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Elements of an improved model of debris-flow motion
R.M. Iverson
2009, Conference Paper, AIP Conference Proceedings
A new depth-averaged model of debris-flow motion describes simultaneous evolution of flow velocity and depth, solid and fluid volume fractions, and pore-fluid pressure. Non-hydrostatic pore-fluid pressure is produced by dilatancy, a state-dependent property that links the depth-averaged shear rate and volumetric strain rate of the granular phase. Pore-pressure changes caused...
Land 3D-seismic data: Preprocessing quality control utilizing survey design specifications, noise properties, normal moveout, first breaks, and offset
A. Raef
2009, Conference Paper, Journal of Earth Science
The recent proliferation of the 3D reflection seismic method into the near-surface area of geophysical applications, especially in response to the emergence of the need to comprehensively characterize and monitor near-surface carbon dioxide sequestration in shallow saline aquifers around the world, justifies the emphasis on cost-effective and robust quality control...
Dike intrusions into bituminous coal, Illinois Basin: H, C, N, O isotopic responses to rapid and brief heating
A. Schimmelmann, Maria Mastalerz, L. Gao, P.E. Sauer, K. Topalov
2009, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (73) 6264-6281
Unlike long-term heating in subsiding sedimentary basins, the near-instantaneous thermal maturation of sedimentary organic matter near magmatic intrusions is comparable to artificial thermal maturation in the laboratory in terms of short duration and limited extent. This study investigates chemical and H, C, N, O isotopic changes in high volatile bituminous...
Experimental infection of a North American raptor, American kestrel (Falco sparverius), with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1)
Jeffrey S. Hall, Hon S. Ip, J. C. Franson, C. Meteyer, Sean W. Nashold, Joshua L. Teslaa, J. French, P. Redig, C. Brand
2009, PLoS ONE (4)
Several species of wild raptors have been found in Eurasia infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) subtype H5N1. Should HPAIV (H5N1) reach North America in migratory birds, species of raptors are at risk not only from environmental exposure, but also from consuming infected birds and carcasses. In this...
Biodegradation of 17β-estradiol, estrone, and testosterone in stream sediments
P. M. Bradley, F. H. Chapelle, L. B. Barber, P.B. McMahon, J.L. Gray, D.W. Kolpin
2009, Conference Paper, In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation-2009: Proceedings of the 10th International In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation Symposium
The release of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent poses a significant threat to the ecology of surface water receptors, due to impacts on the hormonal control, sexual development, reproductive success and community structure of the indigenous aquatic organisms and associated wildlife. Among the EDCs commonly observed...
Nest movement by piping plovers in response to changing habitat conditions
Mark T. Wiltermuth, Michael J. Anteau, Mark H. Sherfy, Terry L. Shaffer
2009, Condor (111) 550-555
Birds that nest along reservoir or river shorelines may face fluctuating water levels that threaten nest survival. On Lake Sakakawea of the upper Missouri River, 37 and 70% of Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) nests found in 2007 and 2008, respectively, were initiated at elevations inundated prior to projected hatch date....
The 2006-2007 Kuril Islands great earthquake sequence
T. Lay, H. Kanamori, C.J. Ammon, Alexander R. Hutko, K. Furlong, L. Rivera
2009, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (114)
[1] The southwestern half of a ∼500 km long seismic gap in the central Kuril Island arc subduction zone experienced two great earthquakes with extensive preshock and aftershock sequences in late 2006 to early 2007. The nature of seismic coupling in the gap had been...
Organic geochemistry of resins from modern Agathis australis and Eocene resins from New Zealand: Diagenetic and taxonomic implications
P.C. Lyons, Maria Mastalerz, W. H. Orem
2009, International Journal of Coal Geology (80) 51-62
A maturation series of resins and fossil resins from New Zealand, ranging in age from Modern to Eocene and ranging from uncoalified to high volatile C bituminous coal, were analyzed by elemental, pyrolysis-gas chromatography (Py-GC), Fourier Transform infrared (FTir), and solid-state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (13C NMR) techniques. For comparison,...
Structured decision making as a conceptual framework to identify thresholds for conservation and management
J. Martin, M.C. Runge, J.D. Nichols, B. C. Lubow, W. L. Kendall
2009, Ecological Applications (19) 1079-1090
Thresholds and their relevance to conservation have become a major topic of discussion in the ecological literature. Unfortunately, in many cases the lack of a clear conceptual framework for thinking about thresholds may have led to confusion in attempts to apply the concept of thresholds to conservation decisions. Here, we...
Fate of sulfamethoxazole, 4-nonylphenol, and 17β-estradiol in groundwater contaminated by wastewater treatment plant effluent
Larry B. Barber, Steffanie H. Keefe, Denis R. LeBlanc, Paul M. Bradley, Francis H. Chapelle, Michael T. Meyer, Keith A. Loftin, Dana W. Koplin, Fernando Rubio
2009, Environmental Science & Technology (43) 4843-4850
Organic wastewater contaminants (OWCs) were measured in samples collected from monitoring wells located along a 4.5-km transect of a plume of groundwater contaminated by 60 years of continuous rapid infiltration disposal of wastewater treatment plant effluent. Fifteen percent of the 212 OWCs analyzed were detected, including the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole (SX),...
Character and spatial distribution of OH/H2O on the surface of the moon seen by M3 on chandrayaan-1
C.M. Pieters, J.N. Goswami, R. N. Clark, M. Annadurai, J. Boardman, B. Buratti, J. #NAME? Combe, M.D. Dyar, R. Green, J.W. Head, C. Hibbitts, M. Hicks, P. Isaacson, R. Klima, G. Kramer, S. Kumar, E. Livo, S. Lundeen, E. Malaret, T. McCord, J. Mustard, J. Nettles, N. Petro, C. Runyon, M. Staid, J. Sunshine, L.A. Taylor, S. Tompkins, P. Varanasi
2009, Science (326) 568-572
The search for water on the surface of the anhydrous Moon had remained an unfulfilled quest for 40 years. However, the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M 3) on Chandrayaan-1 has recently detected absorption features near 2.8 to 3.0 micrometers on the surface of the Moon. For silicate bodies, such features are...
Response of Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis) riverine roosting habitat to changes in stage and sandbar morphology
P.J. Kinzel, J. M. Nelson, A.K. Heckman
2009, River Research and Applications (25) 135-152
Over the past century, flow regulation and vegetation encroachment have reduced active channel widths along the central Platte River, Nebraska. During the last two decades, an annual program of in-channel vegetation management has been implemented to stabilize or expand active channel widths. Vegetation management practices are intended to enhance riverine...
Wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface: A simulation study in northwestern Wisconsin
A. Bar-Massada, V. C. Radeloff, S. I. Stewart, T. J. Hawbaker
2009, Forest Ecology and Management (258) 1990-1999
The rapid growth of housing in and near the wildland-urban interface (WUI) increases wildfire risk to lives and structures. To reduce fire risk, it is necessary to identify WUI housing areas that are more susceptible to wildfire. This is challenging, because wildfire patterns depend on fire behavior and spread, which...
Geometry of the Nojima fault at Nojima-Hirabayashi, Japan - I. A simple damage structure inferred from borehole core permeability
David A. Lockner, Hidemi Tanaka, Hisao Ito, Ryuji Ikeda, Kentaro Omura, Hisanobu Naka
2009, Pure and Applied Geophysics (166) 1649-1667
The 1995 Kobe (Hyogo-ken Nanbu) earthquake, M = 7.2, ruptured the Nojima fault in southwest Japan. We have studied core samples taken from two scientific drillholes that crossed the fault zone SW of the epicentral region on Awaji Island. The shallower hole, drilled by the Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ), was started...
On the use of high-resolution topographic data as a proxy for seismic site conditions (VS30)
T.I. Allen, D.J. Wald
2009, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (99) 935-943
An alternative method has recently been proposed for evaluating global seismic site conditions, or the average shear velocity to 30 m depth (VS30), from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 30 arcsec digital elevation models (DEMs). The basic premise of the method is that the topographic slope can be used...
Evaluation of a moderate resolution, satellite-based impervious surface map using an independent, high-resolution validation data set
J. W. Jones, T. Jarnagin
2009, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (14) 369-376
Given the relatively high cost of mapping impervious surfaces at regional scales, substantial effort is being expended in the development of moderate-resolution, satellite-based methods for estimating impervious surface area (ISA). To rigorously assess the accuracy of these data products high quality, independently derived validation data are needed. High-resolution data were...
Spatially detailed quantification of metal loading for decision making: Metal mass loading to American fork and Mary Ellen Gulch, Utah
B. A. Kimball, R.L. Runkel
2009, Mine Water and the Environment (28) 274-290
Effective remediation requires an understanding of the relative contributions of metals from all sources in a catchment, and that understanding must be based on a spatially detailed quantification of metal loading. A traditional approach to quantifying metal loading has been to measure discharge and chemistry at a catchment outlet. This...
Localized double-array stacking analysis of PcP: D″ and ULVZ structure beneath the Cocos plate, Mexico, central Pacific, and north Pacific
Alexander R. Hutko, Thorne Lay, Justin Revenaugh
2009, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (173) 60-74
A large, high quality P-wave data set comprising short-period and broadband signals sampling four separate regions in the lowermost mantle beneath the Cocos plate, Mexico, the central Pacific, and the north Pacific is analyzed using regional one-dimensional double-array stacking and modelling with reflectivity synthetics. A data-screening criterion retains only events...
Polydactyly in the central pacific gecko, Lepidodactylus sp. (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
A.M. Bauer, S.A. Hathaway, Robert N. Fisher
2009, Herpetology Notes (2) 243-246
We report the first known case of naturally occurring polydactyly in a gekkotan lizard. A single individual from Palmyra Atoll exhibited a triplication of digit III of the m hand. No obvious teratogenic sources are present on the atoll and the causal factors of polydactyly in Lepidodactylus sp. remain unknown....
Sedimentary constraints on late Quaternary lake-level fluctuations at Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho
J. P. Smoot, J. G. Rosenbaum
2009, Special Paper of the Geological Society of America 263-290
A variety of sedimentological evidence was used to construct the lake-level history for Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, for the past ???25,000 years. Shorelines provide evidence of precise lake levels, but they are infrequently preserved and are poorly dated. For cored sediment similar to that in the modern lake, grain-size...
Using geometrical, textural, and contextual information of land parcels for classification of detailed urban land use
S.-S. Wu, X. Qiu, E.L. Usery, L. Wang
2009, Annals of the Association of American Geographers (99) 76-98
Detailed urban land use data are important to government officials, researchers, and businesspeople for a variety of purposes. This article presents an approach to classifying detailed urban land use based on geometrical, textural, and contextual information of land parcels. An area of 6 by 14 km in Austin, Texas, with...
Ultraviolet-ozone treatment reduces levels of disease-associated prion protein and prion infectivity
C.J. Johnson, P. Gilbert, D. McKenzie, J.A. Pedersen, Judd M. Aiken
2009, BMC Research Notes (2)
Background. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by novel infectious agents referred to as prions. Prions appear to be composed primarily, if not exclusively, of a misfolded isoform of the cellular prion protein. TSE infectivity is remarkably stable and can resist many aggressive decontamination...
Twentieth-century decline of large-diameter trees in Yosemite National Park, California, USA
J.A. Lutz, J. W. van Wagtendonk, J.F. Franklin
2009, Forest Ecology and Management (257) 2296-2307
Studies of forest change in western North America often focus on increased densities of small-diameter trees rather than on changes in the large tree component. Large trees generally have lower rates of mortality than small trees and are more resilient to climate change, but these assumptions have rarely been examined...
Landslide movement in southwest Colorado triggered by atmospheric tides
W.H. Schulz, J. W. Kean, G. Wang
2009, Nature Geoscience (2) 863-866
Landslides are among the most hazardous of geological processes, causing thousands of casualties and damage on the order of billions of dollars annually. The movement of most landslides occurs along a discrete shear surface, and is triggered by a reduction in the frictional strength of the surface. Infiltration of water...