Paul L Angermeier

The Southeastern U.S. spans broad ranges of physiographic settings and contains a wide variety of aquatic systems that provide habitat for hundreds of endemic aquatic species that pose interesting challenges and opportunities for managers of aquatic resources, particularly in the face of climate change. For example, the Southeast contains the southernmost populations of the eastern brook trout and other cold-water dependent species. Climate change is predicted to increase temperatures in the South and is likely to have a substantial effect on extant populations of cold-water biota. Thus, aquatic managers are tasked with developing strategies for preserving cold-water dependent biota, such as eastern brook trout,...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, CASC, Climate Change, Completed, Data Visualization & Tools, All tags... Data Visualization & Tools, Fish, Fish, National CASC, National CASC, Northwest, Northwest CASC, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Southeast, Southeast CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags

Fish communities in Shenandoah Valley streams, 2021

From 16 June to 30 July, 2021, a Virginia Tech team of 4-6 sampled the fish community in 30 Shenandoah Valley streams (Virginia and West Virginia, USA) as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature, macroinvertebrates, and fish health at the same 30 streams. The fish community team also sampled three additional bonus streams (SiteID's FOLL, NAKE, and TUMB) during 19-22 August, 2021. These 33 streams had upstream drainage areas of 7 to 46 sq. km and included 4 James River tributaries (SiteID's POAG, MLRB, CEDR, PISG), one Potomac River tributary (HARL), and 28 Shenandoah River tributaries. At each stream, we sampled fish from two reaches...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Augusta, Berkeley, Clarke, Ecology, Jefferson, All tags... Maury, Potomac, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Shenandoah, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Warren, West Virginia, biota, community ecology, farming, field sampling, fish, freshwater ecosystems, river systems, Fewer tags

Rivers are social–ecological systems: Time to integrate human dimensions into riverscape ecology and management

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, National CASC, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, All tags... ecosystem services, human dimensions, river management, riverscape, social– ecological systems, water governance, Fewer tags

Fish communities in PA and MD Piedmont mixed agricultural streams, 2023

From 2-27 June, 2023, a Virginia Tech team of 5 sampled the fish community in 30 Piedmont streams (lower Susquehanna River and upper Chesapeake Bay tributaries, Pennsylvania and Maryland, USA) spanning a gradient of agricultural intensity as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature, and macroinvertebrates at the same 30 streams. Upstream drainage area of these 30 streams ranged from approximately 10 to 50 sq. km, and width from 2 to 10 m. At each stream, we sampled fish from two reaches using two-pass backpack electrofishing and seining. Reach A was the main reach surveyed by all the interdisciplinary teams; Reach B was surveyed for fish...

Categories: Data; Tags: Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Chester County, PA, Ecology, Harford County, MD, All tags... Lancaster County, PA, Lower Susquehanna, Maryland, Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Chesapeake, York County, PA, biota, community ecology, farming, field sampling, fish, freshwater ecosystems, river systems, Fewer tags