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Measurement of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Graminaceous plants using three extraction techniques Measurement of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Graminaceous plants using three extraction techniques
Dataset contains measured concentrations of PFAS analytes and limits of detection/quantification for 37 total samples. There are 82 total PFAS analytes (7 non-extracted internal standards, 24 extracted internal standards, and 51 target native analytes) and each individual sample has been quantified for all 82 of these compounds. Samples are extracts of plant tissues from three sources...
Juvenile Virile Crayfish (Faxonius virilis) length, weight, and consumption after a 28-day sublethal nickel exposure with associated water quality data Juvenile Virile Crayfish (Faxonius virilis) length, weight, and consumption after a 28-day sublethal nickel exposure with associated water quality data
Data was collected in association with the exposure of aqueous nickel (NiCl2-H2O) to juvenile crayfish (Faxonius virilis) for 29 days at different concentrations to observe any differences in growth (after 28 days) and food consumption (on day 29). Data for the growth component of the study included crayfish wet weight (initial and final), final carapace length, and crayfish sex. The...
Pickle Pond pre-restoration orthomosaic and elevation products, Superior, Wisconsin, September 2022 Pickle Pond pre-restoration orthomosaic and elevation products, Superior, Wisconsin, September 2022
The orthomosaic, digital surface model and point cloud presented here document conditions at Pickle Pond in Superior, Wisconsin in September 2022, prior to planned ecological restoration. Images were collected using a 3D Robotics Solo aircraft with GNSS GPS upgrade, Mission Planner software, and a Pentax Ricoh GRII 3-band digital camera sensor. Imagery acquisition flights were...
Effects of dietary organic selenium on growth, survival, and reproduction in Hyalella azteca and Chironomus dilutus Effects of dietary organic selenium on growth, survival, and reproduction in Hyalella azteca and Chironomus dilutus
Chronic selenium toxicity thresholds are based primarily on dietary organoselenium exposure and subsequent reproductive effects in fish. Available chronic selenium toxicity data suggests that invertebrates are less sensitive than fish, but chronic invertebrate studies are limited. We evaluated yeast-based diets for chronic toxicity studies with Hyalella azteca and Chironomus dilutus...
Active location of fish telemetry tags of fish in the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and tributaries, October 2019 – September 2023 Active location of fish telemetry tags of fish in the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and tributaries, October 2019 – September 2023
This dataset represents coarse active relocations of acoustic transmitters in telemetry tagged fish of various species detected among the Mississippi and Missouri rivers near their confluence. These detections of unknown tagged individuals were incidental and occur within the range and frequency of effort for a focused active telemetry study on invasive carp. These river segments consist...
Grass Carp diet and environmental data from the Lake Erie and Lake Michigan basins from 2019 to 2022 Grass Carp diet and environmental data from the Lake Erie and Lake Michigan basins from 2019 to 2022
Data include metabarcoding read data from grass carp associated with the Great Lakes removal program from 2019 to 2022. The anterior portion of the digestive tract was carefully separated from other organs for each captured grass carp and stored in 180 proof non-denatured ethanol. A 25 ml of subsampled gut contents was used for DNA purification and sequencing using polymerase chain...
Otter Creek pre-restoration orthomosaic and elevation products, Toledo, Ohio, September 2022 Otter Creek pre-restoration orthomosaic and elevation products, Toledo, Ohio, September 2022
The orthomosaic, digital surface model and point cloud presented here document conditions at Otter Creek in Toledo, Ohio in September 2022, prior to planned ecological restoration. Images were collected using a 3D Robotics Solo aircraft with GNSS GPS upgrade, Mission Planner software, and a Pentax Ricoh GRII 3-band digital camera sensor. Imagery acquisition flights were approximately 400...
Method comparison for the detection of environmental DNA from three species of unionid mussels in a mesocosm Method comparison for the detection of environmental DNA from three species of unionid mussels in a mesocosm
Data describe a mesocosm study for the detection of mucket (Ortmanniana ligamentina), fatmucket (Lampsilis siliquoidea), and giant floater (Pyganodon grandis) freshwater mussel environmental DNA (eDNA). Water samples were collected on two different days in September of 2022 from a CERC pond containing O. ligamentina, L. siliquoidea, and P. grandis then analyzed for the presence of eDNA...
Mercury in emergent odonates and midges of the Prairie Pothole wetlands of North Dakota, USA Mercury in emergent odonates and midges of the Prairie Pothole wetlands of North Dakota, USA
This data release is an extension of a previous data release (https://doi.org/10.5066/P971S7IV) that expands the collected data to include tissue mercury concentrations for adult aquatic insects emerging from wadable wetlands in cropland and grassland landscapes of the Prairie Pothole region (n = 15 wetlands in 2016). These data were collected at the same time as the other data (analyzed...
Chemical and biological data from chronic bioassays with native Spea multiplicata exposed to field-collected water or sediment from the Pinyon Plain Mine containment pond in Arizona, USA, or single metals in water-only tests Chemical and biological data from chronic bioassays with native Spea multiplicata exposed to field-collected water or sediment from the Pinyon Plain Mine containment pond in Arizona, USA, or single metals in water-only tests
The dataset reports biological endpoints (survival, growth, developmental stage, and body burden of selected metals) for larval spadefoot toads (Spea multiplicata) in laboratory-based exposures to 1) field-collected water or sediment from a containment pond at the Pinyon Plain Mine in Arizona, USA, during its pre-production phase and 2) six concentrations of copper or cobalt in water...
Detection of Ortmanniana ligamentina male mitotype DNA from a mesocosm during a natural spawning event Detection of Ortmanniana ligamentina male mitotype DNA from a mesocosm during a natural spawning event
Data describe a mesocosm study for the detection of Mucket (Ortmanniana ligamentina) female and male mitotype environmental DNA (eDNA) during a spawning event. Water samples (approximately 1L) were collected every Monday and Thursday for 4 weeks during August 2021 from a pond located at Columbia Environmental Research Center containing O. ligamentina and analyzed for the presence of sex...
Consumer-Grade Side-Scan Sonar Imagery of Invasive Silver Carp in a Missouri River Oxbow Lake, Creve Coeur Lake, 2023 September 20 Consumer-Grade Side-Scan Sonar Imagery of Invasive Silver Carp in a Missouri River Oxbow Lake, Creve Coeur Lake, 2023 September 20
In September 2023, the USGS demonstrated the use of side-scan sonar to image large densities of invasive carp in Creve Coeur Lake, Maryland Heights, Missouri, USA. A 400-meter reach was surveyed using a Humminbird Helix sonar system. Proprietary sonar data were converted to PNG image files (i.e., rectified and speed-corrected) using SonarTRX Pro. The resulting data set includes one CSV...