Sources and dynamics of international funding for waterfowl conservation in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America
Brady J. Mattsson, Jim Devries, James A. Dubovsky, Darius J. Semmens, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Jonathan J. Derbridge, Laura Lopez-Hoffman
2020, Wildlife Research (47) 279-295
Context: Funding for habitat-management programs to maintain population viability is critical for conservation of migratory species; however, such financial resources are limited and can vary greatly over time. The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of North America is an excellent system for examining spatiotemporal patterns of funding for waterfowl conservation, because this...
Forecasting the combined effects of anticipated climate change and agricultural conservation practices on fish recruitment dynamics in Lake Erie
David A Dippold, Noel Aloysis, S. Conor Keitzer, Haw Yen, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Prasad Daggupati, Michael E. Fraker, Jay F. Martin, Dale M. Robertson, Scott P. Sowa, Mari-Vaughn V. Johnson, Mike J. White, Stuart A. Ludsin
2020, Freshwater Biology (65) 1487-1508
Many aquatic ecosystems are experiencing multiple anthropogenic stressors that threaten their ability to support ecologically and economically important fish species. Two of the most ubiquitous stressors are climate change and non‐point source nutrient pollution.Agricultural conservation practices (ACPs, i.e. farming practices that reduce runoff, prevent erosion, and curb excessive nutrient...
Sparse subsurface radar reflectors in Hellas Planitia, Mars
Claire W Cook, Ali M Bramson, Shane Byrne, John W Holt, Michael S Christoffersen, Donna Viola, Colin M. Dundas, Timothy A Goudge
2020, Icarus (348)
Geomorphological features potentially related to subsurface ice, such as scalloped depressions, expanded craters, pedestal craters, and banded terrain, are present in and around Hellas Planitia, Mars. We present a radar survey of the region using the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to identify candidate...
Decision implementation and the double-loop process in adaptive management of horseshoe crab harvest in Delaware Bay
Conor P. McGowan, David Smith, James E. Lyons
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
No abstract available....
Effects of climate change on plague exposure pathways and resulting disease dynamics
Tonie E. Rocke, Robin E. Russell, Michael D. Samuel, Rachel C. Abbott, Julia Poje
2020, Final Report 16 RC01-012
Introduction and Objectives: Sylvatic plague, a zoonotic flea-borne disease, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is relevant to the Department of Defense (DOD), because prairie dogs and other susceptible rodents are present on military installations in several western states. Arthropod-borne diseases, like plague, are thought to be particularly sensitive to...
Altitude of the potentiometric surface in the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, spring 2018
Virginia L. McGuire, Ronald C. Seanor, William H. Asquith, Anna M. Nottmeier, David C. Smith, Roland W. Tollett, Wade H. Kress, Kellan R. Strauch
2020, Scientific Investigations Map 3453
A potentiometric-surface map for spring 2018 was created for the Mississippi River Valley alluvial (MRVA) aquifer using available groundwater-altitude data from 1,126 wells completed in the MRVA aquifer and from the altitude of the top of the water surface in area rivers from 66 streamgages. Personnel from Arkansas Natural Resources...
Good practices for species distribution modeling of deep-sea corals and sponges for resource management: Data collection, analysis, validation, and communication
Arliss J Winship, James T. Thorson, M. Elizabeth Clarke, Heather M. Coleman, Bryan M. Costa, Samuel Georgian, David Gillett, Arnaud Gruss, Mark J. Henderson, Thomas F. Hourigan, David D. Huff, Nissa Kreidler, Jodi L. Pirtle, John V. Olson, Matthew Poti, Christopher N. Rooper, Michael F. Sigler, T. Shay Viehman, Curt E. Whitmire
Santiago Herrera, editor(s)
2020, Frontiers in Marine Science (7) 1-7
Resource managers in the United States and worldwide are tasked with identifying and mitigating trade-offs between human activities in the deep sea (e.g., fishing, energy development, and mining) and their impacts on habitat-forming invertebrates, including deep-sea corals and sponges (DSCS). Related management decisions require information about where DSCS occur and...
Introduction to multi-criteria decision analysis
Sarah J. Converse
Michael C. Runge, Sarah J. Converse, John J. Lyons, David R. Smith, editor(s)
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
No abstract available....
Addressing disease risk to develop a health program for bighorn sheep in Montana
Sarah N. Sells, Michael S. Mitchell, Justin A. Gude
Michael C. Runge, Sarah J. Converse, James E. Lyons, David R. Smith, editor(s)
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
No abstract available....
Water-table elevation maps for 2008 and 2016 and water-table elevation changes in the aquifer system underlying eastern Albuquerque, New Mexico
Allison K. Flickinger, Aurelia C. Mitchell
2020, Open-File Report 2020-1036
The addition of surface water from the San Juan-Chama Drinking Water Project to the Albuquerque water supply and the reduction in per capita water use has led to decreased groundwater withdrawals. This decrease in withdrawals has resulted in rising groundwater levels since 2008 in portions of the aquifer underlying Albuquerque....
Using multiple environmental proxies and hydrodynamic modeling to investigate Late Holocene climate and coastal change within a large Gulf of Mexico estuarine system (Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA)
Christopher G. Smith, Miriam C. Jones, Lisa Osterman, Davina Passeri
2020, Marine Geology (427)
A high degree of uncertainty exists for understanding and predicting coastal estuarine response to changing climate, land-use, and sea-level conditions, leaving geologic records as a best-proxy for constraining potential outcomes. With the majority of the world's population focused in coastal regions, understanding how local systems respond to global, regional, and...
An adaptive approach to vegetation management in native prairies of the northern Great Plains
Clinton T. Moore, Jill J. Gannon, Terry L. Shaffer, Cami Dixon
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
No abstract available....
Introduction to structuring decisions
David R. Smith
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
Decision structuring, also known as decision framing, provides the foundation and roadmap for analyzing a decision. For decisions that warrant a systematic approach, structuring begins with identifying the problem for analysis, which sounds simple but can be deceptively difficult because decision problems are often ill-formed at the start....
Geometric and material variability influences stress states relevant to coastal permafrost bluff failure
Matthew A. Thomas, Alejandro Mota, Benjamin M. Jones, R. Charles Choens, Jennifer M. Frederick, Diana L. Bull
2020, Frontiers in Earth Science (143) 1-13
Scientific knowledge and engineering tools for predicting coastal erosion are largely confined to temperate climate zones that are dominated by non-cohesive sediments. The pattern of erosion exhibited by the ice-bonded permafrost bluffs in Arctic Alaska, however, is not well explained by these tools. Investigation of the oceanographic, thermal, and mechanical...
Introduction to prediction and the value of information
David R. Smith
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
Predicting the consequences of alternative actions in terms of the objectives is central to decision making. Modeling in the broadest sense, from simple to complex and based on data or expert judgment, comprises the essential toolkit for making decision-relevant predictions. Gaps in knowledge and the resulting uncertainty can...
Introduction to risk analysis
Michael C. Runge, Sarah J. Converse
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
Many decisions are made in the face of uncertainty that either cannot or will not be reduced, and the challenge to the decision maker is how to manage the risk imposed by that uncertainty. This chapter will introduce the field of risk analysis, focusing on both the scientific tasks (estimating...
Allocating funds under the National Fish Habitat Action Plan
Michael C. Runge
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
Each year, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), with advice from a Fisheries Management Team, allocates funding to support the National Fish Habitat Action Plan. The Service distributes the funds to Fish Habitat Partnerships (FHPs), who, in turn, undertake projects that “protect, restore, or enhance fish...
Introduction to linked and dynamic decisions
Michael C. Runge
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
Often, a decision maker is faced with a series of linked decisions, rather than an isolated one-off decision. In natural resource management, it is common to make a similar type of decision on a regular basis (e.g., annually). Such linked decisions have two important properties: they are dynamic, that is,...
Introduction to resource allocation
James E. Lyons
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
With ongoing habitat loss and degradation, ever-increasing threats to biodiversity, and limited funding for conservation and management, nearly every natural resource manager routinely faces difficult resource allocation problems. Funding and capacity for natural resource management rarely meet the need, and informed resource allocations are increasingly important. These decision problems include...
Aseismic transient slip on the Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise
Yajing Liu, Jeffrey J. McGuire, Mark Behn
2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (117) 10188-10194
Oceanic transform faults display a unique combination of seismic and aseismic slip behavior, including a large globally averaged seismic deficit, and the local occurrence of repeating magnitude (M) ∼6">∼6∼6 earthquakes with abundant foreshocks and seismic...
Strategic conservation of an imperiled freshwater mussel, the Dwarf Wedgemussel, in North Carolina
David R. Smith, Sarah E McCrae
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
To be effective, managers of imperiled species must face the unavoidable tradeoff between conservation benefits and constrained budgets and must not be paralyzed by scientific uncertainty. Decision analysis can help meet these challenges when used to develop cost-effective strategies to recover or improve the status of species. The U.S. Fish...
Black abalone surveys at Naval Base Ventura County, San Nicolas Island, California: 2019, annual report
Michael C. Kenner
2020, Open-File Report 2020-1047
The U.S. Geological Survey Western Ecological Research Center’s Santa Cruz Field Station, Santa Cruz, California, has been funded by the U.S. Navy to continue monitoring a suite of intertidal black abalone sites at San Nicolas Island, California. The nine rocky intertidal sites were established in 1980 by Glenn VanBlaricom (then...
Inventory and analysis of groundwater resources: Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
William G. Eldridge, Colton J. Medler
2020, Report
Industrial and commercial developments in western North Dakota potentially could affect the sources of water that contribute to wells, spring flow, and seeps within Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Without basic water resources data, accurately predicting the effects of water withdrawals and water quality concerns related to industrial and commercial developments...
Keeping Hawai‘i's forest birds one step ahead of disease in a warming world
Eben H. Paxton, Jim Kraus
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making- Case studies in natural resource management
Hawai‘i’s high-elevation forests provide a critical refuge from disease for native forest birds. However, global warming is facilitating the encroachment of mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit into increasingly higher elevations of remaining refugia, threatening the viability of the forest birds across the islands. Multiple management actions to address the...
Resource allocation for coastal wetland management: Confronting uncertainty about sea level rise
James E. Lyons, Kevin S. Kalasz, Gregory Breese, Clint W. Boal
2020, Book chapter, Structured decision making: Case studies in natural resource management
Coastal wetlands are rich and diverse ecosystems with a wide variety of birdlife and other natural resources. Decision making for coastal wetland management is difficult given the complex nature of these ecological systems and the frequent need to meet multiple objectives for varied resources. Management challenges in the...
