Radioisotopic data of sediment collected in Mobile and Bon Secour Bays, Alabama
Marci E. Marot, Christopher G. Smith
2012, Open-File Report 2012-1172
The focus of this study was to determine the extent of natural and (or) anthropogenic impacts on the sedimentary records of Mobile and Bon Secour Bays, Alabama during the last 150 years. These bays are unique in that anthropogenic activities are generally widespread and span both the eastern and western...
Demographics and run timing of adult Lost River (Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose (Chasmistes brevirostris) suckers in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon, 2011
David A. Hewitt, Eric C. Janney, Brian S. Hayes, Alta C. Harris
2012, Open-File Report 2012-1193
Executive Summary Data from a long-term capture-recapture program were used to assess the status and dynamics of populations of two long-lived, federally endangered catostomids in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. Lost River suckers (Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose suckers (Chasmistes brevirostris) have been captured and tagged with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags during...
Ontogenetic and among-individual variation in foraging strategies of northeast Pacific white sharks based on stable isotope analysis
S.L. Kim, M. Tim Tinker, J. A. Estes, P.L. Koch
2012, PLoS ONE (7) 1-11
There is growing evidence for individuality in dietary preferences and foraging behaviors within populations of various species. This is especially important for apex predators, since they can potentially have wide dietary niches and a large impact on trophic dynamics within ecosystems. We evaluate the diet of an apex predator, the...
Bias from false-positive detections and strategies for their removal in studies using telemetry
John W. Beeman, Russell W. Perry
Noah S. Adams, John W. Beeman, John H. Eiler, editor(s)
2012, Book chapter, Telemetry techniques: A user guide for fisheries research
The use of radio and acoustic telemetry to study aquatic animals has flourished since the 1950s and 1960s (see Section 1). Electronic data-logging receivers are commonly used in both types of active telemetry to record the presence of transmitters in the detection field formed by one or more antennas or...
Developing a quality assurance plan for telemetry studies: A necessary management tool for an effective study
Jill M. Hardiman, Christopher E. Walker, Timothy D. Counihan
Noah S. Adams, John W. Beeman, John H. Eiler, editor(s)
2012, Book chapter, Telemetry techniques: A user guide for fisheries research
Telemetry has been used to answer various questions associated with research, management, and monitoring programs and to monitor animal behavior and population dynamics throughout the world. Many telemetry projects have been developed to study the passage, behavior, and survival of migrating adult and juvenile salmonids at hydroelectric projects on the...
Using mark-recapture models to estimate survival from telemetry data: Chapter 9.2
Russell W. Perry, Theodore R. Castro-Santos, Christopher M. Holbrook, Benjamin P. Sandford
Noah Adams, John W. Beeman, John H. Eiler, editor(s)
2012, Book chapter, Telemetry techniques: A user guide for fisheries research
Analyzing telemetry data within a mark–recapture framework is a powerful approach for estimating demographic parameters (e.g., survival and movement probabilities) that might otherwise be difficult to measure. Yet many studies using telemetry techniques focus on fish behavior and fail to recognize the potential of telemetry data to provide information about...
Time-to-event analysis as a framework for quantifying fish passage performance
Theodore R. Castro-Santos, Russell W. Perry
Noah S. Adams, John W. Beeman, John H. Eiler, editor(s)
2012, Book chapter, Telemetry techniques: A user guide for fisheries research
Fish passage is the result of a sequence of processes, whereby fish must approach, enter, and pass a structure. Each of these processes takes time, and fishway performance is best quantified in terms of the rates at which each process is completed. Optimal performance is achieved by maximizing the rates...
User’s guide and metada for the PICES Nonindigenous Species Information System
Lee Henry II, Deborah A. Reusser, Katharine Marko Katharine, Marla Ranelletti Marla
2012, Report
Introduction Welcome to the PICES Nonindigenous Species Information System, a Microsoft Access database that displays the biogeographic distributions, invasion status, vectors, and key life history attributes of the approximately 740 reported nonindigenous species (NIS) in the estuarine and near-coastal habitats of the North Pacific and Hawaii. This database was developed by...
Use of acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival and behavior of juvenile salmonids at hydroelectric dams: A case study from Rocky Reach Dam, Columbia River, USA: Chapter 8.1
Tracy W. Steigl, Christopher M. Holbrook
Noah S. Adams, John W. Beeman, John H. Eiler, editor(s)
2012, Book chapter, Telemetry techniques: A user guide for fisheries research
Telemetry provides a powerful and flexible tool for studying fish and other aquatic animals, and its use has become increasingly commonplace. However, telemetry is gear intensive and typically requires more specialized knowledge and training than many other field techniques. As with other scientific methods, collecting good data is dependent on...
Atlas of nonindigenous marine and estuarine species in the North Pacific
Lee Henry II, Deborah A. Reusser
2012, Report
Executive Summary Marine and estuarine nonindigenous species (NIS) are found across the world’s oceans, and designing effective management strategies to mitigate this economic, ecological and human health threat requires a basic understanding of the existing invasion patterns at regional to global scales. However, to date, syntheses at ocean basin scales have...
A history of telemetry in fishery research
Eric Hockersmith, John W. Beeman
Noah S. Adams, John W. Beeman, John H. Eiler, editor(s)
2012, Book chapter, Telemetry techniques: A user guide for fisheries research
Biotelemetry has been defined as “the instrumental technique for gaining and transmitting information from a living organism and its environment to a remote observer” (Slater 1965). Biotelemetry typically utilizes wireless transmission of either an audible signal or electronic data to determine location of a tagged animal. Fisheries researchers use location...
Introduction
Noah S. Adams, John W. Beeman, John H. Eiler, editor(s)
2012, Book chapter, Telemetry techniques: A user guide for fisheries research
elemetry provides a powerful and flexible tool for studying aquatic animals, making it possible to repeatedly locate and identify individuals in remote or inaccessible settings—a task that would be difficult (if not impossible) to accomplish using other methods. The use of telemetry has increased dramatically in recent years,...
Large-area landslide detection and monitoring with ALOS/PALSAR imagery data over Northern California and Southern Oregon, USA
Chaoying Zhao, Zhong Lu, Qin Zhang, Juan de la Fuente
2012, Remote Sensing of Environment (124) 348-359
Multi-temporal ALOS/PALSAR images are used to automatically investigate landslide activity over an area of ~ 200 km by ~ 350 km in northern California and southern Oregon. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) deformation images, InSAR coherence maps, SAR backscattering intensity images, and a DEM gradient map are combined to detect active landslides by setting...
Estimating rate uncertainty with maximum likelihood: differences between power-law and flicker–random-walk models
John O. Langbein
2012, Journal of Geodesy (86) 775-783
Recent studies have documented that global positioning system (GPS) time series of position estimates have temporal correlations which have been modeled as a combination of power-law and white noise processes. When estimating quantities such as a constant rate from GPS time series data, the estimated uncertainties on these quantities are...
Assessing the impacts of river regulation on native bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) habitats in the upper Flathead River, Montana, USA
Clint C. Muhlfeld, Leslie A. Jones, D. Kotter, William J. Miller, Doran Geise, Joel Tohtz, Brian Marotz
2012, River Research and Applications (28) 940-959
Hungry Horse Dam on the South Fork Flathead River, Montana, USA, has modified the natural flow regimen for power generation, flood risk management and flow augmentation for anadromous fish recovery in the Columbia River. Concern over the detrimental effects of dam operations on native resident fishes prompted research to quantify...
Preface
John W. Beeman
Noah S. Adams, John W. Beeman, John H. Eiler, editor(s)
2012, Book chapter, Telemetry techniques: A user guide for fisheries research
Telemetry provides a powerful and flexible tool for studying fish and other aquatic animals, and its use has become increasingly commonplace. However, telemetry is gear intensive and typically requires more specialized knowledge and training than many other field techniques. As with other scientific methods, collecting good data is dependent on...
Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter-outer mainland shelf, eastern Santa Barbara Channel, California
Peter Dartnell, David P. Finlayson, Andrew C. Ritchie, Guy R. Cochrane, Mercedes D. Erdey
2012, Data Series 702
In 2010 and 2011, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC), acquired bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter data from the outer shelf region of the eastern Santa Barbara Channel, California. These surveys were conducted in cooperation with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). BOEM...
Surface-water salinity in the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado, water years 1989 through 2007
Keelin R. Schaffrath
2012, Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5128
Elevated levels of dissolved solids in water (salinity) can result in numerous and costly issues for agricultural, industrial, and municipal water users. The Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-320) authorized planning and construction of salinity-control projects in the Colorado River Basin. One of the first...
Combining satellite-based fire observations and ground-based lightning detections to identify lightning fires across the conterminous USA
A. Bar-Massada, T. J. Hawbaker, S. I. Stewart, V. C. Radeloff
2012, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (5) 1438-1447
Lightning fires are a common natural disturbance in North America, and account for the largest proportion of the area burned by wildfires each year. Yet, the spatiotemporal patterns of lightning fires in the conterminous US are not well understood due to limitations of existing fire databases. Our goal here was...
Organic carbon burial rates in mangrove sediments: strengthening the global budget
J. Breithaupt, Joseph M. Smoak, Thomas J. Smith III, Christian J. Sanders, Armando Hoare
2012, Global Biogeochemical Cycles (26)
Mangrove wetlands exist in the transition zone between terrestrial and marine environments and as such were historically overlooked in discussions of terrestrial and marine carbon cycling. In recent decades, mangroves have increasingly been credited with producing and burying large quantities of organic carbon (OC). The amount of available data regarding...
Origin and characteristics of discharge at San Marcos Springs based on hydrologic and geochemical data (2008-10), Bexar, Comal, and Hays Counties, Texas
MaryLynn Musgrove, Cassi L. Crow
2012, Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5126
The Edwards aquifer in south-central Texas is a productive and important water resource. Several large springs issuing from the aquifer are major discharge points, popular locations for recreational activities, and habitat for threatened and endangered species. Discharges from Comal and San Marcos Springs, the first and second largest spring complexes...
Flood-inundation maps for the Saddle River from Rochelle Park to Lodi, New Jersey, 2012
Heidi L. Hoppe, Kara M. Watson
2012, Scientific Investigations Map 3221
Digital flood-inundation maps for a 2.75-mile reach of the Saddle River from 0.2 mile upstream from the Interstate 80 bridge in Rochelle Park to 1.5 miles downstream from the U.S. Route 46 bridge in Lodi, New Jersey, were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the New...
Water-quality characteristics and trends for selected sites at and near the Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, 1949-2009
Roy C. Bartholomay, Linda C. Davis, Jason C. Fisher, Betty J. Tucker, Flint A. Raben
2012, Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5169
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed water-quality data collected from 67 aquifer wells and 7 surface-water sites at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) from 1949 through 2009. The data analyzed included major cations, anions, nutrients, trace elements, and total organic carbon. The analyses...
Estimated probability of postwildfire debris flows in the 2012 Whitewater-Baldy Fire burn area, southwestern New Mexico
Anne C. Tillery, Anne Marie Matherne, Kristine L. Verdin
2012, Open-File Report 2012-1188
In May and June 2012, the Whitewater-Baldy Fire burned approximately 1,200 square kilometers (300,000 acres) of the Gila National Forest, in southwestern New Mexico. The burned landscape is now at risk of damage from postwildfire erosion, such as that caused by debris flows and flash floods. This report presents a...
Survival, growth and reproduction of non-native Nile tilapia II: Fundamental niche projections and invasion potential in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Michael R. Lowe, Wei Wu, Mark S. Peterson, Nancy J. Brown-Peterson, William T. Slack, Pamela J. Schofield
2012, PLoS ONE (7)
Understanding the fundamental niche of invasive species facilitates our ability to predict both dispersal patterns and invasion success and therefore provides the basis for better-informed conservation and management policies. Here we focus on Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linnaeus, 1758), one of the most widely cultured fish worldwide and a species...
