An overview of marine biodiversity in United States waters
Daphne G. Fautin, Penelope Delton, Lewis S. Incze, Jo-Ann C. Leong, Clarence Pautzke, Andrew A. Rosenberg, Paul Sandifer, George R. Sedberry, John W. Tunnell Jr., Isabella Abbott, Russell E. Brainard, Melissa Brodeur, Lucius G. Eldredge, Michael Feldman, Fabio Moretzsohn, Peter S. Vroom, Michelle Wainstein, Nicholas Wolff
2010, PLoS ONE (5)
Marine biodiversity of the United States (U.S.) is extensively documented, but data assembled by the United States National Committee for the Census of Marine Life demonstrate that even the most complete taxonomic inventories are based on records scattered in space and time. The best-known taxa are those of commercial importance....
Modeling the effects of wave climate and sediment supply variability on large-scale shoreline change
Peter Ruggiero, Maarten C. Buijsman, George M. Kaminsky, Guy R. Gelfenbaum
2010, Marine Geology (273) 127-140
The application of an integrated data analysis and modeling scheme reveals that decadal-scale shoreline evolution along a U.S. Pacific Northwest littoral cell is highly dependent on both sediment supply and wave climate variability. In particular, accurate estimates of (Columbia River) sediment supply and sediment feeding from the lower shoreface are...
Crater population and resurfacing of the Martian north polar layered deposits
Maria E. Banks, Shane Byrne, Kapil Galla, Alfred S. McEwen, Veronica J. Bray, Colin M. Dundas, Kathryn E. Fishbaugh, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, Bruce C. Murray
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets (115)
Present‐day accumulation in the north polar layered deposits (NPLD) is thought to occur via deposition on the north polar residual cap. Understanding current mass balance in relation to current climate would provide insight into the climatic record of the NPLD. To constrain processes and rates of NPLD resurfacing, a search...
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2007
Arthur C. Tarr, Antonio H. Villasenor, Kevin P. Furlong, Susan Rhea, Harley M. Benz
2010, Scientific Investigations Map 3064
This map illustrates more than one century of global seismicity in the context of global plate tectonics and the Earth's physiography. Primarily designed for use by earth scientists and engineers interested in earthquake hazards of the 20th and early 21st centuries, this map provides a comprehensive overview of strong earthquakes...
Sub-weekly to interannual variability of a high-energy shoreline
Jeff E. Hansen, Patrick L. Barnard
2010, Coastal Engineering (57) 959-972
Sixty-one Global Positioning System (GPS), sub-aerial beach surveys were completed at 7 km long Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA (USA), between April 2004 and March 2009. The five-year time series contains over 1 million beach elevation measurements and documents detailed changes in beach morphology over a variety of spatial, temporal, and physical...
New southeastern Nearctic Rhynchelmis (Rhynchelmoides) species and the description of Pararhynchelmis n. gen. (Annelida: Clitellata: Lumbriculidae)
Steven V. Fend, David R. Lenat
2010, Zootaxa (2554) 1-22
The first verified records of Rhynchelmis from the southeastern Nearctic represent two new species. Both belong to R. (Rhynchelmoides) (Hrabě) n. comb., which is defined here. Rhynchelmis bolinensis n. sp. resembles other R. (Rhynchelmoides) species with elongate spermathecae, but differs in details of the reproductive structures. Rhynchelmis croatanensis n. sp....
Occurrence of herbicides and pharmaceutical and personal care products in surface water and groundwater around Liberty Bay, Puget Sound, Washington
Jennifer A. Dougherty, Peter W. Swarzenski, Richard S. Dinicola, Martin Reinhard
2010, Journal of Environmental Quality (39) 1173-1180
Organic contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), pose a risk to water quality and the health of ecosystems. This study was designed to determine if a coastal community lacking point sources, such as waste water treatment plant effluent, could release PPCPs, herbicides, and plasticizers at detectable levels...
Pharmaceutical formulation facilities as sources of opioids and other pharmaceuticals to wastewater treatment plant effluents
Patrick J. Phillips, Steven G. Smith, Dana W. Kolpin, Brooke W. Stinson, Steven D. Zaugg, Herbert T. Buxton, Edward T. Furlong, Kathleen Esposito
2010, Environmental Science & Technology (44) 4910-4916
Facilities involved in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products are an under-investigated source of pharmaceuticals to the environment. Between 2004 and 2009, 35 to 38 effluent samples were collected from each of three wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in New York and analyzed for seven pharmaceuticals including opioids and muscle relaxants. Two...
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2010, Aleutian arc and vicinity
Harley M. Benz, Matthew Herman, Arthur C. Tarr, Gavin P. Hayes, Kevin P. Furlong, Antonio Villaseñor, Richard L. Dart, Susan Rhea
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1083-B
This map shows details of the Aleutian arc not visible in an earlier publication. The Aleutian arc extends about 3,000 km from the Gulf of Alaska to the Kamchatka Peninsula. It marks the region where the Pacific plate subducts into the mantle beneath the North America plate. This subduction is...
New York-Alabama lineament: A buried right-slip fault bordering the Appalachians and mid-continent North America
M.G. Steltenpohl, I. Zietz, J. Wright Horton, Jr., D. L. Daniels
2010, Geology (38) 571-574
The New York-Alabama (NY-AL) lineament, recognized in 1978, is a magnetic anomaly that delineates a fundamental though historically enigmatic crustal boundary in eastern North America that is deeply buried beneath the Appalachian basin. Data not in the original aeromagnetic data set, particularly the lack of any information available at the time...
The effects of road crossings on prairie stream habitat and function
Wesley W. Bouska, Timothy Keane, Craig P. Paukert
2010, Journal of Freshwater Ecology (25) 499-506
Improperly designed stream crossing structures may alter the form and function of stream ecosystems and habitat and prohibit the movement of aquatic organisms. Stream sections adjoining five concrete box culverts, five low-water crossings (concrete slabs vented by one or multiple culverts), and two large, single corrugated culvert vehicle crossings in...
An improved proximal tephrochronology for Redoubt Volcano, Alaska
C.J. Schiff, Darrell S. Kaufman, Kristi L. Wallace, Michael E. Ketterer
2010, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (193) 203-214
Sediment cores from lakes in volcanically active regions can be used to reconstruct the frequency of tephra-fall events. We studied sediment cores from two lakes within 25 km of the summit of Redoubt Volcano, western Cook Inlet, to develop a robust age model for the Holocene tephrochronology, and to assess the...
Uncovering a latent multinomial: Analysis of mark–recapture data with misidentification
W.A. Link, J. Yoshizaki, L.L. Bailey, K. H. Pollock
2010, Biometrics (66) 178-185
Natural tags based on DNA fingerprints or natural features of animals are now becoming very widely used in wildlife population biology. However, classic capture-recapture models do not allow for misidentification of animals which is a potentially very serious problem with natural tags. Statistical analysis of misidentification processes is...
Microbial oxidation of arsenite in a subarctic environment: diversity of arsenite oxidase genes and identification of a psychrotolerant arsenite oxidiser
Thomas H. Osborne, Heather E. Jamieson, Karen A. Hudson-Edwards, D. Kirk Nordstrom, Stephen R. Walker, Seamus A. Ward, Joanne M. Santini
2010, BMC Microbiology (10)
Arsenic is toxic to most living cells. The two soluble inorganic forms of arsenic are arsenite (+3) and arsenate (+5), with arsenite the more toxic. Prokaryotic metabolism of arsenic has been reported in both thermal and moderate environments and has been shown to be involved in the redox cycling of...
Mineralogy and stratigraphy of phyllosilicate-bearing and dark mantling units in the greater Mawrth Vallis/west Arabia Terra area: Constraints on geological origin
E.Z. Noe Dobrea, J.L. Bishop, N.K. McKeown, R. Fu, C.M. Rossi, J.R. Michalski, C. Heinlein, V. Hanus, F. Poulet, R.J.F. Mustard, S. Murchie, A. S. McEwen, G. Swayze, J.-P. Bibring, E. Malaret, C. Hash
2010, Journal of Geophysical Research (115)
Analyses of MRO/CRISM images of the greater Mawrth Vallis region of Mars affirm the presence of two primary phyllosilicate assemblages throughout a region ∼1000 × 1000 km. These two units consist of an Fe/Mg-phyllosilicate assemblage overlain by an Al-phyllosilicate and hydrated silica assemblage. The lower unit contains Fe/Mg-smectites, sometimes combined...
Environmental Assessment for a Marine Geophysical Survey of Parts of the Arctic Ocean, August-September 2010
Beth Haley, Darren Ireland, Jonathan R. Childs
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1117
According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), individual nations? sovereign rights extend to 200 nautical miles (n.mi.) (370 km) offshore or to a maritime boundary in an area called the continental shelf. These rights include jurisdiction over all resources in the water column and...
A snapshot of climate variability at Tahiti ~ 9 ka using a fossil coral from IODP Expedition 310
Kristine L DeLong, Terrence M. Quinn, Chuan-Chou Shen, Ke Lin
2010, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (11)
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 310 recovered drill cores from the drowned reefs around the island of Tahiti (17°40′S, 149°30′W), many of which contained samples of massive corals from the genus Porites. Herein we report on one well-preserved fossil coral sample: a 13.6 cm long Porites sp. dated by uranium series...
Upper mantle rheology from GRACE and GPS postseismic deformation after the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake
I. Panet, Frederick Pollitz, V. Mikhailov, M. Diament, P. Banerjee, K. Grijalva
2010, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (11)
Mantle rheology is one of the essential, yet least understood, material properties of our planet, controlling the dynamic processes inside the Earth's mantle and the Earth's response to various forces. With the advent of GRACE satellite gravity, measurements of mass displacements associated with many processes are now...
A comparison of methods for estimating open-water evaporation in small wetlands
Jason R. Masoner, David I. Stannard
2010, Wetlands (30) 513-524
We compared evaporation measurements from a floating pan, land pan, chamber, and the Priestley-Taylor (PT) equation. Floating pan, land pan, and meteorological data were collected from June 6 to July 21, 2005, at a small wetland in the Canadian River alluvium in central Oklahoma, USA. Evaporation measured with the floating...
Source and fate of inorganic solutes in the Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA: I. Low-flow discharge and major solute chemistry
R. Blaine McCleskey, D. Kirk Nordstrom, David D. Susong, James W. Ball, JoAnn M. Holloway
2010, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (193) 189-202
The Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) is an important natural resource and habitat for fisheries and wildlife. However, the Gibbon River differs from most other mountain rivers because its chemistry is affected by several geothermal sources including Norris Geyser Basin, Chocolate Pots, Gibbon Geyser Basin, Beryl Spring, and...
Taqman Real-Time PCR Detects Avipoxvirus DNA in Blood of Hawaìi `Amakihi (Hemignathus virens)
Margaret E.M. Farias, Dennis LaPointe, C. T. Atkinson, Christopher Czerwonka, Rajesh Shrestha, Susan I. Jarvi
2010, PLoS ONE (5) 1-6
Background Avipoxvirus sp. is a significant threat to endemic bird populations on several groups of islands worldwide, including Hawaìi, the Galapagos Islands, and the Canary Islands. Accurate identification and genotyping of Avipoxvirus is critical to the study of this disease and how it interacts with other pathogens, but currently available methods rely on invasive...
Comparative analysis of Mourning Dove population change in North America
John R. Sauer, William A. Link, William L. Kendall, David D. Dolton
2010, Journal of Wildlife Management (74) 1059-1069
Mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) are surveyed in North America with a Call-Count Survey (CCS) and the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). Analyses in recent years have identified inconsistencies in results between surveys, and a need exists to analyze the surveys using modern methods and examine possible causes of differences...
Ecosystem development in the Girdwood area, south-central Alaska, following late Wisconsin glaciation
T. A. Ager, Paul E. Carrara, John McGeehin
2010, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (47) 971-985
Pollen analysis of two cores with discontinuous records from a peat bog near Girdwood, in south-central Alaska, provides the basis for reconstructing the first radiocarbon-dated outline of postglacial history of vegetation in the upper Turnagain Arm area of Cook Inlet. Pollen data from clayey silt underlying peat at one site...
Geologic history of Mars
Michael H. Carr, James W. Head III
2010, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (294) 185-203
Mars accumulated and differentiated into crust, mantle and core within a few tens of millions of years of Solar System formation. Formation of Hellas, which has been adopted as the base of the Noachian period, is estimated to have occurred around 4.1 to 3.8 Gyr ago, depending on whether or not...
Water Quality in the Equus Beds Aquifer and the Little Arkansas River Before Implementation of Large-Scale Artificial Recharge, South-Central Kansas, 1995-2005
Andrew C. Ziegler, Cristi V. Hansen, Daniel A. Finn
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5023
Artificial recharge of the Equus Beds aquifer using runoff from the Little Arkansas River in south-central Kansas was first proposed in 1956 and was one of many options considered by the city of Wichita to preserve its water supply. Declining aquifer water levels of as much as 50 feet exacerbated...
