Dominique Turney

Data release associated with research that describes how major flooding and dam operations in the upper Mississippi River contribute to large upstream migrations of native paddlefish and invasive bigheaded carp

Recent research has attributed major flood events with the upstream spread of invasive carp in the Mississippi River. In two sequential years, the upper Mississippi River experienced a low water year with very minimal flooding in 2022 and a very high water year with extreme and sustained flooding in the spring of 2023. This data release contains hydrologic data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at upper Mississippi River navigation locks 4-18 to classify when each dam experienced open river conditions and was no longer preventing upstream movements of fishes. To attribute biological movements around these open river conditions, we used acoustic telemetry data to track native paddlefish and invasive bigheaded...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Mississippi River, Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, All tags... acoustic telemetry, bigheaded carp, biota, dams, flooding, invasive species, paddlefish, Fewer tags