Everglades Water chemistry - Cations and Anions

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

George Aiken

Mike Reddy
Paul F. Schuster
Charmaine Gunther
Scott Charlton
Jason Tregellas

Publication_Date: Unpublished material

Title: Everglades Water chemistry - Cations and Anions

Online_Linkage: <http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/aiken/aikenchem.html>

Description:

Abstract:

This data set contains the following parameters: Lab ID, site ID, lab pH, lab alkalinity, Cl, SO4, Ca, Mg, Na, K, and ion balance for 27 samples collected from 10 sites.

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: mercury contamination

Theme_Keyword: dissolved organic carbon

Theme_Keyword: photic zone

Theme_Keyword: nutrients

Theme_Keyword: speciation model

Theme_Keyword: microbial degradation

Theme_Keyword: chemistry

Theme_Keyword: hydrology

Theme_Keyword: water quality

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus:

Geographic Data - Metadata, ISO 19115:2003(E), TopicCategoryCode, 2003, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Geneva, Switzerland

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: F0

Place_Keyword: F1

Place_Keyword: E0

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

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/locationchem.html>

Browse_Graphic_File_Description: location of sample collection sites

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

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: G. R. Aiken

Publication_Date: 1992

Title:

Chloride Interference in the Analysis of Dissolved Organic Carbon by the wet oxidation method the Wet Oxidation Method

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Environmental Sciences and Technology

Issue_Identification: v.26, p.2435-2439

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

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine

Issue_Identification: v.51, p.461-468

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Fishman, M. J.

Friedman, L. C.

Publication_Date: 1985

Title:

Methods for Determination of Inorganic Substances in Water and Fluvial Sediments Sediments

Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report

Issue_Identification: OFR 85-495

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

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

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Applied Spectroscopy

Issue_Identification: v.33, no.3, p.220-226

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 Samples by Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Applied Spectroscopy

Issue_Identification: v.34, no.5, p.584-590

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

N. M. Reddy

P. F. Schuster
J. J. Harte

Publication_Date: 1989

Title:

Summary of data from onsite and laboratory analyses of precipitation runoff from carbonate-stone surfaces Runoff from Carbonate-Stone Surfaces, National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, June 1984 to November 1987

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

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

Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report

Issue_Identification: OFR 80-738

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA

Publisher: U. S. Geological Survey

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 Fluvial Sediments

Series_Information:

Series_Name:

USGS Open-File Report Geological Survey 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:

Techniques of Water-Resource Investigations of the U.S. Geological Survey

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

H. E. Taylor

A. M. Schiller
J. R. Garbarino
T. I. Brinton

Publication_Date: 1995

Title:

Intercomparison Experiments on Dissolved Trace-Metal Data from the Mississippi River and some of its Tributaries, 1989-1990

Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report

Issue_Identification: OFR 93-628

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston VA

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: W. W. Wood

Publication_Date: 1976

Title:

Guidelines for Collection and Field Analysis of Groundwater Samples for Selected Unstable Constituents

Series_Information:

Series_Name:

Techniques of Water Resources Investigations of the U.S. Geological Survey

Issue_Identification: p.2-6

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston VA

Publisher: U. S. Geological Survey

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

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:

Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Everglades

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

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SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 10

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Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 0.1

Longitude_Resolution: 0.1

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Roy Sonenshein

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Database Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address:

9100 NW 36th Street

Suite 107

City: Miami

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33178

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 305 717-5824

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 305 717-5801

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sunshine@usgs.gov

Resource_Description: aiken - cation and anions

Distribution_Liability: The data have no implied or explicit guarantees

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Fees: None

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20041014

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Jo Anne Stapleton

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing address

Address: 521 National Center

City: Reston

State_or_Province: VA

Postal_Code: 20192

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703 648-4592

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 703 648-4614

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jastapleton@usgs.gov

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