Economical environmental sampler designs for detecting airborne spread of fungi responsible for Rapid `Ōhi`a Death
Carter T. Atkinson, Kylle Roy, Carolina Granthon
2019, Hawai`i Cooperative Studies Unit Technical Report HCSU-TR087
We designed two new samplers for monitoring airborne particulates that rely on either natural wind currents (Passive Environmental Sampler) or a battery-operated fan (Active Environmental Sampler). Both samplers are significantly less expensive than commercial devices such as Rotorod® and Burkard Samplers that are used in the agricultural and health science...
Integration of social and ecological sciences for natural resource decision making: Challenges and opportunities
Angela K. Fuller, Kelly F. Robinson, Richard C. Stedman, William F. Siemer, Daniel J. Decker
2019, Environmental Management (63) 565-573
The last 25 years have witnessed growing recognition that natural resource management decisions depend as much on understanding humans and their social interactions as on understanding the interactions between non-human organisms and their environment. Decision science provides a framework for integrating ecological and social factors into a decision, but challenges...
Application of multistate modeling to estimate salmonid survival and movement in relation to spatial and temporal variation in metal exposure in a large mining-impacted river
Mariah P. Mayfield, Thomas E. McMahon, Jay J. Rotella, Robert E. Gresswell, Trevor M. Selch, Patrick Saffle, Jason Lindstrom, Brad Liermann
2019, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (76) 2057-2068
We used telemetry and multistate modeling to estimate survival and movement of brown trout Salmo trutta and westslope cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi in relation to dissolved copper concentrations in 189 km of the upper Clark Fork River, Montana, a mining-impacted river in western Montana. Annual survival estimates...
Habitat overlap of juvenile and adult lake trout of Great Bear Lake: Evidence for lack of a predation gradient?
Louise Chavarie, Kim L Howland, Les N. Harris, Michael J. Hansen, C P Gallagher, W J Harford, W M Tonn, Andrew M. Muir, Charles C. Krueger
2019, Ecology of Freshwater Fish (28) 485-498
A range of organisms, from plankton to fish, commonly shift their habitat distributions horizontally or vertically due to predation risk. Juvenile lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, are generally viewed as occupying deep areas of lakes to decrease predation pressure from adults. In contrast, we found that juvenile lake trout from Great Bear...
Assessing the spawning ecology of fish in situ using a benthic pump sampler
Matthew R. Paufve, Suresh Sethi, Brian F. Lantry, Brian Weidel, Lars G. Rudstam
2019, Fisheries Research (214) 19-24
In situ observations of incubating fish eggs can identify spawning sites and spawning habitat preferences, informing the ecology of fishes with benthic eggs. Suction pumps have been used to sample benthic-incubating, non-adhesive fish eggs, yet their sampling efficiency is not well known....
Groundwater inflow toward a preheated volcanic conduit: Application to the 2018 eruption at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai’i
Paul A. Hsieh, Steven E. Ingebritsen
2019, Journal of Geophysical Research (124) 1498-1506
The many successes in volcano forecasting over the past several decades owe mainly to pattern recognition, both in monitoring data and the geologic record. During the early stages of the 2018 Kīlauea eruption, the conceptual model of Stearns (1925), based on the explosive 1924 Kīlauea eruption, was highly influential....
Using acoustic Doppler velocity meters to estimate suspended sediment along the lower Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers
Joel T. Groten, Jeffrey R. Ziegeweid, J. William Lund, Christopher A. Ellison, Samuel B. Costa, Erin N. Coenen, Erich W. Kessler
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5165
Lake Pepin is the largest naturally formed lake on the Mississippi River and has complex management needs to satisfy economic, environmental, and cultural demands. Lake Pepin is filling in with sediment at a rapid rate compared to conditions before settlement by European immigrants and intense agricultural cultivation. Accordingly, the Minnesota...
Response of vegetation in open and partially wooded fens to prescribed burning at Seney National Wildlife Refuge
Jane E. Austin, Wesley E. Newton
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5168
The health and function of northern peatlands, particularly for fens, are strongly affected by fire and hydrology. Fens are important to several avian species of conservation interest, notably the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis). Fire suppression and altered hydrology often result in woody encroachment, altering the plant community and structure. Woody...
Clastic pipes and mud volcanism across Mars: Terrestrial analog evidence of past Martian groundwater and subsurface fluid mobilization
D. F. Wheatley, M. A. Chan, Chris Okubo
2019, Icarus (328) 141-151
Clastic pipes are cylindrical injection features that vertically crosscut bedding with sharp contacts. Terrestrial pipes have cylindrical morphologies, massive or radially graded interiors, and raised outer rims. Increased grain size and subsequent cementation along the more porous edges makes the rims more resistant to weathering. Pipes have crosscutting relationships with...
Field volcanology: A tribute to the distinguished career of Don Swanson
Michael P. Poland, Michael O. Garcia, Victor E. Camp, Anita L. Grunder, editor(s)
2019, Book
Don Swanson has profoundly influenced generations of volcanologists and has made major contributions to our understanding of both silicic and basaltic volcanic systems. He provides an exceptional example of how a gifted scientist can develop entirely new paradigms related to large-scale problems on the basis of decades of study, as...
Status of Mysis diluviana in Lake Ontario in 2013: lower abundance but higher fecundity than in the 1990s
Toby J. Holda, Lars G. Rudstam, Kelly L. Bowen, Brian Weidel, James M. Watkins, Patrick F Sullivan, Jeremy P. Holden, Michael J. Connerton
2019, Journal of Great Lakes Research (45) 307-316
Mysis diluviana is a major component of prey fish diets in the Great Lakes, so annual production of M. diluviana is important for understanding and modeling energy flow through Great Lakes food webs. However, only three lake-wide measurements of M. diluviana annual production in Lake Ontario are currently available (1971, 1990, 1995). During 2013, lake-wide coverage of Lake...
Age, succesion planning & wildlife values of Upper Midwest landowners
Larry M. Gigliotti, Lily A. Sweikert
2019, Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science
It is well known that farmers are getting older; in the United States the average age of farmers is 58.3 years old and the rate of increase in age is accelerating. The average farmer age increased 10 years from 47.6 years old to 57.1 in a four year period (2003-2007)....
Opportunities and barriers for endangered species conservation using payments for ecosystem services
Aaron M. Lien, Colleen Ulibarri, Wendy Vanasco, George B. Ruyle, Scott A. Bonar, Laura Lopez-Hoffman
2019, Biological Conservation (232) 74-82
Endangered species laws seek to prevent extinction by outlawing actions that may cause harm or lead to extinction. In doing so, these laws are sometimes criticized for limiting management flexibility and subjecting landowners to regulatory burdens. One proposed solution to this challenge is development of payment for ecosystem service (PES) programs....
Size-specific apparent survival rate estimates of white sharks using mark-recapture models
Paul E. Kanive, Jay J. Rotella, S. J. Jorgensen, T. K. chapple, James E. Hines, S.D. Anderson, B. A. Block
2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (76) 2027-2034
For species that exist at low abundance or are otherwise difficult to study, it is challenging to estimate vital rates such as survival and fecundity and common to assume that survival rates are constant across ages and sexes. Population assessments based on overly simplistic vital rates can lead to erroneous...
Distinguishing recent dispersal from historical genetic connectivity in the coastal California gnatcatcher
Amy G. Vandergast, Barbara E. Kus, Kristine L. Preston, Kelly R. Barr
2019, Scientific Reports (9) 1-12
Habitat loss and fragmentation are primary threats to biodiversity worldwide. We studied the impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation on genetic connectivity and diversity among local aggregations of the California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica californica) across its U.S. range. With a dataset of 268 individuals genotyped at 19 microsatellite loci, we...
Products, processes, and implications of Keanakāko‘i volcanism, Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i
Don Swanson, Bruce F. Houghton
2019, Book chapter, Field volcanology: A tribute to the distinguished career of Don Swanson
The Keanakāko‘i Tephra offers an exceptional window into the explosive portion of Kīlauea’s recent past. Once thought to be the products of a single eruption, the deposits instead formed through a wide range of pyroclastic activity during an ~300 yr period following the collapse of the modern caldera in ca....
Element concentrations in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) from the U.S. and Binational Great Lakes’ areas of concern
Thomas W. Custer, Christine M. Custer, Paul M. Dummer, Diana R. Goldberg, J. Christian Franson
2019, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (76) 414-424
Selected elements were targeted in state Remedial Action Plans as one group of chemicals affecting the Beneficial Use Impairments of Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOC). Livers of nestling tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor, were harvested from 76 sites in the Great Lakes which included multiple sites at 27...
Dikes in the Koaʻe fault system, and the Koaʻe-east rift zone structural grain at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii
Donald A. Swanson, Richard S. Fiske, Carl Thornber, Michael P. Poland
2019, Book chapter, Field volcanology: A tribute to the distinguished career of Don Swanson
Two small scoria vents were discovered in the Koa‘e fault system, an extensional regime connecting the east and southwest rift zones of Kīlauea that was previously considered to be noneruptive. The chemical composition of the scoria suggests an early to middle nineteenth-century age. The vents prove that magma can intrude...
Communication strategy of the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory during the lava-flow crisis of 2014–2015, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Steven Brantley, James P. Kauahikaua, Janet Babb, Tim R. Orr, Matthew R. Patrick, Michael P. Poland, Frank A. Trusdell, Darryl Oliveira
2019, Book chapter, Field volcanology: A tribute to the distinguished career of Don Swanson
In 2014–2015, a slow-moving pāhoehoe lava flow from the remote Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō vent on Kīlauea Volcano advanced 20 km into populated areas of the Puna District on the Island of Hawai‘i. The staff of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) mobilized their resources to closely monitor the...
Geochemical evolution of Keanakāko‘i Tephra, Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i
M.O. Garcia, Adonara E. Mucek, Kendra J. Lynn, Donald A. Swanson, Marc D. Norman
Michael P. Poland, Michael O Garcia, Victor E. Camp, Anita L. Grunder, editor(s)
2019, Book chapter, Field volcanology: A tribute to the distinguished career of Don Swanson
The Keanakāko‘i Tephra was deposited from 1500 to ca. 1820 CE, when Kīlauea’s magmatic output was ~2% of the average output during historical times (post–1823 CE). The tephra consists of deposits from numerous phreatomagmatic and phreatic eruptions, three episodes of high lava fountains, and one lava. Fresh glass is available...
Hydrogeology of Lower Amargosa Valley and groundwater discharge to the Amargosa Wild and Scenic River, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California, and adjacent areas in Nye and Clark Counties, Nevada
Wayne R. Belcher, Donald S. Sweetkind, Candice B. Hopkins, Megan E. Poff
2019, Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5151
In 2009, Congress designated certain reaches of the Amargosa River in Inyo County, California between the town of Shoshone and Dumont Dunes as a Wild and Scenic River. As part of the management of the Amargosa Wild and Scenic River, the Bureau of Land...
Lava lake thermal pattern classification using self organizing maps and relationships to eruption processes at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Amy M Burzynski, Steve W. Anderson, Kerryn Morrison, Matthew R. Patrick, Tim R. Orr, Weston Thelen
2019, Special Papers of the Geological Society of America 538
Kīlauea Volcano’s active summit lava lake poses hazards to downwind residents and over 1.6 million Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park visitors each year. The lava lake surface is dynamic; crustal plates separated by incandescent cracks move across the lake as magma circulates below. We hypothesize that these dynamic thermal patterns are...
Monitoring landscape dynamics in central U.S. grasslands with harmonized Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 time series data
Qiang Zhou, Jennifer Rover, Jesslyn F. Brown, Bruce B. Worstell, Danny Howard, Zhuoting Wu, Alisa L. Gallant, Bradley Rundquist, Morgan Burke
2019, Remote Sensing (11)
Remotely monitoring changes in central U.S. grasslands is challenging because these landscapes tend to respond quickly to disturbances and changes in weather. Such dynamic responses influence nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas contributions, habitat availability for wildlife, and other ecosystem processes and services. Traditionally, coarse-resolution satellite data acquired at daily intervals have...
A new perspective on the 19th century golden pumice deposit of Kilauea volcano
Sebastien Biass, Donald A. Swanson, Bruce F. Houghton
Michael P. Poland, Michael O. Garcia, Victor E. Camp, Anita L. Grunder, editor(s)
2019, Book chapter, Field Volcanology: A Tribute to the Distinguished Career of Don Swanson
The golden pumice deposit (unit K1) represents one of the latest episodes of Hawaiian fountaining in the Keanakāko‘i Tephra and is the product of the first high fountaining eruption at Kīlauea summit in ~300 yr, since the caldera formed in ca. 1500 CE. We present a new physical characterization of...
Predicting the initial spread of novel Asian origin influenza A viruses in the continental USA by wild waterfowl
Alan B. Franklin, Sarah N. Bevins, Jeremy W. Ellis, Ryan S. Miller, Susan A. Shriner, J. Jeffrey Root, Daniel P. Walsh, Thomas J. DeLiberto
2019, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (66) 705-714
Using data on waterfowl band recoveries, we identified spatially explicit hotspots of concentrated waterfowl movement to predict occurrence and spatial spread of a novel influenza A virus (clade 2.3.4.4) introduced from Asia by waterfowl from an initial outbreak in North America in November 2014. In response to the outbreak, the...
