SAFRR (Science Application for Risk Reduction) Tsunami Scenario--Executive Summary and Introduction: Chapter A in The SAFRR (Science Application for Risk Reduction) Tsunami Scenario
Stephanie L. Ross, Lucile M. Jones, Kevin H. Miller, Keith A. Porter, Anne Wein, Rick I. Wilson, Bohyun Bahng, Aggeliki Barberopoulou, Jose C. Borrero, Deborah M. Brosnan, John T. Bwarie, Eric L. Geist, Laurie A. Johnson, Stephen H. Kirby, William R. Knight, Kate Long, Patrick Lynett, Carl E. Mortensen, Dmitry J. Nicolsky, Suzanne C. Perry, Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Charles R. Real, Kenneth Ryan, Elena Suleimani, Hong Kie Thio, Vasily V. Titov, Paul M. Whitmore, Nathan J. Wood
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1170-A
The Science Application for Risk Reduction (SAFRR) tsunami scenario depicts a hypothetical but plausible tsunami created by an earthquake offshore from the Alaska Peninsula and its impacts on the California coast. The tsunami scenario is a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the California Geological Survey, the California Governor’s...
The SAFRR (Science Application for Risk Reduction) Tsunami Scenario
Stephanie L. Ross, Lucile M. Jones, editor(s)
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1170
The Science Application for Risk Reduction (SAFRR) tsunami scenario depicts a hypothetical but plausible tsunami created by an earthquake offshore from the Alaska Peninsula and its impacts on the California coast. The tsunami scenario is a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the California Geological Survey (CGS), the California...
The SAFRR Tsunami Scenario
K. Porter, Lucile M. Jones, Stephanie L. Ross, J. Borrero, J. Bwarie, D. Dykstra, Eric L. Geist, L. Johnson, Stephen H. Kirby, K. Long, P. Lynett, K. Miller, Carl E. Mortensen, S. Perry, G. Plumlee, C. Real, L. Ritchie, C. Scawthorn, H.K. Thio, Anne Wein, P. Whitmore, R. Wilson, Nathan J. Wood
Bruce I. Ostbo, Don Oates, editor(s)
2013, Conference Paper, Ports 2013: Success Through Diversification
The U.S. Geological Survey and several partners operate a program called Science Application for Risk Reduction (SAFRR) that produces (among other things) emergency planning scenarios for natural disasters. The scenarios show how science can be used to enhance community resiliency. The SAFRR Tsunami Scenario describes potential impacts of a hypothetical,...
Summit crater lake observations, and the location, chemistry, and pH of water samples near Mount Chiginagak volcano, Alaska: 2004-2012
Janet R. Schaefer, William E. Scott, William C. Evans, Bronwen Wang, Robert G. McGimsey
2013, Report of Investigations of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys 2011-6
Mount Chiginagak is a hydrothermally active volcano on the Alaska Peninsula, approximately 170 km south–southwest of King Salmon, Alaska (fig. 1). This small stratovolcano, approximately 8 km in diameter, has erupted through Tertiary to Permian sedimentary and igneous rocks (Detterman and others, 1987). The highest peak is at an elevation...
Geographic variation in migration chronology and winter distribution of midcontinent greater white-fronted geese
Craig R. Ely, Daniel J. Nieman, Ray T. Alisauskas, Joel A. Schmutz, James E. Hines
2013, Journal of Wildlife Management (77) 1182-1191
We evaluated spatial and temporal differences in migratory behavior among different breeding groups of midcontinent greater white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons) using band-recovery data and observations of neck collared geese during migration and winter. Birds from different breeding areas were initially delineated by geographic distance into 6 banding reference areas (BRAs):...
Integrated geophysical imaging of a concealed mineral deposit: a case study of the world-class Pebble porphyry deposit in southwestern Alaska
Anjana K. Shah, Paul A. Bedrosian, Eric D. Anderson, Karen D. Kelley, James Lang
2013, Geophysics (78) 317-328
We combined aeromagnetic, induced polarization, magnetotelluric, and gravity surveys as well as drillhole geologic, alteration, magnetic susceptibility, and density data for exploration and characterization of the Cu-Au-Mo Pebble porphyry deposit. This undeveloped deposit is almost completely concealed by postmineralization sedimentary and volcanic rocks, presenting an exploration challenge. Individual geophysical methods...
Coping with the cold: An ecological context for the abundance and distribution of rock sandpipers during winter in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska
Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Robert E. Gill Jr., T. Lee Tibbitts
2013, Arctic (66) 269-278
Shorebirds are conspicuous and abundant at high northern latitudes during spring and summer, but as seasonal conditions deteriorate, few remain during winter. To the best of our knowledge, Cook Inlet, Alaska (60.6˚ N, 151.6˚ W), is the world’s coldest site that regularly supports wintering populations of shorebirds, and it is...
Representing the effects of alpine grassland vegetation cover on the simulation of soil thermal dynamics by ecosystem models applied to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
S. Yi, N. Li, B. Xiang, X. Wang, B. Ye, A. D. McGuire
2013, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (118) 1186-1199
Soil surface temperature is a critical boundary condition for the simulation of soil temperature by environmental models. It is influenced by atmospheric and soil conditions and by vegetation cover. In sophisticated land surface models, it is simulated iteratively by solving surface energy budget equations. In ecosystem, permafrost, and hydrology models,...
The 3D Elevation Program: summary for Colorado
William J. Carswell Jr.
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3050
Elevation data are essential to a broad range of applications, including forest resources management, wildlife and habitat management, national security, recreation, and many others. For the State of Colorado, elevation data are critical for natural resources conservation, agriculture and precision farming, infrastructure and construction management, flood risk management, geologic resource...
Effects of fire on the thermal stability of permafrost in lowland and upland black spruce forests of interior Alaska in a changing climate
Elchin E. Jafarov, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, Helene Genet, Anthony D. McGuire, Sergey S. Marchenko
2013, Environmental Research Letters (8)
Fire is an important factor controlling the composition and thickness of the organic layer in the black spruce forest ecosystems of interior Alaska. Fire that burns the organic layer can trigger dramatic changes in the underlying permafrost, leading to accelerated ground thawing within a relatively short time. In this study,...
Geologic strip map along the Hines Creek Fault showing evidence for Cenozoic displacement in the western Mount Hayes and northeastern Healy quadrangles, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska
Warren J. Nokleberg, John N. Aleinikoff, Thomas K. Bundtzen, Maiana N. Hanshaw
2013, Scientific Investigations Map 3238
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The 3D Elevation Program: summary for Washington
William J. Carswell Jr.
2013, Fact Sheet 2013-3057
Elevation data are essential to a broad range of applications, including forest resources management, wildlife and habitat management, national security, recreation, and many others. For the State of Washington, elevation data are critical for natural resources conservation, agriculture and precision farming, infrastructure and construction management, flood risk management, geologic resource...
Trajectory of the arctic as an integrated system
Larry Hinzman, Clara Deal, Anthony D. McGuire, Sebastian H. Mernild, Igor V. Polyakov, John E. Walsh
2013, Ecological Applications (23) 1837-1868
Although much remains to be learned about the Arctic and its component processes, many of the most urgent scientific, engineering, and social questions can only be approached through a broader system perspective. Here, we address interactions between components of the Arctic System and assess feedbacks and the extent to which...
Response of global soil consumption of atmospheric methane to changes in atmospheric climate and nitrogen deposition
Qianlai Zhuang, Min Chen, Kai Xu, Jinyun Tang, Eri Saikawa, Yanyu Lu, Jerry M. Melillo, Ronald G. Prinn, A. David McGuire
2013, Global Biogeochemical Cycles (27) 650-663
Soil consumption of atmospheric methane plays an important secondary role in regulating the atmospheric CH4 budget, next to the dominant loss mechanism involving reaction with the hydroxyl radical (OH). Here we used a process-based biogeochemistry model to quantify soil consumption during the 20th and 21st centuries. We estimated that global...
Catalog of earthquake hypocenters at Alaskan volcanoes: January 1 through December 31, 2012
James P. Dixon, Scott D. Stihler, John A. Power, Matthew M. Haney, Tom Parker, Cheryl Searcy, Stephanie Prejean
2013, Data Series 789
Between January 1 and December 31, 2012, the Alaska Volcano Observatory located 4,787 earthquakes, of which 4,211 occurred within 20 kilometers of the 33 volcanoes monitored by a seismograph network. There was significant seismic activity at Iliamna, Kanaga, and Little Sitkin volcanoes in 2012. Instrumentation highlights for this year include...
Importance of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska for aquatic birds
Jonathan Bart, Robert M. Platte, Brad Andres, Stephen Brown, James A. Johnson, William Larned
2013, Conservation Biology (27) 1304-1312
We used data from aerial surveys (1992–2010) of >100,000 km2 and ground surveys (1998–2004) of >150 km2 to estimate the density and abundance of birds on the North Slope of Alaska (U.S.A.). In the ground surveys, we used double sampling to estimate detection ratios. We used the aerial survey data...
Distribution of late Pleistocene ice-rich syngenetic permafrost of the Yedoma Suite in east and central Siberia, Russia
Guido Grosse, Joel E. Robinson, Robin Bryant, Maxwell D. Taylor, William Harper, Amy DeMasi, Emily Kyker-Snowman, Alexandra Veremeeva, Lutz Schirrmeister, Jennifer Harden
2013, Open-File Report 2013-1078
This digital database is the product of collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks; the Los Altos Hills Foothill College GeoSpatial Technology Certificate Program; the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany; and the Institute of Physical Chemical and...
Radiocarbon dating late Quaternary loess deposits using small terrestrial gastropod shells
Jeff S. Pigati, John P. McGeehin, Daniel R. Muhs, E. Arthur Bettis III
2013, Quaternary Science Reviews (76) 114-128
Constraining the ages and mass accumulation rates of late Quaternary loess deposits is often difficult because of the paucity of organic material typically available for 14C dating and the inherent limitations of luminescence techniques. Radiocarbon dating of small terrestrial gastropod shells may provide an alternative to these methods as fossil shells...
Frictional-faulting model for harmonic tremor before Redoubt Volcano eruptions
Ksenia Dmitrieva, Alicia J. Hotovec-Ellis, Stephanie G. Prejean, Eric M. Dunham
2013, Nature Geoscience (6) 652-656
Seismic unrest, indicative of subsurface magma transport and pressure changes within fluid-filled cracks and conduits, often precedes volcanic eruptions. An intriguing form of volcano seismicity is harmonic tremor, that is, sustained vibrations in the range of 0.5–5 Hz. Many source processes can generate harmonic tremor. Harmonic tremor in the 2009 eruption...
Ecological correlates of variable organ sizes and fat loads in the most northerly-wintering shorebirds
Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Anne Dekinga, Robert E. Gill Jr., R.W. Summers, Theunis Piersma
2013, Canadian Journal of Zoology (91) 698-705
Shorebirds at northern latitudes during the nonbreeding season typically carry relatively large lipid stores and exhibit an up-regulation of lean tissues associated with digestion and thermogenesis. Intraspecific variation in these tissues across sites primarily reflects differences in environmental conditions. Rock (Calidris ptilocnemis (Coues, 1873)) and Purple (Calidris maritima (Brünnich, 1764))...
Quantifying long-term risks to sea otters from the 1989 'Exxon Valdez' oil spill: reply to Harwell & Gentile (2013)
Brenda E. Ballachey, James L. Bodkin, Daniel H. Monson
2013, Marine Ecology Progress Series (488) 297-301
Recovery of sea otter populations in Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska, has been delayed for more than 2 decades following the 1989 ‘Exxon Valdez’ oil spill. Harwell & Gentile (2013; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 488:291–296) question our conclusions in Bodkin et al. (2012; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 447:273-287) regarding adverse...
Energy cost of vessel disturbance to Kittlitz's Murrelets Brachyramphus brevirostris
Alison M. Agness, Kristin N. Marshall, John F. Piatt, James C. Ha, Glenn R. VanBlaricom
2013, Marine Ornithology: Journal of Seabird Research and Conservation (41) 13-21
We evaluated the energy cost of vessel disturbance for individual Kittlitz’s Murrelets Brachyramphus brevirostris in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, USA. We used Monte Carlo simulations to model the daily energy expense associated with flight from vessels by both breeding and non-breeding birds and evaluated risk based...
Antibodies to H5 subtype avian influenza virus and Japanese encephalitis virus in northern pintails (Anas acuta) sampled in Japan
Andrew M. Ramey, Erica Spackman, Jung-Yong Yeh, Go Fujita, Kan Konishi, Kiyoshi Uchida, John A. Reed, Benjamin R. Wilcox, Justin D. Brown, David E. Stallknecht
2013, Japanese Journal of Veterinary Research (61) 117-123
Blood samples from 105 northern pintails (Anas acuta) captured on Hokkaido, Japan were tested for antibodies to avian influenza virus (AIV), Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), and West Nile virus (WNV) to assess possible involvement of this species in the spread of economically important and potentially zoonotic pathogens. Antibodies to AIV...
Modeling spatially explicit fire impact on gross primary production in interior Alaska using satellite images coupled with eddy covariance
Shengli Huang, Heping Liu, Devendra Dahal, Suming Jin, Lisa R. Welp, Jinxun Liu, Shuguang Liu
2013, Remote Sensing of Environment (135) 178-188
In interior Alaska, wildfires change gross primary production (GPP) after the initial disturbance. The impact of fires on GPP is spatially heterogeneous, which is difficult to evaluate by limited point-based comparisons or is insufficient to assess by satellite vegetation index. The direct prefire and postfire comparison is widely used, but...
Estimating age ratios and size of Pacific walrus herds on coastal haulouts using video imaging
Daniel H. Monson, Mark S. Udevitz, Chadwick V. Jay
2013, PLoS ONE (8)
During Arctic summers, sea ice provides resting habitat for Pacific walruses as it drifts over foraging areas in the eastern Chukchi Sea. Climate-driven reductions in sea ice have recently created ice-free conditions in the Chukchi Sea by late summer causing walruses to rest at coastal haulouts along the Chukotka and...
