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NCCN Water Quality Monitoring Data Package, 2011-2021

This data package contains North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN) Inventory and Monitoring Program discrete water quality monitoring tabular data collected during 2011-2021 at Ebey's Landing National Historic Reserve (EBLA), Lewis and Clark National Historical Park (LEWI), Mount Rainier National Park (MORA), North Cascades National Park (NOCA), and Olympic National Park (OLYM).

The protocol, publications, and all other associated links can be found in the project reference at: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2195538.

The abundance of rivers and streams is a key characteristic of the NCCN. Ninety-four percent of NCCN is federally-designated wilderness and contains some of the most pristine aquatic habitats in the Pacific Northwest. The prevalence of these resources makes water quality a high ecological and management priority.

Rivers and streams integrate the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the watersheds they drain. This puts them at increased risk to a variety of environmental stressors including atmospheric pollution, flow regime changes, and localized disturbances related to land management activities and recreational use. To address risks from a variety of stressors to these systems, the NCCN developed a Water Quality Monitoring Program and protocol that is focused on monitoring the wadable streams that are the most at risk for water quality impairment.

Data within this package include sampling locations and event conditions, physical habitat and channel characteristics, human influence descriptors, invasive species observations, and water chemistry parameters. The associated continuous temperature data can be found in the NPS-hosted Aquarius database https://irma.nps.gov/aqwebportal.

Tags: aquatic-ecosystems, benthic-macroinvertebrates, bioassessment, biology, channel-morphology, chemistry, clean-water-act, condition, dataloggers, dissolved-oxygen, disturbance, ebeys-landing-national-historical-reserve, ebla, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-at-risk-biota-te-species-and-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-invertebrates, ecology, freshwater, habitats, human-disturbance, human-influence, hydrology, impaired, invasive-species, land-management, lewi, lewis-and-clark-national-historical-park, monitoring, mora, mount-rainier-national-park, nccn, noca, north-cascades-national-park, north-coast-and-cascades-network, olym, olympic-national-park, ph, resource-management, riparian, rivers, species, specific-conductance, stream-ecology, streams, temperature, threatened-waters, turbidity, water, water-chemistry, water-quality, watersheds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ambient Aerosol Extinction in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Field Methods:
The following instruments provided by Handix Scientific will be installed at the Look Rock Site in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Open-Path Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer (OPCRDS), Cavity Attenuated Phase Shift PM Extinction Monitor (CAPS). These instruments will run autonomously and sample ambient air at the site. Data from these instruments will be compared with publicly available data from the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) program.

Tags: aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, origin-external, ser, southeast-region, studyid-grsm-01272
Organization: Department of the Interior
MOJN Integrated Upland Datasets 2012 - 2025

All tabular data associated with the Integrated Uplands protocol. These data were collected by the Mojave Desert I&M Network from 2012 to 2024. See https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2311301 for detailed SOPs on each protocol component.

Tags: imd, iu, mojave-desert, mojn, monitoring, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Metadata for the Southwest Alaska Network Vertical Lake Profile Dataset (2008 to 2024)

The Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN) monitors freshwater systems in five national park units: Alagnak Wild River (ALAG), Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve (ANIA), Katmai National Park and Preserve (KATM), Kenai Fjords National Park (KEFJ), and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (LACL). The metadata included in this file supplement water quality data from vertical lake profiles taken between 2008 and 2023 in KATM, LACL, and KEFJ. Vertical lake profile sampling was initiated in high priority “Tier 1” lakes in LACL in 2008 and expanded to other parks and lakes in subsequent years. At present, there are 105 total sites. Of the 31 Tier 1 sites in LACL, there are ten sites in each of three basins of Lake Clark and one on Kijik Lake. Of the 41 Tier 1 sites in KATM, there are ten sites at each of four basins of Naknek Lake and one on Lake Brooks. There are 33 lower priority “Tier 2” sites: 15 in LACL, 16 in KATM, and two in KEFJ. Tier 1 lakes are sampled annually in LACL and KATM, while Tier 2 lakes are sampled less frequently on a rotating basis.
 
Vertical lake profiles are taken during the mid-summer index period when thermal stratification is most pronounced. Profiles are conducted using a water quality meter (or “sonde”) that simultaneously records multiple parameters: temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, specific conductivity, and, beginning in 2014, turbidity. Sampling is conducted at 15 depth categories to a maximum depth of 50 m. Specifically, data are recorded at every meter from 0 to 5 m depth, and then at 5 m increments between 5 m and 50 m or the lake bottom, whichever is reached first. This method creates a vertical profile of each water quality parameter at each site. Additional measures of water clarity via Secchi disk are made in conjunction with each vertical lake profile. Other metadata include specifics about personnel, location, timing, equipment, and weather.

The vertical lake profile data that accompany the metadata in this file can be accessed and downloaded from the public AQUARIUS Water Data Portal (https://irma.nps.gov/aqwebportal/).

Tags: alaska, katmai-national-park-and-preserve, kenai-fjords-national-park, kijik-lake, lake-brooks, lake-clark, lake-clark-national-park-and-preserve, naknek-lake, vertical-lake-profile, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Example data file for TRUEMET Version 2.2

This file is an example data set from the Central Valley of California from a drought study corresponding to “recent non-drought conditions” (Scenario 1 in Petrie et al., in review). In 2014, following an 8-year period with 7 below-normal to critically-dry water years, the bioenergetic model TRUEMET was used to assess the impacts of drought on wintering waterfowl habitat and bioenergetics in the Central Valley of California. The goal of the study was to assess whether available foraging habitats could provide enough food to support waterfowl populations (ducks and geese) under a variety of climate and population level scenarios. This information could then be used by managers to adapt their waterfowl habitat management plans to drought conditions. The study area spanned the Central Valley and included the Sacramento Valley in the north, the San Joaquin Valley in the south, and Suisun Marsh and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (Delta) east of San Francisco Bay. The data set consists of two foraging guilds (ducks and geese/swans) and five forage types: harvested corn, rice (flooded), rice (unflooded), wetland invertebrates and wetland moist soil seeds. For more background on the data set, see Petrie et al. in review.

Tags: anatidae, ducks, geese, program, r_, shorebirds, swans, true-metabolizable-energy, waterfowl
Organization: Department of the Interior
Escapement of target species at the Gisasa River Weir

Tabular dataset containing enumeration of target species observed at the Gisasa weir by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service between 1994 and 2023.

Tags: abundance, chinook-salmon, chum-salmon, escapement, general-management-natural-resources-management-fisheries-management, king-salmon, oncorhynchus-keta, oncorhynchus-tshawytscha, resistance-board-weir, salmon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Oxford Slough WPA: Moth (Lepidoptera) Inventory - Tabular Database 2020

This reference archives tabular data collected for Moth (Lepidoptera) Inventory survey (PRIMR Survey ID: TBD).
The Oxford Slough Waterfowl Production Area was sampled for butterflies and moths over a one day and one night period July 16-17, 2020. Surveys were limited to the northeast portion of the site due to limited road access and significant wetland barriers.

Tags: abagrotis-discoidalis, abagrotis-placida, abagrotis-scopeops, alfalfa-caterpillar, amphipyra-tragopoginis, anagrapha-falcifera, apamea-acera, apamea-amputatrix, apamea-devastator, apamea-niveivenosa, apamea-occidens, apamea-scoparia, apantesis-williamsii, bairds-old-world-swallowtail, bedstraw-hawkmoth, butterflies, cabbage-butterfly, cabbage-white, callippe-fritillary, capsula-subflava, celery-looper, cercyonis-pegala, checkered-white, clouded-sulphur, colias-eurytheme, colias-philodice, common-checkered-skipper, common-wood-nymph, euxoa-bicollaris, euxoa-brunneigera, euxoa-nostra, euxoa-oblongistigma, euxoa-olivalis, euxoa-satis, galium-sphinx, general-biology-species-pollinators, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, glassy-cutworm, hesperumia-sulphuraria, hyles-gallii, imported-cabbageworm, lacinipolia-pensilis, lacinipolia-strigicollis, lepidoptera, leucania-farcta, lycaena-helloides, lycaena-rubidus, macaria-colata, macro-moths, malacosoma-californicum, mouse-moth, mylitta-crescent, mythimna-oxygala, noctua-pronuba, orange-sulphur, papilio-machaon-bairdii, parabagrotis-exsertistigma, parabagrotis-insularis, phyciodes-mylitta, pieris-rapae, plebejus-melissa, pontia-protodice, primr-survey, purplish-copper, pyrgus-communis, red-cutworm, ruddy-copper, sericosema-juturnaria, spaelotis-bicava, speyeria-callippe, spilosoma-virginica, spodoptera-praefica, sulphur-moth, virginia-tiger-moth, western-tent-caterpillar, western-yellowstriped-armyworm, yellow-headed-cutworm-moth, yellow-woolly-bear, yellow-woollybear, yellowheaded-cutworm, yellowstripe-armyworm
Organization: Department of the Interior
Regional Dataset: Moth (Lepidoptera) Inventories 2012-2021

BOMS compliant csv file representing all moth data collected by on refuges for the duration of the Lepidoptera inventory work performed by Dana Ross from 2012-2021.

Tags: boms, general-biology-species-pollinators, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, im, inventory-and-monitoring, lepidoptera, macro-moths, pollinator-species
Organization: Department of the Interior
Yukon River Bering Cisco Biometric Data

Tabular dataset containing over 6,000 records of sampling data from Bering Cisco relating to life history parameters such as age, length, weight, and sex.

Tags: age, alaska, bering-cisco, coregonus, coregonus-laurettae, general-biology-species-fishes, general-management-natural-resources-management-fisheries-management, laurettae, migration, spawning, survival, yukon-river
Organization: Department of the Interior
Bear Lake NWR: Moth (Lepidoptera) Inventory - Tabular Database 2020

This reference archives tabular data collected for Moth (Lepidoptera) Inventory survey (PRIMR Survey ID: TBD).
Butterfly counts were performed at Bear Lake NWR to provide an annual butterfly species and abundance snapshot for 7 predetermined locations and to clarify some potential taxonomic issues.

Tags: butterflies, general-biology-species-pollinators, general-management-inventory, general-management-monitoring, lepidoptera, macro-moths, primr-survey
Organization: Department of the Interior
2013 Bee specimen dataset from Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge and Buffalo Lake National Wildlife.  National Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Muleshoe, Texas  DOI: https://doi.org/10.7944/W3C08J

Collections were made on Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge and Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service attributed specimens with information on the date (month, day, year) and collection location (coordinates).  The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Pollinating Insects Research Unit, Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA (hereafter BBSL) made final identification of each specimen, and accession of specimens into their larger museum collection followed identification.  The BBSL subsequently attributed specimen records with information such as species name and associated taxonomy.  The BBSL also assigned each specimen a unique identification number (catalog number) so physical specimens can readily be associated with electronic data records.

Information in this dataset was exported from the BBSL larger dataset, thus it is the subset of data that pertains to the Muleshoe and Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge specimens.  The BBSL uses Darwin Core terms to describe data fields for each record.  The definitions below are taken directly from the Darwin Core Terms quick reference guide (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm), although some have been modified to more accurately describe information attributed to specimens in this data set.  Users of the dataset should refer to Darwin Core terms reference guide if more clarity is needed about a given field, or how it might relate to information assembled in other databases.

Tags: bees, general-biology-species-invertebrates, general-biology-species-pollinators, pollinators, texas
Organization: Department of the Interior
Juvenile salmon measured fork lengths collected from baited “minnow” traps in Campbell Creek, Alaska

Tabular dataset containing the fork length of captured salmonids as well as the sampling reach wherein they were captured and date when they were captured during a baited minnow trap study in Campbell Creek Alaska in 2021.

Tags: chinook-salmon, coho-salmon, general-management-natural-resources-management-fisheries-management, juvenile-salmon, king-salmon, methodology, minnow-trap, oncorhynchus-kisutch, oncorhynchus-tshawytscha, pacific-salmon, research-methods, silver-salmon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Preliminary Assessment of Pacific Lamprey Environmental DNA Samples from Western Washington Rivers.

qPCR detection results for Pacific Lamprey eDNA surveys from Western Washington Rivers and Streams. Water samples were collected via filtration and shipped to the laboratory for analysis. DNA was extracted from filters using commercially available extraction kits. Lab staff used two existing Pacific Lamprey qPCR eDNA surveys to screen DNA extracts for the presence of Pacific Lamprey DNA. Eight molecular replicates were run for each samples. Results presented in this table show the number of positive detections out of 8 for each sample and the corresponding mean Cq values for each sample with a detection.

Tags: edna, entosphenus-tridentatus, filtration, general-biology-species-fishes, general-management-natural-resources-management-fisheries-management, pacific-lamprey, qpcr, species-monitoring, three-toothed-lamprey
Organization: Department of the Interior
DWH NRDA Pelagic Birds Abundance & Oiling

Data collection under the Bird Study #6 work plan occurred between July of 2010 and July of 2011, in each calendar month except January. Ship-based surveys were conducted by Defenders of Wildlife under contract to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Observers were placed on vessels of opportunity (i.e., vessels being used for other Deepwater Horizon NRDA studies in the open ocean) and recorded bird observations while the vessels were underway and stationary as they carried out their NRDA missions.  Observers documented the number of pelagic seabirds encountered along the ships’ paths during both transect surveys (i.e., where field observations were documented along a transect while the ship was moving) and point count surveys (i.e., where field observations were documented from a stationary location).  During the effort, field observations (including the number and species of birds encountered as well as the oiling condition of the birds, when possible) were recorded on field datasheets and photographs of the birds were taken.  The primary goals of the study were to determine the number of live oiled birds in the pelagic zone and to estimate population densities of pelagic seabirds in the study area. Additional details about the surveys and results are provided in the End of Study Report (“Pelagic Seabird Density and Vulnerability to Oiling from the Deepwater Horizon/MC 252 Spill in the Gulf of Mexico”).

Tags: abundance, avian, bird, deepwater-horizon, dwh, general-biology-species-birds, nrda, oil-spill, oiling, pelagic-birds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Juvenile salmon catch and trap level data using baited “minnow” traps in Campbell Creek, Alaska

Tabular dataset containing species, count, and ReachID for juvenile salmonids and other fish species captured in minnow traps from Campbell Creek. Additionally, tabular dataset describing spatiotemporal and environmental factor data for each trap site during the capture of juvenile salmonids in Campbell Creek.

Tags: chinook-salmon, coho-salmon, general-management-natural-resources-management-fisheries-management, juvenile-salmon, king-salmon, methodology, minnow-trap, oncorhynchus-kisutch, oncorhynchus-tshawytscha, pacific-salmon, research-methods, silver-salmon
Organization: Department of the Interior
DWH NRDA Shorebird Oiling Observations

The main objectives of Deepwater Horizon Bird Study #5 included (1) estimating the temporal and spatial abundance and distribution of shorebirds using the study area from inception of the study through November 2010; (2) estimating the percentage of shorebirds that are visibly-oiled at representative sites throughout the study area; (3a) estimating survival rates for American Oystercatcher (AMOY) and other shorebirds ; and (3b) monitoring return rates of color-marked Snowy Plover, Red Knot, American Oystercatcher, and Piping Plover, collected opportunistically as part of Objective 2 . This dataset includes information collected pursuant to objective 2. Oiling rate surveys occurred from September to December of 2010, and were conducted primarily by Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences personnel under the direction of the Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Three surveys were conducted concurrently to document the oiling and abundance of non-breeding shorebirds, such as plovers and sandpipers, and to record all banded snowy plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus), red knots (Calidris canutus), American oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus), and piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) encountered at survey sites along the northern Gulf of Mexico. GPS location and photo data were also collected during these surveys.

Tags: avian, bird, deepwater-horizon, dwh, general-biology-species-birds, nrda, oil-spill, oiling-observation, shorebird
Organization: Department of the Interior
DWH NRDA AMOY Telemetry

Deepwater Horizon Bird Study #5 had two primary components: 1) to estimate the proportion of visibly oiled shorebirds via observational surveys and 2) to estimate the mortality rates of both oiled and unoiled adult birds using radio telemetry. This dataset pertains to the telemetry data collected pursuant to the second objective, and is the American oystercatcher (AMOY) telemetry dataset. AMOY were captured in both oiled (“impacted”) areas in Louisiana and non-oiled (“reference”) areas in Georgia. From September 2010 to April 2011, field teams conducted relocation surveys and recorded sighting or radio detection of a bird. If the field team detected a mortality signal, efforts were made to recover the carcass within 24 hours. The data were collected by Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences (Plymouth, Massachusetts) personnel contracted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Data were documented on the “American Oystercatcher Telemetry Survey” datasheet. Note that the datasheet version used in Georgia varied slightly from the datasheet version used in Louisiana. Additional details on the methodologies, data entry and review process are available in the January 2012 “Deepwater Horizon/Mississippi Canyon 252 NRDA Bird Study #5: Non-breeding Shorebirds QA/QC Notebook” produced by Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences (Appendix F of the Verification and Validation Report for this dataset).

Tags: american-oystercatcher, avian, bird, deepwater-horizon, dwh, general-biology-species-birds, haematopus-palliatus, nrda, oil-spill, telemetry
Organization: Department of the Interior
DWH NRDA Colonial, Marsh, and Shorebird Sample Processing

Deepwater Horizon Bird Studies #3, 4, and 5 each had two primary components: 1) to estimate the proportion of visibly oiled birds via observational surveys and 2) to estimate the mortality rates of both oiled and unoiled adult birds using satellite and/or radio telemetry. This dataset contains information collected pursuant to the second objective. This dataset contains information on the blood, feather, and fecal samples from captured birds. The capture and assessment field data were collected in 2010 and 2011 by the Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI, Portland, Maine, for Bird Studies #3 and 4) and the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Plymouth, Massachusetts (for Bird Study #5). Individuals of the focal species were captured in both oiled (“impacted”) areas and non-oiled (“reference”) areas. Focal species included secretive marsh birds such as clapper rails and seaside sparrows; colonial waterbirds such as black skimmers, great egrets, and brown pelicans; and non-breeding shorebirds represented by American oystercatchers.  ID numbers were recorded for any satellite or radio telemetry equipment that was attached to the birds prior to their release. These unique ID numbers were recorded in the “GPS ID” field of the Avian Capture dataset and the “PTT_ID” field of the telemetry dataset. Records pertaining to the same bird can be identified in each dataset using the corresponding ID values. Additional details on the American oyster catcher methodologies, data entry and review process are available in the January 2012 “Deepwater Horizon/Mississippi Canyon 252 NRDA Bird Study #5: Non-breeding Shorebirds QA/QC Notebook” produced by Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences (Appendix F of the Verification and Validation Report for this dataset).

Tags: avian, bird, bird-sample, colonial-waterbird, deepwater-horizon, dwh, general-biology-species-birds, marsh-bird, nrda, oil-spill, shorebird
Organization: Department of the Interior