2012 Air and Temperature Data from Shenandoah National Park

Raw data were collected in Shenandoah National Park during summer 2012. Air and temperature data were collected using temperature loggers at several stations throughout the park. These data were used in the publication of the manuscript "Accounting for groundwater influence on headwater stream thermal sensitivity to climate change" through the journal Ecological Applications. Water temperature data were collected at all 78 reach locations during the summer of 2012 (23 June–7 September). Temperature was measured every hour with a logger.

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Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. The upper falls in Whiteoak Canyon is one of the many waterfalls formed where streams cross the lava flow of the Catoctin Formation.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. The upper falls in Whiteoak Canyon is one of the many waterfalls formed where streams cross the lava flow of the Catoctin Formation. Generally falls occur where streams cross massive greenstone in the middle of the flow. Steps between falls occur where streams cross sheared breccia zones between flows. Figure 6, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1265.

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Total Mercury Concentrations in Dragonfly Larvae from U.S. National Parks (ver. 8.0, December 2022)

Comma-separated values (.csv) file containing data related to mercury concentrations in dragonfly samples from U.S. National Parks collected as part of the Dragonfly Mercury Project (DMP). This data release supersedes Eagles-Smith, C.A., Nelson, S.J., Flanagan-Pritz, C.M., Willacker Jr., J.J., and Klemmer, A.J., 2018, Total Mercury Concentrations in Dragonfly Larvae from U.S. National Parks (ver. 7.0, October 2021): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TK6NPT. Please contact fresc_outreach@usgs.gov for access.

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Video data for trout abundance estimation

Rapid advances in video technology are enabling new strategies for species abundance estimation. Here we provide estimates of fish abundance derived from video data collected in a series of stream pools in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia (n=41). Two 360-degree cameras were simultaneously used at each pool site where 15-minutes of underwater footage was collected. Environmental data are provided describing pool morphology, canopy cover, and fish cover (boulders, large woody debris, and undercut banks).

Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Shenandoah National Park, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aquatic biology, field sampling, All tags... freshwater ecosystems, videography, Fewer tags

Air-water temperature data for the study of groundwater influence on stream thermal regimes in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

This database contains hourly water and air temperature data from 120 site locations within 17 watersheds in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia between June 23,2012 and October 25, 2016. The database includes three separate table files (i.e, entities) in csv format: 1) Water temperature data, 2) air temperature data, and 3) site location data. All temperature data were collected using HOBO Pro V2 thermographs (accuracy = 0.2 degrees Celsius, drift = <0.1 degrees Celsius per year per year). These raw data were summarized to mean daily air and water temperatures for the analysis used in Johnson et al. Johnson, Z.C., Snyder, C.D. and Hitt, N.P., 2017, Landform features and seasonal precipitation predict shallow groundwater...

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USGS EcoDrought Stream Discharge, Gage Height, and Water Temperature in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Mission Area (WMA) - Ecosystems Mission Area (EMA) EcoDrought project is comprised of interdisciplinary teams in five pilot regions across the country. The over-arching project goal is to measure streamflow in headwater streams and to relate flow variation to stream fish population dynamics. For the catchments located in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, the Virginia/West Virginia Science Center and the New England Water Science Center (NewEngWSC) partnered with the fish ecology group at Leetown Science Center, a part of the EMA’s Eastern Ecological Science Center, in order to establish gaging stations in headwater streams with ongoing ecological data collection and modeling...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Ecology, Hydrology, Shenandoah National Park, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Virginia, Water Quality, Water Resources, biota, climate change, drought, fragmentation, gaging station, groundwater, headwater, precipitation, stream discharge, stream water temperature, Fewer tags

Mercury Bioaccumulation in US National Parks Using Dragonfly Larvae as Biosentinels, 2009-2018

Comma-separated values (.csv) files containing data related to a National-scale assessment of mercury bioaccumulation in the US National Parks using dragonfly larvae as biosentinels through a citizen science framework.

Categories: Data; Tags: Acadia National Park, Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Aquatic Biology, All tags... Battle Creek Cypress Swamp, Bear Creek Lake Park, Bear Meadows Natural Area, Big Bend National Park, Big Cypress National Park, Big Thicket National Preserve, Buffalo National River, Cape Cod National Seashore, Capitol Reef National Park, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, Channel Islands National Park, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Colorado National Monument, Congaree National Park, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Death Valley National Park, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Denali National Park and Preserve, Devils Tower National Monument, East Inlet Natural Area-Connecticut Lakes Nature Preserve, Ecology, Environmental Health, Everglades National Park, Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge National Natural Landmark, Gateway National Recreation Area, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Glacier National Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Portage National Monument, Grand Teton National Park, Great Basin National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Homestead National Historic Site, Hot Springs National Park, Indiana Dunes National Park, Isle Royale National Park, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Lake Clark National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Mammoth Cave National Park, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park, Maurice National Wild & Scenic River, Minute Man National Historical Park, Mississippi National River & Recreation Area, Monocacy National Battlefield, Montezuma Castle National Monument, Mount Rainier National Park, Natchez Trace Parkway and National Scenic Trail, Niobrara National Scenic River, North Cascades National Park, Olympic National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument, Ozark National Scenic Riverway, Padre Island National Seashore, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Pinnacles National Park, Pipestone National Monument, Prince William Forest Park, Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site, Redwood National Park, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Rock Creek Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, Saguaro National Park, Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, San Juan Island National Historical Park, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, Shenandoah National Park, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Timucuan Ecological Historic Preserve, Tumacacori National Historical Park, Tuzigoot National Monument, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, Valles Caldera National Preserve, Voyageurs National Park, Water Quality, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wildlife Biology, Wind Cave National Park, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, Zion National Park, biota, environment, mercury contamination, Fewer tags

Shenandoah National Park Vegetation Mapping Project - Spatial Vegetation Data Version 2.0b

This map depicts 25 USNVC vegetation association classes and groups for Shenandoah National Park developed from AVIRIS hyperspectral imagery, ASTER multispectral imagery and topographic modeling (version 2.0b). Overall accuracy of this map is 60.5% as determined from 703 accuracy assessment field plots.

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Sawed slab of amygdaloid breccia. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Sawed slab of amygdaloid breccia. Slab is from the outcrop on the south side of the road about 500 feet southeast of Big Meadows Lodge. The angular blocks are probably pieces of frothy lava crust that formed at the top of the flow. The crust was broken by continued movement of the still-molten lava beneath, and jumbled pieces were rafted along and were eventually frozen in place when the flow came to rest and solidified. During later metamorphism the amygdules and some of the interstices between the blocks were filled with white quartz and yellow-green epidote. Locally, part of the rock has been altered to epidosite, a fine- grained light-green aggregate of epidote and quartz....

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Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Mud-lump breccia in the outcrop along the Appalachian Trail at the north end of the base of Little Stony Man Cliffs.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Mud-lump breccia in the outcrop along the Appalachian Trail at the north end of the base of Little Stony Man Cliffs. Lumps of hard red argillite stand out as knots on the weathered surface. Light-gray streaks are irregular wisps of silvery phyllite. Matrix is fine- grained schistose greenstone. Figure 13, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1265.

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Passive seismic data collected along headwater stream corridors in Shenandoah National Park in 2016 - 2020

In July 2016, July 2019, and March 2020, 318 seismic recordings were acquired at locations within Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, using MOHO Tromino Model TEP-3C three-component seismometers to assess depth to bedrock using the HVSR method. This method requires a measurement of estimate of shear wave velocity, which depends on the regolith sediment composition and density, for the conversion of measured resonance frequency to a depth to bedrock. Shear wave velocities were calculated for sediment in Shenandoah NP at locations where regolith thickness is known (e.g. at documented boreholes). The locations in this study were generally selected to characterize the depths to bedrock adjacent to streams monitored...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: HVSR, Headwater Streams, Hydrogeology, Regolith Thickness, Shenandoah National Park, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Fewer tags

Mercury and biogeochemical parameters in surface water and sediment from U.S. National Parks, 2014-2015

Comma-separated values (.csv) file containing data related to mercury and biogeochemical parameters in surface water and aquatic sediment collected from U.S. National Parks in 2014-2015.

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Blue Ridge, viewed from the west. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. No Date.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Blue Ridge, viewed from the west. The flat fertile valley floor (foreground) is underlain by limestone of the Paleozoic age capped by terrace gravel. The low wooded foothills (middle distance) are underlain by steeply dipping quartzite and shale of the Chilhowee Group. The main mass of the Blue Ridge is composed of granitic basement rocks, but the highest part of the ridge is capped by greenstone of the Catoctin Formation. Photo by U.S. National Park Service. Figure 1, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1265.

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Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Schistose greenstone along the Appalachian Trail at the base of Little Stony Man Cliffs.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Schistose greenstone along the Appalachian Trail at the base of Little Stony Man Cliffs. Here, a zone of breccia and schistose greenstone marks the boundary between the second and third flows above the base of the Catoctin Formation. The outcrop is approximately 3 feet high. Figure 7, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1265.

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Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Columnar jointing in greenstone. Large column along the Appalachian Trail about 200 feet south of Little Stony Man parking area.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Columnar jointing in greenstone. Large column along the Appalachian Trail about 200 feet south of Little Stony Man parking area. The column is cut by cleavage which dips east, away from the observer. The segment of the coluiai above each cleavage plane is offset westward from the segment beneath as a result of movement during formation of the cleavage. Column is approximately 2 feet in diameter. Figure 9 (right), U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1265.

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Abiotic and biotic factors reduce viability of a high-elevation salamander in its native range

Includes data used to estimate population demographic parameters for an exemplary high-elevation amphibian species, the federally endangered Shenandoah salamander (Plethodon shenandoah). These parameters were entered into a Markov projection model which we used to forecast the future population status of the Shenandoah salamander.

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Greenstone dike in basement rocks. Shenandoah National Park, Page County, Virginia. No Date.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Greenstone dike in basement rocks. Dike on Ridge Trail, Old Rag Mountain, about O.4 mile northeast of the summit. Wallrock is Old Rag Granite of Furcron (1934). Figure 15 (left), U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1265.

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Modeled temperature data developed for study of shallow mountain bedrock limits seepage-based headwater climate refugia, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey data release

1D transient numerical simulations with a modified version of the SUTRA model (preliminary code) that accounts for variably-saturated freeze-thaw dynamics (e.g. McKenzie and Voss, 2013) to predict annual alluvial aquifer temperature dynamics using coupled fluid and heat transport physics. The model simulations were run with a modified version of SUTRA_ICE (unreleased) that accomadates a time-variable sinusiodal upper temperature boundary. This data release also includes the source code and Argus One GUI files used to build the models, though this proprietary software is not needed to run the models as described in the upper-level "readme" file.

Tags: Groundwater, InlandWaters, SUTRA, SUTRA-ice, Shenandoah National Park, All tags... Surface Water, Thermal, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, refugia, Fewer tags

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Columnar jointing in greenstone. Small wavy columns at the top of the cliff above the Appalachian Trail about 0.15 mile north of Hawksbill Gap.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Columnar jointing in greenstone. Small wavy columns at the top of the cliff above the Appalachian Trail about 0.15 mile north of Hawksbill Gap. Figure 9 (left), U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1265.

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Seismic data for study of shallow mountain bedrock limits seepage-based headwater climate refugia, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

A combination of long-term daily temperature records and depth to bedrock measurements were used to parametrize one-dimensional models of shallow aquifer vertical heat transport in Shenandoah National Park, VA, USA. Depth to bedrock can directly influence shallow aquifer flow and thermal sensitivity, but is typically ill-defined along the stream corridor in steep mountain catchments. We employed rapid, cost-effective passive seismic measurements to evaluate the variable thickness of the shallow colluvial and alluvial aquifer sediments along a headwater stream supporting coldwater-dependent brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Shenandoah National Park. The methods are fully documented in the associated journal...

Tags: Groundwater, Groundwater and Streamflow Information Program, HVSR, Madison County, Shenandoah National Park, All tags... Surface Water, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Whiteoak Canyon, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, refugia, seismic methods, seismic refraction methods, Fewer tags