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List of recent USGS publications based on coastal and marine research.

Field, M.E., Cochran, S.A., Logan, J.B., and Storlazzi C.D., eds., 2008, The coral reef of south Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i; portrait of a sediment-threatened fringing reef: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5101, 180 p. [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5101/].

Fregoso, T.A., Foxgrover, A.C., and Jaffe, B.E., 2008, Sediment deposition, erosion, and bathymetric change in central San Francisco Bay; 1855-1979: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1312, 41 p. [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1312/]. 

Ganju, N.K., Knowles, N., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2008, Temporal downscaling of decadal sediment load estimates to a daily interval for use in hindcast simulations: Journal of Hydrology, v. 349, no. 3-4, p. 512-523, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.11.026 [URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.11.026].

Garrison, V., and Ward, G., 2008, Storm-generated coral fragments—a viable source of transplants for reef rehabilitation: Biological Conservation, v. 141, no. 12, p. 3089-3100, doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2008.09.020 [URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2008.09.020].

Gischler, E., Shinn, E.A., Oschmann, W., Fiebig, J., and Buster, N.A., 2008, A 1500-year Holocene Caribbean climate archive from the Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef, Belize: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 24, no. 6, p. 1495-1505, doi:10.2112/07-0891.1 [URL http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/07-0891.1].

Hein, J.R., Clague, D.A., Koski, R.A., Embley, R.W., and Dunham, R.E., 2008, Metalliferous sediment and a silica-hematite deposit within the Blanco Fracture Zone, northeast Pacific: Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, v. 26, no. 4, p. 317-339, doi:10.1080/10641190802430986 [URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10641190802430986].

Jelks, H.L., Walsh, S.J., Burkhead, N.M., Contreras-Balderas, S., Díaz-Pardo, E., Hendrickson, D.A., Lyons, J., Mandrak, N.E., McCormick, F., Nelson, J.S., Platania, S.P., Porter, B.A., Renaud, C.B., Schmitter-Soto, J.J., Taylor, E.B., and Warren, M.L., Jr., 2008, Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes: Fisheries, v. 33, no. 8, p. 372-407.

Lidz, B.H., Brock, J.C., and Nagle, D.B., 2008, Utility of shallow-water ATRIS images in defining biogeologic processes and self-similarity in skeletal Scleractinia, Florida reefs: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 24, no. 5, p. 1320-1338, doi:10.2112/08-1049.1 [URL http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/08-1049.1].

Luepke Bynum, Gretchen, 2008, Medora H. Krieger (1905-1994)—20th-century pioneer geologic mapper from the Adirondacks to Arizona: Northeastern Geology & Environmental Sciences, v. 30, no. 1, p. 1-6.

Luepke Bynum, Gretchen, 2008, Review of “The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist” by Carol Grant Gould: Earth Sciences History, v. 27, no. 2, p. 303-304.

Mallman, E.P., and Parsons, T., 2008, A global search for stress shadows: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 113, B12304, doi:10.1029/2007JB005336 [URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007JB005336].

Paperno, R., Ruiz-Carus, R., Krebs, J.M., and McIvor, C.C., 2008, Expansion of the Mayan cichlid, Cichlasoma urophthalmus (Pisces, Cichlidae), above 28°N latitude in Florida: Florida Scientist (Florida Academy of Sciences Quarterly Journal), v. 71, no. 4, p. 293-304.

Pohlman, J.W., Riedel, M., Waite, W., Rose, K., and Lapham, L., 2008, Application of rhizon samplers to obtain high-resolution pore fluid records during geochemical investigations of gas hydrate systems: Fire in the Ice, fall 2008, p. 16-17.

Poppe, L.J., McMullen, K.Y., Williams, S.J., Ackerman, S.D., Glomb, K.A., and Forfinski, N.A., 2008, Enhanced sidescan-sonar imagery offshore of southeastern Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1196 [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1196/].

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