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Recent Publications - March-April 2013

By Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program April 30, 2013

A selection of recent USGS publications and data releases based on coastal and marine research.

  • Ackerman, J.T., Herzog, M.P., and Schwarzbach, S.E., 2013, Methylmercury is the predominant form of mercury in bird eggs; a synthesis: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 47, no. 4, p. 2052–2060, doi:10.1021/es304385y [https://doi.org/10.1021/es304385y].
  • Andrews, B.D., Ackerman, S.D., Baldwin, W.E., Foster, D.S., and Schwab, W.C., 2013, High-resolution geophysical data from the inner continental shelf at Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1006, DVD-ROM [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1006/].
  • Apotsos, A., Gelfenbaum, G., and Jaffe, B., 2012, Time-dependent onshore tsunami response: Coastal Engineering, v. 64, p. 73–86, doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2012.01.001 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2012.01.001].
  • Atwater, B.F., ten Brink, U.S., Buckley, M., Halley, R.S., Jaffe, B.E., Lopez-Venagas, A.M., Reinhardt, E.G., Tuttle, M.P., Watt, S., and Wei, Y., 2012, Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence for an unusual tsunami or storm a few centuries ago at Anegada, British Virgin Islands, Natural Hazards, v. 63, no. 1, p. 51–84. doi:10.1007/s11069-010-9622-6 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-010-9622-6].
  • Barnard, P.L., Foxgrover, A.C., Elias, E.P.L., Erikson, L.H., Hein, J.R., McGann, M., Mizell, K., Rosenbauer, R.J., Swarzenski, P.W., Takesue, R.K., Wong, F.L. and Woodrow, D.L., 2013, Integration of bed characteristics, geochemical tracers, current measurements, and numerical modeling for assessing the provenance of beach sand in the San Francisco Bay coastal system: Marine Geology, v. 336, p. 120–145 and Special Issue SF Bay, 26 p., doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2012.11.008 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2012.11.008].
  • Barnard, P.L., Hubbard, D.M. and Dugan, J.E., 2012, Beach response dynamics of a littoral cell using a 17-year single-point time series of sand thickness: Geomorphology, v. 139–140, p. 588–598, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.023 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.023].
  • Buckley, M.L., Wei, Y., Jaffe, B.E., and Watt, S.G., 2012, Inverse modeling of velocities and inferred cause of overwash that emplaced inland fields of boulders at Anegada, British Virgin Islands: Natural Hazards, v. 63, no. 1, p. 133–149, doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9725-8 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9725-8].
  • Buscombe, D., and Rubin, D.M., 2012, Advances in the simulation and automated measurement of well-sorted granular material; 1, simulation: Journal of Geophysical Research–Earth Surface, v. 117, F02001, 17 p., doi:10.1029/2011JF001974 [https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JF001974].
  • Buscombe, D., and Rubin, D.M., 2012, Advances in the simulation and automated measurement of well sorted granular material; 2, direct measures of particle properties: Journal of Geophysical Research–Earth Surface, v. 117, F02002, 18 p., doi:10.1029/2011JF001975 [https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JF001975].
  • Conaway, C.H., Draut, A.E., Echols, K.R., Storlazzi, C.D., and Ritchie, A., 2012, Episodic suspended sediment transport and elevated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a small, mountainous river in coastal California: River Research and Applications, 14 p., published online June 7, 2012, doi:10.1002/rra.2582 [https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.2582].
  • Conaway, C.H., Storlazzi, C.D., Draut, A.E., and Swarzenski, P.W., 2013. Short-term variability of 7Be atmospheric deposition and watershed response in a Pacific coastal stream, Monterey Bay, California, USA: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, v. 120, p. 94–103, doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.02.004 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.02.004].
  • Dalyander, P.S., Butman, B., Sherwood, C.R., Signell, R.P., and Wilkin, J.L., 2013, Characterizing wave- and current-induced bottom shear stress—U.S. middle Atlantic continental shelf: Continental Shelf Research, v. 52, p. 73–86, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2012.10.012 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2012.10.012].
  • Denny, J.F., Schwab, W.C., Baldwin, W.E., Barnhardt, W.A., Gayes, P.T., Morton, R.A., Warner, J.C., Driscoll, N.W., and Voulgaris, G., 2013, Holocene sediment distribution on the inner continental shelf of northeastern South Carolina—implications for the regional sediment budget and long-term shoreline response: Continental Shelf Research, v. 56, p. 56–70, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2013.02.004 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2013.02.004].
  • Draut, A.E., 2012, Effects of river regulation on aeolian landscapes, Colorado River, southwestern USA: Journal of Geophysical Research—Earth Surface, v. 117, F02022, 22 p., doi:10.1029/2011JF002329 [https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JF002329].
  • Draut, A.E., and Clift, P.D., 2013, Differential preservation in the geologic record of intraoceanic arc sedimentary and tectonic processes: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 116, p. 57–84, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.11.003 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.11.003].
  • Draut, A.E., Redsteer, M.H., and Amoroso, L., 2012, Recent seasonal variations in arid landscape cover and aeolian sand mobility, Navajo Nation, southwestern U.S., in Giosan, L., Fuller, D.Q., Nicoll, K., Flad, R.K., and Clift, P.D., eds., Climate, landscapes and civilizations: American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 198, p. 51–60, [http://www.agu.org/books/gm/v198/].
  • Draut, A.E., Redsteer, M.H., and Amoroso, L., 2012, Vegetation, substrate, and aeolian sand transport at Teesto Wash, Navajo Nation, 2009–12: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5095, 71 p., [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5095/].
  • Elias, E.P.L., and Hansen, J.E., 2012, Understanding processes controlling sediment transports at the mouth of a highly energetic inlet system (San Francisco Bay, CA): Marine Geology, published online July 15, 2012, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2012.07.003 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2012.07.003].
  • Futch, J.C., Griffin, D.W., and Lipp, E.K., 2012, Navigational inlets are conduits for land-based sources of pollution, in Kruczynski, W.L., and Gletcher, P.J., eds., Tropical connections—South Florida's marine environment: IAN Press, University of Maryland Center for Envrionmental Science, Cambridge, Md., p. 149 [http://ian.umces.edu/press/books/publication/374/tropical_connections_s…].
  • Gallien, T.W., Barnard, P.L., van Ormondt, M., Foxgrover, A.C., and Sanders, B.F., 2012, A parcel-scale coastal flood forecasting prototype for a Southern California urbanized embayment: Journal of Coastal Research, published online November 6, 2012, doi:10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00114.1 [https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00114.1].
  • Goff, J., Chagué-Goff, C., Nichol, S., Jaffe, B., and Dominey-Howes, D., 2012, Progress in paleotsunami research: Sedimentary Geology, v. 243–244, p. 70–88, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.11.002 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.11.002].
  • Goto, K., Chagué-Goff, C., Goff, J., and Jaffe, B., 2012, The future of tsunami research following the 2011 Tohoku-oki event: Sedimentary Geology, v. 282, p. 1–13, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.08.003 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.08.003].
  • Gray, M.A., Pratte, Z.A., and Kellogg, C.A., 2013, Comparison of DNA preservation methods for environmental bacterial community samples: FEMS Microbiology Ecology, v. 83, no. 2, p. 468–477, doi:10.1111/1574-6941.12008 [https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12008].
  • Griffin, D.W., and Naumova, E.N., 2012, Air quality and human health, in Morain, S.A., and Budge, A.M., eds., Environmental tracking for public health surveillance: London, CRC Press, p. 129–186 [http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9780203093276].
  • Jaffe, B.E., Goto, K., Sugawara, D., Richmond, B.M., Fujino, S., and Nishimura, Y., 2012, Flow speed estimated by inverse modeling of sandy tsunami deposits; results from the 11 March 2011 tsunami on the coastal plain near the Sendai Airport, Honshu, Japan: Sedimentary Geology, v. 282, p. 90–109, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.09.002 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.09.002].
  • Lafferty, K.D., 2013, Parasites in marine food webs: Bulletin of Marine Science, v. 89, no. 1, p 123–134, doi:10.5343/bms.2011.1124 [https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2011.1124].
  • Lafferty, K.D., Rodriguez, D.A., and Chapman, A., 2013, Temporal and spatial variation in bird and human use of beaches in southern California: SpringerPlus, v. 2, no. 38, 14 p., doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-38 [https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-38].
  • Lidz, B.H., and Zawada, D.G., 2013, Possible return of Acropora cervicornis at Pulaski Shoal, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 29, no. 2, p. 256–271, doi:10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00078.1 [https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00078.1].
  • Marra, J.J., Merrifield, M.A., Sweet, W.V., and others, 2012, Sea level and coastal inundation on Pacific islands, in Keener, V.W., Marra, J.J., Finucane, M.L., Spooner, D., and Smith, M.H., eds., Climate change and Pacific islands—indicators and impacts; report for the 2012 Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA): Washington, D.C., Island Press, p. 65–88 [http://www.pacificrisa.org/projects/pirca/].
  • Marrero, M., Hester, M., Hyrenbach, K.D., Michael, P., Adams, J., Keiper, C., Stock, J., Collins, A., Vanderlip, C., Alvarez, T., and Webb, S., 2013, Winged ambassadors—ocean literacy through the eyes of albatross: Current—The Journal of Marine Education, v. 28, no. 2, p. 26–30.
  • Osterman, L.E., and Smith, C.G., 2012, Over 100 years of environmental change recorded by foraminifers and sediments in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Gulf of Mexico, USA: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 115, p. 345–358, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2012.10.001 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2012.10.001].
  • Plant, N.G., and Stockdon, H.F., 2012, Probabilistic prediction of barrier-island response to hurricanes: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 117, F03015, 17 p., doi:10.1029/2011JF002326 [https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JF002326].
  • Pohlman, J.W., Riedel, M., Bauer, J.E., Canuel, E.A., Paull, C.K., Lapham, L., Grabowski, K.S., Coffin, R.B., and Spence, G.D., 2013, Anaerobic methane oxidation in low-organic content methane seep sediments: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 108, p. 184–201, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2013.01.022 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2013.01.022].
  • Richmond, B., Szczuciński, W., Chagué-Goff, C., Goto, K., Sugawara, D., Witter, R., Tappin, D.R., Jaffe, B.E., Fujino, S., Nishimura, Y., and Goff, J., 2012, Erosion, deposition and landscape change on the Sendai coastal plain, Japan, resulting from the March 11, 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami: Sedimentary Geology, v. 282, p. 27–39, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.08.005 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.08.005].
  • Roy, M., Martin, J.B., Cable, J.E., and Smith, C.G., 2013, Variations of iron flux and organic carbon remineralization in a subterranean estuary caused by inter-annual variations in recharge: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 103, p. 301–315, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.10.055 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.10.055].
  • Storlazzi, C.D., Fregoso, T.A., Figurski, J.D., Freiwald, J., Lonhart, S.I., and Finlayson, D.P., 2013, Burial and exhumation of temperate bedrock reefs as elucidated by repetitive high-resolution sea floor sonar surveys—spatial patterns and impacts to species' richness and diversity: Continental Shelf Research, v. 55, p. 40–51, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2013.01.013 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2013.01.013].
  • Strona, G., and Lafferty, K.D., 2013, Predicting what helminth parasites a fish species should have using Parasite Co-occurrence Modeler (PaCo): Journal of Parasitology, v. 99, no. 1, p. 6–10, doi:10.1645/GE-3147.1 [https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-3147.1].
  • Takekawa, J.Y., Woo, I., Thorne, K.M., Buffington, K.J., Nur, N., Casazza, M.L., and Ackerman, J.T., 2012, Bird communities—effects of fragmentation, disturbance, and sea level rise on population viability, in Palaima, A., ed., Ecology, conservation, and restoration of tidal marshes—the San Francisco estuary: Berkeley, University of California Press, p. 175–194 [http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520274297].
  • van der Wegen, M., and Jaffe, B.E., 2013, Towards a probabilistic assessment of process-based, morphodynamic models: Coastal Engineering, v. 75, p. 52–63, doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.01.009 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.01.009].
  • Watt, S., Buckley, M., and Jaffe, B., 2012, Inland fields of dispersed cobbles and boulders as evidence for a tsunami on Anegada, British Virgin Islands: Natural Hazards, v. 63, no. 1, p. 119–131. doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9848-y [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9848-y].
  • Wilson, R.I., Davenport, C., and Jaffe, B., 2012, Sediment scour and deposition within harbors in California (USA), caused by the March 11, 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami: Sedimentary Geology, v. 282, p. 228–240, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.06.001 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.06.001].
  • Witter, R.C., Jaffe, B.E., Zhang, Y., and Priest, G., 2012, Reconstructing hydrodynamic flow parameters of the 1700 tsunami at Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA: Natural Hazards, v. 63, no. 1, p. 223–240, doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9912-7 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9912-7].

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