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 #4 Usage: About 2400 sessions per month

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” Options to make exportable tables #11

12. Search options Top of window Bottom 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 #1616

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) #19 Atrazine in Surface Water Over Land Use Map

20. Nitrate in Ground Water Over Land Use

21. Denver MTBE wide zoom #21

22. Denver MTBE close zoom #22 WELL

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

24. Geography - Options - Water Quality #24

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

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

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

33. 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

34. Summary Report Occurrence Plots #34

35. Nitrate in Puget Sound #35

36. Washington Ag Sites #36