Biologist
Washington Water Science Center
Email:
pwmoran@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
253-552-1646
Fax:
253-552-1581
ORCID:
0000-0002-2002-3539
Location
Kress/PAyless Building
934 Broadway
Suite 300
Tacoma
, WA
98402
US
Supervisor:
Bernadette Tsosie
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Physical and chemical changes affect the biota within urban streams at varying scales ranging from individual organisms to populations and communities creating complex interactions that present challenges for characterizing and monitoring the impact on species utilizing these freshwater habitats. Salmonids, specifically cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), extensively utilize small stream habitats influenced by a changing urban landscape. This study used a comprehensive fish health assessment concurrent with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Pacific Northwest Stream Quality Assessment in 2015 to quantifiy impacts from disease in juvenile coho and cutthroat salmon, impacts to...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Aquatic Biology,
Bioenergtics,
Church Creek,
Coulter Creek,
East Fork Dairy Cree, All tags...
Ecology,
Environmental Health,
Growth,
Harris Creek,
Issaquah Creek,
Jenkins Creek,
Longfellow Creek,
May Creek,
Otolith,
Salmon,
Swamp,
Temperature,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Urbanization,
Water Quality,
Woodland Creek, Fewer tags
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These data present chemistry and toxicity results from freshwater stream sediments collected from 99 wadable stream sites across eleven states in the Midwestern U.S. as one component of a larger USGS study in the summer of 2013. This data presents a selected suite of chemistry collected at these sites (PAHs, Organochlorines, PCBs, Trace Elements, and current use pesticides) used in calculating a Probable Effect Concentration-Likely Effect Benchmark quotient mixture score for contaminants measured in sediments. The toxicity data presents results of toxicity tests following ASTM and US EPA standard methods for sediment toxicity tests with the amphipod Hyalella azteca (28-d exposure), the midge Chironomus dilutus (10-d),...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Illinois,
Indiana,
Iowa,
Kansas,
Kentucky, All tags...
Michigan,
Minnesota,
Missouri,
Nebraska,
Ohio,
South Dakota,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water Quality,
Wisconsin,
chemistry,
invertebrates,
monitoring,
pesticides,
pollution,
sediment,
toxicity, Fewer tags
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In 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency characterized water-quality stressors and ecological conditions in 100 wadeable streams across the Midwestern United States. The goal of the study was to determine the relative effects of multiple ecological stressors – contaminants, nutrients, sediment, and habitat – on ecological communities in the streams. The Midwest is an intensely agricultural region where pesticides in streams pose risks to aquatic biota, but temporal variability in pesticide concentrations makes characterization of their exposure to organisms challenging. To compensate for the effects of temporal variability, we deployed polar organic chemical integrative samplers...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Illinois,
Indiana,
Iowa,
Kansas,
Minnestoa, All tags...
Missouri,
Nebraska,
Ohio,
POCIS,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water Quality,
Wisconsin,
monitoring,
passive sampling,
pesticides,
streams, Fewer tags
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These data present the results of sediment toxicity tests conducted by the US Geological Survey's Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC) in Columbia, MO, in 2014. The sediments were collected as one part of a larger study on stream quality in Southeastern USA streams during the summer of 2014. For more information on the larger study see- https://webapps.usgs.gov/rsqa. The data include results from two test species, the amphipod Hyalella azteca and the midge Chironomus dilutus (formerly known as C. tentans). Three endpoints per species tested are listed as survival, growth and biomass from 76 freshwater stream sediments collected in the study. Values listed are the average response across four test replicates...
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