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Mature diffuse tectonic block boundary revealed by the 2020 southwestern Puerto Rico seismic sequence
Get PDFThis paper is not subject to U.S. copyright. The definitive version was published in ten Brink, U. S., Vanacore, E. A., Fielding, E. J., Chaytor, J. D., Lopez-Venegas, A. M., Baldwin, W. E., Foster, D. S., & Andrews, B. D. Mature diffuse tectonic block boundary revealed by the 2020 southwestern Puerto Rico seismic sequence. Tectonics, 41(3), (2022): e2021TC006896, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC006896.Distributed faulting typically tends to coalesce into one or a few faults with repeated deformation. The progression of clustered medium-sized (≥Mw4.5) earthquakes during the 2020 seismic sequence in southwestern Puerto Rico (SWPR), modeling shoreline subsidence from InSAR, and sub-seafloor mapping by high-resolution seismic reflection profiles, suggest that the 2020 SWPR seismic sequence was distributed across several short intersecting strike-slip and normal faults beneath the insular shelf and upper slope of Guayanilla submarine canyon. Multibeam bathymetry map of the seafloor shows significant erosion and retreat of the shelf edge in the area of seismic activity as well as slope-parallel lineaments and submarine canyon meanders that typically develop over geological time. The T-axis of the moderate earthquakes further matches the extension direction previously measured on post early Pliocene (∼>3 Ma) faults. We conclude that although similar deformation has likely taken place in this area during recent geologic time, it does not appear to have coalesced during this time. The deformation may represent the southernmost part of a diffuse boundary, the Western Puerto Rico Deformation Boundary, which accommodates differential movement between the Puerto Rico and Hispaniola arc blocks. This differential movement is possibly driven by the differential seismic coupling along the Puerto Rico—Hispaniola subduction zone. We propose that the compositional heterogeneity across the island arc retards the process of focusing the deformation into a single fault. Given the evidence presented here, we should not expect a single large event in this area but similar diffuse sequences in the future.2022-08-0
Biogeochemistry data from Maunalua Bay, Hawaii measured on four dates between April and October 2015
No full textDataset: Maunalua Bay BiogeochemistryThis dataset contains biogeochemistry measurements from Maunalua Bay, Hawaii collected to assess the effects of submarine groundwater discharge on ecosystem functioning.
For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/860857NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-192428
Recruitment composition of sessile marine invertebrate communities across latitude (Competition and Predation across Latitude)
No full textDataset: Recruitment composition of sessile marine invertebrate communities across latitudeComposition of newly recruited communities of sessile marine invertebrates from coastal sites across a latitudinal gradient spanning the subarctic to the tropics. Caging treatments were employed to test the effect of predation on recruitment. Monitoring began in Alaska in June 2015, California in May 2016, Mexico in June 2017 and Panama in December 2015.
For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/863126NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-143452
Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale) - MH-03-474
No full textBalaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale) -MH-03-474 - female - 7.5 m - Pelvic location - Harvard University 24.6-foot (740 cm) adult female washed ashore with rope marks at Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Essex Co., MA. The carcass was pulled off the rocky shore and towed to a nearby sand beach where the entire skeleton was salvaged on 15 May. The baleen was taken by the Whale Research Center
Investigating the thermal physiology of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis via aerial infrared thermography
Get PDF© The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Lonati, G., Zitterbart, D. P., Miller, C. A., Corkeron, P. J., Murphy, C. T., & Moore, M. J. Investigating the thermal physiology of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis via aerial infrared thermography. Endangered Species Research, 48, (2022): 139–154, https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01193.The Critically Endangered status of North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis (NARWs) warrants the development of new, less invasive technology to monitor the health of individuals. Combined with advancements in remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS, commonly ‘drones’), infrared thermography (IRT) is being increasingly used to detect and count marine mammals and study their physiology. We conducted RPAS-based IRT over NARWs in Cape Cod Bay, MA, USA, in 2017 and 2018. Observations demonstrated 3 particularly useful applications of RPAS-based IRT to study large whales: (1) exploring patterns of cranial heat loss and providing insight into the physiological mechanisms that produce these patterns; (2) tracking subsurface individuals in real-time (depending on the thermal stratification of the water column) using cold surface water anomalies resulting from fluke upstrokes; and (3) detecting natural changes in superficial blood circulation or diagnosing pathology based on heat anomalies on post-cranial body surfaces. These qualitative applications present a new, important opportunity to study, monitor, and conserve large whales, particularly rare and at-risk species such as NARWs. Despite the challenges of using this technology in aquatic environments, the applications of RPAS-based IRT for monitoring the health and behavior of endangered marine mammals, including the collection of quantitative data on thermal physiology, will continue to diversify.All activities were conducted under NOAA permit 18355-01 and were approved by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). The RPAS pilot-in-command was certified through the United States Federal Aviation Admin-istration. We thank Amy Knowlton (Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium) for photo-identifying individual North Atlantic right whales and Rocky Geyer (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) for
providing and interpreting water temperature data relatedto the observations of thermal flukeprints (courtesy of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority). We also appreciate constructive conversations with Iain Kerr (Ocean Alliance), Chris Zadra (Ocean Alliance), and Joy Reidenberg (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai). Funding was provided by a Woods Hole Oceanographic Research Opportunity grant, the North Pond Foundation, and NMFS NA14OAR4320158
Bottle sample data and water processing samples from CTD casts from the first cruise of SPIROPA project, R/V Neil Armstrong cruise AR29, to the New England Shelfbreak in April 2018.
No full textDataset: Bottle AR29Bottle sample data and water processing samples from CTD casts from the first cruise of SPIROPA project, R/V Neil Armstrong cruise AR29, to the New England Shelfbreak in April 2018.
For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/863240NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-165780
Desorbed Radium from Kolyma (Russia), Ellice (Canada), and Kodiak Island (USA) Rivers
No full textDataset: Minor Arctic Rivers - Desorbed RadiumThis dataset reports concentrations of desorbed Radium from Kolyma (Russia), Ellice (Canada), and Kodiak Island (USA) Rivers from sediment samples collected from July 2018 to September 2019.
For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/878663NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-173627
Dissolved black carbon (DBC) concentrations and related data from water samples collected between 2011 and 2019 in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and from rivers in North America, South America, Africa, and Russia
No full textDataset: Stable Isotopes of DBC in River and Ocean SamplesPacific Ocean samples were collected from Station ALOHA (22.45°N, 158.00°W) during the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) 301 cruise aboard the R/V Ka`imikai-O-Kanaloa in April 2018. Atlantic Ocean samples were collected from Hydrostation S (31.67°N, 64.17°W) during the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) 358 cruise aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer in April 2019. River samples were collected from the main stem of the Amazon (Brazil), Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Northern Dvina (Russia), Kolyma (Russia), and Mississippi Rivers (USA) at various time points between 2011 and 2018. Samples were analyzed for dissolved black carbon (DBC), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and stable carbon isotopes. Data are published in Table 1 and as Supplemental Data in Wagner et al., 2019 (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13111-7).
For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/878750NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-1756812, NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-1756733, NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-201757
Genome and transcriptome mechanisms driving cephalopod evolution
Get PDF© The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Albertin, C. B., Medina-Ruiz, S., Mitros, T., Schmidbaur, H., Sanchez, G., Wang, Z. Y., Grimwood, J., Rosenthal, J. J. C., Ragsdale, C. W., Simakov, O., & Rokhsar, D. S. Genome and transcriptome mechanisms driving cephalopod evolution. Nature Communications, 13(1), (2022): 2427, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29748-w.Cephalopods are known for their large nervous systems, complex behaviors and morphological innovations. To investigate the genomic underpinnings of these features, we assembled the chromosomes of the Boston market squid, Doryteuthis (Loligo) pealeii, and the California two-spot octopus, Octopus bimaculoides, and compared them with those of the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes. The genomes of the soft-bodied (coleoid) cephalopods are highly rearranged relative to other extant molluscs, indicating an intense, early burst of genome restructuring. The coleoid genomes feature multi-megabase, tandem arrays of genes associated with brain development and cephalopod-specific innovations. We find that a known coleoid hallmark, extensive A-to-I mRNA editing, displays two fundamentally distinct patterns: one exclusive to the nervous system and concentrated in genic sequences, the other widespread and directed toward repetitive elements. We conclude that coleoid novelty is mediated in part by substantial genome reorganization, gene family expansion, and tissue-dependent mRNA editing.We thank the Marine Resources Center and the Cephalopod program at the Marine Biological Laboratory for supplying D. pealeii, R. Hanlon for the image in Fig. 1a, R. Hanlon and S. Senft for help with tissue dissection, Dr. Chuck Winkler for supplying O. bimaculoides, B. Burford and W. Gilly for assistance with D. opalescens collection, and the Vienna Zoo (Tiergarten Schönbrunn), particularly R. Halbauer, A. Weissenbacher, and the aquarist team for E. scolopes husbandry. Computation was done using the Life Science Cluster at the University of Vienna. This project began with generous funding from the Grass Foundation, administered by the MBL through J.J.R. It was also supported by Austrian Science fund FWF (P30686-B29) to H.S. and O.S., the Whitman Center Early Career Fellowship to O.S., the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Molecular Genetics Unit, Chan-Zuckerberg BioHub, and the Marthella Foskett Brown Chair in Computational Biology to D.S.R, NSF grant (IOS-1354898) to C.W.R, and the Hibbitt Early Career Fellowship to C.B.A. Sequencing at the University of Chicago Functional Genomics Facility was partially supported by the NIH (5UL1TR002389-02 and UL1 TR000430)
Discrete data on hydrography (from CTD casts) and chemical analyses of dissolved nutrients and organic carbon on the Louisiana-Texas shelf in the Gulf of Mexico from R/V Acadiana cruise 18-21 September 2017
No full textDataset: Discrete Samples Sept 2017Discrete data on hydrography (from CTD casts) and chemical analyses of dissolved nutrients and organic carbon on the Louisiana-Texas shelf in the Gulf of Mexico from R/V Acadiana cruise 18-21 September 2017.
For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/844709NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-176068