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Mercury concentrations in surface water, sediment, and biota in the Laurentian Great Lakes, 2005 through Present

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2005

Citation

Ogorek, J.M., Lepak, R. F., Hoffman, J.C., DeWild, J.F., Tate, M.T., Hurley, J.P., and Krabbenhoft, D.P., 2021, Mercury concentrations in surface water, sediment, and biota in the Laurentian Great Lakes, 2005 through Present: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GEIVXD.

Summary

Under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the U.S. Geological Survey Mercury Research Lab (USGS MRL) conducted a multiyear assessment of mercury across the Laurentian Great Lakes. Biannual sampling was conducted across all five lakes onboard the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) research vessel Lake Guardian (in years 2010–2014, 2018) at pelagic sampling locations established by the long-term US EPA Great Lakes monitoring program. In addition to the regularly scheduled biannual sampling, in September 2013 and 2014 Lake Michigan and Lake Erie (respectively) were sampled with increased focus on shallow nearshore locations. Throughout these sampling efforts, sediments, mussels, surface water, and plankton were collected [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jacob M Ogorek
Originator :
Jacob M Ogorek, Ryan F Lepak, Joel C Hoffman, John F DeWild, Michael T Tate, James P Hurley, David P Krabbenhoft
Metadata Contact :
Jacob M Ogorek
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Upper Midwest Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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3-Mercury_concentrations_in_surface_water_sediment_and_biota_in_the_Laurentian_Great_Lakes_2005_through_Present.xml
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View 		21.07 KB application/fgdc+xml
2-Table 2 Surface Waters.csv 839.67 KB text/csv
2-Data Dictionary Mercury in the Great Lakes.csv 51.66 KB text/csv
2-Table 5 Plankton.csv 191.95 KB text/csv
2-Table 4 Sediments.csv 53.12 KB text/csv
2-Table 3 Mussels.csv 18.04 KB text/csv
2-Table 1 Sample Site Information.csv 36.3 KB text/csv
Motley Crew.jpg thumbnail 2.61 MB image/jpeg

Purpose

Data were created in order to examine mercury concentrations, cycling, and biotic transfer in the Great Lakes and is in response to mercury concentrations in fish that are above consumption advisory levels.
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