Chad A Toussant

Nutrient and sediment concentrations, loads, yields, and rainfall characteristics at USGS surface and subsurface-tile edge-of-field agricultural monitoring sites in Great Lakes States (ver. 2.1, September 2023)

This data release provides computed rainfall (rain total, duration, intensity, erosivity and antecedent rainfall) and flow (flow volume, flow-weighted mean concentrations, total loads, and total yields) metrics from monitored precipitation, discharge, and water quality (nutrients and sediment concentrations) data collected at U.S. Geological Survey edge-of-field (EOF) monitoring sites located in five Great Lakes States (Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and New York). EOF monitoring sites are installed at the edge of agricultural fields, either on the field surface or using subsurface tiles, where runoff can be intercepted and channeled through monitoring equipment before it enters the natural stream system. These...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Great Lakes, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wisconsin, agriculture, erosion, farming, field inventory and monitoring, nutrient content (water), precipitation (atmospheric), runoff, suspended material (water), water quality, Fewer tags

As part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have partnered to evaluate the impacts of implementing agricultural conservation practices focused on nutrient management. Monitoring methods have been designed to allow for rapid assessment of water-quality changes in response to conservation efforts by focusing on subsurface-tile drainage and direct surface runoff from fields—the major pathways for nonpoint-source pollution to enter streams. Monitoring stations were established at the field edge that measured runoff volume and enabled the collection of samples...

Tags: Allen County, Brown County, East Groveland, Genesee County, Greenleaf, All tags... Hancock County, Harlan, Indiana, Livingston County, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Sonyea, Swartz Creek, Williamstown, Wisconsin, Wrightstown, agriculture, field monitoring stations, hydrology, nutrient content (water), suspended material (water), water chemistry, water quality, water resource management, Fewer tags

Estimated daily loads of nutrients, sediment, and chloride at USGS edge-of-field stations, tributaries to Eagle Creek, Hancock and Hardin Counties, OH, WY2012-16

As part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have partnered to evaluate the impacts of implementing agricultural conservation practices focused on nutrient management. Monitoring methods have been designed to allow for rapid assessment of water-quality changes in response to conservation efforts by focusing on subsurface-tile drainage and direct surface runoff from fields—the major pathways for nonpoint-source pollution to enter streams. Monitoring stations were established at the field edge that measured runoff volume and enabled the collection of samples...

Tags: Eagle Creek, Hancock County, Hardin County, Ohio, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Williamstown, agriculture, field monitoring stations, hydrology, nutrient content (water), suspended material (water), water chemistry, water quality, water resource management, Fewer tags

Meteorological data from edge-of-field sites in Michigan and Wisconsin, 2015-18

These data describe daily mean air temperature, soil temperature, soil-water (moisture) content, and solar radiation at two edge-of-field sites monitored as part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. These data were used to catalog the general range of conditions at each site in order to provide context for when sub-surface agricultural drainage (tile drains) is visible in remote-sensing imagery available from DigitalGlobe and Google Earth.

Tags: Anthropocene, Great Lakes, Holocene, Michigan, Ohio, All tags... Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Wisconsin, agriculture, air temperature, soil moisture, soil temperature, Fewer tags