Measurements of Geologic Characteristics and Geophysical Properties of Sediments From the New England Mud Patch
Jason Chaytor, Meagan Ballard, Brian J. Buczkowski, John A. Goff, Kevin M. Lee, Allen Reed, Allyson Anne Boggess
2022, IEEE Journal of Ocean Engineering (47) 503-530
The characterization of physical, geological, and geophysical properties of sediments within the New England Mud Patch (NEMP) was undertaken to provide a physical basis for acoustic inversions associated with the SeaBed Characterization EXperiment 2017 (SBCEX17). Using a suite of 89 sediment cores (piston/trigger, gravity [acoustic], and...
Using transcriptomics to predict and visualize disease status in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
Lizabeth Bowen, Kezia R. Manlove, Annette Roug, Shannon C. Waters, Nate LaHue, Peregrine Wolff
2022, Conservation Physiology (10)
Increasing risk of pathogen spillover coupled with overall declines in wildlife population abundance in the Anthropocene make infectious disease a relevant concern for species conservation worldwide. While emerging molecular tools could improve our diagnostic capabilities and give insight into mechanisms underlying wildlife disease risk, they have rarely been applied...
The DDT-induced decline influenced genetic diversity in naturally-recovered peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) nesting within the Alaska Arctic and eastern Interior
Sarah A. Sonsthagen, Ted Swem, Skip Ambrose, Melanie J. Flamme, Clayton M White, George K Sage, Sandra L Talbot
2022, Ibis (164) 1265-1272
We assessed the influence of the severe mid-20th century population decline on genetic diversity in non-augmented peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) populations nesting within Alaska Arctic and eastern Interior. Microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data were analyzed for peregrine falcons sampled from three periods: pre-decline, decline, and post-decline....
Spatial dynamic N-mixture models with interspecific interactions
Qing Zhao, Angela K Fuller, Andy Royle
2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (13) 2209-2221
Interspecific interactions and movement are key factors that drive the coexistence of metapopulations in heterogenous landscapes. Yet, it is challenging to understand these factors because separating movement from local population processes relied on capture-based data that are difficult to collect. Recent development of spatial dynamic N-mixture models (SDNMs) made...
A structured decision-making framework for managing cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in New York State parks
Jennifer L. Graham, Gabriella M. Cebada Mora, Rebecca M. Gorney, Lianne C. Ball, Claudia Mengelt, Michael C. Runge
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5053
Cyanobacteria are increasingly a global water-quality concern because of the potential for these organisms to develop into potentially harmful blooms that affect ecological, economic, and public health. Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) can lead to a decrease in water quality and affect many of the recreational and ecological benefits of...
Miocene terrestrial paleoclimates inferred from pollen in the Monterey Formation, Naples Coastal Bluffs section, California
Linda E. Heusser, John A. Barron, Gregg Blake, Jon Nichols
Ivano Aiello, John A. Barron, Christina Ravelo, editor(s)
2022, Book chapter, Understanding the Monterey Formation and similar biosiliceous units across space and time
We present here a comprehensive record of Miocene terrestrial ecosystems from exposures of the Monterey Formation along the Naples coastal bluffs, west of Santa Barbara, California. Constrained by an updated chronology, pollen analyses of 28 samples deposited between 18 and 6 Ma reflect the demise of mesophytic taxa that grew...
Sediment thickness and ground motion site amplification along the United States Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains
Oliver S. Boyd, David Henry Churchwell, Morgan P. Moschetti, Eric M. Thompson, Thomas L. Pratt, Martin C. Chapman, Sanaz Rezaeian
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
Past and present research on earthquake ground motions along the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Mississippi Embayment show significant period-dependent site response that is not presently accounted for in ground motion models. These deviations are strongly correlated with the thickness of Mesozoic and younger syn- and post-rift sediments. With...
Using in situ/ex situ research collaborations to support polar bear conservation
Randi Meyerson, Todd C. Atwood
Eric Miller, Nadine Lamberski, Paul Calle, editor(s)
2022, Book chapter, Fowler's zoo and wild animal medicine current therapy
A warming Arctic threatens the long-term persistence of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the wild. Historically, little collaboration existed between the in situ and ex situ polar bear scientific communities. However, for the past decade, zoo professionals, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) have partnered to leverage resources and expertise...
Egg retention in wild-caught Python bivittatus in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, Florida, USA
Gretchen Erika Anderson, Frank N. Ridgley, Jillian Maureen Josimovich, Robert Reed, Bryan G. Falk, Amy A. Yackel Adams, Andrea Faye Currylow
2022, Herpetological Journal (32) 109-113
Retention of eggs in oviducts beyond the normal oviposition period is a common problem for captive reptiles, but the occurrence of egg retention in wild populations is largely unknown. The Burmese python (Python [molurus] bivittatus; Kühl 1820) is an oviparous snake native to south-eastern Asia that is now established in...
Modelagem de qualidade da agua: Aplicação do SPARROW
Flavio Hadler Tröger, Sérgio Rodrigues Ayrimoraes Soares, Diana Leite Cavalcanti, Marcelo Luiz de Souza, Daniel Edmund Restivo, Olivia L. Miller
2022, Report
No abstract available....
Southeast Utah Group climate and drought adaptation report: Exposure and perennial grass sensitivity
John B. Bradford, Caroline Havrilla, Jessica A. Hartsell, Daniel Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Molly L. McCormick, Seth M. Munson, Charles Yackulic, Terry T Fisk, David Thoma, Dusty Perkins, Dana L. Witwicki, Matt VanScoyoc, Michael C. Duniway, Sasha C. Reed
2022, Natural Resource Report 2022/2432
National Park Service (NPS) managers face growing challenges resulting from the effects of climate change. In particular, as temperatures rise in coming decades, natural resource management in the western United States must cope with expectations for elevated severity and frequency of droughts. These challenges are particularly pronounced for vegetation managers...
Medium-fidelity CFD modeling of multicopter wakes for airborne sensor measurements
Jonathan Chiew, Michael Aftosmis, Kristen L. Manies
2022, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 78th annual vertical flight society forum and technology display
No abstract available....
The importance of phenology and thermal exposure to early life history success of nonnative Smallmouth Bass in the Yellowstone River
Nicholas S. Voss, Robert K. Al-Chokhachy, Adam Sepulveda, Christine E. Verhille, Michael P. Ruggles, Alexander V. Zale
2022, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (151) 527-542
Knowledge of potential spread by introduced species is critical to effective management and conservation. The Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu is an example of a fish that has been introduced globally, often spreads after introduction, and has substantial predatory impacts on fish assemblages. Nonnative Smallmouth Bass in the free-flowing Yellowstone River, Montana, have...
GeoAI and the future of spatial analytics
Wenwen Li, Samantha Arundel
2022, Book chapter, New thinking in GIScience
This chapter discusses the challenges of traditional spatial analytical methods in their limited capacity to handle big and messy data, as well as mining unknown or latent patterns. It then introduces a new form of spatial analytics—geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI)—and describes the advantages of this new strategy in big data...
Continental shelves as detrital mixers: U-Pb and Lu-Hf detrital zircon provenance of the Pleistocene–Holocene Bering Sea and its margins
Matthew A. Malkowski, Samuel Johnstone, Glenn R. Sharman, Colin J. White, Daniel Scheirer, Ginger Barth
2022, The Depositional Record (8) 1008-1030
Continental shelves serve as critical transfer zones in sediment-routing systems, linking the terrestrial erosional and deep-water depositional domains. The degree to which clastic sediment is mixed and homogenized during transfer across broad shelves has important implications for understanding deep-sea detrital records. Wide continental shelves are thought to act as capacitors...
The ice don’t lie
Todd C. Atwood
2022, The Wildlife Professional 39-41
No abstract available....
New craters on Mars: An updated catalog
Ingrid J. Daubar, Colin M. Dundas, Alfred S. McEwen, Annabelle Gao, D. Wexler, Sylvain Piqueux, Gareth S. Collins, Katarina Miljkovic, T. Neidhart, J. Eschenfelder, Gwen D. Bart, Kiri L. Wagstaff, Gary Doran, Liliya Posiolova, Michael C. Malin, Gunnar Speth, David Susko, A. Werynski
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets (127)
We present a catalog of new impacts on Mars. These craters formed in the last few decades, constrained with repeat orbital imaging. Crater diameters range from 58 m down to <1 m. For each impact, we report whether it formed a single crater or a cluster (58% clusters); albedo features of the...
What is a stand? Assessing the variability of composition and structure in floodplain forest ecosystems across spatial scales in the Upper Mississippi River
Marcella Windmuller-Campione, Laura F. Reuling, Molly Van Appledorn, Daniel M. Nilesen, Andrew R. Meier
2022, Forest Ecology and Management (520)
The forest stand typically represents relatively homogenous forest conditions; the forest stand is generally the unit at which forest attributes are assessed, summarized, and subsequently managed. However, some ecosystems, such as the floodplain forests of the Upper Mississippi River (UMR), can...
Functional composition of plant communities mediates biomass effects on ecosystem service recovery across an experimental dryland restoration network
Kathleen R. Balazs, Seth M. Munson, Bradley J. Butterfield
2022, Functional Ecology (36) 2317-2330
Land degradation can result in a loss of critical ecosystem services that we often seek to restore through re-establishment of desired plant communities. Trait-based approaches have the potential to target specific ecosystem services based on associations between the functional composition of plant communities and ecosystem properties that serve as...
Rapid implementation of high-frequency wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2
Meghan M. Holst, John Person, Wiley Jennings, Rory M. Welsh, Michael J. Focazio, Paul M. Bradley, W. Bane Schill, Amy E. Kirby, Zachary A. Marsh
2022, ES&T: Water (2) 2201-2210
There have been over 507 million cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), resulting in 6 million deaths globally. Wastewater surveillance has emerged as a valuable tool in understanding SARS-CoV-2 burden in communities. The...
DevelNet: Earthquake detection on Develocorder films with deep learning: Application to the rangely earthquake control experiment
Kaiwen Wang, William L Ellsworth, Gregory C. Beroza, Weiqiang Zhu, Justin Rubinstein
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (93) 2515-2528
There exists over a century of instrumental seismic data; however, most seismograms recorded before the 1980s are only available in analog form. Although analog seismograms are of great value, they are underutilized due to the difficulties of making quantitative measurements on the original...
Over a third of groundwater in USA public-supply aquifers is Anthropocene-age and susceptible to surface contamination
Bryant Jurgens, Kirsten Faulkner, Peter B. McMahon, Andrew Hunt, Gerolamo C. Casile, Megan B. Young, Kenneth Belitz
2022, Nature Communications Earth & Environment (2)
The distribution of groundwater age is useful for evaluating the susceptibility and sustainability of groundwater resources. Here, we compute the aquifer-scale cumulative distribution function to characterize the age distribution for 21 Principal Aquifers that account for ~80% of public-supply pumping in the United States. The aquifer-scale...
Characterization of and temporal changes in groundwater quality of the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Basin, El Paso County, Colorado, 2018–20
Zachary D. Kisfalusi, Nancy J. Bauch, Carleton R. Bern
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5061
In 2018–20, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District, sampled 48 wells for Phase III of a multiphase plan investigating groundwater quality in the alluvial aquifer of the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Basin (UBSB), El Paso County, Colorado. Results for samples collected...
West Virginia and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3044
Many may recall “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” made famous by John Denver, leads with the lyric “almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.” The descriptors are apt. Nicknamed the “Mountain State,” West Virginia inspires thoughts of coal mining or logging in the Appalachian Mountains and valleys, or...
Book review: WIldflowers of the Indiana Dunes National Park by Nathanael Pilla and Scott Namestnik
Noel B. Pavlovic
2022, Great Lakes Botanist (61) 58-60
No abstract available....
