topoBuilder quick start guide
Elaine M. Guidero, Ariel T. Doumbouya, Karen F. Adkins, Brigitta Urban-Mathieux
2024, Fact Sheet 2024-3041
TopoBuilder is a public web application from the National Geospatial Program that enables anyone to create customized digital U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps, called OnDemand Topos, with the best available, most up-to-date data from The National Map (nationalmap.gov). OnDemand Topos can be made at different scales or quadrangles and...
Temperature
U.S. Geological Survey
2024, Techniques and Methods 9-A6.1
The “National Field Manual for the Collection of Water-Quality Data” (NFM) provides guidelines and procedures for U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel who collect data used to assess the quality of the Nation’s surface-water and groundwater resources. This chapter, NFM A6.1, provides guidance and protocols for the measurement of temperature of...
MTAB 110, December 2024
Kyra Harvey, Jennifer L. McKay
2024, Newsletter
This Memo to All Banders (MTAB 110) was released in December 2024. Subjects in this this memo are 1. The Chief’s Chirp; 2. Alerts – Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza; 3. Staff updates – meeting reports; 4. News – Bye Bye BandIt (starting February 1st, 2025 the BBL will no longer...
Salinity or sum of constituents— Methods comparison for computing dissolved solids concentrations in streams of the Upper Colorado River Basin
Fred D. Tillman, Matthew P. Miller, Daniel Wise, R. Blaine McCleskey, Natalie K. Day
2024, PLOS Water (3)
The Colorado River is an important water source in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. High concentrations of dissolved solids in the river, sourced mainly from the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCOL), cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages annually to crops and infrastructure. Determinations of total dissolved...
Partly cloudy with a chance of mosquitoes: Developing a flexible approach to forecasting mosquito populations
Travis Mcdevitt-Galles, Arthur DeGaetano, Sarah Elmendorf, John R. Foster, Howard S. Ginsberg, Mevin B. Hooten, Shannon LaDeau, Katherine Maria McClure, S. H. Paull, Erin E. Posthumus, Ilia Rochlin, Daniel A. Grear
2024, Ecosphere (15)
Climate-induced shifts in mosquito phenology and population structure have important implications for the health of humans and wildlife. The timing and intensity of mosquito interactions with infected and susceptible hosts are a primary determinant of vector-borne disease dynamics. Like most ectotherms, rates of mosquito development and corresponding phenological patterns are...
Seabed maps showing topography, ruggedness, backscatter intensity, sediment mobility, and the distribution of geologic substrates in quadrangle 2 of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts
Page C. Valentine, VeeAnn A. Cross
2024, Scientific Investigations Map 3530
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Marine Sanctuary Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has conducted seabed mapping and related research in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS) region since 1993. The area being mapped using geophysical and geological data includes the SBNMS and...
Use of vehicle counters to index and evaluate potential shifts in angler effort following implementation of more restrictive panfish regulations in Wisconsin lakes
Daniel J. Dembkowski, Alexander W. Latzka, Zachary S. Feiner, Daniel A. Isermann
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 1342-1357
Objective: Understanding angler responses to fisheries management actions such as regulation changes have important implications for the effectiveness and efficacy of such management strategies. We examined the ability of remote vehicle counters to provide a relative index of angler effort and present a case study demonstrating use of vehicle counters...
Concordant signal of genetic variation across marker densities in the desert annual Chylismia brevipes is linked with timing of winter precipitation
Daniel F. Shryock, Nila Lê, Lesley A. DeFalco, Todd Esque
2024, Conservation Genetics (17)
Climate change coupled with large-scale surface disturbances necessitate active restoration strategies to promote resilient and genetically diverse native plant communities. However, scarcity of native plant materials hinders restoration efforts, leading practitioners to choose from potentially viable but nonlocal seed sources. Genome scans for genetic variation linked with selective environmental gradients...
Antibodies to influenza A virus in Lesser (Aythya affinis) and Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) in the USA
Harrison Huang, Rebecca L. Poulson, Jeffery D. Sullivan, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Hutchison Walbridge, David E. Stallknecht, Diann Prosser
2024, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (60) 940-949
Scaup, including both Lesser and Greater (Aythya affinis and Aythya marila, respectively), are a grouping of populous and widespread North American diving ducks. Few influenza type A viruses (IAV) have been reported from these species despite a high prevalence of antibodies to IAV being reported. Existing virologic and serologic data indicate that...
Flood-inundation maps for the Cuyahoga River in and near Independence, Ohio, 2024
Chad J. Ostheimer, Matthew T. Whitehead
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5122
Digital flood-inundation maps for a 9.9-mile reach of the Cuyahoga River in and near Independence, Ohio, were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District Board of Trustees. Water-surface profiles were computed for the stream reach by using a one-dimensional steady-state step-backwater...
Controls on lake pelagic primary productivity: Formalizing the nutrient-color paradigm
Isabella Oleksy, Christopher T. Solomon, Stuart E. Jones, Carly Olson, Brittni Bertolet, Rita Adrian, Sheel Bansal, Jill Baron, Soren Brothers, Sudeep Chandra, Hsiu-Mei Chou, William Colom-Montero, Joshua Culpeper, Elvira de Eyto, Matthew Farragher, Sabine Hilt, Kristen T. Holeck, Garabet Kazanjian, Marcus Klaus, Jennifer Klug, Jan Kohler, Alo Laas, Erik Lundin, Alice Parkes, Kevin C. Rose, Lars Rustam, James A. Rusak, Facundo Scordo, Michael J. Vanni, Piet Verburg, Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
2024, JGR Biogeosciences (129)
Understanding controls on primary productivity is essential for describing ecosystems and their responses to environmental change. Lake primary production is strongly controlled by inputs of nutrients and colored dissolved organic matter. While past studies have developed mathematical models of this nutrient-color paradigm, broad empirical tests of these models are scarce....
Detection of tick-borne pathogen coinfections and coexposures to foot-and-mouth disease, brucellosis, and Q fever in selected wildlife from Kruger National Park, South Africa, and Etosha National Park, Namibia
C.A. Cossu, S. Ochai, M. Troskie, A. Hartmann, J. Godfroid, L.-M. de Klerk, Wendy Christine Turner, P.L. Kamath, O. Louis van Schalkwyk, R. Cassini, R. Bhoora, H. van Heerden
2024, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (2024)
Background: Although the rate of emerging infectious diseases that originate in wildlife has been increasing globally in recent decades, there is currently a lack of epidemiological data from wild animals.Methodology: We used serology to determine prior exposure to foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), Brucella spp., and Coxiella burnetii and used genetic testing to detect blood-borne parasitic infections...
Presence-absence surveys yield spatially imprecise information about nesting sites of an endangered, forest-nesting seabird
Jonathan J. Spurgeon, Lindsay J. Adrean, S. Kim Nelson, Matthew G. Betts, Daniel D. Roby, James W. Rivers
2024, PLoS ONE (19)
Presence-absence surveys are frequently used to monitor populations of rare and elusive species. Such data may also be used as a proxy for breeding activity, but links between presence-absence data and higher-order processes must be validated to determine their reliability. The Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a threatened seabird that...
Ungulate personality and the human shield contribute to long-distance migration loss
Gavin G. Cotterill, Paul C. Cross, Eric K Cole, Sarah R. Dewey, Benjamin L. Wise, Tabitha A. Graves
2024, Preprint
Long-distance ungulate migrations are declining and past research has focused on preserving migration paths where habitat fragmentation and loss disrupts movement corridors. However, changing residency-migration tradeoffs are the stronger driver of long-distance migration loss in some populations. The human shield effect relative to predation risk and anthropogenic food resources likely...
A multidisciplinary approach that considers occurrence, geochemistry, bioavailability, and toxicity to prioritize critical minerals for environmental research
Sarah Jane White, Tyler Kane, Kate M. Campbell, Marie Noele Croteau, Michael G. Iacchetta, Johanna Blake, Charles A. Cravotta III, Bethany K. Kunz, Charles N. Alpers, Jill Jenkins, Katherine Walton-Day
2024, Environmental Science & Technology (58) 22519-22527
Critical minerals (or critical elements) are minerals or elements that are essential to global security and development and have supply chains vulnerable to disruption. In general, knowledge of the environmental behavior and health effects of critical elements is needed to support the development of safe and environmentally responsible supplies. This...
Evidence of nitrate attenuation in intertidal and subtidal groundwater in a subterranean estuary at a Cape Cod embayment, East Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2015–16
Thomas G. Huntington, Kevin D. Kroeger, Timothy D. McCobb, J.K. Bohlke, John A. Colman, Thomas W. Brooks, Beata Syzmczycha
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5100
Nitrogen dynamics in intertidal and nearshore subtidal groundwater (subterranean estuary) adjacent to the Seacoast Shores peninsula, Falmouth, Massachusetts, were investigated during 2015–16 by the U.S. Geological Survey. The peninsula is a densely populated residential area with septic systems and cesspools that are substantial sources of nitrogen to groundwater. The study...
Streamflow characteristics and trends in New Jersey, water years 1903–2017
Amy R. McHugh, Thomas P. Suro, Samantha L. Sullivan, Brianna Williams
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5099
As New Jersey’s population density remains high, so does its requirements for water management. Understanding the streamflow conditions throughout the state and how they may have changed over time is an important part of managing the water resources within the state. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has many...
Societal benefits of cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom management in Lake Okeechobee in Florida—Potential damages avoided during the 2018 event under U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Harmful Algal Bloom Interception, Treatment, and Transformation System scenarios
Inoussa Boubacar, Emily Pindilli, Ellie Brown, Benjamin Simon, Kristin Skrabis, Ian Luby
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5091
Freshwater harmful algal blooms (HABs) formed by blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, have emerged as a global environmental problem. Their negative impacts on aquatic ecosystems can affect the benefits nature provides to human society by reducing water quality; inhibiting aquatic recreation; killing fish, wildlife, and pets; and posing a risk to...
Pragmatically mapping Phragmites with unoccupied aerial systems: A comparison of invasive species land cover classification using RGB and multispectral imagery
Alexandra Danielle Evans, Jennifer Marie Cramer, Victoria Mary Scholl, Erika E. Lentz
2024, Remote Sensing (16)
Unoccupied aerial systems (UASs) are increasingly being deployed in coastal environments to rapidly map and monitor changes to geomorphology, vegetation, and infrastructure, particularly in difficult to access areas. UAS data, relative to airplane or satellite data, typically have higher spatial resolution, sensor customization, and increased flexibility in temporal resolution, which...
Streamflow, water quality, and constituent loads and yields, Scituate Reservoir drainage area, Rhode Island, water year 2021
Kirk Smith, Alana B. Spaetzel
2024, Data Report 1203
As part of a long-term cooperative program to monitor water quality within the Scituate Reservoir drainage area, the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Providence Water (formerly Providence Water Supply Board) collected streamflow and water-quality data in tributaries to the Scituate Reservoir, Rhode Island. Streamflow and concentrations of chloride and...
Retention of T‐bar anchor tags by adult steelhead during their upstream migration
Nicholas S. Voss, Joshua L. McCormick, William J. Lubenau, Brett J. Bowersox, Timothy Copeland, Michael C. Quist
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 1385-1391
Objective: T-bar anchor tags can be used to obtain recapture data from anglers, directly estimate exploitation, and evaluate population dynamics. Unfortunately, their use by biologists to study anadromous salmonid fisheries is limited. Two hurdles to adoption include the functional difficulty of tagging large anadromous salmonids using conventional tagging equipment and...
Using remote sensing to identify habitat for wintering Henslow's Sparrows (Centronyx henslowii)
Sierra A. Moore, Abigail W. Dwire, Thomas J. Prebyl, Todd M. Schneider, Elizabeth Ann Hunter
2024, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology (136) 436-447
The Henslow's Sparrow (Centronyx henslowii) is a grassland bird species that overwinters in the southeastern United States and is a species of conservation concern due to population declines primarily caused by habitat loss. Henslow's Sparrows often overwinter in marginal habitats, such as powerline rights-of-way (ROWs), clear cuts, and field edges...
Structured decision-making workshop: Chronic wasting disease management in free-ranging cervids in Massachusetts
Martin J. R Feehan, Jonathan D. Cook, Margaret McEachran, Susan M. McCarthy, David Wattles, Meghan Crawford, Michael Huguenin, Graziella Vittoria DiRenzo
2024, Cooperator Science Series FWS/CSS-161-2024
This document describes the results of a 2.5-day rapid decision prototype workshop that evaluated management activities for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Massachusetts (MA) that were either proactive (i.e., actions taken prior to CWD arrival/detection) or reactive (i.e., actions taken after CWD arrival/detection). The workshop was led by members of...
High genetic diversity, low population genetic structure, strong natal philopatry, and longevity revealed in the Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis)
Carolyn Gunn, Kim Potter, Jennifer A. Fike, Sara J. Oyler-McCance
2024, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology (136) 448-457
Genetic diversity is a critical cornerstone of biodiversity and is a central goal in management and conservation biology. Such diversity has implications for survivability, adaptability, and resiliency of a species. This study aimed to determine levels of genetic diversity and population genetic structure in the Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger...
System characterization report on the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) sensor
Mahesh Shrestha, Aparajithan Sampath, Minsu Kim, Seonkyung Park
2024, Open-File Report 2021-1030-R
Executive Summary This report addresses system characterization of the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) sensor, an imaging spectrometer developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This report is part of a series of system characterization reports produced and delivered by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and...
