Chemist
Email:
jjasmann@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
303-541-3074
Fax:
303-541-3084
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Monosaccharide anhydrides (MAs), or anhydrosugars which include levoglucosan, mannosan, and galactosan are combustion products of cellulose and hemicellulose that are used as biomass burning tracers. These fire biomarkers are incorporated into smoke plumes, transported through the atmosphere, and return to the surface through wet and dry deposition that can be archived in ice cores. Here, we quantify levoglucosan, mannosan, and galactosan through the Denali ice core to investigate past North Pacific fire activity.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Alaska,
Arctic,
Climatology,
Denali National Park,
Geochemistry, All tags...
Glaciology,
North Pacific,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biomass burning,
biota,
fire,
ice core,
paleoclimate, Fewer tags
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The data presented in this data release includes 11 field/water quality parameters, concentrations of 16 nutrients/anions, dissolved organic carbon, 14 organic contaminants, net estrogenicity concentrations, and 51 inorganic constituents in surface water collected twice from 28 stream sites and collected once from 2 stream sites in the Shenandoah Valley (Virginia and West Virginia, USA), in the summer of 2021 (Table_1_Sites and Table_2_Methods). The estrogenicity, inorganic, and organic chemical characteristics of river waters were analyzed using 19 separate analytical methods at 5 laboratories (Table_2_Methods). Surface water was analyzed for water quality and nutrients (Table_3_WQ_Nutrients_Anions_DOC), toxic...
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Treated effluent from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) contains contaminants not fully removed during the treatment process and that may pose environmental health risks when discharged to surface waters. This data release presents inputs for and results from a wastewater reuse model that used data compiled from several sources to calculate the following estimates for each non-tidal, non-coastline, initialized National Hydrography Dataset Version 2.1 (NHDPlus V2) stream segment in the Potomac River watershed: (1) accumulated wastewater as a percent of total streamflow (ACCWW%); and (2) predicted environmental concentrations (PECs, in micrograms per liter) of 69 municipal effluent-derived contaminants. ACCWW% values...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Watershed,
Environmental Health,
Flow accumulation,
Maryland,
Pennsylvania, All tags...
Potomac River,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Virginia,
Washington, D.C.,
Wastewater,
Water Quality,
Water Resources,
West Virginia,
river reaches,
streamflow,
surface water quality,
water chemistry,
water quality,
water resources,
water use, Fewer tags
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This data release presents chemical results from investigations of surface-water quality in the Potomac River watershed (encompassing Washington, D.C. and parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland) conducted during low-flow conditions in July through September of 2022 and modeling results that support interpretative products. Water-quality sampling: A sampling campaign was conducted at 32 stream sites throughout the watershed (Table 1). A suite of field parameters and inorganic and organic chemical characteristics at each site were characterized using seven separate analytical methods at five laboratories (Table 2). The water-quality results are presented in Table 3. Analytical methods and laboratories...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Watershed,
Maryland,
PFAS,
Pennsylvania,
Potomac River, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Virginia,
Washington, D.C.,
West Virginia,
biota,
fluorescence,
major and trace elements,
optical properties,
pharmaceuticals,
river reaches,
streamflow,
surface water,
surface water quality,
volatile organic compounds,
wastewater discharge,
water chemistry,
water quality,
water quality,
water resources, Fewer tags
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This data release presents chemical and biological results from investigations of water quality, fish endocrine disruption, and emergent insects in the Shenandoah River Watershed (Virginia and West Virginia, USA) conducted during 2014, 2015, and 2016. Multiple sampling campaigns were conducted at sites located throughout the Shenandoah River Watershed (Table 1). The complex inorganic and organic chemical characteristics of river waters and wastewater treatment plant effluents were characterized using 21 separate analytical methods at 7 laboratories (Tables 2, 3, and 4). To assess the relations between water composition and fish endocrine disruption, 21-day mobile laboratory adult fathead minnow exposure experiments...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Complex chemical mixtures,
Endocrine disrupting chemicals,
Endocrine disruption,
Fathead minnow,
Mobile laboratory fish exposure experiments, All tags...
North Fork Shenandoah River,
Shenandoah River,
Shenandoah River Watershed,
South Fork Shenandoah River,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Virginia,
Water quality,
West Virginia, Fewer tags
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