AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
ACAP Saint John: Sediment PAHs

As part of DFO's Coastal Environmental Baseline Monitoring Program, ACAP Saint John has collected sediment samples in and around the Saint John Harbour since 2018. These sediment samples are analyzed for a suite of contaminants, known as PAHs (polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons). These data can be used for identifying contamination levels of sediments in the Saint John Harbour, and can also be used a baseline for future monitoring or restoration efforts.

Organization: DataStream
Qualité de l'eau du Fleuve (RSMA), travaux intercepteur sud-est, Nov. 2015

Données relatives à la qualité de l’eau du fleuve Saint-Laurent résultant du programme spécial planifié
et réalisé par le Réseau de suivi du milieu aquatique dans le cadre des travaux qui ont nécessité la
fermeture de l'intercepteur sud-est en novembre 2015. Dans le cadre des travaux dans l’intercepteur
sud-est, les échantillonnages du RSMA (Réseau de suivi du milieu aquatique) vise à documenter la
qualité de l’eau du fleuve.

Organization: DataStream
Municipality of Val-des-Monts: Lac du Chevreuil

Following the adoption of the Water Master Plan on May 5, 2020, the Municipality of Val des Monts began monitoring water quality in May 2021. The selection of water bodies was made according to the human forces to which they are subject. The bodies of water most likely to be subject to anthropogenic forces, for example, housing development, the presence of roads, and the proximity of agricultural land, were selected.

Organization: DataStream
Wheatley River Improvement Group - Water Quality Monitoring

The Wheatley River Improvement Group (WRIG) is a non-government, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the protection and management of The Wheatley River, Cymbria, Crooked Creek, Chapel Creek, Oyster Bed Bridge, Hornes Creek and Lukes Creek Watersheds. During the summer field season, water quality data is collected weekly through portable water quality sensors. This information is analyzed with historical data to determine water quality status and trends in the watersheds and guide watershed management. Thank you to the PEI Wildlife Conservation Fund, PEI Watershed Management Fund, WRIG Sponsors, and WRIG members for their financial support. An additional thank you to the PEI Watershed Alliance for their technical support and equipment use.

Organization: DataStream
Peace River Regional District Water Quality Baseline - Municipality of Hudsons Hope Lynx and Brenot Creek

The municipality of Hudson’s Hope retained GW Solutions to complete a surface water quality sampling along Lynx and Brenot Creek. In 2014, six samples from six locations were collected by GW Solutions and representatives of Hudson’s Hope and Saulteau First Nations. GW Solutions has completed data analysis including exceedances and spatial evolution of water quality along these Creeks.

Organization: DataStream
Bragg Creek Water Quality Monitoring

The Bragg Creek Water Quality Monitoring Collective group (comprising 44 volunteer citizen scientists) collected grab samples along Bragg Creek from 2005 to 2019. Each sampling period covered the first “weekend” of the month (Friday through Monday). Six sites were monitored five times per year (May through September). The resulting dataset provides baseline conditions for the temporal and spatial variations in gradients of water quality in Bragg Creek, measured in six water quality traits and stream level, and is sufficiently long for among-year trends to emerge. With each passing year, the additional data allow for a more robust statistical analysis of water quality changes. Our project is succesful thanks to our volunteers, to Ralph Cartar's dedication, to the Elbow River Watershed Partnership, turbidity meter from The City of Calgary, conductivity meter from Bob McAlpine, and titration of our stream gauge from Alberta Environment)

Organization: DataStream
Ottawa Riverkeeper Total Phosphorus Monitoring

Part of its Watershed Health and Assessment Monitoring program, Ottawa Riverkeeper is working with volunteers and community organizations to analyse water quality across the watershed. Samples are collected mid-stream and the ensuing nutrient analysis provides insight to stressors affecting the river and its tributaries. // Dans son étude et surveillance de la santé du bassin versant, Garde-Rivière des Outaouais travaille avec des bénévoles et des organismes communautaires pour analyser la qualité de l'eau dans le bassin versant. Les échantillons sont prélevés au milieu du courant et l'analyse des nutriments qui découlent permet de mieux comprendre les facteurs de stress qui affectent la rivière et ses affluents.

Organization: DataStream
2022 water quality data collected for CIMP197

These data were collected in summer 2021 as part of a project to examine the effects of road dust on lakes located along the Dempster and Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highways. The data were collected in-situ with multiparameter probes as well as by taking surface water samples that were shipped to Taiga Laboratories in Yellowknife.

Organization: DataStream
RivTemp--BV BaiedesChaleurs

"RivTemp is a partnership between universities, federal and provincial agencies, watershed organizations and Atlantic salmon conservation organizations.
RivTemp aims to bring together organizations concerned with water temperature issues in Atlantic salmon rivers; to centralize temperature data collected by different organizations on a variety of rivers in Eastern Canada (RivTemp database) and to develop thermal metrics relevant to the development of salmon protection tools and protocols. 
The establishment of the RivTemp network and its database was made possible by the financial contribution of the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Foundation (ASCF) and the participation of numerous partners active in the salmon river thermal monitoring program.
For more information visit http://rivtemp.ca/"

Organization: DataStream
Freshwater grab sampling of streams in the Kwakshua Watersheds of Calvert and Hecate Islands, BC: 2013-2019

This dataset contains the analytical results of freshwater biogeochemical samples collected on Calvert and Hecate Islands on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada, from April 2013 to December 2019. Samples were collected, approximately monthly, year round at the stream outlets of the seven largest watersheds, which are gauged as part of the Kwakshua Watersheds Observatory. The samples were analyzed for dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration and stable isotopes, particulate organic carbon and nitrogen (POC and PON) concentration and isotopes, dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition (via metrics of absorbance and fluorescence), total, dissolved, and inorganic nutrients, metals and major ions, water isotopes, and total suspended solids (TSS). Complimenting each water chemistry sample, we measured electrical conductivity, temperature, pH, oxidation reduction potential (ORP), and dissolved oxygen in-situ with a hand-held sensor.

Organization: DataStream
Great River Rapport Water Quality Data - Water Rangers

The Great River Rapport is a community-engaged, science-based ecosystem health report for the Upper St. Lawrence River, founded in partnership with the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne. The Great River Rapport uses advanced statistical methods, including complex modelling, to address community-driven research questions by integrating and analyzing large datasets from a variety of sources, including government, academic, private-sector, and open source/citizen science platforms. The project also promotes tech-based initiatives, including community science and stewardship apps, and employs a variety of digital and multi-media communications technologies, such as interactive online workshops, videos, infographics, and professional design expertise, to effectively translate and disseminate scientific and technical information to relevant groups and individuals.  In promoting community science initiatives, the project has launched a Water Ranger kit lending program for the community to borrow kits free of charge to learn about water quality, connect with their local waterways, and contribute valuable water quality data.

Organization: DataStream
Lot 11 Watershed Management Group Water Quality Monitoring

The Lot 11 Watershed Management Group Inc.'s water monitoring project allows us to build community partnerships, identify field sites, and develop and implement sampling protocols for long term monitoring of the Lot 11 Watershed Management Group Inc.
Water quality is collected using YSI system and the information collected will be used with historical data to determine water quality status and trends within the watershed itself.

Organization: DataStream
ACAP Saint John: Nutrients in the lower Wolastoq watershed

This data has been generated by both in-field monitoring probes and laboratory analyses of water samples at Research Productivity Council (surface water quality package) in Fredericton. The overarching goal of this project is to work with other organizations on Atlantic Datastream, as well as academia and government to generate data on Nutrients in the lower Wolastoq watershed from 2020 - 2022.

Organization: DataStream
Newfoundland and Labrador Long-term Water Quality Monitoring Data

Long-term freshwater quality monitoring data for sites in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) for the past 15 years or longer for nutrients, metals, major ions, and other physical-chemical variables are included in this dataset. Monitoring is conducted by Parks Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and with NL Municipal Affairs and Environment through the Canada-NL Water Quality Monitoring Agreement to assess water quality status and long-term trends, detect emerging issues, establish water quality guidelines and track the effectiveness of remedial measures and regulatory decisions. This dataset also includes data from provincial sites covered under the Canada-NL Water Quality Monitoring Agreement. Data for additional sites are available from NL Municipal Affairs and Environment. Most recent data can be downloaded from the following link: http://data.ec.gc.ca/data/substances/monitor/national-long-term-water-quality-monitoring-data/newfoundland-and-labrador-long-term-water-quality-monitoring-data

Organization: DataStream
IISD Experimental Lakes Area: Chemistry of LTER Lakes

The IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA) Chemistry of LTER Lakes data package provides lake chemistry data from five reference lakes in northwestern Ontario, Canada for the years 1968-2024.
The chemistry data includes the analysis of physical, nutrient, biological, inorganic, and organic parameters for long-term ecological research across lakes 114, 224, 239, 373, and 442, with lake 239 having the longest and most consistent data record. The dataset contains a row for each parameter measured at a specific date, lake, and depth (integrated layer or profile level). Please note that the data user must look at all three characteristic columns (CharacteristicName, MethodSpeciation, ResultSampleFraction) to accurately distinguish the analyzed parameters for each row.
This data package is ongoing—updates will be provided as data are collected from these lakes in subsequent years. If data are not present here for a specific IISD-ELA lake that you are interested in, please get in touch with us.
The data in this data package are also published in parallel on the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) repository (https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/revisionbrowse?scope=edi&identifier=1818). The differences between the two are: the formatting of data and metadata (particularly how integrated sample information is organized across columns), and the exclusion of two additional metadata files from DataStream. Additionally, this data has been transformed to align with DataStream’s Nutrient and Metal guidelines (https://datastream.org/en-ca/documentation/data-schema). The two metadata files on EDI provide additional details about the datasets including location coordinates and record counts, background and uses of the datasets, a data dictionary, diagrams, descriptions of methods, additional references, and a table that maps the chemical parameter names in this repository to their equivalents in the EDI repository.

Organization: DataStream
Transboundary Rivers Water Quality Monitoring Program

The Department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) is responsible for monitoring transboundary waters to ensure that upstream provinces and territories are not causing downstream effects in the Northwest Territories (NWT). The Transboundary suspended sediment and water quality sampling sites were established to characterize the water quality in the major transboundary rivers flowing into the NWT. The transboundary rivers monitored under this program are the Slave, Hay, Liard and Peel Rivers.The comprehensive program has developed a solid baseline for the aquatic ecosystem of these rivers against which future changes can be measured.

Organization: DataStream
CIMP 211 Impacts of Permafrost Thaw Slump Extent, Severity, and Persistence on Stream Biotic Health

Our ability to monitor geomorphological, bio-geochemical and hydrological impacts of permafrost disturbances and accurately map aerial extent and sediment displaced by slumping (and the affected downstream networks) has improved over the past decade. These advances in understanding watershed scale effects of thaw slump disturbance create an opportunity to investigate effects on aquatic health in a way not previously possible. Our project will use advances in mapping and physico-chemical understanding of permafrost disturbance to fill substantial knowledge gaps associated with the: (1) impact of thaw slumps on stream food-web dynamics; (2) persistence of thaw slump effects over time; and the (3) effects of magnitude/severity of thaw slumps on biotic communities in streams. We plan to address these knowledge gaps using a multi-tiered approach that includes assessment of environmental conditions.

Organization: DataStream
Quinte Conservation Water Quality Monitoring Data

We use the information gathered from these programs to check the conditions throughout the QC watersheds. Every five years we produce a Watershed Report Card, which is a summary on the state of our forests, surface water, and groundwater resources. Conservation authorities across Ontario develop the report cards to ensure consistent reporting across the province and to provide watershed residents with information on how to protect, enhance, and improve the precious resources that surround us.

Organization: DataStream
Shoreline Environmental Baseline Surveys in Placentia Bay, NL: A shoreline characterization and assessment of biogeochemistry, nutrients, coliforms, and hydrocarbons.

Placentia Bay, on the Southeast coast of Newfoundland formed by the Burin Peninsula on the west and the Avalon
Peninsula on the East, has been identified as a Priority Area for Integrated Management Planning. Successful development in this area relies upon an understanding of the health and condition of the Placentia Bay marine and coastal environment, and baseline data to detect changes related to management and external impacts.

To provide scientific data pertaining to the current state of the Placentia Bay, Northeast Avalon Atlantic Coastal Action Program (NAACAP) is conducting a Shoreline Environmental Baseline Program focused on assessing shoreline character and water properties in Placentia Bay. The program design involves sample collection at 8 representative coastal sites in Placentia Bay, 4-times per year, over a 3 1⁄2 -year period from October 2018 to March 2022

Organization: DataStream
North Shore - Gaspé Basin Long-term Water Quality Monitoring Data

Long-term freshwater quality monitoring data for sites in the North Shore - Gaspé basin for the past 15 years or longer for nutrients, metals, major ions, and other physical-chemical variables are included in this dataset. Monitoring is conducted by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and NL Municipal Affairs and Environment through the Canada-NL Water Quality Monitoring Agreement to assess water quality status and long-term trends, detect emerging issues, establish water quality guidelines and track the effectiveness of remedial measures and regulatory decisions. This dataset also includes data from provincial sites covered under the Canada-NL Water Quality Monitoring Agreement. Data for additional sites are available from NL Municipal Affairs and Environment.  Most recent data can be downloaded from the following link: http://data.ec.gc.ca/data/substances/monitor/national-long-term-water-quality-monitoring-data/north-shore-gasp-basin-long-term-water-quality-monitoring-data/$3lang=en

Organization: DataStream
Hammond River Angling Association Water Quality Monitoring Program

The Hammond River Watershed has a 73.5 kilometers long main river stem, 125 kilometers of major tributaries and countless kilometers of minor tributaries, encompassing 433 square kilometers of diverse land use and habitat types. The Hammond River is host to one of the last self-sustaining salmon populations in the Bay of Fundy region and salmon conservation underlies much of the HRAA’s work since 1977. The water quality data collected is used to assist in making informed decisions of prioritization of our many riparian restoration projects, ensuring that we are targeting the most stressed locations. With assistance from the Environmental Trust Fund and Wildlife Trust fund, this water monitoring project also aims to build community partnerships, and promote education and stewardship of our beautiful watershed.

Organization: DataStream
Lake Erie - Niagara Community Water Monitoring Hub

Swim Drink Fish was founded in 2001, and originally had the name ‘Lake Ontario Waterkeeper’. The mission was to protect the watersheds in Southern Ontario, where the founders, Mark Mattson and Krystyn Tully, grew up. The organization uses a multidisciplinary approach in applying environmental law, science, storytelling and technology to educate and empower people to protect their local waters. Currently, Swim Drink Fish is focused on safeguarding the waters of the The Great Lakes and other Canadian waterbodies.

The Lake Erie - Niagara Community Monitoring Hub is one of five across the Great Lakes and is part of a four year citizen science project by Swim Drink Fish, established with funding from Environment and Climate Change Canada's Great Lake Protection Initiative. The Lake Erie - Niagara Hub was established in 2019 in collaboration with Niagara College and the Niagara Coastal Community Collaborative. By engaging the Niagara community in citizen science, the hub promotes stewardship of Lake Erie and provides low-cost, reliable water quality monitoring data for recreational water bodies across the north shore of Lake Erie.

Recreational water samples are collected once a week by Swim Drink Fish staff and trained volunteer citizen scientists. Samples are analyzed for E. coli in lab space provided by Niagara College at its Niagara-on-the-Lake campus using IDEXX lab equipment. E.coli is straightforward to measure and is the most widely used indicator for assessing recreational water quality in the world. For these reasons, Swim Drink Fish chose to focus on E.coli measurements, despite the wide variety of pollutants that are present in natural waterbodies.
Recreational beach water results are all shared with the public through the Swim Guide app, a Swim Drink Fish initiative, and the raw data is made available on Swim Drink Fish’s Open Data Portal for recreational water quality.

Organization: DataStream
Chignecto Area Watersheds Monitoring Program

EOS Eco-Energy is a small, charitable organization based in Sackville, New Brunswick. In 2017, EOS established the Chignecto Area Watersheds Monitoring Program, with an aim to maintain the long-term sustainability of our local watersheds by promoting watershed awareness through citizen science, public education, conducting long-term water quality monitoring, and performing subsequent restoration and protection activities. Each year 12 sites are monitored in the Tantramar, Rockport – Dorchester and Cape Tormentine Peninsula areas. In-situ measurements are collected from May to October using a portable water quality sensor. Bottle samples collected from June to September are sent for laboratory analysis of a full suite of surface water parameters. This project would not be possible without our main funder, the New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund. In 2025, an Ecological Corridors project funded by Parks Canada and in collaboration with Birds Canada and Nature NB has allowed EOS to extend monitoring efforts to two sites in the Missaquash Watershed across the Chignecto Isthmus. In addition to standard water quality measurements, two temperature data loggers are deployed at these sites. This continuous time-series data is submitted separately to DataStream. These activities will gauge the health of aquatic habitat corridors, with special attention to cold water fish species.

Organization: DataStream
Connecting Channels Long Term Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance

Water quality monitoring in the connecting channels of the Great Lakes is part of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s commitment to the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) under the auspices of the International Joint Commission (IJC, 1989) to evaluate the effectiveness of pollution control programs carried out in the Great Lakes Basin. Water quality monitoring in the Connecting Channels began with the establishment of a fixed sampling site on the Niagara River at Niagara-on-the-Lake (NOTL) in 1975 and, over the next decade, additional sites were added on the St. Lawrence River at Wolfe Island in 1976 and upstream on the Niagara River at Fort Erie (FE) in 1983. Monitoring in the St. Clair River began at two locations, Port Lambton and Point Edward, in 1987.

Organization: DataStream
WRTBWA Quality and Quantity

Winter River – Tracadie Bay Watershed Association is a community based charitable organization established in 2008 that works to protect and enhance the health and aesthetic qualities of the Winter River - Tracadie Bay watershed, which is the main source of municipal water for the City of Charlottetown. Water quality and quantity data is collected to help us prioritize restoration projects, monitor effects of previous projects, and monitor long term trends due to wider scale activities such as water extraction for Charlottetown or local farming operations. Our projects are funded by the Government of Canada, Government of Prince Edward Island, City of Charlottetown, private foundations and individual donors. Our work is carried out by summer students, recent graduates, skilled supervisors and dedicated volunteers.

Organization: DataStream
Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers Temperature Logger Data

The Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers Society initiated the “Climate Change and Salmonid: Recording Creek Water/Air Temperatures” in 2021. The purpose of this project is to continually monitor the temperatures of the salmon bearing creeks on the Sunshine Coast. As we experience more and more unprecedented weather events, mainly the longer, dryer and hotter summers leading to record drought conditions, we will have the historical data to compare the creek’s water temperatures at one-hour intervals from one year to the next. We believe the greatest threat to wild salmon and their habitat is climate change. We must be equipped with knowledge of what is happening in the field to find ways to mitigate the effects of these warmer conditions on the mortality of salmon.

Organization: DataStream
Thames River and Fanshawe Reservoir data

The Thames River in Ontario is the largest Canadian tributary source of phosphorus (P) to Lake Erie's western basin. Although major efforts have been expended to reduce P losses from landscapes to rivers, the role of dammed reservoirs on riverine P flow remains poorly characterized. In this study, we determined whether Fanshawe Reservoir, on the Thames River, is a net sink or source for P.

Organization: DataStream