Water quality and habitat evaluation of Bass Harbor Marsh, Acadia National Park, Maine
Doering PH, Beatty LL, Keller AA, Oviatt CA, Roman CT. 1995. Water quality and habitat evaluation of Bass Harbor Marsh, Acadia National Park, Maine. Technical Report NPS/NESORNR/NRTR/95-31. United States. National Park Service. New England System Support Office. Boston, Massachusetts
The objectives of the study were to 'quantify the major sources of nutrients' to the system, 'evaluate the fate of nutrients' within the system, 'predict the distribution of nutrients' in the system, and 'characterize the habitat ecology of the marsh-estuary by evaluating the seasonal biomass of macroalgea'. 'Seven water quality surveys were conducted (Nov. 1990; May, June, Sept., Oct. 1991; Apr., July 1992). For each survey nutrient loading into the estuary (from freshwater brooks and the ocean) and the distribution of nutrients within the estuary were determined. A steady state box model was developed to evaluate the behavior of nutrients within the system, while a STELLA steady state model was employed to predict nutrient distributions given changes in nutrient loading (e.g., decrease nitrogen loading from Marshall Brook -- the drainage with the landfill). The water quality constituents sampled throughout the study included dissolved inorganic nutrients (ammonia, nitrate+nitrite, phosphate, silicate), total nitrogen, total phosphorus, chlorophyll g" dissolved organic carbon, and dissolved oxygen.' /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/Bass Harbor Marsh/
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Doering, Peter; Beatty, Lynn; Keller, Aimee; Oviatt, Candace; Roman, Charles
- Date of Issue
- 1995-08
- Publisher
- United States. National Park Service. New England System Support Office
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Adams Brook, Algae, Ammonia (NH3), Bass Harbor, Bass Harbor Marsh, Biomass, bivalves (Bivalvia), Buttermilk Brook, Checklist, China Brook, China Hill, Chlorophyll, Discharge, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Estuaries, Eutrophication, Fish, Heath Brook, Inventory (Baseline), Invertebrates, Lurvey Brook, Marine, Marine Invertebrates, Marshall Brook, Mount Desert Island, Nitrogen (N), NOx, Nutrients, pH, Phosphate (PO4), Phosphorus (P), Plankton, Plants, Salinity, Silica (SiO2), Silicates, Water Quality, Water Temperature