Windows to the deep 2018: Exploration of the southeast US Continental margin
Leslie R Sautter, Cheryl L. Morrison, Kasey Cantwell, Derek Sowers, Elizabeth Lobecker
2019, Oceanography (32) 82-87
Windows to the Deep 2018: Exploration of the Southeast US Continental Margin was a 36-day expedition aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer to acquire data on priority exploration areas identified by the ocean management and scientific communities. This expedition involved high-resolution multibeam sonar mapping and ROV dives, ranging from 340 m...
Seasonal fluxes of dissolved nutrients in streams of catchments dominated by swidden agriculture in the Maya Forest of Belize, Central America
David G. Buck, Peter C. Esselman, Shiguo Jiang, Joel D. Wainwright, Mark Brenner, Matthew J. Cohen
2019, Water (11)
The biogeochemistry of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in tropical streams and rivers is strongly regulated by the pronounced seasonality of rainfall and associated changes in hydrology. Land use and land cover change (LULCC) can also be a dominant driver of changes in stream biogeochemistry yet responses are not fully...
Assessing rangeland health under climate variability and change
John B. Bradford, Michael C. Duniway, Seth M. Munson
2019, Book chapter, Grasslands and climate change
RANGELAND HEALTH IN A CHANGING WORLD Rangeland health is an integrated metric that describes a complex suite of ecosystem properties and processes as applied to resource management. While the concept of “healthy” landscapes has a long history, the term “rangeland health” was codified in the US in 1994 as part...
Effects of high-flow experiments on other resources: Recreation and hydropower
Lucas S. Bair
2019, Conference Paper, High-Flow Experiments Assessment Extended Abstracts
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (GCNRA) and Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) offer unique recreational opportunities. An objective in the Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan Environmental Impact Statement (LTEMP EIS) is to maintain and improve the quality of recreational experiences (U.S. Department of the Interior, 2016). Some of the higher...
Sandbar deposition caused by high-flow experiments on the Colorado River downstream from Glen Canyon Dam: November 2012 – November 2018
Paul E. Grams
2019, Conference Paper, High-Flow Experiments Assessment Extended Abstracts
The streamflow regime and sand supply of the Colorado River have been affected by the presence and operations of Glen Canyon Dam since filling of Lake Powell began in March 1963. Consequent changes in river morphology have included decreases in the size and abundance of sandbars used as campsites in...
Effects of high flow experiments on riparian vegetation resources in Grand Canyon
B.J. Butterfield, Emily C. Palmquist, Joel B. Sankey
2019, Conference Paper, High-Flow Experiments Assessment Extended Abstracts
Flood events have historically had a strong impact on riparian vegetation within Grand Canyon. Pre-dam sandbars were nearly devoid of perennial riparian vegetation due to the magnitude and frequency of periodic floods (Turner and Karpiscak, 1980). Vegetation has increased since dam closure (Waring, 1995), particularly since the early 1990s (Sankey...
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Pacific sand lance, Puget Sound, Washington
Theresa Liedtke, Kathleen Conn, Richard Dinicola, Renee Takesue
2019, Conference Paper, 2018 Salish Sea Toxics Monitoring Synthesis
Forage fish are small, abundant, schooling planktivores that form a critical link in marine food webs by transferring energy from plankton up to birds, fishes, and marine mammals. Forage fishes in Puget Sound include the iconic Pacific herring as well as lesser known species such as surf smelt and...
High elevation sand/cultural Sites: The response of source-bordering aeolian dunefields to the 2012-2016 high flow experiments of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon (Extended Abstract)
Joel B. Sankey
2019, Conference Paper, High-Flow Experiments Assessment Extended Abstracts
Glen Canyon Dam has reduced downstream sediment supply to the Colorado River by about 95% in the reach upstream of the Little Colorado River confluence and by about 85% below the confluence (Topping and others, 2000). Operation of the dam for hydropower generation has additionally altered the flow regime of the river in...
Optimal timing of high-flow experiments for sandbar deposition
David J. Topping, Paul E. Grams, Ronald E. Griffiths, Joseph E. Hazel Jr., Matthew Kaplinski, David J. Dean, Nicholas Voichick, Joel A. Unema, Thomas A. Sabol
2019, Conference Paper, High-Flow Experiments Assessment Extended Abstracts
Sediment-transport theory and field measurements indicate that the greatest or most efficient deposition of sand in eddies occurs during controlled floods (a.k.a. High-Flow Experiments or HFEs) when the greatest amount of the finest sand is available on the bed of the Colorado River (Topping and others, 2010). Conducting HFEs when...
Results from the Department of the Interior Strategic Sciences Group Technical Support for the 2018 Kīlauea Eruption
K. A. Ludwig, Alice Pennaz, Aleeza Wilkins
2019, Report
On May 3, 2018 Hawai'i’s Kīlauea volcano erupted, ultimately covering 35 square kilometers (13.5 square miles) of land in lava, destroying over 700 homes in multiple subdivisions, and displacing over 2500 residents in the Puna District on the southeast flank of the volcano. Simultaneously, Kīlauea’s summit experienced its largest collapse...
A revised continuous surface elevation model for modeling
Rueen-Fang Wang, Eli Ateljevich, Theresa A. Fregoso, Bruce E. Jaffe
2019, Book chapter, Methodology for flow and salinity estimates in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh, 39th Annual Progress Report to the State Water Resources Control Board
A digital elevation model (DEM) is an essential component of any hydrodynamic model. The Delta Modeling Section (Section) has maintained a database of bathymetry soundings and levee surveys for decades and published a 10-meter (10m) DEM for the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) (California Department of Water...
Changes in body condition and diet of lotic Smallmouth Bass across two flow regimes during summer months at the southern extent of their native range
Christopher R. Middaugh, Daniel D. Magoulick
2019, American Fisheries Society Symposium (87) 93-110
The Ozark Plateau is located at the southern extent of native Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu range and water temperature and drought conditions during summer months may potentially affect growth of Smallmouth Bass in this region. Groundwater streams in the region do not warm to the same extent as runoff streams...
Estimating indirect impacts of wind-energy development for breeding grassland birds and waterfowl in the northern Great Plains
Jill A. Shaffer, Charles R. Loesch, Deborah A. Buhl
2019, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Wind Wildlife Research Meeting XII
No abstract available....
Nest-defense behavior of Mississippi Kites in urban and exurban areas
B. R. Skipper, Clint W. Boal
2019, Human-Wildlife Interactions (13)
Mississippi kites (Ictinia mississippiensis) have become an abundant raptor in many urban and exurban areas throughout the Southern Great Plains of the United States. Unfortunately, human–wildlife conflicts have resulted from this juxtaposition of suitable breeding areas for kites and areas that humans frequent, with some kites responding aggressively to humans...
First summer survival and channel unit habitat use by the Neosho subspecies of Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu velox)
Shannon K. Brewer, Brandon L. Browne, Thomas A. Worthington, Robert Mollenhauer, Anthony Rodger, Matt Skoog, Jim Burroughs
2019, American Fisheries Society Symposium (87) 21-37
No abstract available. ...
Effects of high flow experiments on warm-water native and nonnative fishes
David Ward
2019, Conference Paper, High-Flow Experiments Assessment Extended Abstracts
The harsh environmental conditions and extreme flooding that created Grand Canyon also shaped the unique native fish that evolved in the Colorado River. Native fish have evolved their physiology, morphology and behavior to withstand high flood events. Flooding has been shown to benefit spawning, survival and recruitment of juvenile native...
Fire, forests and city water supply
Dennis W. Hallema, Alicia M. Kinoshita, Deborah A. Martin, Francois-Nicholas Robinne, Mauricio Galleguillos, Steven G. McNulty, Ge Sun, Kunwar K. Singh, Rua S. Mordecai, Peter F. Moore
2019, Unasylva (70) 58-66
Forest landscapes generate 57 percent of runoff worldwide and supply water to more than 4 billion people (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). As the world population continues to increase, there is a strong need to understand how forest processes link together in a cascade to provide people with water services like...
Report of the technical expert workshop: Developing recommendations for field response, captive management, and rehabilitation of sea turtles with fibropapillomatosis
Brian Stacy, Allen M. Foley, Thierry M. Work, Anne Lauritsen, Barbara Schroeder, Stacy A. Hargrove, Jennifer L. Keene
2019, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-60
Fibropapillomatosis (FP) is a disease of sea turtles that primarily manifests as tumors of the skin. Strandings of green turtles with this disease have dramatically increased in the Southeast U.S. over the last decade, necessitating a review of various practices related to the capture, handling, and treatment of afflicted turtles....
Effects of high flow events (and other factors) on Salmonids
Charles B. Yackulic
2019, Conference Paper, High-Flow Experiments Assessment Extended Abstracts
Spring and fall high flow events released by Glen Canyon Dam appear to affect rainbow and brown trout in different ways that also very geographically, however other environmental factors are likely to play as important, or more important. Teasing apart impacts is made difficult by the lack of experimental design...
Sources, timing, and fate of sediment and contaminants in the nearshore: insights from geochemistry
Renee K. Takesue, Kathleen E. Conn, Margaret Dutch
2019, Conference Paper, 2018 Salish Sea Toxics Monitoring Synthesis: A Selection of Research
Rivers in Cascade watersheds carry sediment with a volcanic composition that is distinct from the plutonic composition of the Puget lowlands. Compositional properties (signatures) allow discrimination of river-sourced Cascade from lowland sediment, and inferences about transport pathways. Surface sediment on land contains atmospheric radionuclides whose known decay rates define monthly...
Pallid sturgeon basin-wide contaminants assessment
Molly A. H. Webb, Diana Papoulias, David Rouse, Steve Alexander, Mandy L. Annis, Michael Coffey, Kevin Johnson, Aleshia Kenney, Mike McKee, Lourdes Mena, Karen Nelson, Matt Schwarz
2019, Report
Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus), listed as endangered in 1990 under the federal Endangered Species Act (United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), 1990), have declined due to habitat loss, commercial fishing, and hybridization. Pollution in the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers has to-date only received minor attention as a factor in...
Understanding the central Great Plains as a coupled climatic-hydrological-human system: Lessons learned in operationalizing interdisciplinary collaboration
Marcellus M. Caldas, Martha E. Mather, Jason S. Bergtold, Melinda Daniels, Gabriel Granco, Joseph Aistrup, David A. Haukos, Aleksey Y. Sheshukov, Matthew R. Sanderson, Jessica L. Heier Stamm
2019, Book chapter, Collaboration across boundaries for social-ecological systems science
This chapter discusses an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project to understand the interactions of agriculture, climate, and water resources in the Central Great Plains as a coupled natural-human system. We focus on the Smoky Hills Watershed in Kansas, where we gathered socioeconomic, hydrological, and climatic data, along with ecological data on...
Comparison of groundwater age models for assessing nitrate loading, transport pathways, and management options in a complex aquifer system
E.H. Koh, E. Lee, D. Kaown, Christopher Green, D.C. Koh, K.K Lee, Sangil Lee
2019, Hydrological Processes (32) 923-938
In an aquifer system with complex hydrogeology, mixing of groundwater with different ages could occur associated with various flow pathways. In this study, we applied different groundwater age estimation techniques (lumped parameter model, and numerical model) to characterize groundwater age distributions and the major pathways of nitrate contamination in the...
The accuracy of ecological flow metrics derived using a physics-based distributed rainfall-runoff model in the Great Plains, USA
Thomas A. Worthington, Shannon K. Brewer, Baxter Viex, Jonathan G. Kennen
2019, Ecohydrology (12)
The development of a hydrologic foundation, essential for advancing our understanding of flow-ecology relationships, was developed using the high-resolution physics-based distributed rainfall–runoff model Vflo in a semi-arid region. We compared the accuracy and bias associated with flow metrics that were generated using Vflo, gauge data, and drainage area ratios at both...
Factors controlling landslide frequency-area distributions
Hakan Tanyas, Cees J. van Westen, Kate E. Allstadt, Randall W. Jibson
2019, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (44) 900-917
A power‐law relation for the frequency–area distribution (FAD) of medium and large landslides (e.g. tens to millions of square meters) has been observed by numerous authors. But the FAD of small landslides diverges from the power‐law distribution, with a rollover point below which frequencies decrease for...
