We provide here a comparative genome analysis of ten strains within the Pseudomonas fluorescens group including seven new genomic sequences. These strains exhibit a diverse spectrum of traits involved in biological control and other multitrophic interactions with plants, microbes, and insects. Multilocus sequence analysis placed the strains in three sub-clades,...
This paper supersedes and significantly revises my compilation of 1992. The focus remains on live birds seen on or from land, but special codes are now given for records of species only reported beached or at sea.
Additionally, confirmation codes are now listed for records of some rare species and...
The 2014 Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities
(WGCEP14) present the time-independent component of the Uniform California
Earthquake Rupture Forecast, Version 3 (UCERF3), which provides authoritative
estimates of the magnitude, location, and time-averaged frequency of potentially
damaging earthquakes in California. The primary achievements have been to relax
fault segmentation and...
Total organic carbon (TOC) content of marine sediments represents residual carbon, originally derived from terrestrial and marine sources, which has survived seafloor and shallow subseafloor diagenesis. Ultimately, its preservation below the sulfate reduction zone in marine sediments drives methanogenesis. Within the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ), methane production along continental...
In the past 100 years since the birth of fisheries oceanography, research on the early life history of fishes, particularly the larval stage, has been extensive, and much progress has been made in identifying the mechanisms by which factors such as feeding success, predation, or dispersal can influence larval survival....
Holocene turbidites from turbidite channel systems along the active tectonic continental
margins of the Cascadia Subduction Zone (offshore Vancouver Island to Mendocino Triple
Junction) and the northern San Andreas Transform Fault (the Triple Junction to San Francisco
Bay), have been analyzed for sedimentologic features related to their seismic origin. Centimeter...
We studied stand development in three distinct forest types in southwestern Oregon using six stands
each in uncut and clear-felled old-growth stands and nearby young stands (18 total). Old-growth stands
showed a wide range of tree ages (>300 years) and low tree densities for several centuries; rapid early
growth produced...
In this article, I examine the clinical practices engaged in by U.S. homebirth midwives and their clients from the beginning of pregnancy through to the immediate postpartum period, deconstructing them for their symbolic and ritual content. Using data collected from open-ended, semistructured interviews and intensive participant-observation, I describe the roles...
The application of general circulation models (GCMs) to stratospheric chemistry and transport both permits and requires a thorough investigation of stratospheric water vapor. The National Center for Atmospheric Research has redesigned its GCM, the Community Climate Model (CCM2), to enable studies of the chemistry and transport of tracers including water...
The rip current field resulting from the transformation of surface gravity waves over
offshore submarine canyons is studied. Employing a wave transformation model and a
wave-induced circulation model over observed bathymetry we find that wave height
variations associated with undulations in the canyon contours cause rip current circulation
cells with...