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"@context": "http://schema.org/", "@type": "WebPage", "additionalType": "Project", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/linking-selenium-sources-ecosystems-local-and-global", "headline": "Linking Selenium Sources to Ecosystems: Local and Global Perspectives", "datePublished": "February 28, 2019", "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Theresa Presser", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/theresa-presser", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "orcid", "value": "0000-0001-5643-0147" } } ], "description": [ { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Selenium Treatment Technologies" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The Grassland Bypass Project (GBP) is based upon an agreement between the U.S. Bureau ofReclamation and the San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority (Authority) to use a 28-mile segmentof the San Luis Drain." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Development of an ecosystem-scale Se modeling methodology (see Modeling page) and its site-specific applications (e.g., San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary, mountaintop coal mining areas) are examples of a new type of approach that predicts ecological Se effects based on dietary exposure and the major processes that determine how Se is processed through food webs to top fish and bird predator species." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The sources and biogeochemistry of selenium (Se) combine to produce a widespread potential for ecological risk (Figure 1). Documented environmental effects across scientifically investigated sites include deformities in birds and fish, degraded fish communities, and exclusion of habitats for bird use (see Modeling and Irrigation pages)." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Luoma, S.N., and Rainbow, P.S., 2005, Why is metal bioaccumulation so variable? Biodynamics as a unifying concept: Environmental Science and Technology, 39:1925\u20131931." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Recent investigation of Lake Koocanusa, a transboundary reservoir between Montana and British Columbia that receives effluent from coal mines in Canada, highlights this methodology (see Lake Koocanusa references below). The developed site- and species-specific model predicts protection of the reservoir\u2019s ecosystems from selenium within a series of hydrodynamic source gradients and food-web exposure scenarios for a recreationally important community of fish." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., Hardy, M.A., Huebner, M.A., and Lamothe, P., 2004, Selenium loading through the Blackfoot River watershed: linking sources to ecosystems: in J. Hein, ed., Life Cycle of the Phosphoria Formation, From Deposition to the Post-Mining Environment: Elsevier, New York, p. 437-466." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Luoma, S.N., and Presser, T.S., 2009, Emerging opportunities in management of selenium contamination: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 43, no. 22, p. 8483-8487." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "I. San Luis Unit Feature Re-evaluation Environmental Impact Statement, June 2006 http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=61 II. San Luis Drainage Feature Re-evaluation Feasibility Report, March 2008 http://www.usbr.gov/mp/sccao/sld/docs/sldfr_report/ III. San Luis Drainage Feature Reevaluation Implementation Demonstration Treatment Facility at Panoche Drainage District Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact, September, 2011 http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=8295" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The global distribution of organic-enriched sedimentary rocks (i.e., black shales, petroleum source rocks, phosphorites, and coals) (Figure 1) depends on the fundamental role of major and trace nutrients in determining primary productivity. Although black shales and their recoverable organic fractions as sources of trace elements are widely recognized, the implications of worldwide reservoirs, site-specific fluxes, and persistent biologic cycling of Se are not. Given the geographic distribution of these source rocks, Se emerges as a contaminant within specific regions of the globe that may limit mineral extraction and agricultural growth or exacerbate environmental toxicity." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., Piper, D.Z., Bird, K.J., Skorupa, J.P., Hamilton, S.J., Detwiler, S.J. and Huebner, M.A., 2004, The Phosphoria Formation: a model for forecasting global selenium sources to the environment, in J. Hein, ed., Life Cycle of the Phosphoria Formation: From Deposition to the Post-Mining Environment: Elsevier, New York, p. 299-319." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The Se sources model components are:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., and Luoma, S.N., 2013, Ecosystem-scale selenium model for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Regional Ecosystem Restoration Implementation Plan (DRERIP): San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, v. 11, no. 1, p. 1-39." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Lake Koocanusa References" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Jenni, K.E., Naftz, D.L., Naftz, Presser, T.S., 2017, Conceptual Modeling Framework to Support Development of Site-Specific Selenium Criteria for Lake Koocanusa, Montana, U.S.A., and British Columbia, Canada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1130, 14 p." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., and Naftz, D.L., 2017, USGS Measurements of Dissolved and Suspended Particulate Material Selenium in Lake Koocanusa in the Vicinity of Libby Dam (MT), 2015-2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., 2013, Selenium in Ecosystems within the Mountaintop Coal Mining and Valley-Fill Region of Southern West Virginia-Assessment and Ecosystem-Scale Modeling, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1803, 86 p." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., and Naftz, D.L., 2020, Understanding and Documenting the Scientific Basis of Selenium Ecological Protection in Support of Site-Specific Guidelines Development for Lake Koocanusa, Montana, U.S.A., and British Columbia, Canada, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020-1098." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Phosphate Mining" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The large geologic extent of Se sources is connected by human activities that include power generation, oil refining, irrigation drainage, and coal, phosphate, copper, and uranium mining (Figure 2). Study areas from the 1) San Joaquin Valley and San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary, California, 2) watersheds of the Colorado River and other arid basins of the western US; 3) upper Blackfoot River watershed, Idaho; 4) upper Mud River watershed and other Appalachian basins, West Virginia; and 5) coal ash receiving basins such as Belews Lake in North Carolina include a range of processing activities that call attention to anthropogenic connections to the environment (e.g., production, storage, and disposal of subsurface irrigation drainage, oil refining effluents, and waste shales), in addition to surface processes (weathering, erosion, and runoff), that can ultimately mediate contamination." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Development of technologies for controlling Se pollution and predictive forecasts of ecological effects will become increasingly critical to commercial exploitation, as well as to faunal conservation. Based on our conceptual model, adoption of methodologies to protect fish and wildlife that recognize the full sequence of interacting processes from sources through food webs to vulnerable predators will advance risk management by including all considerations that cause systems to respond differently to Se contamination." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., and Luoma, S.N., 2010, A Methodology for ecosystem-scale modeling of selenium: Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, v. 6, no. 4, p. 685-710." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Coal Mining" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., and Naftz, D.L., 2018, USGS Measurements of Dissolved and Suspended Particulate Material Selenium in Lake Koocanusa in the Vicinity of Libby Dam (MT), 2015-2017 (update): U.S. Geological Survey data release." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "San Francisco Bay-Delta, California" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "In-depth publications for site-specific application of ecosystem-scale selenium modeling:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Skorupa, J.P., Detwiler, S., and Brassfield, R., 2002, Reconnaissance Survey of Selenium in Water and Avian Eggs at Selected Sites Within the Phosphate Mining Region Near Soda Springs, Idaho, May-June, 1999: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Report, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento, California, 95 p." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The western San Joaquin Valley is one of the most productive farming areas in the United States, but salt-buildup in soils and shallow groundwater aquifers threatens this area\u2019s productivity. Elevated selenium concentrations in soils and groundwater complicate drainage management and salt disposal. In this document, we evaluate constraints on drainage management and implications of various approaches to management considered in:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Ecosystem-scale selenium modeling methodology:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "San Joaquin Valley, California" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The Bureau of Reclamation is re-evaluating options for providing drainage service to the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project. The EIS evaluates seven action alternatives in addition to No Action: In-Valley Disposal, In-Valley/Groundwater Quality Land Retirement, In-Valley/Water Needs Land Retirement, In-Valley/Drainage-Impaired Area Land Retirement, Ocean Disposal, Delta-Chipps Island Disposal, and Delta-Carquinez Strait Disposal. All of the alternatives would include common elements: on-farm and in-district actions, drainwater collection systems, regional reuse facilities, the Firebaugh sumps, and land retirement of at least 44,106 acres. In addition to the common elements, the action alternatives (except Ocean Disposal) involve varying levels of drainwater treatment (reverse osmosis and/or biological selenium treatment) and/or additional land retirement before disposal. http://www.usbr.gov/mp/sccao/sld/" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., and Luoma, S.N., 2010, Ecosystem-scale selenium modeling in support of fish and wildlife selenium criteria development for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary, California: U.S. Geological Survey Administrative Report, 101 p. and Appendices A-D. [Published 12/14/2010; released by USEPA (Region 9, San Francisco, California) 8/29/2011]" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Piper, D.Z., Skorupa, J.P., Presser, T.S., Hardy, M.A., Hamilton, S.J., Huebner, M.A., and Gulbrandsen, R.A., 2000, The Phosphoria Formation at the Hot Springs Mine in southeast Idaho: a source of trace elements to ground water, surface water, and biota: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-050, 73 p." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Luoma, S.N., and Presser, T.S., 2018, Status of selenium in south San Francisco Bay\u2014A basis for modeling potential guidelines to meet National tissue criteria for fish and a proposed wildlife criterion for birds: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018\u20131105, 75 p." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Presser, T.S., and Luoma, S.N., 2009, Modeling of selenium for the San Diego Creek watershed and Newport Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1114, 48 p." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Chapman, P.M., Adams, W.J., Brooks, M.L., Delos, C.G., Luoma, S.N., Maher, W.A., Ohlendorf, H.M., Presser, T.S., and Shaw, D.P., eds., 2010, Ecological Assessment of Selenium in the Aquatic Environment: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Press, Pensacola Florida, 339 p." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The sources, biogeochemistry, and ecotoxicology of selenium (Se) combine to produce a widespread potential for ecological risk such as deformities in birds and fish. Linking the understanding of source characteristics to a mechanistic, biodynamic dietary model of Se exposure on an ecosystem-scale improves the prediction of Se effects and its potential remediation." } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Water Resources Mission Area", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Soil Moisture and Permafrost" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Industry and Mining" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Agriculture, Livestock, and Aquaculture" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Stream and Riverine Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lake and Wetland Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ecosystem Functions and Processes" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Advanced Capabilities and Research" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Types of Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Aquatic Biology and Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Wastewater" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ecosystem Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Plant and Animal Communities" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Groundwater, Aquifers, Wells, and Springs" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Prediction and Modeling" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Streams and Rivers" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lakes and Reservoirs" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Wetlands" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "How We Use Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy Production" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Contaminant Transport Modeling" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Estuarine Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Erosion and Sedimentation" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Pollution (Chemical and Biological)" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Measuring and Monitoring Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Oceans, Estuaries, Deltas, and Coasts" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Common Water Issues" } ]
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