Fisheries research and monitoring activities of the Lake Erie Biological Station, 2017
Kevin R. Keretz, Patrick Kocovsky, Richard T. Kraus, Christopher Vandergoot
2018, Report, Compiled reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission of the annual bottom trawl and acoustics surveys, 2017
This report presents biomass-based summaries of fish communities in western Lake Erie derived from USGS bottom trawl surveys from 2013 to 2017 during June and September. The survey design provided temporal and spatial coverage that does not exist in the interagency trawl database, and thus complemented the August Ohio-Ontario effort...
Status and trends of pelagic prey fish in Lake Huron, 2017
Timothy P. O’Brien, David M. Warner, Peter C. Esselman, Steve A. Farha, Steve Lenart, Chris Olds, Kristy Phillips
2018, Book chapter, Compiled reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission of the annual bottom trawl and acoustics surveys, 2017
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center conducted integrated acoustic and mid-water trawl surveys of Lake Huron in 1997 and annually from 2004-2017. The 2017 survey was conducted during September and included transects in Lake Huron’s main basin, Georgian Bay, and North Channel. Mean lake-wide pelagic fish...
Little islands recording global events: Late Quaternary sea level history and paleozoogeography of Santa Barbara and Anacapa Islands, Channel Islands National Park, California
Daniel R. Muhs, Lindsey T. Groves
2018, Western North American Naturalist (78) 540-589
Marine terraces are common on the Pacific Coast of North America and record interglacial high-sea stands superimposed on either stable or tectonically rising crustal blocks. Despite many years of study of these landforms in southern California, little work on terraces has been conducted on the two smallest of the California...
Preamble, part a: Groundwater quantity of South Asia
Clifford I. Voss
2018, Book chapter, Groundwater of South Asia
Climate change science and modeling
Patricia R. Butler-Leopold, Louis R. Iverson, Frank R. Thompson III, Leslie A. Brandt, Stephen D. Handler, Maria K. Janowiak, P. Danielle Shannon, Christopher W. Swanston, Scott Bearer, Alexander Bryan, Kenneth L. Clark, Greg Czarnecki, Philip DeSenze, William D. Dijak, Jacob S. Fraser, Paul F. Gugger, Andrea Hille, Justin Hynicka, Claire A. Jantz, Matthew C. Kelly, Katrina M. Krause, Inga P. La Puma, Deborah Landau, Richard G. Lathrop Jr., Laura P. Leites, Evan Madlinger, Stephen N. Matthews, Gulnihal Ozbay, Matthew P. Peters, Anantha Prasad, David A. Schmit, Collin Shephard, Rebecca Shirer, Nicholas S. Skowronski, Al Steele, Susan Stout, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, John Thompson, Richard M. Turcotte, David A. Weinstein, Alfonso Yanez
2018, Book chapter, General Technical Report NRS-181, Mid-Atlantic forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: A report from the Mid-Atlantic Climate Change Response Framework project
This chapter provides a brief background on climate change science, climate simulation models, and models that project the impacts of changes in climate on tree species and ecosystems. Throughout the chapter, boxes list resources for more information on each topic. A more detailed scientific review of climate change science, trends,...
Preliminary 2018 national seismic hazard model for the conterminous United States
Mark D. Petersen, Allison Shumway, Peter M. Powers, Charles Mueller, Sanaz Rezaeian, Morgan P. Moschetti, Daniel E. McNamara, Eric M. Thompson, Oliver S. Boyd, Nico Luco, Susan M. Hoover, Kenneth S. Rukstales
2018, Conference Paper, Earthquake Engineering. National Conference. 11TH 2018. (11NCEE) (12 Vols) Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy
The 2014 U.S. Geological Survey national seismic hazard model for the conterminous U.S. will be updated in 2018 and 2020 to coincide with the Building Seismic Safety Council’s Project 17 timeline for development of new building code design criteria. The two closely timed updates are planned to allow more time...
Efficacy of injectable tulathromycin for reduction of vertical transmission of Renibacterium salmoninarum in Spring Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Diane Elliott
2018, Report
Bacterial kidney disease (BKD) caused by Renibacterium salmoninarum (Rs) occurs nearly worldwide where wild or cultured salmonid fishes are present. Control of BKD is confounded by its two modes of transmission, horizontal (fish-to-fish) and vertical (from female parent to progeny via the eggs). A highly successful BKD control strategy employed...
Developing a global earthquake risk model
Vitor Silva, Helen Crowley, Kishor S. Jaiswal, Ana Beatriz Acevedo, Massimiliano Pittore, Murray Journey
2018, Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering
The understanding of earthquake risk is the first step towards the development and implementation of disaster risk reduction measures. However, in many countries, especially the countries of the developing world, earthquake risk models either do not exist or are publicly inaccessible. The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation and its partners have been supporting...
Basin-scale model for predicting marsh edge erosion
Navid H. Jafari, Qin J. Chen, Brady Couvillion, Cody L. Johnson, Thomas Everett
2018, Conference Paper, Coastal Engineering Proceedings
Recent attempts to relate marsh edge retreat rate to wave power have met varying levels of success. Schwimmer (2001) correlated wave power to marsh boundary retreat rates over a five-year period along sites within Rehoboth Bay, Delaware, USA. Marani et al. (2011) derived a linear relationship between volumetric retreat rate...
Earthquake scenarios in South America: Application to five major cities
Mabe Villar-Vega, Vitor Silva, Kishor S. Jaiswal
2018, Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering
Historical and projected climate in the northern Rockies Region
Linda A. Joyce, Marian Talbert, Darrin Sharp, Jeffrey T. Morisette, John J. Stevenson
2018, Book chapter, Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Northern Rocky Mountains [Part 1]. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-374
Climate influences the ecosystem services we obtain from forest and rangelands. Climate is described by the long-term characteristics of precipitation, temperature, wind, snowfall, and other measures of weather that occur over a long period in a particular place, and is typically expressed as long-term average conditions. Resource management practices are...
Damage accumulation for a two-story wood-frame building in sequences of induced earthquakes
R Chase, A.B. Liel, Nico Luco
2018, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 11th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering
In this study, a nonlinear model of a two-story multifamily wood-frame residential structure is subjected to recordings of sequences of induced earthquakes in order to quantify changes in fragility and accumulation of damage throughout multiple earthquake loadings. Initial efforts consisting of ground motion selection, building design, numerical modeling, and preliminary...
Revisiting the Apollo photogrammetric mapping system
Kenneth Edmundson, Oleg Alexandrov, Brent A. Archinal, Kris J. Becker, Tammy L Becker, Jesse Mapel, Zachary M. Moratto, Ara V. Nefian, Janet Richie, Mark S. Robinson, Makayla Shepherd, John Shinaman, Ethan Smith
2018, Conference Paper, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
The integrated photogrammetric mapping system flown on the last three Apollo lunar missions (15, 16, and 17) in 1971 and 1972 incorporated a Metric (mapping) Camera, a high-resolution Panoramic Camera, and a star camera and laser altimeter to provide support data. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Astrogeology Science Center, the Intelligent...
Multiphase hydromechanical iTOUGH2-EOS7C modeling study of underpressure development in shale during glacial loading cycles at the Bruce Nuclear Site, Ontario, Canada
Michelle R. Plampin
2018, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the TOUGH Symposium 2018
A deep geologic repository (DGR) for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste has been proposed at the Bruce nuclear site on the eastern flank of the Michigan Basin in southeastern Ontario, Canada. The repository would be placed at a depth of ~680 m, within a ~450 m-thick sequence of geologic media...
Streams do work: Measuring the work of low-order streams on the landscape using point clouds
Ethan J. Shavers, Larry V. Stanislawski
2018, Conference Paper, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
The mutable nature of low-order streams makes regular updating of surface water maps necessary for accurate representation. Low-order streams make up roughly half the streams in the conterminous United States by length, and small inaccuracies in stream head location can result in significant error in stream reach, order, and density....
Describing the distribution and productivity of biota along a nearshore to offshore gradient
David B. Bunnell, Patricia M. Dieter, David M. Warner, Lauren A. Eaton, Drew Eppehimer
2018, Report, Cooperative science and monitoring initiative (CSMI) Lake Michigan 2015 report
The Lake Michigan Lakewide Action and Management Plan (LAMP) proposed adding nutrients (phosphorus) to its “pollutant of concern” list in 2002, given that excessive nutrients were causing impairments in nearshore waters. Since that time, scientists have highlighted the “shunting” of nutrients to the nearshore (Hecky et al. 2004), owing to...
Population trends of birds wintering in the Central Valley of California
Edward R Pandolfino, Colleen M. Handel
2018, Book chapter, Trends and Traditions: Avifaunal Change in Western North America
Since the 1970s, the Central Valley of California has seen a large investment in preservation and restoration of wetlands and riparian areas. At the same time, grasslands have been lost to vineyards, orchards, and residential development at an accelerating rate. We analyzed data from 17 Christmas Bird Count circles that...
Multi-scale geophysical mapping of deep permafrost change after disturbance in interior Alaska, USA
Burke J. Minsley, Benjamin R. Bloss, Brian A. Ebel, David Matthew Rey, Michelle A. Walvoord, Dana R.N. Brown, Ronald Daanen, Abraham M. Emond, M. Andy Kass, Neal J. Pastick, Bruce Wylie
2018, Conference Paper, 5th European conference on permafrost, book of abstracts
Disturbance related to fire or hydrologic processes can cause degradation of deep (greater than 1 m) permafrost. These changes in deep permafrost have the potential to impact landscapes and infrastructure, alter the routing and distribution of surface water or groundwater, and may contribute to the flux of carbon to terrestrial...
Quantifying the effect of beating inferred from recorded responses of tall buildings
Mehmet Celebi
2018, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 11th national conference in earthquake engineering
The beating phenomenon observed in recorded earthquake responses of a tall building in Japan and of two others buildings in the U.S. are examined in this paper. The objective of the paper is to discuss the significance of beating and to estimate what percentage of total shaking energy impacting a...
Landscape conservation design for enhancing the adaptive capacity of coastal wetlands in the face of sea-level rise and coastal development
Michael J. Osland, Sinead Borchert, Nicholas Enwright
2018, Report
Coastal wetlands provide many valuable benefits to people and wildlife, including critical habitat, improved water quality, reduced flooding impacts, and protected coastlines. However, in the 21st century, accelerated sea-level rise and coastal development are expected to greatly alter coastal landscapes across the globe. The future of coastal wetlands is uncertain,...
Book review: Freshwater turtles of Australia
Jeffrey E. Lovich
2018, Herpetological Review (49) 571-572
No abstract available. ...
Airborne electromagnetic imaging of permafrost for hydrologic and infrastructure studies
Burke J. Minsley, Abraham M. Emond, David M. Rey, Ronald Daanen
2018, Conference Paper
Permafrost is found throughout northern latitudes, and hasfar reaching implications for natural and man-made environments including hydrologic processes, landscape dynamics, ecosystems, and infrastructure. While maps of near-surface permafrost characteristics are available, relatively little is known about permafrost distributions at depth over large areas. Here, we summarize several frequency domain airborne...
Wildlife policy and law in South America
Francisco Vilella
2018, Book chapter
No abstract available....
Status of pelagic prey fishes in Lake Michigan, 2017
David M. Warner, Ben Turscah, Dale Hanson, Timothy J. Desorcie, Timothy P. O’Brien, Patricia M. Dieter, Jason Smith
2018, Book chapter, Complied reports to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission of the annual bottom trawl and acoustics surveys, 2017
Acoustic surveys were conducted in late summer/early fall during the years 1992-1996 and 2001-2017 to estimate pelagic prey fish biomass in Lake Michigan. Midwater trawling during the surveys as well as target strength provided a measure of species and size composition of the fish community for use in scaling...
Evaluation of internet surveys for conducting statewide angler surveys in South Dakota
Larry M. Gigliotti, Kjetil Henderson
2018, Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science (97) 35-50
Stakeholder information is critical for effective fisheries management. Agencies have traditionally used infrequent mail surveys to collect human dimensions data. Internet surveys provide cost savings, but are associated with caution due to data quality issues. To improve study validity, survey access can be controlled using email invitations, but because these...
