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St Lawrence River / Quantifying Sediment and Nutrient Loading in the St. Lawrence River and Watershed Description of Work Since 2010, connecting channels have been included in each of the Great Lakes’ Lake Management Plans (LaMPs). Lake Ontario now includes both the Niagara River and the St. Lawrence River. The Niagara River is well characterized by a number of long-term programs, but because of the lack of tributary water-quality data, the St. Lawrence River and its tributaries constitute a data gap in the information needed for the Lake Ontario to fulfill its goals. Critical information needs, including basic water-quality parameters, total suspended solids, nutrients and flow data. These data are needed to aid in the identification of sources of nutrient and sediment loading to the St. Lawrence. The monitoring... Categories: Project; Tags: AOC, Accountability, Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, Channel, All tags... Channel:St. Lawrence Channel, GLRI, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Template 330, Water Quality, phosphorus, suspended sediment, 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 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 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 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 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 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 Geospatial Information for decision support in AOCs and ecosystems Description of Work U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will expand the online availability of geospatial data to monitor the presence and extent of invasive species in wetlands, coastal areas and other sensitive habitats. USGS is working with the Great Lakes Observing System collaboration and other data sharing efforts across the Great Lakes to compile the data into a user friendly format that is accessible on line. Elevation data will be expanded in the Great Lakes Basin using a collaborative to support the GLRI. This information would support invasive species monitoring, wetland inventory, and habitat restoration. USGS will work with the Great Lakes Observing System and other data sharing efforts to make USGS geospatial... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, All tags... Lake:Lake Erie, LiDAR remote sensing, Maumee, Research, Template 82, Uploaded in Batch, modeling, Fewer tags Science in the Great Lakes (SiGL) Mapper Description of Work The Science in the Great Lakes (SiGL) Mapper is a map-based discovery tool that spatially displays basin-wide multi-disciplinary monitoring and research activities conducted by both USGS and partners from all five Great Lakes. It was designed to help Great Lakes researchers and managers strategically plan, implement, and analyze monitoring and restoration activities by providing easy access to historical and on-going project metadata while allowing them to identify gaps (spatially and topically) that have been underrepresented in previous efforts or need further study. SiGL provides a user-friendly and efficient way to explore Great Lakes projects and data through robust search options while... Categories: Project; Tags: Accountability, GLRI, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... SiGL, Template 164, Template 330, Template 84, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Erie Basin, Watershed:Lake Huron Basin, Watershed:Lake Michigan Basin, Watershed:Lake Ontario Basin, Watershed:Lake St. Clair Basin, Watershed:Lake Superior Basin, highlight, Fewer tags Characterizing Rivermouth Ecosystems Description of Work The GLRI Rivermouths Project (template 82) is designed to enhance our understanding of how rivermouths function at both regional and local scales by 1) developing a rivermouth classification system, based on a broad scale database covering all Great Lakes rivermouths (>2000); 2) creating a science-based understanding of how the ecological structure and function of rivermouths are linked both to the landscapes they drain and to the Lakes with which they mix; and 3) increasing the public and scientific profile of these ecosystems by connecting researchers and natural resource managers through a collaborative dialog. The long-term goal is to provide enhanced guidance for restoration and rehabilitation... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, Areas of concern, Ecosystem health, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Nearshore, Regulatory benchmark, Research, Rivermouth, Template 82, Tributary, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Erie Basin, Watershed:Lake Huron Basin, Watershed:Lake Michigan Basin, Watershed:Lake Ontario Basin, Watershed:Lake St. Clair Basin, Watershed:Lake Superior Basin, Fewer tags Watershed modeling for stream ecosystem management Description of Work U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will develop and provide forecasting tools for managers to determine how water withdrawals or other hydrologic or land use changes in watersheds may affect Great Lakes ecosystems. This information will help guide restoration efforts to achieve maximum effectiveness and success. Project provides unified information across the Great Lakes Basin for ecosystem restoration, assessment, and management by incorporating models that relate changes in landscape and hydrologic variables and stresses to changes in ecosystem function. The project relies upon regionally consistent hydrologic, biologic, and geospatial data to generate regionally consistent estimates, models, and... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, GLRI, Geographic Information System, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Template 81, Uploaded in Batch, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Erie Basin, Watershed:Lake Huron Basin, Watershed:Lake Michigan Basin, Watershed:Lake Ontario Basin, Watershed:Lake St. Clair Basin, Watershed:Lake Superior Basin, environmental flow, ungaged streamflow, Fewer tags Lakewide Management Plan Capacity Support by U.S. Geological Survey - LAKE HURON Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, All tags... Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Huron, Nutrients, Reconnaissance/occurrence survey, Storm event, Template 164, Template 330, Thunder Bay Watershed, Uploaded in Batch, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Huron Basin, rain event, Fewer tags Forecasting Great Lakes Basin Responses to Future Change Description of Work USGS scientists are developing science based forecasting tools that capture changes to water flows and discharges of nutrients and sediments to the Great Lakes. The work done by this project provides managers with forecasting tools for predicting the combined effects of climate and land use changes that will help them identify and prioritize the sites best suited for restoration efforts. USGS scientists 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... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, Assessment, Climate change, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Michigan, PRMS, Template 588, Template 75, Trend analysis, Uploaded in Batch, climate change, watershed modeling, Fewer tags Implementation of the Great Lakes Observing System Description of Work The Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) coordinates and integrates regional coastal observations supporting national and regional priorities including Great Lakes restoration. The Department of Interior backbone project is providing GLOS equipment for collecting water-quality sensor parameters and samples for organic and metal contaminants, and nutrient and sediment data in tributaries, embayments, and the nearshore to determine and guide restoration activities. Simulation models are also being developed that will provide quantifiable measures of restoration progress and comparisons of progress over time and space. Categories: Project; Tags: Accountability, Archive, Buoy Network, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Monitoring, Real Time, Stream Gage Network, Template 332, Uploaded in Batch, Water Quality, 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 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 Genesee River BUI / Genesee River Watershed: TSS and TP loading collection and Pilot Project to Evaluate Aggregate BMP Effectiveness Description of Work This project is designed to (1) collect more frequent total suspended sediment (TSS) and total phosphorous (TP) data for the Genesee River Watershed, especially sub-watersheds at the 12-digit HUC (Hydrologic Unit code) scale, both within and outside of the AOC; and (2) to conduct a pilot study capable of evaluating the reduction in sediments and nutrients from the current and proposed GLRI non-point source reduction projects in the watershed aggregated at the 12-digit HUC. This project is envisioned as a two-year pilot for the Genesee River Watershed, with potentially wider applications in the Lake Ontario Basin and other Great Lake areas. Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AOC, Accountability, Areas of concern, GLRI, Genesee, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Ontario, Loading, Nutrients, Priority watersheds, Template 330, Trend analysis, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Ontario Basin, Fewer tags 1 2 »