IGP2010 microbial - Bacterial community profiling at sewage treatment plant outfalls

Penn Cove (in the Whidbey Basin) is designated as a category 5, 303d impaired water body due to low dissolved oxygen. In addition to runoff from adjacent developed and agricultural lands, treated effluent from two sewage treatment plants (STPs) and freshwater from the nearby Skagit River flow into Penn Cove. This project investigates the structure and function of microbial communities in the context of inorganic nutrients and physical parameters to assess any detectable influence of STPs.

Work is conducted by NOAA personnel with assistance from undergraduate research interns. Data collected across four different seasons include bacterial/archeal abundance (biomass), heterotrophic production (productivity), bacterial diversity, chlorophyll A, inorganic nutrient concentrations, dissolved oxygen concentration, and seawater temperature.

Anticipated products are presentations at scientific meetings related to marine dissolved oxygen and to local management authorities (e.g., county government) as well as publication in the referred literature. The project is a seed project to develop further capacity to assess additional low dissolved oxygen sites.

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Raw/field data, Laboratory data

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Subject to Public Access to Research Results (PARR): Yes

Peer Reviewed Publication: Microbial assessments of a marine bay with chronic low dissolved oxygen. manuscript describing study

Presentation: Profiling microbial features in a Whidbey Basin bay with low dissolved oxygen. Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference, Vancouver BC

Presentation: Looking closer to home: microbial ecology studies in Puget Sound. Oceans & Human Health seminar series

Presentation: Profiling microbial features in a marine bay with chronic low dissolved oxygen. Keystone Symposia: Microbial Communities as Drivers of Ecosystem Diversity; Breckenridge, CO

Report: Final report to Internal Grants Program. Final report on project to funding source

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RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.)

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These data were collected and processed in accordance with established protocols and best practices under the direction of the project’s Principal Investigator. Contact the dataset Data Manager in section 3 for full QA/QC methodology.

No Delay

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Volumetric calculations and decay calculations were employed. These data were collected and processed in accordance with established protocols and best practices under the direction of the project’s Principal Investigator. Contact the dataset Data Manager for full QA/QC methodology.