Sort by citations Sort by year Sort by title. The early Holocene provides a point of comparison because it was similar to the environmental conditions of today and occurred immediately after the Younger Dryas. Cited by. Phone: 703-648-6505. End Date: 2018-08-01. Hurricane Impacts on Chesapeake Bay Over the past 3000 years by Michael Toomey, Research Geologist, US Geological Survey. The non-linear and mechanistic structure of the model includes mass balance constraints and non-conservative transport components. Matt and Roger will provide detailed information linking this project to science support, National Geospatial Program lidar capability development, and interagency interest in topo/bathymetric data. The collection of topo/bathymetric data for a 75 mile segment of the non-tidal Potomac River formed a partnership of interdisciplinary and inter-agency use cases to support USGS science applications, water supply safety, and flood prediction and modeling. The presentation will begin with a brief overview of AI history, current AI research areas, enterprise AI application categories, the benefits of AI and a framework of building up AI capabilities for organizations. In this technique, seismometers are placed safely outside the river banks. The hazards posed by infrequent major floods to communities along the Susquehanna River and the ecological health of Chesapeake Bay remain largely unconstrained due to the short length of streamgage records. Feel free to explore our past seminars below. River flow volume, water clarity, and the weather were ideal. Sediment plume in Chesapeake Bay following Tropical Storm Lee, NASA https://earthobservatory.n To fully understand how high and how fast sea level may rise and what the impacts will be, it is necessary to examine past geological sea level records. Non-Tidal Potomac River Topo/Bathymetric Lidar Coordinated With Other Sensor Platforms & Data Calibration by Roger Barlow and Matthew Cashman, USGS MD-DE-DC Water Science Center. This presentation covers how the Maryland-Delaware-DC Water Science Center has adapted the use of this new survey technique, identified relative strengths and weaknesses, conducted comparisons to traditional methods, and incorporated SfM into our targeting and monitoring workflows for recent cooperator projects. SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regressions on Watershed attributes) is a spatially explicit, hybrid (statistical and mechanistic) water-quality model developed by the USGS. Wednesday, February 21th, 2018 11:00 a.m. That's the finding of USGS researcher Michael Toomey and colleagues in their Geology article published online today. That's the finding of USGS researcher Michael Toomey and colleagues in their Geology article published online today. New USGS-led research shows the large role ocean circulation has played in modifying the variables—such as wind shear and humidity—that control hurricane activity in the North Atlantic. As the last ice age waned, undersea landslide deposits ⦠1 Introduction. While popular, the GI models are relativelysimplistic. Models that allow for evaluation of the effects of design considerations on the performance of bestmanagement practices (BMPs) and green infrastructure (GI) to control urban and agricultural runoff and associatedcontaminants have received considerable attention in recent years. Recent laboratory and pilot scale studies have been successful in demonstrating bioaugmented activated carbon as a viable treatment option for sediments contaminated with PCBs. The model has been used to quantify the sources and transport of contaminants in watersheds of widely varying sizes, from catchment to continental scales. As the last ice age waned, undersea landslide deposits called turbidites captured the fury of Florida's stormy days. But a study just published in Geology by Michael Toomey of the United States Geological Survey suggests, counter-intuitively, that the hurricanes which struck Florida during a ⦠Michael Toomey, USGS scientist and lead author of the new report, said: âThis was a unique interval of geologic time, and gathering data from ⦠United States Geological Survey. Information to be Derived: Total Pb ⦠Filter by State in Filter by Location. However, GI model predictions are being relied upon by many municipalities and State/Local agencies tomake decisions about gray vs. green infrastructure improvement planning. ALBERT - All Library Books, journals and Electronic Records Telegrafenberg Only minimal knowledge of R is required to use the system. RSPARROW is a system of R scripts and functions for executing and evaluating SPARROW models that generates graphical, map, and tabular output. While decreasing availability to macro-organisms, carbonaceous materials have been demonstrated to enhance microbial and redox availability to sorbed contaminates. Recent climate change has already led to widespread changes in phenological patterns across the globe, and more change is inevitable. Adding complexity to GI modelingframeworks may preclude their use in simpler urban planning situations. Office of Communications and Publishing12201 Sunrise Valley DriveReston, VA 20192United StatesPhone: 703-648-4460, Photograph taken during the 2002 research cruise to collect sediment cores offshore Florida that have been used to study hurricane activity and environmental conditions during the early Holocene and Younger Dryas periods. Artificial Intelligence Applications at the USGS by Hong Jiang, Ph.D. “This concept of using the Younger Dryas as a test for how storm activity might change in response to a sustained AMOC slowdown hadn’t been explored before,” said Toomey. Equipment Used: Vibracorer. Developer’s tools and an auto-generating workflow execution tree are included to make the code transparent and promote collaboration in the open source environment. Get full address, contact info, background report and more! Michael is related to Chris J Toomey and Diane K Toomey as well as 1 additional person. We reconstructed the last 10,000 years of Holocene relative sea-level rise (RSLR) from sediment core records in near Chesapeake Bay, eastern U.S.A., including new marsh records from the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia. He will also discuss the process which culminates with the release of the USDM every Thursday morning, highlighting the role of regional and local expert guidance as well as revealing who works on the map and what the deadlines are. Reliable, global observations of tropical cyclones are even shorter, dating to satellite monitoring in the 1970s. The talk will begin with a history of the USDM, detailing how it went from an experimental to operation product in the span of a couple months in 1999, and how it continues to evolve to meet user needs. “This was a unique interval of geologic time, and gathering data from real events allows us to ground truth and refine models, which can ultimately lead to better forecasting of future hurricane activity,” said Michael Toomey, USGS scientist and lead author of the new report. Photograph Credit: Dr. Thomas Marchitto, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Photograph taken during the 2002 research cruise to collect sediment cores offshore Florida. Please take a few minutes to look around once you've taken care of business on this page. Camera/In Situ Networks â Summaries and Data Availability September 14, 2012 Michael Toomey*, Lars ¶Eklundh#, £Kenlo Nishida**, John Campbell , Edoardo Cremonese Stephen Klosterman*, Andrew Richardson* ⦠Roger currently is working with partners on projects using lidar as the primary source of local scale hydrography and chairs the NJ Geospatial Forum Elevation Task Force and the similar Maryland MSGIC. Verified email at usgs.gov. Michael R. Toomey. Its features include comprehensive documentation, tutorial models, error checks, interactive maps and diagnostic plots as HTML output files, as well as a built in Rshiny Decision Support System to allow on-the-fly execution of Source Change Management Scenarios. The western North Pacific is the worldâs most active zone for tropical cyclones, but has been understudied compared to the North Atlantic. Sort. The technique can utilize pre-existing lidar to look at historical changes and is also useful to establish a baseline to quantify future coastal change and event-driven beach loss. This presentation introduces the field of fluvial seismology and shows the results of seismic monitoring of the Oroville Dam Crisis. Cited by. Link to this presentation from Eric Luebehusen, Feel the river rumble: An introduction to fluvial seismology and its application to the 2017 Oroville Dam spillway erosion crisis by Phillip Goodling, Pathways Hydrology Intern USGS MD‐DE‐DC Water Science Center. RSPARROW is designed for novice and experienced modelers, water-quality managers, and R developers. “Future research would look at whether increased hurricane activity during the Younger Dryas was more extensive along the East Coast or limited to Florida, as well as whether cyclone activity in the North Atlantic increased during other episodes of AMOC reduction,” said Toomey. Questions were posed by Caitlin Chazen of NOVA and GWU, John Repetski of the USGS, Michael Toomey of the USGS, Brooks Hansen of AGU, 2 nd Vice President Carl-Henry Geschwind, Bill Burton of the USGS, and Dan Doctor of the USGS. About. Scientists examined the Younger Dryas and early Holocene periods. Wednesday, February 14th, 2018 11:00 a.m. Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry is an emerging imaging technique that is revolutionizing geomorphology and changing the paradigm in restoration and environmental monitoring. As the last ice age waned, undersea landslide deposits ⦠Coastal Geology Coral Reefs Tropical Cyclones. Five different shortwave infrared (SWIR)-derived spectral indices, prin- Select this result to view Michael J Toomey's phone number, address, and more. This ability to rapidly capture and quantify spatially-continuous, high-resolution topographic data from both ground-based and Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) platforms makes it uniquely suited to meet a variety of USGS-cooperator needs. Join Facebook to connect with Michael Toomey and others you may know. The hazards posed by infrequent major floods to communities along the Susquehanna River and the ecological health of Chesapeake Bay remain largely unconstrained due to the short length of ⦠Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Mapping, Remote Sensing, and Geospatial Data, Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Water Science Center. Michael Toomey We found 239 entries for Michael Toomey in the US. âThis was a unique interval of geologic time, and gathering data from real events allows us to ground truth and refine models, which can ultimately lead to better forecasting of future hurricane activity,â said Michael Toomey, USGS scientist and lead author of the new report. Base flow is often defined as the portion of streamflow that is maintained between precipitation events, fed to stream channels by delayed (usually subsurface) pathways. Then it will dive into a more detailed discussion of potential AI applications, particularly around process automation, prediction and insight discovery, in the context of the Water Science Center’s mission, current tasks and vision statements. Link to this presentation from Arash Massoudieh, U.S. Drought Monitor: A Look Behind the Scenes by Eric Luebehusen, USDA Office of Chief Economist, World Agricultural Outlook Board. In addition to reducing aqueous PCB concentrations, activated carbon has also been evaluated as a possible delivery mechanism for both aerobic and anaerobic PCB degrading bacteria. Users operate the system within RStudio from a single control script that accesses the supporting input files and functions. Scientists found that storm activity was likely stronger during the Younger Dryas compared to the early Holocene near modern-day Florida. Wednesday, December 19th, 2018 11:00 a.m. 2 nd Vice President Carl-Henry Geschwind adjourned the 1514 th meeting of the Geological Society of Washington at 21:40. State and local agencies can benefit from using repeated ground-based or UAS-based SfM surveys to monitor floodplains, identify erosional hotspots, and directly measure streambank erosion for stream restoration projects. No data point selected. Link to this presentation from Michael Toomey. to R. Current research projects include development of RSPARROW and RSPARROW_Bayesian with Richard Alexander and of the Sediment Source Assessment Tool (Sed_SAT) with Allen Gellis. Scientists looked back 10 to 13 thousand years to gain real-world insight into the environmental factors that influence hurricanes near Florida and, by extension, the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. Data Source Information: Michael Toomey, USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, Virginia. These results along with other developments offer a new hybrid approach for in-situ treatment of contaminated sediments and groundwater in the future., Link to this presentation from Trevor Needham, Hurricane Impacts on Chesapeake Bay Over the past 3000 years by Michael Toomey, Research Geologist, US Geological Survey. Adam Scott Birken and Adam S Birken are some of the alias or nicknames that Adam has used. Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology. The article, “Increased hurricane frequency near Florida during Younger Dryas Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown,” is authored by the USGS, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Texas A&M University, and the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Early Holocene and Younger Dryas sections of these cores were identified and sediment-size changes were then measured to identify deposits likely derived from intense storm events. The centerpiece of the project was the collection of airborne topo/bathymetric lidar, with significant support from Water, Biology, and Geology Mission Areas for collecting other sensor data using GPS, lidar ground scanning, UAV borne sensors, and boat-based sonar from selected field sites during the airborne lidar collection period. Photograph Credit: Dr. Thomas Marchitto, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Mapping, Remote Sensing, and Geospatial Data, Increased hurricane frequency near Florida during Younger Dryas Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown. While theoretical and analytical advances have been made, passive seismic methods and their potential geomorphic applications are still being developed. “Few currently published tropical cyclone records extend beyond the past few thousand years.”. Articles Cited by. Instrumental records of past storms are relatively robust in some regions, such as the North Atlantic, but still only extend back to approximately 1850. Unless otherwise stated, all seminars normally originate from the USGS MD-DE-DC Water Science Center, Research Park at the University of Maryland's Baltimore County campus (UMBC). NAGT/USGS 2018 Cooperative Summer Field Training Program . Address: 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192 (NAGT)/U.S. According to new research by Michael Toomey and his colleagues from The Geological Society of America's Journal Geology, Category 5 hurricanes may have slammed Florida repeatedly during the chilly Younger Dryas, 12 000 years ago, as hurricane-suppressing effects of cooler sea surface were out-weighed by side effects of slowed ocean circulation. The code and documentation can be found here. The physiochemical properties of different pyrogenic carbon materials (coal AC, coconut hull AC, pinewood BC and graphite powder) have been demonstrated to have different effects of the dechlorination rate of PCB 61 to PCB 23 by the halorespiring bacteria Dehalobium chlorocoercia (DF-1) for in-situ treatment of PCBs by bioamended carbon. Research noted that this is likely due to a dramatic reduction in AMOC, which triggered other favorable environmental conditions for hurricane development near Florida, apparently outweighing local changes in sea surface temperature. Quantitative estimates of base flow are necessary to address questions of the vulnerability and response of aquatic ecosystems to natural and human-induced change in environmental conditions as well as sustainability of water resources. Using a single 3‐component seismometer located 2 km from the dam, we are able to seismically observe the increased turbulence and pinpoint the location of the damage. Michael Toomey and Lee A. Vierling Abstract: Broad-scale monitoring of varying moisture levels of leaves has ramifications for understanding fire poten-tial, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem dynamics. Statement of Problem: Sea-level rise and associated storm surges are major threats to low-lying areas of U.S. coastal zones, including much of the East Coast. Link to the video for this presentation coming soon, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, Latest Updates of RSPARROW by Lillian Gorman-Sanisaca, USGS MD-DE-DC Water Science Center. The presentation will conclude with preliminary results of this monitoring and future research directions, Link to this presentation from Phillip Goodling, Structure-from-Motion Surveying and Unmanned Aerial Systems: A new resolution of environmental data by Matthew Cashman, USGS MD‐DE‐DC Water Science Center. The best result we found for your search is Michael J Toomey age 60s in Redmond, WA in the Idylwood neighborhood. Additionally, the resolution of data provided by SfM surveying has numerous secondary “value-added” applications such as understanding underlying geomorphic processes, habitat assessment, flow and habitat modeling, and vegetation density and identification. However, Due to gathering restrictions caused by the recent Coronavirus Pandemic, all seminars taking place will occur virtually until further notice. The spillway of the Oroville Dam in California suffered uncontrolled erosion damage in February and March 2017, transforming a simple concrete channel into a complex one. Organization, jobs, budget Passive seismic river monitoring has emerged as a new tool in the last decade to infer bedload transport and water turbulence mechanics during floods. Click on a pin on the map to see more information. The risks posed by infrequent, but devastating, hurricane landfalls remains largely unconstrained due to the short length of robust historic records. Roger specializes in partnership formation, program coordination, and application of geospatial data to science application. Over the past 50 years, over 2,500 students have participated in this program, with many participants continuing on to distinguished careers with the USGS, with academia, or with industry. Roger Barlow, National Map Liaison DC, DE, MD, NJ -- Roger has been the Liaison in 14 different states since 1990. This presentation will give a glimpse into several aspects of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM). Activated carbon and biochar has grown in acceptance for in-situ treatment for polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and other persistent organic pollutants (POP) contaminated in sediments by reducing the freely dissolved pore water concentrations that drive aquatic food chain uptake. If you want to be included in our mailing list so you're notified when new seminars are taking place, please contact Chris Nealen at cnealen@usgs.gov or click here to have an automated message sent. Wednesday, May 22nd, 2018 11:00 a.m. Link to this presentation from Lillian Gormann-Sanisaka, Base-flow estimation using optimal hydrograph separation with applications to Chesapeake Bay watershed and the continental U.S. by Jeff Raffensperger, USGS MD-DE-DC Water Science Center. They have also lived in Easton, WA and Bellevue, WA. This highlights the urgency of extending historic observations using geologic records to identify the full range of possible storm hazards facing the U.S East Coast.”, Comparing the Younger Dryas and Early Holocene. Contact, chat, social media. Base flow is generally not measured directly, but is estimated from observations of streamflow and/or stream-water chemistry... Link to this presentation from Jeff Raffensperger. Key Takeaways. View the profiles of people named Michael Toomey. Welcome to the MD-DE-DC Water Science Center Seminar Series. That's the finding of USGS researcher Michael Toomey and colleagues in their Geology article published online today. The presentation concludes with a strategy recommendation of choosing AI projects within an organization. Therefore, the goal here was to develop asophisticated, yet flexible tool that could be used by design engineers and researchers to capture and explore theeffect of design factors and properties of the media employed in the performance of GI systems at a relatively smallscale. This includes factors that control the attenuation and delivery of contaminants to streams via surficial and subsurface pathways and the removal of contaminants in streams and reservoirs, according to first-order decay kinetics. She works on a variety of projects as an expert in the R programming language, Rshiny, and in translation of proprietary programming languages (SAS, Python, etc.) He has lived and worked at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica and co-authored the first ever image-based geologic map. Phenology is critical to many aspects of human life and nearly all ecological relationships and processes. On 21 and 22 June 1972, more than 25 cm (10 in.) ** SPECIAL STATEMENT: Due to the recent Coronavirus Pandemic, all seminars taking place in the immediate future will occur virtually. Thatâs the finding of USGS researcher Michael Toomey and colleagues in their Geology article published online today. The risks posed by infrequent, but devastating, hurricane landfalls remains largely unconstrained due to the short length of robust historic records. 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