Identifying characteristics of actionable science for drought planning and adaptation: Final report to the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Adam Wilke, Amanda E. Cravens
2019, Report
Changing climate conditions can make water management planning and drought preparedness decisions more complicated than ever before. Resource managers can no longer rely solely on historical data and trends to base their actions, and are in need of science that is relevant to their specific needs and can directly inform...
USGS telemetry database and analyses in support of SEAcarP
Brent C. Knights, Marybeth K. Brey, Jessica C. Stanton, Travis J. Harrison, Timothy J. Fox, Enrika Hlavacek, James J. Duncker
2019, Report, 2019 Interim summary report: Asian carp monitoring and response plan
No abstract available....
Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) climate scenario planning pilot report
Diane Borggaard, Dori Dick, Jonathan Star, Mike Alexander, M. Bernier, Matt Collins, Kelly Damon-Randall, Robert W. Dudley, Roger Roger Griffis, Sean Hayes, Mike Johnson, Dan Kircheis, John Kocik, Benjamin Letcher, Nate Mantua, Wendy Morrison, Keith Nislow, Vince Saba, R. Saunders, Tim Sheehan, Michelle D. Staudinger
2019, Greater Atlantic Region Pollicy Series 19-05
Scenario planning is a structured process that embraces uncertainty and explores plausible alternative future conditions under different assumptions to help manage risk and prioritize actions ( Schwartz 1996, Peterson et al. 2003). It has been used by a variety of organizations to explore and help prepare...
Final Report for Phase 1 - USGS-NE CSC and USFS-NRS Cooperative Research on Climate-Vulnerable Habitats and Species in the Northeast
Keith Nislow, Toni Lyn Morelli
2019, Report
The US Forest Service (USFS) and Northeast Climate (Adaptation) Science Center (NE CASC) came together to focus research and management cooperation on the topic of the impacts of climate change on forested ecosystems. This work had 3 primary components: 1) modeling headwater stream refugia; 2) investigating resilience and resistance strategies...
USGS Illinois River catch database and visualization
Enrika Hlavacek, Travis J. Harrison, Brent C. Knights, Marybeth K. Brey
2019, Report, 2019 Interim summary report: Asian carp monitoring and response plan
No abstract available....
Conceptual framework for assessing disturbance impacts on debris-flow initiation thresholds across hydroclimatic settings
Benjamin B. Mirus, Dennis M. Staley, Jason W. Kean, Joel B. Smith, Rick Wooten, Luke A. McGuire, Brian A. Ebel
2019, Conference Paper, Debris-flow hazards mitigation: Mechanics, monitoring, modeling, and assessment; proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation
The destructive and deadly nature of debris flows has motivated research into empirical rainfall thresholds to provide situational awareness, inform early warning systems, and reduce loss of life and property. Disturbances such as wildfire and land-cover change can influence the hydrological processes of infiltration and runoff generation; in steep terrain...
Recovery planning in a dynamic system: Integrating uncertainty into a decision support tool for an endangered songbird
Jessica Stanton, Jenny Marek, Linnea S. Hall, Barbara E. Kus, Allison Alvarado, Bruce K. Orr, Eric Morrissette, Laura Riege, Wayne E. Thogmartin
2019, Ecology and Society (24)
Along the Santa Clara River in California, populations of the federally and state-listed Least Bell's Vireo (Vireo bellii pusillus) are recovering from near extirpation. Habitat protection and restoration, as well as controlling rates of brood parasitism, are thought to be the primary drivers of this recovery. Continuing successful management...
Transmissivity and geophysical data for selected wells at and near the Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, 2017–18
Brian V. Twining, Neil V. Maimer
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5134
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy, conducted aquifer tests during 2017–18 on 101 wells at and near the Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, to define the hydraulic characteristics for individual wells. These were short-duration aquifer tests, conducted with a limited number of observations during routine...
Asian carp population modeling to support an Adaptive Management framework, USGS Contribution
Richard A. Erickson
2019, Book chapter, 2019 Asian carp interim summary report
The Spatially Explicit Asian carp Population (SEAcarP) model was developed to inform management and research decisions with the goal of minimizing the abundance of Bighead Carp and Silver Carp (collectively referred to as “Asian carp” in this document) in the upper Illinois River waterway, thereby reducing risk of population expansion...
Diel feeding and movement activity of Northern Snakehead Channa argus
Nicolas W. R. Lapointe, Ryan K. Saylor, Paul L. Angermeier
2019, Conference Paper, American Fisheries Society symposium 89
Understanding the diel activity of a species can shed light on potential interactions with other species and inform management practices. To understand the diel activity of Northern Snakehead Channa argus, feeding habits and movement patterns were observed. Two hundred seventy-three Northern Snakehead were captured by boat electrofishing during May and June...
Significant seismic behavior features of two tall buildings inferred from response records
Mehmet Celebi
2019, Conference Paper
In this paper, recent studies of recorded responses of behavior and performances of two instrumented tall buildings subjected to long-period motions from events that originate at far distances (e.g. 100-800km) are presented. Significant results indicate that (a) computed average drift ratios are substantial (~0.5%), and (b) there is permanent shift...
Sixty years of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) yarding in a Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)–deer system
L. David Mech, Shannon Barber-Meyer
2019, Canadian Field Naturalist (133) 343-351
This article synthesizes information from over a six-decade period of studies of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) use of a winter yard and subject to Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) predation in northeastern Minnesota. It also adds spring migration data from 35 adult female deer and fawns studied there during 1998, 1999,...
Integrating the sociology of space with geospatial semantics relation properties for data graphs
Dalia E. Varanka
2019, Conference Paper
This research posits that socially constructed spatial relations address concepts of interactions instead of intersections, human/tool agents instead of physical processes, and broader ranges of geographical outcomes. The hypothesis is that social space can be represented by using patterns of logic relations between sets of entities. The data corpus...
A probabilistic assessment methodology for carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention
Peter D. Warwick, Emil D. Attanasi, Ricardo A. Olea, Madalyn S. Blondes, Philip A. Freeman, Sean T. Brennan, Matthew D. Merrill, Mahendra K. Verma, C. Ozgen Karacan, Jenna L. Shelton, Celeste D. Lohr, Hossein Jahediesfanjani, Jacqueline N. Roueche
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5115
The U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 authorized the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct a national assessment of the potential volume of hydrocarbons recoverable by injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) into known oil reservoirs with historical production. The implementation of CO2 enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) techniques could...
Genetically-informed seed transfer zones for Pleuraphis jamesii, Sphaeralcea parvifolia, and Sporobolus cryptandrus across the Colorado Plateau and adjacent regions
Robert Massatti
2019, Report
(Massatti) Introduction: The majority of native plant materials (NPMs) utilized for restoration purposes are developed for widely distributed species that provide a variety of ecosystem services (Wood et al. 2015; Butterfield et al. 2017). Disturbed ecosystems benefit from the use of appropriate NPMs, which are those that display ecological fitness...
National assessment of shoreline change — Historical shoreline change along the north coast of Alaska, Icy Cape to Cape Prince of Wales
Ann E. Gibbs, Alexander G. Snyder, Bruce M. Richmond
2019, Open-File Report 2019-1146
Beach erosion is a persistent problem along most open-ocean shores of the United States. Along the Arctic coast of Alaska, coastal erosion is widespread and threatens communities, defense and energy-related infrastructure, and coastal habitat. As coastal populations continue to expand and infrastructure and habitat are increasingly threatened by erosion, there...
Streambed scour evaluations and conditions at selected bridge sites in Alaska, 2016–17
Robin A. Beebee, Karenth L. Dworsky, Schyler J. Knopp
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5110
Stream stability, flood frequency, and streambed scour potential were evaluated at 20 Alaskan river- and stream-spanning bridges lacking a quantitative scour analysis or having unknown foundation details. Three of the bridges had been assessed shortly before the study described in this report but were re-assessed using different methods or data....
DNA fingerprinting of Southern Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus fuliginatus) in North San Diego County, California (2018-19)
Anna Mitelberg, Julia G. Smith, Amy G. Vandergast
2019, Open-File Report 2019-1138
Throughout the western United States, efforts are underway to better understand and preserve migration and movement corridors for mule deer and other big game and to minimize the impacts of development and other land-use change on populations. San Diego County is home to a unique non-migratory subspecies of mule deer,...
Some experiments in extreme-value statistical modeling of magnetic superstorm intensities
Jeffrey J. Love
2019, Space Weather (18)
In support of projects for forecasting and mitigating the deleterious effects of extreme space-weather storms, an examination is made of the intensities of magnetic superstorms recorded in the Dst index time series (1957-2016). Modified peak-over-threshold and solar-cycle, block-maximum sampling of the Dst time series are performed to obtain compi-lations of...
Flow modification in the Nation’s streams and rivers
Daren M. Carlisle, David M. Wolock, Christopher P. Konrad, Gregory J. McCabe, Ken Eng, Theodore E. Grantham, Barbara Mahler
2019, Circular 1461
This report summarizes a national assessment of flowing waters conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project and addresses several pressing questions about the modification of natural flows in streams and rivers. The assessment is based on the integration, modeling, and synthesis of monitoring data collected by...
Flood-inundation maps for the North Platte River at Scottsbluff and Gering, Nebraska, 2018
Kellan R. Strauch
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5099
Digital flood-inundation maps for an 8.8-mile reach of the North Platte River, from 1.5 miles upstream from the Highway 92 bridge to 3 miles downstream from the Highway 71 bridge in Scottsbluff County, were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Cities of Scottsbluff and Gering,...
Bathymetric map and surface area and capacity table for Beaver Lake near Rogers, Arkansas, 2018
Richard J. Huizinga, Jarrett T. Ellis, Jennifer B. Sharpe, Jessica Z. LeRoy, Joseph M. Richards
2019, Scientific Investigations Map 3445
Beaver Lake was constructed in 1966 on the White River in the northwest corner of Arkansas for flood control, hydroelectric power, public water supply, and recreation. The surface area of Beaver Lake is about 27,900 acres and approximately 449 miles of shoreline are at the conservation pool level (1,120 feet...
Methods for estimating the magnitude and frequency of peak streamflows for unregulated streams in Oklahoma developed by using streamflow data through 2017
Jason M. Lewis, Shelby L. Hunter, L.G. Labriola
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5143
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, updated peak-streamflow regression equations for estimating flows with annual exceedance probabilities from 50 to 0.2 percent for the State of Oklahoma. These regression equations incorporate basin characteristics to estimate peak-streamflow magnitude and frequency throughout the State by...
A hydrogeomorphic classification of connectivity of large rivers of the Upper Midwest, United States
Robert B. Jacobson, Jason J. Rohweder, Nathan R. De Jager
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5132
River connectivity is defined as the water-mediated exchange of matter, energy, and biota between different elements of the riverine landscape. Connectivity is an especially important concept in large-river corridors (channel plus floodplain ) because large rivers integrate fluxes of water, sediment, nutrients, contaminants, and other transported constituents emanating from large...
Scientist’s guide to developing explanatory statistical models using causal analysis principles
James B. Grace, Kathryn Irvine
2019, Ecology (101)
Recent discussions of model selection and multimodel inference highlight a general challenge for researchers, which is how to clearly convey the explanatory content of a hypothesized model or set of competing models. The advice from statisticians for scientists employing multimodel inference is to develop a well‐thought‐out set of candidate models...
