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Climate change is expected to increase lake productivity and algal blooms and cause regime shifts, particularly in human-impacted ecosystems. However, evidence is lacking for causal relationships between climate and lake productivity or for the nonlinear dynamics needed to demonstrate regime shifts. We modeled causal effects of climate on lake chlorophyll over 34 years in 24,452 US lakes...

Hyperpigmented melanistic lesions (HPMLs) are a visual anomaly documented on the skin of smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu in the Susquehanna River Basin, Pennsylvania and in numerous other geographical locations. Currently, there is a lack of information on environmental and fish characteristics that may influence the prevalence of HPMLs associated with a recently described...

Catfishes are opportunistic feeders that are among the world's worst invasive species. Flathead catfish Pylodictus olivaris -- a large predatory catfish -- were first detected in the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania, USA in 2002. Since then, they established a viable and rapidly growing population that is expanding its range throughout the river system. Although the predatory effects of...

RegionGrow3D (RG3D) is a software for computing slope stability on a regional scale within a three-dimensional (3D), limit-equilibrium framework. RG3D efficiently computes discrete, 3D landslide geometries throughout a digital landscape. Potential landslide source areas are identified and grown downhill until force equilibrium is achieved.

The RESTORE/TCEQswqmisESTUSAL repository contains R language source code that can be used for digesting data retrieved from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Surface Water Quality Monitoring Program through their Surface Water Quality Data Viewer. The workflow described concerns data manipulations, base data filtering, and computations towards documenting long-term salinity...

In July 2017, a sinkhole collapse significantly impacted the Lake Padgett Estates community in Land O'Lakes, Florida. Two homes were destroyed, and seven others were condemned. Mitigation efforts involved partially filling the sinkhole and creating an open-water pond surrounded by shrubs. This tutorial explores how the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) can be used to analyze...

The aim of this software is to share results from Prosser et al. (2024) by allowing users to explore different spatial layers over each week of the year via an interactive mapping interface. This web application serves as a decision support tool for decision makers related to transmission risk during the ongoing highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak. This software provides a user...

RUSH is a tool for rapid repeat high resolution coastal vegetation maps to improve forecasting of hurricane impacts and coastal resilience. Natural coastal vegetated ecosystems, including tidal marshes, vegetated dunes, and shrub- and forest-dominated wetlands, provide nature-based solutions to climate-related impacts of hurricanes. Extensive research has shown that vegetation cover in...

The USGS Satellite Tool for River Altimetry and eXtent in Alaska (SatTRAX-AK) is a Google Earth Engine application built for exploring Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) observable USGS gages reaches and Global Water Monitor (GWM) altimetry data for river surfaces. The application will run an analysis at select GWM sites to compute water extent and estimated water surface...

In this tutorial, we will use London, England, one of the brightest cities on Earth, to show users how to convert provided Level-1 Radiance products to TOA Radiance, Reflectance, and Brightness for the area. The tutorial will also show how to pull and parse the metadata file (MTL file) for a Landsat scene; the MTL file is used to obtain the necessary parameters for calculating Radiance

This tutorial will demonstrate how to apply scale factors to Landsat Level-2 Surface Reflectance and Temperature datasets for Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix is known for being one of the hottest cities in the United States, with surface temperatures reaching up to 80 degrees Celsius. In this tutorial, we will scale the NIR, RED, and LWIR (temperature band) bands of a single Landsat scene...

This code repo contains three scripts used in the associated manuscript to run the analyses (01_model_prob_flight.r; 02_model_altitude_selection.r) and the simulation used to make predictions (03_simulate_prob_fly_per_altitude.r). The analysis serves to evaluate conditions that affect 1) whether geese are in flight vs. resting on the water, 2) what altitude is selected by flying geese...