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Improving hydroacoustic methods for monitoring suspended-sand flux and grain size in sediment-laden rivers Improving hydroacoustic methods for monitoring suspended-sand flux and grain size in sediment-laden rivers

Suspended-sand concentration and grain-size data in rivers provide valuable information on the catchment's dynamics for scientists and river managers. Producing continuous measurements of suspended-sand concentrations remains a scientific challenge due to their high spatial and temporal variability. Traditional methods such as sediment-rating curves may be highly uncertain, and optical...
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Jessica Marggraf, Jerome Le Coz, Benoıt Camenen, Francois Lauters, Guillaume Dramais, Gilles Pierrefeu, David J. Topping
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Southwest Biological Science Center

Long-lived partial melt beneath Cascade volcanoes Long-lived partial melt beneath Cascade volcanoes

Quantitative estimates of magma storage are fundamental to evaluating volcanic dynamics and hazards. Yet our understanding of subvolcanic magmatic plumbing systems and their variability remains limited. There is ongoing debate regarding the ephemerality of shallow magma storage and its volume relative to eruptive output, and so whether an upper-crustal magma body could be a sign of...
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Guanning Pang, Geoffrey A. Abers, Seth C. Moran, Weston Thelen
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Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center

Flying fish habitat and co-occurrence with seabirds in the northern Gulf of Mexico Flying fish habitat and co-occurrence with seabirds in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Flying fish (family Exocoetidae) play an important role in marine food webs, linking sub-surface and aerial predators. The association of seabirds with sub-surface predators in subtropical and tropical regions through facilitated foraging events is a well-known phenomenon and is sometimes used to identify fishing grounds for flying fish, flying fish roe, and tunas. In the northern Gulf...
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Pamela E. Michael, J. Christopher Haney, Jeffrey S. Gleason, Kathy M. Hixson, Yvan G. Satgé, Patrick G.R. Jodice
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Cooperative Research Units

3D viscoelastic models of slip-deficit rate along the Cascadia subduction zone 3D viscoelastic models of slip-deficit rate along the Cascadia subduction zone

Interseismic deformation in the Pacific Northwest is constrained by the horizontal crustal velocity field derived from the Global Positioning System (GPS) in addition to vertical rates derived from GPS, leveling, and tide gauge measurements. Such measurements were folded in to deformation models of fault slip rates as part of the 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) update. Here I...
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Frederick Pollitz
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Earthquake Science Center

Maintenance of genetic diversity despite population fluctuations in the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) Maintenance of genetic diversity despite population fluctuations in the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)

Assessments of genetic diversity, structure, history, and effective population size (N e) are critical for the conservation of imperiled populations. The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) has experienced declines due to habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation in addition to substantial population fluctuations with unknown effects on genetic diversity. Our...
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Andrew J. Lawrence, Scott A. Carleton, Sara J. Oyler-McCance, Randy W. DeYoung, Clay T. Nichols, Timothy F. Wright
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Species Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center

Bathymetric contour maps, surface area and capacity tables, and bathymetric change maps for selected water-supply lakes in Missouri, 2022–23 Bathymetric contour maps, surface area and capacity tables, and bathymetric change maps for selected water-supply lakes in Missouri, 2022–23

Bathymetric data were collected at 13 water-supply lakes around the periphery of Missouri by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and various local agencies, as part of a multiyear effort to establish or update the surface area and capacity tables for the surveyed lakes. Surveys were carried out during the months of April and May in...
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Benjamin C. Rivers, Richard J. Huizinga, Garett J. Waite
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Central Midwest Water Science Center
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