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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 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 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 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 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 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 Developing and Implementing Predictive Models for Estimating Recreational Water Quality at Great Lakes Beaches in new York State Description of Work Predictive models have been used at beaches to improve the timeliness and accuracy of recreational water-quality assessments over the most common current approach to water-quality monitoring, which relies on culturing fecal-indicator bacteria such as Escherichia coli (E. coli.) Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Assessment, Channel, Channel:Niagara Channel, E.coli, GLRI, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Human health, Lake, Lake:Lake Ontario, Nearshore Health, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Ontario Basin, beach, health, regression, 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 Birds as Indicators of Contaminant Exposure in the Great Lakes Description of Work U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) will identify through this project significant sources and impacts of historical and newly emerging toxics to the Great Lakes ecosystem through broad surveillance as well as laboratory and field research of tree swallows and other bird species. USGS scientists will determine the amount of exposure to and the effects of historical and emerging contaminants in Great Lakes food chains. The data will inform regulators and provide guidance on removal of Beneficial Use Impairments at Area of Concern sites around the Great Lakes. Work supported under this project is quantifying exposure to, and effects of, both historical and emerging contaminants on Great Lakes food chains... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Areas of Concern, Climate change, Deposition, GLRI, Gap analysis, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Human health, Impaired waters/TMDLs, Invasive species, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Regulatory benchmark, Storm event, Template 80, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, bioindicators, birds, colonial waterbirds, emerging contaminants, legacy contaminants, pesticides, tree swallows, Fewer tags Toxicity Testing for Stream Dwelling Amphibians, Mussels, and Mayflies Description of Work The work completed for this template will provide the following information: 1) Generate acute and chronic toxicity data for freshwater mussels and snails to enhance the protection of listed/endangered species in the GL basin; 2) Refine methods and conduct acute and chronic toxicity tests on amphibians; 3) Develop and test methods for conducting chronic toxicity tests for mayflies. 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, chloride, nitrogenous substances, salts, sulfate, water quality criteria, 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 Mercury Cycling and Bioaccumulation in the Great Lakes Description of Work U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists are improving the health of the Great Lakes sport and commercial fisheries by documenting sources and the determining the processes that control mercury entering food webs, and helping to evaluate the implications for public health. Our scientists will provide decision-makers with a scientific understanding of mercury-source profiles, the relative importance of the various sources, and the expected environmental responses to Great Lakes wasters and fisheries to altered mercury loading and restoration actions. This information is intended to inform and maximize the benefit of the Great Lakes restoration program. The USGS will develop mercury and methylmercury... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, Bioaccumulation, Deposition, Ecosystem health, All tags... GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, 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, Template 79, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, Whole-lake, mercury, methylmercury, Fewer tags Benthic Communities and Sediment Toxicity in the St Lawrence River AOC Description of Work This study will generate bed sediment toxicity and benthic community data needed to test two related hypotheses that address the two criteria for delisting the benthos BUI. The first hypothesis is that bed sediments at selected sample locations in the AOC (in three tributaries and in the St. Lawrence River) are no more toxic to the test species than bed sediments collected from control sites located outside (generally upstream from) the AOC. Acute (survival) and chronic (growth) whole bed-sediment toxicity tests will be conducted using the midge (Chironomus dilutus), following standard methods (USEPA 1994; USEPA 2000). The second hypothesis is that the benthic macroinvertebrate communities from... 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... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River at Massena, Template 146, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, beneficial use impairment, bioassay, macroinvertebrate, sediment toxicity, Fewer tags Understanding Nutrient Loading Impacts on Lake Ontario Nearshore Waters at the Niagara River Connecting Channel Description of Work The Great Lakes ecosystem has undergone major changes over the last two decades related to the invasion of Dreissenid mussels, increased water clarity, increased benthic algae and associated water quality problems. For reasons not yet entirely understood, and that have bi-national significance, water column total phosphorus has not significantly increased over the last decade but the relative percent of the more biologically available dissolved phosphorus has increased. The filtering action of Dreissenid mussels has been shown to increase concentrations of dissolved phosphorus in the water column immediately above mussel beds and this had been hypothesized as one explanation for the increase... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Channel, Channel:Niagara Channel, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Lake, Lake:Lake Ontario, Nearshore Health, Template 183, Water Quality, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Ontario Basin, nutrient loading, phosphorus, sediment, 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 Enhance Great Lakes beach recreational water quality decision making Description of Work In collaboration with 23 local and state agencies, beach-specific models were developed at 43 beaches throughout the Great Lakes region, and data were collected at 6 more beaches for future predictive model development. A predictive modeling workshop was hosted by USGS with instructors from USGS, USEPA, and Wisconsin DNR and included training on the use of USGS-developed data aggregation tools and USEPA’s Virtual Beach. Relevance & Impact Over 56 beaches across the Great Lakes region, in addition to those currently being monitored, will be included in this effort to help meet goals for healthier beaches. Key Findings Analyses were completed for a suite of pathogens at 12 Great Lakes beaches.... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Assessment, Beach Health, Ecosystem health, GLRI, Governmental, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Human Health, Human health, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Management Decision-making, Nearshore Health, Predictive Modeling, Research, Template 77, Uploaded in Batch, highlight, 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 »