Re-evaluating Marine Isotope Stage 5a paleo-sea-level trends from across the Florida Keys reef tract
Scarlette Hsia, Lauren T. Toth, Richard A. Mortlock, Charles Kerans
2024, Quaternary Science Advances (15)
Unraveling how Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) fluctuated during past warm periods can improve our understanding of linkages between sea-level fluctuations, orbital forcing, and ice-sheet dynamics. Current estimates of GMSL for Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 5a and 5c — two warm intervals following the relatively well-documented MIS 5e — contain...
Modeling rare plant habitat together with public land managers using an iterative, coproduced process to inform decision-making on multiple-use public lands
Catherine S. Jarnevich, Sarah K. Carter, Zoe M. Davidson, Nicole D. MacPhee, Patrick J. Alexander, Brandon Hayes, Pairsa N. Belmaric, Benjamin R Harms
2024, Conservation Science and Practice (6)
Public lands across the United States are managed for multiple uses, resources, and values ranging from energy development to rare plant conservation. Intensified energy development and other land use changes across the Southwestern United States have increased the need for proactive management to mitigate impacts to rare plants. Habitat suitability...
Resilient riverine social–ecological systems: A new paradigm to meet global conservation targets
Denielle M. Perry, Sarah J. Praskievicz, Ryan McManamay, Alark Saxena, K. C. Grimm, Nicholas Zegre, Lucas Bair, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Richard Rushforth
2024, WIREs Water (11)
The United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity set forth the 30 × 30 target, an agenda for countries to protect at least 30% of their terrestrial, inland water, and coastal and marine areas by 2030. With <6 years to reach that goal, riverine conservation professionals are faced with the difficult decision of prioritizing...
3-D geological modeling for numerical flow simulation studies of gas hydrate reservoirs at the Kuparuk State 7-11-12 Pad in the Prudhoe Bay Unit on the Alaska North Slope
Machiko Tamaki, Misuzu Taninaka, Satoshi Ohtsuki, Aung Than Tin, Naoyuki Shimoda, Timothy Collett, Ray Boswell
2024, Energy and Fuels (28) 15248-15269
Accurate reservoir evaluation requires reliable three-dimensional (3-D) geological models. This study conducted 3-D geological modeling for numerical flow simulation of the B1 sand gas hydrate reservoir at the Kuparuk State 7-11-12 pad, Prudhoe Bay Unit, Alaska North Slope. The model integrates well logs, core, and seismic...
Incorporating projected climate conditions to map future riparian refugia
Kimberly E Szcodronski, Alisa A. Wade, Sarah Elizabeth Burton, Blake R. Hossack
2024, Conservation Science and Practice (6)
Identifying areas expected to remain buffered from climate change and maintain biodiversity and ecological function (i.e., climate refugia) is important for climate adaptation planning. As structurally diverse transitional zones between terrestrial and aquatic environments, riparian areas are often biological hotspots and provide critical corridors for...
A Bayesian age from dispersed plagioclase and zircon dates in the Los Chocoyos ash, Central America
Alec Baudry, Bradley S. Singer, Brian Jicha, Christine E. Jilly-Rehak, Jorge A. Vazquez, C. Brenhin Keller
2024, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (643)
The eruption that produced the modern Atitlán caldera in Guatemala has a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) greater than 8, making it the largest of the Quaternary in the Central American Volcanic Arc (CAVA). It generated ∼1220 km3 (730 km3 dense rock equivalent)...
Near-real-time earthquake-induced fatality estimation using crowdsourced data and few-shot large-language models
Chenguang Wang, Davis T. Engler, Xuechun Li, James Hou, David J. Wald, Kishor S. Jaiswal, Susu Xu
2024, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (111)
When a damaging earthquake occurs, immediate information about casualties (e.g., fatalities and injuries) is critical for time-sensitive decision-making by emergency response and aid agencies in the first hours and days. Systems such as the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)...
Evaluation of classified ground points from National Agriculture Imagery program photogrammetrically derived point clouds
Jung-Kuan Liu, Samantha T. Arundel, Ethan J. Shavers
2024, Remote Sensing Letters (15)
Studies have shown that digital surface models and point clouds generated by the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) can measure basic forest parameters such as canopy height. However, all measured forest parameters from these studies are evaluated using the differences between NAIP digital...
High resolution identification and quantification of diffuse deep groundwater discharge in mountain rivers using continuous boat-mounted helium measurements
Connor P. Newman, Eric Humphrey, Matthias Brennwald, W. Payton Gardner, Kelli M. Palko, Michael Gooseff, Kip Solomon
2024, Journal of Hydrology (640)
Discharge of deeply sourced groundwater to streams is difficult to locate and quantify, particularly where both discrete and diffuse discharge points exist, but diffuse discharge is one of the primary controls on solute budgets in mountainous watersheds. The noble gas helium is a unique identifier...
Use of otolith microchemistry to determine natal origin for Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix in the lower Mississippi River basin
CE Barshinger, MA Eggleton, Jonathan J. Spurgeon
2024, Biological Invasions (26) 3091-3106
Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) populations have established and expanded throughout the lower Mississippi River basin (LMRB). Information pertaining to Silver Carp population mixing among rivers within the LMRB is lacking. Documented relations between Silver Carp otolith and river water barium (Ba) and strontium (Sr) microchemical signatures...
Assisted migration of coho salmon: Influences of passage and habitat availability on population dynamics
Joseph R. Benjamin, Jason Dunham, Nicholas Scheidt, Carla Rothenbuecher, Cory Sipher
2024, River Research and Applications (40) 2009-2021
Assisted migration is a means of introducing a species into a previously unoccupied area. Although this idea is relatively new for many species, there are many extant examples involving fish that can be instructive. We studied a case of assisted migration where upstream access of migrating adult coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch over...
Little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) are resistant to SARS-CoV-2 infection
Jeffrey S. Hall, Sean Nashold, Erik K. Hofmeister, Ariel Elizabeth Leon, Elizabeth Falendysz, Hon S. Ip, Carly M. Malave, Tonie E. Rocke, Mariano Carossino, Udeni B.R. Balasuriya, Susan Knowles
2024, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (60) 924-930
It has been proposed that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus that spread through human populations as a pandemic originated in Asian bats. There is concern that infected humans could transmit the virus to native North American bats; therefore, the susceptibility of several North American bat species...
Modeling the effects of spatial distribution on dynamics of an invading Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) Blake population
Yuanming Lu, Junfei Xia, Robert D. Holt, Don DeAngelis
2024, Forests (15)
To predict the potential success of an invading non-native species, it is important to understand its dynamics and interactions with native species in the early stages of its invasion. In spatially implicit models, mathematical stability criteria are commonly used to predict whether an invading population grows in number in an...
Reversal in estuarine sand supply driven by Holocene sea level rise: A model for sand transport in large structural estuaries, San Francisco Bay, California, USA
M.A. Malkowski, Z.T. Sickmann, Theresa A. Fregoso, Lester McKee, D. Stockli, Bruce E. Jaffe
2024, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (643)
Reversal in estuarine sand supply driven by Holocene sea level rise: A model for sand transport in large structural estuaries, San Francisco Bay, California, USA...
Aftershock forecasting
Jeanne L. Hardebeck, Andrea L. Llenos, Andrew J. Michael, Morgan T. Page, Max Schneider, Nicholas van der Elst
2024, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (52) 61-84
Aftershocks can compound the impacts of a major earthquake, disrupting recovery efforts and potentially further damaging weakened buildings and infrastructure. Forecasts of the probability of aftershocks can therefore aid decision-making during earthquake response and recovery. Several countries issue authoritative aftershock forecasts. Most aftershock forecasts are based on...
Shallow storage of the explosive Earthquake Flat Pyroclastics magma body, Okataina Volcanic Center, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: Evidence from phase-equilibria experiments
Elizabeth R. G. Grant, Dawnika L. Blatter, Thomas W. Sisson, Kari M Cooper
2024, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (179)
Rhyolitic tuffs range widely in their crystal contents from nearly aphyric to crystal-rich, and their crystal cargoes inform concepts of upper crustal magma reservoirs. The Earthquake Flat pyroclastics (Okataina Volcanic Center, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand) are 10 km3 of rhyolitic tuffs with abundant (~ 40 vol.%) plagioclase and quartz, minor biotite,...
Collision structures of the Prince William terrane and Chugach terrane docking along the Shumagin and Unimak convergent margins, Alaska, USA
Roland E. von Huene, John J. Miller
2024, Geosphere (20) 1276-1285
Western Alaska’s convergent margins are composed of tectonostratigraphic terranes. On land, terrane assembly is recognized along boundaries or sutures between neighboring geologic elements with distinctly different origins. In marine areas where rock outcrops are covered by sediment, recognizing terrane sutures is problematic. A fault in seismic dip line 5 of...
Assessing the population consequences of disturbance and climate change for the Pacific walrus
Devin L. Johnson, Joseph Michael Eisaguirre, Rebecca L. Taylor, Joel L. Garlich-Miller
2024, Marine Ecology Progress Series (740) 193-211
Climate change and anthropogenic disturbance are increasingly affecting wildlife at a global scale. Predicting how varying types and degrees of disturbance may interact to influence population dynamics is a key management challenge. Population consequences of disturbance (PCoD) models provide a framework to link effects of anthropogenic disturbance on an...
The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting Michigan’s economy
Cynthia M. Rachol
2024, Fact Sheet 2024-3031
High-quality elevation data are proving to be a resource of value in addressing many important economic issues in Michigan. The expanding statewide availability of current and accurate high-resolution elevation data can help support agriculture and precision farming, natural resource conservation, flood risk management, and geologic resource assessment and hazard mitigation....
Potential for spatial coexistence of a transboundary migratory species and wind energy development
Ta-Ken Huang, Xiao Feng, Jonathan J. Derbridge, Kaitlin Libby, James E. Diffendorfer, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Gary McCracken, Rodrigo Medellin, Laura Lopez-Hoffman
2024, Scientific Reports (14)
Global expansion in wind energy development is a notable achievement of the international community’s effort to reduce carbon emissions during energy production. However, the increasing number of wind turbines have unintended consequences for migratory birds and bats. Wind turbine curtailment and other mitigation strategies can reduce fatalities, but improved spatial...
Photogrammetry of the deep seafloor from archived unmanned submersible exploration dives
Claudia Flores, Uri S. ten Brink
2024, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (12)
Large amounts of video images have been collected for decades by scientific and governmental organizations in deep (>1000 m) water using manned and unmanned submersibles and towed cameras. The collected images were analyzed individually or were mosaiced in small areas with great effort. Here, we provide a workflow for utilizing...
Assessing the attractiveness of native wildflower species to bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) in the southeastern United States
Anthony P. Abbate, Joshua W. Campbell, Steven Mark Grodsky, Geoffrey R. Williams
2024, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (5)
Habitat loss, agricultural intensification, pesticide use, disease and climate change have contributed to the decline of numerous insect groups. Recent government initiatives have recognized the importance of supplementary wildflower plantings to support native bee populations, yet little information exists on the attractiveness of recommended plant species to bees.With the...
Projecting the long-term effects of large-scale human influence on the spatial and functional persistence of extant longleaf pine ecosystems in the Florida Flatwoods Pyrome
Lilian Hutchens, John A. Kupfer, Peng Gao, Georgina M. Sanchez, Ross K. Meentemeyer, Adam Terando, J. Kevin Hiers
2024, Conservation Science and Practice (6)
Decades of human activities and fire suppression have adversely affected longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystems, which are home to high levels of diversity and endemism. These iconic ecosystems also now face challenges from urbanization and climate change, which will alter conservation outcomes over the remainder of the 21st century. To...
A semi-mechanistic model for partitioning evapotranspiration reveals transpiration dominates the water flux in drylands
E.G. Reich, K. Samuels-Crow, John B. Bradford, M. Litvak, Daniel Rodolphe Schlaepfer, K. Ogle
2024, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (129)
Popular evapotranspiration (ET) partitioning methods make assumptions that might not be well-suited to dryland ecosystems, such as high sensitivity of plant water-use efficiency (WUE) to vapor pressure deficit (VPD). Our objectives were to (a) create an ET partitioning model that can produce fine-scale estimates of transpiration (T) in drylands, and...
Evaluating distributed snow model resolution and meteorology parameterizations against streamflow observations: Finer Is not always better
Theodore B. Barnhart, Annie L. Putman, Aaron Joseph Heldmyer, David M. Rey, John C. Hammond, Jessica M. Driscoll, Graham A. Sexstone
2024, Water Resources Research (60)
Estimating snow conditions is often done using numerical snowpack evolution models at spatial resolutions of 500 m and greater; however, snow depth in complex terrain often varies on sub-meter scales. This study investigated how the spatial distribution of simulated snow conditions varied across seven model spatial resolutions from 30 to 1,000 m...
