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Brock, J.C., Wright, C.W., Nayegandhi, Amar, Patterson, Matt, Wilson, Iris, and Travers, L.J., 2008, EAARL topography—Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1431, DVD [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1431/].
Colwell, F., Hangsterfer, A., Brodie, E., Daly, R., Holland, M., Briggs, B., Carini, P., Torres, M., Kastner, M., Long, P., Schaef, H., Delwiche, M., and Winters, B., 2008, Fine scale control of microbial communities in deep marine sediments that contain hydrates and high concentrations of methane; results from NGHP Expedition 01 [abs.]: International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Noida, India, February 6-8, 2008, p. 44-45.
Cooper, A.K., Raymond, Carol, and the 10th ISAES editorial team, eds., 2007, Antarctica; a keystone in a changing world—online proceedings for the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.—August 26 to September 1, 2007: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1047 [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/].
Cooper, A.K., Wardell, Nigel, and Childs, J.R., 2007, Report on the Workshop for the Antarctic Seismic Data Library System for Cooperative Research (SDLS); Santa Barbara, California, August 26, 2007 (Meeting Workshop Report 03), in Cooper, Alan, Raymond, Carol, and the 10th ISAES Editorial Team, eds., Antarctica; a keystone in a changing world—online proceedings for the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.—August 26 to September 1, 2007: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1047 [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/].
Covault, J.A., Normark, W.R., Romans, B.W., and Graham, S.A., 2007, Highstand fans in the California borderland; the overlooked deep-water depositional systems: Geology, v. 35, no. 9, p. 783-786 [URL http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1130%2FG23800A.1].
Davey, F.J., and Cooper, A.K., 2007, Circum-Antarctic Stratigraphy and Paleobathymetry (CASP) Project; report on a meeting held at the 10th ISAES on September 1, 2007 (Meeting Workshop Report 01), in Cooper, A.K., Raymond, Carol, and the 10th ISAES editorial team, eds., Antarctica; a keystone in a changing world—online proceedings for the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.—August 26 to September 1, 2007: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1047 [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/].
DeWitt, N., Flocks, J., Hansen, M., and Reynolds, B.J., 2008, Bathymetric survey of the nearshore from Belle Pass to Caminada Pass, Louisiana; methods and data report: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 312, CD-ROM [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/312/].
Draut, A.E., and Rubin, D.M., 2008, The role of aeolian sediment in the preservation of archaeological sites, Colorado River corridor, Grand Canyon, Arizona, in Van Riper, C., and Sogge, M., eds., The Colorado Plateau III—integrating research and resource management for effective conservation: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p. 331-350.
Farris, G.S., Smith, G.J., Crane, M.P., Demas, C.R., Robbins, L.L., and Lavoie, D.L., eds., Science and the storms; the USGS response to the hurricanes of 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1306 [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1306/].
Geist, E.L., and Parsons, Tom, 2008, Distribution of tsunami inter-event times: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 35, no. L02612, doi:10.1029/2007GL032690 [URL http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl0802/2007GL032690/].
Goff, J.A., Jenkins, C.J., and Williams, S.J., 2008, Seabed mapping and characterization of sediment variability using the usSEABED data base: Continental Shelf Research, v. 28, no. 4-5, p. 614-633, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2007.11.011 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02784343].
Haidvogel, D.B., Arango, H.G., Budgell, W.P., Cornuelle, B.D., Curchitser, E., Di Lorenzo, E., Fennel, K., Geyer, W.R., Hermann, A.J., Lanerolle, L., Levin, J., McWilliams, J.C., Miller, A.J., Moore, A.M., Powell, T.M., Shchepetkin, A.F., Sherwood, C.R., Signell, R.P., Warner, J.C., and Wilkin, J., 2008, Ocean forecasting in terrain-following coordinates; formulation and skill assessment of the Regional Ocean Modeling System: Journal of Computational Physics, v. 227, no. 7, p. 3595-3624, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2007.06.016 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00219991].
Kellogg, C.A., 2008, Deep-sea corals have complex microbial assemblages, just like shallow corals: Deep-Sea News [science blog], April 29, 2008, URL http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2008/04/deep_corals_have_complex_micro.php.
Kellogg, C.A., 2007, Microbial diversity associated with Lophelia pertusa in the Gulf of Mexico: Minerals Management Service Information Transfer Meeting, 24th, Kenner, La., January 9-11, 2007, Proceedings [URL http://www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/regulate/environ/itm_2007.html].
Long, P.E., Schael, H.T., Torres, M.E., Holland, M., Schultheiss, P., Kastner, M., and Soloman, E., 2008, Infrared (IR) imaging results from Indian National Gas Hydrate Program (NGHP), Expedition 01; implications for gas hydrate abundance and correlation to physical properties and pore water chemistry [abs.]: International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Noida, India, February 6-8, 2008, Abstracts, p. 38–39.
McMullen, K.Y., Poppe, L.J., Denny, J.F., Haupt, T.A., and Crocker, J.M., 2008, Sidescan-sonar imagery and surficial geologic interpretations of the sea floor in central Rhode Island Sound: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1366, DVD-ROM [URL http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/pubs/of2007-1366/].
Osterman, L.E., Poore, R.Z., and Swarzenski, P.W., 2007, The last 1000 years of natural and anthropogenic low-oxygen bottom water on the Louisiana shelf, Gulf of Mexico: Marine Micropaleontology, v. 66, no. 3-4, p. 291-303, doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.10.005 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03778398].
Palaseanu-Lovejoy, M., Nayegandhi, A., Brock, J., Wright, C.W., and Woodman, R., 2008, Delineation of vegetation communities using airborne lidar data at Jean Lafitte National Park, Louisiana, USA [abs.]: USGS Modeling Conference, 2nd, Orange Beach, Ala., February 11-15, 2008, Abstracts, p. 36.
Parsons, Tom, 2008, Monte Carlo method for determining earthquake recurrence parameters from short paleoseismic catalogs; example calculations for California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 113, B03302, doi:10.1029/2007JB004998 [URL http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2007JB004998.shtml].
Parsons, Tom, 2008, Persistent earthquake clusters and gaps from slip on irregular faults: Nature Geoscience, v. 1, no. 1, p. 59-63, doi:10.1038/ngeo.2007.36 [URL http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n1/abs/ngeo.2007.36.html].
Poppe, L.J., and Eliason, A.H., 2008, A Visual Basic program to plot sediment grain-size data on ternary diagrams: Computers and Geosciences, v. 34, no. 5, p. 561-565, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2007.03.019 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00983004].
Poppe, L.J., Williams, S., Moser, M.S., Forfinski, N.A., Stewart, H.F., and Doran, E.F., 2008, Quaternary geology and sedimentary processes in the vicinity of Six Mile Reef, eastern Long Island Sound: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 24, no. 1, p. 255-266 [URL http://www.jcronline.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.2112%2F06-0743.1].
Rubin, D.M., Chezar, Henry, Harney, J.N., Topping, D.J., Melis, T.S., and Sherwood, C.R., 2007, Underwater microscope for measuring spatial and temporal changes in bed-sediment grain size, in Hartmann, D., and Flemming, B.W., eds., From particle size to sediment dynamics: Sedimentary Geology, v. 202, no. 3 (special issue), p. 402-408, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.03.020 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00370738].
Rubin, D.M., Tsoar, Haim, and Blumberg, D.G., 2008, A second look at western Sinai seif dunes and their lateral migration: Geomorphology, v. 93, no. 3-4, p. 335-342, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.03.004 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0169555X].
Sanders, Rex, 2007, SODA—Self-Service Online Digital Archive for unloved scientific data, in Brady, S.R., Sinha, A.K., and Gundersen, L.C., eds., 2007, Geoinformatics 2007—data to knowledge, proceedings, May 17-18, San Diego, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5199, p. 94-95 [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5199/].
Shi, F.Y., Kirby, J.T., and Hanes, D.M., 2007, An efficient mode-splitting method for a curvilinear nearshore circulation model: Coastal Engineering, v. 54, no. 1, p. 811-824, doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2007.05.009 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03783839].
Stockdon, H.F., and Thompson, D.M., 2008, Vulnerability of National Park Service beaches to inundation during a direct hurricane landfall: URL http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/nps-beaches/.
Stockdon, H.F., and Thompson, D.M., 2007, Vulnerability of National Park Service beaches to inundation during a direct hurricane landfall; Cape Lookout National Seashore: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1376 [URL http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/nps-beaches/cape-lookout.html].
Stockdon, H.F., and Thompson, D.M., 2007, Vulnerability of National Park Service beaches to inundation during a direct hurricane landfall; Fire Island National Seashore: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1389 [URL http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/nps-beaches/fire-island.html].
Stockdon, H.F., Thompson, D.M., and Fauver, L.A., 2007, Vulnerability of National Park Service beaches to inundation during a direct hurricane landfall; Cumberland Island National Seashore: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1376 [URL http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/nps-beaches/cumberland-island.html].
Storlazzi, C.D., and Jaffe, B.E., 2008, The relative contribution of processes driving variability in flow, shear, and turbidity over a fringing coral reef: West Maui, Hawaii: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 77, no. 4, p. 549-564, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2007.10.012 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02727714].
Swarzenski, P.W., Campbell, P.L., Osterman, L.E., and Poore, R.Z., 2008, A 1000-year sediment record of recurring hypoxia off the Mississippi River; the potential role of terrestrially-derived organic matter inputs: Marine Chemistry, v. 109, no. 1-2, p. 130-142, doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2008.01.003 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03044203].
Swarzenski, P.W., Campbell, P.L., Poore, R.Z., Osterman, L.E., and Rosenbauer, R.J., 2007, Examining offshore sediment-hosted contaminant transport from Hurricane Katrina, in Farris, G.S., Smith, G.J., Crane, M.P., Demas, C.R., Robbins, L.L., and Lavoie, D.L., eds., Science and the storms; the USGS response to the hurricanes of 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1306, p. 198-201 [URL http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1306/].
Swarzenski, P.W., Simonds, F.W., Paulson, A.J., Kruse, Sarah, and Reich, Chris, 2007, Geochemical and geophysical examination of submarine groundwater discharge and associated nutrient loading estimates into Lynch Cove, Hood Canal, WA: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 41, no. 20, p. 7022-7029, doi:10.1021/es070881a [URL http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/esthag/2007/41/i20/abs/es070881a.html].
Tinker, M.T., Estes, J.A., and Bentall, G., 2008, Food limitation leads to behavioral diversification and dietary specialization in sea otters: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 105, no. 2, p. 560-565, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709263105 [URL http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/105/2/560].
Topping, D.J., Rubin, D.M., and Melis, T.S., 2007, Coupled changes in sand grain size and sand transport driven by changes in the upstream supply of sand in the Colorado River; relative importance of changes in bed-sand grain size and bed-sand area, in Hartmann, D., and Flemming, B.W., eds., From particle size to sediment dynamics: Sedimentary Geology, v. 202, no. 3 (special issue), p. 538-561, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.03.016 [URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00370738].
Winters, W.J., Gomes, M., Giosan, L., Johnson, J.E., Kastner, M., Torres, M.E., Long, P.E., Schaef, H.T., and Rose, K., 2008, Physical properties of sediment from the National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 01, 2006, offshore India [abs.]: International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Noida, India, February 6-8, 2008, Abstracts, p. 36–37.
Winters, W.J., Waite, W.F., and Mason, D., 2008, Triaxial strength and acoustic properties of repressurized samples from the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program (NGHP) Expedition 01 [abs.]: International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Noida, India, February 6-8, 2008, Abstracts, p. 72–73.

Publications Submitted for Director's Approval

Bonisteel, J.M., Nayegandhi, A., and Brock, J.C., Utilizing lidar-derived digital-elevation models to evaluate morphologic change: National Lidar Meeting, 2nd, Reston, Va., May 21-22, 2008.
Chaytor, J.D., ten Brink, U.S., Solow, A.R., and Andrews, B.D., Size distribution of submarine landslides along the U.S. Atlantic margin and its implication to tsunami hazards: Marine Geology.
Cochrane, G.R., Video-supervised classification of sonar data for mapping seafloor: Marine Habitat Mapping Technology Workshop for Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2-4, 2007, Proceedings.
Collins, B.D., and Kayen, Robert, Hazard and probability of sea-cliff landslides on variable temporal scales [abs.]: World Landslide Forum, 1st, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-21, 2008.
Draut, A.E., Logan, J.B., McCoy, R.E., McHenry, Michael, and Warrick, J.A., Channel evolution on the lower Elwha River, Washington, 1939-2006: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series.
Field, M.E., Cochran, S.A., Logan, J.B., and Storlazzi, C.D., Summary—the Moloka‘i coral reef today, and alternatives for the future, in Field, M.E., Cochran, S.A., Logan, J.B., and Storlazzi, C.D., eds., The coral reef of south Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i; portrait of a sediment-threatened fringing reef: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report.
Garrison, V.H., Aerobiogeochemistry perturbations of the Anthropocene Epoch—or, what does this stuff in the air do to the world?: Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 13-18, 2008.
Garrison, V.H., and Ward, G.A., Reef restoration through transplantation of storm-generated coral fragments: Biological Conservation.
Geist, E.L., Twichell, D.C., and Lynett, P.J., Trip report for the hydrology site audit of the South Texas Project: Technical letter report to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission JCN Q-4151 under task order 2.
Holznagel, K., Dunigan, D.D., and Robbins, L.L., Ancient marine algal virus DNA from sediment core samples [abs.]: Nebraska Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, 128th, Lincoln, Neb., April 18, 2008.
Jaffe, B.E., The role of deposits in tsunami risk assessment: Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference, Oahu, Hawaii, April 13-16, 2008, Proceedings.
Jones, E., Lathan, T., McConnell, D., Frye, M., Shedd, W., Shelander, D., Boswell, R., Rose, K., Ruppel, C., Hutchinson, D., Collett, T., Dugan, B., and Wood, W., Scientific objectives of the Gulf of Mexico gas hydrate JIP leg II drilling [abs.]: Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Tex., May 5-8, 2008.
Knee, K.L., Street, J.H., Grossman, E.E., and Paytan, Adina, Submarine ground water discharge and fate along the coast of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, Hawai‘i; part II, spatial and temporal variability in salinity, radium and nutrients in coastal waters; December 2003-April 2006: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report.
Lacy, J.R., and Rubin, D.M., Evolution of suspended-sand concentration profiles produced by simulated waves and currents in a large flume [abs.]: International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE), 31st, Hamburg, Germany, August 31-September 5, 2008.
Lengyel, N.L., Collie, J.S., and Valentine, P.C., The invasive colonial ascidian Didemnum sp. on Georges Bank; ecological effects and genetic identification: Aquatic Invasions.
Lidz, B.H., Brock, J.C., and Nagle, D.B., Utility of shallow-water ATRIS images in defining biogeologic processes and self-similarity in skeletal Scleractinia, Florida reefs: Journal of Coastal Research.
Osterman, L.E., Poore, R.Z., and Swarzenski, P.W., Gulf of Mexico dead zone—1000-year record: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report.
Raabe, E.A., Harris, M.S., Shrestha, R., Carter, W., and Sartori, M., Derivation of ground surface in a coastal Florida wetland with airborne laser technology: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report.
Rowland, R.W., Jackson, K., and Shimeld, J.W., Operational factors affecting an UNCLOS seismic survey on an ice-covered extended continental shelf [abs.]: International Geological Congress (IGC), 33rd, Oslo, Norway, August 16-20, 2008.
Ruppel, C.D., Boswell, R., and Jones, E., Scientific results from the Gulf of Mexico Methane Hydrates Project Leg 1 drilling; introduction and overview: Marine and Petroleum Geology.
Seed, R.B., Bea, R.G., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Boutwell, G.P., Bray, J.D., Cheung, C., Cobos-Roa, D., Cohen-Waeber, J., Collins, B.D., Harder, L.F., Kayen, R.E., Pestana, J.M., Riemer, M.F., Rogers, J.D., Storesund, R., Vera-Grunauer, X., and Wartman, J.E., New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina; IV—the Orleans East Bank (Metro) protected basin: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.
Williams, S.J., Gutierrez, B.T., and Thieler, E., Geologic and coastal vulnerability of sea-level rise, erosion, and storms: Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference (American Society of Civil Engineers), Oahu, Hawaii, April 13-16, 2008, Proceedings.