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High-resolution spatial water-quality and discrete phytoplankton data, Owasco Lake, Seneca Lake, and Skaneateles Lake, Finger Lakes Region, New York, 2018-2019 From August 2018 to October 2019, the U.S. Geological Survey collected spatially high-resolution water quality data as part of five shoreline synoptic surveys around the perimeters of Owasco, Seneca, and Skaneateles Lakes within the Finger Lakes Region of New York. Water-quality data were collected just below water surface utilizing YSI EXO2 multiparameter sondes and portable nitrate sensors paired with real-time GPS data as part of a HABs monitoring program in the Finger Lakes. In October 2019, water-quality data collection was paired with discrete phytoplankton grab samples on Owasco Lake and Seneca Lake. Phytoplankton grab samples were collected just below water surface with a peristaltic pump at twelve locations... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Contaminants, HABS, Finger Lakes, Limnology, New York, All tags... Owasco Lake, Seneca Lake, Skaneateles Lake, Surface-Water Quality Monitoring, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water Resources, algae, algal blooms, chlorophyll, class, continuously-measured, cyanobacteria, dissolved oxygen, division, family, fluorescent dissolved organic matter (fDOM), freshwater (surface), genus, hazards, lake ecosystems, limnology, nitrate, nutrient content (water), order, oxygen content (water), phycocyanin, phycology, phytoplankton, spatial, species, specific conductance, surface water quality, synoptic, taxa, taxonomy, turbidity, water pH, water temperature, Fewer tags Sediment Concentration, Water Velocity, and Suspended Particle Size and Settling Data to Estimate Estuarine Sediment Flux at Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco Bay, CA from 2018 - 2019 Measurements of suspended sediment concentration, water velocity, suspended-sediment particle size, and suspended-sediment particle settling velocity were collected to estimate suspended-sediment flux and investigate sediment transport processes at Dumbarton Bridge in San Francisco Bay (NWIS station 373015122071000) from calendar year 2018 to 2019. Data were collected using: stationary and boat-mounted acoustic Doppler current meters (ADCP, a 1 MHz Nortek Aquadopp and a 1200kHz Teledyne RiverPro, respectively), four stationary and one profiling multiparameter water quality profiling sondes (YSI 6920), a stationary acoustic backscattering sensor (ABS, Sequoia LISST-ABS), a stationary laser diffraction particle size... Categories: Data; Tags: Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Dumbarton Bridge, Dumbarton Point, San Francisco Bay, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... environment, estuarine processes, inlandWaters, oceans, sediment transport, surface water quality, Fewer tags Datasets to reproduce the exploratory Bayesian network developed in USGS SIR 2018-5053 for estimating water-quality parameters at streamgage 03374100 White River at Hazleton, Indiana, 1973-2016 This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release contains the data used in the USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5053 entitled "An exploratory Bayesian network for estimating the magnitudes and uncertainties of selected water-quality parameters at streamgage 03374100 White River at Hazleton, Indiana, from partially observed data." The four datasets, which contain only ASCII characters in a column-oriented format, are: (1) sel_qw_parm_full_time_series.csv: A comma-delimited file containing an irregular time series of 713 rows of discrete water-quality measurements that start on February 21, 1973 and end on September 14, 2016. (2) baye_network_initialize.cas: This tab-delimited file can be used to initialize... Categories: Data; Tags: Bayesian, Bayesian network, Hazleton, Hydrogeology, Indiana, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, White River, conditional probability, d-separation (directional separation), directed acyclic graph (DAG), stream-gage measurement, streamflow, surface water (non-marine), surface water quality, water quality, Fewer tags Regression models and associated data for describing variability of host specific bacteria fluxes in eight Great Lakes tributaries, 2011-2013 Three regression models were developed for describing variability of host-specific flux data in eight Great Lakes tributaries. Models include one for Lachnospiraceae flux, one for human bacteroides flux, and one for ruminant bacteroides flux. Models were developed using the R project for statistical computing with core functionality and the survival, smwrBase, and smwrQW packages. Predictor variables for these models are included in the data file and input files provided. These include sampling dates and times, rainfall depth, percent of watershed underlain by tile drainage, cattle population (for the ruminant marker model) and human population (for the human marker models). Sample collection and laboratory analyses... Categories: Data; Tags: Bacteria, Great Lakes Region, Regression analysis, Surface water quality, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) Pesticides and pesticide transformation product data from passive samplers deployed in 15 Great Lakes tributaries, 2016 This dataset includes pesticides and pesticide transformation products in 15 tributaries of the Great Lakes. Pesticides were monitored using polar organic chemical integrative samplers (POCIS) to estimate concentrations in water following standard protocols (Alvarez, 2010) in June and July 2016. POCIS extracts were analyzed for 225 chemicals (USGS National Water Quality Laboratory schedule 5437, Sandstrom and others, 2016), for which 129 chemicals also have POCIS uptake rates, allowing calculations of time-weighted mean concentration over the approximately 30 day deployment (Alvarez and others, 2008). Collectively, there were 97 chemicals detected, and time-weighted mean concentrations could be calculated for 95... Categories: Data; Tags: Bad River, Clinton River, Cuyahoga River, Environmental Health, Fox River, All tags... Genesee River, Grand River, Great Lakes, Indiana, Indiana Harbor canal, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Limnology, Maumee River, Michigan, Milwaukee River, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oswego River, River Rouge, Saginaw River, St. Joseph River, St. Louis River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermilion River, Water Resources, Wisconsin, contamination and pollution, dissolved contaminants, emerging contaminants, inlandWaters, legacy contaminants, passive samplers, pesticides, surface water, surface water quality, water chemistry, Fewer tags Microplastics in the water column and sediment in Milwaukee-Area streams, the Milwaukee Harbor, and Lake Michigan, 2016 This dataset describes the quantity, morphology, and polymer identity of microplastics in the water column and surficial sediments of Milwaukee-Area streams, the Milwaukee Harbor, and Lake Michigan (Wisconsin). Water samples were collected at 10 locations, 2-4 times each, from May to September, 2016. At the 4 shallowest locations, water was collected only at the water surface. At the remaining 6 locations, water was collected at the water surface and at 1-4 depths below the surface. Sediment samples were collected once, in June 2016, at a subset of 9 locations. Sampling and analysis methods are described in the Processing Steps section of the metadata. These data are interpreted in the following journal article:... Categories: Data; Tags: Environmental Health, Hydrology, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Water Quality, Water Resources, Wisconsin, contamination and pollution, inlandWaters, microplastics, runoff, surface water quality, Fewer tags SPARROW model dataset for total suspended solids in North Carolina, including simulated stream loads To better understand the influence of human activities and natural processes on surface-water quality, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed the SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed attributes) (Schwarz and others, 2006; Alexander and others, 2008) model. The framework is used to relate water-quality monitoring data to sources and watershed characteristics that affect the fate and transport of constituents to receiving surface-water bodies. The core of the model consists of using a nonlinear-regression equation to describe the non-conservative transport of contaminants from point and nonpoint sources on land to rivers, lakes and estuaries through the stream and river network. In North Carolina,... Categories: Data; Tags: North Carolina (state), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, surface water quality Compilation of multi-agency specific conductance observations for streams within the Chesapeake Bay watershed Freshwater salinization is an emerging issue for freshwater environments in the Chesapeake Bay, USA region. Salinization is often described by measurements of specific conductance (SC). This data release contains specific conductance observations collected by multiple regional agencies for streams within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This inventory compiles and harmonizes data from the Water Quality Portal (WQP), which is a data repository developed by the National Water Quality Monitoring Council and supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System (NWIS). Both discrete measures of SC, which are single measures taken... Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay watershed, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hydrology, Maryland, All tags... New York, Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Water Quality, Water Resources, West Virginia, biota, environment, freshwater ecosystems, inlandWaters, salinity, surface water quality, Fewer tags Total and Dissolved Organic Carbon Data to Support Implementation of Revised Freshwater Aluminum Water-Quality Criteria in Massachusetts This data set contains historical data on concentrations of total and dissolved organic carbon in Massachusetts streams from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System (NWIS) database. The data were compiled from NWIS using site and sample selection criteria to retrieve all publicly available data from surface-water samples that contained analysis of both total and dissolved organic carbon. The data set was screened, as much as possible from the site and sample description information in NWIS, to retain only routine environmental samples from stream sites. The final data set consists of 223 samples from 52 sites and were collected from 1978 to 2007. Categories: Data; Tags: Massachusetts, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, surface water quality Dataset used for estimating catchment-level nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use from commercial fertilizer sales data for the Conterminous U.S., 2012 This dataset includes all of the variables that were used in predictive models to estimate nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use from commercial fertilizer sales data at the catchment/county level for the Conterminous U.S. for the year 2012. The dataset includes model input at the catchment/county level. A companion USGS Scientific Investigations Report describes the methods and subsequent results of two models developed for estimating elemental nitrogen and phosphorus commercial fertilizer use on agricultural lands for the conterminous US at the catchment/county scale for the year 2012. A companion data release provides catchment-level estimates of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use, for agricultural lands,... Tags: N fertilizers, NPK fertilizers, National Water Quality Program, Phosphorus fertilizers, Soil Sciences, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, conterminous United States, modeling (mathematical), nitrogen, phosphorus, surface water quality, Fewer tags Lake St. John Nutrient and phytoplankton data indicate poor environmental health in four oxbow lakes in central Louisiana suggesting that long-term agriculture practices and increases in shoreline development have accelerated eutrophication. Surface-water quality and phytoplankton indicators of eutrophication were examined at Lake Bruin, Lake St. John, Lake St. Joseph, and False River Lake along an eutrophication gradient. These oxbow lakes are cut-off meanders of the Mississippi River that do not receive overbank flow from the river due to the levee system built in the early twentieth century. Oxbows have formed at various times in the last few hundred years as the Mississippi River carves a more efficient hydrologic route to... Tags: algae, phytoplankton, surface water quality Selected sediment data and results from regression models, modified Einstein Procedure, and loads estimation for the Nemadji River, 1973-2016 This data set includes new and historical sediment data collected at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamgage on the Nemadji River near South Superior, Wisconsin (station number 04024430) from 1973 through 2016. The data were used in a comparison study of stream sediment collection and laboratory techniques for characterizing suspended sediment, bedload, and total sediment loads. Data results included in this data release include 1) suspended-sediment concentration data collected in 2015-16 using U.S. Geological Survey and Wisconsin and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) methods; 2) streambed material particle size, measured bedload, total sediment loads, and model archive for the modified Einstein... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: City of Superior, Douglas County, Lake Superior, Minnesota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Water Resources, Wisconsin, river systems, surface water quality, suspended material (water), Fewer tags Insecticide and fungicide concentrations in irrigation runoff and soils from a lettuce field in the Salinas Valley, California, 2019 and 2020 Irrigation runoff and soil samples were collected from a lettuce field located at the USDA-ARS Spence Research farm in the Salinas Valley, California to measure neonicotinoid insecticides (clothianidin and imidacloprid) and a fungicide (azoxystrobin) applied via coated seed and drench treatments. The field trial was designed to evaluate four treatments with replication: 1) control, untreated seed, 2) imidacloprid treated seed, 3) clothianidin treated seed, and 4) azoxystrobin treated seed with an imidacloprid drench. Samples were collected from each treatment over two lettuce growing seasons: August to October 2019 and September to October 2020. Runoff samples were collected over both growing seasons during 6 irrigation... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Salinas, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, All tags... Water Resources, contamination and pollution, environment, fungicides, insecticides, irrigation, pesticide and herbicide contamination, pesticides, seed treatment, soil drenching, soil resources, surface water quality, Fewer tags 2019 Hydrologic Data Summary for the Central Pine Barrens Region, Suffolk County, New York This dataset has been archived; it has been superseded by version 1.1 (December 2022) which can be found at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KODN4C. This U.S. Geological Survey data release provides surface-water quality, streamflow, and groundwater-elevation data collected within the Central Pine Barrens (CPB) Region of Suffolk County, New York. The data were collected in cooperation with the Central Pine Barrens Commission and the Town of Brookhaven as part of a five-year comprehensive water-resources monitoring program. Water quality and quality-assurance data from seven sites on two rivers (Carmans River- 5 sites and Peconic River - 2 sites) in the CPB are included. Carmans River sites were sampled four times throughout... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Carmans River, Central Pine Barrens, Environmental Health, Hydrology, Long Island, All tags... New York, Peconic River, Pine Barrens, Suffolk County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, environmental health, river, stream, surface water, surface water quality, water quality, water quality, Fewer tags Summary of dissolved pesticide concentrations in discrete surface-water samples collected on the islands of Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, November 2016–April 2017 Introduction Potential offsite impacts to public and ecosystem health from exposure to current-use pesticides and other organic contaminants are a growing concern in Hawaiʻi. In response to these concerns, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture (HDOA), initiated a comprehensive pesticide-monitoring program of surface water in Hawaiʻi in 2016. The State of Hawaiʻi Department of Health (HDOH) is collaborating by providing technical and scientific assistance. The objectives of the Hawaiʻi pesticide-monitoring program include (1) documenting the occurrence and distribution of current-use pesticides in surface water of geographically distinct agricultural... Categories: Data; Tags: Hawaii, Kauai, Oahu, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, All tags... pesticide and herbicide contamination, surface water quality, water quality, Fewer tags Environmental DNA of selected terrestrial vertebrates and bacteria detected in the Platte River near Ashland, Nebraska 2019-22 Water samples from the Platte River were collected and analyzed for environmental DNA (eDNA). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Nebraska Water Science Center (NEWSC) collected samples monthly from November 2019 to September 2022 at the Platte River near Ashland, Nebraska (USGS: 06801000). The USGS, in cooperation with the City of Lincoln, collected these samples. Water from the Platte River was collected as a series of weighted bottle subsamples that were taken from equal width increments across the river and composited into a sterilized 1-liter bottle. An aliquot of this composited sample was extracted using a sterile syringe and then filtered by the USGS NEWSC staff using filters provided by Jonah Ventures. These... Categories: Data; Tags: Lower Platte, Nebraska, Platte River, Sarpy, Saunders, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, environmental DNA, farming, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, polymerase chain reaction, surface water quality, water quality, water sampling, Fewer tags Stream cross-section, benthic macroinvertebrate and fish taxa counts and abundance, and water chemistry data for the Clarksburg study area in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1992 - 2020 (ver. 1.1, April 2022) Montgomery County, Maryland Department of Environmental Protection has collected datasets to assess the health of streams since the early 1990s. Datasets include geomorphic stream cross-sectional surveys, fish and benthic macroinvertebrate counts and taxa abundance, and water chemistry data collected at the time of benthic and fish sampling (dissolved oxygen, pH, specific conductance, air temperature, and water temperature). Data span years 1992 to 2020 at five watersheds within the Clarksburg study area. Watersheds include a forested reference site (Soper), an urban site with centralized stormwater management (Crystal Rock), and three treatment watersheds (TR104, TR109, and Cabin Branch) within the Clarksburg Special... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Clarksburg, Maryland, Montgomery County, Montgomery County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Upper Chesapeake Bay, benthic ecosystems, biota, geomorphology, surface water quality, Fewer tags Data Release: Water Quality and Estimated Changes in the Plum Creek Watershed 2010-2020 This section of the data release supports the data used in models for the associated publication. The U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay collected hydrologic and water-quality data to assess the effectiveness of agricultural conservation management practice (CMP) implementation at Mainstem Plum Creek (USGS site ID: 04084911) and West Plum Creek (USGS site ID: 04084927) in northeastern Wisconsin. Monitoring data from 2010–2020 at Mainstem Plum and 2013–2020 at West Plum were used to detect changes in hydrologic and water-quality responses during runoff events. Runoff events were defined by hydrographers and used to compute event loads and event flow-weighted mean concentrations of... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, agriculture, erosion, nutrient content (water), All tags... precipitation (atmospheric), stream discharge, surface water quality, suspended material (water), Fewer tags Water and sediment data used to evaluate selenium hazards in the Salton Sea ecosystem Due to declining water levels and increasing salinity in the Salton Sea which may increase the hazards to wildlife, the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation are re-evaluating selenium concentrations in the region. As part of this work, selenium concentrations in water and sediment samples and selected other inorganic constituents were compiled from published reports, public databases, and unpublished archives into a tabulated spreadsheet. This spreadsheet represents a rapid synthesis of available data on selenium concentrations in water and sediment in the region surrounding the Salton Sea, however it does not include all data ever published in the region. Additionally, the data compilation was... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Salton Sea, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, All tags... chemical analysis, environment, geoscientificInformation, groundwater quality, selenium, surface water quality, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags EPA Impaired Waters presence and causes for HUC12 watersheds across the Conterminous U.S. This dataset summarizes impairment status for HUC12 watersheds at the CONUS scale using the EPA publicly available Assessment, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Tracking and Implementation System (ATTAINS) geospatial package and the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD). ATTAINS is an online system maintained by the EPA containing information about the condition of the Nation’s surface waters, as reported by individual states. These data were downloaded in October 2023 and primarily reflect 2022 stream conditions. Because of the varying data types that exist in the database, an independent methodology was developed for summarizing impairment status for HUC12 watersheds using the USGS WBD as detailed in this metadata... Categories: Data; Tags: CONUS, Contaminants, Conterminous U.S., Ecosystem, Environment, All tags... Ground Water, Impaired Waters, Management, Natural Resources, Streams, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water, contamination and pollution, surface water quality, water quality, watershed management, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 ... 8 »