Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Summary
of Monitoring Findings for Fiscal Year 2001
Introduction
The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP), a component of the Environmental Management Program for the Upper Mississippi River System, is administered by the U.S. Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The LTRMP supports six field stations operated by state agencies in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin (Figure 1) to collect most of the monitoring data. Data on important ecosystem components, including water quality, vegetation, macroinvertebrates, and fish, are obtained using standardized operating procedures. Monitoring activities focus primarily on six study areas: Navigation Pools 4, 8, 13, and 26 and Open River on the Mississippi River and La Grange Pool on the Illinois River. Information from monitoring activities and a variety of other sources are available at the Center's Data Library Web site http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/data_library.html. This report summarizes activities, results, and highlights of the LTRMP in 2001 for hydrology, water quality, vegetation, macroinvertebrates, fish, fishery resources of deep channels, and bathymetric mapping for Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project support. This report also summarizes the results of applied research (2000 land cover/land use geographic information system [GIS] database, use of remote sensing for land cover acquisition, and integrated analysis of fish monitoring data) and results from five additional projects (bathymetric mapping, use of light detection and ranging for elevation data acquisition, a georeferenced database on unionid mussels, the implementation of the Open River Field Station experimental trawl, and reconnaissance and remapping of the wing dikes) conducted outside of normal monitoring operations.
Suggested citation:
Johnson, B., V. Barko, R. Gaugush, S. Gutreuter, D. Herzog, R. Hrabik, B. Ickes, P. Joria, D. Ostendorf, J. S. Sauer, D. M. Soballe, and Y. Yin. 2006. Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2001 Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Web-based report LTRMP 2006-W004 available online at www.umesc.usgs.gov/reports_publications/ltrmp/2000/summary_findings/contents.html. (Accessed October 2006.)
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