Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: George Aiken Mike Reddy, Paul F. Schuster, Charmaine Gunther, Scott Charlton, Jason Tregellas Publication_Date: 2005 Title: Everglades Water Quality -Field Parameters Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: text file Online_Linkage: http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/aiken/aikenwq.html Description: Abstract: This data set contains the following parameters: Lab ID, site ID, collection date and time, field pH, field specific conductivity, and water temperature at 10 locations. Purpose: It is well recognized that the chemical forms of mercury in the water column and sediments are intimately related to bioaccumulation and body burden. Interactions of mercury and dissolved organic matter may play an important role in controlling the bioavailability and reactivity of mercury. The goal of our research is to provide information about the interactions of mercury and dissolved organic matter that will better define this important, albeit, poorly understood process. Ultimately, this research will lead to a more complete model of mercury behavior in the Everglades. Our research focused on the effect of DOC on the transport and reactivity of mercury in the Everglades through a combined field and laboratory study. The underlying hypothesis of this research is that the chemistry and structural characteristics of organic matter in the Everglades have a controlling influence on mercury cycling processes such as methylation and volatilization. The South Florida Water Management District, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the USGS South Florida Ecosystems Initiative have organized an intensive study of surface water chemistry in Southern Florida. In 1994, several onsite-research locations were selected in the Water Conservation Areas of the South Florida Water Management District in conjunction with this multidisciplinary, multiagency research project. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19950301 Ending_Date: 19950331 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: none planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.9 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.1 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 26.79 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.59 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Theme_Keyword: pH Theme_Keyword: chemistry Theme_Keyword: hydrology Theme_Keyword: water quality Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: environment Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters Theme_Keyword: 007 Theme_Keyword: 012 Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4, Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: US Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, D. C., NIST Place_Keyword: Florida Place_Keyword: FL Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas, FIPS 6-3, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology Place_Keyword: Broward County Place_Keyword: Miami-Dade County Place_Keyword: Palm Beach County Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Place_Keyword: Central Everglades Place_Keyword: Greater Lake Okeechobee Place_Keyword: South East Coast Place_Keyword: E0 Place_Keyword: F0 Place_Keyword: F1 Place_Keyword: F4 Place_Keyword: L67-S151 Place_Keyword: L67-S333 Place_Keyword: S10D Place_Keyword: S10E Place_Keyword: U2 Place_Keyword: U3 Access_Constraints: none Use_Constraints: These data are subject to change and are not citable until reviewed and approved for official publication by the USGS Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: George Aiken Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Project chief Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 3215 Marine Street, Suite E-127 City: Boulder State_or_Province: CO Postal_Code: 80303 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 303 541-3036 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 303 447-2505 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: graiken@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/aiken/locationwq.html Browse_Graphic_File_Description: location of sample collection sites Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF Data_Set_Credit: This work has been done as part of the U.S. Geological Survey South Florida Ecosystems Initiative and was funded in part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (through Grant IAG #DW14936802-01-0). Native_Data_Set_Environment: ASCII text, comma separated values (csv) Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Aiken, G. R. Publication_Date: 1992 Title: Chloride Interference in the Analysis of Dissolved Organic Carbon by the wet oxidation method the Wet Oxidation Method Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report Series_Information: Series_Name: Environmental Sciences and Technology Issue_Identification: v.26, p.2435-2439 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Dorcrecht, Netherlands Publisher: Kluwer Academic Press Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Cotlove, E. Trantham, H. V., Bowman, R. L. Publication_Date: 1958 Title: An Instrument and Method for Automatic, Rapid, Accurate and Sensitive Titration of Chloride in Biologic Samples Titration of Chloride in Biologic Samples Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report Series_Information: Series_Name: Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine Issue_Identification: v.51, p.461-468 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: New York, NY Publisher: Elsevier Inc. Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Garbarino, J. R. Taylor, H.E. Publication_Date: 1979 Title: An inductive-coupled plasma atomic-emission spectrometric method for routine water quality testing Routine Water Quality Testing Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report Series_Information: Series_Name: Applied Spectroscopy Issue_Identification: v.33, no.3, p.220-226 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Frederick, MD Publisher: Society for Applied Spectroscopy Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Garbarino, J. R. Taylor, H. E. Publication_Date: 1980 Title: A Babington-type nebulizer for use in the analysis of natural water samples by inductively coupled plasma spectrometry Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report Series_Information: Series_Name: Applied Spectroscopy Issue_Identification: v.34, no.5, p.584-590 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Frederick, MD Publisher: Society for Applied Spectroscopy Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Reddy, N. M. Schuster, P. F. , Harte, J. J. Publication_Date: 1989 Title: Summary of data from onsite and laboratory analyses of precipitation runoff from carbonate-stone surfaces, National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, June 1984 to November 1987 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report Series_Information: Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report Issue_Identification: OFR 89-246 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Other_Citation_Details: National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, June 1984 to November 1987 Online_Linkage: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr89246 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Schroder, L. J. Fishman, M. J., Friedman, L. C., Darlington, G. W. Publication_Date: 1980 Title: The use of standard reference water samples by the U.S. Geological Survey Survey Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report Series_Information: Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report Issue_Identification: OFR 80-738 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U. S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr80738 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Skougstad, M. W. Fishman, M. J., Friedman, L. C., Erdman, D. E., Duncan, S. S. Publication_Date: 1979 Title: Methods for the determination of inorganic substances in water and fluvial sediments Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report Series_Information: Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report Issue_Identification: OFR 85-495, Book 5, Chapter A1 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston VA Publisher: U. S. Geological Survey Other_Citation_Details: This publication is no longer current and has been superseded by a more recent publication: USGS Report: TWRI -05-A1 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Taylor, H. E. Schiller, A. M., Garbarino, J. R., Brinton, T. I. Publication_Date: 1995 Title: Intercomparison Experiments on Dissolved Trace-Metal Data from the Mississippi River and some of its Tributaries, 1989-1990 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report Series_Information: Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report Issue_Identification: OFR 93-628 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr93628 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Wood, W. W. Publication_Date: 1976 Title: Guidelines for Collection and Field Analysis of Groundwater Samples for Selected Unstable Constituents Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: book chapter Series_Information: Series_Name: Techniques of Water Resources Investigations of the U.S. Geological Survey Issue_Identification: Book 1, Chapter D2 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston VA Publisher: U. S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/twri/twri1-d2/ Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: not applicable Completeness_Report: not applicable Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: Surface water and marsh porewater water samples were collected and analyzed. Data are available for samples collected in March 1995 and analyzed shortly thereafter. Surface water samples were collected at a single depth from 7 locations and at two depths at 3 locations. Marsh pore-water samples were collected at several depths below the sediment water interface at 4 locations. Surface water samples were collected at each pore-water sampling location. A replicate sample was collected from selected Everglades Study Sites to evaluate onsite-sampling variability. Distilled-water blank samples and standard reference water samples (SRWS) were submitted to the laboratory with the onsite samples and were analyzed concomitantly with them. Reference samples were processed using the same procedures as the onsite samples. A total of 27 samples from 10 locations from South Florida Water Management District Water Conservation Areas have been analyzed using a protocol designed to minimize errors associated with sample handling procedures, laboratory analyses, and data-entry operations. Process_Date: unknown Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: George Aiken Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Project chief Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 3215 Marine Street, Suite E-127 City: Boulder State_or_Province: CO Postal_Code: 80303 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 303 541-3036 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 303 447-2505 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: graiken@usgs.gov Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 10 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983 Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257 Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Heather S.Henkel Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 600 Fourth St. South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727 803-8747 ext 3028 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727 803-2030 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hhenkel@usgs.gov Resource_Description: aiken - field parameters Distribution_Liability: The data have no implied or explicit guarantees Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: ASCII Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchanget/graiken/table5b.csv Access_Instructions: Log onto the SOFIA web site at http://sofia.usgs.gov Fees: None Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20061106 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Heather Henkel Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 Fourth Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727 803-8747 ext 3028 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727 803-2030 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sofia-metadata@usgs.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998