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Early detection of wildlife disease pathogens using CRISPR-Cas system methods Early detection of wildlife disease pathogens using CRISPR-Cas system methods

Wildlife diseases are a considerable threat to human health, conservation, and the economy. Surveillance is a critical component to mitigate the impact of animal diseases in these sectors. To monitor human diseases, CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated protein) biosensors have proven instrumental as diagnostic tools capable of detecting...
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Adam Alberto Perez, Guelaguetza Vazquez-Meves, Margaret Hunter
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

Sand supply to San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers of the Central Valley, California Sand supply to San Francisco Bay from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers of the Central Valley, California

Sediment from the Central Valley via the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) and Suisun Bay is a primary source of sand to San Francisco Bay, California. Sand is mined from San Francisco Bay for commercial purposes, such as for use in concrete for construction. To better understand the supply of sand to Suisun Bay and San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation...
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Mathieu D. Marineau, David Hart, Christopher P. Ely, Lester McKee
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Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

Patterns and drivers of cottonwood mortality in the middle Rio Grande, New Mexico, USA Patterns and drivers of cottonwood mortality in the middle Rio Grande, New Mexico, USA

Riparian ecosystems are some of the most valuable and vulnerable on the planet. Riparian tree mortality is increasing in the western United States, where altered streamflows are combining with warming climate. Between 2011 and 2013, one third of an extensive stand of Populus deltoides var. wislizeni (Rio Grande cottonwood) died along the middle Rio Grande on the Pueblo of Santa Ana in...
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Hannah Varani, Ellis Q. Margolis, Esteban H. Muldavin, William T. Pockman
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Use of continuous water-quality time-series data to compute total phosphorus concentrations and loads for the Missouri River at St. Joseph and Hermann, Missouri, 2007–22 Use of continuous water-quality time-series data to compute total phosphorus concentrations and loads for the Missouri River at St. Joseph and Hermann, Missouri, 2007–22

In support of Missouri’s Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy, which was created to reduce the nutrient contamination of Missouri’s waterways from point and nonpoint sources, total phosphorus concentrations and loads were computed for the Missouri River at St. Joseph, Missouri, streamgage (U.S. Geological Survey station 06818000) and the Missouri River at Hermann, Mo., streamgage (U.S...
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Kendra M. Markland
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Central Midwest Water Science Center

Field geology under the sea with a remotely operated vehicle: Mona Rift, Puerto Rico Field geology under the sea with a remotely operated vehicle: Mona Rift, Puerto Rico

We implemented concepts of field geology at great ocean depths by constructing virtual outcrops from a string of overlapping video frames collected by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). This lower-cost alternative to drilling boreholes allows stratigraphic extension into the offshore and regional interpretation of marine seismic profiles. The imagery was collected along a dive transect...
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Uri S. ten Brink, Or M. Bialik, Jason Chaytor, Claudia Flores, Marcie Purkey Phillips
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Penguin colony georegistration using camera pose estimation and phototourism Penguin colony georegistration using camera pose estimation and phototourism

Satellite-based remote sensing and uncrewed aerial imagery play increasingly important roles in the mapping of wildlife populations and wildlife habitat, but the availability of imagery has been limited in remote areas. At the same time, ecotourism is a rapidly growing industry and can yield a vast catalog of photographs that could be harnessed for monitoring purposes, but the inherently...
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Haoyu Wu, Clare Flynn, Carole Hall, Christian Joseph Che-Castaldo, Dimitris Samaras, Mathew Schwaller, Heather J. Lynch
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