Ontogenetic shifts from social to experiential learning drive avian migration timing
Briana Abrahms, Claire S. Teitelbaum, Thomas Mueller, Sarah J. Converse
2021, Nature Communications (12)
Migrating animals may benefit from social or experiential learning, yet whether and how these learning processes interact or change over time to produce observed migration patterns remains unexplored. Using 16 years of satellite-tracking data from 105 reintroduced whooping cranes, we reveal an interplay between social and experiential learning in migration...
Foreword to this special issue on climate change and the critical zone geophysics
Dan R. Glaser, Stephanie R. James
2021, FastTIMES
Welcome to this special issue on the use of geophysics in climate change and critical zone (CZ) research. The importance of these research areas cannot be overstated, and yet when we were selecting contributions for this special issue, we wrestled with the fundamental question: are climate change and the critical zone...
Oral sylvatic plague vaccine does not adequately protect prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) for endangered black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) conservation
Marc R. Matchett, Thomas Stanley, Matthew F. McCollister, David A. Eads, Jesse Boulerice, Dean E. Biggins
2021, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (21) 921-940
The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis is lethal to endangered black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes, BFF) and the prairie dogs (Cynomys spp., PD) on which they depend for habitat and prey. We assessed the effectiveness of an oral sylvatic plague vaccine delivered in baits to black-tailed PD (Cynomys ludovicianus, BTPD) from 2013...
Predicting thermal responses of an Arctic lake to whole-lake warming manipulation
Qunhui Zhang, Jiming Jin, Phaedra E. Budy, Sarah E. Null, Xiaochun Wang, Casey A. Pennock
2021, Geophysical Research Letters (48)
We investigated how lake thermal processes responded to whole lake warming manipulation in an arctic lake through observations and numerical modeling. The warming manipulation was conducted by artificially heating the epilimnion as a proxy for climate warming. We performed numerical modeling with an improved lake scheme based on the Community...
Integrated science for the study of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment—A strategic science vision for the U.S. Geological Survey
Andrea K. Tokranov, Paul M. Bradley, Michael J. Focazio, Douglas B. Kent, Denis R. LeBlanc, Jeff W. McCoy, Kelly L. Smalling, Jeffery A. Steevens, Patricia L. Toccalino
2021, Circular 1490
Concerns related to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in sources of drinking water and in natural and engineered environments have captured national attention over the last few decades. This report provides an overview of the science gaps that exist in the fields of study related to PFAS that are relevant...
Pelagic forage versus abiotic factors as drivers of walleye growth in northern Wisconsin lakes
Austin M. Noring, Greg G. Sass, Stephen R. Midway, Justin A. VanDeHey, Joshua K. Raabe, Daniel A. Isermann, Jeffrey M. Kampa, Timothy P. Parks, John Lyons, Martin J. Jennings
2021, Advances in Limnology (66) 207-223
Understanding ecological relationships among fishes and their environments are important for informing management policies. We conducted a statewide assessment of cisco (Coregonus artedi) in inland lakes of Wisconsin to better understand the status of this pelagic, coldwater forage fish. We then used long-term (2005–2014), standardized walleye (Sander vitreus) survey data...
Assessment of undiscovered continuous oil resources in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations of the Williston Basin Province, North Dakota and Montana, 2021
Kristen R. Marra, Tracey J. Mercier, Sarah E. Gelman, Christopher J. Schenk, Cheryl A. Woodall, Andrea D. Cicero, Ronald M. Drake II, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Thomas M. Finn, Michael H. Gardner, Jane S. Hearon, Benjamin G. Johnson, Jenny H. Lagesse, Phuong A. Le, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller, Kira K. Timm, Scott S. Young
2021, Fact Sheet 2021-3058
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean resources of 4.3 billion barrels of oil and 4.9 trillion cubic feet of gas (associated) in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations of the Williston Basin Province, North Dakota and Montana....
Historic coregonine habitat use and assessment of larval nursery locations in Lake Erie
Hannah M Schaefer, Edward F. Roseman, Robin L. DeBruyne, Christopher Vandergoot, James S. Diana
2021, Advances in Limnology (66) 245-259
Coregonine fishes (Coregonus spp.) are important components of Great Lake food webs and support lucrative commercial and recreational fisheries. Due to a combination of several factors including habitat loss, over-exploitation, and introduction of exotic species, the distribution and abundance of coregonines have been reduced. Examples of these declines are...
Export of pelagic fish larvae from a large Great Lakes connecting channel
Edward F. Roseman, Mark DuFour, Jeremy Pritt, J. Fischer, Robin DeBruyne, David Bennion
2021, Advances in Limnology (66)
The St. Clair-Detroit River System is located in the heart of the North American Laurentian Great Lakes, connecting lakes Huron and Erie, contributing over 90% of the inflow to Lake Erie, and providing spawning habitat for many fishes including walleye (Sander vitreus), yellow perch (Perca flavescens), and lake whitefish (Coregonus...
Effects of low pH on the coral reef cryptic invertebrate communities near CO2 vents in Papua New Guinea
Laetitia Plaisance, Kenan O. Matterson, Katharina Fabricius, Serguei Vyacheslavovich Drovetski, Christoph F. J. Meyer, Nancy Knowlton
2021, PLoS ONE (16)
Small cryptic invertebrates (the cryptofauna) are extremely abundant, ecologically important, and species rich on coral reefs. Ongoing ocean acidification is likely to have both direct effects on the biology of these organisms, as well as indirect effects through cascading impacts on their habitats and trophic relationships. Naturally acidified habitats have...
Spatial extent of contemporary lake whitefish spawning in western Lake Erie
Zach Amidon, Robin DeBruyne, Edward F. Roseman, Christine Mayer
2021, Advances in Limnology (66) 163-172
Degradation of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) spawning areas in the Detroit River, Maumee Bay, and western Lake Erie reefs and shoals has been identified as a contributing factor to Lake Erie’s population collapse in the 1950s. This decline prompted the United States and Canada to take steps to improve...
Lake Ontario cisco population dynamics based on long-term surveys
Brian Weidel, James A. Hoyle, Michael Connerton, Jeremy Holden, Mark Vinson
2021, Advances in Limnology (66) 85-103
Prior to European settlement, cisco (Coregonus artedi) were likely one of Lake Ontario’s most abundant fishes but currently represent a small portion of the fish community. To understand how the population has changed over the past 70 years we compared trends in annual catch rates from gillnet and bottom...
How well do we know Europa’s topography? An evaluation of the variability in digital terrain models of Europa.
Michael T. Bland, Randolph L. Kirk, Donna M. Galuszka, David Mayer, R. A. Beyer, Robin L. Fergason
2021, Remote Sensing (13)
Jupiter’s moon Europa harbors one of the most likely environments for extant extraterrestrial life. Determining whether Europa is truly habitable requires understanding the structure and thickness of its ice shell, including the existence of perched water or brines. Stereo-derived topography from images acquired by NASA Galileo’s Solid...
Miniature temperature data loggers increase precision and reduce bias when estimating the daily survival rate for bird nests
Matthew D. Stephenson, Robert W. Klaver, Lisa A. Schulte, Jarad Niemi
2021, Journal of Field Ornithology (92) 492-505
Demographic studies of many bird species are challenging because their nests are cryptic, resulting in few nests being found. To maximize statistical power, methods are needed that minimize disturbance while yielding as much information per nest as possible. One way to meet these objectives is to use miniature thermal data...
Multi-proxy record of Holocene paleoenvironmental conditions from Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, USA
Sabrina R. Brown, Rosine Cartier, Christopher Schiller, Petra Zahajski, Sherilyn Fritz, Lisa Ann Morgan Morzel, Cathy Whitlock, Daniel J. Conley, Jack H. Lacy, Melanie J. Leng, Wayne (Pat) Shanks
2021, Quaternary Science Reviews (274)
A composite 11.82 m-long (9876–-67 cal yr BP) sediment record from Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming was analyzed using a robust set of biological and geochemical proxies to investigate the paleoenvironmental evolution of the lake and its catchment in response to long-term climate forcing. Oxygen isotopes from diatom frustules were analyzed to...
The HayWired earthquake scenario—Engineering implications
Shane T. Detweiler, Anne M. Wein, editor(s)
2021, Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5013-I–Q
The HayWired Earthquake Scenario—Engineering Implications is the second volume of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Scientific Investigations Report 2017–5013, which describes the HayWired scenario, developed by USGS and its partners. The scenario is a hypothetical yet scientifically realistic earthquake sequence that is being used to better understand hazards for the San...
Geochronologic, isotopic, and geochemical data from pre-Cretaceous plutonic rocks in the Lane Mountain area, San Bernardino County, California
Paul Stone, Howard J. Brown, M. Robinson Cecil, Robert J. Fleck, Jorge A. Vazquez, John A. Fitzpatrick
2021, Open-File Report 2021-1094
Pre-Cretaceous, predominantly dioritic plutonic rocks in the Lane Mountain area, California, intrude metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks considered part of the El Paso terrane. New geochronologic (uranium-lead zircon), geochemical, and isotopic data provide a reliable basis for dividing these pre-Cretaceous plutonic rocks into two mappable suites of Permian–Triassic and Late Jurassic...
Crater growth and lava-lake dynamics revealed through multitemporal terrestrial lidar scanning at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi
Adam L. LeWinter, Steve W. Anderson, David C. Finnegan, Matthew R. Patrick, Tim R. Orr
2021, Professional Paper 1867-C
Lava lake surfaces display the tops of active magma columns and respond to eruption variables such as magmatic pressure, convection, degassing, and cooling, as well as interactions with the craters that contain them. However, they are challenging to study owing to the numerous hazards that accompany these eruptions, and they...
Geologic map of the Aeolis Dorsa Region, Mars
Devon M. Burr, Robert E. Jacobsen, Alexandra Lefort, Rose M. Borden, Samantha E. Peel
2021, Scientific Investigations Map 3480
The Aeolis Dorsa region of Mars, located just north of the global dichotomy boundary, includes the Aeolis and Zephyria Plana, and a depositional basin between them. This interplana region consists of extensive networks of ridges—the eponymous Aeolis Dorsa—and is interpreted as having formed by topographic inversion of fluvial and alluvial...
Tools for increasing visual encounter probabilities for invasive species removal: A case study of brown treesnakes
Staci M. Amburgey, Amy A. Yackel Adams, Beth Gardner, Bjorn Lardner, Sarah J. Converse
2021, NeoBiota (70) 107-122
Early detection and rapid response (EDRR) are essential to identifying and decisively responding to the introduction or spread of an invasive species, thus avoiding population establishment and improving the probability of achieving eradication. However, detection can be challenging at the onset of a species invasion as low population densities can...
Digital Twin Earth - Coasts: Developing a fast and physics-informed surrogate model for coastal floods via neural operators
P. Jiang, N. Meinert, H. Jordao, C. Weisser, S. Holgate, A. Lavin, B. Lutjens, D. Newman, H. Wainright, C. Walker, Patrick L. Barnard
2021, Conference Paper
Developing fast and accurate surrogates for physics-based coastal and ocean mod- els is an urgent need due to the coastal flood risk under accelerating sea level rise, and the computational expense of deterministic numerical models. For this purpose, we develop the first digital twin of Earth coastlines with new physics-informed...
A review of sea lamprey dispersal and population structure in the Great Lakes and the implications for control
Margaret F. Docker, Gale Bravener, Colin J Garroway, Peter J. Hrodey, John B. Hume, Nicholas S. Johnson, Sean A. Lewandoski, Jessie L Ogden, Emily C Zollweg-Horan
2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research (47) S549-S569
Understanding the population structure of invasive sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Great Lakes basin is essential for an effective control program. We review knowledge of lake connectivity, dispersal during the parasitic stage, and results from phenotypic, demographic, and genetic...
Advances in the use of lampricides to control sea lampreys in the Laurentian Great Lakes, 2000–2019
W Paul Sullivan, Dale P. Burkett, Michael A. Boogaard, Lori A. Criger, Christopher Freiberger, Terrance Hubert, Keith Leistner, Bruce J. Morrison, Shawn M Nowicki, Shawn Robertson, Alan Rowlinson, Barry Scotland, Timothy B Sullivan
2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research (47) S216-S237
The periodic application of chemical lampricides that selectively kill larval sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) in their nursery habitats remains a primary component of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s (GLFC) Sea Lamprey Control Program in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Lampricides include...
Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) annual adult survival estimated from acoustic telemetry
Scott F. Colborne, Todd A. Hayden, Christopher Holbrook, Charles C. Krueger, Darryl W. Hondorp
2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research (47) 1814-1823
Survival of adult fishes is critical to the conservation and management of wild populations, particularly for long-lived, slow to reproduce species. Most sturgeon species are of conservation concern, but their long lifespans and large ranges have made estimation of adult survival...
Slimy sculpin depth shifts and habitat squeeze following the round goby invasion in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Shea L. Volkel, Kelly F. Robinson, David Bunnell, Michael J. Connerton, Jeremy P. Holden, Darryl W. Hondorp, Brian Weidel
2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research (47) 1793-1803
The collapse of Diporeia spp. and invasions of dreissenid mussels (zebra, Dreissena polymorpha; quagga, D. bugensis) and round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) have been associated with declines in abundance of native benthic fishes in the Great Lakes, including historically abundant slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus). We hypothesized...
