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Cave climate 100 meters below the surface in the pseudokarst of the Kilauea Southwest Rift Zone, Hawaii Cave climate 100 meters below the surface in the pseudokarst of the Kilauea Southwest Rift Zone, Hawaii

Kīlauea volcano hosts numerous pit craters that are inferred to have formed in competent bedrock (lava flows with minor tephra and other sediments), including Wood Valley Pit Crater. The Wood Valley Pit Crater is a 50-meter-deep, nearly circular pit that includes access to a cave entrance, which provides an opportunity to monitor cave climate throughout a cave that is ordinarily...
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Timothy N. Titus, Glen E. Cushing, Chris Okubo, Kaj E. Williams
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Astrogeology Science Center

Ice cave climate monitoring at Sunset Crater National Monument, Arizona Ice cave climate monitoring at Sunset Crater National Monument, Arizona

The purpose of this project was to monitor the cave climate of the Sunset Crater National Monument “Bonito Flow” Ice Cave. The main purpose of the climate monitoring was to determine if “Ice Cave” was still an ice cave, i.e., a cave that contains perennial ice. The data acquired from 2 March 2021 to 13 Dec. 2022 consisted of temperature, humidity, and pressure throughout the cave...
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Timothy N. Titus, Kaj E. Williams, Glen E. Cushing, Amber L. Gullikson
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Astrogeology Science Center

Planetary caves from Mercury to Pluto? Planetary caves from Mercury to Pluto?

On Earth, caves are unique environments at the intersection of geology, climate, and biology. Given that the same terrestrial speleogenetic processes exist throughout the solar system, it would be surprising if caves beyond Earth did not exist. Thousands of potential cave entrances (or subsurface access points) have been identified from Earth’s Moon to Pluto’s moon, Charon. To date, our...
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Timothy N. Titus, Janna Wynne, Michael J. Malaska, Penelope J. Boston
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Astrogeology Science Center

Brodifacoum isomer formulations with potentially lower risk to non-target wildlife Brodifacoum isomer formulations with potentially lower risk to non-target wildlife

Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) have a long history of successful use in controlling vertebrate pest and invasive species. Despite regulatory efforts to mitigate risk, non-target wildlife may be unintentionally exposed to ARs through various trophic pathways, and depending on dose, exposure can result in adverse effects and mortality. Second-generation ARs (SGARs) are mixtures of cis-...
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Barnett A. Rattner, Richard A. Erickson, Julia S. Lankton, Etienne Benoit, Virginie Lattard
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Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Where there's a when there's a way. Shifting phenology & windows of opportunity for control Where there's a when there's a way. Shifting phenology & windows of opportunity for control

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Dan Buonaiuto, Audrey Barker Plotkin, Sarah Bois, Matthew Brincka, Eva Colberg, Brian Colleran, Toni Lyn Morelli
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers

Grammar To Graph, an approach for semantic transformation of annotations to triples Grammar To Graph, an approach for semantic transformation of annotations to triples

Linguistic representation of geographic knowledge is semantically complex and particularly challenging when employing geographic information technology to automate interpreted analysis dealing with unstructured knowledge. This study describes an approach called GrammarToGraph (G2G) that applies dependency grammar rules through natural language processing to transform annotation data into
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Dalia E. Varanka, Emily Abbott
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)
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