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Everglades Hydrology and Water Quality Data

Entry ID: USGS_SOFIA_ever_hydro_wq_data

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Summary

Abstract: At present there are few reliable estimates of hydrologic fluxes between groundwater and surface water in the Everglades. This gap in hydrological investigations not only leaves the water budget of the Everglades uncertain, it also hampers progress in understanding the processes that determine mobility and transformation of contaminants, such as mercury, sulfate and nutrients. The objective of ... this project is to quantify hydrologic exchange fluxes between groundwater and surface water and its effects on transport of contaminants in the Everglades. The research furthermore relates surface water and ground water interactions to past, present, and proposed management of surface-water levels and flows in the Everglades. The principal research sites are the Everglades Nutrient Removal Project (ENR), Water Conservation Area 2A (WCA-2A), and the freshwater wetlands of Everglades National Park. Results are being used to quantify ground-water exchange with surface flow, and to quantify the enhancement of chemical transformations of contaminants during transport across the interface between surface water and ground water. Two hydrology and water quality datasets are available for this project. The Northern Everglades Research Site and Sample Information dataset contains a summary of the site locations, data types, and measurement periods in ENR, WCA2A, and WCA2B. The Seepage Meters Site and Sample Information dataset contains vertical fluxes across wetland peat surface measured by seepage meters at research sites in ENR, WCA2A, WCA2B, and WCA3A. Additional data can be found in the appendices of the Open-File Reports 00-168 and 00-483.

For restoration of the Everglades to succeed there must be comprehensive knowledge about physical, chemical, and biological processes throughout the system. A key measure of success in the Everglades is the improvement or protection of water quality under changing hydrologic conditions. Although there is a basic understanding of how interactions between groundwater and surface water will affect water budgets under restoration, there is only a rudimentary understanding of how interactions between groundwater and surface water will affect water quality. Only field-oriented research and modeling can determine whether interactions between groundwater and surface water are currently storing pollutants in groundwater, how long those pollutants are likely to be stored in the aquifer, and under what changing management conditions associated with restoration will those pollutants be returned into the surface water system.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 26.7

S: 25.9

E: -80.33

W: -80.67

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Judson Harvey

Dataset Title: Everglades Hydrology and Water Quality Data

Dataset Release Date: 2005

Data Presentation Form: spreadsheets

Online Resource: http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/harvey/harveyDATA.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1995-06-01

Stop Date: 1998-12-21

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > FLORIDA

Science Keywords

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION DISTRIBUTION

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION SIZE

ISO Topic Category

PLANNING CADASTRE

Project

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

GPW > Gridded Population of the World

Quality http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/documentation.jsp

Access Constraints None

Use Constraints The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York and the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) hold the copyright of this dataset. Users are prohibited from any commercial, non-free resale, or redistribution without explicit written permission from CIESIN and CIAT. Users should acknowledge CIESIN and CIAT as the source used in the creation of any reports, publications, new datasets, derived products, or services resulting from the use of this dataset. CIESIN and CIAT also request reprints of any publications and notification of any redistributing efforts.

Ancillary Keywords

CIESIN > Population Dynamics > Human Settlements > Rural Areas

CIESIN > Population Dynamics > Human Settlements > Urbanization

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

SEDAC

Data Center

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center

Data Center URL: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/
Dataset ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_GPWv3_LANDGEOG

Data Center Personnel
Name: SEDAC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 845-365-8920 Fax: +1 845-365-8922 Email: ciesin.info at ciesin.columbia.edu Contact Address: 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000 City: Palisades Province or State: NY Postal Code: 10964 Country: USA

World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment

Data Center URL: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/wdc/
Dataset ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_GPWv3_LANDGEOG

Data Center Personnel
Name: ROBERT CHEN Phone: 1-845-365-8952 Fax: 1-845-365-8922 Email: bchen at ciesin.columbia.edu Contact Address: WDC for Human Interactions in the Environment CIESIN/Columbia University P. O. Box 1000 61 Route 9W City: Palisades Province or State: NY Postal Code: 10964 Country: USA