Airport deicers: An unrecognized source of phosphorus loading in receiving waters
Owen M. Stefaniak, Steven R. Corsi, Troy D. Rutter, Greg G. Failey
2023, Environmental Science and Technology (57) 17051-17060
Airport ice control products contributed to total phosphorus (TP) loadings in a study of surface water runoff at a medium-sized airport from 2015 to 2021. Eleven airport ice control products had TP concentrations from 1–807 mg L–1 in liquid formulas, while solid pavement deicer had a TP...
Microhabitat use of native Santa Ana sucker and arroyo chub in an effluent-dominated southern California stream
Brock Huntsman, Larry R. Brown, Jason May, Kai Palenscar, Kerwin Russell, Heather Dyer, Marissa L. Wulff, Brett Mills, Chris Jones
2023, Southwestern Naturalist (67) 192-204
A significant amount of the base flow of the Santa Ana River, located within California's arid Los Angeles metropolitan region, originates from two wastewater treatment facilities: the Rialto wastewater treatment facility and Rapid Infiltration and Extraction facility. The Santa Ana sucker (Pantosteus santaanae, syn. Catostomus santaanae) and arroyo chub...
Isothermal recombinant polymerase amplification and CRIPSR (CAS12A) assay detection of Renibacterium salmoninarum as an example for wildlife pathogen detection in environmental DNA samples
Erin D’Agnese, Dorothy M. Chase, Elizabeth Andruszkiewicz-Allan
2023, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (59) 545-556
Improving rapid detection methods for pathogens is important for research as we collectively aim to improve the health of ecosystems globally. In the northern hemisphere, the success of salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) populations is vitally important to the larger marine, aquatic, and terrestrial ecosystems they inhabit. This has led to managers cultivating...
A watershed moment for western U.S. dams
Amy E. East, Gordon E. Grant
2023, Water Resources Research (59)
The summer of 2023 is a notable time for water-resource management in the western United States: Glen Canyon Dam, on the Colorado River, turns 60 years old while the largest dam-removal project in history is beginning on the Klamath River. This commentary discusses these events in the context...
Submersed macrophyte density regulates aquatic greenhouse gas emissions
Meredith E. Theus, Nicholas E. Ray, Sheel Bansal, Meredith A. Holgerson
2023, JGR Biogeosciences (128)
Shallow freshwater ecosystems emit large amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), yet emissions are highly variable. The role that aquatic macrophytes play in regulating aquatic GHG emissions is uncertain despite their ability to dominate shallow waterbodies. Here, we studied the...
Mercury sources and budget for the Snake River above a hydroelectric reservoir complex
Austin K. Baldwin, Sarah E. Janssen, Michael T. Tate, Brett Poulin, Alysa Muir Yoder, Jesse Naymik, Christopher F. Larsen, Charles Hoovestol, David P. Krabbenhoft
2023, Science of the Total Environment (907)
Understanding sources of mercury (Hg) and methylmercury (MeHg) to a water body is critical for management but is often complicated by poorly characterized Hg inputs and in situ processes, such as inorganic Hg methylation. In this study, we determined inorganic Hg and MeHg concentrations...
Movement behavior, habitat selection, and functional responses to habitat availability among four species of wintering waterfowl in California
Cory T. Overton, Michael L. Casazza
2023, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (11)
Habitat selection analyses provide a window into the perceived value of habitats by animals and how those perceptions compare with other animals, change across time, or change in relation to availability (termed functional responses). Habitat selection analysis and functional responses can be used to develop strategies to avoid habitat limitations,...
Annual and inter-annual variability in the diffuse attenuation coefficient and turbidity in an urbanized Washington lake from 2013 to 2022 assessed using Landsat-8/9
Jennifer A. Schulien, Tessa Julianne Code, Curtis L. DeGasperi, David Beauchamp, Arielle Tonus Ellis, Arni H. Litt
2023, Remote Sensing (15)
Water clarity, defined in this study using measurements of the downwelling diffuse light attenuation coefficient (Kd) and turbidity, is an important indicator of lake trophic status and ecosystem health. We used in-situ measurements to evaluate existing semi-analytical models for Kd and turbidity, developed a regional turbidity model based on spectral shape,...
Impacts of acute and chronic suspended solids exposure on juvenile freshwater mussels
Wenyu Zhu, James L. Kunz, Eric Brunson, Christopher M. Barnhart, Henry Brown, Stephen E. McMurray, Andy Roberts, Christopher Shulse, Kathleen Trauth, Bin Wang, Jeffery A. Steevens, Baolin Deng
2023, Science of the Total Environment (905)
Construction activities may affect adjacent water systems by introducing increased levels of suspended solids into the water body and may subsequently affect the survival and growth of freshwater mussels. We tested three sediment types from sites in Missouri, including Spring River sediment (SRS), Osage River bank...
Ammonia and aquatic ecosystems – A review of global sources, biogeochemical cycling, and effects on fish
Thea M. Edwards, Holly J. Puglis, Jonathan Lopez Duran, Lillian Bradshaw, Douglas B. Kent, Aida Farag
2023, Science of the Total Environment (9097)
The purpose of this review is to better understand the full life cycle and influence of ammonia from an aquatic biology perspective. While ammonia has toxic properties in water and air, it also plays a central role in the biogeochemical nitrogen (N) cycle and...
Opera Dynamic Surface Water extents for Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (DSWX-HLS) validation activities
Nicholas Arena, Grace Bato, David Bekaert, Matthew Bonnema, Steven Chan, Bruce Chapman, John Jones, Alexander L. Handwerger, Alex Lewandowski, Charlie Marshak, Simran Sangha, Karthik Venkataramani
2023, Conference Paper
We present the validation methodology and results of Dynamic Surface Water eXtent from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (DSWx-HLS). The DSWx-HLS product is the first of the DSWx suite, comprised of products each which map water from Earth Observation optical and SAR satellites. We detail the generation of high-resolution (3 m) validation...
An integrated framework for examining groundwater vulnerability in the Mekong River Delta region
Kathryn Powlen, Saira M. Haider, Kyle W. Davis, Nina Burkardt, Sachin D. Shah, Stephanie Romanach, Matthew E. Andersen
2023, PLoS ONE (10)
The Mekong River provides water, food security, and many other valuable benefits to the more than 60 million Southeast Asian residents living within its basin. However, the Mekong River Basin is increasingly stressed by changes in climate, land cover, and infrastructure. These changes can affect water...
Comparing NISAR (using Sentinel-1), USDA/NASS CDL, and ground truth crop/non-crop areas in an urban agricultural region
Simon Kraatz, Brian T. Lamb, W. Dean Hively, Jyoti Jennewein, Feng Gao, Michael H. Cosh, Paul Siqueira
2023, Sensors (23)
A general limitation in assessing the accuracy of land cover mapping is the availability of ground truth data. At sites where ground truth is not available, potentially inaccurate proxy datasets are used for sub-field-scale resolution investigations at large spatial scales, i.e., in the Contiguous United States. The USDA/NASS Cropland...
In my experience: Groundwater-surface-water interactions reflect the path of least resistance
Donald O. Rosenberry
2023, Groundwater Monitoring and Remediation (43) 119-121
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Restructuring and serving web-accessible streamflow data from the NOAA National Water Model historic simulations
J. Michael Johnson, David L. Blodgett, Keith C. Clarke, Jon Pollak
2023, Nature, Scientific Data (10)
In 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration deployed the first iteration of an operational National Water Model (NWM) to forecast the water cycle in the continental United States. With many versions, an hourly, multi-decadal historic simulation is made available to the public. In all released...
Leaf litter decomposition and detrital communities following the removal of two large dams on the Elwha River (Washington, USA)
Carri J. LeRoy, Sarah A. Morley, Jeffrey J. Duda, Alex A. Zinck, Paris J. Lamoureux, Cameron Pennell, Ali Bailey, Caitlyn Oswell, Mary Silva, Brandy K. Kamakawiwo’ole, Sorrel Hartford, Jacqueline Van Der Hout, Roger Peters, Rebecca Mahan, Justin Stapleton, Rachelle Carina Johnson, Melissa M. Foley
2023, Frontiers of Ecology and Evolution (11)
Large-scale dam removals provide opportunities to restore river function in the long-term and are massive disturbances to riverine ecosystems in the short-term. The removal of two dams on the Elwha River (WA, USA) between 2011 and 2014 was the largest dam removal project to be completed by that time and...
Use of physical blockers to control invasive red swamp crayfish in burrows
Benjamin Lee Bates, Ann Allert, Mark L. Wildhaber, Jim Stoeckel
2023, Management of Biological Invasions (14) 709-729
The red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii is native to the southeast United States but has successfully invaded nearly every continent around the world. Although physical, biological, and chemical controls are employed to reduce or eliminate populations in open-water systems, terrestrial burrows provide a potential refuge from aquatic control treatments. We conducted burrow trials to...
Hydrologic investigations of green infrastructure by the Central Midwest Water Science Center
Allison A. Atkinson, David C. Heimann, Clinton R. Bailey
2023, Fact Sheet 2023-3043
The water management system within developed communities includes stormwater, wastewater, and drinking-water sources and sinks. Each water management system component provides critical services that support public health in these areas. Stormwater can be quite variable and difficult to manage in developed communities because the amount of stormwater that must...
High potential but low achievement: Frequent disturbance constrains the light use efficiency of river ecosystems
Audrey Thellman, Philip Savoy, Emily S. Bernhardt
2023, Ecosphere (14)
We rarely consider light limitation in ecosystem productivity, yet light limitation is a major constraint on river autotrophy. Because the light that reaches benthic autotrophs must first pass through terrestrial vegetation and an overlying water column that can be loaded with sediments or colored organic material, there is strong selection...
Respiratory acclimation of tropical forest roots in response to in situ experimental warming and hurricane disturbance
Rob Tunison, Tana E. Wood, Sasha C. Reed, Molly A. Cavaleri
2023, Ecosystems (27) 168-184
Climate projections predict higher temperatures and more frequent hurricanes in the tropics. Tropical plants subjected to these stresses may respond by acclimating their physiology. We investigated tropical forest root respiration in response to in situ experimental warming and hurricane disturbance in eastern Puerto Rico. We measured...
Arsenic, chromium, uranium, and vanadium in rock, alluvium, and groundwater, Mojave River and Morongo Areas, western Mojave Desert, southern California
John A. Izbicki, Krishangi D. Groover, Whitney A. Seymour
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5089
Trace elements within groundwater that originate from aquifer materials and pose potential public-health hazards if consumed are known as geogenic contaminants. The geogenic contaminants arsenic, chromium, and vanadium can form negatively charged ions with oxygen known as oxyanions. Uranium complexes with bicarbonate and carbonate to form negatively charged ions having...
Snowpack relative permittivity and density derived from near-coincident lidar and ground-penetrating radar
Randall Bonnell, Daniel McGrath, Andrew Hedrick, Ernesto Trujillo, Tate Meehan, Keith Williams, Hans-Peter Marshall, Graham A. Sexstone, John W, Fulton, Michael Ronayne, Steven R. Fassnacht, Ryan Webb, Katherine Hale
2023, Hydrological Processes (37)
Depth-based and radar-based remote sensing methods (e.g., lidar, synthetic aperture radar) are promising approaches for remotely measuring snow water equivalent (SWE) at high spatial resolution. These approaches require snow density estimates, obtained from in-situ measurements or density models, to calculate SWE. However, in-situ measurements...
Cultivating resilience in dryland soils: An assisted migration approach to biological soil crust restoration
Sierra Jech, Natalie K. Day, Nichole Barger, Anita Antoninka, Matthew A. Bowker, Sasha C. Reed, Colin L Tucker
2023, Microorganisms (11)
Land use practices and climate change have driven substantial soil degradation across global drylands, impacting ecosystem functions and human livelihoods. Biological soil crusts, a common feature of dryland ecosystems, are under extensive exploration for their potential to restore the stability and fertility of degraded soils through the development of inoculants....
Seven dam challenges for migratory fish: Insights from the Penobscot River
Joseph D. Zydlewski, Stephen M. Coghlan, Cody Dillingham, Guillermo Figueroa-Munoz, Carolyn Merriam, Sean Smith, Rylee Smith, Daniel S. Stich, Sarah K. Vogel, Karen Wilson, Gayle B. Zydlewski
2023, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (11)
More than a century of impoundments in the Penobscot River, Maine, USA, has contributed to population declines in migratory fish in the system. A decade of change, research, and monitoring has revealed direct and indirect ways that dams have influenced the river habitat, connectivity for migratory fish, and the food...
Evaluation of breeding distribution and chronology of North American scoters
Kristin Bianchini, Scott G. Gilliland, Alicia Berlin, Timothy D. Bowman, W. Sean Boyd, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Daniel Esler, Joseph R. Evenson, Paul L. Flint, Christine Lepage, Scott R. McWilliams, Dustin E. Meattey, Jason E. Osenkowski, Matthew Perry, Jean-Francois Poulin, Eric T. Reed, Christian Roy, Jean-Pierre L. Savard, Lucas Savoy, Jason L Schamber, Caleb S. Spiegel, John Takekawa, David H. Ward, Mark L. Mallory
2023, Wildlife Biology (2023)
North America's scoter species are poorly monitored relative to other waterfowl. Black Melanitta americana, surf M. perspicillata, and white-winged M. deglandi scoter abundance and trend estimates are thus uncertain in many parts of these species' ranges. The most extensive source of waterfowl abundance and distribution data in North...
