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Groundwater samples collected from wells in eastern Sheridan County, Montana in the September, 2011.
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Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: Bakken Formation,
Eastern Sheridan County,
Montana,
Sheridan County,
United States of America, All tags...
Williston Basin,
brine,
contamination index,
groundwater,
water quality, Fewer tags
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Although biotic responses to contemporary climate change are spatially pervasive and often reflect synergies between climate and other ecological disturbances, the relative importance of climatic factors versus habitat extent for species persistence remains poorly understood. To address this shortcoming, we performed surveys for American pikas (Ochotona princeps) at > 910 locations in 3 geographic regions of western North America during 2014 and 2015, complementing earlier modern (1994–2013) and historical (1898–1990) surveys. We sought to compare extirpation rates and the relative importance of climatic factors versus habitat area for pikas in a mainland-versus-islands framework. In each region, we found widespread...
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Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
California,
Completed,
DAYMET,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags...
Federal resource managers,
Great Basin,
Great Basin,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Montane,
Nevada,
Ochotona,
Pika,
Report,
State agencies,
Utah national parks,
biota,
climatic water balance,
environment,
habitat area,
hydrographic Great Basin,
local range contraction,
logistic regression,
northeastern California,
pika, Fewer tags
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FY2013This project retrieves four years of data from over 200 temperature sensors nested within 28 sites across ~40 million hectares of the hydrographic Great Basin. The sensors span all major aspects and up to 700 m of elevation within sites, and occur in numerous management jurisdictions in 18 mountain ranges plus other areas not in ranges. This project: Quantifies the variability of climate at micro-, meso-, and macroscales across the Basin, and across diel, seasonal, and interannual periods. Informs management and conservation efforts, in terms of helping calibrate and refine the climatic stage upon which all biological actors and efforts hinge (Beier and Brost 2010). Feeds into other bioclimatic and wildlife...
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Project;
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OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2013,
2014,
Academics & scientific researchers,
California,
California, All tags...
California,
California,
California,
Conservation NGOs,
Conservation Plan/Design/Framework,
Conservation Planning,
Conservation Planning,
Datasets/Database,
Federal resource managers,
Federal resource managers,
Great Basin,
Great Basin,
Great Basin,
Great Basin,
Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Montane,
Nevada,
Nevada,
Nevada,
Nevada,
Nevada,
Pika,
Pika,
Pika,
Pika,
Pika,
Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection,
Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection,
Project,
Publication,
Report,
State agencies,
State agencies,
Vulnerability Assessment,
Vulnerability Assessment,
alpine,
alpine,
alpine,
alpine,
completed,
montane,
montane,
montane,
montane,
mountain,
mountain,
mountain,
mountain,
talus,
talus,
talus,
talus, Fewer tags
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The Williston Basin is an intracratonic basin that underlies portions of Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota in the United States, and Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada. The Williston Basin has been a top domestic oil producing region since the 1960s and is currently in the midst of a major “oil boom” triggered by the discovery of substantial reserves associated with the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation, along with advances in petroleum-recovery technologies and economic incentives related to the price of oil.
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Contamination to aquatic resources from co-produced water (brine) associated with energy development has been documented in the northeastern portion of the Williston Basin; an area mantled by glacial drift. The presence and magnitude of brine contamination can be determined using the contamination index (CI) value from water samples. Recently, the U.S. Geological Survey published a section (~2.59 km2) level risk assessment of brine contamination to aquatic resources for Sheridan County, Montana, using oilfield and hydrogeological parameters. Our goal was to improve the Sheridan County assessment (SCA) and evaluate the use of this new Williston Basin assessment (WBA) across 31 counties mantled by glacial drift in...
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ArcGIS Service Definition,
Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Bakken Formatioin,
Bakken Formation,
Benson, North Dakota,
Blaine, Montana,
Bottineau, North Dakota, All tags...
Brine Contamination,
Burke, North Dakota,
Burleigh, North Dakota,
Daniels, Montana,
Divide, North Dakota,
Eddy, North Dakota,
Emmons, North Dakota,
Foster, North Dakota,
Kidder, North Dakota,
LaMoure, North Dakota,
Logan, North Dakota,
McHenry, North Dakota,
McIntosh, North Dakota,
McLean, North Dakota,
Montana,
Mountrail, North Dakota,
North Dakota,
Oil and Gas Development,
Phillips, Montana,
Pierce, North Dakota,
Ramsey, North Dakota,
Renville, North Dakota,
Rolette, North Dakota,
Rosevelt, Montana,
Sheridan, Montana,
Sheridan, North Dakota,
Stutsman, North Dakota,
Towner, North Dakota,
United States,
Valley, Montana,
Ward, North Dakota,
Wells, North Dakota,
Williams, North Dakota,
Williston Basin,
Williston Basin,
contamination and pollution,
energy resources,
geographic information systems (GIS),
geospatial analysis,
ground-water quality,
human impacts,
oil resources,
resource extraction,
risk assessment,
spatial analysis,
surface water quailty,
water quality,
well drilling, Fewer tags
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