wagle, Brian D. Wardlow
2022, Remote Sensing (14)
The ecosystem performance approach, used in a previously published case study focusing on the Nebraska Sandhills, proved to minimize impacts of non-climatic factors (e.g., overgrazing, fire, pests) on the remotely-sensed signal of seasonal vegetation greenness resulting in a better attribution of its changes to climate variability. The...
Using a mechanistic framework to model the density of an aquatic parasite Ceratonova shasta
H. E. Robinson, Julie D Alexander, Jerri L Bartholomew, Sascha L Hallett, Nicholas J. Hetrick, Russell Perry, Nicholas A. Som
2022, PeerJ (10)
Ceratonova shasta is a myxozoan parasite endemic to the Pacific Northwest of North America that is linked to low survival rates of juvenile salmonids in some watersheds such as the Klamath River basin. The density of C. shasta actinospores in the water column is typically highest in the spring (March–June), and directly...
Collaborative hubs: Making the most of predictive epidemic modeling
Nicholas G. Reich, Justin Lessler, Sebastian Funk, Cecile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani, Ryan J Tibshirani, Katriona Shea, Melanie Schienle, Michael C. Runge, Roni Rosenfeld, Evan L Ray, Rene Niehus, Helen C Johnson, Michael A Johansson, Harry Hochheiser, Lauren Gardner, Johannes Bracher, Rebecca K. Borchering, Matthew Biggerstaff
2022, American Journal of Public Health (112) 839-842
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that epidemic models play an important role in how governments and the public understand and respond to infectious disease crises. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, models were used first to estimate the true number of infections, then to provide estimates...
