Examination of the interaction between age-specific predation and chronic disease in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Ellen E. Brandell, Paul C. Cross, Douglas W. Smith, William J. Rogers, Nathan L. Galloway, Daniel R. MacNulty, Daniel R. Stahler, John J. Treanor, Peter J. Hudson
2022, Journal of Animal Ecology (91) 1373-1384
Predators may create healthier prey populations by selectively removing diseased individuals. Predators typically prefer some ages of prey over others, which may, or may not, align with those prey ages that are most likely to be diseased.The interaction of age-specific infection and predation has not been previously explored and...
Mesilla / Conejos-Médanos Basin: U.S.-Mexico transboundary water resources and research needs
Andrew J. Robertson, Anne-Marie Matherne, Jeff D. Pepin, Andre B. Ritchie, Donald S. Sweetkind, Andrew Teeple, Alfredo Granados Olivas, Ana Cristina Garcia Vasquez, Kenneth C. Carroll, Erek H. Fuchs, Amy E. Galanter
2022, Water (14) 134-170
Synthesizing binational data to characterize shared water resources is critical to informing binational management. This work uses binational hydrogeology and water resource data in the Mesilla/Conejos-Médanos Basin (Basin) to describe the hydrologic conceptual model and identify potential research that could help inform sustainable management. The Basin aquifer...
Tectonostratigraphy and major structures of the Georgian Greater Caucasus: Implications for structural architecture, along-strike continuity, and orogen evolution
Charles Cashman Trexler, Eric Cowgill, Nathan A Niemi, Dylan A Vasey, Tea Godoladze
2022, Geosphere (18) 211-240
Although the Greater Caucasus Mountains have played a central role in absorbing late Cenozoic convergence between the Arabian and Eurasian plates, the orogenic architecture and the ways in which it accommodates modern shortening remain debated. Here, we addressed this problem using geologic mapping along...
Coastal paleogeography of the Pacific Northwest, USA, for the last 12,000 years accounting for three-dimensional earth structure
Jorie Clark, Jay R. Alder, Marisa Borreggine, Jerry X Mitrovica, Konstantin Latychev
2022, Quaternary International (638-639) 197-204
Predictive modeling of submerged archaeological sites requires accurate sea-level predictions in order to reconstruct coastal paleogeography and associated geographic features that may have influenced the locations of occupation sites such as rivers and embayments. Earlier reconstructions of the paleogeography of parts of the western U.S. coast used an...
Hydrology and water quality in 15 watersheds in DeKalb County, Georgia, 2012–16
Brent T. Aulenbach, Katharine Kolb, John K. Joiner, Andrew E. Knaak
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5126
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management, established a long-term water-quantity and water-quality monitoring program in 2012 to monitor and analyze the hydrologic and water-quality conditions of 15 watersheds in DeKalb County, Georgia—an urban and suburban area located in north-central Georgia that includes the...
A steady-state groundwater flow model for the Des Moines River alluvial aquifer near Prospect Park, Des Moines, Iowa
Kendall M.F. Goldstein, Wonsook S. Ha, Adel E. Haj, Lance R. Gruhn, Emilia L. Bristow, Jared R. Weber
2022, Open-File Report 2021-1110
The Des Moines River alluvial aquifer is an important source of water for Des Moines Water Works, the municipal water utility that provides residential and commercial water resources to the residents of Des Moines, Iowa, and surrounding municipalities. As an initial step in developing a better understanding of the groundwater...
Structural and functional landscape connectivity for lesser prairie-chickens in the Sand Shinnery Oak Prairie Ecoregion
L.J. Schilder, L.J. Heintzman, N.E. Mcintyre, S. Harryman, C.A. Hagen, R. E. Martin, Clint W. Boal, Blake A. Grisham
2022, Journal of Wildlife Management (86)
The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) is a species of conservation concern on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, USA. Because fragmentation and isolation have increased since pre-settlement, dispersal through this heterogeneous landscape may be constrained, with serious implications for conservation and management of this species. Our objectives...
Continuous monitoring of nutrient and sediment loads from the Des Plaines River at Route 53 at Joliet, Illinois, water years 2018–20
Colin S. Peake, Timothy O. Hodson
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5125
The Des Plaines River in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois is the principal conduit for the discharge of wastewater effluent and stormwater runoff from the greater Chicago metropolitan area. In November 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, installed a continuous...
Contributing areas to domestic wells in dipping sedimentary rocks under extreme recharge events
Claire R. Tiedeman, Allen M. Shapiro
2022, Groundwater (60) 460-476
We use particle tracking to determine contributing areas (CAs) to wells for transient flow models that simulate cyclic domestic pumping and extreme recharge events in a small synthetic watershed underlain by dipping sedimentary rocks. The CAs consist of strike-oriented bands at locations where the water table intersects high-hydraulic conductivity beds,...
Weakly supervised spatial deep learning for Earth image segmentation based on imperfect polyline labels
Zhe Jiang, Wenchong He, M. S. Kirby, Arpan Man Sainju, Shaowen Wang, Larry Stanislawski, Ethan J. Shavers, E. Lynn Usery
2022, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (13)
In recent years, deep learning has achieved tremendous success in image segmentation for computer vision applications. The performance of these models heavily relies on the availability of large-scale high-quality training labels (e.g., PASCAL VOC 2012). Unfortunately, such large-scale high-quality training data are...
High-rate very-long-period seismicity at Yasur volcano, Vanuatu: source mechanism and decoupling from surficial explosions and infrasound
Robin S Matoza, Bernard A Chouet, A.D. Jolly, Phillip B. Dawson, Rebecca H Fitzgerald, Ben M. Kennedy, David Fee, Alexandra M. Iezzi, Geoff N Kilgour, E. Garaebiti, Sandrine Cevuard
2022, Geophysical Journal International (230) 392-426
Yasur volcano, Vanuatu is a continuously active open-vent basaltic-andesite stratocone with persistent and long-lived eruptive activity. We present results from a seismo-acoustic field experiment at Yasur, providing locally dense broad-band seismic and infrasonic network coverage from 2016 July 27 to August 3. We corroborate our seismo-acoustic observations with coincident...
Climatic drivers and ecological impacts of a rapid range expansion by non-native smallmouth bass
Mark A. Kirk, Bryan M. Maitland, Brian T. Hickerson, Annika W. Walters, Frank J. Rahel
2022, Biological Invasions (24) 1311-1326
Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) are a globally introduced fish species that have experienced widespread range expansions in recent decades and which can have deleterious effects on native fish communities. Rapidly assessing their expansions will aid conservation and management actions geared towards controlling their spread and mitigating their impacts. Smallmouth bass...
Landscape and stocking effects on population genetics of Tennessee Brook Trout
John S. Hargrove, David C. Kazyak, Barbara A. Lubinski, Karli M. Rogers, Olivia K. Bowers, Kurt A. Fesenmyer, Jim W. Habera, Jason Henegar
2022, Conservation Genetics (23) 341-357
Throughout their range, Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) occupy thousands of disjunct drainages with varying levels of disturbance, which presents substantial challenges for conservation. Within the southern Appalachian Mountains, fragmentation and genetic drift have been identified as key threats to the genetic diversity of the Brook Trout...
20th-century strain accumulation on the Lesser Antilles megathrust based on coral microatolls
Belle E. Philibosian, Nathalie Feuillet, Jennifer Weil-Accardo, Eric Jacques, Abel Guihou, Anne-Sophie Meriaux, Andre Anglade, Jean-Marie Saurel, Sebastien Deroussi
2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (579) 1-11
The seismic potential of the Lesser Antilles megathrust remains poorly known, despite the potential hazard it poses to numerous island populations and its proximity to the Americas. As it has not produced any large earthquakes in the instrumental era, the megathrust is...
A web-based tool for assessing the condition of benthic diatom assemblages in streams and rivers of the conterminous United States
Daren M. Carlisle, Sarah A. Spaulding, Meredith Tyree, Nicholas O. Schulte, Sylvia S Lee, Richard M. Mitchell, Amina A. Pollard
2022, Ecological Indicators (135)
Benthic diatom assemblages are known to be indicative of water quality but have yet to be widely adopted in biological assessments in the United States due to several limitations. Our goal was to address some of these limitations by developing regional multi-metric indices (MMIs) that are robust to inter-laboratory taxonomic...
Inter-nesting movements, migratory pathways, and resident foraging areas of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) satellite-tagged in Southwest Florida
Kelly A Sloan, David S. Addison, Andrew T. Glinsky, Allison Benscoter, Kristen Hart
2022, Frontiers in Marine Science (8)
Globally, sea turtle research and conservation efforts are underway to identify important high-use areas where these imperiled individuals may be resident for weeks to months to years. In the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, recent telemetry studies highlighted post-nesting foraging sites for federally endangered green turtles (Chelonia mydas) around...
System characterization report on the Satellogic NewSat multispectral sensor
James C. Vrabel, Paul C. Bresnahan, Gregory L. Stensaas, Cody Anderson, Jon Christopherson, Minsu Kim, Seonkyung Park
2022, Open-File Report 2021-1030-L
Executive SummaryThis report addresses system characterization of Satellogic’s NewSat satellite (also known as ÑuSat) 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 methodology and procedures...
Open-source resources help navigate new IM regulations
N. Simon Kwong, Kishor S. Jaiswal, J. W. Baker, Nico Luco, K. A. Ludwig, Vasey J. Stephens
2022, Oil & Gas Journal (120) 46-53
The revision of federal safety regulations for integrity management of gas transmission pipelines to require explicit consideration of seismicity increases the importance for operators to be actively identifying high-consequence areas (HCAs), evaluating seismic-related threats, and choosing a risk model to support risk management decisions. To ensure equal access to information...
Watershed-scale risk to aquatic organisms from complex chemical mixtures in the Shenandoah River
Larry B. Barber, Kaycee E. Faunce, David Bertolatus, Michelle L. Hladik, Jeramy Roland Jasmann, Steffanie H. Keefe, Dana W. Kolpin, Michael T. Meyer, Jennifer L. Rapp, David A. Roth, Alan M. Vajda
2022, Environmental Science & Technology (56) 845-861
River waters contain complex chemical mixtures derived from natural and anthropogenic sources. Aquatic organisms are exposed to the entire chemical composition of the water, resulting in potential effects at the organismal through ecosystem level. This study applied a holistic approach to assess...
Pathways for avian influenza virus spread: GPS reveals wild waterfowl in commercial livestock facilities and connectivity with the natural wetland landscape
Fiona McDuie, Elliott Matchett, Diann Prosser, John Y. Takekawa, Maurice E. Pitesky, Austen Lorenz, Madeline M McCuen, Cory T. Overton, Joshua T. Ackerman, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Michael L. Casazza
2022, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (69) 2898-2912
Zoonotic diseases are of considerable concern to the human population and viruses such as avian influenza (AIV) threaten food security, wildlife conservation and human health. Wild waterfowl and the natural wetlands they use are known AIV reservoirs, with birds capable of virus transmission to domestic poultry...
Response in the water level of Anvil Lake, Wisconsin, to changes in meteorological and climatic changes, Wisconsin
Dale M. Robertson
2022, Report
Anvil Lake, a relatively shallow seepage lake in northern Wisconsin, USA, has experienced dramatic changes in water level since elevation records began in 1938 in response to changes in meteorological and climatic conditions (Figure 1. Robertson et al., 2018). Anvil Lake’s water level record shows a pronounced 10–15-yr cycle, with...
Kirtland’s Warbler breeding productivity and habitat use in red pine-dominated habitat in Wisconsin, USA
Ashley Olah, Christine Ribic, Kim Grveles, Sarah Warner, Davin Lopez, Anna Pidgeon
2022, Avian Conservation and Ecology (17)
During the breeding season, Kirtland’s Warblers (Setophaga kirtlandii) are strongly associated with young jack pine (Pinus banksiana) forests in northern Lower Michigan, USA. Since 2007, the species has been breeding in unusual habitat, red pine (Pinus resinosa) dominated plantations, in central Wisconsin, USA. Kirtland’s Warbler productivity and habitat use in...
Agent-based modeling of movements and habitat selection by mid-continent mallards
Florian G. Weller, Elisabeth B. Webb, William S. Beatty, Sean Fogenburg, Dylan Kesler, Robert H. Blenk, John M. Eadie, Kevin Ringelman, Matt L. Miller
2022, Cooperator Science Series FWS/CSS-143-2022
We found that the absence of existing conservation measures would reduce wintering mallard population size by ~70-80%, underlining the importance of current wetland easements for waterfowl foraging. Under standard conditions, the partial active flooding of easements later in the season and the upgrading of unmanaged wetlands to managed status resulted...
Gas hydrates on Alaskan marine margins
Carolyn D. Ruppel, Patrick E. Hart
2022, Book chapter, World atlas of submarine gas hydrates in continental margins
Gas hydrate distributions on the marine margins of the U.S. state of Alaska are more poorly known than those on other U.S. margins, where bottom simulating reflections have been systematically mapped on marine seismic data to support modern, quantitative assessments of gas-in-place in gas hydrates. The extent of bottom simulating...
Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) watershed hydrology assessment for the Neches River basin. Appendix D: RiverWare analyses
David S. Wallace
2022, Report
RiverWare is a river system modeling tool developed by CADSWES (Center of Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems) that allows the user to simulate complex reservoir operations and perform period-of-record analyses for different scenarios. For the InFRM hydrology studies, RiverWare is used to generate a homogeneous regulated POR...
