Evaluation of nearshore bathymetric inversion algorithms using camera observations and synthetic numerical input of surface waves during storms
Elora Oades, Ryan Mulligan, Margaret L. Palmsten
2023, Coastal Engineering (184)
Nearshore bathymetry is difficult to measure using survey methods when wave heights approach the breaking limit. Remote sensing using digital cameras offers a way to observe the surf zone and calculate water depths based on phase speed but comes with its challenges of potentially noisy data...
Historical DNA reveals climate adaptation in an endangered songbird
Sheela P. Turbek, Christen Bossu, Christine Rayne, Cristian Gruppi, Barbara E. Kus, Mary J. Whitfield, Thomas B. Smith, Eben H. Paxton, Rachael A. Bay, Kristen C Ruegg
2023, Nature Climate Change (13) 735-741
To cope with climate change, species may shift their distributions or adapt in situ to changing environmental conditions. However, clear examples of genetic changes via adaptation are limited. We explore evolutionary responses to climate change in the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus) through whole-genome...
Using simulated GEDI waveforms to evaluate the effects of beam sensitivity and terrain slope on GEDI L2A relative height metrics over the Brazilian Amazon Forest
Pedro V. C. Oliveira, Xiaoyang Zhang, Birgit Peterson, Jean P. Ometto
2023, Science of Remote Sensing (7)
The vertical structure of forests provides important parameters for estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) and it can be measured by LiDAR sensors. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) full-waveform LiDAR sensor collects data systematically over the Earth’s surface from the International Space Station. Since GEDI became operational, it has collected billions...
Synthesis of larval lamprey responses to dewatering: State of the science, critical uncertainties, and management implications
Theresa L. Liedtke, Julianne E. Harris, Monica R. Blanchard, Joseph J. Skalicky, Ann B. Grote
2023, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (43) 1475-1491
ObjectiveDewatering of fine sediments in rivers and streams can kill many thousands of larval lampreys (order Petromyzontiformes) that are burrowed in these habitats. The larval life stage for lampreys lasts 3–10 years, and because...
The Colorado River water crisis: Its origin and the future
John C. Schmidt, Charles Yackulic, Eric Kuhn
2023, WIREs Water (10)
During much of the 21st century, natural runoff in the Colorado River basin has declined, while consumption has remained relatively constant, leading to historically low reservoir storage. Between January 2000 and April 2023, the amount of water stored in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the two largest reservoirs in the...
Modeling the effects of large-scale interior headland restoration on tidal hydrodynamics and salinity transport in an open coast, marine-dominant estuary
Davina Passeri, Robert L. Jenkins III, Autumn C. Poisson, Matthew V. Bilskie, Peter Bacopoulos
2023, Frontiers in Marine Science (10)
The effects of large-scale interior headland restoration on tidal hydrodynamics and salinity transport in an open coast, marine dominant estuary (Grand Bay, Alabama, U.S.A) are investigated using a two-dimensional model, the Discontinuous-Galerkin Shallow Water Equations Model (DG-SWEM). Three restoration alternatives are simulated for present-day conditions, as well as under...
Is chemical control for crayfish in hatchery fish shipments practical?
Ann Allert, Daniel J. Westrich, David W. Whites, Katrina Knott, Nathan Storts, Robert J. DiStefano
2023, North American Journal of Aquaculture (85) 214-234
Invasive crayfish (family Cambaridae) displace native crayfish species and alter aquatic habitat, community structure, and ecosystem function. We evaluated whether chemical control can be a reliable control agent for crayfish to ensure that shipments from fish hatcheries did not result in new infestations of...
Late Pleistocene-Holocene age and stratigraphy of the Currituck Slide Complex, U.S. mid-Atlantic continental slope: Implications for landslide triggering
Jason Chaytor, Uri S. ten Brink, Christopher D. P. Baxter
2023, Marine Geology (462)
Considerable effort has been made to link submarine slope failures to changes in local and global-scale environmental conditions, in order to assess landslide hazard probability. Here we provide the first radiocarbon dates of hemipelagic sediment overlying mass transport deposits and inferred failure surfaces of...
A century of hydrologic data collection prepares western Long Island for current and future water-resources challenges
Robert F. Breault, John P. Masterson, Ronald Busciolano, Irene Fisher
2023, Fact Sheet 2023-3024
Freshwater is a vital natural resource. New York is a water-rich State; however, even here, the economical use of water resources is needed to ensure there is enough water of adequate quality for human and ecological needs—now and into the future. Nowhere in New York is this more evident than...
Northwest Forest Plan — The first 25 years (1994–2018): Watershed condition status and trends
Jason B. Dunham, Christine Hirsch, Sean Gordon, Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Nathan Chelgren, Marcia N. Snyder, David P Hockman-Wert, Gordon H. Reeves, Heidi V. Andersen, Scott K. Anderson, William A. Battaglin, Tom A. Black, Jason Brown, Shannon Claeson, Lauren Hay, Emily D. Heaston, Charles H. Luce, Nathan Nelson, Colin Penn, Mark Raggon
2023, Technical Report PNW-GTR-1010
This report describes status and trends in watershed condition across the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) area over the first 25 years since its inception in 1994. The program charged with this task is the Aquatic and Riparian Effectiveness Monitoring Program (AREMP), which has assembled information from field data collection, spatial...
Pathology and infectious agents of unionid mussels: A primer for pathologists in disease surveillance and investigation of mortality events
Susan Knowles, Michelle Dennis, Andrew McElwain, Eric Leis, Jordan C. Richard
2023, Veterinary Pathology (60) 510-528
Freshwater mussels are one of the most imperiled groups of organisms in the world, and more than 30 species have gone extinct in the last century. While habitat alteration and destruction have contributed to the declines, the role of disease in mortality events is unclear. In an effort to involve...
Nest usurpation by a female Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis)
Clint W. Boal
2023, Journal of Raptor Research (57) 485-488
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Potentiometric surface map of the Southern High Plains aquifer in the Cannon Air Force Base area, Curry County, New Mexico, 2020
A.B. Goodwin, Meghan T. Bell
2023, Scientific Investigations Map 3504
Declining water levels and the potential impact on water resources on and around Cannon Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico, has necessitated an up-to-date review of the potentiometric surface to evaluate the availability of water resources for future use. Analysis of groundwater-flow directions and hydraulic gradients can provide an understanding...
MLAAPDE: A machine learning dataset for determining global earthquake source parameters
Hank M. Cole, William L. Yeck, Harley M. Benz
2023, Seismological Research Letters (94) 2489-2499
The Machine Learning Asset Aggregation of the Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (MLAAPDE) dataset is a labeled waveform archive designed to enable rapid development of machine learning (ML) models used in seismic monitoring operations. MLAAPDE consists of more than 5.1 million recordings of 120 s long three‐component broadband waveform data (raw counts)...
The unmarked R package: Twelve years of advances in occurrence and abundance modelling in ecology
Kenneth F. Kellner, Adam D. Smith, J. Andrew Royle, Marc Kéry, Jerrold L. Belant, Richard B. Chandler
2023, Methods in Ecology & Evolution (14) 1408-1415
Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely applied to understand the processes governing spatial and temporal variation in species abundance and distribution but often do not account for measurement errors such as false negatives and false positives.We describe unmarked, a package for the freely available and open-source R software that provides...
A comprehensive plan for in-water sea turtle data collection in the US Gulf of Mexico
NOAA, Department of the Interior, Kristen Hart, Pamela T. Plotkin, Christopher Sasso, Blair E. Witherington
2023, Report
The Deepwater Horizon Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group (OO TIG) released a Final Open Ocean Restoration Plan 2 in 2019, which included a project titled Developing a Gulf-wide Comprehensive Plan for In-water Sea Turtle Data Collection. This document, A Comprehensive Plan for In-water Sea Turtle Data Collection in the US...
Implications of tree expansion in shrubland ecosystems for two generalist avian predators
Aaron C. Young, Todd E. Katzner, Douglas J. Shinneman, Tracey N. Johnson
2023, PLoS ONE (18)
Shrublands globally have undergone structural changes due to plant invasions, including the expansion of native trees. Removal of native conifer trees, especially juniper (Juniperus spp.), is occurring across the Great Basin of the western U.S. to support declining sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitats and associated wildlife species, such as greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus...
Prevailing impacts of river management on microplastic transport in contrasting US streams: Rethinking global microplastic flux estimations
Anna Kukkola, Robert L. Runkel, Uwe Schneidewind, Sheila F. Murphy, Liam Kelleher, Greg Sambrook Smith, Holly Astrid Nel, Iseult Lynch, Stefan Krause
2023, Water Research (240)
While microplastic inputs into rivers are assumed to be correlated with anthropogenic activities and to accumulate towards the sea, the impacts of water management on downstream microplastic transport are largely unexplored. A comparative study of microplastic abundance in Boulder Creek (BC), and its less urbanized tributary South Boulder Creek (SBC),...
Reconnaissance survey for potential energy storage and carbon dioxide storage resources of petroleum reservoirs in western Europe
Emil D. Attanasi, Philip A. Freeman
2023, Natural Resources Research (32) 1839-1858
Energy producers and utilities use oil and gas reservoirs for gas storage to meet peak seasonal demand or to supplement intermittent energy production. These reservoirs are also suitable for the long-term storage of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas. This study reports on a reconnaissance analysis of the potential magnitude...
Dynamic spatiotemporal modeling of a habitat-defining plant species to support wildlife management at regional scales
Andrew T. Tredennick, Adrian P. Monroe, Thomas J. Prebyl, John Lombardi, Cameron L. Aldridge
2023, Ecosphere (14)
Sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems provide critical habitat for the Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a species of conservation concern. Thus, future loss of sagebrush habitat because of land use change and global climate change is of concern. Here, we use a dynamic additive spatiotemporal model to estimate the effects of climate on...
Broadening the perspectives of sedimentary organic matter analysis to understand Earth system response to change
Debra A. Willard, Leslie F. Ruppert
2023, International Journal of Coal Geology (274)
This paper broadens the description of sedimentary organic matter from the conventional use of coal petrography to include palynological and geochemical sedimentary organic matter. Palynological sedimentary organic matter includes all chemically resistant organic microfossils, such as pollen and spores, dinocysts, microforaminifera (chitinoid-like linings of...
Aquatic insect accumulation of uranium at spring outflows in the Grand Canyon region as influenced by aqueous and sediment geochemistry and biological factors: Implications for monitoring
Daniel J. Cain, Marie Noele Croteau, Christopher C. Fuller, David Barasch, Kimberly R. Beisner, Kate M. Campbell, Deborah Stoliker, Edward J. Schenk
2023, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (195)
Potential adverse ecological effects of expanded uranium (U) mining within the Grand Canyon region motivated studies to better understand U exposure and risk to endemic species. This study documents U exposures and analyzes geochemical and biological factors affecting U bioaccumulation at spring-fed systems within the Grand...
Modeling the spatial distribution of carcasses of eagles killed by wind turbines
Manuela Huso, Daniel Dalthorp, Jeffrey Michael Mintz, Torgeir Nygard, Roel May
2023, Journal of Raptor Research (57) 456-467
Currently, the US Fish and Wildlife Service makes eagle permitting and management decisions nationwide based on a limited understanding of the impacts of wind power generation on eagles, and the factors that influence risk at a given facility. Accurate estimates of eagle mortality at wind power facilities form...
Characterization of a complex sand-rich gas hydrate reservoir system in the Indian marine continental margin with downhole log and seismic data
Jilin Zhou, Xiujuan Wang, Timothy Collett, Sanxhong Li, Zenggui Kuang, Yintao Lu, Wei Deng, Weichao Yan, Jin Qian, Jiapeng Jin
2023, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology (155)
Logging-while-drilling (LWD) and coring data were acquired in Areas A, B, C and E during the National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02 (NGHP-02). At Sites NGHP-02-16, −17, −20, −23 and −24 of Area B in the Indian Krishna-Godavari Basin, the gas...
Citizen science can complement professional invasive plant surveys and improve estimates of suitable habitat
Monica Dimson, Lucas Fortini, Morgan W Tingley, Thomas W Gillespie
2023, Diversity and Distributions (29) 1141-1156
AimCitizen science is a cost-effective potential source of invasive species occurrence data. However, data quality issues due to unstructured sampling approaches may discourage the use of these observations by science and conservation professionals. This study explored the utility of low-structure iNaturalist citizen science data in invasive plant...
