Great Lakes Research Vessel Operations 1958-2018: Gillnet. (ver. 3.0, April 2019)

All gillnet data represented here expand upon vessel operations (OP table) data, all of which are collected by the United States Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center and its partners. The Gillnet Tables contain data collected from the research vessel deploying various gear used for gillnet data collection. The database uses sample_type to indicate the gear deployed. The tables relating to Gillnet are: GN_Annulus.csv, GN_Catch.csv, GN_Effort.csv, GN_Fish.csv, GN_L, GN_LF.csv, GN_OP.csv, GN_Prey.csv, GN_Stomach.csv, LMMB_Fish_Prey.csv, and LMMB_Invert_Prey.csv Data Quality: Note that the following data release is a snapshot of the database at the time of release. Some data quality checks are still being...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alewife, Bathythermograph, Benthos, Bloater, Cisco, All tags... Deepwater, Deepwater Sculpin, Detroit River, Emerald Shiner, Gillnet, Habitat, Hydroacoustic, Ichthyoplankton, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Saint Clair, Lake Superior, Lake Trout, Lake Trout Population Dynamics, Laurentian Great Lakes, Mensuration, Mysis, Prey fish, Prey fish population dynamics, Rainbow Smelt, Round Goby, Saint Clair River, Sea Lamprey, Slimy Sculpin, Spoonhead Sculpin, Trawl, Walleye, White Perch, Yellow Perch, Zebra Mussel, Zooplankton, acoustics, age estimation methods, age structure, biogeography, biological sampling, biomass, biota, environment, fall forage fish, field sampling, fishery management, food web, freshwater fishes, geospatial datasets, gillnets, inlandWaters, invasive species, population dynamics, surface water temperature, time series datasets, transect sampling, trawl nets, trawling, water temperature, Fewer tags

Segment E - Flood inundation map geospatial datasets for Lake Ontario, New York

Static flood inundation boundary extents were created along the entire shoreline of Lake Ontario in Cayuga, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, and Wayne Counties in New York by using recently acquired (2007, 2010, 2014, and 2017) light detection and ranging (lidar) data. The flood inundation maps, accessible through the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Program website at https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/flood-inundation-mapping-fim-program, depict estimates of the areal extent and water depth of shoreline flooding in 8 segments corresponding to adjacent water-surface elevations (stages) at 8 USGS lake gages on Lake Ontario. This item includes data sets for segment E - Lake Ontario...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Decision Support Tools and Data, Flood inundation maps, Geospatial Applications, Geospatial Applications, Information Visualization, All tags... Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario Flood Mapping, Lake Ontario Flood mapping, New York, Niagara County, New York, Orleans County, New York, flood inundation maps, Fewer tags

Lake Ontario Nearshore Nutrient Study (LONNS), 2018, Lake Ontario, New York

From April through September of 2018, water-quality data were collected at 35 locations from select tributaries, embayments, and nearshore lake locations along New York's portion of Lake Ontario in support of the 2018 Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and the Lakewide Action Management Plan. These data include environmental, replicate, and blank samples of nutrients, suspended solids, sodium, and chloride, as well as field measurements of physical parameters (temperature, specific conductance, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity, phycocyanin relative fluorescence, chlorophyll relative fluorescence, photosynthetically active radiation, and phycocyanin:cholorphyll...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Cayuga County, Hydrology, Jefferson County, Lake Ontario, Monroe County, All tags... Nearshore Environmental Health, New York, Niagara County, Orleans County, Oswego County, Surface-Water Quality Monitoring, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water Quality, Wayne County, nutrients, water quality, Fewer tags

Segment B - Flood inundation map geospatial datasets for Lake Ontario, New York

Static flood inundation boundary extents were created along the entire shoreline of Lake Ontario in Cayuga, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, and Wayne Counties in New York by using recently acquired (2007, 2010, 2014, and 2017) light detection and ranging (lidar) data. The flood inundation maps, accessible through the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Program website at https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/flood-inundation-mapping-fim-program, depict estimates of the areal extent and water depth of shoreline flooding in 8 segments corresponding to adjacent water-surface elevations (stages) at 8 USGS lake gages on Lake Ontario. This item includes data sets for segment B - Lake Ontario...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster, Shapefile; Tags: Flood inundation maps, Geospatial Applications, Geospatial Applications, Information Visualization, Lake Ontario, All tags... Lake Ontario Flood Mapping, Lake Ontario Flood mapping, Monroe County, New York, New York, Orleans County, New York, decision support, flood inundation maps, Fewer tags

Segment G - Flood inundation map geospatial datasets for Lake Ontario, New York

Static flood inundation boundary extents were created along the entire shoreline of Lake Ontario in Cayuga, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, and Wayne Counties in New York by using recently acquired (2007, 2010, 2014, and 2017) light detection and ranging (lidar) data. The flood inundation maps, accessible through the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Program website at https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/flood-inundation-mapping-fim-program, depict estimates of the areal extent and water depth of shoreline flooding in 8 segments corresponding to adjacent water-surface elevations (stages) at 8 USGS lake gages on Lake Ontario. This item includes data sets for segment G - Lake Ontario...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster, Shapefile; Tags: Flood inundation maps, Geospatial Applications, Geospatial Applications, Information Visualization, Jefferson County, New York, All tags... Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario Flood Mapping, Lake Ontario Flood mapping, New York, Oswego County, New York, decision support, flood inundation maps, Fewer tags

Lake Ontario Velocity Transect Data 2015-18

From May of 2015 through September of 2018, velocity data were collected along 7 transects from select tributaries, embayments, and nearshore lake locations along New York's Lake Ontario waterfront in support of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the Lakewide Action Management Plan. These data include: depth, velocity magnitude, velocity direction, navigational data, ADCP temperature, and channel profile.

Tags: ADCP, Bathymetry, Lake Ontario, Nearshore Environmental Health, New York, All tags... United States, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water Velocity, Fewer tags

Lake Ontario. Lakeshore near Olcott, New York. The broad blocks of rock are approximately in-situ. Circa 1895.

Lake Ontario. Lakeshore near Olcott, New York. The broad blocks of rock are approximately in-situ. Circa 1895.

Categories: Image; Tags: Lake Ontario, Rocks, photo print

Pesticides and pesticide transformation product data from passive samplers deployed in 15 Great Lakes tributaries, 2016

This dataset includes pesticides and pesticide transformation products in 15 tributaries of the Great Lakes. Pesticides were monitored using polar organic chemical integrative samplers (POCIS) to estimate concentrations in water following standard protocols (Alvarez, 2010) in June and July 2016. POCIS extracts were analyzed for 225 chemicals (USGS National Water Quality Laboratory schedule 5437, Sandstrom and others, 2016), for which 129 chemicals also have POCIS uptake rates, allowing calculations of time-weighted mean concentration over the approximately 30 day deployment (Alvarez and others, 2008). Collectively, there were 97 chemicals detected, and time-weighted mean concentrations could be calculated for 95...

Categories: Data; Tags: Bad River, Clinton River, Cuyahoga River, Environmental Health, Fox River, All tags... Genesee River, Grand River, Great Lakes, Indiana, Indiana Harbor canal, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Limnology, Maumee River, Michigan, Milwaukee River, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oswego River, River Rouge, Saginaw River, St. Joseph River, St. Louis River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermilion River, Water Resources, Wisconsin, contamination and pollution, dissolved contaminants, emerging contaminants, inlandWaters, legacy contaminants, passive samplers, pesticides, surface water, surface water quality, water chemistry, Fewer tags

Lake Ontario. Upper surface of boulder from boulder pavement exposed on the lakeshore near Wilson, New York. Circa 1895.

Lake Ontario. Upper surface of boulder from boulder pavement exposed on the lakeshore near Wilson, New York. Circa 1895.

Categories: Image; Tags: Lake Ontario, photo print

Lake Ontario. Upper surface of boulder from boulder pavement exposed on the lakeshore near Wilson, New York. Circa 1895.

Lake Ontario. Upper surface of boulder from boulder pavement exposed on the lakeshore near Wilson, New York. Circa 1895.

Categories: Image; Tags: Lake Ontario, photo print

Lake Ontario. Cliff on the east shore. The bluff is composed of till. The waves have washed away the finer material, leaving a coarse shingle along with boulders larger than the waves can roll.

Lake Ontario. Cliff on the east shore. The bluff is composed of till. The waves have washed away the finer material, leaving a coarse shingle along with boulders larger than the waves can roll. 1895.

Categories: Image; Tags: Lake Ontario, photo print

Aerial imagery and photogrammetric products from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over the Lake Ontario shoreline at Sodus Bay, New York, July 12 to 14, 2017

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinity of Sodus Bay, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control points, and transect points; geolocated, RGB-colored point...

Tags: Geography, Geomorphology, Great Lakes, Information Sciences, Lake Ontario, All tags... Land Use Change, New York, Sodus Bay, Sodus Point, UAS, Water Quality, Water Resources, aerial imagery, aerial photography, digital elevation models, image collections, image mosaics, navigational data, remote sensing, topography, Fewer tags

Charles Point digital elevation model (DEM) from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Sodus Bay, New York in July 2017 (32-bit floating point GeoTIFF image)

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinity of Sodus Bay, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control points, and transect points; geolocated, RGB-colored point...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 3DR Solo quadcopter, CMGP, Charles Point, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, DEM, All tags... Federal Emergency Management Agency, GeoTIFF, Great Lakes, Lake Ontario, New York, Ricoh GRII, Sodus Bay, Sodus Point, Sodus, NY, State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation, State of New York Department of State, U.S. Geological Survey, UAS, USA, USGS, Unmanned aerial system, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, aerial imagery, digital elevation model, digital elevation models, elevation, field activity number 2017-042-FA, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, lake level, lakeshore, location, low-altitude aerial imagery, photographs, photos, raster, remote sensing, shoreline, shoreline photographs, topography, Fewer tags

Braddock West camera locations and attitudes for low-altitude aerial images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Categories: Data; Tags: 3DR Solo quadcopter, Agisoft Photoscan, Braddock Bay, Braddock Bay Park, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, All tags... Braddock Point, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Federal Emergency Management Agency, GPS, Global Positioning System, Great Lakes, Greece, NY, Lake Ontario, New York, Ricoh GRII, State of New York Department of Conservation, State of New York Department of State, U.S. Geological Survey, UAS, USA, USGS, Unmanned aerial system, WHCMSC, Westpoint Marina, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, aerial imagery, aerial photography, camera locations, elevation, field activity number 2017-042-FA, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, lakeshore, location, low-altitude aerial imagery, navigation, navigational data, photographs, photos, remote sensing, shoreline photographs, Fewer tags

Great Lakes Research Vessel Operations 1958-2018: Mensuration. (ver. 3.0, April 2019)

All mensuration data represented here expand upon vessel operations (OP table) data, all of which are collected by the United States Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center and its partners. The Mensuration Tables contain data collected from the research vessel deploying various gear used for mensuration data collection. The database uses sample_type to indicate the gear deployed. The tables relating to Mensuration are: Mensuration.csv, MS_head_rope_depth.csv, MS_FOOT_ROPE_DEPTH, MS_Primary.csv, MS_Temperature.csv, and MS_Wingspread.csv Data Quality: Note that the following data release is a snapshot of the database at the time of release. Some data quality checks are still being undertaken after the time...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alewife, Bathythermograph, Benthos, Bloater, Cisco, All tags... Deepwater, Deepwater Sculpin, Detroit River, Emerald Shiner, Gillnet, Habitat, Hydroacoustic, Ichthyoplankton, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Saint Clair, Lake Superior, Lake Trout, Lake Trout Population Dynamics, Laurentian Great Lakes, Mensuration, Mysis, Prey fish, Prey fish population dynamics, Rainbow Smelt, Round Goby, Saint Clair River, Sea Lamprey, Slimy Sculpin, Spoonhead Sculpin, Trawl, Walleye, White Perch, Yellow Perch, Zebra Mussel, Zooplankton, acoustics, age estimation methods, age structure, biogeography, biological sampling, biomass, biota, environment, fall forage fish, field sampling, fishery management, food web, freshwater fishes, geospatial datasets, gillnets, inlandWaters, invasive species, population dynamics, surface water temperature, time series datasets, transect sampling, trawl nets, trawling, water temperature, Fewer tags

Braddock West orthomosaic from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017 (GeoTIFF image).

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Tags: 3DR Solo quadcopter, Braddock Bay, Braddock Bay Park, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, Braddock Point, All tags... CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Federal Emergency Management Agency, GeoTIFF, Great Lakes, Greece, NY, Lake Ontario, New York, Orthomosaic, Orthophoto, Ricoh GRII, State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation, State of New York Department of State, U.S. Geological Survey, UAS, USA, USGS, Unmanned aerial system, WHCMSC, Westpoint Marina, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, aerial imagery, aerial photography, field activity number 2017-042-FA, geoscientificInformation, image mosaics, inlandWaters, lake level, lakeshore, location, low-altitude aerial imagery, photo mosaic, photographs, photos, raster, remote sensing, shoreline, shoreline photographs, Fewer tags

Cladophora biomass and supporting data collected in the Great Lakes, 2018 (ver. 1.1, September 2020)

Note: An error was discovered in the BenthicBiomas Table, mostly in designation of BDLs and zeros. Data are undergoing further QC and the corrected dataset will be posted soon. This dataset records Cladophora and associated submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) biomass collected approximately monthly during the growing season of 2018 at stations located along the U.S. shoreline of Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. It also records a variety of supporting data collected at Cladophora measurement stations. These supporting data include: - seasonal time series of light, currents, wave action, temperature, specific conductivity, turbidity, pH, phycocyanin, chlorophyll, and dissolved oxygen from moored sensors...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Aquatic Biology, CTD measurement, Ecology, Great Lakes Region, Lake Erie, All tags... Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Limnology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, acoustic Doppler current profiling, algae, algal blooms, aquatic biology, aquatic vegetation, benthos, biota, environment, eutrophication, freshwater ecosystems, habitat alteration, inlandWaters, invasive species, mollusks, nuisance species, nutrient content (water), optical methods, oxygen content (water), phosphorus, submerged aquatic vegetation, surface water quality, suspended material (water), turbidity, water pH, water sampling, water temperature, Fewer tags

Segment C - Flood inundation map geospatial datasets for Lake Ontario, New York

Static flood inundation boundary extents were created along the entire shoreline of Lake Ontario in Cayuga, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, and Wayne Counties in New York by using recently acquired (2007, 2010, 2014, and 2017) light detection and ranging (lidar) data. The flood inundation maps, accessible through the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Program website at https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/flood-inundation-mapping-fim-program, depict estimates of the areal extent and water depth of shoreline flooding in 8 segments corresponding to adjacent water-surface elevations (stages) at 8 USGS lake gages on Lake Ontario. This item includes data sets for segment C - Lake Ontario...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Decision Support Tools and Data, Flood inundation maps, Geospatial Applications, Geospatial Applications, Information Visualization, All tags... Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario, Lake Ontario Flood Mapping, Lake Ontario Flood mapping, New York, Niagara County, New York, Orleans County, New York, flood inundation maps, Fewer tags

Lake Ontario. Upper surface of boulder from boulder pavement exposed on the lakeshore near Wilson, New York. Circa 1895.

Lake Ontario. Upper surface of boulder from boulder pavement exposed on the lakeshore near Wilson, New York. Circa 1895.

Categories: Image; Tags: Lake Ontario, photo print

Lake Ontario. Lakeshore near Wilson, New York, viewed from the end of a pier. Shore drift transported by the waves, from right to left, accumulates against the pier.

Lake Ontario. Lakeshore near Wilson, New York, viewed from the end of a pier. Shore drift transported by the waves, from right to left, accumulates against the pier. On the opposite (east) side of the pier the defect of shore drift exposes the till to comparatively rapid erosion. 1898. Photos ggk01799 and ggk1779a form a panorama.

Categories: Image; Tags: Lake Ontario, photo print