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State and local economic impacts from wind energy projects: Texas case study This paper uses the Jobs and Economic Development Impacts (JEDI) model to estimate economic impacts from 1398 MW of wind power development in four counties in west Texas. Project-specific impacts are estimated at the local level (i.e., within a 100-mile radius around the wind farms) and at the state level. The primary economic policy question addressed is how investment in wind energy affects the state and local communities where the wind farms are built. During the four-year construction phase approximately 4100 FTE (full time equivalents) jobs were supported with turbine and supply chain impacts accounting for 58% of all jobs generated. Total lifetime economic activity to the state from the projects equated to... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Economic impacts, Texas, Wind energy Publication: Fragmentation and drying ratchet down Great Plains stream fish diversity Stream fragmentation alters the structure of aquatic communities on a global scale, generally through loss of native species. Among riverscapes in the Great Plains of North America, stream fragmentation and hydrologic alteration (flow regulation and dewatering) are implicated in the decline of native fish diversity. This study documents the spatio–temporal distribution of fish reproductive guilds in the fragmented Arkansas and Ninnescah rivers of south-central Kansas using retrospective analyses involving 63 years of fish community data. Pelagic-spawning fishes declined throughout the study area during 1950–2013, including Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi) last reported in 1983, plains minnow (Hybognathus... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Final Report: Integrated monitoring within BCR’s: Creating a wildlife monitoring grid for the GPLCC We used the United States National Grid to develop a sampling grid for monitoring programs in the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, delineated by Bird Conservation Regions 18 and 19. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives are science based partnerships with the goal to inform and guide conservation at regional landscape levels. Developing a standardized sampling grid for a LCC is a new endeavor and is designed to reduce program costs, avoid repetition in sampling, and increase efficiency in monitoring programs. This is possible because the grid’s nationwide coverage, uniform starting point, and scalability allow researchers to expand their monitoring programs from a small, local level to a regional or... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BIRDS, Colorado, Colorado, Federal resource managers, Final Report, All tags... Final Report, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Regional & county planners, Report, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, South Dakota, South Dakota, State agencies, Texas, Texas, Wildlife Monitoring, Wildlife Monitoring, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags Public perception of desalinated water from oil and gas field operations: Data from Texas It is now widely recognized that effective communication and demand-side policies for alternative energy require sound knowledge of preferences and determinants of demand of the public and consumers. To date, public attitudes towards new transport technologies have been studied under very different conceptual frameworks. This paper gives an overview of the various conceptual frameworks and methodologies used, where four main approaches can be distinguished: general attitudinal surveys, risk perception studies, non-market economic valuation studies, and other approaches such as those based on semiotic theory. We then review the findings of the recent literature on acceptance, attitudes and preferences for hydrogen... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data, Public, Texas, desalinated, field, All tags... gas, oil, operation, perception, water, Fewer tags Public perceptions of electric power transmission lines Electric power transmission lines have recently met a very significant amount of public opposition. The source of such opposition varies from case to case, and is often hard to identify. Stated objections have included land use conflicts, noise created by the lines, aesthetic concerns, and fears of health and safety threats. Despite the sometimes enormous costs and long delays caused by strong opposition to transmission line siting and construction, both utilities and governmental regulators seem baffled at why the public objects so vehemently. At the same time, opponents are often equally baffled at why their objections seem to go unheeded. As a step toward developing satisfactory solutions to the conflict, this... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data, Public, Texas, desalinated, field, All tags... gas, oil, operation, perception, water, Fewer tags Publication: Fragmentation and dewatering transform Great Plains stream fish communities Biodiversity in stream networks is threatened globally by interactions between habitat fragmentation and altered hydrologic regimes. In the Great Plains of North America, stream networks are fragmented by 19,000 anthropogenic barriers, and flow regimes are altered by surface water retention and groundwater extraction. We documented the distribution of anthropogenic barriers and dry stream segments in five basins covering the central Great Plains to assess effects of broad-scale environmental change on stream fish community structure and distribution of reproductive guilds. We used an information-theoretic approach to rank competing models in which fragmentation, discharge magnitude, and percentage of time streams had... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Historical Stream Fish Distribution Database for the Conterminous United States (1950-1990): IchthyMaps Fish occurrence data to support high-resolution distribution models and test various community and macroecological hypotheses have not been available at the national scale. We present IchthyMaps, a database of high-quality historical fish occurrences covering fishes of the conterminous United States. Designed on the principles of metacommunity ecology, IchthyMaps is a compilation of presence records from atlases up to 1990, at the resolution of the 1:100,000 National Hydrography Database Plus (NHDPlus) inter-confluence stream segment, readily aggregated into hierarchically coarser units (e.g. hydrologic unit code 8-digit and 12-digit watersheds). IchthyMaps contains about 606,550 presence records for 1,038 species... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Biological Data, Biological sampling, All tags... California, Colorado, Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Deleware, District of Columbia, Ecological distribution, Florida, Freshwater fishes, Georgia, Historical data, Historical data, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Lentic, Lotic, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NFHP Cooperator, NHDPlusV2, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, NoVisual, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Spatial distribution, Species presence, Species presence, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Fewer tags Environmental flows in the desert rivers of the United States and Mexico: Synthesis of available data and gap analysis Article Abstract: Although riparian and aquatic ecosystems make up a small fraction of the area in arid and semi-arid lands, they are critical for the survival of desert life. There are, however, few compendia of efforts to define the quantity of water needed to maintain these ecosystems and understand the risks and stressors to them. Through our analysis we found that 62% of the rivers examined in the deserts of the U.S. and Mexico have had just one study over the past four decades and 67% of studies used qualitative methods. Furthermore, only one-third of the 312 species catalogued in our work have been studied more than once and only 5% have been considered five or more times. The most common risks or stressors... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquascalientes, Arizona, Baja California, California, Chihuahua, All tags... Coahuila, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Data.gov Desert LCC, Desert LCC (all), Desert LCC (all), Dos Rios Pilot Area, Durango, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS > RIVERS/STREAM, Eastern Mojave Desert Pilot Area, Federal resource managers, Guanajuato, Jalisco, LCC Network Science Catalog, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Mexico, Nayarit, Nevada, New Mexico, Nuevo León, Publication, Publication, Querétaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Texas, United States, Utah, Zacatecas, completed, inlandWaters, product, Fewer tags Desert Flows Methodology Guidebook Successful implementation of environmental flow projects depends on land and water managers having clear objectives and access to reliable data. This guidebook provides information on a variety of methods that can be utilized under different fiscal or temporal constraints to determine and implement appropriate environmental flow targets. Based on evidence from cases focused in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, steps are suggested to help ensure maintenance of flows under uncertain future natural and socioeconomic conditions. The importance of education and engagement to increase acceptance of environmental flows based projects and gain key player and community buy in is described. Limitations on... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquascalientes, Arizona, Baja California, California, Chihuahua, All tags... Coahuila, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Data.gov Desert LCC, Desert LCC (all), Dos Rios Pilot Area, Durango, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS > RIVERS/STREAM, Eastern Mojave Desert Pilot Area, Federal resource managers, Guanajuato, Jalisco, LCC Network Science Catalog, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Mexico, Nayarit, Nevada, New Mexico, Nuevo León, Publication, Querétaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Texas, United States, User Manual, Utah, Zacatecas, completed, inlandWaters, product, Fewer tags Open field host selection and behavior by tamarisk beetles (Diorhabda spp.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in biological control of exotic saltcedars (Tamarix spp.) and risks to non-target athel (T. aphylla) and native Frankenia spp. Biological control of invasive saltcedars (Tamarix spp.) in the western U.S. by exotic tamarisk leaf beetles, Diorhabda spp., first released in 2001 after 15 years of development, has been successful. In Texas, beetles from Crete, Greece were first released in 2004 and are providing control. However, adults alight, feed and oviposit on athel (Tamarix aphylla), an evergreen tree used for shade and as a windbreak in the southwestern U.S. and México, and occasionally feed on native Frankenia spp. plants. The ability of tamarisk beetles to establish on these potential field hosts was investigated in the field. In no-choice tests in bagged branches, beetle species from Crete and Sfax, Tunisia produced 30–45% as many... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Athel, Biological Control, Biological control of weeds, Diorhabda carinulata, Diorhabda elongata, All tags... Diorhabda sublineata, Frankenia, Host range, Nevada, Nontarget, Opsius stactogalus, Saltcedar, Tamarix, Texas, effects, Fewer tags Public perceptions and governance of controversial technologies to tackle climate change: nuclear power, carbon capture and storage, wind, and geoengineering It is now widely recognized that effective communication and demand-side policies for alternative energy require sound knowledge of preferences and determinants of demand of the public and consumers. To date, public attitudes towards new transport technologies have been studied under very different conceptual frameworks. This paper gives an overview of the various conceptual frameworks and methodologies used, where four main approaches can be distinguished: general attitudinal surveys, risk perception studies, non-market economic valuation studies, and other approaches such as those based on semiotic theory. We then review the findings of the recent literature on acceptance, attitudes and preferences for hydrogen... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data, Public, Texas, desalinated, field, All tags... gas, oil, operation, perception, water, Fewer tags Publication: Comparative riverscape genetics reveals reservoirs of genetic diversity for conservation and restoration of Great Plains fishes We used comparative landscape genetics to examine the relative roles of historical events, intrinsic traits and landscape factors in determining the distribution of genetic diversity of river fishes across the North American Great Plains. Spatial patterns of diversity were overlaid on a patch-based graphical model and then compared within and among three species that co-occurred across five Great Plains watersheds. Species differing in reproductive strategy (benthic vs. pelagic-spawning) were hypothesized to have different patterns of genetic diversity, but the overriding factor shaping contemporary patterns of diversity was the signature of past climates and geological history. Allelic diversity was significantly... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Wintering sandhill crane exposure to wind energy development in the central and southern Great Plains, USA datasets Numerous wind energy projects have been constructed in the central and southern Great Plains, USA, the main wintering area for midcontinent Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis). We assessed exposure of wintering Sandhill Cranes to the current distribution of wind towers in the central and southern Great Plains by estimating overlap using location data from platform transmitting terminals (PTT) collected during winters 1998–2004. Because 90% of wind towers in the region were installed 2004–2013, comparing an established distribution of wind towers (as of January 2014) with pre-construction crane (1998-2004) distribution provides an initial assessment of the midcontinent population’s exposure. Distributions of cranes... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, animal tracking, All tags... game species, risk assessment, wind energy, Fewer tags Final Report: Communicating Future Sea-Level Rise Scenarios for Gulf Coast National Wildlife Refuge and National Park Lands Low-lying public lands along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast are vulnerable to sea-level rise. Coastal planners and resource managers in the region have requested customized information that can be used to concisely communicate local sea-level rise scenarios and identify potential impacts to the missions of management agencies. In this project, researchers worked with the Northern Gulf of Mexico Sentinel Site Cooperative to develop information sheets outlining potential sea-level rise scenarios for the region through 2100 including their potential impact on the missions of federally-managed lands. Researchers drew from existing information on regional and global sea-level rise scenarios to develop customized... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alabama, Estuarine Coastal, Estuarine Coastal Intertidal, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Southeast CASC, Texas, Water, Coasts and Ice, parks, Fewer tags Publication: Holocene records of environmental change in High Plains playa wetlands, Kansas, US Holocene environmental change is poorly characterized throughout much of the High Plains. Playa wetlands are sites with appreciable potential for reconstructing environmental change because of their environmental sensitivity. Radiocarbon, litho- and magneto-stratigraphic, and stable carbon isotope (δ13C) data for four playas on the Kansas High Plains indicate significant change occurred throughout the Holocene, which had profound impacts on playa ecosystem functions (e.g. groundwater recharge, surface water storage, and habitat). Minimum δ13C values and buried soils observed during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition suggest sufficient moisture to support vegetative cover and promote pedogenesis. Low magnetic susceptibility,... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Colorado, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, All tags... Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Management, Habitat Management, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Publication, Regional & county planners, SEDIMENTATION, Sediment Accumulation, Sediment Accumulation, State agencies, Texas, Texas, WETLANDS, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, environment, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Understanding Environmental Flows in Desert Rivers of the U.S. and Mexico through the Desert Flows Database Article Introduction: Efforts to define water needs for riparian and aquatic ecosystems in arid and semi-arid systems are critical because riparian areas are essential for the survival of desert life, with stream corridors providing a large proportion of ecosystem services in these landscapes (Poff, Koestner, Neary, & Henderson, 2011; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). To create a one-stop-shop for published ecological water needs information and illuminate critical knowledge gaps in the desert watersheds of the U.S. and Mexico, the University of Arizona’s Water Resources Research Center and the Northern Arizona University School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability created the Desert Flows Database.... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquascalientes, Arizona, Baja California, California, Chihuahua, All tags... Coahuila, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Data.gov Desert LCC, Desert LCC (all), Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Dos Rios Pilot Area, Durango, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS > RIVERS/STREAM, Eastern Mojave Desert Pilot Area, Federal resource managers, Guanajuato, Jalisco, LCC Network Science Catalog, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Mexico, Nayarit, Nevada, New Mexico, Nuevo León, Publication, Querétaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Texas, United States, User Manual, Utah, Zacatecas, completed, inlandWaters, product, Fewer tags Holocene climate variability in Texas, USA: An integration of existing paleoclimate data and modeling with a new, high-resolution speleothem record Abstract (from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379115300329): Delineating the climate processes governing precipitation variability in drought-prone Texas is critical for predicting and mitigating climate change effects, and requires the reconstruction of past climate beyond the instrumental record. We synthesize existing paleoclimate proxy data and climate simulations to provide an overview of climate variability in Texas during the Holocene. Conditions became progressively warmer and drier transitioning from the early to mid Holocene, culminating between 7 and 3 ka (thousand years ago), and were more variable during the late Holocene. The timing and relative magnitude of Holocene climate... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Holocene, Other Water, Paleoclimate reconstruction, South Central CASC, Speleothem, All tags... Texas, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags NHD Swamp/Marsh for the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (COPY) Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Artificial Path, Canal / Ditch, Colorado, FWHydrography, GPLCC, All tags... Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Hydrography, Kansas, Lake / Pond, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Reach Code, Reservoir, South Dakota, Spring / Seep, Stream / Water, Swamp / Marsh, Texas, US, Wyoming, Fewer tags Revisiting a Classification Scheme for U.S.-Mexico Alluvial Basin-Fill Aquifers Intermontane basins in the Trans-Pecos region of westernmost Texas and northern Chihuahua, Mexico, are target areas for disposal of interstate municipal sludge and have been identified as possible disposal sites for low-level radioactive waste. Understanding ground water movement within and between these basins is needed to assess potential contaminant fate and movement. Four associated basin aquifers are evaluated and classified; the Red Light Draw Aquifer, the Northwest Eagle Flat Aquifer, the Southeast Eagle Flat Aquifer, and the El Cuervo Aquifer. Encompassed on all but one side by mountains and local divides, the Red Light Draw Aquifer has the Rio Grande as an outlet for both surface drainage and ground water... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Classification, Geological Phenomena, Geology, Ground Water, Mexico, All tags... Models, Refuse Disposal, Sewage, Texas, Theoretical, Water Movements, Water Pollution, Water Pollution: prevention & control, Water Supply, Fewer tags Regulating hydraulic fracturing in shale gas plays: The case of Texas Regional economic impact assessment (REIA) and social impact assessment (SIA) are methodologically close, since REIA provides predictions of change in employment both directly and indirectly resulting from a project, thereby giving some indication of future population changes, derived demand for social services and infrastructure, and the likely regional social mix. There are, however, a number of theoretical difficulties with conventional REIAs. As extrapolations they normally avoid discussion of processes of structural change, which could result in substantial changes within the time horizon of a project. Another issue is the justification for including secondary project impacts in assessing a project's worth.... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Regulation, Texas, case, hydraulic fracturing, shale gas