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Alluvial wetland ecosystems, such as the Cebolla Creek spring-fed wetland in east-central New Mexico, serve as biodiversity hotspots and directly affect processes such as water cycling and carbon sequestration. However, these systems are highly vulnerable to degradation because of drought, groundwater pumping, and channel incision. The "Zeedyk" approach for restoration employs methods...

In 2012, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) installed an array of zenith-pointing ultraviolet spectrometers to track gas emissions from summit of Kīlauea (Businger et al., 2015; Elias et al., 2018). The instruments are arranged in an arc perpendicular to the dominant trade-wind direction approximately 2 kilometers (km) southwest of the actively degassing...

Examining urban thermal environments has become a critical area of research spanning epidemiology, urban planning, and ecology. While traditional metrics like air temperature (Tair) and satellite-derived surface temperature (SD-LST) dominate urban heat studies, these measures often fail to reflect how people actually experience thermal exposure intensity. More human-oriented metrics...

This model archive summary (MAS) and associated model calibration data describes a surrogate model used to compute suspended-sediment concentrations (SSC) at USGS streamgage 11516530 from October 2023 to December 2024. The period of analysis computes SSC during the drawdown and removals of three dams upstream of the streamgage and represents novel suspended-sediment transport conditions...

Monitoring plant life stages (i.e., phenology) is pertinent to land management as phenological dynamics reflect the vegetation response to changes in weather and disturbance and to changes in vegetation composition. Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) invasion has threatened habitats and economies across the western U.S. The phenology of EAG species, such as cheatgrass, differs from native...

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release contains analytical data from a suite of mineral samples collected from the Mount Weld carbonatite complex, western Australia. This complex hosts the largest producing rare earth element (REE) mine outside of China. The REEs are mined from the weathered material, a laterite, derived from an underlying carbonatite. Samples were collected...