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Shifting hotspots: Climate change projected to drive contractions and expansions of invasive plant abundance habitats
AimPreventing the spread of range-shifting invasive species is a top priority for mitigating the impacts of climate change. Invasive plants become abundant and cause negative impacts in only a fraction of their introduced ranges, yet projections of invasion risk are almost exclusively derived from models built using all non-native occurrences and neglect abundance information.LocationEastern USA.M
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Annette E. Evans, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Evelyn M. Beaury, Peder S. Engelstad, Nathan B. Teich, Jillian LaRoe, Bethany A. Bradley
Groundwater flow model investigation of the vulnerability of water resources at Chaco Culture National Historical Park related to unconventional oil and gas development
Chaco Culture National Historical Park (CCNHP), located in northwestern New Mexico, protects the greatest concentration of Chacoan historical sites in the American Southwest. Geologically, CCNHP is located within the San Juan structural basin, which consists in part of complex Cretaceous stratigraphy and hosts a variety of energy resources. As part of a larger study to investigate the vulnerabilit
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Zachary M. Shephard, Andre B. Ritchie, Benjamin S. Linhoff, John Joseph Lunzer
Long-term mercury loading and trapping dynamics in a Western North America reservoir
Study RegionThe Carson River including Lahontan Reservoir in Northwestern Nevada, USAStudy FocusThe discovery, mining, and processing of silver and gold from the Comstock Lode in northwestern Nevada heavily contaminated the Carson River system with mercury (Hg). The river now contains some of the highest recorded water column and bed sediment Hg concentrations reported in peer-reviewed literature.
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Eric D. Morway, Robert M. Hirsch, Angela Paul, Mark C. Marvin-DiPasquale, Carl E Thodal
Leveraging angler effort to inform fisheries management: Using harvest and harvest rate to estimate abundance of White Sturgeon
Traditional methods for estimating abundance of fish populations are not feasible in some systems due to complex population structure and constraints on sampling effort. Lincoln’s estimator provides a technique that uses harvest and harvest rate to estimate abundance. Using angler catch data allows assumptions of the estimator to be addressed without relying on methods that could be prohibitively
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Marta Ulaski, Joshua McCormick, Michael Quist, Zachary Jackson
An inventory of three-dimensional geologic models—U.S. Geological Survey, 2004–22
A database of spatial footprints and characteristics of three-dimensional geological models that were constructed by the U.S. Geological Survey between 2004 and 2022 was compiled as part of ongoing development of subsurface geologic information by the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program. This initial inventory resulted in the compilation of 38 three-dimensional geological models tha
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Donald S. Sweetkind, Kristine L. Zellman
The lunar cratering chronology
This chapter provides an introduction to crater-size frequency distribution (CSFD) measurements and presents a review of the work performed on dating lunar geological units using CSFDs since the last New Views of the Moon volume (2006), including various volcanic and tectonic features, as well as individual impact craters. At the end of the chapter, implications for the new CSFD age determinations
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Harald Hiesinger, Carolyn H. Van der Bogert, G. Michael, N. Schmedemann, W. Iqbal, Stuart J. Robbins, B. Ivanov, J.-P. Williams, M. Zanetti, J. Plescia, Lillian R. Ostrach, James W. Head III
Unifying the Neoarchean Lac des Iles Complex and implications for the petrogenesis of Pd-enriched noritic breccia pipes in ancient arcs
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William D. Smith, L. Fay, M.L. Djon, Michael Jenkins, Y. Lin, Z. S. Yao, James E. Mungall
Melting at the base of the J-M Reef Package, Stillwater Complex
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Michael Jenkins, Stephen J. Barnes
Pacific coastal and marine science of the U.S. Geological Survey in Santa Cruz, California
IntroductionThe Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center is one of three U.S. Geological Survey science centers that serve the mission of the Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, the primary Federal marine geology and physical science research program focused on the Nation’s coastal and marine landscape. Our portfolio of coastal and marine projects in the Pacific Ocean provides the s
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Peter Pearsall
Lunar mare basaltic volcanism: Volcanic features and emplacement processes
Volcanism is a fundamental process in the geological evolution of the Moon, providing clues to the composition and structure of the mantle, the location and duration of interior melting, the nature of convection and lunar thermal evolution. Progress in understanding volcanism has been remarkable in the short 60-year span of the Space Age. Before Sputnik 1 in 1957, the lunar farside was unknown, th
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James W. Head III, Lionel Wilson, Harald Hiesinger, Carolyn H. Van der Bogert, Yuan Yuan Chen, James L. Dickson, Lisa Gaddis, Junichi Haruyama, Lauren Jozwiak, Erica Jawin, Chunlai Li, Jianzhong Liu, Tomokatsu Morota, Debra H. Needham, Lillian R. Ostrach, Carle M. Pieters, Tabb C. Prissel, Yuqi Qian, Lei Qiao, Malcolm R. Rutherford, David R. Scott, Jennifer L. Whitten, Long Xiao, Feng Zhang, Ouyang Ziyuan
Documentation of a pilot workflow for reanalyzing the U.S. Geological Survey principal aquifers datasets and prototype principal aquifer version 2 dataset for three aquifer systems
A pilot workflow to refine the principal aquifers of the United States as defined in the Ground Water Atlas of the United States and create a new version of the principal aquifers (referred to as “version 2”) is documented in this report. The workflow incorporates decision points for creating finer scale spatial data for the principal aquifers and refining the original principal aquifer definition
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Martha G. Nielsen
Examining current bias and future projection consistency of globally downscaled climate projections commonly used in climate impact studies
The associated uncertainties of future climate projections are one of the biggest obstacles to overcome in studies exploring the potential regional impacts of future climate shifts. In remote and climatically complex regions, the limited number of available downscaled projections may not provide an accurate representation of the underlying uncertainty in future climate or the possible range of pot
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Lucas Fortini, Lauren R. Kaiser, Abby G. Frazier, Thomas W Giambelluca