Highly variable acquisition rates of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) by birds on an Atlantic barrier island
S. S. Mitra, P. A. Buckley, F. G. Buckley, H. S. Ginsberg
2010, Journal of Medical Entomology (47) 1019-1027
Acquisition of ticks by bird hosts is a central process in the transmission cycles of many tick-borne zoonoses, but tick recruitment by birds has received little direct study. We documented acquisition of Ixodes scapularis Say on birds at Fire Island, NY, by removing ticks from mist-netted birds, and recording the number of...
Estimation of selected seasonal streamflow statistics representative of 1930–2002 in West Virginia
Jeffrey B. Wiley, John T. Atkins
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5185
Regional equations and procedures were developed for estimating seasonal 1-day 10-year, 7-day 10-year, and 30-day 5-year hydrologically based low-flow frequency values for unregulated streams in West Virginia. Regional equations and procedures also were developed for estimating the seasonal U.S. Environmental Protection Agency harmonic-mean flows and the 50-percent flow-duration values. The...
Fluid flow, solution collapse, and massive dissolution at detachment faults, Mormon Mountains, Nevada
Sharon F. Diehl, R. Ernest Anderson, J. D. Humphrey
Paul J. Umhoefer, L. Sue Beard, Melissa Lamb, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Miocene tectonics of the Lake Mead Region, central basin and range
Dissolution has removed large volumes of rock at low-angle normal faults, i.e., detachment faults, in the Mormon Mountains and the Tule Springs Hills in the eastern Basin and Range Province, southeastern Nevada....
Coastal vulnerability assessment of the Northern Gulf of Mexico to sea-level rise and coastal change
E.A. Pendleton, J.A. Barras, S.J. Williams, D.C. Twichell
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1146
A coastal vulnerability index (CVI) was used to map the relative vulnerability of the coast to future sea-level rise along the Northern Gulf of Mexico from Galveston, TX, to Panama City, FL. The CVI ranks the following in terms of their physical contribution to sea-level rise-related coastal change: geomorphology, regional...
Compositional changes in sediments of subalpine lakes, Uinta Mountains (Utah): Evidence for the effects of human activity on atmospheric dust inputs
Richard L. Reynolds, Jessica S. Mordecai, Joseph G. Rosenbaum, Michael E. Ketterer, Megan K. Walsh, Katrina Moser
2010, Journal of Paleolimnology (44) 161-175
Sediments in Marshall and Hidden Lakes in the Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah contain records of atmospheric mineral-dust deposition as revealed by differences in mineralogy and geochemistry of lake sediments relative to Precambrian clastic rocks in the watersheds. In cores spanning more than a thousand years, the largest changes in...
Patterns of use and distribution of king eiders and black scoters during the annual cycle in northeastern Bristol Bay, Alaska
Jason L Schamber, Paul L. Flint, Abby N. Powell
2010, Marine Biology (157) 2169-2176
Northeastern Bristol Bay, Alaska, which includes three large estuaries, is used by multiple sea duck species during the annual cycle. Limited aerial surveys indicate that this area supports tens of thousands of king eiders and black scoters during spring migration and the autumn molt. Existing satellite telemetry data were used...
A spectral index for estimating soil salinity in the Yellow River Delta region of China using EO-1 Hyperion data
Yongling Weng, Peng Gong, Zhiliang Zhu
2010, Pedosphere (27) 378-388
Soil salinization is one of the most common land degradation processes. In this study, spectral measurements of saline soil samples collected from the Yellow River Delta region of China were conducted in laboratory and hyperspectral data were acquired from an EO-1 Hyperion sensor to quantitatively map soil salinity in the...
Levels at gaging stations
Terry A. Kenney
2010, Techniques and Methods 3-A19
Operational procedures at U.S. Geological Survey gaging stations include periodic leveling checks to ensure that gages are accurately set to the established gage datum. Differential leveling techniques are used to determine elevations for reference marks, reference points, all gages, and the water surface. The techniques presented in this manual provide...
Discharge measurements at gaging stations
D. Phil Turnipseed, Vernon B. Sauer
2010, Techniques and Methods 3-A8
The techniques and standards for making discharge measurements at streamflow gaging stations are described in this publication. The vertical axis rotating-element current meter, principally the Price current meter, has been traditionally used for most measurements of discharge; however, advancements in acoustic technology have led to important developments in the use...
Stage measurement at gaging stations
Vernon B. Sauer, D. Phil Turnipseed
2010, Techniques and Methods 3-A7
Stream and reservoir stage are critical parameters in the computation of stream discharge and reservoir volume, respectively. In addition, a record of stream stage is useful in the design of structures that may be affected by stream elevation, as well as for the planning for various uses of flood plains....
Incorporation of water-use summaries into the StreamStats web application for Maryland
Kernell G. Ries III, Marilee A. Horn, Mark R. Nardi, Steven Tessler
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5111
Approximately 25,000 new households and thousands of new jobs will be established in an area that extends from southwest to northeast of Baltimore, Maryland, as a result of the Federal Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process, with consequent new demands on the water resources of the area. The U.S. Geological...
A new parameterization for estimating co‐occurrence of interacting species
J. Hardin Waddle, Robert M. Dorazio, Susan C. Walls, Kenneth G. Rice, Jeff Beauchamp, Melinda J. Schuman, Frank J. Mazzotti
2010, Ecological Applications (20) 1467-1475
Models currently used to estimate patterns of species co‐occurrence while accounting for errors in detection of species can be difficult to fit when the effects of covariates on species occurrence probabilities are included. The source of the estimation problems is the particular parameterization used to specify species co‐occurrence probability. We...
High mangrove density enhances surface accretion, surface elevation change, and tree survival in coastal areas susceptible to sea-level rise
M.P. Kumara, L.P. Jayatissa, K. W. Krauss, D.H. Phillips, M. Huxham
2010, Oecologia (164) 545-553
Survival, growth, aboveground biomass accumulation, sediment surface elevation dynamics and nitrogen accumulation in sediments were studied in experimental treatments planted with four different densities (6.96, 3.26, 1.93 and 0.95 seedlings m−2) of the mangrove Rhizophora mucronata in Puttalam Lagoon, Sri Lanka. Measurements were taken over a period of 1,171 days and...
Derivation of cat embryonic stem-like cells from in vitro-produced blastocysts on homologous and heterologous feeder cells
M.C. Gomez, M.A. Serrano, C. Earle Pope, Jill A. Jenkins, M.N. Biancardi, M. Lopez, C. Dumas, J. Galiguis, B.L. Dresser
2010, Theriogenology (74) 498-515
The domestic cat is a focal mammalian species that is used as a model for developing assisted reproductive technologies for preserving endangered cats and for studying human diseases. The generation of stable characterized cat embryonic stem cells (ESC) lines to use as donor nuclei may help to improve the efficiency...
Climate-driven interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange in the Northern Great Plains grasslands
Liping Zhang, Bruce K. Wylie, Lei Ji, Tagir G. Gilmanov, Larry L. Tieszen
2010, Rangeland Ecology and Management (63) 40-50
The Northern Great Plains grasslands respond differently under various climatic conditions; however, there have been no detailed studies investigating the interannual variability in carbon exchange across the entire Northern Great Plains grassland ecosystem. We developed a piecewise regression model to integrate flux tower data with remotely sensed data and mapped the 8-d and...
Low prevalence of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in amphibians of U.S. headwater streams
Blake R. Hossack, M. J. Adams, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Chistopher A. Pearl, James B. Bettaso, William J. Barichivich, Winsor H. Lowe, Kimberly TRUE, Joy L. Ware, Paul Stephen Corn
2010, Journal of Herpetology (44) 253-260
Many declines of amphibian populations have been associated with chytridiomycosis, a disease caused by the aquatic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). Despite the relatively high prevalence of chytridiomycosis in stream amphibians globally, most surveys in North America have focused primarily on wetland-associated species, which are frequently infected. To better understand the...
Reply to “Comment on ‘Near-surface location, geometry, and velocities of the Santa Monica fault zone, Los Angeles, California’ by R. D. Catchings, G. Gandhok, M. R. Goldman, D. Okaya, M. J. Rymer, and G. W. Bawden” by T. L. Pratt and J. F. Dolan
Rufus D. Catchings, Michael J. Rymer, Mark R. Goldman, Gerald W. Bawden
2010, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (100) 2338-2347
In a comment on our 2008 paper (Catchings, Gandhok, et al., 2008) on the Santa Monica fault in Los Angeles, California, Pratt and Dolan (2010) (herein referred to as P&D) cite numerous objections to our work, inferring that our study is flawed. However, as shown in our reply, their objections...
Groundwater conditions in Utah, spring of 2010
Carole B. Burden, David V. Allen, Jay R. Cederberg, Martel J. Fisher, Michael L. Freeman, Paul Downhour, Michael Enright, Robert J. Eacret, Manuel Guzman, Bradley A. Slaugh, Robert L. Swenson, James H. Howells, Howard K. Christiansen
2010, Cooperative Investigations Report 51
This is the forty-seventh in a series of annual reports that describe groundwater conditions in Utah. Reports in this series, published cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources and Division of Water Rights, and the Utah Department of Environmental Quality,...
Spring distribution in Winona County, Minnesota, USA and the relationship with geologic strata in a karst landscape
Mary A. Williams, Bruce C. Vondracek
2010, Carbonates and Evaporites (25) 333-347
Karst aquifers are important groundwater resources, but are vulnerable to contamination due to relatively rapid subsurface transport. Springs, points where the landscape and water table intersect and cold groundwater discharges, link aquifer systems with land surfaces and water bodies. As such, in many regions, they are critical to the viability...
The Index of Biological Integrity and the bootstrap revisited: an example from Minnesota streams
Christine L. Dolph, Aleksey Y. Sheshukov, Christopher J. Chizinski, Bruce C. Vondracek, Bruce Wilson
2010, Ecological Indicators (10) 527-537
Multimetric indices, such as the Index of Biological Integrity (IBI), are increasingly used by management agencies to determine whether surface water quality is impaired. However, important questions about the variability of these indices have not been thoroughly addressed in the scientific literature. In this study, we used a bootstrap approach...
Using landscape limnology to classify freshwater ecosystems for multi-ecosystem management and conservation
Patricia A. Soranno, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Katherine E. Webster, Mary T. Bremigan, Tyler Wagner, Craig A. Stow
2010, BioScience (60) 440-454
Governmental entities are responsible for managing and conserving large numbers of lake, river, and wetland ecosystems that can be addressed only rarely on a case-by-case basis. We present a system for predictive classification modeling, grounded in the theoretical foundation of landscape limnology, that creates a tractable number of ecosystem classes...
Influence of cover and food resource variation on postbreeding bird use of timber harvests with residual canopy trees
Molly E. McDermott, Petra Wood
2010, Wilson Journal of Ornithology (122) 545-555
We investigated avian use of clearcuts and two-age harvests during the post-breeding period in 2006 in the central Appalachians, West Virginia, USA with an information-theoretic approach to model selection. Cover variables appeared to be most important; e.g., vegetative vertical complexity had a strong positive relation with capture rates of mature...
Mercury monitoring in fish using a non-lethal tissue biopsy method
J. Ackerson, Christopher J. Schmitt, Michael J. McKee, William G. Brumbaugh
2010, Missouri Department of Conservation Science Notes (5)
The occurrence of mercury in fish is well-known and often occurs at levels that warrant restricted consumption by sensitive human populations. Because of this, local wildlife and health agencies have developed monitoring programs to identify the magnitude of fish contamination and changes through time. Monitoring mercury levels in fish typically...
Mapping products of Titan's surface
Katrin Stephan, Ralf Jaumann, Erich Karkoschka, Randolph L. Kirk, Jason W. Barnes, Martin G. Tomasko, Elizabeth P. Turtle, Lucille Le Corre, Mirjam Langhans, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Ralph D. Lorenz, Jason Perry
Robert Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, J. Hunter Waite, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Titan after Cassini-Huygens
Remote sensing instruments aboard the Cassini spacecraft have been observed the surface of Titan globally in the infrared and radar wavelength ranges as well as locally by the Huygens instruments revealing a wealth of new morphological features indicating a geologically active surface. We present a summary of mapping products of...
Mount Rainier National Park and Olympic National Park Elk Monitoring Program Annual Report 2010
Paul Griffin, Patricia J. Happe, Kurt J. Jenkins, Mason Reid, David J. Vales, Barbara J. Moeller, Michelle Tirhi, Scott McCorquodale, Pat Miller
2010, Natural Resource Data Series 2011/289
Fiscal year 2010 was the third year of gathering data needed for protocol development while simultaneously implementing what is expected to be the elk monitoring protocol at Mount Rainier (MORA) and Olympic (OLYM) national parks in the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN). Elk monitoring in these large wilderness parks...
