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Filters Contacts (Less) Russell M Strach Great Lakes Science Center U.S. Environmental Protection Agency USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center Kurt P Kowalski John F Walker Edward F Bugliosi James R Morris James R Stark US EPA Great Lakes National Program Office Michigan Water Science Center U.S. Geological Survey Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center Barry P Baldigo Jessica Lucido Michigan Tech Research Institute Steven R Corsi Christine M Custer Thomas W Custer Brett A Hayhurst Matthew J Komiskey Cynthia M Rachol Great Lakes Science Center New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Jack Waide David M Warner Bethany K Kunz David Bunnell Mark Vinson Paul W Seelbach Ithaca Office, NY Water Science Center Columbia Environmental Research Center Jessica M Lucido Angela K Brennan Lisa Reynolds Fogarty Norman G Grannemann Christopher G Ingersoll Michael D Jawson Nile E Kemble David P Krabbenhoft Edward E Little Center for Integrated Data Analytics (CIDA) James E McKenna Jr U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase Howard W Reeves Rip S Shively College at Brockport: State University of New York (SUNY) Ecosystems Kurt Kowalski NOAA Coastal Services Center More... View Results as: JSON ATOM CSV

Determine Baseline and Sources of Toxic Contaminant Loadings Description of Work U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is identifying the types and locations of emerging and legacy toxic contaminants in the water and sediments at 59 major tributaries to the Great Lakes (including many Area of Concern sites). This information is needed to help prioritize watersheds for restoration, develop strategies to reduce contaminants, and measure the success of those efforts in meeting restoration goals. The USGS contaminant and virus tributary monitoring network follows the National Monitoring Network for Coastal Waters design. The monitoring effort includes collecting emerging contaminant samples at 17 sites, a subset of the 30 nutrient monitoring sites; and for human viruses and other waterborne... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Emerging contaminants, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Tributaries, All tags... Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Legacy contaminants, National Monitoring Network, Template 78, Toxic Substances, Trace organic contaminants, Uploaded in Batch, Wastewater contamination, Waterborn pathogens, toxic contaminants, Fewer tags Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) - LAKE HURON Description of Work USGS will conduct seasonal sampling of benthic invertebrates, zooplankton, prey fish, and their diets to complement the seasonal lower trophic level sampling by EPA. A point of emphasis is describing the vertical distribution of planktivores and their zooplankton prey, to fill a knowledge gap on these predator/prey interactions. These data will provide a more holistic understanding of how invasive-driven, food-web changes could be altering energy available to sport fishes in the Great Lakes and used to build bioenergetics models that can evaluate whether zooplankton dynamics are being driven by limited resources or excessive predation. Understanding the key drivers of zooplankton will provide... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, CSMI, Ecosystem health, Energy transfer, Fish production, All tags... GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Invasive Species, Invasive species, Lake, Lake:Lake Huron, Predator/prey balance, Template 183, Trend analysis, Uploaded in Batch, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Huron Basin, Fewer tags Sites and Basin Shapefiles for GLRI Toxic Contaminant Loading Project Categories: Data, Map; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: GLRI, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Template 78, Toxic Substances Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) - LAKE ERIE Description of Work USGS will conduct monthly samples of benthic invertebrates, zooplankton, and water quality as well as seasonal sampling of fish and fish diets. This project supports lower trophic sampling in Lake Erie and understanding food webs. An emphasis will be collecting samples from a nearshore to offshore design. Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, CSMI, Ecosystem health, Fish production, Food Web, All tags... GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Invasive Species, Invasive species, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Template 183, Trend analysis, Uploaded in Batch, lower trophic community, Fewer tags Jeorse Park Beach Contamination Description of Work Jeorse Park Beach is located in East Chicago, Indiana, within the Grand Calumet River Area of Concern (AOC), which has been identified as having all 14 beneficial use designations impaired, including beach closings. Jeorse Park Beach has been identified as one of the most highly contaminated beaches in the nation, with annual beach closings due to bacterial contamination as high as 76% in 2010. Further, beach closings have steadily increased each year since beach monitoring was initiated in 2005 in response to the Beaches Environmental and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act. Beach closings represent an environmental, social, and economic burden, the alleviation of which require various remediation strategies... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, E. coli, Ecosystem health, GLRI, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Human health, Lake, Lake:Lake Michigan, Template 146, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, area of concern, beach closings, environmental justice, hydrodynamics, sewage contamination, Fewer tags Enabling Discovery and Access to USGS Great Lakes Scientific Data Through Web-Based Applications Description of Work U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will provide easily accessible, centrally located, USGS biological, water resources, geological, and geospatial datasets for Great Lakes basin restoration activities coordinated with GLOS. Managers, partners and the public will be able to readily access this information in usable interactive formats to help plan and implement restoration activities. Building tools and infrastructure to support standard data access, efficient data discovery and dynamic mapping of watersheds and their hydrologic properties. Developing decision support tools to enhance scientific investigation or disseminate project findings, for example integrating hydrologic models with real-time... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, Assessment, GLRI, Gap analysis, Governmental, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Template 683, Template 84, Uploaded in Batch, Whole-lake, cataloging, data accessibility, data discovery, mapping, metadata, open standards, repository, web services, Fewer tags Lakewide Management Plan Capacity Support by U.S. Geological Survey - LAKE ONTARIO Description of Work To date many meetings have been attended and coalitions developed between USGS Water Mission area and NYSDEC and EPA region 2 which have spun off into several other monitoring and BUI delisting projects funded by Region 2 through the USGS/EPA IA. This has been a perfect example of leveraging USGS GLRI funds to develop additional GLRI-related program for the Lake Ontario LaMP partners, especially for tributary nutrient and sediment loading to Lake Ontario and helping collect and assess the data needed to remove BUI impairments at the Rochester Embayment and St. Lawrence/Massena AOCs for benthos and phytoplankton impairments. Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, Areas of concern, BUI, Beneficial use impairment, GLRI, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Impaired waters/TMDLs, Lake, Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP), Template 330, Uploaded in Batch, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Ontario Basin, Fewer tags Lakewide Management Plan Capacity Support by U.S. Geological Survey - LAKE ERIE Description of Work Participation on the Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan Workgroup and related subcommittees such as toxics, sources and loads, nutrients, and biodiversity. Attend meetings and conferences associated with LE LAMP activities. This includes The Lake Erie Millennium Network, CSMI, Ohio Phosphorus Task Force, and other meetings or workshops addressing nutrient and toxicity issues in Lake Erie. Communicate USGS activities in the Lake Erie Basin that can influence understanding or impact decision making. Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, Areas of concern, Assessment, Beneficial use impairment, Binational, All tags... Coordination, Ecosystem health, GLRI, Governmental, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Harmful Algal Blooms, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Nutrients, Phosphorus, Template 330, Toxics, Trend analysis, Uploaded in Batch, Whole-lake, Fewer tags Microplastics in Great Lakes Tributaries Description of Work In 2014-15 the U.S. Geological Survey and State University of New York at Fredonia characterized the quantity and morphology of floating microplastics in 29 Great Lakes tributaries in 6 states under different hydrologic conditions, wastewater effluent contributions, land uses, and seasons. Tributaries were sampled four times each, during high-flow and low-flow conditions. Samples were collected from the upper 20-30cm of the stream using a 0.33mm mesh neuston net. Microplastic particles were sorted by size, counted, and categorized as fibers/lines, pellets/beads, foams, films, and fragments. References 1. R. C. Thompson et al., Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic? Science. 304, 838 (2004).... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Emerging contaminants, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Tributaries, All tags... Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Legacy contaminants, National Monitoring Network, Template 78, Toxic Substances, Trace organic contaminants, Uploaded in Batch, Wastewater contamination, Waterborn pathogens, highlight, microplastics, toxic contaminants, Fewer tags Forecasting Potential Phragmites Coastal Invasion Corridors Study Area Extent This study area consists of a 10-km inland buffer of the U. S. Great Lakes shoreline. Islands within the lakes were included in this invasive Phragmites mapping project where remotely sensed imagery scenes were available. Categories: Data, Map; Types: Map Service, OGC WMS Layer; Tags: Accountability, GLRI, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Invasive Species, All tags... PALSAR imagery, Template 588, Template 67, Template 68, invasive species, invasive wetland plants, phragmites, shoreline, Fewer tags Benthic Communities and Sediment and Water Toxicity in the Rochester Embayment AOC Description of Work The study will be implemented in two phases due to logistical constraints and the need to incorporate methods developed (and findings) from a comparable investigation underway in another AOC. The first phase will consist of site selection, methods refinement, work-plan development, subcontract assembly, site reconnaissance, and sediment collection which will be done mainly during FY2013. The second phase will consist of macroinvertebrate identification, sediment toxicity testing, data analysis and interpretation, and report preparation and review mainly during FY2014. In brief, we will generate bed sediment toxicity and benthic community data needed to test two related hypotheses that address... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Area of Concern, Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, Chironomus dilutus, GLRI, All tags... Genesee River, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Ontario, Rochester Embayment, Template 146, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, beneficial use impairment, bioassay, macroinvertebrate, plankton, sediment toxicity, Fewer tags Lake Ontario Component - Exploring changes in nutrient transfer within Great Lakes food webs: implications for fish production Description of Work USGS scientists will support EPA's year of intensive sampling around the Great Lakes to complement and expand upon EPA and other partner entities work. In 2013, on Lake Ontario USGS will sample the food web from a nearshore (20 m) to offshore (100 m) gradient where seasonal sampling of primary producers, benthic invertebrates, zooplankton, prey fish, sport fish, and their diets will occur. We will work closely with state management agencies and stakeholder groups to ensure that ecosystem models that emerge from this work explore relevant future management scenarios. Scientists will analyze the diets of the six species of trout and salmon currently occurring in Lake Ontario. This predator diet... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, CSMI, Ecosystem Ecology, Energy Dynamics, GLRI, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Ontario, Template 74, Uploaded in Batch, food web mass balance, Fewer tags Lidar Topo-Bathymetry These files were used to construct corridors estimating the extent of new coastal corridors exposed by reduced lake levels. They are included here to show the available horizontal extent of lidar-derived topo-bathymetric data and thus explicitly identify gaps and limitations of predicted corridor extents under various reduced lake level scenarios. In addition, these files provide users with a background layer that depicts the topographic variability of the submerged near-shore lake bed and terrestrial landscape.These files are 5m grid representations of the hydrographic and topographic data collected by the CHARTS system along the coasts of the U.S. sides of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie,... Categories: Data, Map; Types: Map Service, OGC WMS Layer; Tags: Mobile District, Accountability, Bathymetry, CHARTS, GLRI, All tags... Great Lakes, Great Lakes Coastal Zones, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Invasive Species, Invasive Species, JALBTCX, Lidar, NCMP , Phragmites, SHOALS, Template 588, Template 67, Template 68, Topography , coastal corridors, elevation, Fewer tags Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) - LAKE SUPERIOR Description of Work In 2011, the US EPA, USGS, and Canada’s DFO/EC continued the evolution of the strategy to conduct an “integrated’ (water quality to fish) spatially-consistent assessment for the entire lake in order to provide biomass estimates for each trophic level. A total of 54 sites were sampled during summer 2011. Water chemistry, nutrients, phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthic invertebrates, Mysis, and pelagic and benthic fish were collected at each site. Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, CSMI, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Lake, Lake:Lake Superior, Template 74, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Superior Basin, biomass size spectrum, energy transfer, foodweb, trophic exchange, Fewer tags Lakewide Management Plan Capacity Support by U.S. Geological Survey - LAKE SUPERIOR Description of Work USGS scientists provide expertise, capacity and support for the implementation of Lakewide Management Plans (LaMPs) and the associated goals, objectives and targets for each of the Great Lakes, including Lake Superior. The LaMPs are critical binational groups that are important for promoting Great Lakes restoration. Specifically, LaMP efforts include compiling monitoring and research information into the Great Lakes web mapper (SiGL Mapper). The Mapper’s focus is on information that will result in recognition of areas where data are being collected, missing or sparse, and on areas where ecosystems are vulnerable. Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, Channel, Channel:St. Mary's Channel, GLNPO, GLRI, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake-Wide Management Plan Capacity Support, Lake:Lake Superior, Template 330, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Superior Basin, Fewer tags Evaluation of stream nutrient trends in the Lake Erie drainage basin in the presence of changing patterns in climate, streamflow, land drainage, and agricultural practices This project, a collaborative study involving the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Heidelberg University, focuses on using multi-agency water monitoring data in the Lake Erie basin (fig. 1) and a USGS package of software tools (dataRetrieval and EGRET; Hirsch and De Cicco, 2015 ) to evaluate seasonal and annual phosphorus and nitrogen trends, and to relate observed trends to climate, streamflow, and land-use activities. EGRET utilizes a recently developed trend method, Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS; Hirsch and others, 2010 ). WRTDS is designed to remove the effects of year-to-year streamflow variations on nutrient trends and provide improvements over prior conventional trend methods,... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Nearshore Health, All tags... Nutrients, Template 677, Fewer tags New Strategies for Restoring Coastal Wetland Function, Maumee River Area of Concern Description of Work U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists are focusing on restoring natural water flow and ecological processes between coastal wetlands in the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge (Ohio) and adjacent to Lake Erie to improve fish and wildlife habitat. This pilot project will develop approaches that will restore coastal wetland function and increase ecosystem resilience to be used as a model throughout the Great Lakes basin. USGS will focus on restoring natural hydrologic processes in diked coastal wetlands adjacent to Great Lakes waters to improve wetland functions like phosphorus retention and restoration of habitats for fish and wildlife. Sustainable approaches are being developed in the Maumee River... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, Climate change, Coastal Ecology, Coastal Wetlands, All tags... Ecosystem health, GLRI, Governmental, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Habitat & Wildlife, Hydrologic Recconection, Impaired waters/TMDLs, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Non-regulatory, Priority watersheds, Project specific, Regional, Research, Template 71, Trend analysis, Uploaded in Batch, Wetland Resoration, Fewer tags AOC Decision Support Description of Work USGS scientists will develop support to State partners for the removal of Beneficial Use Impairments (BUIs) such as fish consumption advisories, fish tumor presence, Eutrophication and unwanted algae, drinking water problems, beach health, and concentrations of PCBs in lake trout and walleyes. Areas of Concern (AOC) principles and guidelines were developed as an initial reference point from which appropriate restoration criteria could be developed. Stage 2 Remedial Action Plans (RAPs) were developed for each of these AOCs to address impairments to any one of 14 beneficial uses associated with these areas. Specific remediation actions are completed in order to restore the beneficial use. When... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, Ecosystem health, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Human health, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Mercury, Pollution event, Storm event, Template 384, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, Wastewater contamination, optical properties of water, waterborne pathogens, Fewer tags Determination of the Sensitivity of Two Species of Amphibians to Toxicity From Nitrate, Nitrite and Ammonia Description of Work Determine the relative sensitivity of two species of amphibians (i.e. Wood Frogs Rana sylvatica, Cricket Frogs Acris crepitans blanchardi, American Toad Bufo americana) to exposure to acute and chronic levels of nitrate, nitrite and ammonia. This data will be used to evaluate the current ammonia criteria and for possible inclusion in the development of criteria for nitrite and nitrate. Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Amphibians, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, All tags... Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Template 147, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, aquatic invertebrates, freshwater mussels, nitrogenous compounds, salts, toxicity, water quality criteria, Fewer tags Invasive Phragmites: Prevention, Monitoring, and Control Strategies in an Integrated Pest Management Framework Description of Work The invasive form of Phragmites australis (common reed) is a well-established pest in many parts of the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, including designated Areas of Concern. New innovative control options that sustainably target the competitive advantage often enjoyed by Phragmites and other invasive plants will contribute to a broad Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy. This project targets the microorganisms that may help Phragmites spread and will employ a molecular genetic approach to silence the genes in Phragmites that give it a competitive edge over many native plants. This project helped build and will continue to be closely aligned with the Great Lakes Phragmites... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Areas of concern, Ecosystem health, GLRI, Governmental, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Invasive Species, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Non-regulatory, Priority watersheds, Project specific, Regional, Research, Template 67, Uploaded in Batch, Whole-lake, bacteria, control, endophyte, fungi, gene silencing, invasive Phragmites, management, symbiosis, Fewer tags 1 2 3 »