USGS Hydrotechs sample collecting in the early morning at the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.
Ariele Kramer
Ariele Kramer is a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey Kansas Water Science Center in Lawrence, Kansas. Her work primarily focuses on collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data for water-quality related concerns including but not limited to nutrients, harmful algal blooms, and sediment.
Science and Products
Effect of Water-Injection Dredging (WID) Operations on Water Quality Downstream from Tuttle Creek Reservoir
USGS continuous water-quality monitoring and discrete sampling is an integral component for understanding pre-, during, and post-WID water-quality conditions and the impacts on the surrounding ecosystems.
Characterization of Potentially Toxic CyanoHAB Initiation in Slow-Moving Streams, Wetlands, and Oxbows
Targeted sampling in selected slow-moving streams, wetlands, and oxbows to receiving reservoirs and rivers will allow us to better characterize the hydrologic, water-quality, and biological conditions present during the formation and transport of potentially toxic cyanobacteria blooms.
Milford Lake
The USGS Kansas Water Science Center, in cooperation with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), has been studying the extreme cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABS) occurring annually in Milford Lake. CyanoHABs on Milford Lake have impacted local businesses economically, and there have been documented human illnesses and animal deaths associated with the blooms...
Sediment Monitoring in the Neosho and Cottonwood River Basins
The USGS Kansas Water Science Center, in cooperation with the Kansas Water Office, maintains a sediment monitoring network on the Neosho and Cottonwood Rivers both up- and downstream from John Redmond Reservoir. The purpose of this network is to assess the sediment loads and trapping efficiency of John Redmond Reservoir, and provide data to state agencies to determine the effect of streambank...
Cheney Reservoir and Water Quality Studies
Cheney Reservoir is located on the North Fork Ninnescah River in south-central Kansas, 20 miles west of Wichita. Cheney Reservoir is the primary drinking water supply for the city and a popular recreational resource for the region. After cyanobacterial blooms in 1990 and 1991, which caused servere taste-and-odor events, the USGS Kansas Water Science Center partnered with the City of Wichita and...
Cyanobacterial (Blue-Green Algal) Blooms: Tastes, Odors, and Toxins
Freshwater and marine harmful algal blooms (HABs) can occur anytime water use is impaired due to excessive accumulations of algae. In freshwater, the majority of HABs are caused by cyanobacteria (also called blue-green algae). Cyanobacteria cause a multitude of water-quality concerns, including the potential to produce taste-and-odor causing compounds and toxins that are potent enough to poison...
Sample Collecting at a Gathering Pond
USGS Hydrotechs sample collecting in the early morning at the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.
Algal growth on the shore
Algal accumulation near the shore of the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.
Algal accumulation near the shore of the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.
Algal Accumulation at Ferguson Marsh
Algal accumulation at Ferguson Marsh in the Perry Lake Wetland Complex.
Algal accumulation at Ferguson Marsh in the Perry Lake Wetland Complex.
Pipe installation to monitor harmful algal blooms at Cheney Reservoir
John Rosendale installs a pipe to monitor harmful algal blooms at Cheney Reservoir in Kansas.
John Rosendale installs a pipe to monitor harmful algal blooms at Cheney Reservoir in Kansas.
Science and Products
Effect of Water-Injection Dredging (WID) Operations on Water Quality Downstream from Tuttle Creek Reservoir
USGS continuous water-quality monitoring and discrete sampling is an integral component for understanding pre-, during, and post-WID water-quality conditions and the impacts on the surrounding ecosystems.
Characterization of Potentially Toxic CyanoHAB Initiation in Slow-Moving Streams, Wetlands, and Oxbows
Targeted sampling in selected slow-moving streams, wetlands, and oxbows to receiving reservoirs and rivers will allow us to better characterize the hydrologic, water-quality, and biological conditions present during the formation and transport of potentially toxic cyanobacteria blooms.
Milford Lake
The USGS Kansas Water Science Center, in cooperation with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), has been studying the extreme cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABS) occurring annually in Milford Lake. CyanoHABs on Milford Lake have impacted local businesses economically, and there have been documented human illnesses and animal deaths associated with the blooms...
Sediment Monitoring in the Neosho and Cottonwood River Basins
The USGS Kansas Water Science Center, in cooperation with the Kansas Water Office, maintains a sediment monitoring network on the Neosho and Cottonwood Rivers both up- and downstream from John Redmond Reservoir. The purpose of this network is to assess the sediment loads and trapping efficiency of John Redmond Reservoir, and provide data to state agencies to determine the effect of streambank...
Cheney Reservoir and Water Quality Studies
Cheney Reservoir is located on the North Fork Ninnescah River in south-central Kansas, 20 miles west of Wichita. Cheney Reservoir is the primary drinking water supply for the city and a popular recreational resource for the region. After cyanobacterial blooms in 1990 and 1991, which caused servere taste-and-odor events, the USGS Kansas Water Science Center partnered with the City of Wichita and...
Cyanobacterial (Blue-Green Algal) Blooms: Tastes, Odors, and Toxins
Freshwater and marine harmful algal blooms (HABs) can occur anytime water use is impaired due to excessive accumulations of algae. In freshwater, the majority of HABs are caused by cyanobacteria (also called blue-green algae). Cyanobacteria cause a multitude of water-quality concerns, including the potential to produce taste-and-odor causing compounds and toxins that are potent enough to poison...
Sample Collecting at a Gathering Pond
USGS Hydrotechs sample collecting in the early morning at the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.
USGS Hydrotechs sample collecting in the early morning at the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.
Algal growth on the shore
Algal accumulation near the shore of the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.
Algal accumulation near the shore of the Gathering Pond below Milford Lake.
Algal Accumulation at Ferguson Marsh
Algal accumulation at Ferguson Marsh in the Perry Lake Wetland Complex.
Algal accumulation at Ferguson Marsh in the Perry Lake Wetland Complex.
Pipe installation to monitor harmful algal blooms at Cheney Reservoir
John Rosendale installs a pipe to monitor harmful algal blooms at Cheney Reservoir in Kansas.
John Rosendale installs a pipe to monitor harmful algal blooms at Cheney Reservoir in Kansas.