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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 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 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 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 Improving Strategies To Restore Aquatic Habitats And Species Description of Work The first objective of this project is to restore Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River through development of new and innovative restoration techniques and evaluation of multiple salmon strains to determine their suitability for restoration. A primary focus of Atlantic salmon restoration is to evaluate survival of new strains of salmon stocked into Lake Ontario. As part of this project, the Sebago strain is being stocked into the lake and other strains are being considered for use based on life history characteristics and egg availability. This approach includes acquisition of Atlantic salmon eggs, rearing of salmon to various life stages (fry, fingerlings, smolts), marking,... Categories: Project; Tags: Aquatic Habitat, Environment, GLRI, GLRI, Great Lakes, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Habitat & Wildlife, Lake:Lake Ontario, Native Species, Restoration, Template 72, Watershed:Lake Ontario Basin, 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 Exploring changes in nutrient transfer within Great Lakes food webs: implications for fish production in Lake Michigan in support of CSMI 2010 Description of Work USGS will conduct seasonal sampling of benthic invertebrates, zooplankton, prey fish, sport fish, and their diets to complement the seasonal lower trophic level sampling by EPA. This 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 a decision support tool that can explore how different scenarios (dreissenid control, nutrient reductions, changes in fish stocking) influence the biomass of economically important fisheries. Categories: Project; Tags: Accountability, CSMI, Ecosystem health, Ecosystem health, Energy Transfer, All tags... Fish production, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Habitat & Wildlife, Invasive species, Lake, Lake:Lake Michigan, Template 74, Trend analysis, Trend analysis, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Michigan Basin, 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 Exploring nearshore-offshore linkages in energy transfer within Great Lakes food webs: implications for fish production in Lake Michigan in support of CSMI 2015 Description of Work Since the early 2000s, the LaMP has proposed adding nutrients (specifically phosphorus) to its “pollutant of concern” list, given that excessive nutrients were believed to cause impairments in the nearshore waters. Since that time, scientists have highlighted the “shunting” of nutrients to the nearshore, owing to the ability of invasive dreissenid mussels to capture some portion of allochthanous phosphorus that enters the lake through tributaries. These changes are believed to underlie a series of changes in the nearshore, including increased biomass of cladophora and hypothesized increases in benthic and pelagic biomass, including zooplankton and fish. As an extension, this model proposes the... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, CSMI, Ecosystem health, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Invasive species, Lake, Lake:Lake Michigan, Template 52, Template 74, Trend analysis, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Michigan Basin, bethos, dreissenid mussels, fish production, nearshore, phosphorus, size spectrum, zooplankton, Fewer tags Fish Habitat Enhancement Strategies for the Huron-Erie Corridor Description of Work The main objective of this project is to identify locations within the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers that provide the best opportunities for remediation of fish spawning and nursery habitats, with the ultimate goal of enhancing native fish populations. Information about existing river habitat, current patterns, fish nursery areas, movements, spawning, and early life habitat requirements are being used in adaptive management models to identify areas suitable for creation or restoration of fish habitats. Physical and biological information are being coupled to show where and how habitat restoration will produce the strongest benefits to native fishes at multiple locations in the St. Clair and Detroit... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Channel:Detroit Channel, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Habitat & Wildlife, All tags... Lake:Lake Erie, Template 70, Watershed:Lake Erie Basin, connectivity, fish habitat, fish production, physical habitat, spawning, substrate, Fewer tags Forecasting Potential Phragmites Coastal Invasion Corridors Description of Work U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will use remote sensing data to establish a baseline understanding of current distributions of invasive wetland plants and then forecast potential invasion corridors. Alterations to the Great Lakes shoreline or water-level patterns associated with global climate change could have significant impacts on the extent and composition of coastal habitat. Low lake levels can expose fertile wetland bottomlands to invasive species such as common reed ( Phragmites). Goals & Objectives Goals: Identify current Phragmites distribution in the Great Lakes coastal zone, detect potential areas vulnerable to invasion due to influences such as altered water levels, nutrient and... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, Areas of concern, Climate change, GLRI, Governmental, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, 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, Priority watersheds, Reconnaissance/occurrence survey, Regional, Research, Template 588, Template 67, Template 68, Uploaded in Batch, Whole-lake, coastal corridors, forecasting, highlight, invasive Phragmites, mapping, wetlands ecology, Fewer tags