| ID. | ProjectName | Info Source | Issue | Status | Collected By | s_Lineage | Frequency | Index Period | No. of Stations | Network Design | Data Span - Start | Data Span - Ending | Nature of the Sample | Compartment Monitored | DQO Reference | Parameters | Code | Contact | Sample Sites | "Notes" | Gear Description | Data (Format) | Access / Availability | Time Frame Access | |
| National Coastal Assessment | National Coastal Condition Report II http://www.epa.gov/emap/nca/ EMAP Staff | Oxygen
depletion Nutrient Enrichment Toxic chemicals Sedimentation Habitat condition |
Ongoing | EPA, NOAA, FWS, USGS | Periodic | 1997-2000 | Varies depending on resolution sought | Representative samples | 1997 | Present | Water quality, sediment quality, benthic condition, habitat condition, fish tissue contaminants. | Coastal waters, largely estuaries, coastal wetlands, coral reefs, mangrove and kelp forests, seagrass meadows, and upwelling areas | http://www.epa.gov/emap/nca/html/docs/c2k_qapp.pdf | WQI: DO, chlorophyll a, N, P, clarity; SQI: sediment toxicity, contaminants, TOC; BI: community diversity, presence/abundance of pollution tolerant/sensitive species; CHI: data from NWI 2002; FTCI: chemical contamination in target fish/shellfish; | Project Manager for NCCRII: Barry Burgan EPA | Orgainzed by physiographic province to cover the NE Coast, SE Coast, Gulf Coast, West Coast, Great Lakes, Alaska, Hawaii, and Island territories | The primary focus of the NCA is to monitor and document a set of environmental indicators to estimate the ecological condition of the coastal resources of the U. S. or its subregions (e.g., Gulf of Mexico or state waters); secondarily, The NCA is expected to serve as a proving ground to develop research indicators; and finally, to serve as a proving ground to demonstrate the utility of this approach | Web tables | The NCA databse is at http://oaspub.epa.gov/coastal/coast.search | Study cycles | |||||
| National Assessment of Beaches | EPA http://oaspub.epa.gov/beacon/beacon_data.about_beacon#about | Bacterial contamination | Ongoing | EPA, coastal and Great Lakes states | Yearly Update | Swimming season ( varies) | Growing. 37XX in 2003 | Targeted | 1999 | Present | contact information, monitoring and notification program information, general beach characteristics, advisory and closing data, location data | Coastal Ocean, Great Lakes | See individual state quality Assurance plans | Microbial counts | Rick
Hoffmann'USEPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW - 4305T Washington DC 20460, T:202-566-0388, hoffmann.rick@epa.gov Charles Kovatch. USEPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW - 4305T Washington DC 20460, T:202-566-0399, kovatch.charles@epa.gov |
Specified for each state-designated beach | pulls data from 2 EPA databases, PRAWN and RAD | BEACON online application | STORET | Annual Update | |||||
| Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) | EPA http://www.epa.gov/emap/ PPT by | (#####) | Ongoing | EPA, States, Tribes, USGS | Usually annual | Summer | Varies | index sites, indicators, remote sensing, geographic surveys | Varied | Ongoing | biological indicators, watershed scale indicators, riparian indicators, biophysical indicators | streams, lakes, wetlands, coastline, estuaries | Extensive Library of Quality Assurance Plans | fish tissue, fish assemblage, periphyton, macroinvertebrate assessment, physical habitat, water physio-chemical: nutrient, temp, alkalinity, turbidity, DO, heavy metals, salinity, depth, pH, | EMAP Director Mike McDonald, mcdonald.michael@epa.gov | Unknown | 600 peer reviewed EMAP Publications, STORET, 3 State Estuaries Reports, 2 EPA Regional Estuaries Reports, State of Pacific Estuaries Report | publications, via internet, reports | (#####) | ||||||
| Wadable Streams Assessment | http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/wsa/index.html | Biotic
Integrity Nutrient Enrichment Sedimentation Habitat condition |
Completed | EPA, States, Contractors | Index visit: Single visit, 6 hour study at each site | June 2004-October 2004 | 1100 sites initially, future sample size will vary depending on resolution sought | probability-based survey design that allows for inference of stream condition to entire population of streams | Jun-04 | Oct-04 | biological, chemical, physical, and watershed conditions allowing results to be expressed at the Ecoregion Level II scale | Freshwater - wadeable streams | http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/wsa/index.html | macroinvertebrates, quantitative physical habitat, water samples | EPA Susan Holdsworth, 202-566-1187, holdsworth.susan@epa.gov | 500 | report will focus on "populations" of streams at Ecoregion Level II, individual stream data available in dataset | 2005 National Summary Report | STORET (Future) | Data being assembled (8/05) | |||||
| Great Rivers Assessment | http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/three_rivers/index.html http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/archive/grants/02/02greatbasin.html#SCOPE%20OF | Nutrients, physical habitat, fish & benthic invertebrates, periphyton, phytoplankton & zooplankton communities, fish tissue contaminants, sediment toxicity | Ongoing | EPA, States, Tribes, Universities | 2004 and 2005 | summer 2004, summer 2005 | (base assessment: 400 sites) | stratified probability design; documents current conditions in WQ for Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers | Jul-04 | Present | measurements at randomly selected sites for representative data of large sections of the rivers | Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio Rivers | (#####) | Grades or indicators of water quality, plants, insects, fish and other aquatic life and sediments at the bottom of the rivers | EPA Dr. David Bolgrien 218-529-5216 bolgrien.dave@epa.gov | Random sites in Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio Rivers | A
program to demonstrate methods for assessing and monitoring the
ecological condition of the Great Rivers in the central United States. |
(#####) | (SWIM - present; STORET future) | Report due in2008 | |||||
| National Status & Trends Program - Mussel Watch | NOAA Staff - | Chemical and biological contaminant trends in sediment and bivalve tissue | Ongoing | NOAA | Biennial | Dec - March | 280 | sampling every other estuary every other year; relational database in development | 1986 | Present | Mussel and Oyster Tissue, Fine-grained sediments every 10 years | MRS,Est.,Outlets, NSCZ, GL | Performance-based Quality Assurance | PAHs,PCBs,pesticides,butyltin,trace and major elements,sediment grain size. | Gunnar Lauenstein (301) 713-3028 ext. 152 | 3 stations/site until 1992 | The longest continuous contaminant monitoring program in U.S. coastal waters. The project analyzes chemical and biological contaminant trends in sediment and bivalve tissue collected at over 280 coastal sites from 1986 to present.Sampling every other estuary every other year; relational database in development | hard copy and computer file | http://ccma.nos.noaa.gov/cit/data/welcome.html | Database Temporarily Out of Service | |||||
| National Estuarine Research Reserve System-wide Monitoring Program (NERR-SWMP) | http://nerrs.noaa.gov/Monitoring/welcome.html | Estuarine and near shore habitat condition, trends, and component analysis | Ongoing | NOAA | Initiated in 1995, currently 26 Reserves conduct water quality monitoring approximately every 30 min at at least 4 stations/Reserve. Nutrient monitoring occurs at each of the 4 stations/Reserves on a monthly basis and a 24-hour sampling occurs at at least 1 of the 4 water quality stations/Reserve. Weather conditions are monitored at at least 1 station/Reserve and sample multiple parameters on an approximately 15-30 minute sampling schedule. Currently the NERRS is moving toward telemetry technology which will enable water and weather sampling on a 15 minute schedule. Inital site implementation of telemetry will be completed by Fall 2006. Reserve sites also have specific biomonitoring efforts that focus on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) and Emergent Marsh vegetation communities, habitat mapping/land use and land change monitoring, benthic communities, invasive species (plants and animals), as well as plankton and nekton monitoring efforts. These biomonitoring efforts vary depending on Reserve needs, however SAV/Emergent protocols are standardized across site implementation. | Water and weather parameter monitoring occurs year round as environmental conditions allow for sampling (ie. ice cover, etc). Biomonitoring efforts depend on individual Reserve needs. | There are at least 104 water quality monitoring stations that report data regularly to the Centralized Data Mgt Office; greater coverage does exist within NERRS but is not directly associated with NOAA funding. Biomonitoring efforts vary across the 26 reserves; currently there are at least 10 Reserves monitoring Emergent vegetation and at least 8 Reserves monitoring SAV with NOAA funded efforts. | Abiotic Monitoring, Biological Monitoring, Land Use and Habitat Change; constant abiotic monitoring, cyclic biological monitoring. | 1995 water and weather monitoring, 2004 initial biological monitoring efforts supported by NOAA funding | Present | Numerous water quality parameters and source-related variables including nutrients/productivity. Habitat distributions, condition, land use change analysis and biological component analysis including GIS and satellite imagery. | Estuarine waters in continental United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Great Lakes. | Prescribed methods for sampling water and weather/performance-based QA for all analyses | Water temperature, Conductivity, DO, Turbidity, Water Level, pH, Salinity, Air temperature, wind speed, wind direction, relative humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, ortho-phosphate, chlorophyll a, phaeopigments, (potentially: particulate N, particulate P, particulate C, TDN, TDP, TSS and silicate). Land use change analysis including GIS and satellite imagery, mapping distributions of vegetation, characterization of habitats, etc. | Dr. Susan White Susan.White@noaa.gov 301-563-1124 | Network of 26 protected areas, at least 104 water quality stations and at least 26 weather quality stations, a number of Reserves also contribute to the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) and/or the USGS depositional sampling program--including mercury. | Identify and track short-term variability and long-term changes in the integrity and biodiversity of estuarine ecosystems. | Data is available online at http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/ | Data is available online at http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/ | Reserve water and weather quality data is QA/QC'd before being uploaded onto the public website within at least 1 year of collection, individual Reserve data is available immediately from the Reserves given QA/QC disclaimers. Biological monitoring data is currently available at the individual Reserves. | |||||
| National Marine Sanctuary Program | A Monitoring Framework for the National Marine Sanctuary Program (http://www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov/library/national/swim04.pdf) | The mission of the NMSP is to serve as trustee for the Nation's marine protected areas to conserve, protect, and enhance the biodiversity, ecological integrity, and cultural legacy of these ecosystems. Fundamental to accomplishing the Program's mission is the development and consistent application of a rigorous, objective, and applied scientific foundatoin for understanding ecosystem structure and function, evalutating environmental condition, and implementing effective, sustainable, and adaptive management strategies. Monitoring programs not only address individual site priorities, but also regional and national issues and questions. Each of the marine sanctuaries established to protect natural resources has characteristics that make it unique as well as affect and control the way ecosystems function. However, the ecosystem structure and function in all sanctuaries have similarities and are influenced by analogous factors that interact in comparable ways. The three primary ecosystem componenets common among marine sanctuaries include water, habitats and living marine resources. | Ongoing | NOAA/NOS/NMSP with a substantial dependence on federal, state, and local governmental partners, academia, and volunteers, both for project funding and field support. | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | Assuming that a common marine ecosystem framework can be applied to all sanctuaries, a set of 17 questions has been developed that is widely applicable across the system of marine sanctuaries. Sanctuaries are asked to create much more specific questions at the local scale, however, these 17 "system questions" should be considered in the course of developing site-based monitoring programs in all sanctuaries. These questions are related to water, habitat, living resources and maritime heritage resources (see "notes" section for system questions). | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | Water, habitats, and living marine resources. Water quality is, in general, monitored by tracking variation caused by natural drivers and indicators of certain types of human activity. The evaluation of both habitat and living resources requires assessment of the quantity and quality of resources as well as certain aspects of resource production and loss. Selected human influences must also be tracked, either through quantifying the levels of activities themselves or by tracking their outcomes (e.g., the occurrence of non-indigenous species). | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | Key resource metrics includes marine mammal abundance, kelp canopy cover, seabird abundance, diversity, and mortality, krill biomass, coral and algae cover and diversity, growth rates, disease incidence, fish species richness and abundance, habitat disturbance, water temperature, light penetration, salinity, pH, sediment contaminants. | Kathy Dalton, Program Analyst, NOAA/NMSP, 1305 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 301-713-3125 x267, kathy.dalton@noaa.gov, http://www.sanctuaries.nos.noss.gov | Sanctuary Office Locations: Channel Islands: Santa Barbara, CA; Cordell Bank: Point Reyes Station, CA; Fagatele Bay: Pago Pago, American Samoa; Florida Keys: Marathon, Key Largo, Key West, FL; Flower Garden Banks: Bryan, TX; Gray's Reef: Savannah, GA; Gulf of the Farallones: San Francisco, CA; Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale: Kihei, Honolulu, Lihu'e, HI; Monitor: Newport News, VA; Monterey Bay: Monterey, CA; Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Honolulu, Hilo, HI; Olympic Coast: Port Angeles, WA; Stellwagen Bank: Scituate, MA; Thunder Bay: Alepna, MI | System
Questions: Water Are specific or multiple stressors, including changing oceanographic and atmospheric conditions, affecting water quality? What is the eutrophic condition of sanctuary waters and how is it changing? Do sanctuary waters pose risks to human health? What are the levels of human activities that may influence water quality and how are they changing? Habitats What is the distribution of major habitat types and how is it changing? What is the physiological condition of biologically-structured habitats and how is it changing? What are the contaminant concentrations in sanctuary habitats and how are they changing? What are the levels of human activities that may influence habitat quality and how are they changing? Living Resources What is the status of biodiversity and how is it changing? What is the status of extracted species and how is it changing? What is the status of non-indigenous species and how is it changing? What is the status of key species and how is it changing? What is the condition or health of key resources and how is it changing? What are the levels of human activities that may influence living resource quality and how are they changing? Maritime Heritage Resources WWhat is the integrity of maritime heritage resources and how is it changing? Do maritime heritage resources pose an environmental hazard and is this threat changing? What are the levels of human activities that may influence maritime heritage resource quality and how are they changing? |
Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements. | |||||
| National Park Service - Vital Signs Water Quality | NPS http://www.nature.nps.gov/water/VitalSignsGuidance.hym | National monitoring program designed to characterize the current status and determine trends in the condition of park aquatic resources | Ongoing | NPS and Cooperators | To be determined by park Networks | Various | Various | New program | unknowm | Unknown | Unknown | Various | gary_rosenlieb@nps.gov, dean_tucker@nps.gov (data) | Park-wide | Various formats on website | STORET | |||||||||
| NOAA Marine Observations Backbone | http://mob.ndbc.noaa.gov/ | Sea state, wind, weather | Ongoing | NOAA | Periodic and Real Time | na | Hundreds - in different categories | data distribution from moored buoys, coastal stations, Volunatry Observing Ship (VOS) Program, Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting on Tsunamis (DART) buoy array | Varies - Some start in 1975 | Current | automated buoy data, volunteer ship observations | Coastal Marine, Deep Ocean, Tropical Atmospheric Ocean | unknown | sea surface/fixed depth/sub surface water temp, wind profiles, water level, air temp and barometric pressure, weather observations, rainfall, dew point, water conductivity, current profiles, wave profiles, visibility, salinity | webmaster.ndbc@noaa.gov | American Coastal Waters, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean | moored and drifting buoy arrays, volunteer ship observations | realtime data on website | via internet | realtime | |||||
| Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNet) | EPA http://www.epa.gov/castnet/ | Atmospheric deposition - Dry | Ongoing | EPA, National Park Service | Weekly average atmospheric concentrations of sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, sulfur dioxide and nitric acid; hourly concentrations of ambient ozone levels; meteorological conditions required for calculating dry deposition rates | na | Currently 97 active Sites are co-located with NTN sites. | CASTNET provides atmospheric data on the dry deposition component of total acid deposition, ground-level ozone and other forms of atmospheric pollution. CASTNET is considered the nation's primary source for atmospheric data to estimate dry acidic deposition and to provide data on rural ozone levels. The network consists of 80+ monitoring sites that derive dry deposition based on measured air pollutant concentrations and modeled dry deposition velocities estimated from meteorology, land use, and site characteristic data. | 1987 | Present |
weekly concentrations of nitric acid, nitrate, ammonium, sulfur dioxide, and
sulfate hourly concentrations of ozone, and meteorological variables including temperature, humidity, wind speed, incoming solar radiation, and precipitation. |
Atmospheric Deposition | http://www.epa.gov/CASTNET/library/qapp_v2/qapp_app8.pdf | sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, gaseous nitric acid, sulfur dioxide, pH, ozone, meteorologic conditions | Acid Rain Hotline: 202-343-9620 | AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MS, MT, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, ON, PA, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VI, WA, WV, WI | acid deposition is total of wet and dry deposition, dry 20-60% | data in website database | via internet | (#####) | |||||
| National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) / National Trends Network (NTN) | http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/ | Atmospheric Deposition of Acid, Nutrients and Toxics | Ongoing | EPA, NOAA, USDA, USFS, DOE, DOI, TVA, NASA, NSF, States, Tribes, Universities | precipitation collected weekly; 9 sites daily | n.a. | 200+ sites | The purpose of the network is to collect data on the chemistry of precipitation for monitoring of geographical and temporal long-term trends. | 1978 | Present | Deposition loadings are calculated through relating precipitation amounts and concentrations. | Atmospheric Deposition | (#####) | hydrogen (acidity as pH), sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, chloride, and base cations (such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium). Mercury | Van C. Bowersox,
Coordinator 217-333-7873 |
continental
United States, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. |
The National Atmospheric Deposition Program has also expanded its sampling to two additional networks. The Mercury Deposition Network (MDN), currently with over 35 sites, was formed in 1995 to collect weekly samples of precipitation which are analyzed by Frontier Geosciences for total mercury. | data in website database | via internet | (#####) | |||||
| Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network | http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/iadn/index_e.html http://www.indiana.edu/~hiteslab/iadn/iadn.html | Atmospheric Deposition of Toxics in the Great Lakes | Ongoing | Since
1999 the program is comprised of the following three agencies: 1. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) 2. Environment Canada's (EC) Meteorological Service of Canada 3. EC's Ecosystem Health Division of Ontario Region (EHD) |
At all master and some satellite sites, vapor and particle phase air samples are taken concurrently every 12 days for 24 hours. Precipitation samples are also taken and represent a composite over 28 days at US sites and 14 days at Canadian sites. | Annual. | Since
the goal of the project is to measure regional background concentrations of
target compounds, sites removed from local sources and representative of regional conditions were selected. IADN has been designed with one Master Station on each of the five Great Lakes, supplemented by a number of Satellite Stations to provide more spatial detail for deposition. The Master Stations offer the complete range of measurements made in the Network, measuring wet and dry deposition of Semivolatile Organic Compounds (SVOCs) and trace metals. Satellite Stations may contain only a portion of the measurements made at the Master Stations. |
1990 | 1998 | Three
types of samples are collected in this project: precipitation (rain and
snow), airborne particles and airborne organic vapors. |
Atmospheric Deposition - Great Lakes | QAPP, revised in May, 2004 is at http://www.indiana.edu/~hiteslab/iadn/qapp00.pdf | Covers wet and dry deposition See Separate Worksheet; IADN Analyte List | About 11, but plans for 17 | Well documented program | CSV format | Full Access0 | Internet request at http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/iadn/Data/form/form_e.html | |||||||
| NOAA The Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network ( AIRMoN Deposition Program) | http://www.epa.gov/emap/nca/html/data/analyte.txt | The Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network is an array of stations designed to provide a research-based foundation for the routine operations of the nation's deposition monitoring networks -- the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) for wet deposition, and the Clean Air Status and Tends Network (CASTNet) for dry. A subprogram is specifically designed to detect the benefits of emissions controls mandated by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and to quantify these benefits in terms of deposition to sensitive areas. The techniques of AIRMoN are designed to quantify the extent to which changes in emissions affect air quality and deposition at selected locations. | Ongoing | NOAA Air Resource Laboratory and cooperating institutions | Varies | na | 13 covering wet deposition, 7 of these measure dry deposition. | Co-located with other NAPD statons | Varies | 1997 | Varies, major emphasis on developing better estimates of ammonium levels in precipitation and determining the relationship of daily to weekly sampling. | Atmospheric Deposition | The NADP/AIRMoN-wet Quality Assurance Manual." Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IL | NADP parameters and others as needed | |||||||||||
| Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) Program | http://www.best.usgs.gov/ | T, HC | Ongoing | USGS | Varies | 1992-Present | (#####) | FWS Lands: (one network using biased contaminant site selection, second network proposed to sample unbiased contaminant sites), Trust Species: (one network measures exposure and response of trust species to contaminants over time, second to describe contaminants and their effects in important habitats used by trust species) | 1992 | Present | biomarkers, toxicity tests and bioassays, community health, and residue analyses | FWS lands (primarily National Wildlife Refuges), rivers, estuaries, coasts | DQ found under individual project metadata http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/data/best/search/metadata.htm | contaminants, trace elements | James
Coyle, BEST Program Project Chief, Fort Collins Science Center,
jim_coyle@usgs.gov Pat Anderson, BEST Program Staff Biologist, Fort Collins Science Center, patrick_anderson@usgs.gov |
Mississippi
River Basin, Columbia\Rio Grande River Basins, Yukon River Basin, Colorado
River Basin, Pacific Coast (California, Oregon, Washington, Texas), Columbia
River |
BEST evaluates environmental contaminants and their effects on species and lands through applied research, monitoring, synthesis, and technology transfer. | online databases | via internet | (#####) | |||||
| USGS National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program | USGS http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/ | Pesticides, nutrients, VOC's, Stream ecology, trace elements, Transport of contaminants to water-supply wells, Agricultural chemical transport, Hg in streams, Nutrient enrichment effects on stream ecology, Effects of urbanization on stream ecology | Ongoing | USGS | Variable, ranging from continuous monitoring of physical parameters, to hourly samples over storm hydrographs, to monthly sampling at trends sites. Much of the sampling is conducted to understand stream processes. | 1991-present | Hnudreds in more than 50 river basins across the Nation. | Some fixed stations for detecting trends and loads. Fixed station network overlain by network designed to meet specific process-oriented study needs | 1991 | Present | Physical Parameters, Nutrients, Major Ions, Trace Elements, Pesticides, Suspended Sediments, volatile organic compounds, mercury | 50 major river basins | http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/xrel.pdf | well features, field parameters (DO, pH, conductivity, temp), major ions, nutrients, pesticides, VOCs, trace elements, radionuclides and stable elements | Points of Contact: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/sumr/04nr/POC.pdf | Hundreds of sites, including fround water and surface water; basin sizes ranging from 1 sq mi to thousands of sq mi. See http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/servlet/page?_pageid=1713&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&2862_RETRIEVE_DATA_2533437.p_subid=13938&2862_RETRIEVE_DATA_2533437.p_sub_siteid=47&2862_RETRIEVE_DATA_2533437.p_edit=0 for list of sites. | data in website database (see http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/servlet/page?_pageid=543&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30); 2004 National Summary Report | via Internet | freely accessible at all times | ||||||
| USGS National Stream Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN) | USGS http://water.usgs.gov/nasqan/ | Nutrients, major ions, suspended sediment, pesticides, metals | Ongoing | USGS | monthly/realtime/fixed station | 1974-1995 / 1996-2000 / 2000-2005 | currently 41 stations; historically more than 500 stations; see http://water.usgs.gov/nasqan/progdocs/stations.01-05.html | fixed stations with data taken monthly fixed stations at major nodes collecting a range of chemicals (incl. pesticides and trace elements) in tandem with stream discharge/fixed station monitoring supplemented with a series of synoptic cruises | 1974 | Present | Physical Parameters, Nutrients, Major Ions, Trace Elements, Pesticides, Suspended Sediments | the nation's largest rivers--the Mississippi (including the Missouri and Ohio), the Columbia, the Colorado, and the Rio Grande/two basins, the Colorado and Columbia, and the Yukon River | QA individually referenced by program/station? http://water.usgs.gov/nasqan/data/statsumtxt.html | Temperature, Turbidity, Conductance, Dissolved oxygen, pH, CO3, HCO3, Alk (filtered, as CaCO3), Suspended sediment, Turbidity, NH3-N, NO2-N, Org+NH3-N, Org+NH3-N, NO2+NO3-N, Total P (whole-water), Total P (filtered), PO4-P, DOC, Particulate Inorganic C, Total Particulate C, Particulate Organic C, Total Particulate N, Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium, Chloride, Sulfate, Fluoride, Silica, Arsenic, Barium, Beryllium, Boron, Cadmium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silver, Strontium, Vanadium, Zinc, Aluminum, Lithium, Selenium, Uranium, Propachlor, Butylate, Simazine, Prometon, Desethyl atrazine, Cyanazine, Fonofos, alpha-HCH, p,p DDE, Chlorpyrifos, gamma-HCH, Dieldrin, Metolachlor, Malathion, Parathion, Diazinon, Atrazine, Alachlor, Acetochlor, Metribuzin, Diethylanaline, Trifluralin, Ethalfluralin, Phorate, Terbacil, Linuron, Methyl parathion, EPTC, Pebulate, Tebuthiuron, Molinate, Ethoprop, Benfluralin, Carbofuran, Terbufos, Pronamide, Disulfoton, Triallate, Propanil, Carbaryl, Thiobencarb, Dachthal (DCPA), Pendimethalin, Napropamide, Propargite, Azinphos methyl, Permethrin, Diazinon-d10 (%), Terbuthylazin (%), HCH alpha-D6 (%) | Office of Water Quality Chief, Tim Miller (703) 648-6868 | see http://water.usgs.gov/nasqan/progdocs/stations.01-05.html | essentially three separate programs at different time periods 1974-1995 / 1996-2000 / 2000-2005 | website database, 5 year summary reports; see http://water.usgs.gov/nasqan/data/index.html | via internet | freely accessible at all times | |||||
| Monitoring and Event Response from Harmful Algal Blooms (MERHAB) | NOAA http://www.cop.noaa.gov/stressors/extremeevents/hab/current/fact-merhab.html | HAB | Ongoing | NOAA, Regions | individual project based | n.a. | n.a. | Provides funding for long-term monitoring of specific toxins in the food web, development of new techniques for HAB species detection, sampling protocols, ecological forecasting. | 1997? | Present | (#####) | (#####) | (#####) | (#####) | NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CSCOR Marc Suddleson phone: 301-713-3338 e-mail: coastalocean@noaa.gov |
(#####) | abstracts on website | via internet | (#####) | ||||||
| National Streamflow Information Program | http://water.usgs.gov/nsip/ | Flows of water in rivers and streams | Ongoing | USGS and other entities | Continuous | n.a. | 7,000 | Targeted | Varies | Varies - Many still current | Water level | Rivers | Stream Discharge, CFS | USGS Office of Surface Water | 7,000 | Sites Often associated with water quality stations | website database | via Internet | On Line | ||||||
| National Wetland Inventory | http://wetlands.fws.gov/ http://www.nwi.fws.gov/other/metadata/nwi_meta.txt | Wetland location, extent, and classification | Ongoing | US Fish and Wildlife Service | Continuous | n.a. | n.a. | Mapped inventory of boundaries | Oct. 1981 | Present | Photointerpretation | Wetlands | The attribute accuracy is tested by manual comparison of the source with hard copy printouts and/or symbolized display of the digital wetlands data on an interactive computer graphic system. In addition, quality control verification software (USFWS-NWI) tests the attributes against a master set of valid wetland attributes. | Boundaries, wetland type | John Cooper, Branch of Habitat Assessment, Phone: 703-358-2161 | n.a. | Arcdata and shape files | Readily accessible | Immediate | ||||||
| Natural Resources Inventory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monitoring and Event Response from Harmful Algal Blooms (MERHAB) | NOAA http://www.cop.noaa.gov/stressors/extremeevents/hab/current/fact-merhab.html | HAB | Ongoing | NOAA, Regions, State/local/tribal monitoring agencies | individual project based | project based | variable | Provides funding for long-term monitoring of specific toxins in the food web, development of new techniques for HAB species detection, sampling protocols, ecological forecasting. | 1997 | Present | Variable and project specific e.g., discrete water samples, tissue samples, basic hydrography, nutrients, DOM, POM, in situ optical measurements, remote sensing data, instrumented moorings | Coastal/nearshore waters, estuaries, Great Lakes, beaches | Varies based on monitoring project and site requirements | Project specific: e.g., nutrients, CTD, toxic organisms, dissolved and particulate toxins, in situ optical properties | NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CSCOR Marc Suddleson phone: 301-713-3338 e-mail: coastalocean@noaa.gov |
Coastal WA, CA, New England, mid-Atlantic states, Great Lakes | abstracts on website | via internet | varies based on monitoring project and site requirements | ||||||