2020 Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation—Remote sensing satellite compendium
Shankar N. Ramaseri Chandra, Jon Christopherson, Kimberly A. Casey
2020, Circular 1468
The Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (JACIE) is a collaboration between five Federal agencies that are major users and producers of satellite land remote sensing data. In recent years, the JACIE group has observed ever-increasing numbers of remote sensing satellites being launched. This rapidly growing wave of new systems creates...
Post-release survival of fallout Newell’s Shearwater fledglings from a rescue and rehabilitation program on Kauai, Hawaii
Andre F. Raine, Tracy Anderson, Megan Vynne, Scott Driskill, Helen Raine, Josh Adams
2020, Endangered Species Research (43) 39-50
Light attraction impacts nocturnally active fledgling seabirds worldwide and is a particularly acute problem on Kaua‘i (the northern-most island in the main Hawaiian Island archipelago) for the Critically Endangered Newell’s shearwater Puffinus newelli. The Save Our Shearwaters (SOS) program was created in 1979 to address this issue and to date has...
Wetland and hydric soils
Carl Trettin, Randall Kolka, Anne Marsh, Sheel Bansal, Eric Lilleskov, Patrick Megonigal, Marla Stelk, Graeme Lockaby, David D'Amore, Richard A. MacKenzie, Brian Tangen, Rodney A. Chimner, James Gries
2020, Book chapter, Forest and rangeland soils of the United States under changing conditions
Soil and the inherent biogeochemical processes in wetlands contrast starkly with those in upland forests and rangelands. The differences stem from extended periods of anoxia, or the lack of oxygen in the soil, that characterize wetland soils; in contrast, upland soils are nearly always oxic. As a result, wetland soil...
Great Plains
Charles H. Perry, Brian Tangen, Sheel Bansal
2020, Book chapter, Forest and rangeland soils of the United States under changing conditions
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Detection and measurement of land subsidence and uplift using Global Positioning System surveys and interferometric synthetic aperture radar, Coachella Valley, California, 2010–17
Michelle Sneed, Justin T. Brandt
2020, Scientific Investigations Report 2020-5093
Groundwater has been a major source of agricultural, recreational, municipal, and domestic supply in the Coachella Valley of California since the early 1920s. Pumping of groundwater resulted in groundwater-level declines as large as 50 feet (ft) or 15 meters (m) by the late 1940s. Because of concerns that the...
Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats
Kevin J. Olival, Paul M. Cryan, Brian R. Amman, Ralph S. Baric, David S. Blehert, Cara E. Brook, Charles H. Calisher, Kevin T. Castle, Jeremy T. H. Coleman, Peter Daszak, Jonathan H. Epstein, Hume Field, Winifred F. Frick, Amy T. Gilbert, David T. S. Hayman, S. Ip, William B Karesh, Christine K. Johnson, Rebekah C. Kading, Tigga Kingston, Jeffrey M. Lorch, Ian H. Mendenhall, Alison J. Peel, Kendra L. Phelps, Raina K. Plowright, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Jonathan D. Reichard, Jonathan M. Sleeman, Daniel G. Streicker, Jonathan S. Towner, Lin-Fa Wang
2020, PLoS Pathogens (9)
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the substantial public health, economic, and societal consequences of virus spillover from a wildlife reservoir. Widespread human transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) also presents a new set of challenges when considering viral spillover from people to naïve wildlife and other animal populations....
Science to support water-resource management in the upper Roanoke River watershed
James S. Webber, John D. Jastram
2020, Fact Sheet 2020-3040
Flooding, excessive sedimentation, and high bacteria counts are among the most challenging water resource issues affecting the Upper Roanoke River watershed. These issues threaten public safety, impair the watershed’s living resources, and threaten drinking water supplies, though mitigation is costly and difficult to manage.Urban development, land disturbance, and changing climatic...
GeMS (Geologic Map Schema)—A standard format for the digital publication of geologic maps
U.S. Geological Survey National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
2020, Techniques and Methods 11-B10
IntroductionThis report describes and defines GeMS (for Geologic Map Schema), a new standardized database schema—that is, a database design—for the digital publication of geologic maps. It originally was intended for geologic mapping funded by the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program of the U.S. Geological Survey, but its use can be...
River channel response to dam removals on the lower Penobscot River, Maine, United States
Mathias J. Collins, Alice R. Kelley, Pamela J. Lombard
2020, River Research and Applications (36) 1778-1789
Most geomorphology studies of dam removals have focused on sites with appreciable quantities of stored sediments. There is great interest in channel responses to sediment releases because of potential effects on aquatic and riparian habitats and human uses of these areas. Yet, behind many dams in the Northeast U.S. and...
Opportunities and challenges for restoration of the Merced River through Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, USA
Derek Booth, Katie Ross-Smith, Elizabeth Haddon, Thomas Dunne, Eric W. Larsen, James W. Roche, Greg M. Stock, Virginia Mahacek
2020, River Research and Applications (36) 1803-1816
Successful river restoration requires understanding and integration of multiple disciplinary perspectives, including evaluations of past and ongoing watershed processes, local geomorphic response, and impacts unique to human activity. Nowhere is this more apparent than along the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, USA, where both an...
Forecasting for a fractured land: A case study of the communication and use of aftershock forecasts from the Mw 7.8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake in Aotearoa New Zealand
Julia S. Becker, Sally H. Potter, Sara K. McBride, Emma E. Hudson-Doyle, Matthew Gerstenberger, Anne-Marie Christopherson
2020, Seismological Research Letters (91) 3343-3357
Operational earthquake forecasts (OEFs) are represented as time‐dependent probabilities of future earthquake hazard and risk. These probabilities can be presented in a variety of formats, including tables, maps, and text‐based scenarios. In countries such as Aotearoa New Zealand, the U.S., and Japan, OEFs have been released by scientific organizations to...
Mass mortality in freshwater mussels (Actinonaias pectorosa) in the Clinch River, USA, linked to a novel densovirus
Jordon Richard, Eric Leis, Christopher D. Dunn, Rose Agbalog, Diane L. Waller, Susan Knowles, Joel G. Putnam, Tony Goldberg
2020, Scientific Reports (10)
Freshwater mussels (order Unionida) are among the world’s most biodiverse but imperiled taxa. Recent unionid mass mortality events around the world threaten ecosystem services such as water filtration, nutrient cycling, habitat stabilization, and food web enhancement, but causes have remained elusive. To examine potential infectious causes...
Resource use by American black bear in suburbia: A landholder step selection approach
Farshid S. Ahrestani, Mark A. Ternent, Matthew J. Lovallo, W. David Walter
2020, Human-Wildlife Interactions (14) 216-227
Range expansion of American black bear (Ursus americanus; bear) and residential development has resulted in a growing presence of bear in suburbia. Suburban landscapes exhibiting patchworks of variable-sized parcels and habitats and owned by landowners with diverse values, can create large areas of suitable habitats with limited public access. These...
Social Values for Ecosystem Services, version 4.0 (SolVES 4.0)—Documentation and user manual
Benson C. Sherrouse, Darius J. Semmens
2020, Techniques and Methods 7-C25
The geographic information system tool, Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES), was developed to incorporate quantified and spatially explicit measures of social values into ecosystem service assessments. SolVES 4.0 provides an open-source version of SolVES, which was designed to assess, map, and quantify the social values of ecosystem services. Social...
Wave-resolving Shoreline Boundary Conditions for Wave-Averaged Coastal Models
Francesco Memmola, Alessandro Coluccelli, Aniello Russo, John C. Warner, Maurizio Brocchini
2020, Ocean Modeling (153)
Downscaling broadscale ocean model information to resolve the fine-scale swash-zone dynamics has a number of applications, such as improved resolution of coastal flood hazard drivers, modeling of sediment transport and seabed morphological evolution. A new method is presented, which enables wave-averaged models for the nearshore circulation to include short-wave induced...
Disease in Central Valley salmon: Status and lessons from other systems
Brendan M Lehman, Rachel C. Johnson, Mark Adkison, Oliver T Burgess, Richard E Connon, Nann A. Fangue, Scott J Foott, Sascha L Hallett, Beatriz Martinez-Lopez, Kristina M. Miller, Maureen K. Purcell, Nicholas A. Som, Pablo Valdes-Donoso, Alison L Collins
2020, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (18)
Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) are increasingly vulnerable to anthropogenic activities and climate change, especially at their most southern species range in California’s Central Valley. There is considerable interest in understanding stressors that contribute to population decline and in identifying management actions...
Canine distemper virus in the sea otter population (Enhydra lutris) in Washington State, USA
Nancy Thomas, C. LeAnn White, Jeremiah Saliki, Krysten L. Schuler, Deanna Lynch, Ole Nielsen, J.P. Dubey, Susan Knowles
2020, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (56) 873-883
Before 2001, all serosurveys for morbilliviruses in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) in California, Washington, and Alaska, USA, documented a 0% seroprevalence. The first published serologic detections of morbillivirus in sea otters occurred in 2001–02 in live-captured Washington sea otters, with a documented 80% seroprevalence. We conducted a retrospective study of...
Does harvest affect genetic diversity in grey wolves?
David Edward Ausband, Lisette Waits
2020, Molecular Ecology (29) 3187-3195
Harvest can affect vital rates such as reproduction and survival, but also genetic measures of individual and population health. Grey wolves (Canis lupus) live and breed in groups, and effective population size is a small fraction of total abundance. As a result, genetic diversity of wolves may be particularly sensitive...
Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change
Lindsey L. Thurman, Bruce Stein, Erik A. Beever, Wendy Foden, Sonya Geange, Nancy Green, John E. Gross, David J Lawrence, Olivia E. LeDee, Julian D. Olden, Laura Thompson, Bruce Young
2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (18) 520-528
Assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change serves as the basis for climate‐adaptation planning and climate‐smart conservation, and typically involves an evaluation of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity (AC). AC is a species’ ability to cope with or adjust to changing climatic conditions, and is...
The effects of phosphatization on the mineral associations and speciation of Pb in ferromanganese crusts
Kira Mizell, James R. Hein, Andrea Koschinsky, Sarah M. Hayes
2020, Earth and Space Chemistry (9) 1515-1526
The older layers of thick ferromanganese (FeMn) crusts from the central Pacific Ocean have undergone diagenetic phosphatization, during which carbonate fluorapatite (CFA) filled fractures and pore space and replaced carbonates. The effects of phosphatization on individual trace metal concentrations, speciation, and phase...
Groundwater quality in relation to drinking water health standards and hydrogeologic and geochemical characteristics for 47 domestic wells in Potter County, Pennsylvania, 2017
Daniel G. Galeone, Charles A. Cravotta III, Dennis W. Risser
2020, Scientific Investigations Report 2020-5038
As part of a regional effort to characterize groundwater in rural areas of Pennsylvania, water samples from 47 domestic wells in Potter County were collected from May through September 2017. The sampled wells had depths ranging from 33 to 600 feet in sandstone, shale, or siltstone aquifers. Groundwater samples were...
Does signal-free detrending increase chronology coherence in large tree-ring networks?
M.Y. McPartland, Scott St. George, Gregory T. Pederson, K.J. Anchukaitis
2020, Dendrochronologia (63)
Over the past decade, dendrochronologists have increasingly adopted the signal-free detrending (SFD) method to remove age-size trends in tree-ring measurement series, amplify the common stand-wide signal in composite chronologies, and recover medium- to low-frequency patterns that may be inadvertently removed by other...
Appendix C: Interim report on subtask focused on resampling historic Kennedy/ITD plots for RP-284
Allison B. Simler-Williamson, Matthew Germino, Brynne E. Lazarus
2020, Research Report RP284
In October 2019, an Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) Cooperative Transportation Research Program award was made to Boise State University in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey to investigate the use of weed-suppressive bacteria (Pseudomonas fluorescens strain ACK55) with preemergent herbicides (imazapic and indaziflam) to reduce exotic annual grasses (cheatgrass, medusahead)...
Unifying advective and diffusive descriptions of bedform pumping in the benthic biolayer of streams
Stanley Grant, Ahmed Monofy, Fulvio Boano, Jesus Gomez-Velez, Ian Guymer, Judson Harvey, Marco Ghisalberti
2020, Water Resources Research (56)
Many water quality and ecosystem functions performed by streams occur in the benthic biolayer, the biologically active upper (~5 cm) layer of the streambed. Solute transport through the benthic biolayer is facilitated by bedform pumping, a physical process in which dynamic and static pressure variations over the surface of stationary bedforms...
Living with wildfire in the Squilchuck Drainage - Chelan County, Washington: 2020 data report
Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia A. Champ, Jon Riley, Christopher M. Barth, Colleen Donovan, James R. Meldrum, Carolyn Wagner
2020, Data Report RMRS-RN-87
Research on the social dimensions of wildfire provides opportunities to understand how communities and the people who reside in those communities interact with the threat of wildfire. Overall, three findings from this project were particularly noteworthy. First, household survey results indicate that residents in the Squilchuck Drainage, Chelan County, Washington...
