Distribution of ancient carbon in groundwater and soil gas from degradation of petroleum near the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i
Jared J. Trost, Barbara A. Bekins, Jeanne B. Jaeschke, Geoffrey N. Delin, Daniel A Sinclair, James K Stack, Rylen K. Nakama, Uli’i M. Miyajima, Lhiberty D. Pagaduan, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5034
The groundwater below the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (the facility) in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, contains fuel compounds from past spills. This study used carbon-14 analyses to distinguish fuel-derived carbon from background carbon, along with other biodegradation indicators, to address two goals: (1) determine the extent and migration direction of...
The where and why of large wood occurrence in the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers
Molly Van Appledorn, Kathi Jo Jankowski, Kaija Gahm, Serenity Budd, Douglas Baumann, Barbara Bennie, Richard A. Erickson, Roger J. Haro, Jason J. Rohweder
2024, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (49) 3383-3398
Large wood (LW) plays important geomorphic and ecological roles in rivers and is widely used as a restoration tool. Changes to floodplain land use and historical removal have altered wood dynamics in fluvial systems globally. We know little about the distribution and dynamics of LW in great rivers (approximately >105 km2)...
Temporal habitat use of mule deer in the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico
Daniel E. Bird, Laura D’Acunto, Daniel Ginter, Glenn Harper, Patrick A. Zollner
2024, Journal of Wildlife Management (88)
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) are important economically, culturally, and recreationally to the Pueblo of Santa Ana in central New Mexico, USA. Studies of habitat selection improve our understanding of mule deer ecology in central New Mexico and provide the Tribe with valuable information for management...
Lifetime reproductive characteristics of gray wolves
David Edward Ausband
2024, Journal of Mammalogy
Female and male cooperative breeders can use different strategies to maximize reproduction and fitness over their lifetimes. Answering questions about fitness in cooperative breeders requires long-term studies as well as complete data on group composition and size which can be exceedingly difficult to obtain. Using a long-term genetic data...
Streamflow, water quality, and constituent loads and yields, Scituate Reservoir drainage area, Rhode Island, water year 2020
Kirk Smith
2024, Data Report 1192
As part of a long-term cooperative program to monitor water quality within the Scituate Reservoir drainage area, the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Providence Water (sometimes known as Providence Water Supply Board) collected streamflow and water-quality data in tributaries to the Scituate Reservoir, Rhode Island. Streamflow and concentrations of...
Human activity drives establishment, but not invasion, of non-native plants on islands
William G. Pfadenhauer, Graziella Vittoria DiRenzo, Bethany A. Bradley
2024, Ecography
Island ecosystems are particularly susceptible to the impacts of invasive species. Many rare and endangered species that are endemic to islands are negatively affected by invasions. Past studies have shown that the establishment of non-native species on islands is related to native plant richness, habitat heterogeneity, island age, human activity,...
Climate change scenarios for air and water temperatures in the upper San Francisco Estuary: Implications for thermal regimes and Delta Smelt
Brock Huntsman, Larry R. Brown, Marissa L. Wulff, Noah Knowles, R. Wayne Wagner, Frederick V. Feyrer
2024, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (22)
Climate projections and their effects in the San Francisco Estuary have been evaluated as part of the US Geological Survey’s CASCaDE2 project. Understanding the ecological effects of climate change can help manage and maintain the ecological health and productivity of the San...
A circumpolar study unveils a positive non-linear effect of temperature on arctic arthropod availability that may reduce the risk of warming-induced trophic mismatch for breeding shorebirds
Aurelie Chagnon-Lafortune, Eliane Duchesne, Pierre Legagneux, Laura McKinnon, Jeroen Reneerkens, Nicolas Casajus, Kenneth F. Abraham, Elise Bolduc, Glen S. Brown, Stephen C. Brown, H. River Gates, Olivier Gilg, Marie-Andrée Giroux, Kirsty Gurney, Steve Kendall, Eunbi Kwon, Richard B. Lanctot, David B. Lank, Nicolas Lecomte, Maria Leung, Joe Liebezeit, R.I.G. Morrison, Erica Nol, David C. Payer, Donald Reid, Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Sarah T. Saalfeld, Brett K. Sandercock, Paul Smith, Niels Martin Schmidt, Ingrid Tulp, David H. Ward, Toke Thomas Hoye, Dominique Berteaux, Joel Bety
2024, Global Change Biology (30)
Seasonally abundant arthropods are a crucial food source for many migratory birds that breed in the Arctic. In cold environments, the growth and emergence of arthropods are particularly tied to temperature. Thus, the phenology of arthropods is anticipated to undergo a rapid change in response to a warming climate, potentially...
Complex patterns of genetic population structure in the mouthbrooding marine catfish, Bagre marinus, in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Atlantic
David S. Portnoy, Shannon J. O’Leary, Andrew T. Fields, Christopher M. Hollenbeck, Dean Grubbs, Cheston T. Peterson, Jayne M. Gardiner, Douglas H. Adams, Brett J. Falterman, Marcus Drymon, Jeremy M. Higgs, Erin L. Pulster, Tonya R. Wiley, Steven A. Murawski
2024, Ecology and Evolution (14)
Patterns of genetic variation reflect interactions among microevolutionary forces that vary in strength with changing demography. Here, patterns of variation within and among samples of the mouthbrooding gafftopsail catfish (Bagre marinus, Family Ariidae) captured in the U.S. Atlantic and throughout the Gulf of Mexico were analyzed using genomics to generate...
Comparing subduction ground-motion models to observations for Cascadia
James Andrew Smith, Morgan P. Moschetti, Eric M. Thompson
2024, Earthquake Spectra (40) 1787-1817
We evaluate Cascadia subduction ground-motion models (GMMs), considered for the 2023 US National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) update, by comparing observations to model predictions. The observations comprise regional recordings from intraslab earthquakes, including contributions from 2021 and 2022 events in southern Cascadia and global records from interface earthquakes. Since the...
Systematic assessment of long-read RNA-seq methods for transcript identification and quantification
Francisco J. Pardo-Palacios, Dingjie Wang, Fairlie Reese, Mark Diekhans, Silvia Carbonell-Sala, Brian Williams, Jane E. Loveland, Maite De María, Matthew S. Adams, Gabriela Balderrama-Gutierrez, Amit K. Behera, Jose M. Gonzalez Martinez, Toby Hunt, Julien Lagarde, Cindy E. Liang, Haoran Li, Marcus Jerryd Meade, David A. Moraga Amador, Andrey D. Prjibelski, Inanc Birol, Hamed Bostan, Ashley M. Brooks, Muhammed Hasan Celik, Ying Chen, Mei R.M. Du, Colette Felton, Jonathan Goke, Saber Hafezqorani, Ralf Herwig, Hideya Kawaji, Joseph Lee, Jian-Liang Li, Matthias Lienhard, Alla Mikheenko, Dennis Mulligan, Ka Ming Nip, Mihaela Pertea, Matthew E. Ritchie, Andre D. Sim, Alison D. Tang, Yuk Kei Wan, Changqing Wang, Brandon Y. Wong, Chen Yang, If Barnes, Andrew E. Berry, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Alyssa Cousineau, Namrita Dhillon, Jose M. Fernandez-Gonzalez, Luis Ferrandez-Peral, Natàlia Garcia-Reyero, Stefan Gotz, Carles Hernandez-Ferrer, Liudmyla Kondratova, Tianyuan Liu, Alessandra Martinez-Martin, Carlos Menor, Jorge Mestre-Tomas, Jonathan M. Mudge, Nedka G. Panayotova, Alejandro Paniagua, Dmitry Repchevsky, Xingjie Ren, Eric Rouchka, Brandon Saint-John, Enrique Sapena, Leon Sheynkman, Melissa Laird Smith, Marie-Marthe Suner, Hazuki Takahashi, Ingrid A. Youngworth, Piero Carninci, Nancy D. Denslow, Roderic Guigo, Margaret Hunter, Rene Maehr, Yin Shen, Hagen U. Tilgner, Barbara J. Wold, Christopher Vollmers, Adam Frankish, Kin Fai Au, Gloria M. Sheynkman, Ali Mortazavi, Ana Conesa, Angela N. Brooks
2024, Nature Methods (21) 1349-1363
The Long-read RNA-Seq Genome Annotation Assessment Project Consortium was formed to evaluate the effectiveness of long-read approaches for transcriptome analysis. Using different protocols and sequencing platforms, the consortium generated over 427 million long-read sequences from complementary DNA and direct RNA datasets, encompassing human, mouse and manatee species. Developers utilized these...
The 3D National Topography Model Call for Action—Part 1. The 3D Hydrography Program
Rebecca Anderson, Vicki Lukas, Stephen S. Aichele
2024, Circular 1519
The U.S. Geological Survey is initiating the 3D Hydrography Program (3DHP), the first systematic remapping of the Nation’s surface waters since the original 1:24,000-scale topographic mapping program was active from 1947 to 1992. Building on decades of experience maintaining the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD), and...
The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting Ohio's economy
Charles E. Hickman
2024, Fact Sheet 2024-3017
IntroductionHigh-quality elevation data are proving to be a resource of great economic value in dealing with many important issues in Ohio. Current and accurate high-resolution elevation data support flood risk management, water quantity and quality assessment, precision farming, conservation planning, impervious-surface modeling, forest and other natural resources management, abandoned mine...
Marine heatwaves affect breeding, diet and population size but not body condition of a range-edge little penguin colony
B.L. Cannell, William L. Kendall, J.A. Tyne, M. Bunce, Y. Hetzel, D. Murray, B. Radford
2024, Marine Ecology Progress Series (737) 193-213
Significant marine heatwaves (MHWs) developed along the Western Australian coast in 1999 and 2011. Despite ecosystem losses and the southwards occurrence of many tropical fish species during and after the extreme MHW in 2011, there have been few studies on the effects of this MHW on seabirds, and no biological...
Change in growth and prey utilization for a native salmonid following invasion by an omnivorous minnow in an oligotrophic reservoir
Rachelle Carina Johnson, Tessa Julianne Code, Karl D. Stenberg, Jonathan H Mclean, Benjamin Lorenz Jensen, Marshal S. Hoy, David Beauchamp
2024, Hydrobiologia (851) 3767-3785
Aquatic invasive species can affect food web structure, native fish growth, and production, depending on the traits of the invasive species and the pre-invasion conditions of the ecosystem. Thermal tolerances and behavioral traits can further influence differential exploitation of resources shared between native and invasive species. An unauthorized introduction of...
The utility of TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and PAZ for studying global volcanic activity: Successes, challenges, and future prospects
Federico Galetto, Edna Dualeh, Francisco Delgado, Matthew Pritchard, Michael P. Poland, Susanna Ebmeier, Tara Shreve, Juliet Biggs, Ian Hamling, Christelle Wauthier, Judit Gonzalez Santana, Jean-Luc Froger, Mark Bemelmans
2024, Volcanica (7) 273-301
TerraSAR-X (TSX), TanDEM-X (TDX), and PAZ Synthetic Aperture Radar data have been used at over 120 volcanoes to assess surface characteristics and change over time. We examine previous work, adding additional examples to understand where and when these data are most useful for volcanology. We focus on volcanoes as part...
Feature-based maximum entropy for geophysical properties of the seabed
D.P. Knobles, William S.. Hodgkiss, Jason Chaytor, Tracianne Neilsen, Ying-Tsong Lin
2024, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (155) 3567
The coherent recombination of a direct and seabed reflected path is sensitive to the geophysical properties of the seabed. The concept of feature-based inversion is used in the analysis of acoustic data collected on a vertical line array (VLA) on the New England continental shelf break in about 200 m of...
A seismic nodal deployment to understand magmatic structure in the vicinity of the Pahala earthquake swarm
Helen Janiszewski, Ninfa Lucia Bennington, Jade Wight
2024, Seismological Research Letters (95) 3082-3092
In summer-fall 2022, 80 three-component SmartSolo IGU-BD3C-5 nodal seismometers were deployed surrounding the Pāhala seismic swarm on the Island of Hawaiʻi, with the goal of improving seismicity catalogs, and seismic velocity images of the crust and upper mantle in this region. The Pāhala swarm, located south of Mauna Loa and...
Predicting the odds of chronic wasting disease with Habitat Risk software
W. David Walter, Brenda J. Hanley, Cara E. Them, Corey I. Mitchell, James Kelly, Daniel Grove, Nicholas Hollingshead, Rachel C. Abbott, Krysten L. Schuler
2024, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology (49)
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that was first detected in captive cervids in Colorado, United States (US) in 1967, but has since spread into free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) across the US and Canada as well as to Scandinavia and South Korea. In some areas, the...
Microtopographic variation as a potential early indicator of ecosystem state change and vulnerability in salt marshes
Alexander J. Smith, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Joel A. Carr, David Walters, Matt L. Kirwan
2024, Estuaries and Coasts (47) 2120-2134
As global climate change alters the magnitude and rates of environmental stressors, predicting the extent of ecosystem degradation driven by these rapidly changing conditions becomes increasingly urgent. At the landscape scale, disturbances and stressors can increase spatial variability and heterogeneity — indicators that can serve as potential early warnings of...
Integrating presence-only and detection/non-detection data to estimate distributions and expected abundance of difficult-to-monitor species on a landscape-scale
Joshua P. Twining, Angela K. Fuller, Catherine C. Sun, Camilo A. Calderon-Acevedo, Matthew D. Schlesinger, Melanie Berger, David Kramer, Jacqueline L. Frair
2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) 1441-1459
Estimating species distribution and abundance is foundational to effective management and conservation.Using an integrated species distribution model that combines presence-only data from various sources with detection/non-detection data from structured surveys, we estimated the distribution and expected abundance of three difficult-to-monitor mammals of management concern across New York State, namely,...
Enhancing assessments of coastal wetland migration potential with sea-level rise: Accounting for uncertainty in elevation data, tidal data, and future water levels
Nicholas Enwright, Michael Osland, Hana R. Thurman, Claire E. McHenry, William C. Vervaeke, Brett Patton, Davina Passeri, Jason M. Stoker, Richard Day, Bethanie M. Simons
2024, Estuaries and Coasts (47) 1166-1183
Sea-level rise rates are predicted to surpass rates of wetland vertical adjustment in the coming decades in many areas, increasing the potential for wetland submergence. Information on where wetland migration is possible can help natural resource managers for planning land acquisition or enhancing habitat connectivity to...
Treed Gaussian processes for animal movement modeling
Camille J. Rieber, Trevor J. Hefley, David A. Haukos
2024, Ecology and Evolution (14)
Wildlife telemetry data may be used to answer a diverse range of questions relevant to wildlife ecology and management. One challenge to modeling telemetry data is that animal movement often varies greatly in pattern over time, and current continuous-time modeling approaches to handle such...
USGS invasive carp database management & integration support
Marybeth K. Brey, Andrea K. Fritts
2024, Report, 2023 Monitoring and response plan
Invasive carp tracking, monitoring, and contracted removal will continue throughout the Upper IWW system as part of an adaptive management effort to mitigate, control, and contain invasive carp. To help facilitate these actions, there is a need to compile and analyze data from the multitude of partner agencies that are...
North American bird banding program longevity records
Lauren Emily Walker, Matthew Rogosky, Kyra Harvey
2024, Newsletter
Longevity in wild birds refers to the longest-lived individual of any particular species. This measure of age can reflect important life history traits and identifying differences in longevity patterns between species can reveal unique threats or conservation needs. Because it requires the identification of individual birds, longevity can...
