The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting Maine’s economy
Dan Walters
2023, Fact Sheet 2023-3036
IntroductionInland flooding, sea-level rise, and pollution pose challenges for Maine’s infrastructure and natural resources. A highly detailed, three-dimensional (3D) model of the Earth’s surface is allowing the State of Maine to address these challenges in an increasingly comprehensive and timely manner. In addition, highly accurate elevation data facilitate land development,...
Reach-scale associations between introduced Brook Trout and juvenile and stream-resident Bull Trout in Idaho
Nicholas S. Voss, Brett J. Bowersox, Michael C. Quist
2023, Transactions of American Fisheries Society (152) 835-848
ObjectiveNative Bull Trout Salvelinus confluentus populations can be influenced by a variety of stressors operating at multiple spatial scales, making the relative importance of biotic versus abiotic controls difficult to discern at small scales where monitoring and management typically occur. Nonnative Brook Trout S. fontinalis were widely introduced throughout western North...
Probabilistic source classification of large tephra producing eruptions using supervised machine learning: An example from the Alaska-Aleutian arc
Jordan Edward Lubbers, Matthew W. Loewen, Kristi L. Wallace, Michelle L. Coombs, Jason A. Addison
2023, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (24)
Alaska contains over 130 volcanoes and volcanic fields that have been active within the last 2 million years. Of these, roughly 90 have erupted during the Holocene, with many characterized by at least one large explosive eruption. These large tephra-producing eruptions (LTPEs) generate orders of magnitude more...
CreelCat, a Catalog of United States Inland Creel and Angler Survey Data
Nicholas Allen Sievert, Abigail Lynch, Holly Susan Embke, Ashley Robertson, Mitchel Lang, Anna Kaz, Matthew Robertson, Steve R. Midway, Lyndsie S. Wszola, Craig P. Paukert
2023, Scientific Data (10)
The United States Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat) contains a national compilation of angler and creel survey data collected by natural resource management agencies across the United States (including Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico). These surveys are used to help inform the management of...
Foundations of modeling resilience of tidal saline wetlands to sea-level rise along the U.S. Pacific Coast
Bruce G. Marcot, Karen M. Thorne, Joel A. Carr, Glenn R. Guntenspergen
2023, Landscape Ecology (38) 3061-3080
Context Tidal saline wetlands (TSWs) are highly threatened from climate-change effects of sea-level rise. Studies of TSWs along the East Coast U.S. and elsewhere suggest significant likely losses over coming decades but needed are analytic tools gauged to Pacific Coast U.S. wetlands.Objectives We predict the impacts of sea-level rise (SLR)...
Field observations and long short-term memory modeling of spectral wave evolution at living shorelines in Chesapeake Bay, USA
Nan Wang, Q. Chen, Hongqing Wang, William D. Capurso, Lukasz M. Niemoczynski, Ling Zhu, Gregg Snedden
2023, Applied Ocean Research (141)
Living shorelines as a nature-based solution for climate change adaptation were constructed in many places around the world. The success of this type of projects requires long-term monitoring for adaptive management. The paper presents a novel framework leveraging scientific machine learning...
Critical minerals: Germanium and cobalt in the Bornite deposit, southwestern Brooks Range, Alaska
Katharina Pfaff, Garth E. Graham, Alex Jones, Karen D. Kelley
2023, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 17th SGA biennial meeting
Increasing demand for Ge and Co has led to a renewed interest and focus on advancing our understanding of the occurrence, distribution, and sequestration of these critical elements in known ore deposits. A workflow using a variety of analytical techniques and co-registered datasets has been developed and was applied to...
National- to continental-scale governmental geophysical efforts for critical mineral mapping, USA
Anne E. McCafferty, Chelsea Morgan Amaral, Garth E. Graham
2023, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 17th SGA biennial meeting
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has established robust collaborations with domestic state and international geological surveys to provide geophysical and other types of earth science data that act to underpin critical mineral research efforts across the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (EMRI) is a...
Critical minerals in Climax-type magmatic-hydrothermal systems
Celestine N. Mercer, Mario A Guzman, Albert H. Hofstra, Joshua Mark Rosera
2023, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 17th SGA biennial meeting
Today’s global economy is challenged to meet the growing demand for commodities used in existing and emerging advanced technologies. Critical minerals are commodities found in a wide variety of ore deposits that are vital to the economic or national security of individual nations that are vulnerable to supply disruption. The...
James Tributary summary: A summary of trends in tidal water quality and associated factors, 1985-2021
Breck Maura Sullivan, Kaylyn Gootman, Alex Gunnerson, Cindy Johnson, Christopher A. Mason, Elgin Perry, Gopal Bhatt, Jennifer L. Keisman, James S. Webber, Jon Harcum, Mike Lane, Olivia Devereux, Qian Zhang, Rebecca Murphy, Renee Karrh, Tom Butler, Vanessa Van Note, Zhaoying Wei
2023, Report
The James Tributary Summary outlines change over time for a suite of monitored tidal water quality parameters and associated potential drivers of those trends for the period 1985 – 2021 and provides a brief description of the current state of knowledge explaining these observed changes. Water quality parameters described include...
Increasing ocean wave energy observed in Earth’s seismic wavefield since the late 20th century
Richard C. Aster, Adam T. Ringler, Robert Anthony, Thomas A. Lee
2023, Nature Communications (14)
Ocean waves excite continuous globally observable seismic signals. We use data from 52 globally distributed seismographs to analyze the vertical component primary microseism wavefield at 14–20 s period between the late 1980s and August 2022. This signal is principally composed of Rayleigh waves generated by ocean wave seafloor tractions at...
Importance of understanding bottom-up control when characterizing geothermal systems
Jared R. Peacock, Paul A. Bedrosian
2023, Conference Paper, Using the Earth to save the Earth (GRC transactions)
Methods designed to identify favorable areas for geothermal resources have traditionally been focused on near-surface information, namely data that can be compiled into a 2D map. However, these methods fail to account for the third dimension: depth. As a result, they do not incorporate deep crustal and mantle features like...
Evaluating a tandem human-machine approach to labelling of wildlife in remote camera monitoring
Laurence A. Clarfeld, Alexej P.K. Sirén, Brendan M. Mulhall, Tammy L. Wilson, Elena Bernier, John Farrell, Gus Lunde, Nicole Hardy, Katherine D. Gieder, Robert Abrams, Sue Staats, Scott McLellan, Therese M. Donovan
2023, Ecological Informatics (77)
Remote cameras (“trail cameras”) are a popular tool for non-invasive, continuous wildlife monitoring, and as they become more prevalent in wildlife research, machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to automate or accelerate the labor-intensive process of labelling (i.e., tagging) photos. Human-machine hybrid tagging approaches have been shown to greatly increase...
A novel boat-based field application of a high-frequency conductometric ammonium analyzer to characterize spatial variation in aquatic ecosystems
Emily T. Richardson, Angela Hansen, Tamara E. C. Kraus, Bryan D. Downing, Don Forsberg, John Stillian, Katy O’Donnell, Crystal Lee Sturgeon, Brian A. Bergamaschi
2023, Limnology and Oceanography Methods (21) 761-774
Documenting dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) concentration and form at appropriate temporal and spatial scales is key to understanding aquatic ecosystem health, particularly as DIN fuels primary productivity. In addition to point and non-point source nutrient inputs, factors such as hydrology, geomorphology, temperature, light, and biogeochemical transformations influence nutrient dynamics in...
Development of small uncrewed aerial systems for multi-instrument geophysical data acquisition in active geothermal systems
Grant Harold Rea-Downing, Claire Bouligand, Jonathan M.G. Glen, Tait E. Earney, Laurie A. Zielinski, Jacob Elliott Anderson, Peter J. Kelly
2023, Conference Paper, 2023 Summit on Drone Geophysics program book
Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (sUAS) serve as critical platforms for geophysical data collection at an intermediate scale between lower resolution, regional datasets collected via crewed aerial surveys, and high resolution, but spatially sparse sampling of ground-based data collection methods. Advances in sensor design and sUAS capabilities have led to rapid...
Decadal shifts in the population growth, regeneration, and health of Taxodium distichum in swamps of the Cache River Watershed, Illinois
Beth Middleton, Darren Johnson
2023, Journal for Nature Conservation (76)
Population projection models based on long-term trends in regeneration and tree survival can be used to predict the future stability of swamp forest species using water management. Population growth and regeneration of a foundational tree species in North American cypress swamps (Taxodium distichum) were compared...
Trade-offs in adapting to changes in climate, land use, and water availability in California
Nathan D. Van Schmidt, Tamara Wilson, Lorraine E. Flint, R. Langridge
2023, Ecology and Society (28)
Changes in land use and land cover, water systems, and climate are inextricably linked, and their combined stresses have had severe impacts in many regions worldwide. Integrated adaptation planning can support adaptive capacity by helping institutions manage land and water resources at regional to local scales. Linkages between these stressors...
Critical minerals for a carbon-neutral future
Douglas C. Kreiner, Jane M. Hammarstrom, Warren C. Day
2023, Eos, American Geophysical Union (104)
The Earth Mapping Resources Initiative is filling data gaps and fostering more holistic understanding of critical mineral resources in the United States using a novel mineral systems framework....
System-scale airborne electromagnetic surveys in the lower Mississippi River Valley support multidisciplinary applications
Burke J. Minsley, Ryan F. Adams, William H. Asquith, Bethany L. Burton, Bennett Eugene Hoogenboom, Stephanie R. James, Courtney D. Killian, Katherine J. Knierim, Wade H. Kress, Maxwell A. Lindaman, Andrew T. Leaf, James R. Rigby, Jonathan P. Traylor
2023, Conference Paper
The lower Mississippi River Valley spans over 200,000 square kilometres in parts of seven states, encompassing areas of critical groundwater supplies, natural hazards, infrastructure, and low-lying coastal regions. From 2018 - 2022, the U.S. Geological Survey acquired over 82,000 line-kilometres of airborne electromagnetic, radiometric, and magnetic data over this region...
Dating the penultimate great earthquake in south-central Alaska using tree-ring crossdating and radiocarbon wiggle-matching
David J Barclay, Peter J. Haeussler, Robert C. Witter
2023, Quaternary Science Advances (13)
A forest bed of tree stumps currently in the intertidal zone at Girdwood, south-central Alaska, records coseismic submergence during the penultimate great earthquake. Tree-ring samples from ten spruce stumps were crossdated to develop a 149-year-long ring-width chronology. Radiocarbon wiggle-matching found that single-ring ages from the chronology were offset 28 ± 7 years older...
Annotated bibliography of scientific research on greater sage-grouse published from October 2019 to July 2022
Elisabeth C. Teige, Logan M. Maxwell, Samuel E. Jordan, Tait K. Rutherford, Emma I. Dietrich, Ella M. Samuel, Alexandra L. Stoneburner, Nathan J. Kleist, Jennifer K. Meineke, Lea B. Selby, Alison C. Foster, Sarah K. Carter
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1082
Integrating recent scientific knowledge into management decisions supports effective natural resource management and can lead to better resource outcomes. However, finding and accessing scientific knowledge can be time consuming and costly. To assist in this process, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) created a series of annotated bibliographies on topics of...
A global long-term daily reanalysis of reference evapotranspiration for drought and food-security monitoring
Mike Hobbins, Timen Jansma, Daniel Sarmiento, Amy McNally, Tamuka Magadzire, Harikishan Jayanthi, Will Turner, Andrew Hoell, Greg Husak, Gabriel B. Senay, Olena Boiko, Michael Budde, Pamella Magone, Candida Dewes
2023, Nature Scientific Data (10)
NOAA has developed a global reference evapotranspiration (ET0) reanalysis using the UN Food and Agriculture Organization formulation (FAO-56) of the Penman-Monteith equation forced by MERRA phase 2 (MERRA2) meteorological and radiative drivers. The NOAA ET0 reanalysis is provided daily from January 1, 1980 to the near-present at a...
Multiple-well monitoring site adjacent to the Elk Hills Oil Field, Kern County, California
Rhett R. Everett, Janice M. Gillespie, Mackenzie M. Shepherd, Andrew Y. Morita, Maryanne Bobbitt, Christopher A. Kohel, John G. Warden
2023, Open-File Report 2023-1073
IntroductionThe Elk Hills Oil Field is one of the many fields selected for regional groundwater mapping and monitoring by the California State Water Resources Control Board as part of the Oil and Gas Regional Monitoring Program (California State Water Resources Control Board, 2015, 2022b; U.S. Geological Survey, 2022a). The U.S....
Bathymetric, hydrodynamic, biological, and water-quality characteristics of a nearshore area of the Laguna Madre near South Padre Island, Texas, 2021–22
Stephen P. Opsahl, Julio Ines Beltran, Darwin J. Ockerman
2023, Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5111
A variety of data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the City of South Padre Island, to better understand the physical and biological habitat in Tompkins Channel and adjacent seagrass beds in the lower Laguna Madre, Texas, where the construction of berms has been proposed in...
Using high-frequency monitoring data to quantify city-wide suspended-sediment load and evaluate TMDL goals
Samuel Adam Miller, James S. Webber, John D. Jastram, Marcus F Aguilar
2023, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (195)
Excess sediment is a common reason water bodies in the USA become listed as impaired resulting in total maximum daily loads (TMDL) that require municipalities to invest millions of dollars annually on management practices aimed at reducing suspended-sediment loads (SSLs), yet monitoring data are rarely used...
