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River-to-lake transitional zones or rivermouths are biogeochemically active sections of the aquatic continuum that are often understudied compared to their adjoining environments. Internal nutrient loading from these transitional zones may be a considerable source of nutrients to lakes and disconnect upstream management initiatives from in-lake improvements. To contextualize internal...

In 2020 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), as part of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) Program, began a project to characterize potential hydrogeomorphic change associated with hydrogeomorphic units (HGUs) and their catenae (units linked by their association with sediment sources and flow origins). The objective of the project was to develop a geographic information system...

The sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, is a parasitic, invasive fish of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Since the late 1950s, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission has administered a Sea Lamprey Control Program (SLCP) that is executed collaboratively by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This program relies on two lampricides, TFM (4-nitro-3-...

This dataset accompanies the article "Off-channel habitat use by silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and bighead carp (H. nobilis) in the upper Mississippi River". Acoustic telemetry data (Innovasea, Inc.) were collected on invasive silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) in Pools 17-19 of the upper Mississippi River to examine timing...

Concentrations of Total40 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), and Total13 PFAS were consistently higher at the AFFF sites compared to the two East Coast reference sites in tree swallow eggs, nestlings, and diet by as much as a factor of 40 times higher. Sites in the Upper Midwest with other PFAS sources also had...

This study used artificial burrowing chambers to investigate the effects of groundwater drainage rates and soil type on burrow initiation and morphology of red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii). The relationship between caloric density of crayfish and burrowing was also examined. The objectives of this study were to (1) determine the effect of ground water drainage rates on burrowing...

The Illinois River receives nutrients from point and non-point runoff from upstream urban and agricultural areas. These excess nutrients could be contributing to harmful algal blooms in the Illinois River and its tributaries. Successfully mitigating the blooms requires an understanding of the underlying nutrient processes occurring in the river. Phosphorus is often the nutrient that...

Floodplain inundation is believed to be the dominant physical driver of an array of ecosystem patterns and processes in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). Here, we present results of a change analysis to estimate shifts in floodplain inundation regime characteristics from 1940 to 2022 in navigation pools 3 through 10 along the Upper Mississippi River. Data were derived from a...

Modifications were made to Great Lakes topobathy data to interpolate areas of missing near shore elevation data. Areas with missing elevation data were not interpolated where there was low confidence in the underlying depth. This included rivers, canals, harbors, lakes, reservoirs, etc. Areas important for targeting Phragmites australis management often lie within these aquatic...

This dataset contains a list of words that occurred at least 100 times from a news media search in LexisNexis, a large news archive database, about water bottling facilities in the U.S. from 1990 to 2024. Each word listed was classified as typically discussed in the context of the environment, the economy, both or neither. The data was used to conduct natural language processing lexicon...

Throughout the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), floods in 1993 and 2019 were record-setting events in terms of flood stage and duration of flooding. Floodplain tree species are adapted to survive moderate frequencies, intensities, and durations of inundation. These events generated interest in quantifying levels of tree mortality and presented an opportunity to study how...

This study evaluated three sedation methods to determine their efficacy for use during telemetry tagging. Five fish species (bighead carp, grass carp, bigmouth buffalo, American paddlefish, and lake sturgeon) were sedated using eugenol (AQUI-S® 20E), dissolved carbon dioxide, and electroanesthesia to determine sedation induction times. After sedation, half of the fish from each treatment...