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Displaying Water Quality Information on Internet Maps

Displaying Water Quality Information on Internet Maps. May 10, 2006 Sandy Williamson, Nate Booth, and Rick Bell USGS NAWQA. Talk Outline. How you could use our website/data NAWQA Data Summary How to retrieve Data Mapping options before or after data retrievals.

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Displaying Water Quality Information on Internet Maps

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  1. Displaying Water Quality Information on Internet Maps May 10, 2006 Sandy Williamson, Nate Booth, and Rick Bell USGS NAWQA

  2. Talk Outline • How you could use our website/data • NAWQA Data Summary • How to retrieve Data • Mapping options before or after data retrievals

  3. How you could use our website/data • Consistent National/Regional Data for Research • Comparison of your results to National/Regional Background • GIS / Exploratory data analysis / Mapping • Examples and Ideas for your website

  4. Google: water quality data Usage: About 2400 sessions per month #4

  5. NAWQA Data Summary • 7,600 surface water sites and 8,100 wells • 48,000 nutrient samples; 30,000 pesticide samples and 8,800 VOC samples • 2,600 sediment and tissue contaminant samples • About 2,000 samples each of Fish, Invert and Algae community counts. • Daily stream flow and Ground water levels • Totaling 14+ million data values

  6. NAWQA Public DW water.usgs.gov/nawqa/data #6

  7. Wildcard Site Name Search Result #7

  8. Constituent Finder #8

  9. “Constituent Finder” search #9

  10. Nitr% Following slides show “data values” #10

  11. “RETRIEVE DATA” Optionsto make exportable tables #11

  12. Search options Bottom of window Top of window #12

  13. Surface Water / Bed Sediment,Results Columns omitted for powerpoint display – Can Export Delimited or Excel #13

  14. Biological Community queries #14

  15. Bio Community queries,Values #15

  16. “MAP SITES & RESULTS” Option to find what’s in the DWH #16

  17. Mapping Sites - San Joaquin Study Unit All Sites • On Shaded Relief

  18. Pick SJ Study Unit Surface- Water sites • On Topo Maps

  19. Atrazine in US (ag sites) • Atrazine in Surface Water • Over Land Use Map #19

  20. Nitrate in Ground WaterOver Land Use

  21. Denver MTBE wide zoom #21

  22. Denver MTBE close zoom WELL #22

  23. Caffeine in DC Area w- hi-res Stream Gage #23

  24. Geography - Options - Water Quality #24

  25. 100+ Background Layers http://nationalmap.gov/ #25

  26. Overview – “Legend” information #26

  27. Boxplot of Mapped Data

  28. Click on a site to see site summary

  29. Export All Date in Current map view to: • Excel • Tab Delimited • Google Earth

  30. NAWQA Google Earth Viewer USGS NAWQA Sites

  31. DW Team Please Stand • Nate Booth,WI - Technical Leader • Jessica Thompson, WI Aggregation / Discoverer • John Hollis, WI Java/Mapping • Eric Everman, MN Java/Mapping • Rick Bell, AR – Training, Testing and Support • Pete Ruhl, Reston and Mitch Harris, Il– BioTDB • Ken Skach, OR –Data checking/ contact with SU’s water.usgs.gov/nawqa/data #32

  32. Displaying Water Quality Information on Internet Maps NWQMC San Jose May 10, 2006 Sandy Williamson Nate Booth, and Rick Bell USGS NAWQA Sandy’s Office

  33. Summary Report Occurrence Plots #34

  34. Nitrate in Puget Sound #35

  35. Washington Ag Sites #36

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