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Testing environmental DNA from wolf snow tracks for species, sex, and individual identification – An addendum
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Shannon Barber-Meyer, Victoria Zeller, Kristy Pilgrim
USGS Critical Minerals Review: 2021
In 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) continued to play a central role in understanding and anticipating potential supply chain disruptions by defining and quantitatively evaluating mineral criticality. In addition, the USGS continued to evaluate new sources of domestic critical minerals by conducting mineral resource assessments, mapping and surveying regions prospective for critical minera
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Steven M. Fortier, Nedal T. Nassar, Garth E. Graham, Jane M. Hammarstrom, Warren C. Day, Jeffrey L. Mauk, Robert R. Seal
Highly specialized recreationists contribute the most to the citizen science project eBird
Contributory citizen science projects (hereafter “contributory projects”) are a powerful tool for avian conservation science. Large-scale projects such as eBird have produced data that have advanced science and contributed to many conservation applications. These projects also provide a means to engage the public in scientific data collection. A common challenge across contributory projects like e
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Connor J. Rosenblatt, Ashley A. Dayer, Jennifer N. Duberstein, Tina B. Phillips, H. W. Harshaw, David C. Fulton, Nicholas W. Cole, Andrew H. Raedeke, Jonathan D. Rutter, Christopher L. Wood
Status and trends of North American bats: Summer occupancy analysis 2010-2019
• We developed an analytical pipeline supported by web-based infrastructure for integrating continental scale bat monitoring data (stationary acoustic, mobile acoustic, and capture records) to estimate summer (May 1–Aug 31) occupancy probabilities and changes in occupancy over time for 12 North American bat species. This serves as one of multiple lines of evidence that inform the status and trends
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Bradley James Udell, Bethany Straw, Tina L. Cheng, Kyle Enns, Winifred F. Frick, Benjamin Gotthold, Kathryn Irvine, Cori Lausen, Susan Loeb, Jonathan D. Reichard, Thomas J. Rodhouse, Dane Smith, Christian Stratton, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Brian Reichert
Economic benefits supported by surface water in eastern Oregon’s Harney Basin
The Harney Basin is a closed river basin in southeastern Oregon. Surface water in the basin is used for a variety of social, economic, and ecological benefits. While some surface water uses compete with one another, others are complementary or jointly produce multiple beneficial outcomes. The objective of this study is to conduct a baseline economic assessment of surface water in the Basin as it r
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Christopher Huber, Matthew Flyr, Lucas Bair
Volcanoes of the Mojave: The 2022 Desert Symposium field trip road log
Basalt lava fields, some decorated with scoria ‘cinder’ cones, are scattered around the Mojave Desert. Most basalt fields are short-lived, but the Cima volcanic field is unique in having eruptions that span ~7.5 m.y., including the youngest eruption in the Mojave Desert at ~12 ka. Xenolith-bearing basalts that include both mantle and deep crustal rocks are known in several fields. All basalt fi
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David C. Buesch, David M. Miller, Bruce Bridenbecker, Mark Sweeney
Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES) images of basaltic and sedimentary deposits in the southwest Cima volcanic field, California
The southwestern part of the Cima volcanic field in the Mojave National Monument, California, contains many of the youngest basaltic cinder cones and lava flows in the field (Wilshire and others, 2002). In 2014 the Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES) collected a swath of data across this area. This summary describes the HyTES instrument, data, and images, and compares two standar
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David C. Buesch, Simon J Hook
Remote sensing and mapping Miocene paleovalleys of the Marble, Bristol, and Old Dad Mountains in the Trilobite and Bristol Mountain Wildernesses, California
Wilderness areas in the Mojave Desert, California, are remote and rugged terrain, but they contain important geology for understanding faults of the eastern California shear zone (ECSZ), and remote sensing offers techniques that can optimize mapping. The Bristol–Granite Mountain fault zone (BGMFZ) is the easternmost fault of the ECSZ with the Marble, Bristol, and Old Dad mountains on either side o
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David C. Buesch, Janet Harvey
On the role of climate in monthly baseflow changes across the continental United States
Baseflow is the portion of streamflow that comes from groundwater and subsurface sources. Although baseflow is essential for sustaining streams during low flow and drought periods, we have little information about how and why it has changed over large regions of the continental United States. The objective of this study was to evaluate how changes in the climate system have affected observed month
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Jessica R. Ayers, Gabriele Villarini, Keith Schilling, Christopher Jones, Andrea E. Brookfield, Samuel Zipper, William H. Farmer
Fault-influenced incision in western Grand Canyon, Arizona U.S.A.
Preliminary interpretation of new and updated incision rates in western Grand Canyon shows the effects of Quaternary faulting, which dampens river incision rates in the footwalls and amplifies them in the hanging walls of normal faults. In the reach between Lava Falls and Diamond Creek in western Grand Canyon, about 178 to 225 river miles downstream from Lees Ferry, the river crosses the neotecton
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Ryan S. Crow, Karl Karlstrom, Warren Sharp, Victor Polyak, Yemane Asmerom, Laura Crossey
Abrupt quaternary ocean-ice events in the Arctic: Evidence from the ostracode rabilimis
The Arctic Ocean has experienced orbital and millennial-scale climate oscillations over the last 500 kilo-annum (ka) involving massive changes in global sea level and components of the Arctic cryosphere, including sea-ice cover, land-based ice sheets and ice shelves. Although these climate events are only partially understood, micropaleontological studies utilizing ostracodes and benthic foraminif
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Thomas M. Cronin, Laura Gemery, Baylee M. Olds Olds, Alexa Regnier, Robert Poirier, Sienna Sui
Visualizing climate change
Humans are profoundly affecting the planet, and human-caused, or anthropogenic, climate change is the most visible manifestation of this today. In the graph above, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, trends in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) are shown from the present (at far right) back through several ice age cycles, to eight hundred thousand years ago (800 kyBCE, or thous
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Adam J. Terando