Occurrence and removal of pharmaceutically active compounds in sewage treatment plants with different technologies
Guang-Guo Ying, Rai S. Kookana, Dana W. Kolpin
2009, Journal of Environmental Monitoring (11) 1498-1505
Occurrence of eight selected pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs; caffeine, carbamazepine, triclosan, gemfibrozil, diclofenac, ibuprofen, ketoprofen and naproxen) were investigated in effluents from fifteen sewage treatment plants (STPs) across South Australia. In addition, a detailed investigation into the removal of these compounds was also carried out in four STPs with different...
Revisions to the stratigraphic nomenclature of the Abiquiu Formation, Abiquiu and contiguous areas, north-central New Mexico
Florian Maldonado, Shari A. Kelley
2009, New Mexico Geology (31) 3-8
Stratigraphic studies and geologic mapping on the Abiquiu 7.5-min quadrangle have led to revision of the stratigraphic nomenclature for the Oligocene to Miocene Abiquiu Formation in north-central New Mexico. The Abiquiu Formation had previously been defined to include informal upper, middle (Pedernal chert member), and lower members. The basement-derived conglomeratic...
Response to the Point of View of Gregory B. Pauly, David M. Hillis, and David C. Cannatella, by the Anuran Subcommittee of the SSAR/HL/ASIH Scientific and Standard English Names List
Darrel R. Frost, Roy W. McDiarmid, Joseph R. Mendelson III
2009, Herpetologica (65) 136-153
The Point of View by Gregory Pauly, David Hillis, and David Cannatella misrepresents the motives and activities of the anuran subcommittee of the Scientific and Standard English Names Committee, contains a number of misleading statements, omits evidence and references to critical literature that have already rejected or superseded their positions,...
Rebuttal of "Polar bear population forecasts: a public-policy forecasting audit"
Steven C. Amstrup, Hal Caswell, Eric DeWeaver, Ian Stirling, David C. Douglas, Bruce G. Marcot, Christine M. Hunter
2009, Interfaces (39) 353-369
Observed declines in the Arctic sea ice have resulted in a variety of negative effects on polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Projections for additional future declines in sea ice resulted in a proposal to list polar bears as a threatened species under the United States Endangered Species Act. To provide information...
USGS field activity 09FSH02 on the west Florida shelf, Gulf of Mexico, in August 2009
Lisa L. Robbins, Paul O. Knorr, Xuewu Liu, Robert H. Byrne, Ellen A. Raabe
2009, Data Series 535-C
From August 17 to 21, 2009, a cruise led by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected air and sea surface partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2), pH, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and total alkalinity (TA) data on the west Florida shelf. Approximately 2,000 data points were collected underway over a...
USGS field activity 08FSH01 on the west Florida shelf, Gulf of Mexico, in August 2008
Lisa L. Robbins, Paul O. Knorr, Xuewu Liu, Robert H. Byrne, Ellen A. Raabe
2009, Data Series 535-A
From August 11 to 15, 2008, a cruise led by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected air and sea surface partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2), pH, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and total alkalinity (TA) data on the west Florida shelf. Approximately 1,600 data points were collected underway over a...
USGS field activity 09FSH01 on the west Florida shelf, Gulf of Mexico, in February 2009
Lisa L. Robbins, Paul O. Knorr, Xuewu Liu, Robert H. Byrne, Ellen A. Raabe
2009, Data Series 535-B
From February 24 to 28, 2009, a cruise led by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected air and sea surface partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2), pH, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and total alkalinity (TA) data on the west Florida shelf. Approximately 1,800 data points were collected underway over a...
Archive of digital boomer seismic reflection data collected offshore east-central Florida during USGS cruise 00FGS01, July 14-22, 2000
Janice A. Subino, Shawn V. Dadisman, Dana S. Wiese, Karynna Calderon, Daniel C. Phelps
2009, Data Series 496
In July of 2000, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Florida Geological Survey (FGS), conducted a geophysical survey of the Atlantic Ocean offshore Florida's east coast from Brevard County to northern Martin County. This report serves as an archive of unprocessed digital boomer seismic reflection data, trackline...
Rapid increases in mercury concentrations in the eggs of mallards fed methylmercury
Gary H. Heinz, David J. Hoffman, Jon D. Klimstra, Katherine R. Stebbins
2009, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (28) 1979-1981
To determine how quickly breeding birds would have to feed in a mercury-contaminated area before harmful concentrations of mercury, as methylmercury, built up in their eggs, we fed female mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) a control diet or diets containing 0.5, 1, 2, 4, or 8 μg/g mercury (on what was close...
Quality of ground water from private domestic wells
Leslie A. DeSimone, Pixie A. Hamilton, Robert J. Gilliom
2009, Water Well Journal (April) 33-37
This article highlights major findings from two USGS reports: DeSimone (2009) and DeSimone and others (2009). These reports can be accessed at http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa. This article is followed by a summary of treatment considerations and options for owners of private domestic wells, written by Cliff Treyens of the National Ground Water...
Modeling lakes and reservoirs in the climate system
M.D. MacKay, P.J. Neale, C.D. Arp, L. N. De Senerpont Domis, X. Fang, G. Gal, K.D. Jo, G. Kirillin, J.D. Lenters, Elena Litchman, S. MacIntyre, P. Marsh, J. Melack, W.M. Mooij, F. Peeters, A. Quesada, S.G. Schladow, M. Schmid, C. Spence, S.L. Stokes
2009, Limnology and Oceanography (54)
Modeling studies examining the effect of lakes on regional and global climate, as well as studies on the influence of climate variability and change on aquatic ecosystems, are surveyed. Fully coupled atmosphere-land surface-lake climate models that could be used for both of these types of study simultaneously do not presently...
Integrated sequence stratigraphy of the postimpact sediments from the Eyreville core holes, Chesapeake Bay impact structure inner basin
James V. Browning, Kenneth G. Miller, Peter P. McLaughlin Jr., Lucy E. Edwards, Andrew A. Kulpecz, David S. Powars, Bridget S. Wade, Mark D. Feigenson, James D. Wright
2009, Special Paper of the Geological Society of America (458) 775-810
The Eyreville core holes provide the first continuously cored record of postimpact sequences from within the deepest part of the central Chesapeake Bay impact crater. We analyzed the upper Eocene to Pliocene postimpact sediments from the Eyreville A and C core holes for lithology (semiquantitative measurements of grain size and...
Population density estimated from locations of individuals on a passive detector array
Murray G. Efford, Deanna K. Dawson, David L. Borchers
2009, Ecology (90) 2676-2682
The density of a closed population of animals occupying stable home ranges may be estimated from detections of individuals on an array of detectors, using newly developed methods for spatially explicit capture–recapture. Likelihood-based methods provide estimates for data from multi-catch traps or from devices that record presence without restricting animal...
Petrographic and geochemical comparisons between the lower crystalline basement-derived section and the granite megablock and amphibolite megablock of the Eyreville B core, Chesapeake Bay impact structure, USA
Gabrielle N. Townsend, Roger L. Gibson, J. Wright Horton Jr., Wolf Uwe Reimold, Ralf T. Schmitt, Katerina Bartosova
2009, Special Paper of the Geological Society of America (458) 255-275
The Eyreville B core from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, Virginia, USA, contains a lower basement-derived section (1551.19 m to 1766.32 m deep) and two megablocks of dominantly (1) amphibolite (1376.38 m to 1389.35 m deep) and (2) granite (1095.74 m to 1371.11 m deep), which are separated by an...
Quaternary science reviews Pacific Basin tsunami hazards associated with mass flows in the Aleutian arc of Alaska
Christopher F. Waythomas, Philip Watts, Fengyan Shi, James T. Kirby
2009, Quaternary Science Reviews (28) 1006-1019
We analyze mass-flow tsunami generation for selected areas within the Aleutian arc of Alaska using results from numerical simulation of hypothetical but plausible mass-flow sources such as submarine landslides and volcanic debris avalanches. The Aleutian arc consists of a chain of volcanic mountains, volcanic islands, and submarine canyons, surrounded by...
Paraphyly of Cinclodes fuscus (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae): Implications for taxonomy and biogeography
Camilo Sanin, Carlos Daniel Cadena, James M. Maley, Dario A. Lijtmaer, Pablo L. Tubaro, R. Terry Chesser
2009, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (53) 547-555
The Andes are a hotspot of global avian diversity, but studies on the historical diversification of Andean birds remain relatively scarce. Evolutionary studies on avian lineages with Andean–Patagonian distributions have focused on reconstructing species-level phylogenies, whereas no detailed phylogeographic studies on widespread species have been conducted. Here, we describe phylogeographic...
Occupancy estimation and the closure assumption
Christopher T. Rota, Robert J. Fletcher Jr., Robert M. Dorazio, Matthew G. Betts
2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) 1173-1181
1. Recent advances in occupancy estimation that adjust for imperfect detection have provided substantial improvements over traditional approaches and are receiving considerable use in applied ecology. To estimate and adjust for detectability, occupancy modelling requires multiple surveys at a site and requires the assumption of 'closure' between surveys, i.e....
Order of functionality loss during photodegradation of aquatic humic substances
Kevin A. Thorn, Steven J. Younger, Larry G. Cox
2009, Journal of Environmental Quality (39) 1416-1428
The time course photodegradation of the Nordic aquatic fulvic and humic acids and Suwannee River XAD-4 acids subjected to UV irradiation with an unfiltered medium pressure mercury lamp was studied by liquid-state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance. Photodecarboxylation was a significant pathway in all cases. Decreases in ketone, aromatic, and O-alkyl...
U.S. Peat Producers -- 2008
2009, Report
Active Metal and Industrial Mineral Underground Mines in the United States in 2007
2009, Report
Field guide to the nonindigenous marine fishes of Florida
Pamela J. Schofield, James A. Morris Jr., Lad Akins
2009, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 92
Migration of whooper swans and outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus in Eastern Asia
Scott H. Newman, Samuel A. Iverson, John Y. Takekawa, Martin Gilbert, Diann J. Prosser, Nyambyar Batbayar, Tseveenmyadag Natsagdorj, David C. Douglas
2009, PLoS ONE (4) 1-11
Evaluating the potential involvement of wild avifauna in the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 (hereafter H5N1) requires detailed analyses of temporal and spatial relationships between wild bird movements and disease emergence. The death of wild swans (Cygnus spp.) has been the first indicator of the presence of H5N1...
Mid-Pliocene equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature reconstruction: a multi-proxy perspective
Harry J. Dowsett, Marci M. Robinson
2009, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (13) 109-125
The Mid-Pliocene is the most recent interval of sustained global warmth, which can be used to examine conditions predicted for the near future. An accurate spatial representation of the low-latitude Mid-Pliocene Pacific surface ocean is necessary to understand past climate change in the light of forecasts of future change. Mid-Pliocene...
Mercury and drought along the Lower Carson River, Nevada: III. effects on blood and organ biochemistry and histopathology of snowy egrets and black-crowned night-herons on Lahontan Reservoir, 2002-2006
David J. Hoffman, Charles J. Henny, Elwood F. Hill, Robert A. Grove, James L. Kaiser, Katherine R. Stebbins
2009, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A (72) 1223-1241
A 10-year study (1997-2006) was conducted to evaluate reproduction and health of aquatic birds in the Carson River Basin of northwestern Nevada (on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Natural Priorities List) due to high mercury (Hg) concentrations from past mining activities. This part of the study evaluated physiological associations with...
Linking marine and freshwater growth in western Alaska Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
G.T. Ruggerone, J.L. Nielsen, B.A. Agler
2009, Journal of Fish Biology (75) 1287-1301
The hypothesis that growth in Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. is dependent on previous growth was tested using annual scale growth measurements of wild Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha returning to the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, Alaska, from 1964 to 2004. First-year marine growth in individual O. tshawytscha was significantly correlated with...
