Shelf ecosystems along the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain prior to and during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Insights into the stratigraphic architecture
Monika Doubrawa, Peter Stassen, Marci M. Robinson, Tali Babila, James Zachos, Robert P. Speijer
2022, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (37)
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is the most pronounced global warming event of the early Paleogene related to atmospheric CO2 increases. It is characterized by negative δ18O and δ13C excursions recorded in sedimentary archives and a transient disruption of the marine biosphere. Sites from the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain show an...
Scat as a source of DNA for population monitoring
Jeffrey A. Manning, Taylor Edwards, John Clemons, Daniel J. Leavitt, Caren S. Goldberg, Melanie Culver
2022, Ecology and Evolution (12)
Sampling fecal droppings (scat) to genetically identify individual animals is an established method for monitoring mammal populations and could be highly useful for monitoring reptile populations. Whereas existing protocols for obtaining DNA from reptile scat focus on analyses of whole, fresh scat deposited during animal handling, the collection of scat...
Assessing the impact of chloride deicer application in the Siskiyou Pass, southern Oregon
Adam J. Stonewall, Matthew C. Yates, Gregory E. Granato
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5091
Chloride deicers have been applied by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to Interstate Route 5 (I–5) from the Oregon-California border north to mile marker 10 for several years in the high-elevation area known as the Siskiyou Pass. Magnesium chloride (MgCl2) and sodium chloride (NaCl) are applied to...
Assessment of undiscovered conventional gas resources in the Deep Tuscaloosa Group Sandstones of the Western Gulf Basin Province, U.S. Gulf Coast region, 2021
Matthew D. Merrill, Catherine B. Enomoto
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3067
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean resources of 14,785 billion cubic feet of gas resources in the Western Gulf Basin Province, U.S. Gulf Coast region....
The socioecology of fear: A critical geographical consideration of human-wolf-livestock conflict
Robert M. Anderson, Susan Charnley, Kathleen Epstein, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Jeff Vance Martin, Michael C Mcinturff
2022, Canadian Geographer (67) 17-34
Animal fear can be an important driver of ecological community structure: predators affect prey not only through predation, but by inducing changes in behavior and distribution—a phenomenon evocatively called the “ecology of fear.” The return of wolves to the western United States is a notable instance of such dynamics, yet...
Lateral moraines, ice-dammed lakes, and meltwater-carved channels in the Pelham, Shutesbury, Leverett area of west-central Massachusetts: A record of Connecticut Valley ice lobe retreat
Janet R. Stone, Mary L. DiGiacomo-Cohen
2022, Conference Paper, Guidebook for field trips in Massachusetts and surrounding area
Temporary ice-dammed glacial lakes formed high in the landscape in several westward sloping valleys on the east side of the Connecticut Valley lowland during late Wisconsinan deglaciation. These lakes were impounded by a lengthy lobe of ice that extended farther south in the lowland than at upland retreatal ice-margin positions...
The future of fungi: Threats and opportunities
Nicola T. Case, Judith Berman, David S. Blehert, Robert A. Cramer, Christina A. Cuomo, Cameron R. Currie, Iuliana V. Ene, Matthew C. Fisher, Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin, Aleeza C. Gerstein, N. Louise Glass, Neil A. R. Gow, Sarah J. Gurr, Chris Todd Hittinger, Tobias M. Hohl, Iliyan D. Iliev, Timothy Y. James, Hailing Jin, Bruce S. Klein, James W. Kronstad, Jeffrey M. Lorch, Victoria McGovern, Aaron P. Mitchell, Julia A. Segre, Rebecca S. Shapiro, Donald C. Sheppard, Anita Sil, Jason E. Stajich, Eva E. Stukenbrock, John W. Taylor, Dawn Thompson, Gerard D. Wright, Joseph Heitman, Leah E. Cowen
2022, G3 Genes, Genomes, Genetics (12)
The fungal kingdom represents an extraordinary diversity of organisms with profound impacts across animal, plant, and ecosystem health. Fungi simultaneously support life, by forming beneficial symbioses with plants and producing life-saving medicines, and bring death, by causing devastating diseases in humans, plants, and animals. With climate change, increased antimicrobial resistance,...
Snake River fall Chinook salmon research and monitoring
Kenneth F. Tiffan, editor(s)
2022, Report
In 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) focused adult salmon survey efforts in the Snake River on deepwater redd searches and fish collection for parentage-based tagging (PBT) analyses. We use used a boat-mounted underwater video camera to count 93 deepwater redds at 17 of the 28 sites surveyed. Redd depths...
Applied aspects of locomotion and biomechanics
Theodore R. Castro-Santos, Elsa Goerig, Pingguo He, George Lauder
2022, Book chapter, Fish Physiology
Locomotion is the act and process of moving from place to place, which is fundamental to the life history of all mobile organisms. While the field of biomechanics encompasses the study of the physical constraints of what animals are capable of, ecological contexts require an integrated view that includes ecology...
Toward next-generation lava flow forecasting: Development of a fast, physics-based lava propagation model
David M.R. Hyman, Hannah R. Dietterich, Matthew R. Patrick
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (127)
During effusive volcanic crises, the eruption and propagation of lava flows pose a significant hazard to nearby populations, homes, and infrastructure. Consequently, timely lava flow forecasts are a critical need for volcano observatory and emergency management operations. Previous lava flow modeling tools are typically either too slow to produce timely...
Modeling protected species distributions and habitats to inform siting and management of pioneering ocean industries: A case study for Gulf of Mexico aquaculture
Nicholas A Farmer, Jessica R Powell, James A Morris, Melissa S Soldevilla, Lisa C. Wickliffe, Jonathan A Jossart, Jonathan K MacKay, Alyssa L Randall, Gretchen E Bath, Penny Ruvelas, Laura Gray, Jennifer Lee, Wendy Piniak, Lance Garrison, Robert Hardy, Kristen Hart, Christopher Sasso, Lesley Stokes, Kenneth L Riley
2022, PLoS ONE (17)
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) provides a process that uses spatial data and models to evaluate environmental, social, economic, cultural, and management trade-offs when siting (i.e., strategically locating) ocean industries. Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food sector in the world. The United States (U.S.) has substantial opportunity for offshore aquaculture development given...
Very high Middle Miocene surface productivity on the U.S. mid-Atlantic shelf amid glacioeustatic sea level variability
Marci M. Robinson, Harry J. Dowsett, Timothy D. Herbert
2022, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (606)
The Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO) provides important insights into how the climate system operates under elevated temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels. Few western North Atlantic paleotemperature or paleoecological records exist from the MCO, despite their importance for understanding both regional and global climate dynamics. Here we present quantitative MCO paleoecological data from the western North...
Assessing human resources development in volcano observatories using the knowledge, attitude, and practice survey
Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Catalina Sarmiento, David W. Ramsey, Darcy Bevens
2022, Natural Hazards Review (23)
The purpose of this study was to assess the role played by the International Training Course, given by the Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV) at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, in the development of human resources for volcano observatory staff around the world. The study design...
Diversity in spawning habitat use among Great Lakes Cisco populations
Matthew R. Paufve, Suresh Sethi, Brian Weidel, Brian F. Lantry, Daniel L. Yule, Lars G. Rudstam, Jory L. Jonas, Eric K. Berglund, Michael J. Connerton, Dimitry Gorsky, Matthew Herbert, Jason Smith
2022, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (31) 379-388
Cisco (Coregonus artedi) once dominated fish communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Restoring the abundance and distribution of this species has emerged as a management priority, yet our understanding of Cisco spawning habitat use is insufficient to characterise habitat needs for these populations and assess whether...
HydroBench: Jupyter supported reproducible hydrological model benchmarking and diagnostic tool
Edom Moges, Benjamin Ruddell, Liang Zhang, Jessica M. Driscoll, Parker A. Norton, Fernando Perez, Laurel Larsen
2022, Frontiers in Earth Sciences (10)
Evaluating whether hydrological models are right for the right reasons demands reproducible model benchmarking and diagnostics that evaluate not just statistical predictive model performance but also internal processes. Such model benchmarking and diagnostic efforts will benefit from standardized methods and ready-to-use toolkits. Using the Jupyter platform, this work...
Geologic models underpinning the 2018 US Geological Survey assessment of hydrocarbon resources in the Eagle Ford Group and associated Cenomanian–Turonian strata, United States Gulf Coast, Texas
Katherine J. Whidden, Janet K. Pitman, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller, Ofori N. Pearson, Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, Scott A. Kinney, Justin E. Birdwell, Stanley T. Paxton, Lauri A. Burke, Russell F. Dubiel
2022, AAPG Bulletin (106) 1625-1652
The availability of new geologic and production data has greatly increased since 2010, when the US Geological Survey (USGS) last assessed undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in the Cenomanian–Turonian (CT) Eagle Ford Group (EFG) across Texas. This new information facilitated an updated assessment of undiscovered continuous oil...
Modflow-setup: Robust automation of groundwater model construction
Andrew T. Leaf, Michael N. Fienen
2022, Frontiers in Earth Science (10)
In an age of both big data and increasing strain on water resources, sound management decisions often rely on numerical models. Numerical models provide a physics-based framework for assimilating and making sense of information that by itself only provides a limited description of the hydrologic system. Often, numerical...
Early in mission Landsat 9 geometric performance
Michael J. Choate, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, Nahid Hasan
2022, SPIE Optics + Photonics 2022 - Conference Proceedings (12232)
Landsat 9 (L9) was launched on September 27, 2021, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) released Level-1 data, geometrically orthorectified and radiometrically calibrated imagery in digital numbers that can be scaled to Top-of-Atmosphere reflectance, and...
Hydrologic data for water-management plans—A resource for Tribal Governments in Oklahoma
MaryKate Higginbotham, Shana L. Mashburn
2022, Circular 1498
IntroductionThe major streams in Oklahoma, and the alluvial aquifers associated with those major streams, are important resources for the 39 federally recognized Tribes in Oklahoma. Many Tribal Governments are interested in developing water-management plans (hereinafter referred to as “water plans”) to preserve water resources for the future. This report provides...
Simulation of regional groundwater flow and groundwater/lake interactions in the Central Sands, Wisconsin
Michael N. Fienen, Megan J. Haserodt, Andrew T. Leaf, Stephen M. Westenbroek
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2022-5046
A multiscale, multiprocess modeling approach was applied to the Wisconsin Central Sands region in central Wisconsin to quantify the connections between the groundwater system, land use, and lake levels in three seepage lakes in Waushara County, Wisconsin: Long and Plainfield (The Plainfield Tunnel Channel Lakes), and Pleasant Lakes. A regional...
Water-surface profile maps for the Mississippi River near Prairie Island, Minnesota, 2019
Aliesha L. Krall, Julia G. Prokopec
2022, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5018
Digital water-surface profile maps for a 14-mile reach of the Mississippi River near Prairie Island, Minnesota, from the confluence of the St. Croix River at Prescott, Wisconsin, to upstream from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lock and Dam No. 3 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams...
Projected stream fish community risk to climate impacts in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States
Nicholas Sievert, Craig P. Paukert, J. B. Whittier, Wesley Daniel, D.M. Infante, Jana S. Stewart
2022, Ecological Indicators (144)
Climate change is expected to alter stream fish habitat potentially leading to changes in the composition and distribution of fish communities. In the Northeastern and Midwestern United States we identified the distribution and characteristics of those fish communities most and least at risk of experiencing changes in climate which deviate...
What to expect when you are expecting earthquake early warning
Sarah E. Minson, Elizabeth S. Cochran, Jessie Kate Saunders, Sara K. McBride, Stephen Wu, Annemarie S. Baltay Sundstrom, Kevin R. Milner
2022, Geophysical Journal International (231) 1386-1403
We present a strategy for earthquake early warning (EEW) alerting that focuses on providing users with a target level of performance for their shaking level of interest (for example, ensuring that users receive warnings for at least 95 per cent of the occurrences of that shaking level). We explore the...
A generically parameterized model of Lake eutrophication: The impact of Stoichiometric ratios and constraints on the abundance of natural phytoplankton communities (GPLake-S)
Manqi Chang, Donald L. DeAngelis, Jan H. Janse, Annette B.G. Janssen, Tineke A. Troost, Dianneke van Wijk, Wolf M. Mooij, Sven Teurlincx
2022, Ecological Modelling (473)
Water quality improvement to avoid excessive phytoplankton blooms often requires eutrophication management where both phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) play a role. While empirical eutrophication studies and ecological resource competition theory both provide insight into phytoplankton abundance in response to nutrient loading, they are not seamlessly linked in the current...
Measuring and attributing sedimentary and geomorphic responses to modern climate change: Challenges and opportunities
Amy E. East, Jonathan A. Warrick, Dongfeng Li, Joel B. Sankey, Margaret H. Redsteer, Ann E. Gibbs, Jeffrey A. Coe, Patrick L. Barnard
2022, Earth's Future (10)
Today, climate change is affecting virtually all terrestrial and nearshore settings. This commentary discusses the challenges of measuring climate-driven physical landscape responses to modern global warming: short and incomplete data records, land use and seismicity masking climatic effects, biases in data availability and resolution, and signal attenuation in sedimentary systems....
