Bibliography of Water-Quality Studies in Gateway National Recreation Area, New York and New Jersey

Open-File Report 2024-1035
Prepared in cooperation with the National Park Service
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Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided technical assistance to the National Park Service (NPS) as part of the USGS-NPS Water-Quality Partnership, by gathering references related to water-quality research conducted in the three units of Gateway National Recreation Area (GATE): Jamaica Bay and Staten Island in New York, and Sandy Hook in New Jersey. As part of this effort, a literature search was performed to compile previous water-quality research conducted within the boundaries of GATE. The resulting bibliography is meant to assist GATE resource managers in understanding the extent of available data and developing plans to close data gaps.

Introduction

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS), compiled a bibliography of water-quality research done within Gateway National Recreation Area (GATE), as part of the USGS-NPS Water-Quality Partnership. Research on multiple water-quality topics has been conducted over several decades within the Lower Bay area between New York and New Jersey. The USGS-NPS Water-Quality Partnership assists the NPS with water-quality issues and, as part of this partnership, the USGS provided technical assistance to GATE by compiling a bibliography of water-quality research done within the park. Water-quality data have been collected within the boundaries of GATE for more than 40 years but relatively few sites and water-quality parameters have been sampled with any consistency over the past decade. Monitoring programs have primarily focused on the Jamaica Bay unit of the park, with limited monitoring in the Staten Island and Sandy Hook units (fig. 1). The lack of consistency in monitored water-quality parameters and sampling frequency makes it difficult to perform analysis and inform management decisions within GATE. Other State, Federal, academic, and local parties also conduct water-quality monitoring within GATE, and the park could potentially work with these entities to develop a comprehensive water-quality monitoring program. However, not all data collected by other parties has been placed into a central repository that can be used by GATE staff to help inform park decisions.

Three discontinuous, irregularly-shaped regions include coastal areas, peninsulas,
                     islands, and surrounding water.
Figure 1.

Map of Gateway National Recreation Area including the three park management units: Jamaica Bay, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island and locations of interest in New York and New Jersey.

To help address this issue, the USGS performed a literature search of journal articles and reports on water quality within GATE. This summary is intended to help identify what topics have been researched, which water-quality parameters have been monitored, and which parties were responsible for conducting the research. GATE staff members can use this information to inform decisions on designing future water-quality monitoring efforts, conducting research, and identifying potential collaborators.

Approach

This bibliography was compiled by searching three databases: Web of Science, owned by Clarivate (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/basic-search), the NPS DataStore (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/), and the USGS Publications Warehouse (https://pubs.usgs.gov/). The database searches were concluded on January 19, 2024; therefore, no references published after that date are included in this bibliography. Keywords were selected to cover the geographic location of the park, including the three management units of Jamaica Bay, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island, as well as multiple topics related to water quality. Owing to differences in search features among the three databases, the following exact search process varied. Web of Science was queried using a Boolean string that consisted of a combination of terms related to geographical location and water-quality topics (table 1). Search terms from each row of table 1 were concatenated as a series of “OR” statements and the three concatenated strings were combined with “AND” statements to generate the final Boolean string. NPS DataStore was queried by using the advanced search feature and selecting “Gateway” as the content unit. The search was limited to return only conference proceeding papers, dissertations, journal articles, or published or unpublished reports. The USGS Publications Warehouse had limited search features and was queried using various geographic names of the park or units within the park.

Table 1.    

Search terms used as Boolean strings to search the Web of Science.

[Searches consisted of one term from column A, one term from column B, and one term from column C such that all possible combinations were tried. Boolean strings were searched as written inside quotation marks to find exact matches. An asterisk (*) returned all words that started with the given string of characters]

A. Location terms B. Water-quality topics C. Study terms
Bergen Beach bay acid*
Breezy Point beach alga*
Canarsie Pier coastal chloride
Floyd Bennett Field contaminat* chlorophyll
Fort Hancock contaminated water* clarity
Fort Tilden discharge compound*
Fort Wadsworth estuar* conductivity
Frank Charles Memorial Park fresh water dissolved oxygen
Gateway freshwater E. coli*
Gateway National Recreation* Area industrial waste E.coli*
Great Kills Park intertidal Enterococc*
Hoffman Island marine fecal*
Jacob Riis Park monitor* metal*
Jamaica Bay ocean nitr*
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge palatable water nitrogen
Plumb Beach polluted water nutrient*
Sandy Hook pond odor*
Swinburne Island runoff pH
salt water salinity
saltwater smell
tributar* solids
wastewater temperature
water quality turbidity
water use
watershed
Table 1.    Search terms used as Boolean strings to search the Web of Science.

The returned search results were then manually screened based on their title and the contents of their abstract. Products were retained if the reported work was conducted within GATE or represented a regional study for the area in and around GATE, and if they pertained to water quality. The focus was on products that provided primary or secondary research. Products consisting of short summaries, such as conference abstracts were not retained. References that could not be verified in the literature review were not included in the results. While a reasonable effort was made to compile relevant literature within the scope of this project, this is not a guarantee that the search identified every piece of water-quality research conducted within GATE over its history.

Bibliography

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Beck, A.J., Cochran, J.K., and Sañudo-Wilhelmy, S.A., 2009, Temporal trends of dissolved trace metals in Jamaica Bay, NY—Importance of wastewater input and submarine groundwater discharge in an urban estuary: Estuaries and Coasts, v. 32, no. 3, p. 535–550, at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-009-9140-5.

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Benotti, M.J., 2008, Inventory of data sources used for watershed condition assessments of Fire Island National Seashore, Gateway National Recreation Area, and Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York and New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008–1298, 13 p., at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20081298.

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Campbell, A., and Wang, Y.Q., 2018, Examining the influence of tidal stage on salt marsh mapping using high-spatial-resolution satellite remote sensing and topobathymetric LiDAR: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, v. 56, no. 9, p. 5169–5176, at https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2810503.

Cartwright, R.A., and Simonson, A.E., 2019, Estimating sediment flux to Jamaica Bay, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2019–5085, 25 p., at https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20195085.

Chen, C.Y., Buckman, K.L., Shaw, A., Curtis, A., Taylor, M., Montesdeoca, M., and Driscoll, C., 2021, The influence of nutrient loading on methylmercury availability in Long Island estuaries: Environmental Pollution, v. 268 part b, article 115510, 11 p., at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115510.

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Cooper, K., and Borjan, M., 2010, Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network assessment of contaminant threats—Gateway National Recreation Area: National Park Service Natural Resource technical report NPS/NCBN/NRTR–2010/339, 392 p., at https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/448176.

Doherty, A.C., 2013, The distribution, fate, and application as tracers of quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) in sewage impacted estuaries: Stony Brook, N.Y., Stonybrook University, Ph.D. dissertation, 273 p., at https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11401/77796/Doherty_grad.sunysb_0771E_11434.pdf?sequence=1.

Eaton, M.J., Fuller, A.K., Johnson, F.A., Hare, M.P., and Stedman, R.C., 2016, Application of decision science to resilience management in Jamaica Bay, in Sanderson, E.W., Solecki, W.D., Waldman, J.R., and Paris, A.S., eds., Prospects for resilience—Insights from New York City’s Jamaica Bay. Washington, D.C., Island Press, p. 217–237, at https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-734-6_10.

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Fischer, J.M., Phillips, P.J., Reilly, T.J., Focazio, M.J., Loftin, K.A., Benzel, W., Jones, D., Smalling, K.L., Fisher, S.C., Fisher, I.J., Iwanowicz, L.R., Romanok, K.M., Jenkins, D E., Bowers, L., Boehlke, A., Foreman, W.T., Deetz, A.C., Carper, L.G., Imbrigiotta, T.E., and Birdwell, J.E., 2015, Estuarine bed-sediment-quality data collected in New Jersey and New York after Hurricane Sandy, 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Report 905, 42 p., at https://doi.org/10.3133/ds905.

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Gao, Y., Nelson, E.D., Field, M.P., Ding, Q., Li, H., Sherrell, R.M., Gigliotti, C.L., Van Ry, D.A., Glenn, T.R., and Eisenreich, S.J., 2002, Characterization of atmospheric trace elements on PM2.5 particulate matter over the New York-New Jersey harbor estuary: Atmospheric Environment, v. 36, no. 6, p. 1077–1086, at https://doi.org/10.1016/S1352-2310(01)00381-8.

Gochfeld, M., 1997, Spatial patterns in a bioindicator—Heavy metal and selenium concentration in eggs of herring gulls (Larus argentatus) in the New York Bight: Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, v. 33, no. 1, p. 63–70, at https://doi.org/10.1007/s002449900224.

Gochfeld, M., Burger, J., Jeitner, C., Donio, M., and Pittfield, T., 2012, Seasonal, locational and size variations in mercury and selenium levels in striped bass (Morone saxatilis) from New Jersey: Environmental Research, v. 112, p. 8–19, at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2011.12.007.

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Hartig, E.K., Gornitz, V., Kolker, A., Mushacke, F., and Fallon, D., 2002, Anthropogenic and climate-change impacts on salt marshes of Jamaica Bay, New York City: Wetlands, v. 22, no. 1, p. 71–89, at https://doi.org/10.1672/0277-5212(2002)022[0071:AACCIO]2.0.CO;2.

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Levinton, J., and Doall, M., 2019, Feeding access of eastern oysters to the winter-spring phytoplankton bloom—Evidence from Jamaica Bay, New York: Journal of Shellfish Research, v. 38, no. 1, p. 115–121, at https://doi.org/10.2983/035.038.0111.

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Walsh, B.M., Costanzo, S.C., and Taillie, D., 2018, Natural resource condition assessment: Gateway National Recreation Area: National Park Service Natural Resource Report NPS/GATE/NRR–2018/1774, 142 p., at http://npshistory.com/publications/gate/nrr-2018-1774.pdf.

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Watson, E.B., Powell, E., Maher, N.P., Oczkowski, A.J., Paudel, B., Starke, A., Szura, K., and Wigand, C., 2018, Indicators of nutrient pollution in Long Island, New York, estuarine environments: Marine Environmental Research, v. 134, p. 109–120, at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.01.003.

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Summary

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS), compiled a bibliography of water-quality research done within Gateway National Recreation Area, as part of the USGS-NPS Water-Quality Partnership. Three databases were searched for literature about the area near or in Gateway National Recreation Area. Sixty-two references for journal articles, reports, and other publications were found.

Abbreviations

E. coli Escherichia coli

GATE Gateway National Recreation Area

NPS National Park Service

USGS U.S. Geological Survey

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Savoy, P., Marionkova, M., and Schubert, C., 2024, Bibliography of water-quality studies in Gateway National Recreation Area, New York and New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2024–1035, 7 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20241035.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Bibliography of water-quality studies in Gateway National Recreation Area, New York and New Jersey
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2024-1035
DOI 10.3133/ofr20241035
Year Published 2024
Language English
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