Changes in aeolian saltation cloud properties with wind speed and ripples
Madeline Margaret Kelley, Ian J. Walker, Mark W. Schmeeckle, Christy Swann, Ron Dorn, Michaela Roberts, Patrick O'Brien
2025, Aeolian Research (74)
Aeolian sediment transport shapes landscapes on Earth and other planetary surfaces, yet key uncertainties remain in how the near-bed saltation cloud responds to changing wind and surface conditions. Leveraging recent advances in image-based particle tracking, we conducted wind tunnel experiments using high-speed imaging and Particle Tracking Velocimetry to quantify sand...
Impacts of onshore wind energy production on biodiversity
Todd E. Katzner, David M. Nelson, Ana Teresa Marques, Christian C. Voigt, Sergio A Lambertucci, Natalia Rebolo, Enrico Bernard, Robert H. Diehl, Megan Murgatroyd
2025, Nature Biodiversity Reviews 567-580
Wind is increasingly used as a renewable source of energy worldwide. However, harvesting wind energy can have negative consequences for biodiversity. In this Review, we summarize the growth of onshore wind power, its impacts on species and ecosystems, and how those impacts are assessed and mitigated. Across...
Speleothem evidence for Late Miocene extreme Arctic amplification – An analogue for near-future anthropogenic climate change?
Stuart Umbo, Franziska Lechleitner, Thomas Opel, Sevasti Modestou, Tobias Braun, Anton Vaks, Gideon Henderson, Pete Scott, Alexander Osintzev, Alexander Kononov, Irina Adrian, Yuri Dublyansky, Alena Maria Giesche, Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach
2025, Climate of the Past (21) 1533-1551
The Miocene provides an excellent climatic analogue for near-future runaway anthropogenic warming, with atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global average temperatures similar to those projected for the coming century under extreme-emissions scenarios. However, the magnitude of Miocene Arctic warming remains unclear due to the scarcity of reliable proxy data. Here we use...
Avak Creek oil occurrence, North Slope, Alaska: Newly discovered oil seep on Native lands, near village of Utqiagvik
Palma J. Botterell, David W Houseknecht, Jody Brae Wycech, J. Mike Moldowan, Paul G. Lillis, Rebecca A. Smith, Kimberley Maher
2025, Conference Paper
An unknown occurrence of oil was detected near Avak Creek on Native lands on the North Slope of Alaska. Determining the source of oil was imperative for allowing stakeholders (Federal, State, and local government agencies and the landowner, an Alaska Native corporation) to make timely and informed decisions and mount...
Simple bagged movement models for telemetry data
Andrew B. Whetten, Trevor J. Hefley, David A. Haukos, Dustin E. Brewer
2025, Ecology and Evolution (15)
Determining which statistical methods are appropriate for data is both user and data dependent and prone to change as new methodology becomes available. This process encompasses model ideation, model selection, and determining appropriate use of statistical methods. Literature on models for animal movement emerging in the past two decades has...
Mitigating flood risks in urban estuaries: Tidal dynamics, shoreline hardening, nature-based solutions, and floodgates in San Francisco Bay
Kees Nederhoff, Rohin Saleh, Patrick L. Barnard, Mark T. Stacey
2025, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering (151)
Hydrodynamic models are valuable tools for understanding the primary factors influencing daily and peak water levels and for guiding discussions on potential adaptation strategies for managing flood risk in coastal areas. This analysis uses the Delft3D San Francisco Bay-Delta Community Model to simulate water levels and incorporates the effects of...
Framework developed for geomorphic mapping of Fern Ridge Lake, Oregon, 2023
Mackenzie K. Keith, Heather D. Bervid
2025, Data Report 1215
The construction and operation of large reservoirs in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, influences important cultural, biological, and other natural or economic resources in affected river corridors. The present-day landforms and cover within the reservoirs have been shaped by a variety of processes, including the pre-dam valley setting and geomorphic...
Exploring the importance of metapopulation dynamics with population control strategies for invasive silver carp in the upper Mississippi River
Kassidy Frame, Gregory J. Sandland, Charles J. Labuzzetta, Grace L. Loppnow, Jessica C. Stanton, Yu-Chun Kao, Richard A. Erickson
2025, Journal of Wildlife Management (89)
Invasive bigheaded carps (Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, and their hybrids Hypophthalmichthys spp.) currently infest the Mississippi River Basin. Bigheaded carps can outcompete native species in invaded waters and can also transform the surrounding environment. Currently, resource managers seek to limit the population abundance of bigheaded carps and their range expansion...
An integrated sensor network and data driven approach to satellite remote sensing of dissolved organic matter
Dulcinea Marie Avouris, Erin L Hestir, Jacob Fleck, Jeffrey A. Hansen, Brian A. Bergamaschi
2025, Earth and Space Science (12)
Traditional remote sensing retrieval models for water quality have historically relied on limited, localized data sets due to the prohibitive costs of extensive field campaigns and logistical challenges of collecting match-up data with satellite overpasses. As a result, these models often lack generalizability across seasons, tides, and sites. Furthermore, small...
Impacts of lake elevation decline on spawning habitat of a critical, native forage species
Sarah Barnes, Robert Al-Chokhachy, Phaedra E. Budy
2025, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (154) 640-656
ObjectiveLake elevation decline is a global phenomenon with pronounced effects in arid regions that changes the characteristics of nearshore habitat area available to lacustrine spawners, potentially impacting recruitment and whole-lake food web dynamics. Our objective was to understand the potential effects of lake elevation decline on spawning habitat for the...
Grammar to graph—An approach for semantic transformation of annotations to triples
Dalia E. Varanka, Emily Abbott
2025, Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5064
Data annotation is the process of labeling data to show the outcome that a related data model should predict. In this study, annotation data were transformed into semantic graph triples, mainly for use with the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a type of entity-relationship-attribute data model for graph databases. The transformation...
A scientific vision and roadmap for earthquake rupture forecast developments, a USGS perspective
Edward H. Field, Alexandra Elise Hatem, Bruce E. Shaw, Morgan T. Page, P. Martin Mai, Kevin Ross Milner, Andrea L. Llenos, Andrew J. Michael, Frederick Pollitz, Jessica Ann Thompson Jobe, Thomas E. Parsons, Olaf Zielke, David R. Shelly, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Devin McPhillips, Richard W. Briggs, Elizabeth S. Cochran, Nico Luco, Mark D. Petersen, Peter M. Powers, Justin Rubinstein, Allison Shumway, Nicholas van der Elst, Yuehua Zeng, Christopher DuRoss, Jason M. Altekruse
2025, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (115) 2523-2552
We articulate a scientific vision and roadmap for the development of improved Earthquake Rupture Forecast models, which are one of the two main modeling components used in modern seismic hazard and risk analysis. One primary future objective is to provide fully time-dependent models that include both elastic rebound and...
Critical mineral inventory of select IOA-IOCG deposits, southwestern USA
Ryan D. Taylor, Corey J. Meighan, Albert H. Hofstra
2025, Conference Paper
Critical minerals are necessary for modern technology and strategic purposes. Their increasing importance requires finding new and nontraditional resources. Samples of ore, altered, and unaltered host rock were collected from 26 iron mines and prospects in California, Nevada, and Utah to assess the potential of these deposits to host economic...
Melt generation sources and conditions in the wake of a migrating slab window: Geochemistry and petrology of the million-year history of primitive volcanism at Clear Lake volcanic field, California
Dawnika L. Blatter, Seth D. Burgess
2025, Journal of Petrology (66)
Clear Lake volcanic field (CLVF) is the northernmost and youngest (~2.2 Ma to 8 ka) of the volcanic centers distributed along the San Andreas transform fault in western California. The initial phase of CLVF volcanism (interval one) occurred between ~2.2 and 1.3 Ma and extends ~35 km southeast of Clear Lake, forming a semi-continuous...
A spatiotemporal deep learning approach for predicting daily air-water temperature signal coupling and identification of key watershed physical parameters in a montane watershed
Mohammad Reza M. Behbahani, David M. Rey, Martin A. Briggs, Amvrossios Bagtzoglou
2025, Journal of Hydrology (663)
Seasonal shifts from runoff to groundwater dominance influence daily headwater stream temperatures, especially where local groundwater input is strong. This input buffers temperature during hot periods, supporting cold-water habitats. Recent studies use air–water temperature signal metrics to identify zones of...
Estimated average annualized tsunami losses for the United States
Anne Sheehan, Casey Zuzak, Nathan J. Wood, Doug Bausch, Cadie Goulette Yeager, Alice McDougall
2025, Report
Tsunami hazards are substantial threats to coastal communities across the United States (U.S.) and its territories. U.S. states and territories collaborate through the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) to develop their own tsunami-hazard information for outreach and evacuation planning. An effort to curate this tsunami-hazard information to support comprehensive...
3D habitat complexity and coral morphology modulate reef fish functional structure in a marine national park
Sofia B. Ferreira, John H.R. Burns, Atsuko Fukunaga, Lillian Joy Tuttle Raz, Sheila A. McKenna, Kailea Annandale, Ryan J. Monello
2025, Ecology and Evolution (15)
The ongoing degradation of coral reef habitats is widely acknowledged to have adverse effects on the abundance and diversity of reef fish populations, yet the direct effects on ecosystem functions remain uncertain. This study used a quantitative approach to determine the mechanistic links between fish assemblages and...
Fluvial sediment dynamics in the Shoshone River and tributaries around Willwood Dam, Park County, Wyoming
Jason S. Alexander, Haylie M. Brown, Cheryl A. Eddy-Miller, Jason Burckhardt, Laura Burckhardt, Christopher A. Ellison, Carmen McIntyre, Travis Moger, Lindsay Patterson, Chace Tavelli, David Waterstreet, Mahonri Williams
2025, Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5077
Sedimentation affects many of the aging reservoirs in the United States. Dams and water diversions from rivers have been central elements of infrastructure supporting agricultural irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions of the Western United States for more than a century. The Willwood Irrigation District diversion dam (hereafter referred...
Projecting stream water quality using Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS): An example with drought conditions in the Delaware River Basin
Christopher Green, Robert M. Hirsch, Hedeff Essaid, Ward E. Sanford
2025, Science of the Total Environment (999)
Future water availability depends on understanding the responses of constituent concentrations to hydrologic change. Projecting future water quality remains a methodological challenge, particularly when using discrete observations with limited temporal resolution. This study introduces Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season for Projection (WRTDS-P), a novel, computationally efficient method that...
Regional high-frequency monitoring revealed chloride concentrations in exceedance of ecological benchmarks in urban streams across the Delaware River Basin, USA
Rosemary M. Fanelli, Michelle Morency, Brandon J. Fleming, Joel Moore, Deanna Hardesty, Megan E. Shoda
2025, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Rising chloride concentrations pose critical risks to freshwater stream ecosystems in temperate regions like the Delaware River Basin (DRB), USA, where winter deicer applications (i.e., road salt) are common. Increasing chloride concentrations have been documented in the region, but the extent to which chloride exceeds regulatory benchmarks remains unclear because...
Dispersal and survival of sea lamprey in Lake Erie and connected waterways
Sean Alois Lewandoski, Christopher M. Holbrook
2025, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (82) 1-13
Invasive sea lamprey inhabiting the North American Laurentian Great Lakes are the target of the world’s longest running vertebrate invasive species control program. However, metapopulation dynamics comprising survival and dispersal during the sea lampreys’ lake-resident life stages are poorly understood. We applied acoustic telemetry and continuous-time multistate capture-recapture modeling to...
Breaking down Palila decline: Assessing the role of drought and vegetation health in the population loss of an endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper
Erica M. Gallerani, Richard J. Camp, Paul C. Banko, Austin Madson, Chunyu Dong, Lucas Berio Fortini, Zhimin Ma, Thomas W. Gillespie
2025, Global Ecology and Conservation (62)
The Palila (Loxioides bailleui), the last member of the once speciose finch-billed Hawaiian honeycreeper clade (Drepanidinae) in the main Hawaiian Islands, faces critical conservation challenges as an endangered species. Understanding the drivers of its decline is essential for effective management. We used additive decomposition models to examine temporal trends in...
Streamflow extents and hydraulic characteristics of Meadow Valley Wash at Stuart Ranch, near Rox, Nevada
Laura A. Dye, Christopher M. Morris, Hampton K. Childres
2025, Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5069
The former Stuart Ranch, now managed by the Bureau of Land Management, is transected by Meadow Valley Wash, where 4,600 feet of perennial stream and adjacent riparian vegetation provide critical habitat for several wildlife and aquatic species protected under the Endangered Species Act. The stream has been altered by prior...
High-resolution multi-pollutant mapping in Denver, Colorado
Priyanka deSouza, Benjamin Crawford, John L. Durant, Neelakshi Hudda, Peter Christian Ibsen, Christian L'Orange, Jose Jimenez, Brady Graeber, Brendan Cicione, Ruth Mekonnen, Saadhana Purushothama, Ralph Kahn, Patrick L. Kinney, John Volckens
2025, Atmospheric Environment X (27)
Characterizing traffic-related air pollutants (TRAPs), which significantly impact health, and greenhouse gases (GHGs) can be challenging in urban environments. Mobile monitoring has the potential to capture the spatial distribution of these pollutants. We present results from a campaign using the Denver Mobile Monitoring Laboratory (DMML) in the summer of 2023...
Suspended sediment and fisheries: An exploration of empirical relationships
Ashleigh M. Pilkerton, Sara M. McCullough, Lindsay S. Patterson, Frank J. Rahel, Annika W. Walters
2025, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (45) 753-766
Objective: Sediment has an important role in aquatic ecosystems, however, excess sediment can negatively impact fish and other aquatic life. Quantifying the response of aquatic life, particularly fish, to suspended sediment is important for natural resource managers tasked with developing sediment management guidelines to protect aquatic ecosystems. Our goal was...
