Atlantic Flyway review: Region IV Piedmont-Coastal Plain, Fall 2007
Chandler S. Robbins
2008, North American Bird Bander (33) 139-146
Region IV welcomed another coastal station in 2007 with a report from Chris Snook at Charleston, South Carolina. The season was hot and dry throughout Region IV except in Florida where precipitation averaged above normal. Banders blamed their poor success on the lack of cold fronts in August, September, and...
Migration of Florida sub-adult Bald Eagles
E.K. Mojica, J.M. Meyers, B.A. Millsap, K.L. Haley
2008, Wilson Journal of Ornithology (120) 304-310
We used satellite telemetry locations accurate within 1 km to identify migration routes and stopover sites of 54 migratory sub-adult Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) hatched in Florida from 1997 to 2001. We measured number of days traveled during migration, path of migration, stopover time and locations, and distance traveled...
A double-observer method to estimate detection rate during aerial waterfowl surveys
M.D. Koneff, J. Andrew Royle, M.C. Otto, J.S. Wortham, J.K. Bidwell
2008, Journal of Wildlife Management (72) 1641-649
We evaluated double-observer methods for aerial surveys as a means to adjust counts of waterfowl for incomplete detection. We conducted our study in eastern Canada and the northeast United States utilizing 3 aerial-survey crews flying 3 different types of fixed-wing aircraft. We reconciled counts of front- and rear-seat...
Long-term trends in breeding birds in an old-growth Adirondack forest and the surrounding region
S.A. McNulty, Sam Droege, R.D. Masters
2008, Wilson Journal of Ornithology (120) 153-158
Breeding bird populations were sampled between 1954 and 1963, and 1990 and 2000 in an old-growth forest, the Natural Area of Huntington Wildlife Forest (HWF), in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Trends were compared with data from regional North American Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) and from a forest...
Coordinating across scales: Building a regional marsh bird monitoring program from national and state Initiatives
G.W. Shriver, J.R. Sauer
2008, Book chapter, Tundra to Tropics: Connecting Birds, Habitats and People: 4th International Partners in Flight Conference, 13-16 February 2008, McAllen, Texas: Abstracts
Salt marsh breeding bird populations (rails, bitterns, sparrows, etc.) in eastern North America are high conservation priorities in need of site specific and regional monitoring designed to detect population changes over time. The present status and trends of these species are unknown but anecdotal evidence of declines in many...
Occurrence and distribution of algal biomass and Its relation to nutrients and selected basin characteristics in Indiana streams, 2001-2005
B. Scott Lowe, Donald R. Leer, Jeffrey W. Frey, Brian J. Caskey
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5203
Algal biomass and nutrient data were gathered at 322 randomly selected sites on 261 streams in the West Fork White River, Whitewater River, East Fork White River, Upper Wabash River, Kankakee River, Lower Wabash River, Tributaries to the Great Lakes, and Tributaries to the Ohio River Basins in Indiana from...
Hydrologic Drought of Water Year 2006 Compared with Four Major Drought Periods of the 20th Century in Oklahoma
Robert L. Tortorelli
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5199
Water Year 2006 (October 1, 2005, to September 30, 2006) was a year of extreme hydrologic drought and the driest year in the recent 2002-2006 drought in Oklahoma. The severity of this recent drought can be evaluated by comparing it with four previous major hydrologic droughts, water years 1929-41, 1952-56,...
Water-Quality Conditions and Constituent Loads, Water Years 1996-2002, and Water-Quality Trends, Water Years 1983-2002, in the Scituate Reservoir Drainage Area, Rhode Island
Mark T. Nimiroski, Leslie A. DeSimone, Marcus C. Waldron
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5060
The Scituate Reservoir is the primary source of drinking water for more than 60 percent of the population of Rhode Island. Water-quality data and streamflow data collected at 37 surface-water monitoring stations in the Scituate Reservoir drainage area, Rhode Island, from October 1, 1995 through September 30, 2002, (water years...
Use of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to Obtain High-Resolution Elevation Data for Sussex County, Delaware
Roger A. Barlow, Mark R. Nardi, Betzaida Reyes
2008, Fact Sheet 2008-3088
Sussex County, Delaware, occupies a 938-square-mile area of low relief near sea level in the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The county is bounded on the east by the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, including a barrier-island system, and inland bays that provide habitat for valuable living resources. Eastern Sussex County...
Evaluation of floodplain modifications to reduce the effect of floods using a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the Flint River at Albany, Georgia
Jonathan W. Musser
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5223
Potential flow characteristics of future flooding along a 4.8-mile reach of the Flint River in Albany, Georgia, were simulated using recent digital-elevation-model data and the U.S. Geological Survey finite-element surface-water modeling system for two-dimensional flow in the horizontal plane (FESWMS-2DH). The model was run at four water-surface altitudes at the...
Recharge to Shale Bedrock at Averill Park, an Upland Hamlet in Eastern New York - An Estimate Based on Pumpage within a Defined Cone of Depression
Allan D. Randall, Anne Finch
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5087
Water levels beneath parts of Averill Park, a residential hamlet in an upland area of till-mantled shale bedrock in east-central New York, have declined in response to increased withdrawals from new wells. Similar experiences in many upland localities in the northeastern United States have resulted in awareness that the rate...
Maps showing geology, structure, and geophysics of the central Black Hills, South Dakota
Jack A. Redden, Ed DeWitt
2008, Scientific Investigations Map 2777
This 1:100,000-scale digital geologic map details the complex Early Proterozoic granitic rocks, Early Proterozoic supracrustal metamorphic rocks, and Archean crystalline basement of the Black Hills. The granitic rocks host pegmatite deposits renowned for their feldspar, mica, spodumene, and beryl. The supracrustal rocks host the Homestake gold mine, which produced more...
Simulation of ground-water flow in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia and West Virginia, using variable-direction anisotropy in hydraulic conductivity to represent bedrock structure
Richard M. Yager, Scott C. Southworth, Clifford I. Voss
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5002
Ground-water flow was simulated using variable-direction anisotropy in hydraulic conductivity to represent the folded, fractured sedimentary rocks that underlie the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and West Virginia. The anisotropy is a consequence of the orientations of fractures that provide preferential flow paths through the rock, such that the direction of...
Water-quality effects and characterization of indicators of onsite wastewater disposal systems in the east-central Black Hills area, South Dakota, 2006-08
Larry D. Putnam, Galen K. Hoogestraat, J. Foster Sawyer
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5232
Onsite wastewater disposal systems (OWDS) are used extensively in the Black Hills of South Dakota where many of the watersheds and aquifers are characterized by fractured or solution-enhanced bedrock with thin soil cover. A study was conducted during 2006-08 to characterize water-quality effects and indicators of OWDS. Water samples were...
Mercury in precipitation in Indiana, January 2004–December 2005
Martin R. Risch, Kathleen K. Fowler
2008, Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5148
Mercury in precipitation was monitored during 2004–2005 at five locations in Indiana as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program–Mercury Deposition Network (NADP–MDN). Monitoring stations were operated at Roush Lake near Huntington, Clifty Falls State Park near Madison, Fort Harrison State Park near Indianapolis, Monroe County Regional Airport near Bloomington,...
A bird community on the edge: habitat use of forest songbirds In eastern Oklahoma
Vincent S. Cavalieri, Timothy J. O’Connell, David M. Leslie Jr.
2008, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference: Tundra to Trophics
Several species of forest songbirds reach a western limit of their respective distributions in eastern Oklahoma. The relative infl uence of various habitat variables on patterns of occurrence in this region may differ from those same infl uences in the core of species’ ranges. We examined the infl uence of...
Factors affecting road mortality of white-tailed deer in eastern South Dakota
Troy W. Grovenburg, Jonathan A. Jenks, Robert W. Klaver, Kevin L. Monteith, Dwight H. Galster, Ron J. Schauer, Wilbert W. Morlock, Joshua A. Delger
2008, Human-Wildlife Conflicts (2) 48-59
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) mortalities (n = 4,433) caused by collisions with automobiles during 2003 were modeled in 35 counties in eastern South Dakota. Seventeen independent variables and 5 independent variable interactions were evaluated to explain deer mortalities. A negative binomial regression model (Ln Y = 1.25 – 0.12 [percentage...
Effects of nitrate and water on the oxygen isotopic analysis of barium sulfate precipitated from water samples
Janet E. Hannon, J.K. Bohlke, Stanley J. Mroczkowski
2008, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (22) 4109-4120
BaSO4 precipitated from mixed salt solutions by common techniques for SO isotopic analysis may contain quantities of H2O and NO that introduce errors in O isotope measurements. Experiments with synthetic solutions indicate that δ18O values of CO produced by decomposition of precipitated...
Double-crested cormorant studies at Little Galloo Island, Lake Ontario in 2008: Diet composition, fish consumption and the efficacy of management activities in reducing fish predation
James H. Johnson, Russell D. McCullough, James F. Farquhar
2008, NYSDEC Lake Ontario Annual Report 2008-14
For almost two decades Little Galloo Island (LGI)has supported the largest colony of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) in the eastern basin of Lake Ontario. Cormorant nest counts on the island since the early 1990's have averaged about 5,000 per year reaching a high of 8,400 in 1996. Johnson et al....
Isotopic constraints on the chemical evolution of geothermal fluids, Long Valley, CA
Shaun T. Brown, B. Mack Kennedy, Donald J. DePaolo, William C. Evans
2008, Geothermal Resources Council Transactions (32) 269-272
A spatial survey of the chemical and isotopic composition of fluids from the Long Valley hydrothermal system was conducted. Starting at the presumed hydrothermal upwelling zone in the west moat of the caldera, samples were collected from the Casa Diablo geothermal field and a series of monitoring wells defining a...
Spatial and temporal trends in nitrate concentrations in the eastern San Joaquin Valley regional aquifer and implications for fertilizer management
Karen R. Burow, Christopher T. Green
2008, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the American Society of Agronomy, California Chapter annual meeting
Ground-water withdrawals in the San Joaquin Valley totaled 64 million m3 /day (19 million ac-ft) in 2000, supplying about 45% of agricultural irrigation demand and about 80% of municipal supply (Hutson et al., 2004). Most of the population and ground-water use are in the eastern San Joaquin Valley, where reliance...
Evaluation of the sustainability of deep groundwater as an arsenic-safe resource in the Bengal Basin
Holly A. Michaela, Clifford I. Voss
2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (105) 8531-8536
Tens of millions of people in the Bengal Basin region of Bangladesh and India drink groundwater containing unsafe concentrations of arsenic. This high-arsenic groundwater is produced from shallow (<100 m) depths by domestic and irrigation wells in the Bengal Basin aquifer system. The government of Bangladesh has begun to install...
Controls on late Quaternary coral reefs of the Florida Keys
Barbara H. Lidz, Eugene A. Shinn, J. Harold Hudson, Multer H. Gray, Robert B. Halley, Daniel M. Robbin
2008, Book chapter, Coral reefs of the USA
The Florida Keys is an arcuate, densely populated, westward-trending island chain at the south end of a karstic peninsular Florida Platform (Enos and Perkins 1977; Shinn et al. 1996; Kindinger el al. 1999, 2000). The "keys: mark the southernmost segment of the Atlantic continental margin of the United States. The...
Range expansion of the Mayan cichlid, cichlasoma urophthalmus (pisces, cichlidae), above 28°N in Florida
R. Paperno, R. Ruiz-Carus, J.M. Krebs, C.C. McIvor
2008, Florida Scientist (71) 293-304
Introduced exotic species are a well-recognized problem in Florida's subtropical ecosystems. The presence of the exotic Mayan cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus) was first confirmed in Florida in 1983, when numerous individuals were found in the northeastern Florida Bay. Since then, this species has continued to expand its range northward. The capture,...
Holocene climate and climate variability of the northern Gulf of Mexico and adjacent northern Gulf Coast: A review
Richard Z. Poore
2008, The Open Paleontology Journal (1) 7-17
Marine records from the northern Gulf of Mexico indicate that significant multidecadal- and century-scale variability was common during the Holocene. Mean annual sea-surface temperature (SST) during the last 1,400 years may have varied by 3°C, and excursions to cold SST coincide with reductions in solar output. Broad trends in Holocene...
