Intercomparison of same-day remote sensing data for measuring winter cover crop biophysical traits
Alison Thieme, Kusuma Prabhakara, Jyoti Jennewein, Brian T. Lamb, Gregory T. McCarty, W. Dean Hively
2024, Sensors (24)
Winter cover crops are planted during the fall to reduce nitrogen losses and soil erosion and improve soil health. Accurate estimations of winter cover crop performance and biophysical traits including biomass and fractional vegetative groundcover support accurate assessment of environmental benefits. We examined the comparability of measurements between ground-based and...
Versatile modeling of deformation (VMOD) inversion framework: Application to 20 years of observations at Westdahl Volcano and Fisher Caldera, Alaska, US
Mario Angarita, Ronni Grapenthin, Scott Henderson, Michael S Christoffersen, Kyle R. Anderson
2024, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (25)
We developed an open source, extensible Python-based framework, that we call the Versatile Modeling of Deformation (VMOD), for forward and inverse modeling of crustal deformation sources. VMOD abstracts from specific source model implementations, data types and inversion methods. We implement the most common geodetic source models which can be combined...
Using climate-fire analog mapping to inform climate change adaptation strategies for wildland fire in protected areas of the conterminous US
Adam Terando, Peng Gao, John A. Kupfer, Kevin S. Young, J. Kevin Hiers
2024, Global Environmental Change Advances (2)
Potential changes in wildland fire regimes due to anthropogenic climate change can be projected using data from climate models, but directly applying these meteorological variables to long-term planning and adaptive management activities may be difficult for decision makers. Analog mapping, in...
SSEBop evapotranspiration estimates using synthetically derived Landsat data from the continuous change detection and classification algorithm
Mikael Peter Hiestand, Heather J. Tollerud, W. Chris Funk, Gabriel B. Senay, MacKenzie Friedrichs, Kate Fickas
2024, Remote Sensing (16)
The operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) model has been utilized to generate gridded evapotranspiration data from Landsat images. These estimates are primarily driven by two sources of information: reference evapotranspiration and Landsat land surface temperature (LST) values. Hence, SSEBop is limited by the availability of Landsat data. Here,...
Tracking data highlight the importance of human-induced mortality for large migratory birds at a flyway scale
Juan Serratosa, Steffen Oppel, Andrea Santangeli, Shay Rotics, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Luis S. Cano-Alonso, Jose Luis Telleria, Ryno Kemp, Aaron Nicholas, Aigars Kalvansj, Aitor Galarza, Aldina M. A. Franco, Alessandro Andreotti, Alexander N.G. Kirschel, Alex Ngari, Alvaro Soutullo, Ana Bermejo-Bermejo, Andre J Botha, Andrea Ferri, Angelos Evangelidis, Anna Cenerini, Anton Stamenov, Antonio Hernandez-Matias, Arianna Aradis, Atanas P Grozdanov, Beneharo Rodriguez, Cagan H. Sekercioglu, Catuxa Cerecedo-Iglesias, Christina Kassara, Christos Barboutis, Claire Bracebridge, Clara Garcia-Ripolles, Corinne J. Kendall, Damijan Denac, Dana G. Schabo, David R Barber, Dimitar V Popov, Dobromir D Dobrev, Egidio Mallia, Elena Kmetova-Biro, Ernesto Alvarez, Evan R Buechly, Evgeny A. Bragin, Fabrizio Cordischi, Fadzai Zengeya, Flavio Monti, Francois Mougeot, Gareth Tate, Georgi Stoyanov, Giacomo Dell'Omo, Giuseppe Lucia, Gradimir Gradev, Guido Ceccolini, Guilad Friedemann, Hans-Gunther Bauer, Holger Kolberg, Hristo Peshev, Ines Catry, Ingar J. Oien, Isidoro Carbonell Alanis, Ivan Literak, Ivan Pokrovsky, Ivar Ojaste, Jan E. Ostnes, Javier de la Puente, Joan Real, Joao L. Guilherme, Jose C. Gonzalez, Jose M. Fernandez-Garcia, Juan Antonio Gil, Julien Terraube, Karel Poprach, Karen Aghababyan, Katharina Klein, Keith L. Bildstein, Kerri Wolter, Kjell Janssens, Kyle D. Kittelberger, Lindy J. Thompson, Mansoor H. AlJahdhami, Manuel Galan, Marcin Tobolka, Mario Posillico, Mario Cipollone, Marion Gschweng, Maris Strazds, Mark Boorman, Mark Zvidzai, Marta Acacio, Marta Romero, Martin Wikelski, Matthias Schmidt, Maurizio Sara, Michael J. McGrady, Mindaugas Dagys, Monique L. Mackenzie, Muna Al Taq, Msafiri P. Mgumba, Munir Z. Virani, Nicolaos I. Kassinis, Nicolo Borgianni, Nikki Thie, Nikos Tsiopelas, Nili Anglister, Nina Farwig, Nir Sapir, Oddmund Kleven, Oliver Krone, Olivier Duriez, Orr Spiegel, Osama Al Nouri, Pascual Lopez-Lopez, Patrik Byholm, Pauline L. Kamath, Pawel Mirski, Peter Palatitz, Pietro Serroni, Rainer Raab, Ralph Buij, Ramūnas Žydelis, Ran Nathan, Rauri C.K. Bowie, Rigas Tsiakiris, Richard Stratton Hatfield, Roi Harel, Rolf T. Kroglund, Ron Efrat, Ruben Liminana, Salim Javed, Sasa P. Marinkovic, Sascha Rösner, Sasha Pekarsky, Shiv R. Kapila, Simeon A. Marin, Simon Krejci, Sinos Giokas, Siranush Tumanyan, Sondra Turjeman, Sonja C. Kruger, Steven R. Ewing, Stoycho Stoychev, Stoyan C. Nikolov, Tareq E. Qaneer, Theresa Spatz, Thomas G. Hadjikyriakou, Thomas Mueller, Todd E. Katzner, Tomas Aarvak, Tomas Veselovsky, Torgeir Nygard, Ugo Mellone, Ulo Vali, Urmas Sellis, Vicente Urios, Vladimir Nemcek, Volen Arkumarev, Wayne M. Getz, Wolfgang Fiedler, Willem Van den Bossche, Yael Lehnardt, Victoria R. Jones
2024, Biological Conservation (293)
Human-induced direct mortality affects huge numbers of birds each year, threatening hundreds of species worldwide. Tracking technologies can be an important tool to investigate temporal and spatial patterns of bird mortality as well as their drivers. We compiled 1704 mortality...
Deep learning of estuary salinity dynamics is physically accurate at a fraction of hydrodynamic model computational cost
Galen Gorski, Salme Ellen Cook, Amelia Marie Snyder, Alison P. Appling, Theodore Paul Thompson, Jared David Smith, John C. Warner, Simon Nemer Topp
2024, Limnology and Oceanography (69) 1070-1085
Salinity dynamics in the Delaware Bay estuary are a critical water quality concern as elevated salinity can damage infrastructure and threaten drinking water supplies. Current state-of-the-art modeling approaches use hydrodynamic models, which can produce accurate results but are limited by significant computational costs. We...
Groundwater and surface-water interactions in the He‘eia watershed, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i—Insights from analysis of historical data and numerical groundwater-model simulations
Scot K. Izuka, Heidi L. Kane, Kolja Rotzoll
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5020
He‘eia and ‘Ioleka‘a Streams in the He‘eia watershed on O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, receive substantial discharge from dike-impounded groundwater. Previous studies indicated that groundwater withdrawals from the watershed affect streamflow. Resource managers and users seek information that can be used to balance the needs of competing uses of groundwater and streamflow in...
Existing evidence on the effects of climate variability and climate change on ungulates in North America: A systematic map
Kate Malpeli, Sarah C. Endyke, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Laura Thompson, Ciara G. Johnson, Katherine Anne Kurth, Maxfield A. Carlin
2024, Environmental Evidence (13)
BackgroundClimate is an important driver of ungulate life-histories, population dynamics, and migratory behaviors. Climate conditions can directly impact ungulates via changes in the costs of thermoregulation and locomotion, or indirectly, via changes in habitat and forage availability, predation, and species interactions. Many studies have documented the effects of...
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) resource selection: Trade-offs between forage and predation risk
James W. Cain III, Jacob H. Kay, Stewart G. Liley, Jay V. Gedir
2024, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (12)
Ungulates commonly select habitat with higher forage biomass and or nutritional quality to improve body condition and fitness. However, predation risk can alter ungulate habitat selection and foraging behavior and may affect their nutritional condition. Ungulates often choose areas with lower predation risk, sometimes sacrificing higher quality forage. This forage–predation...
Evaluating the potential for efficient, UAS-based reach-scale mapping of river channel bathymetry from multispectral images
Carl J. Legleiter, Lee R. Harrison
2024, Frontiers in Remote Sensing (5)
Introduction: Information on spatial patterns of water depth in river channels is valuable for numerous applications, but such data can be difficult to obtain via traditional field methods. Ongoing developments in remote sensing technology have enabled various image-based approaches for mapping river bathymetry; this study evaluated the potential to retrieve...
Estimation and comparison of 1-percent annual exceedance probability flood flows at Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance study flow locations across Pennsylvania
Mitchell R. Weaver, Marla H. Stuckey, James E. Colgin, Mark A. Roland
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5133
Flood-flow estimates were computed at over 5,000 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood insurance study (FIS) flow locations across Pennsylvania for the 1-percent annual exceedance probability flood event (1-percent AEP). Depending on a point of interest’s proximity to a streamgage, weighting techniques may be applied to obtain flood-flow estimates for...
Classification of lakebed geologic substrate in autonomously collected benthic imagery using machine learning
Joseph K. Geisz, Phillipe Alan Wernette, Peter C. Esselman
2024, Remote Sensing (16)
Mapping benthic habitats with bathymetric, acoustic, and spectral data requires georeferenced ground-truth information about habitat types and characteristics. New technologies like autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) collect tens of thousands of images per mission making image-based ground truthing particularly attractive. Two types of machine learning (ML) models, random forest (RF) and...
Propensity score matching mitigates risk of faulty inferences in observational studies of effectiveness of restoration trials
Chad Raymond Kluender, Matthew J. Germino, Christopher A Anthony
2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) 1127-1137
Determining effectiveness of restoration treatments is an important requirement of adaptive management, but it can be non-trivial where only portions of large and heterogeneous landscapes of concern can be treated and sampled. Bias and non-randomness in the spatial deployment of treatment and thus sampling is nearly unavoidable in the...
Identifying an understudied interface: Preliminary evaluation of the use of retention ponds on commercial poultry farms by wild waterfowl
Jeffery D. Sullivan, Ayla McDonough, Lauren Lescure, Diann Prosser
2024, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (2024)
While the recent incursion of highly pathogenic avian influenza into North America has resulted in notable losses to the commercial poultry industry, the mechanism by which virus enters commercial poultry houses is still not understood. One theorized mechanism is that waterfowl shed virus into the environment surrounding poultry farms, such...
The potential influence of genome-wide adaptive divergence on conservation translocation outcome in an isolated greater sage-grouse population
Shawna J Zimmerman, Cameron L. Aldridge, Michael A Schroeder, Jennifer A. Fike, Robert S. Cornman, Sara J. Oyler-McCance
2024, Conservation Biology (38)
Conservation translocations are an important conservation tool commonly employed to augment declining or reestablish extirpated populations. One goal of augmentation is to increase genetic diversity and reduce the risk of inbreeding depression (i.e., genetic rescue). However, introducing individuals from significantly diverged populations risks disrupting coadapted traits and...
Bathymetric and velocimetric surveys at highway bridges crossing the Missouri River between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, May 19–26, 2021
Richard J. Huizinga
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5021
Bathymetric and velocimetric data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Transportation, near nine bridges at eight highway crossings of the Missouri River between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, from May 19 to 26, 2021. A multibeam echosounder mapping system was used...
Comparing modern identification methods for wild bees: Metabarcoding and image-based morphological taxonomic assignment
Cassandra Smith, Robert S. Cornman, Jennifer A. Fike, Johanna M. Kraus, Sara J. Oyler-McCance, Carrie E. Givens, Michelle L. Hladik, Mark W. Vandever, Dana W. Kolpin, Kelly Smalling
2024, PLoS ONE (19)
With the decline of bee populations worldwide, studies determining current wild bee distributions and diversity are increasingly important. Wild bee identification is often completed by experienced taxonomists or by genetic analysis. The current study was designed to compare two methods of identification including: (1) morphological identification...
Climate-driven increases in stream metal concentrations in mineralized watersheds throughout the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA
Andrew H. Manning, Tanya N. Petach, Robert L. Runkel, Diane M. McKnight
2024, Water Resources Research (60)
Increasing stream metal concentrations apparently caused by climate warming have been reported for a small number of mountain watersheds containing hydrothermally altered bedrock with abundant sulfide minerals (mineralized watersheds). Such increases are concerning and could negatively impact downstream ecosystem health, water resources, and mine-site remediation efforts. However,...
Land-use and land-cover change in the Lower Rio Grande Ecoregions, Texas, 2001–2011
Mark A. Drummond, Michael P. Stier, Jamie L. McBeth
2024, Data Report 1185
Urban growth and other land-use changes were examined in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Alluvial Floodplain ecoregions in Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. The analysis focused on understanding the types and causes of land change as well as the recovery of natural land-cover types between years 2001 and 2011....
Assessing spatial variability of nutrients, phytoplankton, and related water-quality constituents in the California Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta at the landscape scale—2018 high resolution mapping surveys
Brian A. Bergamaschi, Tamara E. C. Kraus, Bryan D. Downing, Elizabeth B. Stumpner, Katy O’Donnell, Jeffrey A. Hansen, Jeniffer Soto Perez, Emily T. Richardson, Angela M. Hansen, Alan Gelber
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5060
Executive Summary This study examined the abundance and distribution of nutrients and phytoplankton in the tidal aquatic environments of the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta (Delta) and Suisun Bay, comprising three spatial surveys conducted in May, July, and October of 2018 that used continuous underway high frequency sampling and measurements onboard a...
Characterizing structure in southern Summer Lake valley, Oregon using ground- and sUAS-based potential field geophysics
Tait E. Earney, Jonathan M.G. Glen
2024, Conference Paper
Summer Lake is located in south-central Oregon at the extreme northwestern extent of the Basin and Range Province, bordered by the Cascade Volcanic Province to the west and the High Lava Plains to the north. The valley hosts numerous hot springs and a small geothermal powerplant at the southeastern end...
A Robot Operating System (ROS) package for mapping flow fields in rivers via Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
Carl J. Legleiter, Michael Dille
2024, Software X (26)
Non-contact, remote sensing approaches to measuring flow velocities in river channels are widely used, but typical workflows involve acquiring images in the field and then processing data later in the office. To reduce latency between acquisition and output, with the ultimate goal of enabling real-time image velocimetry, we developed a...
Estimating migration timing and abundance in partial migratory systems by integrating continuous antenna detections with physical captures
Maria C. Dzul, William L. Kendall, Charles B. Yackulic, D.R. Van Haverbeke, P. Mackinnon, K. Young, M. Pillow, Joseph E Thomas
2024, Journal of Animal Ecology (93) 796-811
Many populations migrate between two different habitats (e.g. wintering/foraging to breeding area, mainstem–tributary, river–lake, river–ocean, river–side channel) as part of their life history. Detection technologies, such as passive integrated transponder (PIT) antennas or sonic receivers, can be placed at boundaries between habitats (e.g. near the confluence of rivers) to...
Triangle Area Water Supply Monitoring Project, North Carolina—Overview of hydrologic and water-quality monitoring activities and data quality assurance
J.C. Diaz, Rosemary Margaret Fanelli
2024, Open-File Report 2024-1003
Surface-water supplies are important sources of drinking water for residents in the Triangle area of North Carolina, which is located within the upper Cape Fear and Neuse River Basins. Since 1988, the U.S. Geological Survey and a consortium of local governments have participated in a cooperative effort, known as the...
Phytoplankton, taste-and-odor compounds, and cyanotoxin occurrence in four water-supply reservoirs in the Triangle area of North Carolina, April–October 2014
Celeste A. Journey, Anna M. McKee, Jessica C. Diaz
2024, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5001
Prior to 2014, local utilities and State agencies monitored for cyanotoxins and taste-and-odor (T&O) compounds and reported occasional detections in three water-supply reservoirs in Wake County, North Carolina. Comparable data for cyanotoxins and T&O compounds were lacking for other water-supply reservoirs in the Triangle area of North Carolina. This report...
