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2012

Anderson, T., Rosenberger, K.J., and Gartner, A.L., 2012, Reformatted data sets used in the Cooperative LACSD/USGS Palos Verdes Flow Study, 2000-2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1253, 45 p.

Barnard, P.L., Erikson, L.H., Rubin, D.M., Dartnell, P. and Kvitek, R.G., 2012, Analyzing bedforms mapped using multibeam sonar to determine regional bedload sediment transport patterns in the San Francisco Bay coastal system. Sedimentology, In: Li, M.Z., Sherwood, C.R., and Hill, P.R. (Eds.), Sediments, Morphology and Sedimentary Processes on Continental Shelves: Advances in technologies, research and applications: Special Publication 44 of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), p. 273-294

Barnard, P.L., Hansen, J.E., and Erikson, L.H., 2012, Synthesis study of an erosion hot spot, Ocean Beach, California (USA): Journal of Coastal Research, v. 28, no. 4, p. 903–922, doi:10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-11-00212

Barnard, P.L., Hubbard, D.M., and Dugan, J.E., 2012, Beach response dynamics of a littoral cell using a 17-year single-point time series of sand thickness: Geomorphology, Volume 139-140, p. 588-598, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.023

Briggs, B.R., Inagaki, F., Morono, Y., Futagami, T., Huguet, C., Rosell-Mele, A., Lorenson, T., and Colwell, F.S., 2012, Bacterial dominance in subseafloor sediments characterized by methane hydrates: FEMS Microbiology Ecology, v. 81, no. 1, p. 8898, doi:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01311.x

Brothers, L.L., Hart, P.E., and Ruppel, C.D., 2012, Minimum distribution of subsea ice-bearing permafrost on the U.S. Beaufort Sea continental shelf: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 39, L15501, 6 p. doi:10.1029/2012GL052222

Childs, J.R., Triezenberg, P.J., and Danforth, W.W., 2012, 2008 Joint United States-Canadian program to explore the limits of the Extended Continental Shelf aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy--Cruise HLY0806: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1210, 15 p. and appendixes

Conaway, Christopher H., Swarzenski, Peter W., and Cohen Andrew S, 2012, Recent paleorecords document rising mercury contamination in Lake Tanganyika: Applied Geochemistry, vol. 27 i. 1 pp. 352-359, doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.11.005

Dartnell, P., Finlayson, D.P., Ritchie, A.C., Cochrane, G.R., and Erdey, M.D., 2012, Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter--outer mainland shelf, eastern Santa Barbara Channel, California: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 702

Dimova, NT, Swarzenski, PW, Dulaiova, H, and Glenn, C, 2012, Utilizing multichannel electrical resistivity methods to examine the dynamics of the fresh water–seawater interface in two Hawaiian groundwater systems: Journal Geophysical Research, v. 117, C02012, 12 PP.: doi:10.1029/2011JC007509

Erikson, Li H., Gibbs, Ann E., Richmond, Bruce M., Storlazzi, Curt D., and Jones, Benjamin M., 2012, Modeling arctic barrier island-lagoon system response to projected arctic warming: Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Progress Report at http://arcticlcc.org/projects/geophysical/barrier-island-lagoon-systems/

Foxgrover, A.C., and Barnard, P.L., 2012, A seamless, high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) of the north-central California coast: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 684, 11 p. and data files

Foxgrover, A.C., Finlayson, D.P., and Jaffe, B.E., 2011, 2010 Bathymetry and digital elevation model of Coyote Creek and Alviso Slough, south San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1315, 20 p. and datasets

Ganguli, PM, Conaway, CH, Swarzenski, PW, Izbicki, JA, and Flegal, AR, 2012, Mercury speciation and transport in a California coastal lagoon system: The role of submarine groundwater discharge and monomethyl mercury production: Environmental Science and Technology, v.46, i.3, pp.1480−1488, doi:10.1021/es202783u

Geist, E.L., 2012, Near-field tsunami edge waves and complex earthquake rupture: Pure and Applied Geophysics, Online First, May 22, 2012, doi:10.1007/s00024-012-0491-7

Geist, E.L., 2012, Phenomenology of tsunamis II—scaling, event statistics, and inter-event triggering: Advances in Geophysics, v. 53, p. 35–92, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-380938-4.00002-1

Goldfinger, C., Nelson, C.H., Morey, A.E., Johnson, J.E., Patton, J.R., Karabanov, E., Gutiérrez-Pastor, J., Eriksson, A.T., Gràcia, E., Dunhill, G., Enkin, R.J., Dallimore, A., and Vallier, T., 2012, Turbidite event history—Methods and implications for Holocene paleoseismicity of the Cascadia subduction zone: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1661–F, 170 p.

Guerry, Anne D., et al., 2012, Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning, International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management, doi:10.1080/21513732.2011.647835

Hein, Jim, 2012, Prospects for Rare Earth Elements From Marine Minerals: Briefing Paper 02/12, International Seabed Authority sensitization seminar, May 2012. Download PDF (4.8 MB)

Hein, JR, Conrad, TA, Frank, M, Christl, M, and Sager, WW, 2012, Copper-nickel-rich, amalgamated ferromanganese crust-nodule deposits from Shatsky Rise, NW Pacific: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems v.13 i.10 pp.1525-2027, doi:10.1029/2012GC004286

Izbicki, John A.; Swarzenski, Peter W.; Burton, Carmen A.; Van De Werfhorst, Laurie; Holden, Patricia A.; and Dubinsky, Eric A., 2012, Sources of Fecal Indicator Bacteria to Groundwater, Malibu Lagoon and the Near-Shore Ocean, Malibu, California, USA: Annals of Environmental Science Vol. 6, Article 4, http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20002615

Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Cochrane, G.R., Golden, N.E., Phillips, E.L., Ritchie, A.C., Kvitek, R.G., Greene, H.G., Krigsman, L.M., Endris, C.A., Clahan, K.B., Sliter, R.W., Wong, F.L., Yoklavich, M.M., and Normark, W.R. (S.Y. Johnson, ed.), 2012, California State Waters Map Series--Hueneme Canyon and vicinity, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3225, 41 p., 12 sheets, and GIS data

Kinsman, N., and Xu, J.P., 2012, Fluorescent tracer experiment on Holiday Beach near Mugu Canyon: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1131

Lacy, J.R., Rubin, D.M, and Buscombe, D., 2012, Currents, drag, and sediment transport induced by a tsunami: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, v. 117, C09028, 15 p., doi:10.1029/2012JC007954

Null, KA, Dimova, N, Knee, KL, Esser, BK, Swarzenski, PW, Singleton, MJ, Stacey, M, and Paytan, A. 2012, Submarine groundwater discharge-derived nutrient loads to San Francisco Bay: Implications for future ecosystem changes: Estuaries and Coasts, Volume 35, Issue 5, pp 1299-1315, doi:10.1007/s12237-012-9526-7

Parsons, Tom, Yosihiko Ogata, Jiancang Zhuang, and Eric L. Geist, 2012, Evaluation of static stress change forecasting with prospective and blind tests: Geophysical Journal International (2012) 188, 1425–1440, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05343.x

Polgári, M, Hein, JR, Tóth, AL, Pál-Molnár, E, Vigh, T, Bíró, L, and Fintor, K, 2012, Microbial action formed Jurassic Mn-carbonate ore deposit in only a few hundred years (Úrkút, Hungary): Geology v. 40 no. 10 p. 903-906, doi:10.1130/G33304.1

Polgári, M., J.R. Hein, T. Vigh, M. Szabó-Drubina, I. Fórizs, L. Bíró, A. Müller, and A.L. Tóth, 2012, Microbial processes and the origin of the Úrkút manganese deposit, Hungary, Ore Geology Reviews, Volume 47, Pages 87-109, doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2011.10.001

Presto, M.K., Storlazzi, C.D., Logan, J.B., Reiss, T.E., and Rosenberger, K.J., 2012, Coastal Circulation and Potential Coral-larval Dispersal in Maunalua Bay, Oʻahu, Hawaii—Measurements of Waves, Currents, Temperature, and Salinity, June–September 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1040, 67 p.

Rosenbauer, Robert J. , Burt Thomas, James L. Bischoff, James Palandri, 2012, Carbon sequestration via reaction with basaltic rocks: Geochemical modeling and experimental results: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 89, 15 July 2012, Pages 116-133, ISSN 0016-7037, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.04.042

Ryan, H.F., von Huene, R., Wells, R.E., Scholl, D.W., Kirby, S., and Draut, A.E. 2012, History of earthquakes and tsunamis along the eastern Aleutian-Alaska megathrust, with implications for tsunami hazards in the California Continental Borderland, in Dumoulin, J.A., and Dusel-Bacon, C., eds., Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2011: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1795-A, 31 p.

Ryan, H., von Huene, R., Scholl, D., and Kirby, S., 2012, Tsunami hazards to U.S. coasts from giant earthquakes in Alaska: Eos (American Geophysical Union Transactions), v. 93, no. 19, p. 185, doi:10.1029/2012EO190001

Ryan, H.F., Conrad, J.E., Paull, C.K., and McGann, M., 2012, Slip Rate on the San Diego Trough Fault Zone, Inner California Borderland, and the 1986 Oceanside Earthquake Swarm Revisited: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 102, No. 6, pp. 2300–2312, doi:10.1785/0120110317 [Download PDF, 2.7 MB]

Ryan, H.F., Amy E. Draut, Katie Keranen, and David W. Scholl, 2012, Influence of the Amlia fracture zone on the evolution of the Aleutian Terrace forearc basin, central Aleutian subduction zone Geosphere, December 2012, v. 8, p. 1254-1273, first published on November 16, 2012, doi:10.1130/GES00815.1

Shim, M-J., Swarzenski, PW, and Shiller, AM, 2012, Dissolved and Colloidal Trace Elements in the Mississippi River Delta Outflow after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Continental Shelf Research, 42: 1-9, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2012.03.007

Stevens, A.W., Gelfenbaum, G., Ruggiero, P., and Kaminsky, G.M, 2012, Southwest Washington littoral drift restoration—Beach and nearshore morphological monitoring: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1175, 67 p.

Stevens, A.W., and J.R. Lacy, 2012, The influence of wave energy and sediment transport on seagrass distribution: Estuaries and Coasts, 35: 92-108. doi:10.1007/s12237-011-9435-1

Smith, C.G., and Swarzenski, P.W., 2012, An investigation of submarine-groundwater-borne nutrient fluxes to the west Florida shelf and recurrent harmful algal blooms: Limnology and Oceanography, v. 57, no. 2, p. 471-485, doi:10.4319/lo.2012.57.2.0471

Swarzenski, PW, Dailer, ML, Glenn, CR, Smith, CG and Storlazzi, CD 2012, A Geochemical and Geophysical Assessment of Coastal Groundwater Discharge at select sites in Maui and Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, in Wetzelhuetter, Christoph (Ed.), Groundwater in the Coastal Zones of Asia-Pacific: Springer Coastal Research Library, Vol. 7 Part 1, ISBN 978-94-007-5647-2

Swarzenski, Peter W., Storlazzi, Curt D., Presto, M. Katherine, Gibbs, Ann E., Smith, C.G., Dimova, N.T., Dailer, M.L., and Logan, Joshua B., 2012, Nearshore morphology, benthic structure, hydrodynamics, and coastal groundwater discharge near Kahekili Beach Park, Maui, Hawaii: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1166

Warrick, J.A., and Barnard, P.L., 2012, The offshore export of sand during exceptional discharge from California rivers: Geology, published online June 29, 2012, doi:10.1130/G33115.1

Warrick J.A., J.J. Duda, C.S. Magirl, and C.A. Curran, 2012, River turbidity and sediment loads during dam removal. Eos, vol. 93, no. 43, pp. 425-426

Warrick, J.A., Rosenberger, K., Lam, A., Ferreira, J., Miller, I.M., Rippy, M., Svejkovsky, J., and Mustain, N., 2012, Observations of coastal sediment dynamics of the Tijuana Estuary Fine Sediment Fate and Transport Demonstration Project, Imperial Beach, California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1083, 29 p and data files

Wong, F.L., Dartnell, Peter, Edwards, B.D., and Phillips, E.L., 2012, Seafloor geology and benthic habitats, San Pedro Shelf, southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 552

Wong, F.L., Phillips, E.L., Johnson, S.Y., and Sliter, R.W., 2012, Modeling of depth to base of Last Glacial Maximum and seafloor sediment thickness for the California State Waters Map Series, eastern Santa Barbara Channel, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1161, 16 p. and database

2011

Apotsos, A., Buckley, M., Gelfenbaum, G., Jaffe, B.E., and Vatvani, D, 2011, Nearshore tsunami inundation and sediment transport modeling: towards model validation and application: Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi:10.1007/s00024-011-0291-5

Apotsos, Alex, Gelfenbaum, Guy, and Jaffe, Bruce, 2011, Process-based modeling of tsunami inundation and sediment transport: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 116, F010006, 20 p., doi:10.1029/2010JF001797

Apotsos, A.A., Gelfenbaum, G., Jaffe, B.E., Watt, S., Peck, B., Buckley, M., and Stevens, A., 2011, Tsunami sediment transport and deposition in a sediment-limited embayment on American Samoa: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 107, p. 1-11, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.11.001

Apotsos, A.A., Jaffe, B.E., and Gelfenbaum, G., 2011, Wave characteristics and morphologic effects on the onshore hydrodynamic response of tsunamis: Coastal Engineering 58 (11), 1034-1048, doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2011.06.002

Atwater, B.F., ten Brink, U.S., Buckley, M., Halley, R.S., Jaffe, B.E., and Lopez Venagas, A.M., Reinhardt, E.G., Tuttle, M.P., Watt, S., and Wei, Y., 2011, Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence for an unusual tsunami or storm a few centuries ago at Anegada, British Virgin Islands: Natural Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-010-9622-6

Barnard, P.L., Allan, J., Hansen, J.E., Kaminsky, G.M., Ruggiero, P. and Doria, A., 2011, The impact of the 2009-10 El Niño Modoki on U.S. West Coast beaches: Geophysical Research Letters, 7 pp., doi:10.1029/2011GL047707

Barnard, P.L., Erikson, L.H. and Kvitek, R.G., 2011, Small-scale sediment transport patterns and bedform morphodynamics: new insights from high resolution multibeam bathymetry: Geo-Marine Letters, 10 pp., doi:10.1007/s00367-011-0227-1

Barnard, P.L., Hoover, D. and Hansen, J.E., 2011, Nearshore bathymetric evolution on a high-energy beach during the 2009-10 El Niño winter; In, Wang, P., Rosati, J.D. and Roberts, T.M. (Eds.): Coastal Sediments '11, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, American Society of Civil Engineers, Miami, FL, p. 1390-1403

Borrero, J.C., McAdoo, B., Jaffe, B.E., Dengler, L., Gelfenbaum, G., Higman, B., Hidayat, R., Moore, A., Widjokonko, Lukianto, Peters, R., Prasetya, G.S., Titov, V., and Yulianto, E., , 2011, Field Survey of the March 28, 2005 Nias-Simeulue Earthquake and Tsunami, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 168 (6-7), pp. 1075-1088, doi:10.1007/s00024-010-0218-6

Brand, Andreas, Lacy, Jessica R., Hsu, Kevin, Hoover, Daniel, Gladding, Steve, and Stacey, Mark T., 2011, Wind-enhanced resuspension in the shallow waters of south San Francisco Bay; mechanisms and potential implications for cohesive sediment transport: Journal of Geophysical Research—Oceans, v. 115, C11024, 15 p. doi:10.1029/2010JC006172

Buckley, M., Jaffe, B.E., Wei, Y., and Watt, S., 2011, Estimated velocities and inferred cause of overwash that emplaced inland fields of cobbles and boulders at Anegada, British Virgin Islands: Natural Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9725-8

Conaway, C.H., Swarzenski, P.W., and Cohen, A.S. 2011, Paleorecords document rising mercury contamination in Lake Tanganyika: Applied Geochemistry, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 352–359, doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.11.005

Conrad, J.E., Hein, J.R., Chaudhuri, A.K., Patranabis-Deb, Sarbani, Mukhopadhyay, Joydip, Kumar Deb, Gautam, and Beukes, N.J., 2011, Constraints on the development of Proterozoic basins in central India from 40Ar/39Ar analysis of authigenic glauconitic minerals: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, no. 1-2, p. 158-167, doi:10.1130/B30083.1

Cronin, K., van Ormondt, M., Storlazzi, C.D., Presto, M.K., and Tonnon, P.K., 2011, Nearshore disposal of fine-grained sediment in a high-energy environment: Santa Cruz Harbor case study: Coastal Sediments 2011, v. 1, p. 616-627

Dallas, Kate L., and Barnard, Patrick L., 2011, Anthropogenic influences on shoreline and nearshore evolution in the San Francisco Bay coastal system: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 92, no. 1, p. 195-204, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2010.12.031

Dartnell, P, and Gibbons, H., 2011, Floor of Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product 132, postcard

Dimova, Natasha T., and William C. Burnett, 2011, Evaluation of groundwater discharge into small lakes based on the temporal distribution of radon-222: Limnology & Oceanography, 56(2), 2011, 486–494, doi:10.4319/lo.2011.56.2.0486

Dimova, Natasha T., William C. Burnett, and Kevin Speer, 2011, A natural tracer investigation of the hydrological regime of Spring Creek Springs, the largest submarine spring system in Florida: Continental Shelf Research 31 (2011) 731–738, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2011.01.010

Dinicola, Richard S., Peter W. Swarzenski, and Jennifer Dougherty, 2011, Select Inorganic and Organic Loadings to Nearshore Liberty Bay, Puget Sound, Washington; In, Takesue, RK, ed., Hydrography of and biogeochemical inputs to Liberty Bay, a small urban embayment in Puget Sound, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5152, Ch. 3.

Draut, A.E., 2011, Vegetation and substrate properties of aeolian dune fields in the Colorado River corridor, Grand Canyon, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1195, 16 p.

Draut, A.E., Conaway, C.H., Echols, K.R., Storlazzi, C.D., and Ritchie, A., 2011, Suspended sediment and organic contaminants in the San Lorenzo River, California, water years 2009-2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1120, 24 p. and data tables

Draut, Amy E., Logan, Joshua B., and Mastin, Mark C., 2011, Channel evolution on the dammed Elwha River, Washington, USA: Geomorphology, v. 127, no. 1-2, p. 71-87, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.12.008

Duda, J.J., Warrick, J.A., and Magirl, C.S., 2011, Elwha River dam removal—rebirth of a river: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3097, 4 p.

Duda, J.J., Warrick, J.A., and Magirl, C.S., eds., 2011, Coastal habitats of the Elwha River, Washington—biological and physical patterns and processes prior to dam removal: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5120, 264 p.

Erikson, L.H., Storlazzi, C.D., Jensen, R.E., 2011, Wave climate and trends along the eastern Chukchi Arctic Alaska coast: Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2011 Proceedings, Anchorage, AK, pp. 273 – 285.

Field, M.E., Ogston, A.S., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2011, Rising sea level may cause decline of fringing coral reefs: Eos (American Geophysical Union Transactions), v. 92, no. 33, p. 273-274. Abstract doi:10.1029/2011EO330001; Full article (PDF): http://www.agu.org/journals/eo/v092/i033/2011EO330001/2011EO330001_rga.pdf

Figurski, Jared D., Malone, Dan, Lacy, Jessica R., and Mark Denny, 2011, An inexpensive instrument for measuring wave exposure and water velocity: Limnology and Oceanography—Methods, vol. 9, p. 204-214. doi:10:4319/lom.2011.9.204

Finlayson, D.P., Miller, I.M., and Warrick, J.A., 2011, Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter—Elwha River delta, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1226

Foxgrover, A.C., Finlayson, D.P., and Jaffe, B.E., 2011, 2010 Bathymetry and digital elevation model of Coyote Creek and Alviso Slough, south San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1315, 20 p. and datasets

Foxgrover, A.C., Finlayson, D.P., Jaffe, B.E., Takekawa, J.Y., Thorne, K.M., and Spragens, K.A., 2011, 2010 bathymetric survey and digital elevation model of Corte Madera Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1217, 20 p.

Fresh K., et al., 2011, Implications of Observed Anthropogenic Changes to the Nearshore Ecosystems in Puget Sound: Prepared for the Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project, Technical Report 2011-03.

Fritz, H.M., Borrero, J.C., Synolakis, C.E., Okal, E.A., Weiss, R., Titov, V.V., Jaffe, B.E., Foteinis, S., Lynett, P.J., Chan, I., and Liu, P.L., 2011, Insight on Samoa and Tonga tsunamis: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 107, p. 66-75, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.03.004

Ganju, N.K., Jaffe, B.E., and Schoellhamer, D.H., 2011, Discontinuous hindcast simulations of estuarine bathymetric change: a case study from Suisun Bay, California: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 93, p. 142-150. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2011.04.004

Geist, Eric L., and Parsons, Tom, 2011, Assessing historical rate changes in global tsunami occurrence: Geophysical Journal International (2011) 187, 497–509, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05160.x

Gelfenbaum, G., Apotsos, A., Stevens, A., and Jaffe, B., 2011, Effect of fringing reefs on tsunami inundation: American Samoa: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 107, p. 12-22, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.12.005

Gelfenbaum, G., Duda, J., Warrick, J., 2011, Summary and Anticipated Responses to Elwha River Dam Removal; in Duda, J.J., Warrick, J.A., and Magirl, C.S., eds., Coastal habitats of the Elwha River, Washington— Biological and physical patterns and processes prior to dam removal: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5120, 264 p.

Gibbons, Helen, 2011, U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project—establishing the full extent of the continental shelf of the United States: U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project, poster, http://continentalshelf.gov/

Goff, J., Chagué-Goff, C., Dominey-Howes, D., McAdoo, B., Cronin, S., Bonté-Grapetin, M., Nichol, S., Horrocks, M., Cisternas, M., Lamarche, G., Pelletier, B., Jaffe, B. and Dudley, W., 2011, Palaeotsunamis in the Pacific: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 107, p. 141-146, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.10.005

Goto K., Chagué-Goff, C., Fujino, S., Goff, J., Jaffe, B.E., Nishimura, Y., Richmond, B., Sugawara, D., Szczucinski, W., Tappin, D.R., Witter, R., Yulianto, E., 2011, New insights of tsunami hazard from the 2011 Tohoku-oki event, Marine Geology 290, 46–50, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2011.10.004

Grossman, E.E., George, D.A., and Lam, Angela, 2011. Shallow stratigraphy of the Skagit River Delta, Washington, derived from sediment cores: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2011-1194, 123 p.

Hanes, D.M, Barnard, P.L., Erikson, L.H., Shi, F., Elias, E., Hsu, T.J., Hansen, J.E. and Dallas, K., 2011, Recent scientific advances and their implications for sand management near San Francisco: the influence of the ebb tidal delta; In: Wang, P., Rosati, J.D. and Roberts, T.M. (Eds.): Coastal Sediments '11, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, American Society of Civil Engineers, Miami, FL, p. 472-483

Hanes, D.M., Ward, K., Erikson, L.H., 2011. Waves and tides responsible for the intermittent closure of the entrance of a small, sheltered tidal wetland at San Francisco, CA. Continental Shelf Research, 31(2011), 1682-1687. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2011.07.004

Hansen, J.E., Elias, E., List, J.H. and Barnard, P.L., 2011, A numerical model investigation of the formation and persistence of an erosion hot spot; In: Wang, P., Rosati, J.D. and Roberts, T.M. (Eds.): Coastal Sediments '11, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes, American Society of Civil Engineers, Miami, FL, p. 1769-1782

Hoeke, R.K., Storlazzi, C.D., and Ridd, P.V., 2011, Hydrodynamics of a bathymetrically complex fringing coral reef embayment: wave climate, in situ observations and wave prediction: Journal of Geophysical Research–Oceans, v. 166, C04018, doi:10.1029/2010JC006170

Jaffe, B.E., Buckley, M.L., Richmond, B.M., Strotz, L., Etienne, S., Clark, K., and Gelfenbaum, G., 2011, Flow speed estimated by inverse modeling of sandy sediment deposited by the 29 September 2009 tsunami near Satitoa, east Upolu, Samoa, Earth-Science Reviews, v. 107, p. 23-37, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.03.009

Kniskern T., J.A. Warrick, K.L. Farnsworth, R.A. Wheatcroft, and M.A. Goñi, 2011, Coherence of river and ocean conditions along the U.S. west coast during storms: Continental Shelf Research, vol. 31, no. 7-8, pp. 789-805, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2011.01.012

Lacy, Jessica R., and Richard S. Dinicola, 2011, Aquatic Environment: Circulation, Water-Quality, and Phytoplankton Concentration; In, Takesue, RK, ed., Hydrography of and biogeochemical inputs to Liberty Bay, a small urban embayment in Puget Sound, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5152, Ch. 2.

Lacy, J.R., and Hoover, D.J., 2011, Wave exposure of Corte Madera Marsh, Marin County, California; a field investigation: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1183, 28 p.

Lacy, Jessica R., and Wyllie-Echeverria, Sandy, 2011, The influence of current speed and vegetation density on flow structure in two macrotidal eelgrass meadows: Limnology and Oceanography—Fluids and Environments, v. 1, p. 38-55, doi:10.1215/21573698-1152489, http://lofe.dukejournals.org/content/early/2011/02/17/21573698-1152489.abstract

Lorenson, T.D., and Collett T.S., 2011, Gas hydrate prospecting using well cuttings and mud-gas geochemistry from 35 wells, North Slope, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5195, 27 p. and workbook files

Lorenson, Thomas D., Collett, Timothy S., and Hunter, Robert B., 2011, Gas geochemistry in the Mount Elbert Stratigraphic Test Well, Milne Point, Alaska—Implications for gas hydrate exploration in the Arctic: Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology v. 28, no. 2, p. 343-360, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.02.007

Lorenson, T.D., Leifer, I., Wong, F.L., Rosenbauer, R.J., Campbell, P.L., Lam, A., Hostettler, F.D., Greinert, J., Finlayson, D.P., Bradley, E.S., and Luyendyk, B.P., 2011, Biomarker chemistry and flux quantification methods for natural petroleum seeps and produced oils, offshore southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5210, 45 p., 4 data files and OCS Study BOEM 2011–016

Lu, H., Lorenson, T.D., Moudrakovski, I.R.,. Ripmeester, J.A., Collett, T.S., Hunter, W.B., and Ratcliffe, C., 2011, The characteristics of gas hydrates recovered from Mt. Elbert, Milne Point, Alaska: Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 28 p. 411-418. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.01.002.

Maier, K.L., Fildani, A., Paull, C.K., Graham, S.A., McHargue, T.R., Caress, D.W., and McGann, M., 2011, The elusive character of discontinuous deep-water channels: New insights from Lucia Chica channel system, offshore California: Geology, v. 39, no. 4, p. 327-330, doi:10.1130/G31589.1

McGann, Mary, 2011, Paleoceanographic changes on the Farallon Escarpment off central California during the last 16,000 years: Quaternary International, v. 235, no. 1-2, p. 26-39 (PACLIM: Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Climate Workshop, 2009), doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.09.005

McGlue, MM, Ellis, GS, Cohen, AS and Swarzenski, PW, 2011, Playa-lake sedimentation and organic matter accumulation in an Andean piggyback basin: the recent record from the Cuenca de Pozuelos, North-west Argentina: Sedimentology, doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01304.x

McGlue, MM, et al., 2011, Limnogeology in Brazil's "forgotten wilderness": a synthesis from the large floodplain lakes of the Pantanal: Journal of Paleolimnology, Volume 46, Number 2, 273-289, doi:10.1007/s10933-011-9538-5; see also, corrected figure caption at doi:10.1007/s10933-011-9545-6

McPhee, D.K., Langenheim, V.E., and Watt, J.T., 2011, Preliminary isostatic residual gravity anomaly map of Paso Robles 30 X 60 minute quadrangle, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1104, scale 1:100,000 and data table

Miller, I.M., J.A. Warrick, and C. Morgan, 2011, Observations of coarse sediment movements on the mixed beach of the Elwha Delta, Washington State: Marine Geology, vol. 282, no. 3-4, pp. 201-214, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2011.02.012

Morton, R.A., Gelfenbaum, G., Buckley, M.L and Richmond, B.M., 2011, Geological effects and implications of the 2010 tsunami along the central coast of Chile. Sedimentary Geology 242, pp. 34-51

Paskevich, V.F., Wong, F.L., O'Malley, J.J., Stevenson, A.J., and Gutmacher, C.E., 2011, GLORIA sidescan-sonar imagery for parts of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and adjacent areas: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1332

Ponce, D.A., Watt, J.T., and Bouligand, C., 2011, Geophysical setting of the February 21, 2008 Mw 6 Wells earthquake, Nevada and implications for earthquake hazards, in dePolo, C.M., and LaPointe, D.D., eds., 2011, The 21 February 2008 Mw 6.0 Wells, Nevada earthquake—a compendium of earthquake-related investigations prepared by the University of Nevada, Reno (online version): Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 36, p. 89-100, http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/Pubs/sp/sp36/

Prouty, N.G., Roark, E.B., Buster, N.A., and Ross, S.W., 2011, Growth rate and age distribution of deep-sea black corals in the Gulf of Mexico: Marine Ecology Progress Series, v. 423, p. 101-115, doi:10.3354/meps08953

Richmond, Bruce M., Mark Buckley, Samuel Etienne, Catherine Chagué-Goff, Kate Clark, James Goff, Dale Dominey-Howes, and Luke Strotz, 2011, Deposits, flow characteristics, and landscape change resulting from the September 2009 South Pacific tsunami in the Samoan islands: Earth-Science Reviews 107 (2011) 38–51, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.03.008

Richmond, Bruce M., Steve Watt, Mark Buckley, Bruce E. Jaffe, Guy Gelfenbaum, and Robert A. Morton, 2011, Recent storm and tsunami coarse-clast deposit characteristics, southeast Hawai‘i: Marine Geology 283 (2011) 79–89, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.08.001

Rosenbauer, R.J., Campbell, P.L., Lam, A., Lorenson, T.D., Hostettler, F.D., Thomas, B., and Wong, F.L., 2011, Petroleum hydrocarbons in sediment from the northern Gulf of Mexico shoreline, Texas to Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1014, 22 p.

Rosenberger, Kurt, Noble, M.A., Sherwood, C.R., Martini, M.M., Ferreira, J.T., and Montgomery, Ellyn, 2011, Palos Verdes Shelf oceanographic study; data report for observations December 2007–April 2008: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1240, 118 p.

Santos, IR, Burnett, WC, Misra, S, Suryaputra, IGNA, Chanton, JP, Dittmar, T, Peterson, RN, Swarzenski, PW, 2011, Uranium and barium cycling in a salt wedge subterranean estuary: The influence of tidal pumping: Chemical Geology, Volume 287, Issues 1–2, 7 August 2011, Pages 114-123, ISSN 0009-2541, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.06.005

Shi, F., Hanes, D.M., Kirby, J.T., Erikson, L., Barnard, P.L. and Eshleman, J., 2011, Pressure gradient-dominated nearshore circulation on a beach influenced by a large inlet-tidal shoal system: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, Volume 116, C04020 ,18 pp., doi:10.1029/2010JC006788

Smith, CG, Swarzenski, PW, Dimova, N. and Zhang, J, 2011, Natural Radium and Radon Tracers to Quantify Water Exchange and Movement in Reservoirs: In, M. Baskaran (ed.), Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry; Advances in Isotope Geochemistry, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, p. 345-365, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10637-8_18

Stern, L.A., Lorenson, T.D., and Pinkston, J.A., 2011, Gas hydrate characterization and grain-scale imaging of recovered cores from the BPXA-DOE-USGS Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well, Milne Point, Alaska: Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol 28. P. 394-403. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.08.003

Stock, J.D., Cochran, S.A., Field, M.E., Jacobi, J.D., and Tribble, G., 2011, From ridge to reef—linking erosion and changing watersheds to impacts on the coral reef ecosystems of Hawai'i and the Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3049

Storlazzi, C.D., Conaway, C.H., Presto, M.K., Logan, J.B., Cronin, Katherine, van Ormondt, Maarten, Lescinski, Jamie, Harden, E.L., Lacy, J.R., and Tonnon, P.K., 2011, The dynamics of fine-grain sediment dredged from Santa Cruz Harbor: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1045, 110 p.

Storlazzi, C.D., Elias, E., Field, M.E., and Presto, M.K., 2011, Numerical modeling of the impact of sea-level rise on fringing coral reef hydrodynamics and sediment transport: Coral Reefs, v. 30(1), p. 83-96. doi:10.1007/s00338-011-0723-9

Storlazzi, Curt D., Field, Michael E., and Bothner, Michael H., 2011, The use (and misuse) of sediment traps in coral reef environments; theory, observations, and suggested protocols: Coral Reefs, v. 30, no. 1, p. 23-38, doi:10.1007/s00338-010-0705-3

Storlazzi, C.D., Field, M.E., Elias, E., and Presto, M.K., 2011, The influence of sea-level rise on fringing reef sediment dynamics: Field observations and numerical modeling: Coastal Sediments 2011, v. 1, p. 244-257, doi:10.1142/9789814355537_0019

Storlazzi, C.D., Presto, M.K., and Brown, E.B., 2011, Coastal Circulation and Water Column Properties off Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Molokai, Hawaii, 2008-2010: USGS Open-File Report 2011-1154, 33 p.

Takesue, Renee K., ed., 2011, Hydrography of and biogeochemical inputs to Liberty Bay, a small urban embayment in Puget Sound, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5152, 98 p.

Takesue, Renee K., et. al, 2011, Overview of Effects of Urbanization on the Nearshore Ecosystem of Puget Sound, Washington; In, Takesue, RK, ed., Hydrography of and biogeochemical inputs to Liberty Bay, a small urban embayment in Puget Sound, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5152, Ch. 1.

Takesue, Renee K., and Richard S. Dinicola, 2011, Liberty Bay Sediment and Contaminants; In, Takesue, RK, ed., Hydrography of and biogeochemical inputs to Liberty Bay, a small urban embayment in Puget Sound, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5152, Ch. 4.

Takesue, Renee K., 2011, Eelgrass Habitat near Liberty Bay; In, Takesue, RK, ed., Hydrography of and biogeochemical inputs to Liberty Bay, a small urban embayment in Puget Sound, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5152, Ch. 5.

Takesue, Renee K., 2011, Synthesis; In, Takesue, RK, ed., Hydrography of and biogeochemical inputs to Liberty Bay, a small urban embayment in Puget Sound, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5152, Ch. 8.

Takesue, R.K., and Swarzenski, P.W., 2011, More than 100 years of background-level sedimentary metals, Nisqually River Delta, South Puget Sound, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1329, 13 p.

Tallis, H., et al., 2011. New metrics for managing and sustaining the ocean's bounty, Marine Policy, Available online 16 April 2011, ISSN 0308-597X, doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2011.03.013

Van der Wegen, M., Jaffe, B.E., and Roelvink, D., 2011, Process-based morphodynamic modeling: hindcast of decadal erosion and deposition patterns in San Pablo Bay, California, USA: Proceedings of Coastal Sediments 2011, pp 1841-1852, doi:10.1142/9789814355537_0139

Warrick, Jonathan A., and Stevens, Andrew W., 2011, A buoyant plume adjacent to a headland—observations of the Elwha River plume: Continental Shelf Research, v. 31, no. 2, p. 85-97, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2010.11.007

Wasylenki, Laura E., Colin L. Weeks, John R. Bargar, Thomas G. Spiro, James R. Hein, Ariel D. Anbar, 2011, The molecular mechanism of Mo isotope fractionation during adsorption to birnessite: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75 (2011) 5019–5031, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.06.020

Watt, J.T., Morin, R.L., and Langenheim, V.E., 2011, Isostatic gravity map of the Point Sur 30' x 60' quadrangle and adjacent areas, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1036, scale 1:100,000 and database

Watt, J.T., Ponce, D.A., Graymer, R.W., Simpson, R.W., Jachens, R.C., and Wentworth, C.M., 2011, The Mt. Lewis fault zone: Tectonic implications for eastern San Francisco Bay Area, in Knudsen, K., ed., Proceedings of the third conference on earthquake hazards in the eastern San Francisco Bay area—Science, hazard, engineering and risk: California Geological Survey Special Publication 219, p. 313-322

Watt, S., Buckley, M., and Jaffe, B.E., 2011, A tsunami inferred from characteristics of cobble and boulder deposits on Anegada, British Virgin Islands: Natural Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9848-y

Weinstein, Y, Yechieli, Y, Shalem, Y, Burnett, WS, Swarzenski, PW, Herut, B, 2011, What Is the Role of Fresh Groundwater and Recirculated Seawater in Conveying Nutrients to the Coastal Ocean?: Environmental Science and Technolog, 45 (12), pp 5195–5200, doi:10.1021/es104394r

Witter, R.C., Jaffe, B.E., Zhang, Y., and Priest, G., 2011, Reconstruction hydrodynamic flow parameters of the 1700 tsunami at Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA: Natural Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9912-7

Wong, Florence L., Rosenbauer, Robert J., Campbell, Pamela L., Lam, Angela, Lorenson, Thomas D., Hostettler, Frances D., and Thomas, Burt, 2011, Macondo-1 well oil in sediment and tarballs from the northern Gulf of Mexico shoreline: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1164, 1 poster

Xu, J.P., E. Elias, and N. Kinsman, 2011, Does littoral sand bypass the head of Mugu submarine canyon? – a modeling study: Proceedings of Coastal Sediments 2011, vol. 3, 2075-2087, doi:10.1142/9789814355537_0156

Xu, J.P., 2011, Measuring currents in submarine canyons - technological and scientific progress in the last 30 years: Geosphere, 7, 868-876, doi:10.11.30/GES00661.1

Yates, M.L., Guza, R.T., O'Reilly, W.C., Hansen, J.E. and Barnard, P.L., 2011, Equilibrium shoreline response of a high wave energy beach: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, Volume 116, C04014, 13 pp., doi:10.1029/2010JC006681

Zhang, L., Zhang, J., P. W. Swarzenski, P. W, and Liu, Z., 2011, Radium Isotope Tracers to Evaluate Coastal Ocean Mixing and Residence Times: In, M. Baskaran (ed.): Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry—Advances in Isotope Geochemistry, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Part 2, 331-343, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10637-8_17

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Akin, S.K., and Grossman, E.E., 2010, Coast Salish and U.S. Geological Survey 2009 Tribal Journey water quality project: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1143, 60 p.

Apotsos, A., Gelfenbaum, G., Jaffe, B., Watt, S., Peck, B., Buckley, M., Stevens, A.W., 2010, Tsunami inundation and sediment transport in a sediment-limited embayment on American Samoa, Earth-Science Reviews 107 (1-2), pp. 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.11.001

Barnard, P.L., and Hoover, D., 2010, A seamless, high-resolution coastal digital elevation model (DEM) for southern California: USGS Data Series 487, 8 p. and database

Barnard, Patrick L., and Kvitek, Rikk G., 2010, Anthropogenic influence on recent bathymetric change in west-central San Francisco Bay: San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, v. 8, no. 3, 13 p. [http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k3524hg]. Download pdf (4.1 MB)

Barnard P.L. and J.A. Warrick, 2010, Dramatic beach and nearshore morphological changes at a high-energy, wave-dominated river mouth: Marine Geology, vol. 271, pp. 131-148, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.01.018

Barth, Ginger A., 2010, MARGINS Successor Science Plan—"PRISMS"; Section 7 (implementation of Science Objectives) 7.5 (immediate opportunities for a MARGINS successor) 7.5.4 (Law of the Sea—the U.S. ECS Project): PRISMS; NSF MARGINS successor program draft science plan [http://www.nsf-margins.org/Planning_and_review/DSP_final.html]

Barth, G.A., 2010, Potential for USGS use of the R/V Langseth; an optimist’s view: Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Marine Seismology, Incline Village, Nev., March 22-24, 2010, white paper [http://wiki.unols.org/meetings/langseth/201003/AllPages.aspx?Cat=White%20Paper]

Brand, A., J.R. Lacy, S. Gladding, D. Hoover, and M.T. Stacey, 2010, Wind-enhanced resuspension in the shallow waters of South San Francisco Bay: Mechanisms and potential implications for cohesive sediment transport: Journal of Geophysical Research 115 (C11024) doi:10.1029/2010JC006172

Buscombe, D., Rubin, D.M., and Warrick, J.A., 2010, A universal approximation of grain size from images of noncohesive sediment: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.115, F02015, doi:10.1029/2009JF001477. [Download PDF (840 K)]

Chin, J.L., Woodrow, D.L., McGann, Mary, Wong, F.L., Fregoso, Theresa, and Jaffe, B.E., 2010, Estuarine sedimentation, sediment character, and foraminiferal distribution in central San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1130, 58 p., data tables, and GIS data

Clague, D., Lundsten, L., Hein, J., Paduan, J., and Davis, A., 2010, Spotlight 6; Davidson Seamount: Oceanography, v. 23, no. 1, p. 126-127 [http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/23_1.html]

Cochrane, G.R., Golden, N.E., Dartnell, P., Schroeder, D.M., and Finlayson, D.P., 2007, revised 2010, Seafloor mapping and benthic habitat GIS for southern California, volume III: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1271, v. 2.0

Dartnell, Pete, James E. Conrad, Richard G. Stanley, and Guy R. Cochrane, 2010, Onshore and offshore geologic map of the Coal Oil Point area, southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3124, scale 1:24,000, pamphlet 18 p., and database

Dougherty, J.A., Swarzenski, P.W., Takesue, R.K., Dinicola, R.S., and Reinhard, M., 2010, Occurrence of pharmaceutical and personal care product residues in surface and groundwater impacted by septic systems: Journal of Environmental Quality, 39:1–8. doi:10.2134/jeq2009.0189

Draut, A.E., and Gillette, E.R., 2010, Vegetation and substrate on aeolian landscapes in the Colorado River corridor, Cataract Canyon, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1273, 61 p. and 14 spreadsheets

Draut, A.E., Sondossi, H.A., Dealy, T.P., Hazel, J.E. Jr., Fairley, H.C., and Brown, C.R., 2010, 2009 weather and aeolian sand-transport data from the Colorado River corridor, Grand Canyon, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1166, 98 p.

Finlayson, David P., Triezenberg, Peter J., and Hart, Patrick E., 2010, Geophysical surveys of the San Andreas and Crystal Springs reservoir system including seismic-reflection profiles and swath bathymetry, San Mateo County, California: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1030

Fletcher, Charles H., and Richmond, Bruce M., 2010, Climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia; food and water security, climate risk management, and adaptive strategies; executive summary: Honolulu, Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, 6 p. [http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/communication/pdf/WEBFINAL_ExecSummary_ClimateChangeFSM.pdf]

Fletcher, Charles H., and Richmond, Bruce M., 2010, Climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia; food and water security, climate risk management, and adaptive strategies; report of findings: Honolulu, Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, 27 p. [http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/communication/pdf/WEBFINAL_MainDocument_ClimateChangeFSM.pdf]

Geist, E. L., and T. Parsons, 2010, Estimating the empirical probability of submarine landslide occurrence, International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences, Book Series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, v. 28, Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, Springer, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3071-9, p. 377-386. Download PDF (2.3 MB)

Gelfenbaum, G., Apotsos, A., Stevens, A.W., Jaffe, B.E., 2010, Effect of fringing reefs on tsunami inundation; American Samoa. Earth Science Reviews, 107 (1-2), pp. 12-22. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.12.005

Gelfenbaum, Guy, and Kaminsky, G.M., 2010, Large-scale coastal change in the Columbia River littoral cell—an overview: Marine Geology, v. 273, no. 1-4 (special issue), p. 1-10, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.007

Gelfenbaum, Guy, and Kaminsky, G.M., eds., 2010, Large-scale coastal change in the Columbia River littoral cell (special issue): Marine Geology, v. 273, no. 1-4, 140 p., doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(10)00151-9

Gibbs, A.E., and Richmond, B.M., 2010. Oblique aerial photography of the Arctic coast of Alaska, Cape Sabine to Milne Point, July 16-19, 2009: USGS Data Series 503, 4 p. and database

Grossman, E.E., Logan, J.B., Presto, M.K., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2010. Submarine groundwater discharge and fate along the coast of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, Island of Hawai'i; Part 3, Spatial and temporal patterns in nearshore waters and coastal groundwater plumes, December 2003-April 2006: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5081, 76 p.

Haley, Beth, Ireland, Darren, and Childs, J.R., 2010, Environmental Assessment for a marine geophysical survey of parts of the Arctic Ocean, August-September 2010: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1117, version 2.0, 251 p.

Hansen, Jeff E., and Patrick L. Barnard, 2010, Sub-weekly to interannual variability of a high-energy shoreline: Coastal Engineering, 57(11-12), 959-972. doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2010.05.011.

Hein, James R., Conrad, Tracey A., and Staudigel, Hubert, 2010, Seamount Mineral Deposits—A Source of Rare Metals for High-Technology Industries: Oceanography vol. 23, no. 1, 6 p, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2010.70. Download PDF (4200 k)10.5670/oceanog.2010.70

Hein, J.R., Reid, J.A., Conrad, T.A., Dunham, R.E., Clague, D.A., Schulz, M.S., and Davis, A.S., 2010, Seamounts and ferromanganese crusts within and near the U.S. EEZ off California—Data for RV Farnella cruise F7-87-SC: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1069, 124 p.

Hutchinson, Deborah R., and Barth, Ginger A., 2010, Continental margins and the Extended Continental Shelf Project: MARGINS/GeoPRISMS Newsletter, no. 25, fall 2010, p. 5-11 [http://www.nsf-margins.org/Publications/Newsletters/Newsletter.html].

Jaffe, B.E., Gelfenbaum, Guy, Buckley, M.L., Watt, Steve, Apotsos, Alex, Stevens, A.W., and Richmond, B.M., 2010, The limit of inundation of the September 29, 2009, tsunami on Tutuila, American Samoa: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1018, 27 p.

Jones, Camille L., Rosenbauer, Robert J., Goldsmith, Jonas I., and Oze, Christopher, 2010, Carbonate control of H2 and CH4 production in serpentinization systems at elevated pressures and temperatures: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 37, L14306, 6 p., doi:10.1029/2010GL043769

Kaminsky, G.M., Ruggiero, Peter, Buijsman, M.C., McCandless, Diana, and Gelfenbaum, Guy, 2010, Historical evolution of the Columbia River littoral cell: Marine Geology, v. 273, no. 1-4 (special issue), p. 96-126, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.006

Kim, G. and Swarzenski, P.W., 2010, Submarine ground-water discharge (SGD) and associated nutrient fluxes to the coastal ocean; in, Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis, K.-K. Liu, L. Atkinson, R. Quinones, and L. Talaue-McManus, eds.: Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 529-538. http://www.pangaea.de/Projects/CMTT/

Knee, K.L., Street, J.H, Grossman, E.E., Boehm, A.B. and Paytan, A. 2010. Nutrient inputs to the coastal ocean from submarine groundwater discharge in a groundwater-dominated system: Relation to land use (Kona coast, Hawaii, U.S.A.). Limnology and Oceanography: 55(3): 1105-1122, doi:10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.1105 [Download/view pdf, 1.5 MB from aslo.org/lo/pdf/vol_55/issue_3/1105.pdf]

Koschinsky, A., Hein, J.R., Schmidt, K., Alexander, B., and Bau, M., 2010. Rare and valuable metals for high-tech applications found in marine ferromanganese nodules and crusts: Relationships to genetic endmembers. Abstracts and Proceedings, 39th Underwater Mining Institute, Gelendzhik, Russia, 4-10 October 2010, p. Koschinsky1-13. [Download pdf (332 kb)]

McGann, Mary, 2010, Paleoceanographic changes on the Farallon Escarpment off central California during the last 16,000 years: Quaternary International, v. 235, p. 26-39, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.09.005

Melis, T.S., Topping, D.J., Grams, P.E., Rubin, D.M., Wright, S.A., Draut, A.E., Hazel, J.E., Jr., Ralston, B.E., Kennedy, T.A., Rosi-Marshall, Emma, Korman, Josh, Hilwig, K.D., and Schmit, Lara M., 2010, 2008 High-flow experiment at Glen Canyon Dam benefits colorado river resources in Grand Canyon National Park: USGS Fact Sheet 2010-3009, 4 p.

Morton, R.A., Buckley, M.L., Gelfenbaum, Guy, Richmond, B.M., Cecioni, A., Artal, O., Hoffman, C., and Perez, F., 2010, Geological impacts and sedimentary record of the February 27, 2010, Chile tsunami; La Trinchera to Concepción: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1116, 22 p.

Mwashote, B., Burnett, W.C., Chanton, J., Peterson, R., Santos I., Dimova, N., and Swarzenski, P.W., 2010, Calibration and use of continuous heat-type automated meters from submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) measurements. Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2009.12.001

Oppenheimer, D., W. Bakun, T. Parsons, R. Simpson, J. Boatwright, R. Uhrhammer, 2010, The 2007 M5.4 Alum Rock Earthquake-- Implications for Future Earthquakes on the Central and Southern Calaveras Fault: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 115, doi:10.1029/2009JB006683

Parsons, T., 2010, Earthquake probability calculated from paleoseismic observations on the south Hayward fault; in Knudsen, K., Baldwin, J., Brocher, T. Burgmann, R., Craig, M., Cushing, D., Hellwig, P., Wiegers, M., and Wong, I., eds., Proceedings of the Third Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area: California Geological Survey Special Report 219, p. 179-183 [Download pdf (479 kb)]

Parsons, T., and A. A. Velasco, 2011, Absence of remotely triggered large earthquakes beyond the main shock region: Nature Geoscience, v. 4, p. 312–316, doi:10.1038/ngeo1110

Paull, C.K., Ussler W.III, Holbrook, W.S., Hill, T., Halflidason, H., W. Winters, W., Lorenson, T.D., Aiello, J., Johnson, J.E., and Lundsten, E., 2010, Tail of the Støregga Slide: insights from the geochemistry and sedimentology of the Norwegian Basin deposits. Sedimentology, vol. 57, p. 1409 –1429. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01150.

Peters, Robert, and Jaffe, B.E., 2010, Database of recent tsunami deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1172, 12 p. and database

Peters, Robert, and Jaffe, Bruce E., 2010, Identification of tsunami deposits in the geologic record; developing criteria using recent tsunami deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1239, 39 p.

Peterson, C.D., Jol, H.M., Vanderburgh, Sandy, Phipps, J.B., Percy, David, and Gelfenbaum, Guy, 2010, Dating of late Holocene beach shoreline positions by regional correlation of coseismic retreat events in the Columbia River littoral cell, USA: Marine Geology, v. 273, no. 1-4 (special issue), p. 44-61, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.003

Polgári, M., Hein, J.R., Tóth, M., Brukner-Wein, A., Vigh, T., Bíró, L., and Cserháti, C.S., 2010, Genesis of a regionally widespread celadonitic chert-ironstone bed overlying Upper Lias Manganese deposits, Hungary: Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 167, no. 2, p. 313-328, doi:10.1144/0016-76492008-132

Presto, M.K., Storlazzi, C.D., Field, M.E., and Abbott, L.L., 2010, Turbidity on the shallow reef off Kaulana and Hakioawa watersheds on the north coast of Kaho‘olawe, Hawai‘i; measurements of turbidity and ancillary data on winds, waves, precipitation, and stream flow discharge, November 2005 to June 2008: USGS Open-File Report 2010-1037, 15 p.

Prouty, N.G., Field, M.E., Stock, J.D., Jupiter, S.D., and McCulloch, M.T., 2010, Coral Ba/Ca records of sediment input to the fringing reef of the south shore of Moloka`i, Hawai`i, over the last several decades: Marine Pollution Bulletin, v. 60, i. 10, pp. 1822-35, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.05.024

Pulyaeva, I.A. and Hein, J.R., 2010. Paleoceanographic conditions during the formation of Fe-Mn crusts from the Pacific Ocean: Biostratigraphic and compositional evidence. Abstracts and Proceedings, 39th Underwater Mining Institute, Gelendzhik, Russia, 4-10 October 2010, p. Pulyaeva1-11. [Download pdf (332 kb)]

Ritchie, Andrew C., Finlayson, David P., and Logan, Joshua B., 2010, Swath bathymetry surveys of the Monterey Bay area from Point Año Nuevo to Moss Landing, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties, California: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 514

Rosenbauer, R.J., et. al, 2010, Reconnaissance of Macondo-1 well oil in sediment and tarballs from the northern Gulf of Mexico shoreline, Texas to Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1290, 22 p.

Ross, S.L., et. al, 2010, The San Andreas fault zone directly offshore Pacifica and Daly City, California: Complex deformation and previously unmapped structures: Seismological Research Letters, Volume 81, No. 2, p. 347.

Rubin, D.M, Topping, D.J., Chezar, H., Hazel, J.E., Schmidt, J.C., Breedlove, M., Melis, T., and Grams, P.E., 2010, 20,000 grain-size observations from the bed of the Colorado River, and implications for sediment transport through Grand Canyon: 2nd Joint Federal Interagency Conference, Las Vegas, NV, June 27 - July 1, 2010, 12 p. [Download PDF (1537 K)]

Ruggiero, Peter, Buijsman, Maarten, Kaminsky, George M., and Gelfenbaum, Guy, 2010, Modeling the effects of wave climate and sediment supply variability on large-scale shoreline change: Marine Geology, v. 273, no. 1-4 (special issue), p. 127-140, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.008

Shipman, H., Dethier, M.N., Gelfenbaum, G., Fresh, K.L., and Dinicola, R.S., eds., 2010, Puget Sound Shorelines and the Impacts of Armoring—Proceedings of a State of the Science Workshop, May 2009: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5254, 262 p.

Shipman, H., Gelfenbaum, G., Dethier, M.N., and Fresh, K.L., 2010, Puget Sound Shoreline Armoring: State of the Science Workshop, in Shipman, H., Dethier, M.N., Gelfenbaum, G., Fresh, K.L., and Dinicola, R.S., eds., 2010, Puget Sound Shorelines and the Impacts of Armoring—Proceedings of a State of the Science Workshop, May 2009: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5254, p. 1-8.

Sliter, Ray W., Ryan, Holly F., and Triezenberg, Peter J., 2010, High-resolution seismic-reflection data offshore of Dana Point, southern California borderland: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1111

Sliter, Ray W., Triezenberg, Peter J., Hart, Patrick E., Watt, Janet T., Johnson, Samuel Y., and Scheirer, Daniel S., 2009, revised 2010, High-resolution seismic reflection and marine magnetic data along the Hosgri Fault Zone, central California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1100, version 1.1

Storlazzi, C.D., Presto, M.K., Logan, J.B., and Field, M.E., 2010, Coastal circulation and sediment dynamics in Maunalua Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, measurements of waves, currents, temperature, salinity, and turbidity; November 2008-February 2009: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1217, 62 p.

Storlazzi, C.D., and Reid, J.A., 2010, The influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycles on wave-driven sea-floor sediment mobility along central California continental margin: Continental Shelf Research, v. 30, p. 1582-1599.

Takesue, R.K., 2010, Terrigenous sediment provenance from geochemical tracers, south Molokai reef flat, Hawaii: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1155, 17 p.

Thompson, Eric M., Kayen, Robert E., Carkin, Brad, and Tanaka, Hajime, 2010, Surface-wave site characterization at 53 strong-motion recording stations affected by the Parkfield, California, M6.0 earthquake of 28 September 2004, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1168, 117 p.

Tierney, J.E., Mayes, M.M., Meyer, N., Johnson, C., Swarzenski, P.W., Cohen, A.S., and Russell, J.M., 2010, Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500 Nature Geosciences, 3, 422 – 425.
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Trusel, Luke D., Cochrane, Guy R., Etherington, Lisa L. Powell, Ross D., and Mayer, Larry A., 2010, Marine benthic habitat mapping of Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, with an evaluation of the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard III: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3122, 4 sheets, various scales, 1 pamphlet, 26 p.

Warrick, Jonathan A., George, Douglas A., Stevens, Andrew W., Eshleman, Jodi, Gelfenbaum, Guy, Kaminsky, George. M., Schwartz, Andrew K., and Bierne, Matt, 2007, revised 2010, Beach morphology monitoring in the Elwha River littoral cell, 2004-2009:  USGS Data Series 288, v. 1.1, 59 p. and data folder

Wasylenki, L.E., Weeks, C.L., Bargar, J.R., Spiro, T.G., Hein, J.R., and Anbar, A.D., 2011, The molecular mechanism of Mo isotope fractionation during adsorption to birnessite: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 75, no. 17, p. 5019-5031, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.06.020

Watt, S.G., Jaffe, B.E., Morton, R.A., Richmond, B.M., and Gelfenbaum, G., 2010, Description of extreme-wave deposits on the northern coast of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1180, 65 p.

Webster, J.M., Clague, D.A., Faichney, I.D.E., Fullagar, P.D., Hein, J.R., Moore, J.G., and Paull, C.K., 2010. Early Pleistocene origin of reefs around Lanai, Hawaii. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 290, p. 331-339, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.029

Wheatcroft, R.A., M.A. Goñi, J.A. Hatten, G.B. Pasternack, and J.A. Warrick, 2010, The role of effective discharge in the ocean delivery of particulate organic carbon by small, mountainous river systems: Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 161-171

Xu, J.P., 2010, Normalized velocity profiles of field-measured turbidity currents: Geology, v. 38, no. 6, p. 563-566, doi:10.1130/G30582.1

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