The Central Midwest Water Science Center (CMWSC) includes three states: Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. The water science center is responsible for providing information on discharge, water quality, water-use, and groundwater data. The Harmful Algal Bloom (HABs) team is currently researching ways to better predict, analyze, and study HABs.
Next Generation Water Observing System
Next Generation Water Observing System: USGS scientists and collaborators are monitoring algal blooms on the Illinois River. The Illinois River Basin was selected as a Next Generation Water Observing Systems project with appropriated funding directed towards monitoring, sampling, and studying the complexities of algal blooms with new technologies and methodologies.
Water-Quality Monitoring Plan at Mozingo Lake in Maryville, Missouri
Water-Quality Monitoring Plan at Mozingo Lake in Maryville, Missouri: USGS scientists in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources are working to develop a water-quality monitoring plan for Mozingo Lake. Mozingo Lake is a reservoir that serves as a large recreational area and provides drinking water to the city of Maryville.
Hydrodynamic and Temperature Model Investigation of Illinois River HABs
Hydrodynamic and Temperature Model Investigation of Illinois River HABs (funded in 2021). The purpose of this study is to develop a hydrodynamic and temperature model of a 20-mile reach of the upper Illinois River known to experience harmful algal blooms (HABs). The model will be two-dimensional in the vertical and longitudinal directions.
Better proxies for identifying and predicting river HABs
USGS scientists working as part of the Water Quality Processes Program's Proxies Project are using continuous and geospatial datasets to better identify and predict HABs in flowing waters. HABs in rivers are understudied compared to lake and estuarine settings and insight into how, where, and why HABs occur in rivers is necessary to avoid the possible exacerbation of these events due to increases in temperature from climate change. The Illinois River Basin serves as a case study during the initial years of the project.
RiverMET: Workflow and scripts for river metabolism estimation including Illinois River Basin application, 2005 - 2020
River Metabolism Estimation Tools (RiverMET) with demo in the Illinois River Basin
Central Midwest Water Science Center— Harmful Algal Blooms team
- Overview
The Central Midwest Water Science Center (CMWSC) includes three states: Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. The water science center is responsible for providing information on discharge, water quality, water-use, and groundwater data. The Harmful Algal Bloom (HABs) team is currently researching ways to better predict, analyze, and study HABs.
Next Generation Water Observing SystemNext Generation Water Observing System: USGS scientists and collaborators are monitoring algal blooms on the Illinois River. The Illinois River Basin was selected as a Next Generation Water Observing Systems project with appropriated funding directed towards monitoring, sampling, and studying the complexities of algal blooms with new technologies and methodologies.
Water-Quality Monitoring Plan at Mozingo Lake in Maryville, MissouriWater-Quality Monitoring Plan at Mozingo Lake in Maryville, Missouri: USGS scientists in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources are working to develop a water-quality monitoring plan for Mozingo Lake. Mozingo Lake is a reservoir that serves as a large recreational area and provides drinking water to the city of Maryville.
Hydrodynamic and Temperature Model Investigation of Illinois River HABsHydrodynamic and Temperature Model Investigation of Illinois River HABs (funded in 2021). The purpose of this study is to develop a hydrodynamic and temperature model of a 20-mile reach of the upper Illinois River known to experience harmful algal blooms (HABs). The model will be two-dimensional in the vertical and longitudinal directions.
Better proxies for identifying and predicting river HABs
USGS scientists working as part of the Water Quality Processes Program's Proxies Project are using continuous and geospatial datasets to better identify and predict HABs in flowing waters. HABs in rivers are understudied compared to lake and estuarine settings and insight into how, where, and why HABs occur in rivers is necessary to avoid the possible exacerbation of these events due to increases in temperature from climate change. The Illinois River Basin serves as a case study during the initial years of the project.
- Data
RiverMET: Workflow and scripts for river metabolism estimation including Illinois River Basin application, 2005 - 2020
Ecosystem metabolism is a measure of energy flow in terrestrial and aquatic environments that quantifies a balance between the rate of biomass production by photosynthesizing plants and the rate of biomass oxidation by respiring plants and animals to maintain and build living biomass. It is therefore a fundamental measure of ecosystem function that quantifies the balance between the rate of produc - Publications
River Metabolism Estimation Tools (RiverMET) with demo in the Illinois River Basin
Ecosystem metabolism quantifies the rate of production, maintenance, and decay of organic matter in terrestrial and aquatic systems. It is a fundamental measure of energy flow associated with biomass production by photosynthesizing organisms and biomass oxidation by respiring plants, animals, algae, and bacteria (Bernhardt et al., 2022) . Ecosystem metabolism also provides an understanding of enerAuthorsJay Choi, Katherine Michelle Bernabe Quion, Ariel Reed, Judson HarveyCentral Midwest Water Science Center— Harmful Algal Blooms team
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Central Midwest Water Science Center (CMWSC) includes three States—Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. USGS water science centers across the Nation provide information on water resources including streamflow, water use, water availability, and the quality of surface water and groundwater (https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources).The USGS CMWSC Harmful Algal BAuthorsKatherine M. Summers, Heather M. Krempa, Jessica D. Garrett