Earthquake early warning for estimating floor shaking levels of tall buildings
S. Farid Ghahari, Annemarie S. Baltay, Mehmet Celebi, Grace Alexandra Parker, Jeffrey J. McGuire, Ertugrul Taciroglu
2022, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (112) 820-849
This article investigates methods to improve earthquake early warning (EEW) predictions of shaking levels for residents of tall buildings. In the current U.S. Geological Survey ShakeAlert EEW system, regions far from an epicenter will not receive alerts due to low predicted ground‐shaking intensities. However, residents...
Age-specific survival rates, causes of death, and allowable take of golden eagles in the western United States
Brian Milsap, Guthrie S. Zimmerman, William L. Kendall, Joseph G. Barnes, Melissa A. Braham, Bryan E Bedrosian, Douglas A. Bell, Peter H. Bloom, Ross H. Crandall, Robert Domenech, Daniel Driscoll, Adam E. Duerr, Rick Gerhardt, Samantha E.J. Gibbs, Alan R. Harmata, Kenneth Jacobson, Todd E. Katzner, Robert N. Knight, J. Michael Lockhart, Carol McIntyre, Robert K. Murphy, Steven J. Slater, Brian W. Smith, Jeff P. Smith, Dale W. Stahlecker, James W. Watson
2022, Ecological Applications (32)
In the United States, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act prohibits take of golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) unless authorized by permit, and stipulates that all permitted take must be sustainable. Golden eagles are unintentionally killed in conjunction with many lawful activities (e.g., electrocution on power poles, collision with wind...
Hydrology of the Yucaipa groundwater subbasin: Characterization and integrated numerical model, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California
Geoffrey Cromwell, Ayman H. Alzraiee, editor(s)
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5118
Executive SummaryWater management in the Santa Ana River watershed in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties in southern California is a complex task with various water purveyors navigating geographic, geologic, hydrologic, and political challenges to provide a reliable water supply to stakeholders. As the population has increased throughout southern California, so...
Ready for real time: Performance of Global Navigation Satellite System in 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest, California, rapid response products
Dara Elyse Goldberg, Kirstie Lafon Haynie
2022, Seismological Research Letters (93) 517-530
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) have undergone notable advancement in the last few decades, leading to the availability of a dataset with capabilities well beyond its original intended purpose. The proliferation of high‐rate (1 Hz or greater) GNSS receivers in areas of seismological interest now allows for routine consideration of dynamic...
Kinematic slip model of the July 8, 2021 M6.0 Antelope Valley, California, earthquake
Frederick Pollitz, Charles Wicks, William M Hammond
2022, The Seismic Record (2) 20-28
We present a kinematic slip model of the July 8, 2021 Antelope Valley earthquake from a finite-source inversion based on regional seismic waveforms and static offsets from GPS and InSAR. Seismic waveforms are employed at 6s dominant period out to 100 km from the epicenter, and the combined GPS and...
Redundancy analysis reveals complex den use patterns by eastern spotted skunks, a conditional specialist
Emily D. Thorne, W. Mark Ford
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Wildlife managers tasked with understanding habitat and resource selection at the population level attempt to characterize patterns in nature that aid and inform conservation. Resource selection functions (RSFs), such as discrete choice analyses, are the standard convention to characterize the effects of habitat attributes on resource selection patterns. These tools...
Groundwater hydrology in the area of Savannah and Gunstocker Creeks in northeastern Hamilton, southern Meigs, and northwestern Bradley Counties, Tennessee, 2007–09
John K. Carmichael
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5135
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Savannah Valley Utility District, evaluated the groundwater hydrology of the Valley and Ridge carbonate rock aquifer in northeastern Hamilton, southern Meigs, and northwestern Bradley Counties, Tennessee, from 2007 through 2009. The evaluation included, and built on, the results of test drilling conducted...
Photomosaics and logs associated with study of West Napa Fault at Ehlers Lane, north of Saint Helena, California
Belle E. Philibosian, Robert R. Sickler, Carol S. Prentice, Alexandra J. Pickering, Patrick Gannon, Kiara N. Broudy, Shannon A. Mahan, Jazmine N. Titular, Eli A. Turner, Cameron Folmar, Sierra F. Patterson, Emilie E. Bowman
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1002
The West Napa Fault has previously been mapped as extending ~45 kilometers (km) from northern Vallejo to southern Saint Helena, California, dominantly running along the western edge of Napa Valley. A zone of fault strands (some previously unmapped) along a ~15-km section of the fault ruptured during the 2014 magnitude...
Terrestrial ecosystem modeling with IBIS: Progress and future vision
Jinxun Liu, Xuehe Lu, Qiuan Zhu, Wenping Yuan, Quanzhi Yuan, Zhen Zhang, Qingxi Guo, Carol Deering
2022, Journal of Resources and Ecology (13) 2-16
Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVM) are powerful tools for studying complicated ecosystem processes and global changes. This review article synthesizes the developments and applications of the Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS), a DGVM, over the past two decades. IBIS has been used to evaluate carbon, nitrogen, and water cycling in terrestrial...
A novel regression method for harmonic analysis of time series
Qiang Zhou, Zhe Zhu, George Z. Xian, Congcong Li
2022, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (185) 48-61
Harmonic analysis of time series is an important technique in remote sensing to reveal seasonal land surface dynamics. However, frequency selection in the harmonic analysis is often difficult because high-frequency components are useful for delineating seasonal dynamics but sensitive to noise and gaps in time series. On the other hand,...
A model-independent tool for evolutionary constrained multi-objective optimization under uncertainty
Jeremy White, Matthew Knowling, Michael N. Fienen, Adam Siade, Otis Rea, Guillermo Martinez
2022, Environmental Modelling & Software (149)
An open-source tool has been developed to facilitate constrained single- and multi-objective optimization under uncertainty (CMOU) analyses. The tool uses the well-known PEST interface protocols to communicate with the underlying forward simulation, making it non-intrusive. The tool contains a built-in parallel...
Identifying and characterizing juvenile lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens, Rafinesque, 1817) occupancy hot spots within the St. Clair-Detroit River System
Aaron J Mettler, Justin A. Chiotti, Andrew S Briggs, James C. Boase, Robin L. DeBruyne, Edward F. Roseman, Richard Drouin
2022, Journal of Applied Ichthyology (38) 137-148
Over the past two decades, extensive monitoring has been conducted in the St. Clair – Detroit River System to describe spatial and temporal patterns of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). To characterize spatial patterns in juvenile lake sturgeon (<1000 mm TL) based on survey collections, ‘hot spots’ were...
The accuracy and consistency of 3D Elevation Program data: A systematic analysis
Jason M. Stoker, Barry Miller
2022, Remote Sensing (14)
The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) has created partnership opportunities to increase the collection of high-resolution elevation data across the United States, eventually leading to complete coverage of high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) information from light detection and ranging (lidar) data across the entire country (interferometric synthetic aperture radar in Alaska). While 3DEP...
Phenomenological and mechanistic modeling of recreational angling behavior using creel data
Alexander J. Jensen, Steven J. Dundas, James T. Peterson
2022, Fisheries Research (249)
Improved understanding of angling behavior in recreational fisheries can help managers account for partial controllability in systems in which angling effort is not directly regulated. Relevant aspects of angling behavior include fishing participation, site choice, and catch-and-release actions and can be considered at scales of both aggregate fishing effort and...
Diet analysis using generalized linear models derived from foraging processes using R package mvtweedie
James T. Thorson, Mayumi L. Arimitsu, Taal Levi, Gretchen Roffler
2022, Ecology (103)
Diet analysis integrates a wide variety of visual, chemical, and biological identification of prey. Samples are often treated as compositional data, where each prey is analyzed as a continuous percentage of the total. However, analyzing compositional data results in analytical challenges, for example, highly parameterized models or prior transformation of...
Using surrogate taxa to inform response methods for invasive Grass Carp in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Jason L. Fischer, Lucas Nathan, John Buszkiewicz, Julia Colm, D. Andrew R. Drake, Mark R. DuFour, Patrick Kocovsky, Dave Marson, Eric R. B. Smyth, Ryan Young, Kelly F. Robinson
2022, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (42) 151-163
Sampling method decisions are critical for the effective monitoring and management of fisheries. Deploying the most effective sampling methodologies is particularly important when responding to new invasive species, where early response efforts have the best chances for eradication. In the Laurentian Great Lakes, the invasive Grass...
Post-landing major element quantification using SuperCam laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
Ryan B. Anderson, Olivier Forni, Agnes Cousin, Roger C. Wiens, Samuel M. Clegg, Jens Frydenvang, Travis S.J. Gabriel, Ann M. Ollila, Susanne Schröder, Olivier Beyssac, Erin Gibbons, David Vogt, Elise Clave, Jose-Antonio Manrique, Carey Legett, Paolo Pilleri, Raymond Newell, Joseph Sarrao, Sylvestre Maurice, Gorka Arana, Karim Benzerara, Pernelle Bernardi, Sylvain Bernard, Bruno Bousquet, Adrian J. Brown, Cesar Alvarez-Llamas, Baptiste Chide, Edward A. Cloutis, Jade Comellas, Stephanie Connell, Erwin Dehouck, Dorothea Delapp, Ari Essunfeld, Cecile Fabre, Thierry Fouchet, Cristina Garcia, Laura Garcia-Gomez, Patrick J. Gasda, Olivier Gasnault, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Nina L. Lanza, Javier Laserna, Jeremie Lasue, Guillermo Lopez, Juan Manuel Madariaga, Lucia Mandon, Nicolas Mangold, Pierre-Yves Meslin, Marion Nachon, Anthony Nelson, Horton E. Newsom, Adriana Reyes-Newell, Scott Robinson, Fernando Rull, Shiv Sharma, Justin L. Simon, Pablo Sobron, Imanol Torre Fernandez, Arya Udry, Dawn Venhaus, Scott McLennan, Richard V. Morris, Bethany L. Ehlmann
2022, Spectrochimica Acta B (188)
The SuperCam instrument on the Perseverance Mars 2020 rover uses a pulsed 1064 nm laser to ablate targets at a distance and conduct laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) by analyzing the light from the resulting plasma. SuperCam LIBS spectra are preprocessed to remove ambient light, noise, and...
Factors affecting spatiotemporal variation in survival of endangered winter-run Chinook Salmon outmigrating from the Sacramento River
Jason L. Hassrick, Arnold J. Ammann, Russell Perry, Sara N. John, Miles E. Daniels
2022, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (42) 375-395
Among four extant and declining Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) runs in California’s Central Valley, none have declined as precipitously as Sacramento River winter-run Chinook Salmon. In addition to habitat loss, migratory winter-run employ a life history strategy to reside and feed in stopover habitats on their way...
Major reorganization of the Snake River modulated by passage of the Yellowstone Hotspot
Lydia M. Staisch, Jim E. O'Connor, Charles M. Cannon, Christopher S. Holm-Denoma, Paul K. Link, John Lasher, Jeremy A. Alexander
2022, GSA Bulletin (134) 1834-1844
The details and mechanisms for Neogene river reorganization in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and northern Rocky Mountains have been debated for over a century with key implications for how tectonic and volcanic systems modulate topographic development. To evaluate paleo-drainage networks, we produced an expansive data...
Transforming Palmyra Atoll to native-tree dominance will increase net carbon storage and reduce dissolved organic carbon reef runoff
Kate Longley-Wood, Mary Engels, Kevin D. Lafferty, John P. McLaughlin, Alex Wegmann
2022, PLoS ONE (17)
Native forests on tropical islands have been displaced by non-native species, leading to calls for their transformation. Simultaneously, there is increasing recognition that tropical forests can help sequester carbon that would otherwise enter the atmosphere. However, it is unclear if native forests sequester more or less...
Dermal denticle shedding rates vary between two captive shark species
Erin M. Dillon, Anshika Bagla, Kiera D. Plioplys, Douglas J. McCauley, Kevin D. Lafferty, Aaron O’Dea
2022, Marine Ecology Progress Series (682) 153-167
Shark dermal scale (denticle) accumulation in the fossil record can provide information about the abundance and composition of past shark communities. Denticles are shed continuously, such that a single shark leaves a scattered composite of many isolated denticles in sediments. However, the rate of denticle shedding as well as...
A biological condition gradient for Caribbean coral reefs: Part II. Numeric rules using sessile benthic organisms
Deborah L Santavy, Susan K Jackson, Benjamin Jessup, Christina Horstmann, Caroline Rogers, Ernesto Weil, Alina Szmant, David Cuevas Miranda, Brian K Walker, Christopher F.G. Jeffrey, David Ballantine, William S. Fisher, Randy Clark, Hector Ruiz Torres, Brandi Todd, Sandy Raimondo
2022, Ecological Indicators (135)
The Biological Condition Gradient (BCG) is a conceptual model used to describe incremental changes in biological condition along a gradient of increasing anthropogenic stress. As coral reefs collapse globally, scientists and managers are focused on how to sustain the crucial structure...
Geology and hydrogeology of the Yucaipa groundwater subbasin, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California
Geoffrey Cromwell, Jonathan C. Matti
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5129
The Yucaipa groundwater subbasin (referred to in this report as the Yucaipa subbasin) is located about 75 miles (mi) east of of Los Angeles and about 12 mi southeast of the City of San Bernardino. In the Yucaipa subbasin, as in much of southern California, limited annual rainfall and large...
Perils of life on the edge: Climatic threats to global diversity patterns of wetland macroinvertebrates
Luis B. Epele, Marta G. Grech, Emilio A. Williams-Subiza, Cristina Stenert, Kyle McLean, Hamish S. Greig, Leonardo Maltchik, Mateus M. Pires, Matthew S. Bird, Aurelie Boissezon, Dani Boix, Eliane Demierre, Patricia E. García, Stephanie Gascón, Michael Jeffries, Jamie M. Kneitel, Olga Loskutov, Luz M. Manzo, Gabriela Mataloni, Musa C. Mlambo, Beat Oertli, Jordi Sala, Erica E. Scheibler, Haitao Wu, Scott A Wissinger, Darold P. Batzer
2022, Science of the Total Environment (820)
Climate change is rapidly driving global biodiversity declines. How wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages are responding is unclear, a concern given their vital function in these ecosystems. Using a data set from 769 minimally impacted depressional wetlands across the globe (467 temporary and 302 permanent), we evaluated how temperature and precipitation (average,...
Shifting precipitation regimes alter the phenology and population dynamics of low latitude ectotherms
Erica H Henry, Adam Terando, William F. Morris, Jaret C. Daniels, Nick M. Haddad
2022, Climate Change Ecology (3)
Predicting how species respond to changes in climate is critical to conserving biodiversity. Modeling efforts to date have largely centered on predicting the effects of warming temperatures on temperate species phenology. In and near the tropics, the effects of a warming planet on species phenology are more likely to be driven...
