Kristen L Bouska

A refined electrofishing technique for collecting Silver Carp: Implications for management. Supporting data

The table provides all fish collected using two different electrofishing methods at Illinois River sites in 2012 and 2013. Length and weights were taken on most species and gender was taken from Silver Carp. Fishes were categorized whether they were netters (caught by nets) or jumpers (jumped in the boat while sampling) and only netters were used in analyses. Large numbers of shad were collected in 2013 and an additional spreadsheet includes abundance data in an aggregated form for those sites. The data is not sensitive/classified and there are no legal restrictions on who may obtain or use the data.

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Fishes, Fishing with Benthic Mobile Gear, Illinois, Illinois River, Native fish community, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Mississippi River System, acoustic doppler current profiling, electrofishing, field sampling, fish, fisheries, fishery resources, Fewer tags

This data release contains the climate change model inputs and Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model outputs from 360 HUC-8 watersheds in the Midwest United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin), that were generated using the HAWQS (Hydrologic and Water Quality System) platform (https://hawqs.tamu.edu). The summarized data for a watershed-based climate change vulnerability assessment for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is also provided, along with the R code used to summarize the raw outputs.

Tags: Aquatic Biology, Climatology, Information Sciences, Land Use Change, Limnology, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags

Future climate conditions in the Upper Mississippi River Basin are projected to include many more extreme precipitation events. These intense periods of rain can lead to flooding of the Mississippi River itself, as well the small streams and rivers that feed it. This flooding presents a challenge for local communities, farmers, small businesses, river users, and the ecosystems and wildlife in the area. To reduce the damage done by these extreme rainfall events, ‘natural solutions’ are often helpful. This might include preserving forests and grasslands to absorb rainwater before it arrives at streams or restoring wetlands to slow and clean runoff water. For river and natural resource managers to adapt to future climate...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2022, CASC, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, All tags... Extreme Weather, Midwest, Midwest CASC, Other Water, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools for Managers, Science Tools for Managers, Social Science, Social Science, State of the Science, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags

Adaptive Capacity Indicators for HUC-8 Watersheds in US FWS Region 3

This file contains five metrics that were selected to collectively represent the adaptive capacity of each of the 360 HUC-8 watersheds in US Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin). The metrics were: percent cultivated, density of dams, projected increase in developed land cover, landscape diversity and local connectedness. Percent cultivated land cover was obtained from the National Agricultural Statistics Services 2018 Cultivated layer and was calculated by dividing the number of cultivated grid cells by the total number of grid cells in each watershed. Density of dams was calculated as the number of dams per area of the watershed using the...

Categories: Data; Tags: Adaptation Planning, Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment, Decision-relevant Metrics, Watershed Model, biota, All tags... none, Fewer tags

Percent Change in Exposure Indicators at HUC-8 scale from US FWS Region 3 Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Map

This dataset contains the percent change in means (over 20-year periods) of annual climate change metrics calculated from the climate change inputs and the hydrology outputs from the HAWQS/SWAT model. The metrics are fifteen climate change indicators evenly divided into three categories: temperature, precipitation, and hydrology that were selected by resource managers working in Region 3 of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The projected percent change in each of these indicators from the baseline period (1986-2005) to the future period (2040-2059) in provided at the HUC-8 scale for USFWS Region 3 (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin).These indicators were used...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Adaptation Planning, Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment, Decision-Relevant Metrics, Watershed Model, biota, All tags... none, Fewer tags