Data Sets from the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA (ver. 3.0, April 2020)
Dates
Publication Date
2018-11-09
Start Date
1983
End Date
2020
Revision
2020-04-08
Citation
Trost, J.J., Krall, A.L., Baedecker, M., Cozzarelli, I.M., Herkelrath, W.N., Jaeschke, J.B., Delin, G.N., Berg, A.M., Bekins, B.A. 2020. Data Sets from the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA (ver 3.0, April 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FJ8I0P.
Summary
This version supersedes the previous version of this data release: Trost, J.J., Krall, A.L., Baedecker, M., Cozzarelli, I.M., Herkelrath, W.N., Jaeschke, J.B., and Bekins, B.A., 2018, Historical data sets including inorganic and organic chemistry of water, oil, and sediments, aquifer hydraulic conductivity, and sediment grain size distribution at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA, 1984-2010 (ver. 2.0, September 2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7J101NV. This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release provides data from samples and measurements completed at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site near [...]
Summary
This version supersedes the previous version of this data release:
Trost, J.J., Krall, A.L., Baedecker, M., Cozzarelli, I.M., Herkelrath, W.N., Jaeschke, J.B., and Bekins, B.A., 2018, Historical data sets including inorganic and organic chemistry of water, oil, and sediments, aquifer hydraulic conductivity, and sediment grain size distribution at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA, 1984-2010 (ver. 2.0, September 2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7J101NV.
This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release provides data from samples and measurements completed at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site near Bemidji, Minnesota (Site) since 1983. This is version 3.0 of this data release, and it now contains 11 data sets. The content of these data sets include inorganic and organic chemistry data from water, oil, and sediment samples, hydraulic conductivity data from well slug tests, sediment grain-size distribution data from core samples, and water- and oil-level data. Most of these data sets have been described in previously published peer-reviewed reports. This data release provides data sets that were not included with the original publications in a tabular, database-ready format. Each result value in the data sets is coded to describe the kind of sample collected, the material that was analyzed, the method of analysis, and the publication where the value was originally published. Some sample codes are taken from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Information System (NWIS, https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis) and the remaining codes were developed specifically for Site data. Data dictionaries containing code definitions are available at a companion data release titled "Sampling site information, well construction details, and data dictionaries for data sets associated with the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Site near Bemidji, Minnesota", available at https://doi.org/10.5066/F7736PDR.
The National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site is located where a high-pressure pipeline carrying crude oil burst in 1979 and spilled approximately 1.7 million liters (10,700 barrels) of crude oil into glacial outwash deposits. Since 1983, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with scientists from academic institutions, industry, and the regulatory community have conducted extensive investigations of multiphase flow and transport, volatilization, dissolution, geochemical interactions, microbial populations, and biodegradation with the goal of providing an improved understanding of the natural processes limiting the extent of hydrocarbon contamination. Long-term field studies at Bemidji have illustrated that the fate of hydrocarbons evolves with time, and a snap-shot study of a hydrocarbon plume may not provide information that is of relevance to the long-term behavior of the plume during natural attenuation. The research at the site has been supported primarily by the U.S. Geological Survey's Toxic Substances Hydrology Program.
PREVIOUS VERSION OF THIS DATA RELEASE: Historical data sets including inorganic and organic chemistry of water, oil, and sediments, aquifer hydraulic conductivity, and sediment grain size distribution at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA, 1984-2010 (ver. 2.0, September 2019)
Sampling site information, well construction details, and data dictionaries for data sets associated with the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Site near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA (version 3.0, March 2020)
Zip file with discrete water quality and unsaturated zone gas data for the Bemidji Site. The zip file contains data files and associated metadata for water quality data and unsaturated zone gas data collected at the Bemidji site from the 1980s through the current field session (2019 at time of publication). The data contained in this file are from a download from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS). The water-quality data are primarily field parameter measurements (dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, and specific conductance) from groundwater wells at the research site from 1998 through the present, though occasional other data are included such as BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene) and oxygen and dueterium isotopes. The unsaturated zone gas data are from vapor wells installed at the site.
Web page providing access to discrete water-level data for most wells at the Bemidji site. This portal is produced through USGS Groundwater Watch for the 'Minnesota Bemidji Toxics Oil Spill Research Site Network'. Water-level data and basic statistics about the entire water-level record for each specific well are provided, if the well was measured at least once during the last 13 months. Water-level data can only be retrieved on a site-by-site basis. tblds_12_WaterAndOilLevels.csv published on this data release landing page contains the complete discrete water-level record for all wells at the Bemidji site.
Web page with links to all stations at the Bemidji site with continuous data in the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) database. Types of data include: groundwater levels, groundwater temperatures, unsaturated zone volumetric water content, unsaturated zone temperature, unsaturated zone carbon dioxide concentrations, unsaturated zone oxygen concentrations, precipitation, and lake levels.
The purpose of this data release is to provide historical data sets associated with the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Site near Bemidji, Minnesota in a well-documented, tabular, database-ready format.
Revision 3.0 by Jared Trost on April 8, 2020. To review the changes that were made, see “HistoricalData_version_history_thru_v3_0.txt” in the attached files section.
