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February 7, 2013
Towards a publicly available, map-based regional software tool to estimate unregulated daily streamflow at ungauged rivers
By Stacey Archfield, Peter Steeves, John Guthrie (GECSC), and Kernell Ries. Published in Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 6.
This paper presents one of the first publicly available, map-based software tools to provide unregulated daily streamflow time series for any user-selected river location in a particular study region. The software tool, which requires only an internet connection, a web browser, and a macro-based spreadsheet program, was developed for the Connecticut River basin, but the overall framework is adaptable to other regions.
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January 31, 2013
Challenges and opportunities for ecosystem services science and policy in arid and semiarid environments
By Ken Bagstad (GECSC), Darius Semmens (GECSC), and Charles van Riper III. Published as Chapter 4 of Colorado Plateau V: Research, environmental planning, and management for effective conservation, University of Arizona Press.
This book chapter describes the scientific challenges and policy opportunities for using ecosystem services as a management framework for the Colorado Plateau. The temporal and spatial distribution of water and the location of beneficiaries are key drivers of supply and demand for ecosystem services in this semiarid, lightly populated region. This chapter is part of a larger work synthesizing the potential contributions of recent scientific advances toward conservation and resource management on the Colorado Plateau.
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January 30, 2013
The Cambrian-Ordovician rocks of Sonora, Mexico, and southern Arizona, southwestern margin of North America (Laurentia)
By Ric Page (GECSC), Anita Harris, and John Repetski. Published as Chapter 35 of The great American carbonate bank: The geology and economic resources of the Cambrian-Ordovician Sauk megasequence of Laurentia. (American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 98)
This book chapter summarizes the stratigraphy, paleontology, and economic resources of Cambrian and Ordovician rocks in Sonora, Mexico and southern Arizona using selected stratigraphic reference sections. It is part of a larger publication that describes the deposits of the Great American Carbonate Bank, of North America, that comprise carbonate and clastic rocks deposited during Cambrian through earliest Middle Ordovician periods.