The Robinson Forest environmental monitoring network: Long‐term evaluation of streamflow and precipitation quantity and stream‐water and bulk deposition chemistry in eastern Kentucky watersheds
Kenton Sena, Chris D. Barton, Tanja N. Williamson
2021, Hydrological Processes (35)
The University of Kentucky (U KY) has owned Robinson Forest (37.460723° N, 83.158598° W) since 1923, conducting experiments crucial to understanding the environmental effects of land management in the region. Part of the management of Robinson Forest has been collection of environmental data, including precipitation quantity, bulk‐deposition chemistry, streamflow, stream‐water...
Dating fault damage along the eastern Denali fault zone with hematite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry
Robert G. McDermott, Alexis K. Ault, Jonathan Caine
2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (563)
Unraveling complex slip histories in fault damage zones to understand relations among deformation, hydrothermal alteration, and surface uplift remains a challenge. The dextral eastern Denali fault zone (EDFZ; southwest Yukon, Canada) bounds the Kluane Ranges and hosts a variety of fault-related rocks, including hematite fault surfaces, which have been exhumed...
Organic geochemistry and petrology of Devonian shale in eastern Ohio: Implications for petroleum systems assessment
Paul C. Hackley, Robert T. Ryder
2021, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (105) 543-573
Recent production of light sweet oil has prompted reevaluation of Devonian petroleum systems in the central Appalachian Basin. Upper Devonian Ohio Shale (lower Huron Member) and Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale organic-rich source rocks from eastern Ohio and nearby areas were examined using organic petrography and geochemical analysis of solvent extracts...
Organic petrology and geochemistry of the Sunbury and Ohio Shales in eastern Kentucky and southeastern Ohio
Cortland F. Eble, Paul C. Hackley, Thomas M. Parris, Stephen F. Greb
2021, AAPG Bulletin (105) 493-515
As part of a study to determine the origin of oil and gas in the Berea Sandstone in northeastern Kentucky and southeastern Ohio, 158 samples of organic-rich shale from the Upper Devonian Olentangy and Ohio Shales and the Lower Mississippian Sunbury Shale, collectively referred to as the “black shale,”...
Before the first meal: The elusive pre-feeding juvenile stage of the sea lamprey
Thomas M. Evans, C. Michael Wagner, Scott M. Miehls, Nicholas S. Johnson, Taylor Haas, Erin Dunlop, Richard G. Manzon
2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research (47) S580-S589
Although sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Laurentian Great Lakes have been studied intensively for more than 70 years, many questions remain about their complex life cycle. One of the least understood portions is the post-metamorphic stage (hereafter pre-feeding juvenile, PFJ) that...
Oil–source correlation studies in the shallow Berea Sandstone petroleum system, eastern Kentucky
Paul C. Hackley, T.M. Parris, C. F. Eble, S. F. Greb, D.C. Harris
2021, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (105) 517-542
Shallow production of sweet high-gravity oil from the Upper Devonian Berea Sandstone in northeastern Kentucky has caused the region to become the leading oil producer in the state. Potential nearby source rocks, namely, the overlying Mississippian Sunbury Shale and underlying Ohio Shale, are immature for commercial oil generation according to...
Public and private tapwater: Comparative analysis of contaminant exposure and potential risk, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Paul M. Bradley, Denis R. LeBlanc, Kristin M. Romanok, Kelly Smalling, Michael J. Focazio, Mary C. Cardon, Jimmy Clark, Justin M. Conley, Nicola Evans, Carrie E. Givens, James L. Gray, L. Earl Gray, Phillip C. Hartig, Christopher P. Higgins, Michelle Hladik, Luke R. Iwanowicz, Keith A. Loftin, R. Blaine McCleskey, Carrie A. McDonough, Elizabeth Medlock-Kakaley, Christopher P. Weis, Vickie S. Wilson
2021, Environmental International (152)
BackgroundHumans are primary drivers of environmental contamination worldwide, including in drinking-water resources. In the United States (US), federal and state agencies regulate and monitor public-supply drinking water while private-supply monitoring is rare; the current lack of directly...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in New Hampshire soils and biosolids
Andrea K. Tokranov, Kate Emma A. Schlosser, Jeffrey M. Marts, Anthony F. Drouin, Leah M. Santangelo, Sydney M. Welch
2021, General Information Product 208
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, is undertaking a study on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in soils and biosolids. The study will characterize PFAS concentrations in shallow soil and selected biosolids throughout the State of New Hampshire, conduct laboratory experiments to...
Leveraging risk communication science across US federal agencies
William M. P. Klein, Alycia Boutte, Heather Brake, Madeline Beal, Katherine Lyon-Daniel, Emily Eisenhauer, Monica Grasso, Bryan Hubbell, Karen Jenni, Christopher Lauer, Arthur Lupia, Christine Prue, Paula Rausch, Carl D. Shapiro, Michael D. Smith, William Riley
2021, Nature Human Behavior (5) 411-413
Many US federal agencies apply principles from risk communication science across a wide variety of hazards. In so doing, they identify key research and practice gaps that, if addressed, could help better serve the nation’s communities and greatly enhance practice, research, and policy development....
Whole‐genome resequencing reveals persistence of forest‐associated mammals in Late Pleistocene refugia along North America’s North Pacific Coast
Jocelyn P. Colella, Tianying Lan, Sandra L. Talbot, Charlotte Lindqvist, Joseph A. Cook
2021, Journal of Biogeography (48) 1153-1169
AimNumerous glacial refugia have been hypothesized along North America's North Pacific Coast that may have increased divergence of refugial taxa, leading to elevated endemism and subsequently clustered hybrid zones following deglaciation. The locations and community composition of these ice‐free areas remains controversial, but whole‐genome sequences now enable...
A numerical study of wave-driven mean flows and setup dynamics at a coral reef-lagoon system
Dirk P. Rijnsdorp, Mark L. Buckley, Renan da Silva, Mike Cuttler, Jeff Hansen, Ryan Lowe, Rebecca H. Green, Curt D. Storlazzi
2021, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans (126)
Two-dimensional mean wave-driven flow and setup dynamics were investigated at a reef-lagoon system at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, using the numerical wave-flow model, SWASH. Phase-resolved numerical simulations of the wave and flow fields, validated with highly detailed field observations (including >10 sensors through the energetic surf zone),...
Geology and calcite deposition of Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave
Johanna Blake
2021, Lite Geology (48) 7-8
No abstract available....
Evaluating a laboratory flume microbiome as a window into natural riverbed biogeochemistry
Matthew H. Kaufman, John G. Warden, M. Bayani Cardenas, James C. Stegen, Emily B. Graham, Joseph Brown
2021, Frontiers in Water (21)
Riverbeds are hotspots for microbially-mediated reactions that exhibit pronounced variability in space and time. It is challenging to resolve biogeochemical mechanisms in natural riverbeds, as uncontrolled settings complicate data collection and interpretation. To overcome these challenges, laboratory flumes are often used as proxies for natural riverbed systems. Flumes capture spatiotemporal...
Ecosystem response persists after a prolonged marine heatwave
Robert M. Suryan, Mayumi L. Arimitsu, Heather A. Coletti, Russell R. Hopcroft, Mandy Lindeberg, Steven J. Barbeaux, Sonia Batten, William J. Burt, Mary Anne Bishop, James L. Bodkin, R. Brenner, Robert W. Campbell, Daniel A. Cushing, Seth L. Danielson, Martin W. Dorn, Brie Drummond, Daniel Esler, Thomas S. Gelatt, Dana H. Hanselman, Katrin Iken, David B. Irons, Scott A. Hatch, Stormy Haught, Kris Holderied, David G. Kimmel, Brenda H. Konar, Kathy J. Kuletz, Arthur B. Kettle, Benjamin J. Laurel, John M. Maniscalco, Daniel Monson, Craig O. Matkin, Caitlin McKinstry, John Moran, D. Olsen, John F. Piatt, Wayne A. Palsson, W. Scott Pegau, Lauren A. Rogers, Nora A. Rojek, Anne Schaefer, Ingrid B. Spies, J.M. Straley, Suzanne L. Strom, Marysia Szymkowiak, Kathryn L. Sweeney, Ben P. Weitzman, Ellen M. Yasumiishi, Stephanie Zador
2021, Scientific Reports (11)
Some of the longest and most comprehensive marine ecosystem monitoring programs were established in the Gulf of Alaska following the environmental disaster of the Exxon Valdez oil spill over 30 years ago. These monitoring programs have been successful in assessing recovery from oil spill impacts, and their continuation decades later has now provided...
Enumerating white-tailed deer using unmanned aerial vehicles
Todd M. Preston, Mark L. Wildhaber, Nicholas S. Green, Janice L. Albers, Geoffrey P. Debenedetto
2021, Wildlife Society Bulletin (45) 97-108
The white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is an ecologically important species in forests of North America. Effective management of forests requires accurate, precise estimates of deer population abundance to plan and justify management actions. Spotlight surveys in combination with distance sampling are a common method of estimating...
A comparison between generalized least squares regression and top-kriging for homogeneous cross-correlated flood regions
Persiano Simone, Jose Luis Salinas, Jery Russell Stedinger, William H. Farmer, David Lun, Alberto Viglione, Gunter Bloschl, Attilio Castellarin
2021, Hydrological Sciences Journal (66) 565-579
Spatial cross-correlation among flood sequences impacts the accuracy of regional predictors. Our study investigates this impact for two regionalization procedures, generalized least squares (GLS) regression and top-kriging (TK), which deal with cross-correlation in two fundamentally different ways and therefore might be associated with different accuracy and uncertainty...
Mixed evidence for biotic homogenization of southern Appalachian fish communities
Kelly N. Petersen, Mary Freeman, Joseph E. Kirsch, William O McLarney, Mark C Scott, Seth J. Wenger
2021, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (78) 1397-1406
Anthropogenic impacts on the landscape can drive biotic homogenization, whereby distinct biological communities become more similar to one another over time. Land-use change in the Southern Appalachian region is expected to result in homogenization of the highly diverse freshwater fish communities as in-stream habitat alterations favor widespread cosmopolitan...
Behavioral patterns of bats at a wind turbine confirm seasonality of fatality risk
Shifra Z Goldenberg, Paul M. Cryan, P. Marcos Gorresen, Lee J Fingersh
2021, Ecology and Evolution (11) 4843-4853
Bat fatalities at wind energy facilities in North America are predominantly comprised of migratory, tree-dependent species, but it is unclear why these bats are at higher risk. Factors influencing bat susceptibility to wind turbines might be revealed by temporal patterns in their behaviors around these dynamic...
Lava effusion rate evolution and erupted volume during the 2018 Kīlauea lower East Rift Zone eruption
Hannah R. Dietterich, Angela K. Diefenbach, S. Adam Soule, Michael H. Zoeller, Matthew R. Patrick, J. J. Major, Paul Lundgren
2021, Bulletin of Volcanology (83)
The 2018 eruption on the lower East Rift Zone of Kīlauea Volcano produced one of the largest and most destructive lava flows in Hawai’i during the past 200 years. Over the course of more than 3 months, twenty-four fissures erupted, and the rate of lava effusion varied by two orders...
Genome sequences of 26 white sucker hepatitis B virus isolates from white sucker, catostomus commersonii, inhabiting transboundary waters from Alberta, Canada, to the Great Lakes, USA
Cynthia R. Adams, Vicki S. Blazer, Jim Sherry, Robert S. Cornman, Luke R. Iwanowicz
2021, Microbiology Resource Announcements (10)
We report 26 genomes of the white sucker hepatitis B virus (WSHBV) from the white sucker, Catostomus commersonii. Genome length ranged from 3541 to 3543 bp and nucleotide identity was 96.7% or greater across genomes. This work suggests a geographical range of this virus that minimally extends from the Athabasca...
Supporting data and simulation of hypothetical bighead carp egg and larvae development and transport in the Ohio River between Markland Locks and Dam and McAlpine Locks and Dam, Kentucky and Indiana, by use of the Fluvial Egg Drift Simulator
Chad J. Ostheimer, Justin A. Boldt, Paul M. Buszka
2021, Scientific Investigations Report 2021-5005
Data collection, along with hydraulic and fluvial egg transport modeling, was completed along a 70.9-mile reach of the Ohio River between Markland Locks and Dam and McAlpine Locks and Dam in Kentucky and Indiana. Water-quality data collected in this reach included surface measurements and vertical profiles of water temperature, specific...
Peak streamflow determinations in Nevada: A cooperative program with the USGS and Nevada Department of Transportation
Kurtiss Schmidt
2021, Fact Sheet 2021-3015
BackgroundFloods are one of the most costly and frequent natural disasters in Nevada. For example, the 1997 New Year’s flood has been estimated to have caused more than $1 billion in damage across northern Nevada (Truckee River Flood Management Authority, 2017). In 2014, more than 2 miles of Interstate 15...
Assessment of continuous oil and gas resources in the Mowry Shale, Wind River Basin Province, Wyoming, 2020
Thomas M. Finn, Christopher J. Schenk, Tracey J. Mercier, Cheryl A. Woodall, Marilyn E. Tennyson, Kristen R. Marra, Phuong A. Le, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller, Geoffrey S. Ellis
2021, Fact Sheet 2021-3006
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean resources of 288 million barrels of oil and 2.6 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Mowry Shale in the Wind River Basin Province, Wyoming....
Temporal seismic velocity variations: Recovery following from the 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest, California earthquake
Joshua Dakota Boschelli, Morgan P. Moschetti, C Sens-Schonfelder
2021, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth (126)
We investigated seismic velocity changes (dv/v) associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence with high‐frequency autocorrelations of ambient seismic noise data. Daily autocorrelation functions were computed for the entirety of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020 for broadband stations within the region, including the temporary broadband stations installed during...
Corticosteroid control of Na+/K+-ATPase in the intestine of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)
Andre Barany-Ruiz, Ciaran A. Shaughnessy, Stephen D. McCormick
2021, General and Comparative Endocrinology (307)
Anadromous sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) larvae undergo a months-long true metamorphosis during which they develop seawater (SW) tolerance prior to downstream migration and SW entry. We have previously shown that intestinal Na+/K+-ATPase (NKA) activity increases during metamorphosis and is critical to the osmoregulatory function of the intestine in SW. The...
