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Complex sound scattering layer and water-column dynamics over a mesophotic coral ecosystem: Southwest Puerto Rico, U.S.A. Complex sound scattering layer and water-column dynamics over a mesophotic coral ecosystem: Southwest Puerto Rico, U.S.A.

A nearly 5-month record of high-resolution temperature and acoustic backscatter profiles from the upper insular slope off southwest Puerto Rico reveals complex sound scattering layer (SSL) dynamics over a mesophotic coral ecosystem (MCE). The SSLs exhibited both diel and reverse diel vertical migration, thin layer (
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Olivia M. Cheriton, Curt D. Storlazzi, Clark E. Sherman, Kurt J. Rosenberger, Nikolaos V. Schizas
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Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

RUSH: Rapid remote sensing Updates of land cover for Storm and Hurricane forecast models RUSH: Rapid remote sensing Updates of land cover for Storm and Hurricane forecast models

Coastal vegetated ecosystems, including tidal marshes, vegetated dunes, and shrub- and forest-dominated wetlands, can mitigate hurricane impacts such as coastal flooding and erosion by increasing surface roughness and reducing wave energy. Land cover maps can be used as input to improve simulations of surface roughness in advanced hydro-morphological models. Consequently, there is a need...
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Chak Wa Cheang, Kristin Byrd, Nicholas Enwright, Daniel D. Buscombe, Christopher R. Sherwood, Dean B. Gesch
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Western Geographic Science Center

GIScience in the era of Artificial Intelligence: A research agenda towards Autonomous GIS GIScience in the era of Artificial Intelligence: A research agenda towards Autonomous GIS

The advent of generative AI exemplified by large language models (LLMs) opens new ways to represent and compute geographic information and transcends the process of geographic knowledge production, driving geographic information systems (GIS) towards autonomous GIS. Leveraging LLMs as the decision core, autonomous GIS can independently generate and execute geoprocessing workflows to...
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Zhenlong Li, Huan Ning, Song Gao, Krzysztof Janowicz, Wenwen Li, Samantha T. Arundel, Chaowei Yang, Budhendra Bhaduri, Shaoweng Wang, A-Xing Zhu, Mark Gahegan, Shashi Shekhar, Xinyue Ye, Grant McKenzie, Guido Cervone, Michael Hodgson
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Core Science Systems Mission Area, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)

Formation of the Mount Weld rare earth deposit, Western Australia: Geochronology constraints Formation of the Mount Weld rare earth deposit, Western Australia: Geochronology constraints

Constraining the age of protracted chemical weathering in stable cratonic areas that may form thick regoliths and the potential enrichment of various elements is challenging. Economic deposits of aluminium, iron, copper, nickel, cobalt, niobium, and rare earth elements (REEs) form in this manner. Determining the age of formation can provide key information for exploration of similar...
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Philip L. Verplanck, Cameron Mark Mercer, Jay M. Thompson, Martin Danišík, Ganesh Bhat, Heather A. Lowers
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Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center

Mine waste as a potential source of critical minerals and other commodities: Examples from the Four Corners states, USA Mine waste as a potential source of critical minerals and other commodities: Examples from the Four Corners states, USA

The growing demand for critical minerals and other mineral resources has raised concerns about possible supplies of these essential commodities. Mine waste is a potential source of these essential commodities. We compiled a geospatial database of publicly available data of the largest non-fuel mine waste features (>200,000 m2 in areal extent) in the Four Corners states of the United...
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Jeffrey L. Mauk, Sean Patrick Gaynor, Nick Karl, Andrew Francis Smith
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Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center

Petrogenesis and mineralization potential of the Bradley Peak komatiitic basalts, Wyoming Province Petrogenesis and mineralization potential of the Bradley Peak komatiitic basalts, Wyoming Province

The ca. 2.72 Ga Bradley Peak greenstone terrane in the Wyoming Province contains spinifex- and cumulate-textured komatiitic volcanic rocks that may host Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide mineralization. New whole rock geochemistry classifies these rocks as Al-undepleted komatiitic basalts derived from a parental melt with ~17 wt. % MgO. Isotopic data (Sm-Nd, Re-Os) and REE profiles suggest a plume...
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Lisa Joanne Zieman, Michael Jenkins, Michael L. Zientek, Jacob Evan Poletti, Alan D. Rooney
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Geology, Energy, and Minerals Mission Area, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center
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