Scott D George

Organic and Metal Contaminants in Fish Tissue Collected from the Niagara River Area of Concern, New York, 2018

Fish tissue from 203 samples collected at five locations in the Niagara River Area of Concern in 2018 were analyzed for a wide range of analytes including Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), pesticides (E1 and E2), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), organochlorine and other persistent organic compounds, metals, lipid and moisture. Over 230 analytes were analyzed in the tissue samples, including 160 PCB congeners. Fish tissues from a subset of the sites (n=40) were also analyzed for Dioxins and Furans. The data set includes a variety of laboratory quality assurance data including sample replicates, laboratory blank data, laboratory spike data, matrix spike recoveries, and replicate matrix spike recoveries.

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Aquatic Community Health, Contaminants, Organic, Contamination and pollution, Dioxins, All tags... Ecosystem Health, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Health, Environmental Quality, Erie, Furans, New York, Organochlorine pesticides, PAHs, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water quality, fish tissue, polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, Fewer tags

Background: The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) plan to obtain data on chemical contaminants in fish from multiple Areas of Concern (AOCs) in New York State and use this information to evaluate fish consumption advisories, which are a critical component of most removal criteria for “Restriction on Fish and Wildlife Consumption” beneficial use impairments (BUI). The first project in the Buffalo River AOC will help determine if current fish consumption advisories are appropriate, if they can be modified, and if they support or do not support BUI removal as recommended in the June 2014 “Buffalo River AOC: A Monitoring Plan for the Delisting of...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Buffalo River, Contaminants, Organic, Contaminants, Organic, Contaminants, organic, Cooperative Water Program, All tags... Ecological Assessment of Human and Natural Impacts, Ecological Assessment of Human and Natural Impacts, Ecological Assessment of Human and Natural Impacts, Ecosystem Health, Ecosystem Health, Focused Assessments, Focused Assessments, Focused Assessments, New York, USGS New York Water Science Center, WSC, Fewer tags

Effect of Flooding from Tropical Storm Irene on Fish Assemblages in the Upper Esopus Creek Basin

Background The Upper Esopus Creek, a popular trout-fishing and recreational stream in the heart of the Catskill Mountains, received historic flooding from Tropical Storm Irene on August 28, 2011. Streamflows approached or surpassed the 1% annual exceedance probability (>100 year) flood levels at several USGS streamgages in this basin. Short-term flood impacts on biological assemblages have been assessed in several studies, but longer-term effects, recovery, and analysis of factors affecting ecosystem resiliency have rarely been investigated. The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP), and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County (CCEUC) collaborated on...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Completed, Cooperative Water Program, Flood Inundation, Flood Inundation, Flood Inundation, All tags... Flood Science, Flood Science, Flood Science, New York, USGS New York Water Science Center, Upper Esopus Creek Basin, WSC, Water Use and Availability Science, Water Use and Availability Science, Fewer tags

Background: The waters of the Mohawk River and its tributaries are inhabited by some of the most diverse fish communities in the Northeast. The construction of the Erie Canal in 1825, and later the Barge Canal in 1918, enabled the westward expansion of fishes from the Hudson River drainage as well as the eastward expansion of fishes indigenous to the Great Lakes drainage. Today, almost half of the fish species in the Mohawk River are nonnative (Carlson and Daniels, 2004) and George et al (2016), yet the fish community still fulfills many important economic and ecological functions. The Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is an invasive benthic fish indigenous to Ponto-Caspian region of Eurasia that is invading eastward...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic Community Health, Aquatic Community Health, Aquatic Community Health, Cooperative Water Program, Ecosystem Health, All tags... Ecosystem Health, Focused Assessments, Focused Assessments, Focused Assessments, Mohawk RIver, New York, USGS New York Water Science Center, WSC, Fewer tags

Adirondack and Catskill stream-fish survey dataset (ver. 3.0, November 2020)

This dataset has been archived; it has been superseded by version 4.0 (March 2022) which can be found at https://doi.org/10.5066/F70C4V25. The dataset is composed of two data tables containing information from electrofishing surveys conducted in the Catskill and Adirondack regions. The first data table contains fish collection information and the second data table contains information on the sampled reaches. First posted September 25, 2018, ver. 1.0 Revised July 2019, ver. 2.0 Revised November 2020, ver. 3.0 Version 3.0: This version of the dataset has the same structure (two data tables containing the same column headings) as Versions 2.0 and 1.0 but includes the addition of data from electrofishing surveys...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Adirondack State Park, Aquatic Biology, Catskill State Park, Esopus Creek, Neversink River, All tags... New York, Rondout Creek, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), fish, freshwater ecosystems, inland fishery resources, population and community ecology, Fewer tags