HarvestStat Africa – Harmonized subnational crop statistics for sub-Saharan Africa
Donghoon Lee, Weston Anderson, Xuan Chen, Frank Davenport, Shraddhanand Shukla, Ritvik Sahajpal, Michael Budde, James Rowland, James Verdin, Liangzhi You, Matthieu Ahouangbenon, Kyle Frankel Davis, Endalkachew Kebede, Steffen Ehrmann, Christina Justice, Carsten Meyer
2025, Scientific Data - Nature (12)
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces severe agricultural data scarcity amidst high food insecurity and a large agricultural yield gap, making crop production data crucial for understanding and enhancing food systems. To address this gap, HarvestStat Africa presents the largest compilation of open-access subnational crop statistics and time-series across SSA. Based on...
System characterization report on Resourcesat-2A Linear Imaging Self Scanning-3 sensor
Seonkyung Park, Mahesh Shrestha, Minsu Kim, Aparajithan Sampath, Jeffrey Clauson
2025, Open-File Report 2021-1030-T
Executive Summary This report addresses system characterization of the Indian Space Research Organisation Resourcesat-2A Linear Imaging Self Scanning-3 sensor and is part of a series of system characterization reports produced and delivered by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Cal/Val Center of Excellence since 2021. These reports present...
Fisheries dependent and independent data inform a capture technique for an emerging invasive fish species in the mainstem Mississippi River; Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus
Patrick Kroboth, Michael E. Colvin, Courtney Broaddus
2025, Fisheries Research (285)
Black Carp Mylopharyngodon piceus were imported into the United States in the 1970s and 1980s for use in aquaculture; escape occurred and reported wild captures increased. Lacking species-specific capture methods, we assessed fisheries dependent incidental Black Carp catches for a common method, hoop nets, by kernel density analysis to identify an area...
Spatial stream network modeling of water temperature within the White River Basin, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Andrew S. Gendaszek, Anya C. Leach, Kristin L. Jaeger
2025, Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5029
Water temperature is a primary control on the occurrence and distribution of fish and other ectothermic aquatic species. In the Pacific Northwest, cold-water species such as Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) and bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) have specific temperature requirements during different life stages that must be met to ensure the...
National population exposure and evacuation potential in the United States to earthquake-generated tsunami threats
Nathan J. Wood, Jeff Peters, Anne Sheehan, Doug Bausch
2025, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (123)
Previous efforts to characterize tsunami threats to people have focused primarily on individual scenarios in specific areas but have not recognized multiple scenarios across an entire country. This study addresses this gap by quantifying population exposure and evacuation potential in the United States to 102 earthquake-related, tsunami-hazard zones, including 92...
Discovery of late Holocene-aged Acropora palmata reefs in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA: The past as a key to the future?
Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Lauren Toth, Peter Alexander Bacon Modys, Selena Anne-Marie Johnson, Ilsa B. Kuffner
2025, The Depositional Record (11) 808-828
Emblematic of global coral-reef ecosystem decline, the coral ecosystem-engineer Acropora palmata is now rare throughout much of the western Atlantic. Understanding when and where this foundation species occurred during the past can provide information about the environmental limits defining its distribution through space and time. In this paper, the present, historical and...
Simulated effects of future water availability and protected species habitat in a perennial wetland, Santa Barbara County, California
Geoffrey Cromwell, Daniel Philip Culling, Matthew J. Young, Joshua Larsen
2025, Water (17)
This study evaluates the potential water availability in Barka Slough and the effects of changing hydrological conditions on the aquatic habitat of five protected species. Barka Slough is a historically perennial wetland at the downstream western end of the San Antonio Creek Valley watershed (SACVW). A previously published hydrologic model...
Mahi-mahi metacouplings: Quantifying human–nature interactions in dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) fisheries
Andrew Kenneth Carlson
2025, Global Sustainability
Fisheries encompass humans and fish, but fisheries researchers rarely model human–nature interactions over space and time. I filled this information gap for dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), a popular, widely distributed species that supports industrial, artisanal, recreational, and subsistence fisheries. Dolphinfish human–nature interactions showed a long-term up-and-down pattern in 1950–2019. Recent declines...
Interspecific effects of invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) on native nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus)
Matthew S. Broadway, Holly M. Todaro, Molly M. Koeck, Courtney N. Dotterweich, Sarah A. Cain, M. Colter Chitwood, Robert Charles Lonsinger
2025, Journal of Mammalogy (106) 976-988
Biological invasions pose significant risks to ecosystems and native species. Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are a highly detrimental invasive species in North America, directly and indirectly affecting native species. Co-occurrence of wild pigs and native species may lead to interspecific interactions that alter ecological communities. Accordingly, we...
Object detection-assisted workflow facilitates cryptic snake monitoring
Storm Miller, Michael Kirkland, Kristen Hart, Robert A. McCleery
2025, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (11) 606-617
Camera traps are an important tool used to study rare and cryptic animals, including snakes. Time-lapse photography can be particularly useful for studying snakes that often fail to trigger a camera's infrared motion sensor due to their ectothermic nature. However, the large datasets produced by time-lapse photography require labor-intensive classification,...
Habitat and predator influences on the spatial ecology of nine-banded armadillos
Robert Charles Lonsinger, Ben P. Murley, Daniel T. McDonald, Christine E. Fallon, Kara M. White
2025, Diversity (17)
Mesopredator suppression has implications for community structure, biodiversity, and ecosystem function, but mesopredators with physical defenses may not avoid apex predators. We investigated nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in southwestern Oklahoma (USA) to evaluate if a species with physical defenses was influenced by a dominant predator, the coyote (Canis...
Microbiome data management in action workshop: Atlanta, GA, USA, June 12–13, 2024
Julia Kelliher, Mashael Aljumaah, Sarah R. Bordenstein, J. Rodney Brister, Patrick Chain, JosePablo Dunduore-Arias, Joanne B. Emerson, Vanessa Moreira C. Ferdandes, Roberto Flores, Antonio Gonzalez, Zoe A. Hansen, Eneida L. Hatcher, Scott A. Jackson, Christina A. Kellogg, Ramana Madupu, Cassandra Maria Luz Miller, Chloe Mirzayi, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Ahmed M. Moustafa, Chris Mungall, Aaron Oliver, Nonia Pariente, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Sydne Record, Linta Reji, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Virginia Rich, Lorna Richardson, Lynn M. Schriml, Reed S. Shabman, Maria Sierra, Matthew Sullivan, Punithavathi Sundaramurthy, K. M. Thibault, Luke R. Thompson, Scott W. Tighe, Ethell Vereen, Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh
2025, Environmental Microbiome (20)
Microbiome research is revolutionizing human and environmental health, but the value and reuse of microbiome data are significantly hampered by the limited development and adoption of data standards. While several ongoing efforts are aimed at improving microbiome data management, significant gaps still remain in terms of defining and promoting adoption...
A framework for understanding the effects of subsurface agricultural drainage on downstream flows
Hannah Lee Podzorski, Karen R. Ryberg
2025, Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5023
Understanding controls on streamflow volume and magnitude is important to water resource management applications, such as critical water and transportation structure design and floodplain mapping. Changes in land use and agricultural practices, such as subsurface agricultural drainage, may be contributing to changes in streamflow characteristics. Subsurface agricultural drainage, also known...
Vulnerability of gulf ribbed mussels to marsh surface maximum temperatures
Skylar R. Liner, Brian J. Roberts, Nicholas Coxe, Romain Lavaud, Jerome F. La Peyre, Megan La Peyre
2025, Journal of Shellfish Research (44) 45-53
Gulf ribbed mussels (Geukensia granosissima) act as ecosystem engineers and reside within the marsh platform of saltmarshes across the northern Gulf of Mexico. With climate models projecting increasing temperatures, and more frequent and extreme heat events, these mussels face increasing temperature-related risks. Marsh surface and subsurface (5-cm depth) temperature was...
Stressor-driven changes in freshwater biological indicators inform spatial management strategies using expert knowledge, observational data, and hierarchical models
Sean Cassian Emmons, Matthew J. Cashman, Rosemary M. Fanelli, Greg Pond, Gregory E. Noe, Taylor E Woods, Kelly O. Maloney
2025, Ecological Indicators (174)
Stream ecosystems face continuous pressures from multiple anthropogenic stressors that reshape biological communities and impact ecosystem health and services. Managers can encounter challenges in stewarding ecosystems threatened by multiple stressors, in part because most multiple stressor studies are experimental and, while valuable, offer limited management relevance in targeting these stressors...
Gaps in water quality modeling of hydrologic systems
Lisa Lucas, Craig J. Brown, Dale M. Robertson, Nancy T. Baker, Zachary Johnson, Christopher Green, Jong Cho, Melinda L. Erickson, Allen C. Gellis, Jeramy Roland Jasmann, Noah Knowles, Andreas Prein, Paul Stackelberg
2025, Water (17)
This review assesses gaps in water quality modeling, emphasizing opportunities to improve next-generation models that are essential for managing water quality and are integral to meeting goals of scientific and management agencies. In particular, this paper identifies gaps in water quality modeling capabilities that, if addressed, could support assessments, projections,...
Does the Lost Jim lava flow (Alaska) really preserve evidence of interaction with permafrost?
Tim R. Orr, William M. Coombs, Erika Rader, Jessica Larsen
2025, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (464)
The basaltic Lost Jim lava flow, the youngest member of the Imuruk Lake volcanic field, Alaska, is reported to have interacted with underlying permafrost by thawing it and forming cavities into which the lava flow collapsed, forming pits and other depressions on the lava flow's surface. Our field observations contradict...
What is the lowest latitude of discrete aurorae during superstorms?
Jeffrey J. Love, Ian R. Mann, Timo Qvick, Kalevi Mursula
2025, Space Weather (23)
From a survey of published accounts of visual sightings of aurorae, a compilation is presented of the lowest identified geomagnetic latitude at which discrete aurorae were seen at local zenith during magnetic storms having intensities with maximum −Dst > 200 nT. The compilation includes data for the superstorms of 2...
Lithium from magma to mine in an early Yellowstone hotspot caldera
Kathryn E. Watts
2025, Geology (53) 592-596
Renewable energy technologies rely on the extraction of metals not historically in high demand, such as lithium (Li), for which ore deposit models are incompletely understood. One of the world’s largest Li deposits is hosted in lake sediments of the 16.4 Ma McDermitt caldera, which formed during the early stages...
The Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 version 2.0 surface reflectance dataset
Junchang Ju, Qiang Zhou, Brian Freitag, David P. Roy, Hankui Zhang, Madhu Sridhar, John Mandel, Saeed Arab, Gail L. Schmidt, Christopher J. Crawford, Ferran Gascon, Peter A. Strobl, Jeffrey G. Masek, Christopher S.R. Neigh
2025, Remote Sensing of Environment (324)
Frequent multispectral observations of sufficient spatial detail from well-calibrated spaceborne sensors are needed for large-scale terrestrial monitoring. To meet this demand, the NASA Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) project was initiated in early 2010s to produce comparable 30-m surface reflectance from the US Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and...
Estimation of baseflow and flooding characteristics for East Canyon Creek, Summit and Morgan Counties, Utah
Jonathan Casey Root, Christine Rumsey
2025, Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5003
An improved understanding of hydrologic responses to changing climatic conditions is needed to better inform water management practices. East Canyon Creek, a perennial, snowmelt-dominated stream in the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah, is subjected to increasing development and demands on water in the Snyderville Basin and adjacent areas. In this...
Volcanic gases reflect magma stalling and launching depths
Shuo Ding, Terry Plank, J. Maarten de Moor, Yves Moussallam, Maryjo Brounce, Peter J. Kelly
2025, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (660)
Many open-vent arc volcanoes display two modes in their continuous gas emissions, one with a characteristic CO2/ ST ratio typical of periods of quiescent degassing and another punctuated by high CO2/ ST gas emitted in the weeks before eruption, a recently recognized eruption precursor. In this study we explore the origin of...
Assessing legacy nitrogen in groundwater using numerical models of the Long Island aquifer system, New York
Kalle Jahn, Donald A. Walter
2025, Preprint
Nitrogen transported along groundwater flow paths in coastal aquifers can contribute substantially to nitrogen loading into surface water receptors, particularly in hydrologic systems dominated by groundwater discharge. Nitrogen entrained in the aquifer is a function of land use and associated nitrogen sources at the time of groundwater recharge, which may...
Multi-species telemetry quantifies current and future efficacy of a remote marine protected area
Morgan Elizabeth Gilmour, Kydd Pollock, Josh Adams, Barbara A. Block, Jennifer E. Caselle, Alexander Filous, Alan M. Friedlander, Edward T. Game, Elliott L. Hazen, Marie Hill, Nick D. Holmes, Kevin D. Lafferty, Sara M. Maxwell, Douglas J. McCauley, Robert Schallert, Scott A. Shaffer, Nicholas H. Wolff, Alex Wegmann
2025, Global Change Biology (31)
Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs; > 1000 km2) provide important refuge for large mobile species, but most do not encompass species' ranges. To better understand current and future LSMPA value, we concurrently tracked nine species (seabirds, cetaceans, pelagic fishes, manta rays, reef sharks) at Palmyra Atoll and Kingman Reef (PKMPA) in...
Seismic moment and local magnitude scales in Ridgecrest, CA from the SCEC/USGS Community Stress Drop Validation Study
Annemarie S. Baltay Sundstrom, Rachel E. Abercrombie
2025, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (115) 1279-1293
We illustrate the systematic difference between moment magnitude and local magnitude caused by underlying earthquake source physics, using seismic moments submitted to the Statewide California Earthquake Center/United States Geological Survey Community Stress Drop Validation Study 2019 Ridgecrest data set. While the relationship between seismic moment and moment magnitude (M or...
