Supervisory Physical Scientist, Center Operations Officer
Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Email:
ahbell@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
608-821-3882
Fax:
608-821-3817
ORCID:
0000-0002-7199-2145
Location
Forest Products Laboratory
One Gifford Pinchot Drive
, Madison
WI
53726
Supervisor:
Steven M Peterson
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Description of Work Benthos (benthic invertebrate) and plankton (phytoplankton/zooplankton) communities in Wisconsin's four Lake Michigan Areas of Concern (AOCs; Menominee River, Lower Green Bay and Fox River, Sheboygan River, and Milwaukee Estuary) and six non-AOCs will be quantified. The inclusion of non-AOC sites will allow comparison of AOC sites to relatively-unimpacted or less-impacted control sites with natural physical and chemical characteristics that are as close as possible to that of the AOCs. The community data within and between the AOCs and non-AOCs will be analyzed. This project is a cooperative agreement between the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and the US Geological Survey (USGS)....
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: AOC,
Areas of concern,
Beneficial use impairment,
Ecosystem health,
Fox River, All tags...
GLRI,
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative,
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative,
Green Bay,
Lake,
Lake:Lake Michigan,
Menominee River,
Milwaukee Estuary,
Sheboygan River,
Toxic Substances,
Watershed,
Watershed:Lake Michigan Basin,
benthos,
invertebrates,
phytoplankton,
plankton, Fewer tags
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In 2015, the second of several Regional Stream Quality Assessments (RSQA) was done in the southeastern United States. The Southeast Stream Quality Assessment (SESQA) was a study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project. One of the objectives of the RSQA, and thus the SESQA, is to characterize the relationships between water-quality stressors and stream ecology and subsequently determine the relative effects of these stressors on aquatic biota within the streams (Van Metre and Journey, 2014). To meet this objective, a framework of fundamental geospatial data was required to develop physical and anthropogenic characteristics of the study region, sampled sites and corresponding...
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Ecology,
National Water Quality Program,
Riparian Zones,
Sampling sites,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags...
Water Quality,
Water Quality,
Water Resources,
Watersheds, Fewer tags
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Between 1900 and 1932, a copper (Cu) mine operated near Gay, Michigan, along the shore of Lake Superior, discharged approximately 22.8 million metric tons of waste material known as ‘stamp sands’ (SS) to a nearby beach. This pile of SS has migrated via wind and rain along the beaches in northern Grand Traverse Bay and into Buffalo Reef, an important spawning area for Lake Trout and Lake Whitefish. During their first summer, these newly spawned fish consume benthic invertebrates and zooplankton in nearby beach habitats. SS contain elevated concentrations of metals (especially Cu) that are toxic to many invertebrate taxa, and studies have observed very few benthic taxa in areas with very high SS. Here, we sampled...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Aquatic Biology,
Keweenaw Bay NE,
Lake Superior,
Michigan,
Southcentral Lake Superior, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water Quality,
Water Resources,
Zooplankton,
benthos,
biota,
copper,
mine waste,
plankton,
stamp sands, Fewer tags
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In 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey sampled benthic algae and invertebrates, and fish to assess the condition of the aquatic communities and water quality in 14 wadable streams near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Additional community sampling was also done at a subset of three sites in 2011 and 2012 to assess temporal variation. Selected environmental (physical and chemical) data in the streams were collected to evaluate potential relations to the biota and the ecological health of the streams. Physical and chemical data included land-use/land cover; streamflow from USGS gages (except at two creeks that were not gaged); stream habitat; microhabitat at invertebrate collection points (depth, velocity,...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Milwaukee,
Southeastern Wisconsin,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
algae,
aquatic community, All tags...
biota,
environmental stressors,
fish,
invertebrates,
river,
stream, Fewer tags
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Aquatic ecological surveys are valuable to understanding the interaction between the biotic and abiotic components in rivers and streams. However, large-scale assessments of the water chemistry, geomorphology, and ecological community are usually not feasible due to limited resources. Beginning in 2013, the Regional Stream Quality Assessment Project of the US Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Program, began sampling 89-120 streams in each of 5 regions across the conterminous United States—the Midwest (2013), Southeast (2014), Pacific Northwest (2015), Northeast (2016), and California (2017). Sampling included water and streambed sediment chemistry, stage and temperature (Journey and others, 2015). The abiotic...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Alabama,
Georgia,
North Carolina,
South Carolina,
Southeast, All tags...
Southeastern United States,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Virginia,
algae,
aquatic community,
diatoms,
fish,
habitat,
invertebrates,
river, Fewer tags
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