Assessing community needs for terrestrial analog studies
Lauren A. Edgar, M. Elise Rumpf, Skinner Jr., Amber L. Gullikson, Laszlo P. Keszthelyi, Marc A. Hunter, Tenielle Gaither
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1042
Executive SummaryThe U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed and released a survey to assess the terrestrial analog needs of the planetary science community. The goal was to assess the current state of terrestrial analog studies and determine community needs related to the use of field sites for training and research, data...
Themed social networking groups as effective sources of data: A country-wide survey on invasive bigheaded carp (Hipophthalmichthys molitrix and H. nobilis) detection and distribution
Zoltán Vitál, Duane Chapman, Béla Halasi-Kovács, Attila Mozsár
2024, Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (9)
Citizen science commonly uses social networking platforms because they provide the easiest way to contact people. Social networking platforms can also be especially effective in that they gather people by interest and region. By sharing questionnaires and collecting photographs in angling-themed Facebook groups, we assessed the applicability of social networking...
Surveying waterfowl broods in wetlands using aerial drones
Desmond Alexander Mackell, Michael L. Casazza, Cory T. Overton, Kevin J. Buffington, Chase M. Freeman, Joshua T. Ackerman, Karen M. Thorne
2024, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (22)
Effective waterfowl management relies on the collection of relevant demographic data to inform land management decisions; however, some types of data are difficult to obtain. For waterfowl, brood surveys are difficult to conduct because wetland habitats often obscure ducklings from being visually assessed. Here, we used Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS)...
Model sensitivity analysis for coastal morphodynamics: Investigating sediment parameters and bed composition in Delft3D
Robert L. Jenkins III, Christopher G. Smith, Davina Passeri, Alisha M. Ellis
2024, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (12)
Numerical simulation of sediment transport and subsequent morphological evolution rely on accurate parameterizations of sediment characteristics. However, these data are often not available or are spatially and/or temporally limited. This study approaches the problem of limited sediment grain-size data with a series of simulations assessing model sensitivity to sediment parameters...
Methodology for inclusion of produced and stored carbon dioxide in the U.S. Geological Survey Federal lands greenhouse gas inventory
Philip A. Freeman, Matthew D. Merrill
2024, Conference Paper, Proceedings of greenhouse gas control technologies conference, 17th
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed two new carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and sequestration accounting methods for use in future reports. The first method is a Federal lease-produced CO2 emissions calculation for an update of the report, “Federal Lands Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sequestration in the United States.” The...
Fine-scale surficial soil moisture mapping using UAS-based L-band remote sensing in a mixed oak-grassland landscape
Michelle A. Stern, Ryan Ferrell, Lorraine E. Flint, Melina Kozanitas, David Ackerly, Jack Elston, Maciej Stachura, Eryan Dai, James H. Thorne
2024, Frontiers in Remote Sensing (5)
Soil moisture maps provide quantitative information that, along with climate and energy balance, is critical to integrate with hydrologic processes for characterizing landscape conditions. However, soil moisture maps are difficult to produce for natural landscapes because of vegetation cover and complex topography. Satellite-based L-band microwave sensors are...
High-Flow Experimental Outcomes to Inform Everglades Restoration, 2010–22
Judson W. Harvey, Jay Choi, Laurel Larsen, Katherine Skalak, Morgan Maglio, Katherine Quion, Tzu-Yao Lin, Allison Swartz, Jesus Gomez-Velez, Noah Schmadel
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1063
The Decompartmentalization Physical Model (DPM) was an experimental facility in the central Everglades operated between 2010 and 2022 to release high flows through a levee-enclosed area of degraded ridge and slough wetland that had been isolated from flow for sixty years. The purpose of DPM experimental program was to make...
Increasing phosphorus loss despite widespread concentration decline in US rivers
Wei Zhi, Hubert Baniecki, Jiangtao Liu, Elizabeth W. Boyer, Chaopeng Shen, Gary W. Shenk, Xiaofeng Liu, Li Li
2024, PNAS (121)
The loss of phosphorous (P) from the land to aquatic systems has polluted waters and threatened food production worldwide. Systematic trend analysis of P, a nonrenewable resource, has been challenging, primarily due to sparse and inconsistent historical data. Here, we leveraged intensive hydrometeorological data and the recent renaissance of deep...
Three-dimensional temperature maps of the Williston Basin, USA: Implications for deep hot sedimentary and enhanced geothermal resources
Sarah E. Gelman, Erick R. Burns
2024, Geothermics (125)
As part of U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) efforts to identify and assess geothermal energy resources of the US, a three-dimensional (3D) geologic and thermal model has been constructed for the Williston Basin, USA. The geologic model consists of all sedimentary units above the Proterozoic and Archean crystalline rock (called basement...
Differentiating cheatgrass and medusahead phenological characteristics in western United States rangelands
Trenton David Benedict, Stephen P. Boyte, Devendra Dahal
2024, Remote Sensing (16)
Expansions in the extent and infestation levels of exotic annual grass (EAG) within the rangelands of the western United States are well documented. Land managers are tasked with developing plans to limit EAG spread and prevent irreversible ecosystem deterioration. The most common EAG species and the subject of extensive study...
The U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Network—Surface Water—2023
Melissa L. Riskin
2024, General Information Product 245
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Network for surface water (NWQN-SW) was established in 2013 to develop long-term, comparable assessments of surface-water quality in support of national, regional, state, and local needs related to water-quality management and policy. Waterquality samples are collected at each site and measured for...
U.S. Geological Survey Groundwater Climate Response Network—2023
Jason Fine, Rodney R. Caldwell
2024, General Information Product 243
As of October 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) operated more than 660 sites across the United States and its territories as part of the Groundwater Climate Response Network (CRN). The CRN is comprised of wells and springs selected to monitor the effects of climate variability, such as droughts, on...
Federal lands greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration in the United States: Estimates for 2005–22
Matthew D. Merrill, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Philip A. Freeman
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5103
In 2016, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior requested that the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) produce a publicly available and annually updated database of estimated greenhouse gas emissions associated with the extraction and use of fossil fuels from Federal lands. The first report in this series included...
The EnMAP spaceborne imaging spectroscopy mission: Initial scientific results two years after launch
Sabine Chabrillat, Saskia Foerster, Karl Segl, Alison Beamish, Maximilian Brell, Saeid Asadzadeh, Robert Milewski, Kathrin J. Ward, Arlena Brosinsky, Katrin Koch, Daniel Scheffler, Stephane Guillaso, Alexander Kokhanovsky, Sigrid Roessner, Luis Guanter, Hermann Kauffman, Nicole Pinnel, Emiliano Carmona, Tobias Storch, Tobias Hank, Katja Berger, Mathias Wocher, Patrick Hostert, Sebastian van der Linden, Akpona Okujeni, Andreas Janz, Benjamin Jakimow, Astrid Bracher, Mariana Soppa, L.M.A. Alvarado, H. Buddenbaum, Birgit Heim, Uta Heiden, Jose M. Moreno, Cindy Ong, Niklas Bohn, Robert O. Green, Martin Bachmann, Raymond F. Kokaly, Martin Schodlok, Thomas H. Painter, Ferran Gascon, Fabrizia Buongiorno, Matti Mottus, Vittorio Ernesto Brando, Hannes Feilhauer, Matthias Betz, Simon Baur, Rupert Feckl, Anke Schickling, Vera Krieger, Michael Bock, Laura La Porta, Sebastian Fischer
2024, Remote Sensing of Environment (315)
Imaging spectroscopy has been a recognized and established remote sensing technology since the 1980s, mainly using airborne and field-based platforms to identify and quantify key bio- and geo-chemical surface and atmospheric compounds, based on characteristic spectral reflectance features in the visible-near infrared (VNIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR). Spaceborne missions, a...
Post Carr Fire bioassessment data report, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Shasta County, California
Marissa L. Wulff, Larry R. Brown, Veronica L. Violette
2024, Data Report 1201
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Park Service, analyzed water and sediment chemistry, benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages, fish and amphibian assemblages, fish and invertebrate tissues, instream habitat characteristics, and sediment heterogeneity at 10 stream sites within Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Shasta County, California, during August 2020, 2 years...
A methodology to estimate CO2 and energy gas storage resources in depleted conventional gas reservoirs
Matthew M. Jones, Ashton M. Wiens, Marc L. Buursink, Sean T. Brennan, Philip A. Freeman, Brian A. Varela, Joao S. Gallotti, Peter D. Warwick
2024, Conference Paper
Depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs are subsurface geological structures capable of sequestering vast quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as storing other energy gases for later usage, such as natural gas, and potentially hydrogen (H2). Here we outline a methodology to quantify multi-gas storage resources in depleted conventional gas reservoirs for...
Length in assessing status of freshwater fish populations: A review
Leandro E. Miranda, H.G. Funk, M. Palmieri, J.D. Stafford, M.E. Nichols
2024, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (44) 1092-1110
ObjectiveEffective policy formulation regarding the conservation of freshwater fish necessitates an understanding of water‐specific prevailing conditions and trends. Assessing fish populations in inland waters is difficult and expensive because there are many independent systems that need to be evaluated. Therefore, numerous freshwater systems are beset by insufficient data...
Connectivity patterns between floodplain lakes and neighboring streams in the historical floodplain of the Lower Mississippi River
Hafez Ahmad, Leandro E. Miranda, Corey Garland Dunn, Melanie R. Boudreau, Michael E. Colvin
2024, Ecological Indicators (169)
Hydrologic connectivity, the network of water pathways linking aquatic habitats, is vital for the exchange of organisms and abiotic materials between rivers and adjacent waterbodies. This study quantified hydrologic connectivity for 1,283 lakes in the Lower Mississippi River floodplain using satellite imagery, streamgauge data, and geospatial information. We aimed to...
Peak streamflow trends in South Dakota and their relation to changes in climate, water years 1921–2020
Nancy A. Barth, Steven K. Sando
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5064-I
Peak-flow (flood) frequency analysis is essential to water-resources management applications, including the design of critical infrastructure such as bridges and culverts, and floodplain mapping. Federal guidelines for performing peak-flow flood frequency analyses are presented in a U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods Report known as Bulletin 17C. A basic assumption...
Upper Mississippi River System hydrogeomorphic change conceptual model and hierarchical classification
Faith A. Fitzpatrick, James T. Rogala, Jon S. Hendrickson, Lucie Sawyer, Jayme Stone, Susannah Erwin, Edward J. Brauer, Angus Vaughan
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1051
Understanding the geomorphic processes and causes for long-term hydrogeomorphic changes along the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) is necessary for scientific studies ranging from habitat needs assessments, sediment transport, and nutrient processing, and making sound management decisions and prioritizing ecological restoration activities. From 2018 through 2020 the U.S. Geological Survey...
Depths in a day - A new era of rapid-response Raman-based barometry using fluid inclusions
Charlotte DeVitre, Penny E. Wieser, Alexander T. Bearden, Araela Richie, Berenise Rangel, Matthew Gleeson, John Grimsich, Kendra J. Lynn, Drew T. Downs, Natalia I. Deligne, Katherine M. Mulliken
2024, Journal of Petrology (65)
Rapid-response petrological monitoring is a major advance for volcano observatories, allowing them to build and validate models of plumbing systems that supply eruptions in near-real-time. The depth of magma storage has recently been identified as high-priority information for volcanic observatories, yet this information is not currently obtainable via petrological monitoring...
Real-time pier scour monitoring and observations at three scour-critical sites in Idaho, water years 2020–22
Ryan L. Fosness, Paul V. Schauer
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5095
To observe real-time pier scour at three scour-critical sites in Idaho, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Idaho Transportation Department, installed and operated fixed real-time (15-minute interval) bed elevation scour sonar sensors at three bridge locations associated with U.S. Geological Survey streamflow gaging stations for water years 2020 through...
GNSS reflectometry from low-cost sensors for continuous in situ contemporaneous glacier mass balance and flux divergence
Albin Wells, David R. Rounce, Louis C. Sass, Caitlyn Florentine, Adam Garbo, Emily Baker, Christopher J. McNeil
2024, Journal of Glaciology (70)
Recent advances in remote sensing have produced global glacier surface elevation change data. Parsing these elevation change signals into contributions from the climate (i.e. climatic mass balance) and glacier dynamics (i.e. flux divergence) is critical to enhance our process-based understanding of glacier change. In this study, we evaluate three approaches...
River suspended-sand flux computation with uncertainty estimation using water samples and high-resolution ADCP measurements
Jessica Marggraf, Guillaume Dramais, Jerome Le Coz, Blaise Calmel, Benoit Camenen, David J. Topping, William Santini, Gilles Pierrefeu, François Lauters
2024, Earth Surface Dynamics (12) 1243-1266
Measuring suspended-sand fluxes in rivers remains a scientific challenge due to their high spatial and temporal variability. To capture the vertical and lateral gradients of concentration in the cross-section, measurements with point samples are performed. However, the uncertainty related to these measurements is rarely evaluated, as few studies of the...
Reducing uncertainty with iterative model updating parses effects of competition and environment on salamander occupancy
Jo Avital Werba, Graziella Vittoria DiRenzo, Adrianne Brand, Evan H. Campbell Grant
2024, Oecologia (206) 305-316
Making timely management decisions is often hindered by uncertainty. Monitoring reduces two key types of uncertainty. First, it serves to reduce structural uncertainty of how the system works and provides support for expectations of how a system works. Second, it serves to reduce parametric uncertainty of the drivers of system...
