Sources of remotely sensed data
EROS Data Center Applications Branch
1978, Pecora IV: Application of Remote Sensing Data to Wildlife Management III-1-III-10
NCIC was established within the USGS to provide a single-point contact source for cartographic-related information, including remotely sensed data. A computerized indexing system, the Aerial Photography Summary Record System (APSRS), shows all holding for Federal agencies, with the long range goal of including data acquired on the state and...
Approaches to remote sensing data analysis
Lawrence R. Pettinger
1978, Pecora IV: Application of Remote Sensing Data to Wildlife Management 1-23-1-30
Objectives: To present an overview of the essential steps in the remote sensing data analysis process, and to compare and contrast manual (visual) and automated analysis methods Rationale: This overview is intended to provide a framework for choosing a manual of digital analysis approach to collecting resource information. It can...
Statistical inference from capture data on closed animal populations
David L. Otis, Kenneth P. Burnham, Gary C. White, David R. Anderson
1978, Wildlife Monographs 3-135
The estimation of animal abundance is an important problem in both the theoretical and applied biological sciences. Serious work to develop estimation methods began during the 1950s, with a few attempts before that time. The literature on estimation methods has increased tremendously during the past 25 years (Cormack...
Reappraising factors affecting mourning dove perch coos
M. W. Sayre, R.D. Atkinson, T.S. Baskett, G.H. Haas
1978, Journal of Wildlife Management (42) 884-889
Results confirmed pairing as the primary factor influencing perch-cooing rates of wild mourning doves (Zenaida macroura). Marked unmated males cooed at substantially higher rates (6.2x) than mated males, had greater probability of cooing (2.3x) during 3-minute periods, and continued cooing longer each morning than mated males. Population density was not...
Metabolic indicators of habitat differences in four Minnesota deer populations
U.S. Seal, M.E. Nelson, L.D. Mech, R.L. Hoskinson
1978, Journal of Wildlife Management (42) 746-754
Blood samples were collected from 40 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from 4 winter yards in northeastern Minnesota from 17 March 1974 through 23 April 1975. The results of 26 blood assays were examined for the effects of age, sex, capture date, capture method, disease and location. Age-related effects were found...
Refraction studies between Icy Bay and Kayak Island, eastern Gulf of Alaska
K.C. Bayer, R.E. Mattick, T.R. Bruns, George Plafker
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 625-636
Results of five seismic refraction lines shot by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Gulf of Alaska between Icy Bay and Kayak Island indicate the following: (1) The Continental Shelf is underlain by as much as 11 km of sedimentary rock of probable Tertiary age where refraction velocities range from 1.2 to 5.5 kilometers per...
Earthquake swarm along the San Andreas fault near Palmdale, Southern California, 1976 to 1977
K.C. McNally, H. Kanamori, J.C. Pechmann, G. Fuis
1978, Science (201) 814-817
Between November 1976 and November 1977 a swarm of small earthquakes (local magnitude ≤ 3) occurred on or near the San Andreas fault near Palmdale, California. This swarm was the first observed along this section of the San Andreas since cataloging of instrumental data began in 1932....
Three-dimensional finite-difference model of ground-water system underlying the Muskegon County wastewater disposal system, Michigan
Michael G. McDonald, William B. Fleck
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 307-318
The spray irrigation system used by Muskegon County for wastewater treatment is the largest of its kind in the United States. It has 2200 hectares of irrigated farm land, 688 hectares of treatment lagoons, and 105 kilometers of drainage tile. The system has a design capacity of 1.8 cubic meters...
A new species of Myotis from the Islas Tres Marias, Nayarit, Mexico, with comments on variation in Myotis nigricans
Michael A. Bogan
1978, Journal of Mammalogy (59) 519-530
A new Myotis is described from the Islas Tres Marias, Nayarit, Mexico. the new species is distinct from related taxa n the adjacent Mexican mainland (M. californicus, M. leibii, and M. carteri), although most closely related to M. carteri as shown by univariate and canonical variates analyses. An...
Sleeping distance in wolf pairs in relation to the breeding season
L. David Mech, Steven T. Knick
1978, Behavioral Biology (23) 521-525
Changes in sleeping distances in 11 pairs of wild wolves (Canis lupus) were studied to determine if they correlated with stages of the breeding cycle. Aerial radio-tracking and observation were the techniques used. Members of most pairs slept less than 1 m apart at least sometime during proestrus and the...
Topographic maps
Theodore D. Steger
1978, Report
A topographic map is a line-and-symbol representation of natural and selected man-made features of a part of the Earth's surface plotted to a definite scale. A distinguishing characteristic of a topographic map is the portrayal of the shape and elevation of the terrain by contour lines....
Climate and reproduction of grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park
Harold D. Picton
1978, Nature (274) 888-889
Controversy surrounds the conflicts between the requirements of human safety and the preservation of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) in western North America. It has been difficult to separate the effect of factors such as the closure of garbage dumps from that of the climate. It has also proved difficult to...
Numerical simulation of dissolved silica in the San Fancisco Bay
David H. Peterson, John F. Festa, T. J. Conomos
1978, Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science (7) 99-116
A two-dimensional (vertical) steady-state numerical model that simulates water circulation and dissolved-silica distributions is applied to northern San Francisco Bay. The model (1) describes the strong influence of river inflow on estuarine circulation and, in turn, on the biologically modulated silica concentration, and (2) shows how rates of silica uptake...
A field evaluation of subsurface and surface runoff. II. Runoff processes
D.H. Pilgrim, D.D. Huff, T.D. Steele
1978, Journal of Hydrology (38) 319-341
Combined use of radioisotope tracer, flow rate, specific conductance and suspended-sediment measurements on a large field plot near Stanford, California, has provided more detailed information on surface and subsurface storm runoff processes than would be possible from any single approach used in isolation. Although the plot was surficially uniform, the...
Meteorite impact crater in central Alaska
W. W. Patton Jr., T. P. Miller
1978, Science (201) 279-279
No abstract available....
Seismic amplitude measurements suggest foreshocks have different focal mechanisms than aftershocks
A. Lindh, G. Fuis, C. Mantis
1978, Science (201) 56-59
The ratio of the amplitudes of P and S waves from the foreshocks and aftershocks to three recent California earthquakes show a characteristic change at the time of the main events. As this ratio is extremely sensitive to small changes in the orientation of the fault plane, a small systematic...
Stratigraphy of the Atlantic Continental Shelf and Slope of the United States
Claude (Wylie) Poag
1978, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (6) 251-280
No abstract available....
Erythrocyte δ-Aminolevulinic Acid Dehydratase Activity in Mallard Ducks: Duration of Inhibition after Lead Shot Dosage
M. P. Dieter, M. T. Finley
1978, Journal of Wildlife Management (42) 621-625
Inhibition of a lead-specific blood enzyme, 8-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD), has been utilized to indicate the incidence and degree of lead contamination in canvasback ducks (Aythya valisineria) (Dieter et al. 1976). This variable was found to be more sensitive to lead than previous tests that have been employed with...
Age and sex determination of juvenile band-tailed pigeons
J.A. White, C.E. Braun
1978, Journal of Wildlife Management (42) 564-569
Captive band-tailed pigeons (Columba fasciata) were studied to document progression of molts and plumages from juvenal to adult age. Immature pigeons began the post-juvenal molt at 35 days which continued up to 340 days. The only 3 plumage characters useful for identification and estimation of age were presence of juvenal...
Preliminary evaluation of the floating dome method of measuring reaeration rates
Doyle W. Stephens
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 547-552
The floating dome method of measuring reaeration rates was evaluated using a modified tracer technique and a disturbed equilibrium technique. The lack of agreement between results of the floating dome method and the other methods was attributed to limitations in instrument accuracy amplified by physical relationships of the dome to...
Definition of regional relationships between dissolved solids and specific conductance, Susquehanna River basin, Pennsylvania and New York
David J. Lystrom, Frank A. Rinella, William D. Knox
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 541-545
This report presents statistical tests for assessing the accuracy and validity of two regional models of the relationship between dissolved-solids concentration and specific conductance. These models are used to estimate dissolved-solids concentrations based on specific-conductance measurements. The two regional models are compared with station models for 27 stream sites in...
Accuracy of flood mapping
D. E. Burkham
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 515-527
Information taken directly from published and unpublished reports was used to appraise the accuracy and the limitations of the three general flood-mapping methods: detailed, historical, and physiographic. In the appraisal, the probable nationwide average standard error of estimate for water depth and elevation in percentage of depth and in meters...
Spectral gradient of lunar radiobrightness: Heat flow or volume scattering?
A. W. England, G. R. Johnson
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 505-509
Lunar heat flow cannot be derived unambiguously from the spectral gradient of the radiobrightness. Volume scattering of microwaves by rock clasts within the lunar regolith results in a spectral component in the 5- to 30-centimeter range of wavelengths that is a significant fraction of that resulting from lunar heat flow....
Discrimination of fluvial and eolian deposits by number-frequency analysis of sediments of sand through silt size from a point bar, Rio Puerco, New Mexico
R. G. Shepherd, D. L. Macke
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 499-504
Fluvial and eolian deposits are interbedded in ephemeral-stream, arid-region point bars in the channel of the Rio Puerco, west of Albuquerque, N. Mex. Number frequency distributions of grain size for both types of deposits were obtained using an electronic automatic image analyzer for a suite of 10 samples. The number-frequency...
Uranium in waters and aquifer rocks at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada
Robert A. Zielinski, John N. Rosholt
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 489-498
Previous chemical, geological, and hydrological information describing the physical and chemical environment of the Nevada Test Site (a Federal reserve for the testing of nuclear explosive devices) has been combined with new radiochemical and isotope data for water and rock samples in order to explain the behavior of uranium during...
