Depths in a day - A new era of rapid-response Raman-based barometry using fluid inclusions
Charlotte DeVitre, Penny E. Wieser, Alexander T. Bearden, Araela Richie, Berenise Rangel, Matthew Gleeson, John Grimsich, Kendra J. Lynn, Drew T. Downs, Natalia I. Deligne, Katherine M. Mulliken
2024, Journal of Petrology (65)
Rapid-response petrological monitoring is a major advance for volcano observatories, allowing them to build and validate models of plumbing systems that supply eruptions in near-real-time. The depth of magma storage has recently been identified as high-priority information for volcanic observatories, yet this information is not currently obtainable via petrological monitoring...
Indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation planning: Reflections from initial efforts
Tony W. Ciocco, Brian W. Miller, Stefan Gabriel Tangen, Shelley D. Crausbay, Meagan Ford Oldfather, Aparna Bamzai-Dodson
2024, Frontiers in Climate (6)
There are increasing calls to incorporate indigenous knowledge (IK) into climate adaptation planning (CAP) and related projects. However, given unique attributes of IK and the positionality of tribal communities to scientific research, several considerations are important to ensure CAP efforts with IK are ethical and effective. While such...
Real-time pier scour monitoring and observations at three scour-critical sites in Idaho, water years 2020–22
Ryan L. Fosness, Paul V. Schauer
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5095
To observe real-time pier scour at three scour-critical sites in Idaho, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Idaho Transportation Department, installed and operated fixed real-time (15-minute interval) bed elevation scour sonar sensors at three bridge locations associated with U.S. Geological Survey streamflow gaging stations for water years 2020 through...
Greater plasticity in CTmax with increased climate variability among populations of tailed frogs
Amanda S. Cicchino, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Brenna R. Forester, Jason B. Dunham, W. Chris Funk
2024, Proceedings of the Royal Society B (291)
Temporally variable climates are expected to drive the evolution of thermal physiological traits that enable performance across a wider range of temperatures (i.e. climate variability hypothesis, CVH). Spatial thermal variability, however, may mediate this relationship by providing ectotherms with the opportunity to behaviourally select preferred temperatures (i.e. the Bogert effect)....
Potential corrosivity of untreated groundwater in Louisiana
Angela L. Robinson
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5035
Corrosive groundwater can cause lead, copper, and other metals to leach from pipes and plumbing fixtures in water distribution systems. Metals, if ingested, could lead to serious health implications to the nearly 2.9 million people in Louisiana who obtain their drinking water from groundwater sources. Four indices—the Langelier Saturation Index...
Neogene hydrothermal Fe- and Mn-oxide mineralization of Paleozoic continental rocks, Amerasia Basin, Arctic Ocean
James R. Hein, Kira Mizell, Amy Gartman
2024, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (25)
Rocks dredged from water depths of 1,605, 2,500, 3,300, and 3,400 m in the Arctic Ocean included Paleozoic continental rocks pervasively mineralized during the Neogene by hydrothermal Fe and Mn oxides. Samples were recovered in three dredge hauls from the Chukchi Borderland and one from Mendeleev Ridge north of Alaska and...
GNSS reflectometry from low-cost sensors for continuous in situ contemporaneous glacier mass balance and flux divergence
Albin Wells, David R. Rounce, Louis C. Sass, Caitlyn Florentine, Adam Garbo, Emily Baker, Christopher J. McNeil
2024, Journal of Glaciology
Recent advances in remote sensing have produced global glacier surface elevation change data. Parsing these elevation change signals into contributions from the climate (i.e. climatic mass balance) and glacier dynamics (i.e. flux divergence) is critical to enhance our process-based understanding of glacier change. In this study, we evaluate three approaches...
Insights on arc magmatic systems drawn from natural melt inclusions and crystallization experiments at PH2O=800 MPa under oxidizing conditions
Janine L. Andrys, Elizabeth Cottrell, Katherine A. Kelley, Laura E. Waters, Michelle L. Coombs
2024, Journal of Petrology (65)
Whole rock compositions at Buldir Volcano, western Aleutian arc, record a strong, continuous trend of iron depletion with decreasing MgO, classically interpreted as a calc-alkaline liquid line of descent. In contrast, olivine-hosted melt inclusions have higher total iron (FeO*) than whole rocks and show little change in FeO* with decreasing...
Jupyter notebooks for parameter estimation, uncertainty analysis, and optimization with the PEST++
Chanse Michael Ford, Wonsook S. Ha, Katherine Markovich, Johanna Zwinger
2024, Groundwater (62) 825-829
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Trends and environmental impacts of virtual water trade
Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Mahlet M. Kebede, Betelhem W. Demeke, Joel A. Carr, Ashok Chapagain, Carole Dalin, Peter Debaere, Paolo D'Odorico, Landon Marston, Chittaranjan Ray, Lorenzo Rosa, La Zhuo
2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (5) 890-905
Virtual water describes water embedded in the production of goods and offers meaningful insights about the complex interplay between water, trade and sustainability. In this Review, we examine the trends, major players, traded products and key drivers of virtual water trade (VWT). Roughly 20% of water used in global food...
Formation of vertical columnar seismic structures and seafloor depressions by groundwater discharge in the drowned Miami Terrace platform and overlying deep-water carbonates, southeastern Florida
Kevin J. Cunningham, Richard L. Westcott, Sean Norgard, Edward Robinson, Harry J. Dowsett, Marci M. Robinson
2024, Marine Geology (478)
The presence of vertical cross-formational fluid migration passageways within sedimentary basins can profoundly impact aquifer and reservoir fluid-flow and their identification is fundamental to informing management of subsurface fluid resources (groundwater, oil, gas). In an onshore and offshore southeastern part of Florida, 2D/3D seismic-reflection and bathymetry data document...
Reducing uncertainty with iterative model updating parses effects of competition and environment on salamander occupancy
Jo Avital Werba, Graziella Vittoria DiRenzo, Adrianne Brand, Evan H. Campbell Grant
2024, Oecologia (206) 305-316
Making timely management decisions is often hindered by uncertainty. Monitoring reduces two key types of uncertainty. First, it serves to reduce structural uncertainty of how the system works and provides support for expectations of how a system works. Second, it serves to reduce parametric uncertainty of the drivers of system...
Groundwater quality and groundwater levels in Dougherty County, Georgia, April 2020 through January 2023
Debbie W. Gordon
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1060
The Upper Floridan aquifer is the uppermost reliable groundwater source in southwest Georgia. The aquifer lies on top of the Claiborne, Clayton, and Cretaceous aquifers, all of which exhibited water-level declines in the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. Geological Survey has been working cooperatively with Albany Utilities to monitor groundwater...
Ceanothus: Taxonomic patterns in life history responses to fire
Jon Keeley, V. Thomas Parker, Paul H. Zedler, R. Brandon Pratt
2024, American Journal of Botany (111)
Premise: Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae) is a large genus of shrubs that dominate California chaparral and are resilient to fires. Persistence is ensured by resprouting and/or seedling recruitment from dormant seed banks. Some species do both and others, the obligate seeders, are entirely dependent on seedling recruitment. The distribution of these two modes...
Advancing water security in Africa with new high-resolution discharge data
Komlavi Akpoti, Naga Manohar Velpuri, Naoki Mizukami, Stefanie Kagone, Mansoor Leh, Kirubel Mekonnen, Afua Owusu, Primrose Tinonetsana, Michael Phiri, Lahiru Madushanka, Tharindu Perera, Paranamana T. Prabhath, Gabriel Edwin Lee Parrish, Gabriel B. Senay, Abdulkarim Seid
2024, Scientific Data (11)
VegDischarge v1 is a comprehensive river discharge across Africa (2000–2021), produced by coupling the agro-hydrologic VegET model and the mizuRoute routing framework. Using remote sensing data and hydrological modeling, the 1-km runoff field simulated by VegET, and routed with mizuRoute, covers over 64,000 river segments in Africa. The VegET model...
An evaluation of cyanobacterial occurrence and bloom development in Adirondack lakes
Rebecca Michelle Gorney, Elizabeth A. Nystrom, Michael D. Stouder, Ann E. St. Amand, Cory Suave, Denise Clark, Erin A. Stelzer, Carrie E Givens, Jennifer L. Graham
2024, Lake and Reservoir Management
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) have occurred in many low nutrient (oligotrophic) lakes in the northeastern United States. The Adirondack Park in New York is a large, mountainous region with many low nutrient lakes. There is a gap in understanding regarding whether cyanoHAB reporting data are truly reflective of the...
Environmental Flows for Riverine EcoSystem Habitats (E-FRESH) decision support tool user guide
Tyler Wible, Christopher Holmquist-Johnson, Heidi Klingel, Ryan R. Morrison, David Merritt, Matthew Korsa
2024, Report
The E-FRESH decision support tool is intended to facilitate assessment and comparison of different flow management scenarios on available habitat for various aquatic, riparian, and invertebrate species of interest. This tool also allows users to conduct a variety of analyses ranging from large-scale data processing and export to detailed and...
The state of the science and practice of stream restoration in the Chesapeake: Lessons learned to inform better implementation, assessment and outcomes
Gregory Noe, Neely Law, Joel Berger, Solange Filoso, Sadie Drescher, L. Fraley-McNeal, Ben Hayes, Paul Mayer, Chris Ruck, Bill Stack, Rich Starr, Scott Stranko, Tess Thompson
2024, STAC Workshop Report 24-006
The Chesapeake Bay Program’s (CBP) Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) organized and led a workshop on the science and practice of stream restoration in order to summarize the state of knowledge in order to identify ways to improve stream restoration outcomes. The workshop identified a general framework for explaining...
Individual return patterns of spawning flannelmouth sucker (Catostomus latipinnis) to a desert river tributary
Sophia Marie Bonjour, Keith B. Gido, Charles N. Cathcart, Mark C. McKinstry
2024, Scientific Reports (14)
Tributaries provide temporal and spatial habitat heterogeneity in river networks that can be critical for parts of the life history of a species. Tributary fidelity can benefit individual fish undergoing spawning migrations by reducing time and energy spent exploring new areas and leveraging previous experience, but anthropogenic activities that fragment...
The chlorine evolution of arc magmas and the crustal water filter
Jackson Stone Borchardt, Cin-Ty Lee
2024, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (648)
Degassing of water from magmatic systems is key to transporting metals from magmas to form ore deposits, but elements like chlorine, through the formation of anion complexes, can be important in solubilizing and mobilizing these metals into water-rich fluids. Reconstructing the Cl systematics of evolving magmas is thus an important...
Geologic map of the southern Stillwater Range, Nevada
David A. John, Joseph P. Colgan, Margaret E. Berry, Christopher D. Henry, Norman J. Silberling
2024, Scientific Investigations Map 3521
The southern Stillwater Range in west-central Nevada contains the western part of the Oligocene Stillwater-Clan Alpine caldera complex, which extends about 55 kilometers (km) east from the west side of the Stillwater Range to the northwestern Desatoya Mountains. The complex consists of at least seven nested ignimbrite calderas and subjacent...
Quality of groundwater used for domestic supply in the eastern Sacramento Valley and adjacent foothills, California
George L. Bennett V
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1061
SummaryMore than 2 million Californians rely on groundwater from privately owned domestic wells for drinking-water supply. This report summarizes a water-quality survey of domestic and small-system drinking-water supply wells in the eastern Sacramento Valley and adjacent foothills where more than 25,000 residents are estimated to use privately owned domestic wells....
Soil cover heterogeneity associated with biocrusts predicts patch-level plant diversity patterns
Caroline A. Havrilla, Miguel L. Villarreal
2024, Landscape Ecology (39)
ContextSoil resource heterogeneity drives plant species diversity patterns at local and landscape scales. In drylands, biocrusts are patchily distributed and contribute to soil resource heterogeneity important for plant establishment and growth. Yet, we have a limited understanding of how such heterogeneity may relate to patterns of plant diversity and community...
Climate-smart agriculture for Ukraine: Winter wheat breeding for food security and climate adaptation
Veronica Romero, August Raleigh Schultz, Kathryn Powlen, Sachin D. Shah
2024, Report
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, people have experienced food insecurity challenges because of increased prices of staple food commodities and loss of income or livelihood. Globally, countries with limited capacity to adapt have struggled to recover from pandemic-related disruptions and are further challenged to address...
Geomorphic map of the Umatilla River corridor, Oregon
Ian P. Yuh, Ralph A. Haugerud, Jim E. O'Connor, Scott J. O'Daniel
2024, Scientific Investigations Map 3527
This map portrays the distribution of landforms along the Umatilla River in northeastern Oregon and covers a corridor 127 kilometers long from the confluence of the Umatilla River with the Columbia River upstream to Meacham Creek. The map encompasses the valley bottom and extends about 1 kilometer up the adjoining...
