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These data cover Devils Lake Basin of Northern Great Plains (NGP) region, North Dakota. We aimed to understand the mechanism of the Devils Lake responses and basin-wide hydrologic change under a wet-climatic regime using a process-based and cold region hydrologic model. The data include areal measurements (km2) of each of the Hydrological Response Units (HRUs) that were modeled.

This data release contains mercury concentration measurements in fish and benthic macroinvertebrates collected from southwestern Idaho and northern Nevada between 2007 and 2024. The dataset primarily includes total mercury (Hg) concentrations in muscle tissue of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)—sampled from three reservoirs on the Duck Valley Reservation (Mountain View Reservoir, Lake...

Under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the U.S. Geological Survey Mercury Research Lab (USGS MRL) conducted a multiyear assessment of mercury across the Laurentian Great Lakes. Biannual sampling was conducted across all five lakes onboard the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) research vessel Lake Guardian (in years 2010–2014, 2018) at pelagic sampling locations...

As part of the larger Great Lakes Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) , the U.S. Geological Survey Mercury, Metals, and Microplastics Research Laboratory (USGS M3RL) completed a binational assessment partnering with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Environmental Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (ONRF)...

The U.S Geological Survey (USGS) is assessing the potential for in-situ addition of metal-based coagulants to enhance mercury (Hg) capture in the Cache Creek Settling Basin (CCSB), a wetland-like environment designed to trap mercury-contaminated sediments from upstream historical mining activities in the Cache Creek watershed. Laboratory and field tests by the USGS show that three tested

The USGS Metadata Wizard is a desktop application to create and edit XML metadata records that describe data products. The tool creates metadata in the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) format, as endorsed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Users can populate an XML metadata record by entering information in the form-based user interface, or by...

Metal concentrations were measured in samples collected in September 2023 and June 2024 at sites located in the lower Panther Creek watershed (Idaho) where historical mine wastes are present. In addition to legacy mining, the study area encompasses the Leesburg and Mackinaw Mining Districts, which were impacted by the 2022 Moose Fire. Samples included periphyton, seston, aquatic insect...

This data release provides a vector digital dataset developed from the published metamorphic map of New Hampshire. This data release is a digital representation of the metamorphic map shown on sheet 2 of the bedrock geologic map of Lyons and others (1997). The original publication from 1997 was available in paper only. A scanned raster version of the 1997 map was obtained from the...

This data release contains data inputs for the Metapopulation Integral Projection Model (MetaIPM). These inputs include demographic rate data (such as fish growth) and movement rate data (such as fish movement across river pools). The data are designed to be downloaded by a Shiny Application (point-and-click version of the model). Each species and scenario requires its own data inputs...

This data release contains metaproteomics data from subsurface methanogenic communities in an Antrim Shale (Michigan basin, MI) natural gas well. The subsurface microbial communities have interacted with produced waters that were exposed to ambient surficial conditions prior to injection of the produced waters into the well. These data are used in a related publication to understand...

Meteorological data were collected at Marconi and Head of the Meadow Beaches on Cape Cod National Seashore, MA as part of a multi-year monitoring study of nearshore sand transport and white shark behavior. The overarching goal of the study is to characterize beach and nearshore morphology, assess temporal variability, and measure wave runup to calibrate USGS total water level forecasts...

Experiments were conducted in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Aqueous Trace Element Analysis Laboratory (ATEAL) in Denver, CO to support development and validation of a method for preparing biological materials for silicon analysis by solution phase inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The objective was to stabilize volatile silicon species resulting from a digestion...