Lisa H Nowell

Supporting Data QC Field Spikes SW NAWQA 2012-2015

Field spikes were prepared at 207 stream and river sites as part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) project between December, 2012, and September, 2015. At the field site, a depth-and width-integrated environmental sample was collected, and one subsample of the environmental sample was spiked with a known amount of a spike mixture. Both the spiked subsample ("spike sample") and another subsample ("environmental sample") of the original water sample were analyzed for pesticides at the USGS National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL) by direct injection liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), and were used to calculate the spike recovery of each analyte....

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Sediment chemistry and sediment toxicity in wadable streams across the Midwestern United States, 2013

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

Concentrations of glyphosate and atrazine compounds in 100 Midwest United States streams in 2013

Temporal patterns in glyphosate and atrazine concentrations were measured weekly by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) during the 2013 growing season in 100 small streams in the Midwestern United States. Concentrations also were measured every 2 days at a subset of 8 of the sites, all located in Missouri. Glyphosate was detected more frequently in urban streams than in agricultural streams, and at concentrations similar to those in streams with high agricultural land use in the watershed. In contrast, atrazine was detected more frequently and at higher concentrations in agricultural streams than in urban streams. This data release provides watershed characteristics and 2013 glyphosate and atrazine compound concentrations...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Corn Belt, ELISA, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, All tags... Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, Wisconsin, atrazine, glyphosate, herbicide, river, spring flush, stream, Fewer tags

Dissolved pesticides were measured in weekly water samples from 100 wadeable streams across eleven states in the Midwestern U.S. during May-August, 2013, as part of the Midwest Stream Quality Assessment study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project. Of the 100 stream sites, 12 were urban indicator sites and the remaining 88 sites were located along an agricultural gradient of watershed land use. Twelve depth- and width-integrated samples were collected at each site within the 14-week study period. Water samples were filtered (0.7 micrometers) and analyzed for 227 pesticide compounds by direct-injection liquid chromatography with tandem mass-spectrometry,...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Corn Belt, Illinois, Indinana, Iowa, Kansas, All tags... Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, NAWQA, National Water Quality Assessment, National Water Quality Program, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, Wisconsin, aquatic insect communities, aquatic toxicity, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, mixtures, pesticide, pesticide degradate, stream, water quality, Fewer tags

Water-quality and stream-habitat metrics calculated for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Regional Stream Quality Assessment conducted in the southeast United States in support of ecological and habitat stressor models, 2014

This data release includes metrics from the Regional Stream Quality Assessment (RSQA) from the Southeast Region for habitat stressors related to water-quality and habitat substrate. The goals of RSQA are to characterize multiple water-quality factors that are stressors to aquatic life ‐ contaminants, nutrients, sediment, and streamflow alteration – and to develop a better understanding of the relation of these stressors to ecological conditions in streams throughout the region. In order to characterize water-quality variables and stream-habitat measurements as an aggregation of multiple measurements over a sampling period, and in support of ecological stressor modelling, metrics (summary statistics or indices) were...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Aquatic Biology, Ecological, Environmental Health, Georgia, All tags... Habitat, Metrics, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southeast United States, Stressors, Substrate, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Water Quality, Water quality, biota, inlandWaters, Fewer tags