National Aquatic Resources Survey datasets

The 4 resource surveys (coastal, rivers and streams, lakes and reservoirs, and wetlands) each have datasets covering the biological, chemical, physical habitat, hydrologic and watershed data. 

This dataset is associated with the following publications:
Stoddard , J., J. Van Sickle, A. Herlihy, J. Brahney, S. Paulsen , D. Peck , R. Mitchell , and A. Pollard. Continental-scale increase in stream and lake phosphorus: Are oligotrophic systems disappearing in the U.S.?.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, USA, 50(7): 3409-3415, (2016).
Herlihy, A., M. Kentula, T. Magee, G. Lomnicky, A. Nahlik, and G. Serenbetz. Striving for consistency in the National Wetland Condition Assessment: developing a reference condition approach for assessing wetlands at a continental scale.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 191: 327, (2019).
Magee, T., K. Blocksom, and S. Fennessy. A national-scale vegetation multimetric index (VMMI) as an indicator of wetland condition across the conterminous United States..   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 191: 322, (2019).
Herlihy, A., J. Sifneos, G. Lomnicky, A. Nahlik, M. Kentula, T. Magee, M. Weber, and A. Trebitz. The response of wetland quality indicators to human disturbance indicators across the United States.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 191: 296, (2019).
Herlihy, A., S. Paulsen, M. Kentula, T. Magee, A. Nahlik, and G. Lomnicky. Assessing the relative and attributable risk of stressors to wetland condition across the conterminous United States.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 191: 320, (2019).
Lomnicky, G., A.T. Herlihy, and P. Kaufmann. Quantifying the extent of human disturbance activities and anthropogenic stressors in wetlands across the conterminous United States: results from the National Wetland Condition Assessment.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 191: 324, (2019).
Bowen, G., A. Putman, J.R. Brooks, D. Bowling, E. Oerter, and S. Good. Inferring the source of evaporated waters using stable H and O isotopes..   OECOLOGIA. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 187(4): 1025-1039, (2018).
Fox, E., J. Ver Hoef, and T. Olsen. Comparing Spatial Regression to Random Forests for Large Environmental Data Sets..   PLoS ONE. Public Library of Science, San Francisco, CA, USA, 15(3): e0229509, (2020).
Nahlik, A., K. Blocksom, A. Herlihy, M. Kentula, T. Magee, and S. Paulsen. Use of national-scale data to examine human-mediated additions of heavy metals to wetland soils of the US.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 191: 336, (2019).
Kentula, M., and S. Paulsen. The 2011 National Wetland Condition Assessment: Overview and an Invitation.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. Springer, New York, NY, USA,  325, (2019).
Magee, T., K. Blocksom, A. Herlihy, and A. Nahlik. Characterizing nonnative plants in wetlands across the conterminous United States.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT. Springer, New York, NY, USA, 191: 344, (2019).
Feio, M., R. Hughes, M. Callisto, S.J. Nichols, O.N. Odume, B.R. Quintella, M. Kuemmerlen, F.C. Aguiar, S.F.P. Almeida, P. Alonso-EguíaLis , F.O. Arimoro, F.J. Dyer , J.S. Harding , S. Jang , P. Kaufmann, S. Lee, J. Li, D.R. Macedo, A. Mendes, N. Mercado-Silva , W. Monk, K. Nakamura, G.G. Ndiritu , R. Ogden , M. Peat , T.B. Reynoldson , B. Rios-Touma , P. Segurado , and A.G. Yates. The biological assessment and rehabilitation of the world’s rivers: an overview.   WATER. MDPI AG, Basel,  SWITZERLAND, 13(3): 371, (2021).

Tags: aquatic-monitoring, assessment, coastal, lakes-and-reservoirs, rivers-and-streams, wetlands
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency