Sharing knowledge to improve ecological restoration outcomes
Elise S Gornish, Molly L. McCormick, Marquel Begay, Mlungele M Nsikani
2024, Restoration Ecology (32)
Ecological restoration efforts are likely to be more successful when project components are informed by relevant stakeholders. However, key stakeholders are often not included in restoration design and deployment. This is largely driven by a lack of practitioner knowledge of and experience with stakeholder relations. However, inclusion of stakeholders across...
Historical and prehistorical water levels of Mormon Lake, Arizona as a measure of climate change on the southwest Colorado Plateau, USA
Richard Hereford, Lee Amoroso
2024, Quaternary Research (100) 32-51
Mormon Lake, elevation 2166 m with maximum historic surface area of 31.4 km2, lies in a forested endorheic basin covering 103 km2. It is the largest unaltered freshwater body on the 337,000 km2 Colorado Plateau. Prehistorical (before AD 1878) highstands were ca. 9 and 24 m relative to depocenter datum....
Petrology and geochemistry of three early Holocene eruptions from Makushin volcano, Alaska
Jessica Larsen, Janet Schaefer, James W. Vallance, O.K. Neill
2024, Bulletin of Volcanology (82)
Makushin stratovolcano, Alaska, produced three, highly explosive, andesitic eruptions between ~ 9292 and 6215 yBP. Those eruptions are informally named the CFE (“crater-forming eruption”), Nateekin, and Driftwood Pumice, and they deposited significant tephra fallout in the present-day port of Dutch Harbor and City of Unalaska area. The focus of this study is to examine...
Puget small streams monitoring program annual status report, water year 2020
Rich W. Sheibley
2024, Report
This status report summarizes data collection from Summer 2020 for the Stormwater Action Monitoring (SAM) project....
Efficient mammal biodiversity surveys for ecological restoration monitoring
Nicholas S. Green, Mark L. Wildhaber, Janice L. Albers, Thomas W. Pettit, Michael J. Hooper
2024, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (20) 1969-1981
Efficient biodiversity surveys are critical for successful restoration monitoring and management. We studied the effect of varying sampling effort on the observed species richness of surveys of small mammals (trapping transects), bats (passive acoustic detection), and medium to large mammals (trail cameras). Field studies provided mammalian biodiversity data for 4...
Decrease in seismic velocity observed prior to the 2018 eruption of Kilauea volcano with ambient seismic noise interferometry
Gerrit Olivier, Florent Brenguier, Rebecca J. Carey, P. Okubo, C. Donaldson
2024, Geophysical Research Letters (46) 3734-3744
The 2018 Kilauea eruption was a complex event that included deformation and eruption at the summit and along the middle and lower East Rift Zones. We use ambient seismic noise interferometry to measure time-lapse changes in seismic velocity of the volcanic edifice prior to the 2018 Kilauea Lower East Rift...
Analysis of the Alaska Volcano Observatory’s response time to volcanic explosions-1989 to 2016
John Power, Cheryl E. Cameron
2024, Frontiers in Earth Science (6)
A major goal of volcano monitoring is the rapid identification of volcanic explosions and subsequent warning of associated hazards. Between 1988 and 2016 the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) responded to at least 54 separate volcanic eruptions. During this period, AVO's monitoring program relied principally on seismic and satellite remote sensing...
Mapping the resistivity structure of Walker Ridge 313 in the Gulf of Mexico using the marine CSEM method
Karen Weitemeyer, Steven Constable, Dianna Shelander, Seth S. Haines
2024, Marine and Petroleum Geology (88) 1013-1031
A marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) campaign was carried out in the Gulf of Mexico to further develop marine electromagnetic techniques in order to aid the detection and mapping of gas hydrate deposits. Marine CSEM methods are used to obtain an electrical resistivity structure of the subsurface which can indicate...
Minerals Yearbook, volume III, Area Reports — International — Europe and central Eurasia
U.S. Geological Survey
2024, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Yearbook discusses the performance of the worldwide minerals and materials industries and provides background information to assist in interpreting that performance. Content of the individual Minerals Yearbook volumes follows:Volume I, Metals and Minerals, contains chapters about virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important...
Minerals Yearbook, volume III, Area Reports — International — Latin America and Canada
U.S. Geological Survey
2024, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Yearbook discusses the performance of the worldwide minerals and materials industries and provides background information to assist in interpreting that performance. Content of the individual Minerals Yearbook volumes follows:Volume I, Metals and Minerals, contains chapters about virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important...
Minerals Yearbook, volume III, Area Reports — International — Asia and the Pacific
U.S. Geological Survey
2024, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Yearbook discusses the performance of the worldwide minerals and materials industries and provides background information to assist in interpreting that performance. Content of the individual Minerals Yearbook volumes follows:Volume I, Metals and Minerals, contains chapters about virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important...
Minerals Yearbook, volume III, Area Reports — International — Africa and the Middle East
U.S. Geological Survey
2024, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Yearbook discusses the performance of the worldwide minerals and materials industries and provides background information to assist in interpreting that performance. Content of the individual Minerals Yearbook volumes follows:Volume I, Metals and Minerals, contains chapters about virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important to...
Minerals Yearbook, volume I, Metals and Minerals
U.S. Geological Survey
2024, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Yearbook discusses the performance of the worldwide minerals and materials industries and provides background information to assist in interpreting that performance. Content of the individual Minerals Yearbook volumes follows:Volume I, Metals and Minerals, contains chapters about virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important...
Minerals Yearbook, volume II, Area Reports — Domestic
U.S. Geological Survey
2024, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Yearbook discusses the performance of the worldwide minerals and materials industries and provides background information to assist in interpreting that performance. Content of the individual Minerals Yearbook volumes follows:Volume I, Metals and Minerals, contains chapters about virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important...
Minerals Yearbook, volume III, Area Reports — International
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2024, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Yearbook discusses the performance of the worldwide minerals and materials industries and provides background information to assist in interpreting that performance. Content of the individual Minerals Yearbook volumes follows:Volume I, Metals and Minerals, contains chapters about virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important...
Re-prioritization of the U.S. Geological Survey Federal Priority Streamgage Network, 2022
Jonathan J.A. Dillow, Brian E. McCallum, Cory E. Angeroth
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1032
The Federal Priority Streamgage (FPS) network of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), created in 1999 as the National Streamflow Information Program, receives Congressional appropriations to support the operation of a federally-funded “backbone” network of streamflow gages across the United States that are designated to meet the “Federal needs” or priorities...
Getting Started with MODFLFOW
Richard B. Winston
2023, Book
Numerical modeling of groundwater flow systems was once accessible only to modeling specialists in the hydrogeological community. Software such as MODFLOW—the most frequently used groundwater modeling program in the world—and associated graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have made modeling possible for most groundwater scientists. This book provides the bridge from understanding...
The presence of silicate melt may enhance rates of cation diffusion in olivine
Thomas Shea, Dawn Catherine Sweeney Ruth, Michael Jollands, Kenta Ohtaki, Hope Ishii, John Bradley
2023, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (621)
Olivine is commonly used as a ‘crystal clock’ to extract timescales relevant to pre-eruptive perturbations within mafic magmatic systems. Diffusion chronometry applications require accurate calibrations for the rates at which Fe-Mg or other commonly measured elements like Ni, Mn, and Ca...
A review of the ecology and conservation biology of Sali (Micronesian Starling, Aplonis opaca guami) on Guam
Andre Van Nguyen, Martin Kastner, Gary Wiles, Christopher Wagner, Henry S. Pollock, Haldre S. Rogers, Laura Duenas, Evan C. Fricke, Evan M. Rehm, Robert M. McElderry, Shane R. Siers, Eben H. Paxton
2023, Micronesica (2023) 1-18
The accidental introduction of the Brown Treesnake (BTS, Boiga irregularis) to Guam following World War II led to the extinction, extirpation, or severe decline of most of Guam’s native avifauna. One forest bird species that managed to persist is the cavity-nesting Såli (Micronesian Starling, Aplonis opaca guami), a once-ubiquitous native omnivore whose...
Forest bird populations at the Big Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Hawai'i
Steven J. Kendall, Rachel A. Rounds, Richard J. Camp, Ayesha Genz, Thomas Cady, Donna L. Ball
2023, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (14) 410-432
Endemic Hawaiian forest birds have experienced dramatic population declines. The Big Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex (Refuge Complex) was established for the conservation of endangered forest birds and their habitats. Surveys have been conducted at two units of the Refuge Complex to monitor forest bird populations and their response to...
A comparison of water-quality and stormwater inflow and outflow during habitat restoration at the McEwen storm drainage pond, South Valley, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2020–22
R.E. Travis, C.A. Van Zante, N.Y. Montero, K. E. Miltenberger
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5144
In 2020, the U.S. Geological Survey began targeted monitoring, in partnership with Bernalillo County, at three locations within the McEwen storm drainage pond to evaluate and compare the water quality of stormwater as it enters and exits the study area, which is channelized and routes urban stormwater runoff through a...
Occurrence of mixed organic and inorganic chemicals in groundwater and tapwater, town of Campbell, Wisconsin, 2021–22
Kristin M. Romanok, Shannon M. Meppelink, Paul M. Bradley, Sara E. Breitmeyer, Lee Donahue, Mark P. Gaikowski, Randy K. Hines, Kelly L. Smalling
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1088
In response to previous reports of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in French Island’s (located in the Mississippi River within the town of Campbell, Wisconsin) primary source of drinking water, 11 locations were sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in October 2021 to assess the potential presence of...
Nonsalmonid gas bubble trauma investigations
Kenneth Tiffan, Brad Liedtke, Scott Louis Benson
Kenneth Tiffan, editor(s)
2023, Report
From 2020 to 2023, a new spill program was implemented to aid the downstream passage of juvenile salmonids at mainstem dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers. Under this program, the total dissolved gas (TDG) cap was increased to 125% and monitoring of nonsalmonids for gas bubble trauma (GBT) became...
Prioritizing imperiled native aquatic species for conservation propagation
Molly A. H. Webb, Christopher S. Guy, Hilary B. Treanor, Krissy W. Wilson, Cassie D. Mellon, Paul Abate, Harry J. Crockett, Jordan Hofmeier, Chelsey Pasbrig, Patrick Isakson
2023, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (14) 337-353
Native aquatic species are in decline, and hatcheries can play an important role in stemming these losses until larger ecological issues are addressed. However, as more federal and state agencies face budget uncertainty and the number of imperiled species increases, it is necessary to develop a tool to prioritize species...
Upper thermal tolerances of two native and one invasive crayfish in Missouri, USA
Jacob Thomas Westhoff, Hisham A. Abdelrahman, James A. Stoeckel
2023, Freshwater Crayfish (28) 27-36
The spread of invasive crayfish requires invaded habitats to be thermally suitable, and differences in thermal tolerances among species could provide thermal refugia for native crayfish affected by the invader. We estimated upper thermal tolerances for the invasive Faxonius hylas and native F. peruncus and F. quadruncus in Missouri, USA, using critical thermal maxima (CTmax) methodology...
