The Connecticut Streamflow and Sustainable Water Use Estimator—A decision-support tool to estimate water availability at ungaged stream locations in Connecticut
Sara B. Levin, Scott A. Olson, Martha G. Nielsen, Gregory E. Granato
2018, Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5135
Freshwater streams in Connecticut are subject to many competing demands, including public water supply; agricultural, commercial, and industrial water use; and ecosystem and habitat needs. In recent years, drought has further stressed Connecticut’s water resources. To sustainably allocate and manage water resources among these competing uses, Federal, State, and local...
Accuracies achieved in classifying five leading world crop types and their growth stages using optimal Earth Observing-1 Hyperion hyperspectral narrowbands on Google Earth Engine
Itiya Aneece, Prasad S. Thenkabail
2018, Remote Sensing (10) 1-29
As the global population increases, we face increasing demand for food and nutrition. Remote sensing can help monitor food availability to assess global food security rapidly and accurately enough to inform decision-making. However, advances in remote sensing technology are still often limited to multispectral broadband sensors. Although these sensors have...
Best practices for elevation-based assessments of sea-level rise and coastal flooding exposure
Dean B. Gesch
2018, Frontiers in Earth Science (6) 1-19
Elevation data are critical for assessments of sea-level rise (SLR) and coastal flooding exposure. Previous research has demonstrated that the quality of data used in elevation-based assessments must be well understood and applied to properly model potential impacts. The cumulative vertical uncertainty of the input elevation data substantially controls the...
Crop water productivity estimation with hyperspectral remote sensing
Michael Marshall, Itiya P. Aneece, Daniel Foley, Cai Xueliang, Trent Biggs
2018, Book chapter, Hyperspectral remote sensing of vegetation: Advanced applications in remote Sensing of agricultural crops and natural vegetation
Crop water productivity (CWP) is the ratio of accumulated crop biomass or yield (Y) to the water utilized to produce it, which is typically estimated using transpiration (ETC). CWP is an important metric to test and monitor water-saving strategies in agroecosystems across the globe. Red and near-infrared broadbands have been...
Agricultural conservation practice implementation in the Chesapeake Bay watershed supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
W. Dean Hively, Olivia H. Devereux, Jennifer L. D. Keisman
2018, Data Series 1102
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides cost-share funding and technical assistance to support the implementation of agricultural conservation practices on farms throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Conservation implementation has been substantial in the time period for which digital records are available (from 2007 through 2017). Farmer participation in USDA...
Root endophytes and invasiveness: no difference between native and non‐native Phragmites in the Great Lakes Region
Wesley A. Bickford, Deborah E. Goldberg, Kurt P. Kowalski, Donald R. Zak
2018, Ecosphere (9) 1-14
Microbial interactions could play an important role in plant invasions. If invasive plants associate with relatively more mutualists or fewer pathogens than their native counterparts, then microbial communities could foster plant invasiveness. Studies examining the effects of microbes on invasive plants commonly focus on a single microbial group (e.g., bacteria)...
Analysis ready data: Enabling analysis of the Landsat archive
John L. Dwyer, David P. Roy, Brian Sauer, Calli B. Jenkerson, Hankui K. Zhang, Leo Lymburner
2018, Remote Sensing (10)
Data that have been processed to allow analysis with a minimum of additional user effort are often referred to as Analysis Ready Data (ARD). The ability...
Wildlife underpass use and environmental impact assessment: A southern California case study
Travis Longcore, Lindsay Almaleh, Brittany Chetty, Kathryn Francis, Robert Freidin, Ching-Sheng Huang, Brooke Pickett, Diane Schreck, Brooke Scruggs, Elise Shulman, Alissa Swauger, Alison Tashnek, Michael Wright, Erin E. Boydston
2018, Cities and the Environment (11)
Environmental planners often rely on transportation structures (i.e., underpasses, bridges) to provide connectivity for animals across developed landscapes. Environmental assessments of predicted environmental impacts from proposed developments often rely on literature reviews or other indirect measures to establish the importance of wildlife crossings. Literature-based evaluations of wildlife crossings may not...
Projected changes in climate and physical processes
Patricia R. Butler-Leopold, Louis R. Iverson, Frank R. Thompson III, Leslie A. Brandt, Stephen D. Handler, Maria K. Janowiak, P. Danielle Shannon, Christopher W. Swanston, Scott Bearer, Alexander Bryan, Kenneth L. Clark, Greg Czarnecki, Philip DeSenze, William D. Dijak, Jacob S. Fraser, Paul F. Gugger, Andrea Hille, Justin Hynicka, Claire A. Jantz, Matthew C. Kelly, Katrina M. Krause, Inga P. La Puma, Deborah Landau, Richard G. Lathrop Jr., Laura P. Leites, Evan Madlinger, Stephen N. Matthews, Gulnihal Ozbay, Matthew P. Peters, Anantha Prasad, David A. Schmit, Collin Shephard, Rebecca Shirer, Nicholas S. Skowronski, Al Steele, Susan Stout, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, John Thompson, Richard M. Turcotte, David A. Weinstein, Alfonso Yanez
2018, Book chapter, General Technical Report NRS-181, Mid-Atlantic forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: A report from the Mid-Atlantic Climate Change Response Framework project
In Chapter 3, we examined how climate has changed in the Mid-Atlantic region during the past century. This chapter examines how climate is expected to change during the 21st century, including changes in extreme weather events and other climaterelated processes. General circulation models, also called global climate models (GCMs), are...
New global high-resolution centerlines dataset of selected river systems
Zeenatul Basher, Abigail Lynch, William W. Taylor
2018, Data in Brief (20) 1552-1555
We present the first high resolution (1:20,000) river centerlines shapefiles from 50 large rivers across the world. Rivers were selected based on the criteria of having more than 1000 km length and which have been reported to have a significant contribution to global fishery production. Since large rivers often span multiple...
Vibration monitoring results near a bat hibernaculum at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, March 2016
Ryan F. Adams, William S. Morrow, Carolyn M. Koebel
2018, Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5129
Vibrations originating from construction of a new walkway in a passage of Mammoth Cave, from walking personnel simulating a bat survey, and from ambient sources were measured near a bat hibernaculum beneath Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, to determine if the vibrations were disturbing the hibernating bats. Data presented indicate...
Interactive tool to estimate groundwater elevations in central and eastern North Dakota
Rochelle A. Nustad, William C. Damschen, Aldo V. Vecchia
2018, Open-File Report 2018-1185
This report describes an interactive tool (NDakGWtool) in which a statistical model is developed using locally weighted regression to estimate monthly mean groundwater elevations for a specified latitude and longitude, referred to as the “user-specified location.” For each user-specified location, seven models are developed for each month from April through...
Twenty-nine years of population dynamics in a small-bodied montane amphibian
Erin L. Muths, R D Scherer, S M Amburgey, PS Corn
2018, Ecosphere (9)
Identifying population declines before they reach crisis proportions is imperative given the current global decline in vertebrate fauna and associated challenges and expense of recovery. Understanding life histories and how the environment influences demography are critical aspects of this challenge, as is determining the biological relevance of covariates that are...
Geologic map of the central Beaverhead Mountains, Lemhi County, Idaho, and Beaverhead County, Montana
Karen Lund
2018, Scientific Investigations Map 3413
This geologic map of the central Beaverhead Mountains portrays a complex geologic history of depositional basin development interspersed with deformational events. Generalized geology for young basins, compiled from sources on both sides of the range, is combined with newly mapped bedrock geology to better integrate geologic development of the map...
Prioritization framework for ranking riverine ecosystem stressors using example sites from the Tualatin River Basin, Oregon
Steven Sobieszczyk, Krista L. Jones, Stewart A. Rounds, Elena B. Nilsen, Jennifer L. Morace
2018, Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5153
As human populations increase, so does their influence over the environment. Altered terrain, degraded water quality, and threatened or endangered species are all-too-common consequences of a growing anthropogenic influence on the landscape. To help manage these effects, researchers have developed new ways to characterize current environmental conditions and help...
Flood-inundation maps for the Salamonie River at Portland, Indiana
Kellan R. Strauch
2018, Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5132
Digital flood-inundation maps for a 6.5-mile reach of the Salamonie River at Portland, Indiana, were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Indiana Department of Transportation. The flood-inundation maps, which can be accessed through the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Science website at https://water.usgs.gov/osw/flood_inundation/, depict...
Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Risk Map
V. Silva, D. Amo-Oduro, A. Calderon, J. Dabbeek, V. Despotaki, L. Martins, A. Rao, M. Simionato, D. Vigano, C. Yepes, A. Acevedo, H. Crowley, Nick Horspool, Kishor S. Jaiswal, M. Journeay, M. Pittore
2018, Report
The Global Earthquake Risk Map (v2018.1) comprises four global maps. The main map presents the geographic distribution of average annual loss (USD) normalized by the average construction costs of the respective country (USD/m2 due to ground shaking in the residential, commercial and industrial building stock, considering contents,...
Prevalence and risk factors of Trichomonas gallinae and trichomonosis in golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nestlings in western North America
Benjamin M Dudek, Michael N. Kochert, Joseph G. Barnes, Peter H. Bloom, Joseph M. Papp, Richard W. Gerhold, Kathryn E. Purple, Kenneth V. Jacobson, Charles R. Preston, Chris R. Vennum, James W. Watson, Julie A. Heath
2018, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (54) 755-764
Avian trichomonosis, caused by the protozoan Trichomonas gallinae, affects bird-eating raptors worldwide. Raptors can develop trichomonosis by feeding on infected prey, particularly Rock Pigeons (Columba livia), which are a reservoir for T. gallinae. Raptors may be particularly vulnerable to T. gallinae infection in degraded habitats, where changes in resources may cause raptors to switch...
No flood effect on recruitment of a small Louisiana black bear population
Joseph D. Clark, Kaitlin C. O’Connell-Goode, Carrie L. Lowe, Sean M. Murphy, Sutton C. Maehr, Maria M. Davidson, Jared S. Laufenberg
2018, Journal of Wildlife Management (82) 566-572
A flood event in 2011 had minor impacts on apparent survival and movement probabilities of a small, isolated population of Louisiana black bears (Ursus americanus luteolus) in the Upper Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana, USA. However, the potential effects of the flood on recruitment of juveniles into the population, then listed...
How or when samples are collected affects measured arsenic concentration in new drinking water wells
Melinda L. Erickson, Helen F. Malenda, Emily C. Berquist
2018, Groundwater (56) 921-933
Naturally occurring arsenic can adversely affect water quality in geologically diverse aquifers throughout the world. Chronic exposure to arsenic via drinking water is a human health concern due to risks for certain cancers, skin abnormalities, peripheral neuropathy, and other negative health effects. Statewide in Minnesota, USA, 11% of samples from...
2D and 3D potential field mapping and modelling at the Fallon FORGE site, Nevada, USA
Jeffrey B. Witter, Jonathan M. G. Glen, Drew L. Siler, Dominique Fournier
2018, Geothermal Resources Council Transactions (42)
Accurate geological characterization of Fallon FORGE is important for preparing the site as an EGS laboratory. As part of this effort, a 3D geologic map was constructed previously from well logs, surface geologic mapping, 2D seismic profiles, interpreted gravity & magnetic maps, and a gravity-inferred basement surface. In this study,...
Quantifying uncertainty in Sr/Ca-based estimates of SST from the coral Orbicella faveolata
Jennifer A. Flannery, Julie N. Richey, Lauren T. Toth, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Richard Z. Poore
2018, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (33) 958-973
The strontium to calcium ratio (Sr/Ca) in aragonitic skeletons of massive corals provides a proxy for sea surface temperature (SST) that can be used to reconstruct paleoclimates across decades, centuries, and, potentially, millennia. Determining the reproducibility of Sr/Ca records among contemporaneous coral colonies from the same region is critical to...
Characteristics of tropical tree species in hyperspectral and multispectral data
Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira, Cibele Hummel do Amaral, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Raymond F. Kokaly, Carlos Roberto de Souza Filho, Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro
Prasad S. Thenkabail, John J. Lyons, Alfredo Huete, editor(s)
2018, Book chapter, Biophysical and biochemical characterization and plant species studies
Remote sensing has been hailed as a promising technology to provide spatially explicit information on tree species distribution. Such information is of high value for ecologists and forest managers, particularly in tropical environments in which it is acquired by costly field inventories performed at the plot level (∼1 ha). Over...
Identifying opportunities for long-lasting habitat conservation and restoration in Hawaii’s shifting climate
Lucas B. Fortini, James D. Jacobi
2018, Regional Environmental Change (18) 2391-2402
Conservation efforts in isolated archipelagos such as Hawaii often focus on habitat-based conservation and restoration efforts that benefit multiple species. Unfortunately, identifying locations where such efforts are safer from climatic shifts is still challenging. We aimed to provide a method to approximate these potential habitat shifts for similar data- and...
Ontogenetic changes in swimming speed of silver carp, bighead carp, and grass carp larvae: implications for larval dispersal
Amy E. George, Tatiana Garcia, Benjamin H. Stahlschmidt, Duane Chapman
2018, PeerJ (6)
Bighead, silver, and grass carps are invasive in the waterways of central North America, and grass carp reproduction in tributaries of the Great Lakes has now been documented. Questions about recruitment potential motivate a need for accurate models of egg and larval dispersal. Quantitative data on swimming behaviors and capabilities...
