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Lisa Reynolds Fogarty

Lisa Fogarty is the Chief Science Officer for the USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center with over 20 years of experience in microbiology and water-quality.  Research interests include: Harmful Algal Blooms, Antibiotic Resistance and Microbial Pathogens in the Environment, and Great Lakes Coastal Processes.

 

 

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Cyanobacterial Accumulation at Binder Lake, Iowa

Toxins and Harmful Algal Blooms Science Team

The team develops advanced methods to study factors driving algal toxin production, how and where wildlife or humans are exposed to toxins, and ecotoxicology. That information is used to develop decision tools to understand if ​ toxin exposure leads to adverse health effects in order to protect human and wildlife health.
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Contaminant Biology, Environmental Health Program, Toxic Substances Hydrology
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Toxins and Harmful Algal Blooms Science Team

The team develops advanced methods to study factors driving algal toxin production, how and where wildlife or humans are exposed to toxins, and ecotoxicology. That information is used to develop decision tools to understand if ​ toxin exposure leads to adverse health effects in order to protect human and wildlife health.
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Ripples on Lake Richie near Portage Trail at Isle Royale National Park with tree growing strangely over water.

Determination of Algal Toxin Concentrations in Surface Waters at National Parks

The U.S. Geological Survey, in partnership with the National Park Service began a project in 2012 exploring levels of the algal toxins in surface drinking water and recreational waters in 3 National Park Service Parks: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Isle Royale National Park, and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
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Upper Midwest Water Science Center
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Determination of Algal Toxin Concentrations in Surface Waters at National Parks

The U.S. Geological Survey, in partnership with the National Park Service began a project in 2012 exploring levels of the algal toxins in surface drinking water and recreational waters in 3 National Park Service Parks: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Isle Royale National Park, and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
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Estimating Lake Water Clarity

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), use a technique modeled after Olmanson and others (2001) to predict water clarity and corresponding trophic state index (TSI) values based on the Carlson's Trophic State Index (TSI) in inland lakes greater than 20 acres using satellite remote sensing data. Measurements from the...
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Upper Midwest Water Science Center
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Estimating Lake Water Clarity

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), use a technique modeled after Olmanson and others (2001) to predict water clarity and corresponding trophic state index (TSI) values based on the Carlson's Trophic State Index (TSI) in inland lakes greater than 20 acres using satellite remote sensing data. Measurements from the...
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Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 Upper Midwest WSC attendees
Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 Upper Midwest WSC attendees
Ten people lined up smiling in front of posters at a conference

Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 Upper Midwest WSC attendees

Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 Upper Midwest WSC attendees

Upper Midwest Water Science Center employees who attended the Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

(L to R): Hayley Olds, Grace Armstrong, Sarah Janssen, Leon Katona, Lisa Fogarty, Jeannette Cruz, Kayla Lockmiller, Tori Byers, Alexei Rose, Isaac Mevis

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Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Ten people lined up smiling in front of posters at a conference

Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 Upper Midwest WSC attendees

Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 Upper Midwest WSC attendees

Upper Midwest Water Science Center employees who attended the Great Lakes Area of Concern Conference 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

(L to R): Hayley Olds, Grace Armstrong, Sarah Janssen, Leon Katona, Lisa Fogarty, Jeannette Cruz, Kayla Lockmiller, Tori Byers, Alexei Rose, Isaac Mevis

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Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Role of trace metal co-limitation in cyanobacterial blooms of Maumee Bay (Lake Erie) and Green Bay (Lake Michigan)

The open waters of large lakes can sometimes become so depleted in important metals that phytoplankton communities become either growth limited or limited in some metabolic function. Metals such as Fe, Ni, Mo, and Zn are used as co-factors for enzymes by phytoplankton in core metabolic functions, as well as metabolic pathways that allow phytoplankton to use less preferred forms of N and P (e.g. ni
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James H. Larson, Keith Loftin, Erin A. Stelzer, David M. Costello, Sean Bailey, Mary Anne Evans, Carrie E Givens, Lisa R. Fogarty
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

Understanding sources and distribution of Escherichia coli at Lake St. Clair Metropark Beach, Macomb County, Michigan

Lake St. Clair Metropark Beach (LSCMB) in Michigan is a public beach near the mouth of the Clinton River that has a history of beach closures for public health concerns. The Clinton River is designated as a Great Lakes Area of Concern, and the park has a Beneficial Use Impairment for beach closings because of elevated Escherichia coli (E. coli) concentrations. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooper
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Lisa R. Fogarty, Jessica A. Maurer, Ian M. Hyslop, Alexander R. Totten, Christopher M. Kephart, Angela K. Brennan
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Ohio Water Microbiology Laboratory

Temporal trends in water-quality constituent concentrations and annual loads of chemical constituents in Michigan watersheds, 1998–2013

In 1998, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Geological Survey began the Water Chemistry Monitoring Program for select streams in the State of Michigan. Objectives of this program were to provide assistance with (1) statewide water-quality assessments, (2) the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting process, and (3) water-resource management decisions.
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Christopher J. Hoard, Lisa R. Fogarty, Joseph W. Duris
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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Detection of microcystin and other cyanotoxins in lakes at Isle Royale National Park, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, northern Michigan, 2012–13

Although cyanotoxins released during algal blooms have become an increasing concern in surface waters across the United States, the presence of cyanotoxins in northern Michigan lakes had not been evaluated in detail. The U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service (NPS) led a 2-year study (2012 and 2013) to determine the presence of microcystin and other algal toxins in several inland lakes a
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Lori M. Fuller, Angela K. Brennan, Lisa R. Fogarty, Keith A. Loftin, Heather E. Johnson, David D. VanderMeulen, Brenda Moraska Lafrancois
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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Factors associated with the deposition of Cladophora on Lake Michigan beaches in 2012

Deposition of the macroalgae Cladophora spp. was monitored on 18 beaches around Lake Michigan during 2012 at a high temporal frequency. We observed a high degree of spatial variability in Cladophora deposition among beaches on Lake Michigan, even within local regions, with no clear regional pattern in the intensity of Cladophora deposition. A strong seasonal pattern in Cladophora deposition was ob
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Stephen C. Riley, Taaja R. Tucker, Jean V. Adams, Lisa R. Fogarty, Brenda Moraska Lafrancois
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) at ambient freshwater beaches

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are a threat to human health worldwide, and although detected at marine beaches, they have been largely unstudied at freshwater beaches. Genes indicating S. aureus (SA; femA) and methicillin resistance (mecA) were detected at 11 and 12 of 13 US Great Lakes beaches and in 18% or 27% of 287 recreational water samples, respectively. Eight beaches had
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Lisa R. Fogarty, Sheridan K. Haack, Heather E. Johnson, Angela K. Brennan, Natasha M. Isaacs, Chelsea Spencer
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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Genes indicative of zoonotic and swine pathogens are persistent in stream water and sediment following a swine manure spill

Manure spills to streams are relatively frequent, but no studies have characterized stream contamination with zoonotic and veterinary pathogens, or fecal chemicals, following a spill. We tested stream water and sediment over 25 days and downstream for 7.6 km for: fecal indicator bacteria (FIB); the fecal indicator chemicals cholesterol and coprostanol; 20 genes for zoonotic and swine-specific bact
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Sheridan K. Haack, Joseph W. Duris, Dana W. Kolpin, Lisa R. Fogarty, Heather E. Johnson, Kristen E. Gibson, Michael J. Focazio, Kellogg J. Schwab, Laura E. Hubbard, William T. Foreman
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Toxic Substances Hydrology, Environmental Health Program, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Bacterial pathogen gene abundance and relation to recreational water quality at seven Great Lakes beaches

Quantitative assessment of bacterial pathogens, their geographic variability, and distribution in various matrices at Great Lakes beaches are limited. Quantitative PCR (qPCR) was used to test for genes from E. coli O157:H7 (eaeO157), shiga-toxin producing E. coli (stx2), Campylobacter jejuni (mapA), Shigella spp. (ipaH), and a Salmonella enterica-specific (SE) DNA sequence at seven Great Lakes bea
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Ryan J. Oster, Rasanthi U. Wijesinghe, Lisa Reynolds Fogarty, Sheridan K. Haack, Lisa R. Fogarty, Taaja R. Tucker, Stephen Riley
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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Occurrence of antibiotic resistance and characterization of resistant genes and integrons in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from integrated fish farms south China

Antibiotics are still widely applied in animal husbandry to prevent diseases and used as feed additives to promote animal growth. This could result in antibiotic resistance to bacteria and antibiotic residues in animals. In this paper, Enterobacteriaceae isolated from four integrated fish farms in Zhongshan, South China were tested for antibiotic resistance, tetracycline resistance genes, sulfonam
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Hao-Chang Su, Guang-Guo Ying, Ran Tao, Rui-Quan Zhang, Lisa R. Fogarty, Dana W. Kolpin
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Water Resources Mission Area, Ecosystems Mission Area, Toxic Substances Hydrology, Environmental Health Program, Central Midwest Water Science Center

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