Monitoring Data for Willow Creek Lake, Nebraska, 2012–14—Sediment Nutrients
Dates
Publication Date
2018-10-05
Time Period
2013-09-19
Time Period
2014-06-02
Citation
Hall, B.M., Rus, D.L., and Thomas, S.A., 2018, Monitoring Data for Willow Creek Lake, Nebraska, 2012–14—Sediment Nutrients: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RBDQI5.
Summary
The retention or release of nutrients into the water column from sediment, also known as internal loading, is another source of nutrients to the lake water column. Sediment cores collected from Willow Creek Lake in September 2013 and June 2014 were incubated for 7 days to assess potential for sediment to produce or consume water column phosphorus under aerobic (oxic) and anaerobic (anoxic) conditions using techniques similar to Penn and others (2000); the oxic conditions served as a control and the anoxic conditions represented typical lake sediment environments. Phosphate as phosphorus and total dissolved phosphorus release rates (milligrams phosphorus per square meter per day) were estimated by dividing the change in phosphate concentration [...]
Summary
The retention or release of nutrients into the water column from sediment, also known as internal loading, is another source of nutrients to the lake water column. Sediment cores collected from Willow Creek Lake in September 2013 and June 2014 were incubated for 7 days to assess potential for sediment to produce or consume water column phosphorus under aerobic (oxic) and anaerobic (anoxic) conditions using techniques similar to Penn and others (2000); the oxic conditions served as a control and the anoxic conditions represented typical lake sediment environments. Phosphate as phosphorus and total dissolved phosphorus release rates (milligrams phosphorus per square meter per day) were estimated by dividing the change in phosphate concentration by the water residence time in the core chamber (core water volume divided by the pump flow rate) and correcting for the sediment area in each core. Cumulative phosphate as phosphorus and total dissolved phosphorus fluxes were estimated by summing the release rates through time over the course of the experimental incubation.
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Related External Resources
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Rus, D.L., Hall, B.M., and Thomas, S.A., 2018, Relating cyanobacteria and physicochemical water-quality properties in Willow Creek Lake, Nebraska, 2012–14: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2018–5121
Data were obtained to correlate, to the extent possible, the external characteristics of the Willow Creek Lake basin with cyanobacteria populations within the lake.
