The potential for particle size-dependent bioturbation rates was experimentally tested at 1,240 m in the Santa Catalina Basin (eastern Pacific). Spherical glass bead tracers in five size classes (8- 16, 17-31, 32-62, 63-125, and 126-420 μm) were spread over the sediment surface and tube cored 997 d later. Downcore concentrations...
The dataset is a layer file created in ArcGIS Pro 2.2. The dataset includes digitized outlines of the seaward edges of five Oregon salt marshes (Nehalem, Netarts, Salmon, Alsea, and Coquille). These are roughly decadal from 1939 to 2018 and were hand-digitized using historical aerial photography (1939 to the late...
Oregon estuaries provide important opportunities to assess controls on tidal saline wetland carbon burial and sediment accretion as both rates of relative sea level rise (RSLR; −1.4 ± 0.9 to 2.8 ± 0.8 mm yr⁻¹) and fluvial suspended sediment load relative to estuary area (0.23 to 17 × 10³ t...
The impact of population abundance on the deposit-
feeding rate of Mediomastus ambisetu (Capitellidae:
Polychaeta) was studied in still-water laboratory experiments.
Mean individual pellet production rate (mg worm¯¹ d¯¹) decreased
monotonically with increasing worm abundance in the
range of 6.5 X 10³ to 1.3 X 10⁵ worms m¯². Worms fed...
We investigated the export of particulate organic matter (POM) to the ocean by two contrasting small, mountainous rivers, the Umpqua and Eel Rivers, by collecting suspended sediment samples over a range of discharges and analyzing them for a variety of constituents, including organic carbon, nitrogen, biomarkers with distinct biochemical sources,...
Time-depe ndencies of suspended-sediment discharge from six coastal watersheds of northern Califor nia
– Smith River, Klamath River, Trinity River, Redwood Creek, Mad River, and Eel River –were evaluated
using monitoring data from 1955 to 2010. Suspended-sediment concentrations revealed ti me-dependent
hysteresis and multi-year trends. The multi-year trends had two...
The occurrence of two wildfires separated by 31 yr in the chaparral-dominated Arroyo Seco watershed (293 km²) of California provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the effects of wildfire on suspended-sediment yield. Here, we compile discharge and suspended-sediment sampling data from before and after the fires and show that the...
Information derived from a Landsat Multispectral Scanner CMSS) scene can be used to assign individual pixels, each representing about one acre on the Earth's surface, to natural resource classes, A lineprinter can be used to generate a 1:24,000 scale map of the scene in which each symbol corresponds to a...
Deep learning has recently revolutionized robot perception in many canonical robotic applications, such as autonomous driving. However, a similar transformation has yet to occur in more harsh environments including underwater and underground. This is due in part to the difficulty in deploying robots in these environments, which lack large real...