The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting the Kansas Economy
Claire DeVaughan
2024, Fact Sheet 2024-3053
Introduction High-resolution elevation data for Kansas inform decision making to improve the State’s economy. Existing elevation data coverage is used to support State water planning initiatives, facilitate infrastructure management, and improve resilience to natural disasters. The expanding availability of current and more accurate elevation data helps better support natural resources conservation,...
Spatial differences in predicted Phalaris arundinacea (reed canarygrass) occurrence in floodplain forest understories
John Delaney, Molly Van Appledorn, Nathan R. De Jager, Kristen L. Bouska, Jason J. Rohweder
2024, Ecosphere (15)
Reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) is one of the most common invaders of floodplains and wetlands in North America. In the Upper Mississippi River floodplain, invasion by reed canarygrass in forest understories can inhibit forest regeneration when gaps form in the overstory. Understanding the distribution of reed canarygrass in forest understories...
Improving time of concentration estimates for small rural watersheds in the Appalachian Plateaus physiographic province, West Virginia
Terence Messinger, Darrin A. Holmes, James D. Scott, Douglas W. Kirk
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5051
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, compared time of concentration (Tc) and related runoff characteristics measured at four field sites in West Virginia to estimates of these values made using accepted methods. These four sites were selected to represent...
Three-dimensional hydrogeologic framework model of the Russian River watershed, California
Geoffrey Cromwell, Donald S. Sweetkind, Victoria E. Langenheim, Christopher P. Ely
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5083
The Russian River watershed is in northern Sonoma County and southern Mendocino County, California, in the northern part of the California Coast Ranges. The Russian River serves as a supply for agricultural irrigation and for municipal, domestic, and commercial uses. Through a cooperative agreement with the California State Water Resources...
Mapping river flow from thermal images in approximately real time: Proof of concept on the Sacramento River, California, USA
Carl J. Legleiter, Paul J. Kinzel, Michael Dille, Massimo Vespignani, Uland Wong, Isaac E Anderson, Elizabeth Hyde, Christopher L. Gazoorian, Jennifer Marie Cramer
2024, Remote Sensing (16)
Image velocimetry has become an effective method of mapping flow conditions in rivers, but this analysis is typically performed in a post-processing mode after data collection is complete. In this study, we evaluated the potential to infer flow velocities in approximately real time as thermal images are being acquired from...
The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting the Texas economy
Claire DeVaughan
2024, Fact Sheet 2024-3054
Introduction High-resolution elevation data for Texas inform decision making to improve the State’s economy. Existing elevation data coverage is used to improve resiliency to natural disasters, manage energy infrastructure, and assess natural resources. The expanding availability of current and more accurate elevation data helps better support natural resources conservation, agriculture and...
Topographic and bathymetric survey in support of the effectiveness assessment of the living shoreline restoration in Gandys Beach, New Jersey
William D. Capurso, Lukasz M. Niemoczynski, Hongqing Wang, Qin Chen, Gregg Snedden, Ling Zhu
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1072
High resolution topobathymetric field surveys were conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with Northeastern University and in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy in a selected shoreline along Gandys Beach, New Jersey, from January to April 2018. These data are a critical...
Lithium resource in the Smackover Formation brines of Southern Arkansas
Katherine J. Knierim, Andrew L. Masterson, Philip A. Freeman, Bonnie McDevitt, Amanda H. Herzberg, Peng Li, Ciara Mills, Colin Doolan, Aaron M. Jubb, Scott M. Ausbrooks, Jessica Chenault
2024, Fact Sheet 2024-3052
Lithium-rich brine deposits occur throughout the United States, including in the Smackover Formation. The concentration of lithium in Smackover Formation brines was predicted across southern Arkansas by using a machine-learning model that incorporated lithium concentration data and geologic information. Between 5.1 and 19.0 million metric tons of lithium are calculated...
Quantifying uncertainty in anthropogenic causes of injury and mortality for an endangered baleen whale
Daniel W. Linden, J. A. Hostetler, Richard M Pace III, Lance P. Garrison, Amy R. Knowlton, Veronique Lesage, Robert A. Williams, Michael C. Runge
2024, Ecosphere (15)
Understanding the causes of mortality for a declining species is essential for developing effective conservation and management strategies, particularly when anthropogenic activities are the primary threat. Using a competing hazards framework allows for robust estimation of the cause-specific variation in risk that may exist across multiple dimensions, such as time...
A benchmark for computational analysis of animal behavior, using animal-borne tags
Benjamin Hoffmann, Maddie Cusimano, Vittorio Baglione, Daniela Canestrari, Damien Chevallier, Dominic L. DeSantis, Lorene Jeantet, Monique Ladds, Takuya Maekawa, Mata-Silva Vicente, Victor Moreno-Gonzalez, Anthony M. Pagano, Eva Trapote, Outi Vainio, Antti Vehkaoja, Ken Yoda, Katherine Zacarian, Ari Friedlaender
2024, Movement Ecology (12)
BackgroundAnimal-borne sensors (‘bio-loggers’) can record a suite of kinematic and environmental data, which are used to elucidate animal ecophysiology and improve conservation efforts. Machine learning techniques are used for interpreting the large amounts of data recorded by bio-loggers, but there exists no common framework for comparing the different...
The potential of remote sensing for improved infectious disease ecology research and practice
Claire S. Teitelbaum, António Ferraz, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Morgan E. Gilmour, Ian G. Brosnan
2024, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (291)
Outbreaks of Covid-19 in humans, Dutch elm disease in forests, and highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds and poultry highlight the disruptive impacts of emerging infectious diseases on public health, ecosystems, and economies. Infectious disease dynamics often depend on environmental conditions that drive occurrence, transmission, and outbreaks. Remote sensing...
Managing to survive despite the weather: Seeding decisions affecting simulated dryland restoration outcomes
Stella M. Copeland, Owen W. Baughman, John B. Bradford, Stuart P. Hardegree, Julie E. Larson, Daniel Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Kevin J. Badik
2024, Restoration Ecology (33)
Limited favorable weather windows for post-germination early seedling survival are associated with low restoration success in drylands. We examined whether post-fire seeding decisions could alter early seedling emergence and restoration success across western North American sagebrush ecosystems with a simulation approach. Seedling emergence estimates were based on germination of a...
Food habits of nonnative Walleyes in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho
Susan Frawley, Matthew P. Corsi, Andrew M. Dux, Ryan S. Hardy, Michael C. Quist
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 1294-1324
ObjectiveWalleye Sander vitreus is an important species that has been widely introduced outside of its native distribution. The goal of this study was to assess the effects of an established Walleye population in the Lake Pend Oreille (LPO) system, Idaho.MethodsFood habits of Walleyes were...
Bee habitat, but not bee community structure, varies across grassland management in four national parks in the Mid-Atlantic, USA
Diane L. Larson, Andrew P Landsman, Michael Simanonok, Jennifer L. Larson, Cora Davies, Clint Otto
2024, Ecology and Evolution (14)
National parks in the U.S. play a large role in providing habitat for native pollinators. In parks that are established to preserve cultural landscapes, park managers recognize an opportunity to improve pollinator habitat while maintaining historically accurate conditions. In this study we document floral resources and native bees within...
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...
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...
Abiotic and biotic factors related to growth of non-native Walleyes in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho
Susan Frawley, Matthew P. Corsi, Andrew M. Dux, Ryan S. Hardy, Michael C. Quist
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 1325-1341
Objective Growth is one of the primary drivers of fish population dynamics and understanding factors influencing growth is vital to effective management of fish populations. This study investigated potential factors influencing growth of a recently established, non-native population of Walleye Sander vitreus in the Lake Pend Oreille system in northern...
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....
Model predictions of global geologic hydrogen resources
Geoffrey S. Ellis, Sarah E. Gelman
2024, Science Advances (10)
Geologic hydrogen could be a low-carbon primary energy resource; however, the magnitude of Earth’s subsurface endowment has not yet been assessed. Knowledge of the occurrence and behavior of natural hydrogen on Earth has been combined with information from geologic analogs to construct a mass balance model to predict the resource...
Effects of exploitation and emigration on apparent survival of Walleye in Lake Sharpe, South Dakota
Laurel H. Sacco, Mark J. Fincel, Cameron W. Goble, Tanner Davis, Steven R. Chipps
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 1476-1488
ObjectiveIn 2017, we began a 5-year mark–recapture study to estimate apparent survival of Walleye Sander vitreus and angler exploitation in Lake Sharpe, South Dakota, and inform management strategies for this fishery. The study revealed substantial downstream emigration of Walleye; therefore, we also examined the influence of emigration on apparent...
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...
Using camera traps to estimate site occupancy of invasive Argentine Black and White Tegus (Salvator merianae) in South Florida
Samantha N. Smith, Melissa A. Miller, Hardin Waddle, Sarah Cooke, Amy A. Yackel Adams, Andrea Currylow, Kevin Donmoyer, Frank J. Mazzotti
2024, Southeastern Naturalist (23) 425-447
The introduction of nonnative species is a leading cause of biodiversity loss. Many invasive species are cryptic or elusive in nature and therefore often evade detection, complicating their management. Occupancy modeling can reveal the presence and spread of invasive species over time and therefore has important management implications. Camera traps...
Using life history traits to assess climate change vulnerability in understudied species
Ross K Hinderer, Blake R. Hossack, Lisa A Eby
2024, Integrative Conservation (3) 368-381
Climate change is a primary threat to biodiversity, but for many species, we still lack information required to assess their relative vulnerability to changes. Climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) is a widely used technique to rank relative vulnerability to climate change based on species characteristics, such as their distributions, habitat...
New York State climate impacts assessment chapter 05: Ecosystems
Sheila Hess, Douglas A. Burns, Garrett Boudinot, Carrie Brown-Lima, Jason Corwin, John Foppert, George Robinson, Kevin C. Rose, Matthew D. Schlesinger, Rebecca Shuford, Amanda Stevens
2024, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1542) 253-340
The people of New York have long benefited from the state's diversity of ecosystems, which range from coastal shorelines and wetlands to extensive forests and mountaintop alpine habitat, and from lakes and rivers to greenspaces in heavily populated urban areas. These ecosystems provide key services such as food, water, forest...
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...
