Physical Scientist
Email:
wbenzel@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
303-236-2444
Fax:
303-236-3200
ORCID:
0000-0002-4085-1876
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Natural and anthropogenic contaminants, pathogens, and viruses are found in soils and sediments throughout the United States. Enhanced dispersion and concentration of these environmental health stressors in coastal regions can result from sea level rise and storm-derived disturbances. The combination of existing environmental health stressors and those mobilized by natural or anthropogenic disasters could adversely impact the health and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. This dataset displays the exposure potential to environmental health stressors in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Exposure...
Categories: Data;
Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service,
ArcGIS Service Definition,
Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service;
Tags: Atlantic Ocean,
Barnegat Bay,
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge,
Great Bay,
Little Egg Island, All tags...
New Jersey,
United States,
coastal ecosystems,
coastal processes,
contaminant transport,
contamination,
ecological processes,
ecotoxicology,
environment,
environmental assessment,
estuary,
facility registry service,
inlandWaters,
marsh health,
oceans,
polygon shapefile,
resilience,
salt marsh,
sediment,
sedimentation,
toxic release inventory,
vegetation,
vulnerability,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland functions, Fewer tags
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Methods Total element abundances in the bulk tephra samples were determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) following a 4-acid digest at the USGS analytical laboratories in Denver, CO. Briefly, the tephra samples were digested using a mixture of hydrochloric, nitric, perchloric and hydrofluoric acids at low temperature following the methods of Crock and otheres (1983). The resultant fluid was aspirated into a 42-element ICP-MS for analysis following the analytical procedure of Briggs and Meier (2002). USGS geochemical reference materials BIR-1, BCR-1, and BHVO-1 were analyzed before and after Kilauea tephra samples for data quality control. Kīlauea sample A7-0641 was analyzed as an analytical...
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Natural and anthropogenic contaminants, pathogens, and viruses are found in soils and sediments throughout the United States. Enhanced dispersion and concentration of these environmental health stressors in coastal regions can result from sea level rise and storm-derived disturbances. The combination of existing environmental health stressors and those mobilized by natural or anthropogenic disasters could adversely impact the health and resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. This dataset displays the exposure potential to environmental health stressors in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (EBFNWR), which spans over Great Bay, Little Egg Harbor, and Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, USA. Exposure...
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Atlantic Ocean,
Barnegat Bay,
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge,
Great Bay,
Little Egg Island, All tags...
New Jersey,
United States,
coastal ecosystems,
coastal processes,
contaminant transport,
contamination,
ecological processes,
ecotoxicology,
environment,
environmental assessment,
estuary,
facility registry service,
inlandWaters,
marsh health,
oceans,
polygon shapefile,
resilience,
salt marsh,
sediment,
sedimentation,
toxic release inventory,
vegetation,
vulnerability,
wetland ecosystems,
wetland functions, Fewer tags
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The U.S. Geological Survey New Jersey Water Science Center (USGS NJWSC) in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has assembled this data release in support of ongoing USGS and NJDEP evaluations related to the occurrence and distribution of elevated trace elements, particularly arsenic (As) and vanadium (V), in Inner Coastal Plain soils and sediments of New Jersey. The data for four sediment cores are presented, and the data types include: 1. Site locations and general characteristics for the four sediment cores collected during the study; 2. Lithologic descriptions of each sediment core; 3. Portable handheld X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) data for each sediment core (every 6...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Geochemistry,
Land Use Change,
New Jersey,
New Jersey Inner Coastal Plain,
Sedimentology, All tags...
Soil Sciences,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
X-ray diffraction,
X-ray fluorescence,
arsenic,
biota,
chemical analysis,
core analysis,
drilling and coring,
environment,
geochemical processes,
geochemistry,
glauconite,
mineralogy,
pesticide and herbicide contamination,
scanning electron microscopy,
sediment,
soil,
unconsolidated deposits,
vanadium, Fewer tags
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On March 19, 2008, an explosive eruption occurred at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano for the first time since 1924. This event marked the beginning of a continuous summit eruption that lasted until the 2018 Kīlauea lower East Rift Zone eruption (Neal and others, 2019). The March 19 explosive eruption excavated a crater approximately 35 meters wide and scattered volcanic tephra over a 30-hectare area. Only non-juvenile tephra was erupted on March 19 (Houghton and others, 2011). Two subsequent, minor explosions occurred on April 9 and April 16, 2008. These two explosions were dominated by lithic material though did also include some juvenile tephra. Tephra was produced continuously after the initial March 19 eruption...
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