2-D inner-shelf current observations from a single VHF WEllen RAdar (WERA) station
G. Voulgaris, N. Kumar, K.-W. Gurgel, John C. Warner, Jeffrey H. List
2011, Conference Paper, 2011 IEEE/OES/CWTM 10th working conference on current, waves and turbulence measurement, CWTM 2011
The majority of High Frequency (HF) radars used worldwide operate at medium to high frequencies (8 to 30 MHz) providing spatial resolutions ranging from 3 to 1.5 km and ranges from 150 to 50 km. This paper presents results from the deployment of a single Very High Frequency (VHF, 48...
Compositional diversity and geologic insights of the Aristarchus crater from Moon Mineralogy Mapper data
J.F. Mustard, C.M. Pieters, P.J. Isaacson, J.W. Head, S. Besse, R. N. Clark, R.L. Klima, N.E. Petro, M.I. Staid, J.M. Sunshine, C.J. Runyon, S. Tompkins
2011, Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets (116)
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) acquired high spatial and spectral resolution data of the Aristarchus Plateau with 140 m/pixel in 85 spectral bands from 0.43 to 3.0 m. The data were collected as radiance and converted to reflectance using the observational constraints and a solar spectrum scaled to the Moon-Sun...
Seasonal distribution of Gulf of Mexico sturgeon in the pensacola bay system, Florida
M.S. Duncan, B.M. Wrege, Frank M. Parauka, J. Jeffery Isely
2011, Journal of Applied Ichthyology (27) 316-321
Temporal and spatial distributions of Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi were assessed in the Pensacola bay system, Florida, using stationary ultrasonic telemetry. Fifty‐eight Gulf sturgeon were tagged within the Escambia (n = 26), Yellow (n = 8), Blackwater (n = 12) and Choctawhatchee Rivers (n = 12) in June, July, September and October, 2005. Fifty‐four Gulf sturgeon...
Using a semi-natural stream to produce young sturgeons for conservation stocking: Maintaining natural selection during spawning and rearing
B. Kynard, D. Pugh, T. Parker, Micah Kieffer
2011, Journal of Applied Ichthyology (27) 420-424
Young sturgeons used for conservation stocking are presently produced using the same methods used for commercial culture. To determine if young sturgeons could be produced without relaxing natural selection factors, we developed a semi‐natural stream where we annually studied mating of wild shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) observed movement of gametes...
Study design and sampling intensity for demographic analyses of bear populations
R.B. Harris, C.C. Schwartz, R.D. Mace, M.A. Haroldson
2011, Ursus (22) 24-36
The rate of population change through time (??) is a fundamental element of a wildlife population's conservation status, yet estimating it with acceptable precision for bears is difficult. For studies that follow known (usually marked) bears, ?? can be estimated during some defined time by applying either life-table or matrix...
Adaptive management of natural resources-framework and issues
Byron K. Williams
2011, Journal of Environmental Management (92) 1346-1353
Adaptive management, an approach for simultaneously managing and learning about natural resources, has been around for several decades. Interest in adaptive decision making has grown steadily over that time, and by now many in natural resources conservation claim that...
Enhancement of long period components of recorded and synthetic ground motions using InSAR
J.A. Abell, J. Carlos de la Llera, Charles W. Wicks Jr.
2011, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (31) 817-829
Tall buildings and flexible structures require a better characterization of long period ground motion spectra than the one provided by current seismic building codes. Motivated by that, a methodology is proposed and tested to improve recorded and synthetic ground motions which are consistent with the observed co-seismic displacement field...
Notes on the origin of inertinite macerals in coal: Evidence for fungal and arthropod transformations of degraded macerals
J.C. Hower, J.M.K. O’Keefe, C.F. Eble, A. Raymond, B. Valentim, T.J. Volk, A.R. Richardson, Anne B. Satterwhite, R.S. Hatch, J.D. Stucker, M.A. Watt
2011, International Journal of Coal Geology (86) 231-240
The role of fungus in the formation of coal macerals, both as a primary contributor in the form of a fungus fossil/maceral funginite, and in their role in degrading wood, thus producing degraded maceral forms, has been established. Fungus, in the course of breaking down the lignin and cellulose in wood,...
Economic resilience lessons from the ShakeOut earthquake scenario
A. Wein, A. Rose
2011, Earthquake Spectra (27) 559-573
Following a damaging earthquake, “business interruption” (BI)—reduced production of goods and services—begins and continues long after the ground shaking stops. Economic resilience reduces BI losses by making the best use of the resources available at a given point in time (static resilience) or by speeding recovery through repair and reconstruction...
Coherence of river and ocean conditions along the US West Coast during storms
T. A. Kniskern, Jonathan A. Warrick, K.L. Farnsworth, R. A. Wheatcroft, M.A. Goni
2011, Continental Shelf Research (31) 789-805
The majority of water and sediment discharge from the small, mountainous watersheds of the US West Coast occurs during and immediately following winter storms. The physical conditions (waves, currents, and winds) within and acting upon the proximal coastal ocean during these winter storms strongly influence dispersal patterns. We examined this...
Genetic discontinuity among regional populations of Lophelia pertusa in the North Atlantic Ocean
C.L. Morrison, Steve W. Ross, M.S. Nizinski, S. Brooke, J. Jarnegren, R.G. Waller, Robin L. Johnson, T.L. King
2011, Conservation Genetics (12) 713-729
Knowledge of the degree to which populations are connected through larval dispersal is imperative to effective management, yet little is known about larval dispersal ability or population connectivity in Lophelia pertusa, the dominant framework-forming coral on the continental slope in the North Atlantic Ocean. Using nine microsatellite DNA markers,...
Diel cycles in dissolved barium, lead, iron, vanadium, and nitrite in a stream draining a former zinc smelter site near Hegeler, Illinois
Robert T. Kay, G.E. Groschen, G. Cygan, David H. Dupre
2011, Chemical Geology (283) 99-108
Diel variations in the concentrations of a number of constituents have the potential to substantially affect the appropriate sampling regimen in acidic streams. Samples taken once during the course of the day cannot adequately reflect diel variations in water quality and may result in an inaccurate understanding of biogeochemical...
Road-testing the outreach best practices manual: Applicability for implementation of the development phase projects by the regional carbon sequestration partnerships
D. Daly, J. Bradbury, G. Garrett, S. Greenberg, R. Myhre, T. Peterson, L. Tollefson, S. Wade, N. Sacuta
2011, Energy Procedia (4) 6256-6262
Geologic carbon dioxide (CO2) storage verification tests by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSPs) provided the experience base for the Public Outreach and Education for Carbon Storage Projects, a best practices manual, published in December 2009. This paper summarizes these outreach best practices; discusses...
Dual-track CCS stakeholder engagement: Lessons learned from FutureGen in Illinois
G. Hund, S.E. Greenberg
2011, Energy Procedia (4) 6218-6225
FutureGen, as originally planned, was to be the world’s first coal-fueled, near-zero emissions power plant with fully integrated, 90% carbon capture and storage (CCS). From conception through siting and design, it enjoyed strong support from multiple stakeholder groups, which benefited the overall project. Understanding the stakeholder engagement process for this...
Isolation of Bartonella capreoli from elk
Y. Bai, Paul C. Cross, L. Malania, M. Kosoy
2011, Veterinary Microbiology (148) 329-332
The aim of the present study was to investigate the presence of Bartonella infections in elk populations. We report the isolation of four Bartonella strains from 55 elk blood samples. Sequencing analysis demonstrated that all four strains belong to Bartonella capreoli, a bacterium that was originally described in the wild...
Microbial consortia of gorgonian corals from the Aleutian islands
Michael A. Gray, Robert P. Stone, Molly R. McLaughlin, Christina A. Kellogg
2011, FEMS Microbiology Ecology (76) 109-120
Gorgonians make up the majority of corals in the Aleutian archipelago and provide critical fish habitat in areas of economically important fisheries. The microbial ecology of the deep-sea gorgonian corals Paragorgea arborea, Plumarella superba, and Cryogorgia koolsae was examined with culture-based and 16S rRNA gene-based techniques. Six coral colonies (two per species) were...
Ages and sources of components of Zn-Pb, Cu, precious metal, and platinum group element deposits in the goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada
Peter G. Vikre, Quentin J. Browne, Robert J. Fleck, Albert H. Hofstra, Joseph L. Wooden
2011, Economic Geology (106) 381-412
The Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada, includes zinc-dominant carbonate replacement deposits of probable late Paleozoic age, and lead-dominant carbonate replacement deposits, copper ± precious metal-platinum group element (PGE) deposits, and gold ± silver deposits that are spatially associated with Late Triassic porphyritic intrusions. The district encompasses ~500 km2 although the...
Alteration of streamflow magnitudes and potential ecological consequences: A multiregional assessment
Daren M. Carlisle, David M. Wolock, Michael R. Meador
2011, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (9) 264-270
Human impacts on watershed hydrology are widespread in the US, but the prevalence and severity of stream‐flow alteration and its potential ecological consequences have not been quantified on a national scale. We assessed streamflow alteration at 2888 streamflow monitoring sites throughout the conterminous US. The magnitudes of mean annual (1980–2007)...
Chronological framework for the deglaciation of the Lake Michigan lobe of the Laurentide ice sheet from ice-walled lake deposits
B. Curry, J. Petras
2011, Journal of Quaternary Science (26) 402-410
A revised chronological framework for the deglaciation of the Lake Michigan lobe of the south‐central Laurentide Ice Sheet is presented based on radiocarbon ages of plant macrofossils archived in the sediments of low‐relief ice‐walled lakes. We analyze the precision and accuracy of 15 AMS 14C ages of plant macrofossils obtained from...
Testing earthquake source inversion methodologies
M. Page, P.M. Mai, D. Schorlemmer
2011, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (92) 75-75
Source Inversion Validation Workshop; Palm Springs, California, 11-12 September 2010; Nowadays earthquake source inversions are routinely performed after large earthquakes and represent a key connection between recorded seismic and geodetic data and the complex rupture process at depth. The resulting earthquake source models quantify the spatiotemporal evolution of ruptures. They...
Short-term effects of burn season on flowering phenology of savanna plants
N.B. Pavlovic, S. A. Leicht-Young, R. Grundel
2011, Plant Ecology (212) 611-625
We examined the effect of season of burn on flowering phenology of groundlayer species, in the year following burns, in a mesic-sand Midwestern oak savanna. Burn treatments were fall, early-season, growing-season, late-season, and 1 or 5 years after a prior early-season wildfire. For these treatments, we compared the number of...
Mid Holocene lake level and shoreline behavior during the Nipissing phase of the upper Great Lakes at Alpena, Michigan, USA
T.A. Thompson, K. Lepper, A.L. Endres, J.W. Johnston, S.J. Baedke, E.P. Argyilan, R.K. Booth, D.A. Wilcox
2011, Journal of Great Lakes Research (37) 567-576
The Nipissing phase was the last pre-modern high-water stage of the upper Great Lakes. Represented as either a one- or two-peak highstand, the Nipissing occurred following a long-term lake-level rise. This transgression was primarily an erosional event with only the final stage of the transgression preserved as barriers, spits, and strandplains...
Probing magnetic bottom and crustal temperature variations along the Red Sea margin of Egypt
D. Ravat, A. Salem, A.M.S. Abdelaziz, E. Elawadi, P. Morgan
2011, Tectonophysics (510) 337-344
Over 50 magnetic bottom depths derived from spectra of magnetic anomalies in Eastern Egypt along the Red Sea margin show variable magnetic bottoms ranging from 10 to 34 km. The deep magnetic bottoms correspond more closely to the Moho depth in the region, and not the depth of 580 °C, which lies...
Human dignity in concept and practice
D.J. Mattson, S.G. Clark
2011, Policy Sciences (44) 303-319
Dignity seems to be something that virtually all people want. It is a seminal expression of the human experience that gains authority through the convergent demands of people worldwide. Even so, the human dignity concept is in unhelpful disarray. Dignity is variously viewed as an antecedent, a consequence, a value,...
Demographic and genetic status of an isolated population of bog turtles (Glyptemys muhlenbergii): Implications for managing small populations of long-lived animals
Shannon E. Pittman, T.L. King, S. Faurby, M.E. Dorcas
2011, Conservation Genetics (12) 1589-1601
In this study, we sought to determine the population stability and genetic diversity of one isolated population of the federally-threatened bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) in North Carolina. Using capture–recapture data, we estimated adult survival and population growth rate from 1992 to 2007. We found that the population decreased from an...
