Thermophysical and compositional properties of paleobedforms on Mars
Aaron R. Weintraub, Christopher S. Edwards, Matthew Chojnacki, Lauren A. Edgar, Lori K. Fenton, Sylvain Piqueux, Amber L. Gullikson
2022, Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets (127)
Bedforms on Earth and Mars are often preserved in the rock record in the form of sedimentary rock with distinct cross-bedding. On rare occasions, the full-surface geometry of a bedform can be preserved through burial and lithification. These features, known as paleobedforms, are found in a variety...
North Dakota and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3053
The State of North Dakota once did not figure prominently in the Nation’s economy. The sparsely populated State supported food production, and hunters and anglers were drawn to its lakes, rivers, and wide-open spaces, but its economy was overshadowed by that of other States. However, the State and its prairie...
Using piecewise regression to identify biological phenomena in biotelemetry datasets
David W. Wolfson, David E. Andersen, John R. Fieberg
2022, Journal of Animal Ecology (91) 1755-1769
1. Technological advances in the field of animal tracking have greatly expanded the potential to remotely monitor animals, opening the door to exploring how animals shift their behavior over time or respond to external stimuli. A wide variety of animal-borne sensors can provide information on an animal’s location, movement characteristics,...
Indiana and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3049
Natural resources have always been a strength for Indiana. Once largely covered by forest, the State now includes a mix of forest, farmland, wetlands, and small lakes. In fact, farms and forested areas make up more than 80 percent of the land. The Ohio River forms the southern border, and...
Estratigrafía preliminar del flanco Este del volcán de Santa Ana
Dennis Lemus, Christopher Harpel, Angela V. Garcia, Demetrio Escobar, Alexander Hernandez, Estefany Alvarenga
2022, Conference Paper, Memoria, XIV congreso geologica de America Central & VII congreso geologico nacional
We present the eruption sequence for the east flank of Santa Ana volcano, which we divide into the sections above and below the Tierra Blanca Joven (TBJ) formation. The sequence below the TBJ suggests a series of mafic magmatic eruptions that began before 7,800 cal BP and continued until after...
Nuevos datos: Avalancha de escombros de Acajutla, volcán Santa Ana
Angela V. Garcia, Christopher Harpel, Walter Hernandez, Demetrio Escobar, Luis E. Mixco, Charles Lewis, Linda Scott Cummings
2022, Conference Paper, Memoria, XIV congreso geologica de America Central & VII congreso geologico nacional
The Acajutla debris-avalanche deposit is dated to about 40,000 cal BP. The dating is based on two 14C dates on pieces of wood from the debris-avalanche deposit recovered from a core at the Santa Águeda School Center. The debris-avalanche deposit overlies a 1.2-m-thick paleosol and four ash layers. One...
Tephrochronology of the Miocene Monterey and Modelo Formations, California
Jeffrey R. Knott, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, John A. Barron, Elmira Wan, Nancy Heizler, Priscilla Martinez
2022, GSA Special Papers
Tuff beds have been known in the Miocene Monterey and Modelo Formations since the initial descriptions; however, age control and correlation is predominantly biostratigraphy. Here we combine tephrochronology and biostratigraphy in order to provide numerical age control for eight sedimentary sequences of the Monterey and Modelo Formations from Monterey, California...
The effects of earthquake experience on intentions to respond to Earthquake Early Warnings
Julia S. Becker, Lauren Vinnell, Sara K. McBride, K. Nakayachi, Emma Doyle, Sally H. Potter, Ann Bostrom
2022, Frontiers in Communications (7)
Warning systems are essential for providing people with information so they can take protective action in response to perils. Systems need to be human-centered, which requires an understanding of the context within which humans operate. Therefore, our research sought to understand the human context for Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) in...
Assessing spatial transferability of a random forest metamodel for predicting drainage fraction
Elisa Bjerre, Michael N. Fienen, Raphael Schneider, Julian Koch, Anker L. Højberg
2022, Journal of Hydrology (612)
Fully distributed hydrological models are widely used in groundwater management, but model speed and data requirements impede their use for decision support purposes. Metamodels provide a simpler and faster model which emulates the underlying complex model using machine learning techniques. However, metamodel predictions beyond the...
Riparian buffers provide refugia during secondary forest succession
Michelle E. Thompson, Brian J. Halstead, Maureen A. Donnelly
2022, Diversity and Distributions (28) 2008-2019
AimSecondary forests regenerating from human disturbance are increasingly becoming a predominant forest type in many regions, and they play a significant role in forest community dynamics. Understanding the factors that underlie the variation in species responses during secondary succession is important for understanding community assembly and biodiversity...
Evapotranspiration covers at uranium mill tailings sites
Todd Caldwell, Sarah Tabatabai, Jena Huntington, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Davies, Mark Fuhrmann
2022, Vadose Zone Journal (21)
Waste isolation is a key strategy for mitigating risk from municipal solid waste (MSW) and hazardous waste streams. Conventional covers at MSW facilities are designed for a 30-yr post-closure period where compacted soils and geosynthetics are used to minimize percolation into buried waste. Recently, evapotranspiration (ET) covers have shown beneficial...
The formation mechanisms for mid-latitude ice scarps on Mars
Kaj E. Williams, Colin M. Dundas, Melinda A. Kahre
2022, Icarus (386)
Mid-latitude exposed ice scarps have recently been identified on Mars (Dundas et al., 2018; 2021). The presence of such surface ice exposures at relatively low latitudes was itself a mystery, and the formation dynamics of such scarps have also not been explained. In this work we model the ice ablation...
Scanning the horizon for invasive plant threats using a data-driven approach
Amy E Kendig, Susan Canavan, Patti J Anderson, S Luke Flory, Lyn A Gettys, Doria R. Gordon, Basil V Iannone, John M Kunzer, Tabitha Petri, Ian Pfingsten, Deah Lieurance
2022, NeoBiota (74) 129-154
Early detection and eradication of invasive plants are more cost-effective than managing well-established invasive plant populations and their impacts. However, there is high uncertainty around which taxa are likely to become invasive in a given area. Horizon scanning that combines a data-driven approach with rapid risk assessment...
Results of automated scanning electron microscope (SEM) analyses of rock and stream sediment samples from the Taurus porphyry copper deposit area, Tanacross quadrangle, eastern Alaska
Karen D. Kelley, Katharina Pfaff, Garth E. Graham
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1046
Numerous porphyry copper-molybdenum-gold and epithermal deposits define a belt that extends from Eastern Alaska to western Yukon, Canada. An orientation study conducted near the Taurus porphyry deposit was designed to test methods that require minimal sample collection, preparation, and analytical time to determine the viability of indicator mineral studies as...
Marine minerals in Alaska — A review of coastal and deep-ocean regions
Amy Gartman, Kira Mizell, Douglas C. Kreiner
2022, Professional Paper 1870
Minerals occurring in marine environments span the globe and encompass a broad range of mineral categories, forming within varied geologic and oceanographic settings. They occur in coastal regions, either from the continuation or mechanical reworking of terrestrial mineralization, as well as in the deep ocean, from diagenetic, hydrogenetic, and hydrothermal...
Large-scale distribution models for optimal prediction of Eastern black rail habitat within tidal ecosystems
Bryan S. Stevens, Courtney J. Conway, Kirsten Luke, Aimee Weldon, Christy Hand, Amy Schwarzer, Fletcher Smith, Craig Watson, Bryan D. Watts
2022, Global Ecology and Conservation (38)
Eastern black rails (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis) are among the rarest and least-studied birds in North America and were recently listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Spatial models that predict habitat quality across the subspecies range are therefore needed to inform conservation, recovery, and monitoring efforts for this rare bird. We...
Alaska focus area definition for data acquisition for potential domestic sources of critical minerals in Alaska for antimony, barite, beryllium, chromium, fluorspar, hafnium, magnesium, manganese, uranium, vanadium, and zirconium
Douglas C. Kreiner, James V. Jones III, George N. Case
2022, Open-File Report 2019-1023-E
Phase 3 of the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) focuses on geologic belts that are favorable for hosting mineral systems that could contain the critical minerals antimony, barite, beryllium, chromium, fluorspar, hafnium, magnesium, manganese, uranium, vanadium, and zirconium. Prior phases of the Earth MRI program in Alaska focused...
Focus areas for data acquisition for potential domestic resources of 13 critical minerals in the conterminous United States and Puerto Rico — Antimony, barite, beryllium, chromium, fluorspar, hafnium, helium, magnesium, manganese, potash, uranium, vanadium, and zirconium
Jane M. Hammarstrom, Connie L. Dicken, Laurel G. Woodruff, Allen K. Andersen, Sean T. Brennan, Warren C. Day, Benjamin J. Drenth, Nora K. Foley, Susan Hall, Albert H. Hofstra, Anne E. McCafferty, Anjana K. Shah, David A. Ponce
2022, Open-File Report 2019-1023-D
The Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) is conducted in phases to identify areas for acquiring new geologic framework data to identify potential domestic resources of the 35 mineral materials designated as critical minerals for the United States. This report describes the data sources and summary results for 13 critical...
Africa’s drylands in a changing world: Challenges for wildlife conservation under climate and land-use changes in the Greater Etosha Landscape
Wendy Christine Turner, Stéphanie Périquet, Claire E. Goelst, Kimberlie B. Vera, Elissa Z. Cameron, Kathleen A. Alexander, Jerrold L. Belant, Claudine C. Cloete, Pierre du Preez, Wayne M. Getz, Robyn S. Hetem, Pauline L. Kamath, Marthin K. Kasaona, Monique Mackenzie, John Mendelsohn, John K.E. Mfune, Jeff Muntifering, Ruben Portas, H. Ann Scott, W. Maartin Strauss, Wilferd Versfeld, Bettina Wachter, George Wittemyer, J. Werner Kilian
2022, Global Ecology and Conservation (38)
Proclaimed in 1907, Etosha National Park in northern Namibia is an iconic dryland system with a rich history of wildlife conservation and research. A recent research symposium on wildlife conservation in the Greater Etosha Landscape (GEL) highlighted increased concern of how...
Drought and nutrient pollution produce multiple interactive effects in stream ecosystems
R.J. Fournier, Daniel D. Magoulick
2022, PLoS ONE (17)
Drought and nutrient pollution can affect the dynamics of stream ecosystems in diverse ways. While the individual effects of both stressors are broadly examined in the literature, we still know relatively little about if and how these stressors interact. Here, we performed a mesocosm experiment that explores the compounded effects...
Warming temperatures affect meadow-wide nectar resources, with implications for plant-pollinator communities
Audrey L. McCombs, Diane Debinski, Keith Reinhardt, Matthew J. Germino, Petrutza Caragea
Debra P. C. Peters, editor(s)
2022, Ecosphere (13)
Nectar production may be a point of sensitivity that can help link primary and secondary trophic responses to climate shifts, and is therefore important to our understanding of ecosystem responses. We evaluated the nectar response of two widespread native forbs, Balsamorhiza sagittata and Eriogonum umbellatum, to experimental warming in a high-elevation sagebrush meadow...
Subaerial volcaniclastic deposits — Influences of initiation mechanisms and transport behaviour on characteristics and distributions
Jon J. Major
2022, Book chapter, Volcanic processes in the sedimentary record: When volcanoes meet the environment
Subaerial volcaniclastic deposits are produced principally by volcanic debris avalanches, pyroclastic density currents, lahars, and tephra falls. Those deposits have widely ranging geomorphic and sedimentologic characteristics; they can mantle, modify, or create new topography, and their emplacement and subsequent reworking can have an outsized impact on the geomorphic and sedimentologic...
Gill-net selectivity for fifteen fish species of the upper San Francisco Estuary
Marissa L. Wulff, Frederick V. Feyrer, Matthew J. Young
2022, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (20)
Gill-net size selectivity for 15 fish species occurring in the upper San Francisco Estuary was estimated from a data set compiled from multiple studies which together contained 7,096 individual fish observations from 882 gill net sets. The gill nets considered in this study closely resembled the American Fisheries Society’s recommended...
Genetic diversity and connectivity of chemosynthetic cold seep mussels from the U.S. Atlantic margin
Danielle M. DeLeo, Cheryl Morrison, Mariki Sei, Veronica J. Salamone, Amanda Demopoulos, Andrea M. Quattrini
2022, BMC Ecology & Evolution (22)
BackgroundDeep-sea mussels in the subfamily Bathymodiolinae have unique adaptations to colonize hydrothermal-vent and cold-seep environments throughout the world ocean. These invertebrates function as important ecosystem engineers, creating heterogeneous habitat and promoting biodiversity in the deep sea. Despite their ecological significance, efforts to assess the diversity and connectivity of this group...
Impact of climate change on mollusks and other invertebrate resources at the Dominican University of California archaeological site (CA-MRN-254), Marin County, California
Mary McGann, Charles L. Powell II
2022, Quaternary International (628) 64-78
We have identified and provided ecological interpretations of 30 taxa recovered at two shellmounds at the Dominican University of California archaeology site in Marin County, California (CA-MRN-254). A Q-mode cluster analysis was used to group the samples according to their faunal...
