Data Releases

The study compared the survival of zebra mussels and benthic macroinvertebrates after a 5-day treatment with carbon dioxide infusion under a tarp and a benthic mat. The study was conducted on Loon Lake, Benzie County, Michigan within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The data include water quality (dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature) and water chemistry, zebra mussel mortality and...

The US Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, in coordination with the US Fish and Wildlife Service's (USFWS) Branch of Migratory Bird Surveys, worked to develop, survey, and deploy an advanced aerial photography boresight in the town of Bassville Park, Florida. The intention of this boresight is to provide an extensive array of high-accuracy ground control...

This study aimed to determine movement patterns of Mooneye in the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway (SACN) to better understand their range, seasonal behavior, spawning site fidelity, and co-occurrence with Spectaclecase. To our knowledge, Mooneye have never been tracked with acoustic transmitters. Prior to Mooneye trials, we conducted a Gizzard Shad pilot to ensure surgeries were...

The Portneuf River sub basin is located in southeast Idaho, USA. The Portneuf River is approximately 100 miles long and drains an area of roughly 1,360 square miles. Five water quality monitoring stations along the Portneuf were measured for dissolved oxygen and water temperature from 2009 to 2014 as part of water quality assessments by the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality...

The Fish and Wildlife Service currently uses nets and electrofishing as part of their early detection and monitoring program in the Upper Illinois River for bigheaded carps. This dataset contains the sampling data and sampling attributes (such as water parameters for electrofishing or net length for gills). The sampling data is the binary presence/absence observations. This is that data...

This data release contains an image and video catalog of the 2018 summit collapse and lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kīlauea volcano, on the Island of Hawaiʻi. An intrusion of magma into Kīlauea’s lower East Rift Zone resulted in a four-month-long eruption from May 3 to September 5, 2018 (Neal and others, 2018). The eruption produced lava flows that covered an area of 35.5 square...

Sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission rates are a fundamental measurement for the study and monitoring of active volcanoes. Such emissions inform scientists about the level of volcanic activity or unrest, and they also present a hazard to surrounding populations. Here we present a continuation of a long-term dataset collected by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory for over four decades using UV...

Data describe the detection of spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta) and mucket (Ortmanniana ligamentina) freshwater mussel environmental DNA (eDNA) from water samples collected from the Big Piney River in Pulaski County, MO, U.S.A. Water samples were collected from 2 sites known to contain the target species by previously surveyed mussel beds. Sampling transects spanned from 100 meters...

This data set includes plot environmental and vegetation sample data for a project documenting conditions at two post-mining restoration sites in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, USA. Samples at the Good Spring restoration site document vegetation and soil conditions following recent remediation and restoration of slopes of mine-waste piles. Samples at the Nanticoke site...

We tested eDNA metabarcoding as a survey tool to examine invertebrate communities in a uranium mine containment pond. We tested samples collected from surface water near mines and from one mine containment pond using one primer set that targeted the COI gene (Leray et al. 2013). Subsequent sequencing of these amplicons was used to assess eDNA genetic signature of invertebrates living in...

This data set includes soil sample and vegetation plot sample data for a project examining the ability of composted soil amendments to improve terrestrial ecological restoration outcomes in a post-contaminant setting. Sites in the Missouri section of the Tri-States Mining District that had been restored and treated with varying levels of composted soil amendments were assessed for...

Concentrations for 26 PFAS detected in muscle tissues (edible fillets) of 16 estuarine fishes collected from four estuaries along Florida’s Atlantic coast between April 2021 and January 2023.