Tree species preferences of foraging songbirds during spring migration in floodplain forests of the Upper Mississippi River
Eileen M. Kirsch, Mike J. Wellik
2017, American Midland Naturalist (177) 226-249
Floodplain forest of the Upper Mississippi River is important for songbirds during spring migration. However, the altered hydrology of this system and spread of reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) and emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) threaten tree diversity and long-term sustainability of this forest. We estimated tree preferences of songbirds...
Evidence of Asian carp spawning upstream of a key choke point in the Mississippi River
James H. Larson, Brent C. Knights, S. Grace McCalla, Emy Monroe, Maren T. Tuttle-Lau, Duane Chapman, Amy E. George, Jonathan M. Vallazza, Jon Amberg
2017, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (37) 903-919
Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, Silver Carp H. molitrix, and Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella(collectively termed “Asian carp”) were introduced into North America during the 1960s and 1970s and have become established in the lower Mississippi River basin. Previously published evidence for spawning of these species in the upper Mississippi River has been limited to...
Higher sensitivity and lower specificity in post-fire mortality model validation of 11 western US tree species
Jeffrey M. Kane, Phillip J. van Mantgem, Laura Lalemand, MaryBeth Keifer
2017, International Journal of Wildland Fire (26) 444-454
Managers require accurate models to predict post-fire tree mortality to plan prescribed fire treatments and examine their effectiveness. Here we assess the performance of a common post-fire tree mortality model with an independent dataset of 11 tree species from 13 National Park Service units in the western USA. Overall model...
Adjusting central and eastern North America ground-motion intensity measures between sites with different reference-rock site conditions
David Boore, Kenneth W. Campbell
2017, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (107) 132-148
Adjustment factors are provided for converting ground‐motion intensity measures between central and eastern North America (CENA) sites with different reference‐rock site conditions (VS30=760, 2000, and 3000 m/s) for moment magnitudes ranging from 2 to 8, rupture distances ranging from 2 to 1200 km, Fourier amplitude spectra (FAS) for frequencies ranging from 0.01...
Emplacement of Holocene silicic lava flows and domes at Newberry, South Sister, and Medicine Lake volcanoes, California and Oregon
Jonathan H. Fink, Steve W. Anderson
2017, Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5022-I
This field guide for the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) Scientific Assembly 2017 focuses on Holocene glassy silicic lava flows and domes on three volcanoes in the Cascade Range in Oregon and California: Newberry, South Sister, and Medicine Lake volcanoes. Although obsidian-rich lava flows...
Seroprevalence of Baylisascaris procyonis infection among humans, Santa Barbara County, California, USA, 2014–2016
Sara B. Weinstein, Camille M. Lake, Holly M. Chastain, David Fisk, Sukwan Handali, Philip L. Kahn, Susan P. Montgomery, Patricia P. Wilkins, Armand M. Kuris, Kevin D. Lafferty
2017, Emerging Infectious Diseases (23) 1397-1399
Baylisascaris procyonis (raccoon roundworm) infection is common in raccoons and can cause devastating pathology in other animals, including humans. Limited information is available on the frequency of asymptomatic human infection. We tested 150 adults from California, USA, for B. procyonis antibodies; 11 were seropositive, suggesting that subclinical infection does occur....
Physical characteristics of the lower San Joaquin River, California, in relation to white sturgeon spawning habitat, 2011–14
Mathieu D. Marineau, Scott Wright, Daniel R. Whealdon-Haught, Paul J. Kinzel
2017, Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5069
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed that white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) recently spawned in the lower San Joaquin River, California. Decreases in the San Francisco Bay estuary white sturgeon population have led to an increased effort to understand their migration behavior and habitat preferences. The preferred spawning habitat of...
Observations of indirect filial cannibalism in response to nest failure of Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Brianne E. Brussee, Peter S. Coates, Ian Dwight, Laura G. Young
2017, Wilson Journal of Ornithology (129) 390-394
During 2011, four separate instances of indirect filial cannibalism, whereby adults consumed their young that died from unknown causes, were observed using video-monitoring techniques in a nesting colony of Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) on Alcatraz Island. Though they were not observed actively killing their young, in all four observations adult...
Biological and ecological science for Montana—The Treasure State
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2017, Fact Sheet 2017-3052
Montana is rich in minerals, energy, and soils, as well as prairies, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, fish, and wildlife. Many enterprises that drive the economy are based on natural resources, including tourism, hunting, fishing, agriculture, and energy development. The outdoor-recreation economy alone supports 64,000 Montana jobs and generates nearly...
Assessment of continuous oil and gas resources in the San Jorge Basin Province, Argentina, 2017
Christopher J. Schenk, Tracey J. Mercier, Sarah J. Hawkins, Marilyn E. Tennyson, Kristen R. Marra, Thomas M. Finn, Phuong A. Le, Michael E. Brownfield, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller, Cheryl A. Woodall
2017, Fact Sheet 2017-3043
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated mean undiscovered, technically recoverable resources of 78 million barrels of oil and 8.9 trillion cubic feet of gas in the San Jorge Basin Province, Argentina....
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Cuyo Basin Province, Argentina, 2017
Christopher J. Schenk, Michael E. Brownfield, Marilyn E. Tennyson, Phuong A. Le, Tracey J. Mercier, Thomas M. Finn, Sarah J. Hawkins, Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Kristen R. Marra, Timothy R. Klett, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller, Cheryl A. Woodall
2017, Fact Sheet 2017-3042
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated mean undiscovered, technically recoverable resources of 236 million barrels of oil and 112 billion cubic feet of associated gas in the Cuyo Basin Province, Argentina....
National assessment of shoreline change—Summary statistics for updated vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Atlantic coasts
Emily A. Himmelstoss, Meredith G. Kratzmann, E. Robert Thieler
2017, Open-File Report 2017-1015
Long-term rates of shoreline change for the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Atlantic regions of the United States have been updated as part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Assessment of Shoreline Change project. Additional shoreline position data were used to compute rates where the previous rate-of-change assessment only included...
Group inverse sampling: An economical approach to inverse sampling
Bardia Panahbehagh, David R. Smith
2017, Environmetrics (28)
Inverse sampling is an adaptive design in the sense that the final sampling effort during a search for rare events will depend on what is found during the survey. Conventional inverse sampling (CIS) designs successively select individual sampling units to find, for example, the k th rare event. In real...
Case studies of riparian and watershed restoration in the southwestern United States—Principles, challenges, and successes
Barbara E. Ralston, Daniel A. Sarr
Barbara E. Ralston, Daniel A. Sarr, editor(s)
2017, Open-File Report 2017-1091
Globally, rivers and streams are highly altered by impoundments, diversions, and stream channelization associated with agricultural and water delivery needs. Climate change imposes additional challenges by further reducing discharge, introducing variability in seasonal precipitation patterns, and increasing temperatures. Collectively, these changes in a river or stream’s annual hydrology affects...
Brackish groundwater and its potential to augment freshwater supplies
Jennifer S. Stanton, Kevin F. Dennehy
2017, Fact Sheet 2017-3054
Secure, reliable, and sustainable water resources are fundamental to the Nation’s food production, energy independence, and ecological and human health and well-being. Indications are that at any given time, water resources are under stress in selected parts of the country. The large-scale development of groundwater resources has caused declines in...
Lithofacies and sequence stratigraphic description of the upper part of the Avon Park Formation and the Arcadia Formation in U.S. Geological Survey G–2984 test corehole, Broward County, Florida
Kevin J. Cunningham, Edward Robinson
2017, Open-File Report 2017-1074
Rock core and sediment from U.S. Geological Survey test corehole G–2984 completed in 2011 in Broward County, Florida, provide an opportunity to improve the understanding of the lithostratigraphic, sequence stratigraphic, and hydrogeologic framework of the intermediate confining unit and Floridan aquifer system in southeastern Florida. A multidisciplinary approach including characterization...
Storage filters upland suspended sediment signals delivered from watersheds
James E. Pizzuto, Jeremy Keeler, Katherine Skalak, Diana Karwan
2017, Geology (45) 151-154
Climate change, tectonics, and humans create long- and short-term temporal variations in the supply of suspended sediment to rivers. These signals, generated in upland erosional areas, are filtered by alluvial storage before reaching the basin outlet. We quantified this filter using a random walk model driven by sediment budget data,...
Effect of NOAA satellite orbital drift on AVHRR-derived phenological metrics
Lei Ji, Jesslyn F. Brown
2017, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (62) 215-223
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center routinely produces and distributes a remote sensing phenology (RSP) dataset derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) 1-km data compiled from a series of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites (NOAA-11, −14, −16, −17, −18,...
Oil Shale
Justin E. Birdwell
2017, Book chapter, Encyclopedia of Geochemistry
Oil shales are fine-grained sedimentary rocks formed in many different depositional environments (terrestrial, lacustrine, marine) containing large quantities of thermally immature organic matter in the forms of kerogen and bitumen. If defined from an economic standpoint, a rock containing a sufficient concentration of oil-prone kerogen to generate economic quantities of...
Limiting the effects of earthquakes on gravitational-wave interferometers
Michael Coughlin, Paul S. Earle, Jan Harms, Sebastien Biscans, Christopher Buchanan, Eric Coughlin, Fred Donovan, Jeremy Fee, Hunter Gabbard, Michelle M. Guy, Nikhil Mukund, Matthew Perry
2017, Classical and Quantum Gravity (34)
Ground-based gravitational wave interferometers such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) are susceptible to ground shaking from high-magnitude teleseismic events, which can interrupt their operation in science mode and significantly reduce their duty cycle. It can take several hours for a detector to stabilize enough to return to its...
Assessment of continuous oil and gas resources in the Perth Basin Province, Australia, 2017
Christopher J. Schenk, Marilyn E. Tennyson, Thomas M. Finn, Tracey J. Mercier, Sarah J. Hawkins, Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Kristen R. Marra, Timothy R. Klett, Phuong A. Le, Heidi M. Leathers-Miller, Cheryl A. Woodall
2017, Fact Sheet 2017-3039
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey assessed undiscovered, technically recoverable mean resources of 223 million barrels of oil and 14.5 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Perth Basin Province, Australia....
Three approaches for estimating recovery factors in carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery
Mahendra K. Verma, editor(s)
2017, Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5062
PrefaceThe Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 authorized the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct a national assessment of geologic storage resources for carbon dioxide (CO2) and requested the USGS to estimate the “potential volumes of oil and gas recoverable by injection and sequestration of industrial carbon dioxide in...
General introduction and recovery factors
Mahendra K. Verma
2017, Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5062-A
IntroductionThe U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) compared methods for estimating an incremental recovery factor (RF) for the carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) process involving the injection of CO2 into oil reservoirs. This chapter first provides some basic information on the RF, including its dependence on various reservoir and operational parameters,...
Using CO2 Prophet to estimate recovery factors for carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery
Emil D. Attanasi
2017, Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5062-B
IntroductionThe Oil and Gas Journal’s enhanced oil recovery (EOR) survey for 2014 (Koottungal, 2014) showed that gas injection is the most frequently applied method of EOR in the United States and that carbon dioxide (CO2 ) is the most commonly used injection fluid for miscible operations. The CO2-EOR process typically...
Application of decline curve analysis to estimate recovery factors for carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery
Hossein Jahediesfanjani
2017, Scientific Investigations Report 2017-5062-C
IntroductionIn the decline curve analysis (DCA) method of estimating recoverable hydrocarbon volumes, the analyst uses historical production data from a well, lease, group of wells (or pattern), or reservoir and plots production rates against time or cumulative production for the analysis. The DCA of an individual well is founded on...
