USGS Scientist Emeritus Publications 2015

Abendini, A.A., Robinson, J.E., Muffler, L.J.P., White, D.E., Beeson, M.H., and Truesdell, A.H., 2015, Database for the geologic map of Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 911.

Akande, S.O., Lewan, M.D., Egenhoff, Sven, Adekeye, Olabisi, Ojo, O.J., and Peterhansel, Amdt, 2015, Source rock potential of lignite and interbedded coaly shale of the Ogwashi–Asaba Formation, Anambra Basin as determined by sequential hydrous pyrolysis: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 150, p. 224-237.

Alexeiev, D.V., Cook, H.E., Djenchuraeva, A.V., and Mikolaichuk, A.V., 2015, The stratigraphic, sedimentological and structural evolution of the southern margin of the Kazakhstan continent in the Tien Shan Range during the Devonian to Permian: Geological Society, London, Special Publications 427, p. SP427-3.

Alley, W.M., and Konikow, L.F., 2015, Bringing GRACE down to earth: Groundwater, v. 53, no. 6, p. 826.

Amidon, W.H., and Clark, A.C., 2015, Interaction of outburst floods with basaltic aquifers on the Snake River Plain: implications for Martian canyons: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 127, no. 5-6, p. 688-701.

Andrews, J.T., Bjork, A.A., Eberl, D.D., Jennings, A.E., and Verplanck, E.P., 2015, Significant differences in late Quaternary bedrock erosion and transport: East versus West Greenland ∼ 70° N – evidence from the mineralogy of offshore glacial marine sediments: Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 30, no. 5, p. 452-463.

Bacon, C.R., Dusel-Bacon, Cynthia, Aleinikoff, J.N., and Slack, J.F., 2015, The Late Cretaceous Middle Fork caldera, its resurgent intrusion, and enduring landscape stability in east-central Alaska: Geosphere, v. 11, no. 1, p. 202.

Ballachey, B.E., Bodkin, J.L., Kloecker, K.A., Dean, T.A., and Coletti, H.A., 2015, Monitoring for evaluation of recovery and restoration of injured nearshore resources, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill ii: Restoration Project Final Report (Restoration Project 10100750), U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska, v. 3, p.7.

Ballachey, B.E. and Bodkin, J.L., 2014, Challenges to sea otter recovery and conservation: Sea Otter Conservation, p. 63-96.

Ballachey, B.E., Bodkin, J.L., Kloecker, K.A., Dean, T.A., Coletti, H.A., and Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, 2015, Monitoring for evaluation of recovery and restoration of injured nearshorerResources, Anchorage, Alaska: EVOS Trustee Council.

Bargar, T.A., Alvarez, D.A., and Garrison, V.H., 2015, Synthetic ultraviolet light filtering chemical contamination of coastal waters of Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands: Marine Pollution Bulletin, v. 101, no. 1, p. 193-199.

Barron, J.A., Stickley, C.E., and Bukry, David, 2015, Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic constraints on the global Eocene diatom and silicoflagellate record: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 422, p. 85–100.

Belleveau, L.J., Takekawa, J.Y., Woo, Isa, Turner, K.L., Barham, J.B., Takekawa, J.E., Ellings, C.S., and Chin-Leo, Gerardo, 2015, Vegetation community response to tidal marsh restoration of a large river estuary: Northwest Science, v. 89, no. 2, p. 136-147.

Bennett, S.E., Oskin, M.E., Dorsey, R.J., Iriondo, Alexander, and Kunk, M.J., 2015, Stratigraphy and structural development of the southwest Isla Tiburón marine basin: implications for latest Miocene tectonic opening and flooding of the northern Gulf of

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California: Geosphere, p. GES01153-1.Bermúdez-Lugo, Omayra, Menzie, W.D., Long, A.J., Wentworth, C.M., Jachens, R.C.,

Williams, R.A., Tinsley III, J.C., Hanson, R.T., Wright, C.W., Klipp, E.S., and Kranenburg, C.J., 2015, The Ebola virus disease outbreak and the mineral sectors of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3033.

Birdwell, J.E., Mercier, T.J., Johnson, R.C., and Brownfield, M.E., 2015, In-place oil shale resources of the Mahogany zone sorted by grade, overburden thickness and stripping ratio, Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado and Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3005.

Bishop, C.M., Spivey, R.J., Hawkes, L.A., Batbayar, N., Chua, B., Frappell, P.B., Milsom, W.K., Natsagdorj, T., Newman, S.H., Scott, G.R., and Takekawa, J.Y., 2015, The roller coaster flight strategy of bar-headed geese conserves energy during Himalayan migrations: Science, v. 347, no. 6219, p. 250-254.

Bodkin, J.L., 2015, Historic and contemporary satus of sea otters in the North Pacific: Sea Otter Conservation, p. 43-61.

Bodkin, J.L., and Larson, S.E., 2015, The conservation of sea otters: a prelude: Sea otter conservaton, p. 1-17.

Booth, D.B., Troost, K.G., and Tabor, R.W., 2015, Geologic map of the Vashon 7.5' quadrangle and selected areas, King County, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map No. 3328.

Borcherdt, R.D., 2015, NGA-West 2 GMPE average site coefficients for use in earthquake-resistant design: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2015-1116.

Bowen, Lizabeth, Miles, A.K., Kolden, C.A., Saarinen, J.A., Bodkin, J.L., Murray, M.J., and Tinker, M.T., 2015, Effects of wildfire on sea otter (Enhydra lutris) gene transcript profiles: Marine Mammal Science, v. 31, 1, p. 191-210.

Bowen, Z.H., Oelsner, G.P., Cade, B.S., Gallegos, T.J., Farag, A.M., Mott, D.N., Potter, C.J., Cinotto, P.J., Clark, M.L., Kappel, W.M., and Kresse, T.M., 2015, Assessment of surface water chloride and conductivity trends in areas of unconventional oil and gas development—why existing national data sets cannot tell us what we would like to know: Water Resources Research, v. 51, no. 1, p. 704-715.

Bradley, D.C., 2015, Mineral evolution and Earth history: American Mineralogist, v. 100, no. 1, p. 4-5.

Bradley, D.C., O'Sullivan, Paul, and Bradley, L.M., 2015, Detrital zircons from modern sands in New England and the timing of Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic Magmatism:  American Journal of Science, v. 315, no. 5, p. 460-485.

Breyer, K.E., Getchell, R.G., Cornwell, E.R., Wooster, G.A., Ketola, H.G., and Bowser, P.R., 2015, Efficacy of an extract from garlic, Allium sativum, against infection with the Furunculosis bacterium, Aeromonas salmonicida, in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss: Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, v. 46, no. 3, p. 273-282.

Brezinski, D.K., and Cecil, C.B., 2015, Late Devonian climatic change and resultant glacigenic facies of western Maryland: Field Guides, v. 40, p. 85-108.

Bridge, E.S., Kelly, J.F., Xiao, Xiangming, Batbayar, Nyambayar, Natsagdorj, Tseveenmyadag, Hill, N.J., Takekawa, J.Y., Hawkes, L.A., Bishop, C.M., Butler, P.J., and Newman, S.H., 2015, Stable isotopes suggest low site fidelity in Bar-Headed Geese (Anser indicus) in Mongolia: implications for disease transmission: Waterbirds, v. 38, no. 2, p. 123-132.

Brownfield, M.E., Schenk, C.J., Charpentier, R.R., Klett, T.R., Pitman, J.K., Tennyson, M.E.,

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Gaswirth, S.B., Mercier, T.J., Le, P.A., and Leathers, H.M., 2015, Assessment of undiscovered conventional and continuous oil and gas resources of the Baltic Depression Province, 2014: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3015.

Bui, T.V.D., Takekawa, J.Y., Overton, C.T., Schultz, E.R., Hull, J.M., and Casazza, M.L., 2015, Movements of radio-marked California Ridgway's Rails during monitoring surveys: implications for population monitoring: Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, v. 6, no. 1, p. 227-237..

Bullen, Thomas, and Chadwick, Oliver, 2015, Evidence for nutrient biolifting in Hawaiian climosequence soils as revealed by alkaline earth metal stable isotope systematics: Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, v. 13, p. 312-315.

Bunnell, D.B., Davis, B.M., Chriscinske, M.A., Keeler, K.M., and Mychek-Londer, J.G., 2015, Diet shifts by planktivorous and benthivorous fishes in northern Lake Michigan in response to ecosystem changes: Journal of Great Lakes Research, v. 41, p. 161-171.

Bury, R.B., Wehr, J.D., Bury, G.W., Baggett, C.L., and Doten, Kali, 2015, High incidence of filamentous algae on western pond turtles, Actinemys marmorata, in the Willamette Valley, Oregon: Northwestern Naturalist, v. 96, no. 2, p. 150-153.

Byappanahalli, M.N., Nevers, M.B., Whitman, R.L., Ge, Zhongfu, Shively, Dawn, Spoljaric, Ashley, and Przybyla-Kelly, Katarzyna, 2015, Wildlife, urban inputs, and landscape configuration are responsible for degraded swimming water quality at an embayed beach: Journal of Great Lakes Research, v. 41, no. 1, p. 156-163.

Byappanahalli, M.N., Nevers, M.B., Whitman, R.L., and Ishii, Satoshi, 2015, Application of a microfluidic quantitative polymerase chain reaction technique to monitor bacterial pathogens in beach water and complex environmental matrices: Environmental Science & Technology Letters, v. 2, no. 12, p. 347-351.

Campbell, K.M., Gallegos, T.J., and Landa, E.R., 2015, Biogeochemical aspects of uranium mineralization, mining, milling, and remediation: Applied Geochemistry, v. 57, p. 206-235.

Camp, V.E., Pierce, K.L., and Morgan, L.A., 2015, Yellowstone plume trigger for Basin and Range extension, and coeval emplacement of the Nevada–Columbia Basin magmatic belt: Geosphere, v. 11, no. 2, p. 203-225.

Carrara, P.E., and McGeehin, J.P., 2015, Evidence of a higher late-Holocene treeline along the Continental Divide in central Colorado: The Holocene, v. 25, no. 11, p. 1829-1837.

Carr, M.H., 2015, Roving across Mars: searching for evidence of former habitable environments: Elements Magazine.

Casazza, M.L., Ricca, M.A., Overton, C.T., Takekawa, J.Y., Merritt, A.M., and Ackerman, J.T., 2014, Dietary mercury exposure to endangered California Clapper Rails in San Francisco Bay: Marine Pollution Bulletin, v. 86, no. 1, p. 254-260.

Cecil, C.B., 2015, Paleoclimate and the origin of Paleozoic chert: time to re-examine the origins of chert in the rock record: The Sedimentary Record, August.

Chandler, R.B., Muths, Eris, Sigafus, B.H., Schwalbe, C.R., Jarchow, C.J., and Hossack, B.R., 2015, Spatial occupancy models for predicting metapopulation dynamics and viability following reintroduction: Journal of Applied Ecology, v. 52, no. 5, p. 1325-1333.

Chapelle, F.H., Kauffman, L.J., and Widdowson, M.A., 2015, Modeling long‐term trends of chlorinated ethene contamination at a public supply well: JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 51, no. 1, p. 1-13.

Chen, Zhengquan, Wei, Haiquan, Liu, Yongshun, Tilling, R.I., Xu, Jiandong, Wu, Chengzhi, and

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Nie, Baofeng, 2015, A historical pyroclastic flow emplaced within a pre-existing Pleistocene lava tube: Silidong, Tianchi Volcano, Changbaishan, northeastern China: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 77, no. 6, p. 1-11.

Chiou, C.T., Cheng, Jianzhong, Hung, W.N., Chen, Baoliang, and Lin, T.F., 2015, Resolution of adsorption and partition components of organic compounds on black carbons: Environmental science & Technology, v. 49, no. 15, p. 9116-9123.

Chun, C.L., Kahn, C.I., Borchert, A.J., Byappanahalli, M.N., Whitman, R.L., Peller, Julie, Pier, Christina, Lin, Guangyun, Johnson, E.A., and Sadowsky, M.J., 2015, Prevalence of toxin-producing Clostridium botulinum associated with the macroalga Cladophora in three Great Lakes: growth and management: Science of the Total Environment, v. 511, p. 523-529.

Claggett, P.R., Hearn, P.P., and Donato, D.I., 2015, Historic and forecasted population and land-cover change in eastern North Carolina, 1992-2030: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2014-1125.

Coates, P.S., Brussee, B.E., Hothem, R.L., Howe, K.H., Casazza, M.L., and Eadie, J.M., 2015, The effects of heterospecifics and climatic conditions on incubation behavior within a mixed‐species colony: Journal of Avian Biology.

Cobourn, K.M., Landa, E.R., and Wagner, G.E., Teaching Notes for Of Silt and Ancient Voices: Water and the Zuni Land & People.

Conaway, C.H., Thomas, Burt, Saad, Nabil, Thordsen, J.J., and Kharaka, Y.K., 2015, Carbon isotope analysis of dissolved organic carbon in fresh and saline (NaCl) water via continuous flow cavity ring-down spectroscopy following wet chemical oxidation: Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, v. 51, no. 2, p. 344-358.

Converse, P.E., Kuchta, S.R., Roosenburg, W.M., Henry, P.F., Haramis, G.M., and King, T.L., 2015, Spatiotemporal analysis of gene flow in Chesapeake Bay Diamondback Terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin): Molecular ecology, v. 24, no. 23, p. 5864-5876.

Dean, W.E., Kennett, J.P., Behl, R.J., Nicholson, Craig, and Sorlien, C.C., 2015, Abrupt termination of Marine Isotope Stage 16 (Termination VII) at 631.5 ka in Santa Barbara Basin, California: Paleoceanography, v. 30, no. 10, p. 1373-1390.

DeGraff, J.V., Cannon, S.H., and Gartner, J.E., 2015, The timing of susceptibility to post-fire debris flows in the western United States: Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, v. 21, no. 4, p. 277-292.

De la Cruz-Reyna, Servando, and Tilling, R.I., 2015a, Risk management of El Chichón and Tacaná volcanoes: lessons learned from past volcanic crises: In Active volcanoes of Chiapas (Mexico): El Chichón and Tacaná. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p. 155-174.

De la Cruz-Reyna, Servando, and Tilling, R.I., 2015b, Volcanic crises: In Active volcanoes of Chiapas (Mexico): El Chichón and Tacaná. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p. 155.

Derksen, D.V., Petersen, M.R., and Savard, J.P.L., 2015, Habitats of North American sea ducks, In Studies in Avian Biology, CRC Press, p. 469-528.

Di Giacomo, Domenico, Harris, James, Villaseñor, Antonio, Storchak, D.A., Engdahl, E.R., Lee, W.H., and Team, D.E., 2015, ISC-GEM: Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009), I. Data collection from early instrumental seismological bulletins: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, v. 239, p. 14-24.

Drake II, R.M., Hatch, J.R., Schenk, C.J., Charpentier, R.R., Klett, T.R., Le, P.A., Leathers, H.M., Brownfield, M.E., Gaswirth, S.B., Marra, K.R., and Pitman, J.K., 2015, Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Cherokee Platform

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Province area of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3054.

Drenth, B.J., Anderson, R.R., Schulz, K.J., Feinberg, J.M., Chandler, V.W., and Cannon, W.F., 2015, What lies beneath: geophysical mapping of a concealed Precambrian intrusive complex along the Iowa–Minnesota border: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 52, no. 5, p. 279-293..

Dura, Tina, Cisternas, Marco, Horton, B.P., Ely, L.L., Nelson, A.R., Wesson, R.L., and Pilarczyk, J.E., 2015, Coastal evidence for Holocene subduction-zone earthquakes and tsunamis in central Chile: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 113, p. 93-111.

Dusel-Bacon, Cynthia, Aleinikoff, J.N., Day, W.C., and Mortensen, J.K., 2015, Mesozoic magmatism and timing of epigenetic Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization in the western Fortymile mining district, east-central Alaska: zircon U-Pb geochronology, whole-rock geochemistry, and Pb isotopes: Geosphere, p. GES01092-1.

Duxbury, Jane, Bierman, P.R., Portenga, E.W., Pavich, M.J., Southworth, Scott, and Freeman, S.P., 2015, Erosion rates in and around Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, determined using analysis of cosmogenic 10Be: American Journal of Science, v. 315, no. 1, p. 46-76.

Eakle, W.L., Bond, Laura, Fuller, M.R., Fischer, R.A., and Steenhof, Karen, 2015, Wintering Bald Eagle count trends in the conterminous United States, 1986-2010: The Journal of Raptor Research, v. 49, no. 3, p. 259-268.

Edwards, B.D., Phillips, E.L., Dartnell, Peter, Greene, H.G., Bretz, C.K., Kvitek, R.G., Hartwell, S.R., Johnson, S.Y., Cochrane, G.R., Dieter, B.E., and Sliter, R.W., 2015, California State Waters Map Series: offshore of Pacifica, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2014-1260.

Eoff, J.D., Biewick, L.R., Brownfield, M.E., Burke, Lauri, Charpentier, R.R., Dubiel, R.F., Gaswirth, S.B., Gianoutsos, N.J., Kinney, S.A., Klett, T.R., and Leathers, H.M., 2015, Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in sandstone reservoirs of the Cotton Valley Group, U.S. Gulf Coast, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3050.

Eppinger, R.G., Giles, S.A., and Klein, T.L., 2015, Geochemical maps of stream sediments in central Colorado, from New Mexico to Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2015-1025.

Ewing, S.A., Paces, J.B., O’Donnell, J.A., Jorgenson, M.T., Kanevskiy, M.Z., Aiken, G.R., Shur, Y., Harden, J.W., and Striegl, R., 2015, Uranium isotopes and dissolved organic carbon in loess permafrost: modeling the age of ancient ice: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 152, p. 143-165.

Fellers, G.M., and Halstead, B.J., 2015, Twenty-five years of monitoring a Townsend's Big-Eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii) maternity roost: Northwestern Naturalist, v. 96, no. 1, p. 22-36.

Fellers, G.M., Kleeman, P.M., and Miller, D.A., 2015, Wetland occupancy of pond-breeding amphibians in Yosemite National Park, USA: Journal of North American Herpetology, v. 2015, no. 1, p. 22-33.

Franson, J.C., Friend, Milton, Gibbs, S.E.J., and Wild, M.A.J. (Eds.), 2015, Field manual of wildlife diseases: U.S.Geological Survery Techniques and Methods, no. 15.

Fleck, R.J., du Bray, E.A., John, D.A., Vikre, P.G., Cosca, M.A., Snee, L.W., and Box, S.E., 2015, Geochronology of Cenozoic rocks in the Bodie Hills, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series No. 916.

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Fortier, S.M., DeYoung Jr, J.H., Sangine, E.S., and Schnebele, E.K., 2015, Comparison of U.S. net import reliance for nonfuel mineral commodities—a 60-year retrospective (1954–1984–2014): U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3082.

Foulger, G.R., Christiansen, R.L., and Anderson, D.L., 2015, The Yellowstone “hot spot” track results from migrating basin-range extension: Geological Society of America Special Papers, v. 514, p. SPE514-14.

Friedman, J.M., Vincent, K.R., Griffin, E.R., Scott, M.L., Shafroth, P.B., and Auble, G.T., 2015, Processes of arroyo filling in northern New Mexico, USA: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 127, no. 3-4, p. 621-640.

Friend, Milton, 2015a, Information resources: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 15-C9.

Friend, Milton, 2015b, Introduction: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 15-A1.Fuis, G.S., Haeussler, P.J., and Atwater, B.F., 2015, A tribute to George Plafker: Quaternary

Science Reviews, v. 113, p. 3-7.Gallegos, T.J., Campbell, K.M., Zielinski, R.A., Reimus, P.W., Clay, J.T., Janot, N., Bargar,

J.R., and Benzel, W.M., 2015, Persistent U (IV) and U (VI) following in-situ recovery (ISR) mining of a sandstone uranium deposit, Wyoming, USA: Applied Geochemistry, v. 63, p. 222-234.

Ganong, C.N., Small, G.E., Ardón, Marcelo, McDowell, W.H., Genereux, D.P., Duff, J.H., and Pringle, C.M., 2015, Interbasin flow of geothermally modified ground water stabilizes stream exports of biologically important solutes against variation in precipitation: Freshwater Science, v. 34, no. 1, p. 276-286.

Gonzalez, Silvia, Huddart, David, Israde-Alcántara, Isabel, Domínguez-Vázquez, Gabriela, Bischoff, James, and Felstead, Nicholas, 2015, Paleoindian sites from the Basin of Mexico: evidence from stratigraphy, tephrochronology and dating: Quaternary International, v. 363, p. 4-19.

Grams, P.E., Schmidt, J.C., Wright, S.A., Topping, David, Melis, T.S., and Rubin, D.M., 2015, Building sandbars in the Grand Canyon: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 96, p. 1-11.

Graya, J.E., Van Metreb, P.C., Pribila, M.J., and Horowitz, A.J., 2015, Corrigendum to “Tracing historical trends of Hg in the Mississippi River using Hg concentrations and Hg isotopic compositions in a lake sediment core”[CHEMGE 17429 (2015) Vol/Iss–CHEMGE 395C 80–87]: Chemical Geology, v. 404, p. 183.

Gray, J.E., Van Metre, P.C., Pribil, M.J., and Horowitz, A.J., 2015, Tracing historical trends of Hg in the Mississippi River using Hg concentrations and Hg isotopic compositions in a lake sediment core, Lake Whittington, Mississippi, USA: Chemical Geology, v. 395, p. 80-87.

Gray, J. R., 2015, History of the Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project, Part V.” http://acwi.gov/sos/pubs/3rdJFIC/Contents/2C-Gray.pdf.

Griffith, E.M., Fantle, M.S., Eisenhauer, Anton, Paytan, Adina, and Bullen, T.D., 2015, Effects of ocean acidification on the marine calcium isotope record at the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 419, p. 81-92.

Grimstead, D.N., Buck, S.M., Vierra, B.J., and Benson, L.V., 2015, Another possible source of archeological maize found in Chaco Canyon, NM: The Tohatchi Flats area, NM, USA: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 3, p. 181-187.

Gundersen, L.C., and Townsend, Randy, 2015, Formulating the American Geophysical Union’s

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scientific integrity and professional ethics policy: challenges and lessons learned: In Wyss, M., and Peppoloni, Sylvia, Geoethics: ethical challenges and case studies in earth sciences: p.83-94, Elsevier.

Haider, Rizwan, Ghauri, M.A., Jones, E.J., Orem, W.H., and SanFilipo, J.R., 2015, Structural degradation of Thar lignite using MW1 fungal isolate: optimization studies: International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, v. 100, p. 149-154.

Haxel, G.B., Jacobson, C.E., and Wittke, J.H., 2015, Mantle peridotite in newly discovered far-inland subduction complex, southwest Arizona: initial report: International Geology Review, v. 57, no. 5-8, p. 871-892.

Hayes, T.S., Cox, D.P., Bliss, J.D., Piatak, N.M., and Seal II, R.R., 2015, Sediment-hosted stratabound copper deposit model: Chapeter M in Mineral deposit model for resource assessment: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5070-M, 147 p.

Hill, M.C., Kavetski, Dmitri, Clark, Martyn, Ye, Ming, Arabi, Mazdak, Lu, Dan, Foglia, Laura, and Mehl, Steffen, 2015, Practical use of computationally frugal model analysis methods: Groundwater.

Hino, Ryota, Tsuji, Takeshi, Bangs, N.L., Sanada, Yoshinori, Park, J.O., von Huene, Roland, Moore, G.F., Araki, Eiichiro, and Kinoshita, M., 2015, Q P structure of the accretionary wedge in the Kumano Basin, Nankai Trough, Japan, revealed by long-offset walk-away VSP: Earth, Planets and Space, v. 67, no. 1, p. 1-10.

Holzer, T.L., Noce, T.E., and Bennett, M.J., 2015, Strong ground motion inferred from liquefaction caused by the 1811–1812 New Madrid, Missouri, earthquakes: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 105, no. 5, p. 2589-2603.

Horowitz, A.J., Clarke, R.T., and Merten, G.H., 2015, The effects of sample scheduling and sample numbers on estimates of the annual fluxes of suspended sediment in fluvial systems: Hydrological Processes, v. 29, no. 4, p. 531-543.

Hossack, B.R., Gould, W.R., Patla, D.A., Muths, Erin, Daley, Rob, Legg, Kristin, and Corn, P.S., 2015, Trends in Rocky Mountain amphibians and the role of beaver as a keystone species: Biological Conservation, v. 187, p. 260-269.

Hossack, B.R., Gould, W.R., Patla, D.A., Muths, E.L., Daley, Rob, Legg, Kristin, and Corn, P.S., 2015, Amphibians on the U.S. Continental Divide: status, trends, and the influence of beaver on occupancy dynamics in four national parks: Biological Conservation, v. 187, p. 260-269.

Hothem, R.L., May, J.T., Gibson, J.K., and Brussee, B.E., 2015, Concentrations of metals and trace elements in aquatic biota associated with abandoned mine lands in the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and nearby Clear Creek watershed, Shasta County, northwestern California, 2002-2003: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2015-1077.

Howard, K.A., House, P.K., Dorsey, R.J., Pearthree, P.A., 2015, River-evolution and tectonic implications of a major Pliocene aggradation on the lower Colorado River: The Bullhead Alluvium: Geosphere, v. 11, p. 1–30.

Hu, Haiyan, Zhang, Tongwei., Wiggins-Camacho, J.D., Ellis, G.S., Lewan, M.D., and Zhang, Xiaolong, 2015, Experimental investigation of changes in methane adsorption of bitumen-free Woodford Shale with thermal maturation induced by hydrous pyrolysis: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 59, p. 114-128.

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John, D.A., du Bray, E.A., Box, S.E., Vikre, P.G., Rytuba, J.J., Fleck, R.J., and Moring, B.C., 2015, Geologic map of the Bodie Hills, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map No. 3318.

Johnson, C.A., Dumoulin, J.A., Burruss, R.A., and Slack, J.F., 2015, Depositional conditions for the Kuna Formation, Red Dog Zn-Pb-Ag-barite district, Alaska, inferred from isotopic and chemical proxies: Economic Geology, v. 110, no. 5, p. 1143-1156.

Johnson, R.C., Birdwell, J.E., Brownfield, M.E., and Mercier, T.J., 2015, Mass-movement deposits in the lacustrine Eocene Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, western Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2015-1044.

Johnson, R.C., Birdwell, J.E., Mercier, T.J., Brownfield, M.E., Charpentier, R.R., Klett, T.R., Leathers, H.M., Schenk, C.J., and Tennyson, M.E., 2015, Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Uteland Butte Member of the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3052.

Johnson, R.C., and Brownfield, M.E., 2015, Development, evolution, and destruction of the saline mineral area of Eocene Lake Uinta, Piceance Basin, western Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report No. 2013-5176.

Kalnejais, L.H., Martin, W.R., and Bothner, M.H., 2015, Porewater dynamics of silver, lead and copper in coastal sediments and implications for benthic metal fluxes: Science of the Total Environment, v. 517, p. 178-194.

Karlstrom, Leif, Wright, H.M., and Bacon, C.R., 2015, The effect of pressurized magma chamber growth on melt migration and pre-caldera vent locations through time at Mount Mazama, Crater Lake, Oregon: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 412, p. 209-219.

Kauahikaua, J.P., and Tilling, R.I., 2015, Natural hazards and risk reduction in Hawai'i: In Characteristics of Hawaiian Volcanoes, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1801, p. 397-420.

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Kile, D.E., Dayvault, R.D., Hood, W.C., and Hatch, H.S., 2015, Celestine-bearing geodes from Wayne and Emery Counties, southeastern Utah: genesis and mineralogy: Rocks & Minerals, v. 90, no. 4, p. 314-337.

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Kowalski, K.P., Bacon, Charles, Bickford, Wesley, Braun, Heather, Clay, Keith, Leduc-Lapierre, Michele, Lillard, Elizabeth, McCormick, M.K., Nelson, Eric, Torres, Monica, White, James, and Wilcox, D.A., 2015, Advancing the science of microbial symbiosis to support invasive species management: a case study on Phragmites in the Great Lakes: Frontiers in Microbiology, v. 6.

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Lee, W.H., and Engdahl, E.R., 2015, Bibliographical search for reliable seismic moments of large earthquakes during 1900–1979 to compute Mw in the ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Reference Earthquake Catalogue: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, v. 239, p. 25-32.

Linton, Kelsey, and Stein, R.S., 2015, How to build and teach with QuakeCaster: an earthquake demonstration and exploration tool: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2011-1158.

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Lipman, P.W., and Bachmann, Olivier, 2015, Ignimbrites to batholiths: integrating perspectives from geological, geophysical, and geochronological data: Geosphere, v. 11, no. 3, p. 705-743.

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Lombard, P.J., Byappanahalli, Muruleedhara, Nevers, Meredith, Whitman, R.L., Ge, Zhongfu, Shively, D.A., Spoljaric, Ashley, Przybyla-Kelly, K., Pangle, L.A., DeLong, S.B., and Abramson, N., 2015, Maine StreamStats: a water-resources web application: Journal of Great Lakes Research, v. 41, p. 156-163.

Longcore, J.R., Mcauley, D.G., Heisey, D.M., Bunck, C.M., and Clugston, D.A., 2015, Survival of female mallards along the Vermont–Quebec border region: The Journal of Wildlife Management.

Luis, A.D., O'Shea, T.J., Hayman, D.T., Wood, J.L., Cunningham, A.A., Gilbert, A.T., Mills, J.N., and Webb, C.T., 2015, Network analysis of host–virus communities in bats and rodents reveals determinants of cross‐species transmission: Ecology letters, v. 18, no. 11, p. 1153-1162.

Maier, K.L., Gatti, Emma, Wan, Elmira, Ponti, D.J., Pagenkopp, Mark, Starratt, S.W., Olson, H.A., and Tinsley, J.C., 2015, Quaternary tephrochronology and deposition in the subsurface Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California, USA: Quaternary Research, v. 83, no. 2, p. 378-393.

Markewich, H.W., Litwin, R.J., Wysocki, D.A., and Pavich, M.J., 2015, Synthesis on Quaternary aeolian research in the unglaciated eastern United States: Aeolian Research, v. 17, p. 139-191.

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Mavris, Christian, Furrer, Gerhard, Dahms, Dennis, Anderson, S.P., Blum, Alex, Goetze, Jens, Wells, Aaron, and Egli, Markus, 2015, Decoding potential effects of climate and vegetation change on mineral weathering in alpine soils: an experimental study in the Wind River Range (Wyoming, USA): Geoderma, v. 255, p. 12-26.

McCreedy, Chris, and van Riper III, Charles, 2014, Drought-caused delay in nesting of Sonoran Desert birds and its facilitation of parasite-and predator-mediated variation in reproductive success: The Auk, v. 132, no. 1, p. 235-247.

McCreedy, Chris, Van Riper III, Charles, Esque, T.C., and Darrah, A.J., 2015, Effects of drought and fire on bird communities of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2015-1240.

McGarr, A., Bekins, B., Burkardt, N., Dewey, J., Earle, P., Ellsworth, W., Ge, S., Hickman, S., Holland, A., Majer, E., and Rubinstein, J., 2015, Coping with earthquakes induced by fluid injection: Science, v. 347, no. 6224, p. 830-831.

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Mihalasky, M.J., Hall, S.M., Hammarstrom, J.M., Tureck, K.R., Hannon, M.T., Breit, G.N., Zielinski, R.A., and Elliott, Brent, 2015, Assessment of undiscovered sandstone-hosted uranium resources in the Texas Coastal Plain, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3069.

Mihalasky, M.J., Ludington, Stephen, Alexeiev, D.V., Frost, T.P., Light, T.D., Briggs, D.A., Hammarstrom, J.M., Wallis, J.C., Bookstrom, A.A., and Panteleyev, Andre, 2015, Porphyry copper assessment of northeast Asia: Far East Russia and northeasternmost China: Chapter W in Global mineral resource assessment: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report No. 2010-5090-W.

Montgomery‐Brown, E.K., Wicks, C.W., Cervelli, P.F., Langbein, J.O., Svarc, J.L., Shelly, D.R., Hill, D.P., and Lisowski, Michael, 2015, Renewed inflation of Long Valley Caldera, California (2011 to 2014): Geophysical Research Letters, v. 42, no. 13, p. 5250-5257.

Moreno, Hugo, Major, J.J., Pierson, T.C., and Hoblitt, R.P., 2015, Pyroclastic density currents associated with the 2008-2009 eruption of Chaitén Volcano (Chile): forest disturbances, deposits, and dynamics: Andean Geology, v. 40, no. 2, p. 324-358.

Morgan Henderson, M.J., Hebblewhite, Mark, Mitchell, M.S., Stetz, J.B., Kendall, K.C., and Carlson, R.T., 2015, Modeling multi-scale resource selection for bear rubs in northwestern Montana: Ursus, v. 26, no. 1, p. 28-39.

Moschetti, M.P., Powers, P.M., Petersen, M.D., Boyd, O.S., Chen, Rui, Field, E.H., Frankel, A.D., Haller, K.M., Harmsen, S.C., Mueller, C.S., and Wheeler, R.L., 2015, Seismic source characterization for the 2014 update of the U.S. national seismic hazard model: Earthquake Spectra, v. 31, no. S1, p. S31-S57.

Mueller, C.S., Briggs, R.W., Wesson, R.L., and Petersen, M.D., 2015, Updating the USGS seismic hazard maps for Alaska: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 113, p. 39-47.

Mumford, A.C., Barringer, J.L., Reilly, P.A., Eberl, D.D., Blum, A.E., and Young, L.Y., 2015, Biogeochemical environments of streambed-sediment pore waters with and without arsenic enrichment in a sedimentary rock terrain, New Jersey Piedmont, USA: Science of the Total Environment, v. 505, p. 1350-1360.

Newsome, S.D., Tinker, M.T., Gill, V.A., Hoyt, Z.N., Doroff, Angela, Nichol, Linda, and Bodkin, J.L., 2015, The interaction of intraspecific competition and habitat on individual diet specialization: a near range-wide examination of sea otters: Oecologia, v. 178, no. 1, p. 45-59.

Crystal Ng, G.H., Bekins, B.A., Cozzarelli, I.M., Baedecker, M.J., Bennett, P.C., Amos, R.T., and Herkelrath, W.N., 2015, Reactive transport modeling of geochemical controls on secondary water quality impacts at a crude oil spill site near Bemidji, MN: Water Resources Research, v. 51, no. 6, p. 4156-4183.

Obeid, Wassim, Salmon, Elodie, Lewan, M.D., and Hatcher, P.G., 2015, Hydrous pyrolysis of Scenedesmus algae and algaenan-like residue: Organic Geochemistry, v. 85, p. 89-101.

Overton, C.T., Takekawa, J.Y., Casazza, M.L., Bui, T.D., Holyoak, Marcel, and Strong, D.R., 2015, Sea-level rise and refuge habitats for tidal marsh species: can artificial islands save the California Ridgway's rail?: Ecological Engineering, v. 74, p. 337-344.

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Balachandran, Sivananinthaperumal, and Takekawa, J.Y., 2015, Mapping migratory flyways in Asia using dynamic Brownian bridge movement models: Movement Ecology,v. 3, no. 1, p. 3.

Pearse, A.T., Krapu, G.L., Brandt, D.A., and Sargeant, G.A., 2015, Timing of spring surveys for midcontinent sandhill cranes: Wildlife Society Bulletin, v. 39, no. 1, p. 87-93.

Perry, R.W., Jones, Edward, and Scoppettone, G.G., 2015, A stochastic population model to evaluate Moapa dace (Moapa coriacea) population growth under alternative management scenarios: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2015-1126.

Petersen, M.R., Byrd, G.V., Sonsthagen, S.A., and Sexson, M.G., 2015, Re‐colonization by common eiders Somateria mollissima in the Aleutian Archipelago following removal of introduced arctic foxes Vulpes lagopus: Journal of Avian Biology, v. 46, no. 5, p. 538-549.

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Petersen, M.D., Moschetti, M.P., Powers, P.M., Mueller, C.S., Haller, K.M., Frankel, A.D., Zeng, Yuehua, Rezaeian, Sanaz, Harmsen, S.C., Boyd, O.S., Field, E.H., and others, 2015, Seismic-hazard maps for the conterminous United States, 2014: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3325.

Petersen, M.D., Moschetti, M.P., Powers, P.M., Mueller, C.S., Haller, K.M., Frankel, A.D., Zeng, Yuehua, Rezaeian, Sanaz, Harmsen, S.C., Boyd, O.S., Field, Ned, and others, 2015, The 2014 United States national seismic hazard model: Earthquake Spectra, v. 31, no. S1, p. S1-S30.

Peterson, D.A., Hyer, E.J., Campbell, J.R., Fromm, M.D., Hair, J.W., Butler, C.F., and Fenn, M.A., 2015, The 2013 Rim Fire: implications for predicting extreme fire spread, pyroconvection, and smoke emissions: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, v. 96, no. 2, p. 229-247.

Phillips, J.D., 2015, Tools and techniques: gravitational method: In Treatise on Geophysics, p. 393–418.

Phillips, J.D., and Simpson, R.W., 2015, Sharpening the boundaries-3D terracing applied to physical property inversions: In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2015, p. 1536-1540, Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Pierson, T.C., Amigo, Álvaro, Hoblitt, R.P., Moreno, Rodrigo, and Lara, L.E., 2015, Late Holocene history of Chaitén Volcano: new evidence for a 17th century eruption: Andean Geology, v. 40, no. 2, p. 249-261,

Poole, F.G., and Sandberg, C.A., 2015a, Olistostrome shed eastward from the Antler orogenic forebulge, Bisoni-McKay area, Fish Creek Range, central Nevada: Geological Society of America Special Papers, 517, p. 1-38.

Poole, F.G., and Sandberg, C.A., 2015b, Alamo impact olistoliths in Antler orogenic foreland, Warm Springs–Milk Spring area, Hot Creek Range, central Nevada: Geological Society of America Special Papers, 517, p. 39-104.

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Brownfield, M.E., Mercier, T.J., Tennyson, M.E., and Pitman, J.K., 2015, Assessment of Paleozoic shale gas resources in the Sichuan Basin of China, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3053.

Powars, D.S., Edwards, L.E., Gohn, G.S., and Horton Jr, J.W., 2015, Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: a blast from the past: U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product No. 159.

Prosser, D.J., Palm, E.C., Takekawa, J.Y., Zhao, Delong, Xiao, Xiangming, Li, Peng, Liu, Ying, and Newman, S.H., 2015, Movement analysis of free-grazing domestic ducks in Poyang Lake, China: a disease connection: International Journal of Geographical Information Science, p. 1-12.

Randall, A.D., and Kappel, W.M., 2015, Hydrogeology of the Susquehanna River valley-fill aquifer system in the Endicott-Vestal area of southwestern Broome County, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Informations Report No. 2015-5078.

Rankin, D.W., and Rankin, M.B., 2014, A field trip guidebook to the type localities of Marland Billings' 1935 Paleozoic bedrock stratigraphy near Littleton, New Hampshire: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2014-1026.

Reheis, M.C., Miller, D.M., McGeehin, J.P., Redwine, J.R., Oviatt, C.G., and Bright, Jordon, 2015, Directly dated MIS 3 lake-level record from Lake Manix, Mojave Desert, California, USA: Quaternary Research, v. 83, no. 1, p.187-203.

Ridley, W.I., Pribil, M.J., Koenig, A.E., and Slack, J.F., 2015, Measurement of in situ sulfur isotopes by laser ablation multi-collector ICPMS: opening Pandora's Box: Procedia Earth and Planetary Science, v. 13, p. 116-119.

Robertson, D.M., Rose, W.J., and Reneau, P.C., 2015, Interannual and long-term changes in the trophic state of a multi-basin lake: effects of morphology, climate, winter aeration, and beaver activity: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 10.1139/cjfas-2015-0249.

Rodda, G.H., Adams, A.A.Y., Campbell, E.W., and Fritts, T.H., 2015, General herpetological collecting is size-biased for five Pacific lizards: Journal of Herpetology, v. 49, no. 4.

Rodda, G.H., Dean-Bradley, Kathryn, Campbell, E.W., Fritts, T.H., Lardner, Bjorn, Adams, A.A.Y., and Reed, R.N., 2015, Stability of detectability over 17 Years at a single site and other lizard detection comparisons from Guam: Journal of Herpetology, v. 49, no. 4.

Rodriguez, J.A.P., Leonard, G.J., Platz, Thomas, Tanaka, K.L., Kargel, J.S., Fairén, A.G., Gulick, Virginia, Baker, V.R., Glines, N., Miyamoto, H., and Jianguo, Y., 2015, New insights into the Late Amazonian zonal shrinkage of the martian south polar plateau: Icarus, v. 248, p. 407-411.

Romine, J.G., Jensen, N.R., Parsley, M.J., Gaugush, R.F., Severson, T.J., Hatton, T.W., Adams, R.F., and Gaikowski, M.P., 2015, Response of bighead carp and silver carp to repeated water gun operation in an enclosed shallow pond: North American Journal of Fisheries Management,v. 35, no. 3, p. 440-453.

Rosencranz, J.A., Ganju, N.K., Ambrose, R.F., Brosnahan, S.M., Dickhudt, P.J., Guntenspergen, G.R., MacDonald, G.M., Takekawa, J.Y., and Thorne, K.M., 2015, Balanced sediment fluxes in southern California’s Mediterranean-climate zone salt marshes: Estuaries and Coasts, p. 1-15.

Rytuba, J.J., Hothem, R.L., Brussee, B.E., Goldstein, Daniel, and May, J.T., 2015, Environmental assessment of water, sediment, and biota collected from the Bear Creek watershed, Colusa County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No.

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Sachse, Glen, Hair, Johnathan, Butler, Carolyn, Fenn, Marta, Jimenez, J.L., and others, 2015, Revealing important nocturnal and day‐to‐day variations in fire smoke emissions through a multiplatform inversion: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 42, no. 9, p. 3609-3618.

Sato, Keiko, Kawabata, Hiroshi, Scholl, D.W., Hyodo, Hironobu, Takahashi, Kozo, Suzuki, Katsuhiko, and Kumagai, Hidenori, 2015, 40 Ar–39 Ar dating and tectonic implications of volcanic rocks recovered at IODP Hole U1342a and on Bowers Ridge, Bering Sea: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.

Savage, J.C., and Wells, R.E., 2015, Identifying block structure in the Pacific Northwest, USA: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 120, no. 11, p. 7905-7916.

Savard, J.-P.L., and Petersen, M.R., 2015, Remedial molt of sea ducks: In Ecology and Conservation of North American Sea Ducks, v. 46, p. 305.

Schenk, C.J., Charpentier, R.R., Klett, T.R., Tennyson, M.E., Mercier, T.J., Brownfield, M.E., Pitman, J.K., Gaswirth, S.B., and Leathers-Miller, H.M., 2015, Assessment of shale-oil resources of the Central Sumatra Basin, Indonesia, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3072.

Schenk, C.J., Charpentier, R.R., Klett, T.R., Tennyson, M.E., Mercier, T.J., Le, P.A., Brownfield, M.E., Pitman, J.K., Gaswirth, S.B., Marra, K.R., and Leathers, H.M., 2015, Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Paris Basin, France, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet No. 2015-3016.

Schenk, C.J., Pitman, J.K., Charpentier, R.R., Klett, T.R., Gaswirth, S.B., Brownfield, M.E., Leathers, H.M., and others, 2015, Assessment of unconventional oil and gas resources in the Jurassic Sargelu Formation of Iraq, 2014: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2015-3006.

Scholl, D.W., Kirby, S.H., von Huene, Roland, Ryan, Holly, Wells, R.E., and Geist, E.L., 2015, Great (≥ Mw8. 0) megathrust earthquakes and the subduction of excess sediment and bathymetrically smooth seafloor: Geosphere, p. GES01079-1.

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Schwimmer, D.R., Sanders, A.E., Erickson, B.R., and Weems, R.E., 2015, A Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile assemblage from South Carolina, USA: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v. 105, no. 2, p. I.

Schwimmer, D.R., Weems, R.E., and Sanders, A.E., 2015, A Late Cretaceous shark coprolite with baby freshwater turtle vertebrae inclusions: Palaios, v. 30, no. 9, p. 707-713.

Scoppettone, G.G., Rissler, P.H., Fabes, M.C., and Shea, S.P., 2015, Population dynamics of the Cui-ui of Pyramid Lake, Nevada: a Potamodromous catostomid subject to failed reproduction: North American Journal of Fisheries Management, v. 35, no. 5, p. 853-864.

Scoppettone, G.G., Fabes, M.C., Rissler, P.H., and Withers, Donna, 2015, Fish Tag Recovery from Anaho Island nesting colony, Pyramid Lake, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2015-1242.

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Thornber, C.R., Orr, T.R., Heliker, Christina, and Hoblitt, R.P., 2015, Petrologic testament to changes in shallow magma storage and transport during 30+ years of recharge and eruption at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai‘i: In Hawaiian volcanoes: from source to surface, 208, p. 147-188.

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Tian, Huaiyu, Zhou, Sen, Dong, Lu, Van Boeckel, T.P., Cui, Yujun, Newman, S.H., Takekawa, J.Y., Prosser, D.J., Xiao, Xiangming, Wu, Yarong, Cazelles, Bernard, and others, 2015, Avian influenza H5N1 viral and bird migration networks in Asia: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 112, no. 1, p. 172-177.

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Vikre, P.G., John, D.A., du Bray, E.A., and Fleck, R.J., 2015, Gold-silver mining districts, alteration zones, and paleolandforms in the Miocene Bodie Hills volcanic field, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report No. 2015-5012.

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Zürcher, Lukas, Bookstrom, A.A., Hammarstrom, J.M., Mars, J.C., Ludington, Stephen, Zientek, M.L., Dunlap, Pamela, Wallis, J.C., Drew, L.J., Sutphin, D.M., and Berger, B.R., 2015, Porphyry copper assessment of the Tethys region of western and southern Asia: Chapter V in Global mineral resource assessment: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report No. 2010-5090-V.

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