Contaminants of emerging concern in the Great Lakes: Science to inform management practices for protecting the health and integrity of wildlife populations from adverse effects: GLRI action plan I, focus area 1, goal 5
Daniel L. Villeneuve, Steven R. Corsi, Christine M. Custer, W. Edward Johnson, Stephanie L. Hummel, Heiko L. Schoenfuss, Edward J. Perkins, Sarah A. Zack
2022, Group Progress Report EPA/600/R-22/057
Executive Summary: Under Action Plan I (2010-2014) of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), Federal and Academic partners began an investigation of the presence and distribution of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the Great Lakes and potential impacts on fish and wildlife. The term CECs is applied to a...
Rapid diagnostic test to detect and discriminate infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) genogroups U and M to aid management of Pacific Northwest salmonid populations
William N. Batts, Tony R. Capps, Lisa M. Crosson, Rachel L. Powers, Rachel Breyta, Maureen K. Purcell
2022, Animals (12)
Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) is an acute pathogen of salmonids in North America, Europe, and Asia that is phylogenetically classified into five major virus genogroups (U, M, L, E, and J). The geographic range of the U and M genogroup isolates overlap in the North American...
Paralytic shellfish toxins associated with Arctic Tern mortalities in Alaska
Caroline R. Van Hemert, John Harley, Gwen Baluss, Matthew M. Smith, Robert J. Dusek, Julia S. Lankton, D. Ransom Hardison, Sarah K. Schoen, Robert Kaler
2022, Harmful Algae (117)
Harmful algal blooms produce biotoxins that can injure or kill fish, wildlife, and humans. These blooms occur naturally but have intensified in many locations globally due to recent climatic changes, including ocean warming. Such changes are especially pronounced in northern regions, where...
Comparisons of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) sea-ice projections in polar bear (Ursus maritimus) ecoregions during the 21st century
David C. Douglas, Todd C. Atwood
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1062
Climate model projections are commonly used to assess potential impacts of global warming on a breadth of social, economic, and environmental topics. Modeling centers throughout the world coordinate to apply a consistent suite of radiative forcing experiments so that all model outputs can be collectively analyzed and compared. Three...
Antibiotic resistance in free-ranging wildlife
Andrew M. Ramey, Christina Ahlstrom
2022, Book chapter, Fowler’s zoo and wild animal medicine: Current therapy, Vol 10
In this chapter, we provide an overview of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria in wildlife through the presentation of general trends of occurrence among both captive and free-ranging wild animal populations, discussion of importance to human health and wildlife conservation, and identification of priority areas for future research and monitoring efforts....
A Central Asia hydrologic monitoring dataset for food and water security applications in Afghanistan
Amy McNally, Jossy Jacob, Kristi Arsenault, Kimberly Slinski, Daniel Sarmiento, Andrew Hoell, Shahriar Pervez, James Rowland, Michael Budde, Sujay Kumar, Christa Peters-Lidard, James Verdin
2022, Earth System Science Data (14) 3115-3135
From the Hindu Kush mountains to the Registan Desert, Afghanistan is a diverse landscape where droughts, floods, conflict, and economic market accessibility pose challenges for agricultural livelihoods and food security. The ability to remotely monitor environmental conditions is critical to support decision making for humanitarian assistance. The Famine Early Warning...
Natural and anthropogenic factors influencing nesting ecology of the American crocodile in Florida, United States
Frank J. Mazzotti, Sergio A. Balaguera-Reina, Laura A. Brandt, Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Michael Cherkiss, Seth C Farris, Avishka Godahewa
2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (10)
Nesting ecology of American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) in Florida has been both positively and negatively influenced by anthropogenic and natural factors since the species was placed on the federally endangered species list in 1975. This includes a shift in nesting sites and an expansion of nesting to anthropogenic...
Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds
Olivier Chastel, Jerome Fort, Josh T. Ackerman, Celine Albert, Frederic Angelier, Niladri Basu, Pierre Blevin, Maud Brault-Favrou, Jan O. Bustnes, Paco Bustamante, Johannis Danielsen, Sebastien Descamps, Rune Dietz, Kjell Einar Erikstad, Igor Eulaers, Alexey Ezhov, Abram B. Fleishman, Geir W. Gabrielsen, Maria Gavrilo, Grant Gilchrist, Olivier Gilg, Sindri Gislason, Elena Golubova, Aurelie Goutte, David Gremillet, Gunnar T. Hallgrimsson, Erpur S Hansen, Sveinn A Hanssen, Scott Hatch, Nicholas P Huffeldt, Dariusz Jakubas, Jon Einar Jonsson, Alexander S Kitaysky, Yann Kolbeinsson, Yuri Krasnov, Robert J. Letcher, Jannie F Linnebjerg, Mark L. Mallory, Flemming R Merkel, Borge Moe, William J Montevecchi, Anders Mosbech, Bergur Olsen, Rachael A Orben, Jennifer F Provencher, Sunna B. Ragnarsdottir, Tone K Reiertsen, Nora A. Rojek, Marc Romano, Jens Sondergaard, Hallvard Strom, Akinori Takahashi, Sabrina Tartu, Thorkell L Thórarinsson, Jean-Baptiste Thiebot, Alexis P Will, Simon Wilson, Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas, Glenn Yannic
2022, Science of the Total Environment (844)
Since the last Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) effort to review biological effects of mercury (Hg) on Arctic biota in 2011 and 2018, there has been a considerable number of new Arctic bird studies. This review article provides contemporary Hg exposure and potential...
Geomorphic survey of North Fork Eagle Creek, New Mexico, 2019
Alexander P. Graziano, Shaleene B. Chavarria
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1041
The 2012 Little Bear Fire resulted in substantial loss of vegetation in the Eagle Creek Basin, south-central New Mexico, which has been expected to cause a variety of hydrologic responses that could influence geomorphic change to North Fork Eagle Creek. To monitor geomorphic change, surveys of a downstream study reach...
Database of water quality and groundwater elevation within and surrounding the Lee Acres Landfill, New Mexico, 1985–2020
Erin L. Gray, Christina L. Ferguson
2022, Data Report 1154
This report describes the background information related to and the contents of the Lee Acres-Giant Bloomfield Refinery Database (LAGBRD), which is a compilation of monitoring data collected at the Lee Acres Landfill and the Giant Bloomfield Refinery near Farmington, New Mexico. LAGBRD includes monitoring data from as early as 1985,...
Groundwater quality of the Lucerne Valley groundwater basin, California
Joseph K. Fackrell
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1063
Anthropogenic activities, including groundwater withdrawals, return flow from irrigated agriculture, and treated wastewater-effluent disposal have the potential to affect groundwater quality in the Lucerne Valley groundwater basin, located in the southwest Mojave Desert. Questions regarding the current state and potential future of groundwater quality in this basin were addressed by...
U.S. Geological Survey coastal plain amplification virtual workshop
Oliver S. Boyd, Thomas L. Pratt, Martin C. Chapman, Allison Shumway, Sanaz Rezaeian, Morgan P. Moschetti, Mark D. Petersen
2022, Open-File Report 2022-1006
In early October of 2020, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) held a virtual workshop to discuss Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains site-response models. Earthquake researchers came together to assess (1) research related to proposed Coastal Plains amplification models and (2) USGS plans for implementing these models. Presentations spanned a broad...
Towards continuous streamflow monitoring with time-lapse cameras and deep learning
Amrita Gupta, Tony Chang, Jeffrey Walker, Benjamin Letcher
2022, Conference Paper, COMPASS '22: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)
Effective water resources management depends on monitoring the volume of water flowing through streams and rivers, but collecting continuous discharge measurements using traditional streamflow gauges is prohibitively expensive. Time-lapse cameras offer a lowcost option for streamflow monitoring, but training models for predicting streamflow directly from images requires streamflow data to use as labels, which are often...
Climate change risks to global forest health: Emergence of unexpected events of elevated tree mortality worldwide
Henrik Hartmann, Ana Bastos, Adrian Das, Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, William M Hammond, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, Nate G. McDowell, Jennifer S. Powers, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Katinka X. Ruthrof, Craig D. Allen
2022, Annual Review of Plant Biology (73) 673-702
Recent observations of elevated tree mortality following climate extremes, like heat and drought, raise concerns about climate change risks to global forest health. We currently lack both sufficient data and understanding to identify whether these observations represent a global trend towards increasing tree mortality. Here, we document events of sudden...
Ventilation systems in wetland plant species
Lars O. Bjorn, Beth Middleton, Mateja Germ, Alenka Gaberscik
2022, Diversity (14)
Molecular oxygen and carbon dioxide may be limited for aquatic plants, but they have various mechanisms for acquiring these gases from the atmosphere, soil, or metabolic processes. The most common adaptations of aquatic plants involve various aerenchymatic structures, which occur in various organs, and enable the throughflow of gases. These...
Effect of restoration on plant greenness and water use in relation to drought in the riparian corridor of the Colorado River delta
Pamela L. Nagler, Ibrahima Sall, Armando Barreto-Muñoz, Martha Gómez-Sapiens, Hamideh Nouri, Sattar Chavoshi Borujeni, Kamel Didan
2022, Journal of the American Water Resource Association (JAWRA) (58) 746-784
Revitalization of the Colorado River delta riparian corridor and increasing riparian plant greenness and water use may be accomplished by added water and restoration efforts to offset declines measured since 2000 by Landsat. We use the two-band Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI2; a proxy for greenness) and evapotranspiration (ET, mm/day) using...
Depositional controls on detrital zircon provenance: An example from upper Cretaceous strata, southern Patagonia
Stephen C. Dobbs, Matthew A. Malkowski, Theresa Maude Schwartz, Zachary T. Sickmann, Stephan A. Graham
Claudia Ines Galli, editor(s)
2022, Frontiers in Earth Science (10)
Understanding how depositional environments within a sedimentary system redistribute and sequester sediment is critical for interpreting basin-scale provenance trends. However, sedimentary source-to-sink models commonly examine temporal changes and do not consider how variation in sedimentation processes across a dispersal pathway may result in contrasting provenance signatures. In this paper, we...
Using mollusks as indicators of restoration in nearshore zones of south Florida's estuaries
G. Lynn Wingard, Bethany Stackhouse, Andre Daniels
2022, Bulletin of Marine Science (98) 351-380
Current south Florida ecosystem restoration efforts are focused on restoring more natural freshwater flow through the wetlands and into the estuaries to reestablish natural salinity gradients, particularly in the nearshore zones. Indicator taxa are used to monitor and assess restoration progress and the current...
Database of topo-bathy cross-shore profiles and characteristics for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico sandy coastlines
Rangley C. Mickey, Davina Passeri
2022, Data (7)
A database of seamless topographic and bathymetric cross-shore profiles along with metrics of the associated morphological characteristics based on the latest available lidar data ranging from 2011–2020 and bathymetry from the Continuously Updated Digital Elevation Model was developed for U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico open-ocean sandy...
Environmental drivers of autumn migration departure decisions in midcontinental mallards
Florian G. Weller, William S. Beatty, Elisabeth B. Webb, Dylan C. Kesler, David G. Krementz, Kwasi Asante, Luke W. Naylor
2022, Movement Ecology (10)
BackgroundThe timing of autumn migration in ducks is influenced by a range of environmental conditions that may elicit individual experiences and responses from individual birds, yet most studies have investigated relationships at the population level. We used data from individual satellite-tracked mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) to model the timing...
Connecticut and Landsat
U.S. Geological Survey
2022, Fact Sheet 2022-3045
Connecticut, the third-smallest State by land area, is the fourth most densely populated in the United States. Connecticut’s tightly packed cities serve as international hubs for the finance and insurance industries. These same urban enclaves host highly regarded institutions of higher learning, such as Yale, the University of Connecticut, and...
Assessing small-mammal trapping design using spatially explicit capture recapture (SECR) modeling on long-term monitoring data
Chase M. Freeman, Laureen Barthman-Thompson, Robert C. Klinger, Isa Woo, Karen M. Thorne
2022, PLoS ONE (17)
Few studies have evaluated the optimal sampling design for tracking small mammal population trends, especially for rare or difficult to detect species. Spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR) models present an advancement over non-spatial models by accounting for individual movement when estimating density. The salt marsh harvest mouse...
The past, present, and future of coral reef growth in the Florida Keys
Lauren Toth, Travis A. Courtney, Michael A. Colella, Selena Anne-Marie Johnson, Robert R. Ruzicka
2022, Global Change Biology (28) 5294-5309
Coral-reef degradation is driving global-scale reductions in reef-building capacity and the ecological, geological, and socioeconomic functions it supports. The persistence of those essential functions will depend on whether coral-reef management is able to rebalance the competing processes of reef accretion and erosion. Here, we reconstructed census-based...
Loss of street trees predicted to cause 6000 L/tree increase in leaf-on stormwater runoff for Great Lakes urban sewershed
Robert C. Coville, James Kruegler, William R. Selbig, Satoshi Hirabayashi, Stephen Loheid, William Avery, William Shuster, Ralph J. Haefner, Bryant C. Scharenbroch, Theodore A. Endreny, Dave Nowak
2022, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (74)
Urban forests are recognized as a nature-based solution for stormwater management. This study assessed the underlying processes and extent of runoff reduction due to street trees with a paired-catchment experiment conducted in two sewersheds of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Computer models are flexible, fast, and low-cost options to generalize and...
Choosing an optimal duck season: Integrating hunter values and duck abundance
Joshua C. Stiller, William F. Siemer, Kelly A. Perkins, Angela K. Fuller
2022, The Journal of Wildlife Management (46)
State wildlife agencies have long struggled to identify optimal hunting season dates for migratory game bird species that meet the diverse and often competing interests of stakeholders. Many approaches have been used to ensure the regulated community participates in the decision-making process, including public hearings, hunter season-date preference surveys, and...
