AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Maritime Coastal Basin Long-term Water Quality Monitoring Data

Long-term freshwater quality monitoring data for sites in the Maritime Coastal 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 Parks Canada as well as through the Canada-New Brunswick Water Quality Monitoring Agreement, the Canada-PEI Water Annex, and through collaborative work with the province of Nova Scotia 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. 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/maritime-coastal-basin-long-term-water-quality-monitoring-data/$3lang=en

Organization: DataStream
Fort Folly Water Quality Data

Water quality monitoring occurs within Palmer’s Pond and the Petitcodiac Watershed to assess local habitat and ecosystem health. Surface water samples are collected at various locations on a monthly basis, following RPC protocols, and submitted to the laboratory for analysis of multiple analytes. These may include surface water chemistry, surface water metals, pesticides and herbicides, Atlantic MUST (BTEX/TPH), mercury, and glyphosate. As part of the Swim Guide program, PWA also conducts E. coli testing at one location within Palmer’s Pond.

Organization: DataStream
Municipality of Val-des-Monts: Gilmour Lake

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
ACAP Saint John: Community-Based Water Monitoring Program

ACAP Saint John’s Water Quality Monitoring Programs aim to build upon the community-based water monitoring program established in 1992 in the Greater Saint John Area. The data collected from these various monitoring programs is used to track stressors, determine restoration sites, strengthen/shape policy, and expand community partnerships. This includes data collected during ACAP Saint John’s Coastal Baseline Monitoring Program which is part of a larger national monitoring program to address data gaps to areas that do not have comprehensive aquatic baseline data. Water quality data is collected through portable in-situ field meters (all monitoring programs) and grab samples for laboratory analysis (select monitoring programs).

Organization: DataStream
Great Lakes Areas of Concern Monitoring and Surveillance

Areas of Concern (AOCs) are geographic areas within the Great Lakes basin, identified in the mid-1980s, where significant impairment of beneficial uses of the environment has occurred resulting from localized human activities. Water quality and ecosystem health monitoring and surveillance is conducted to assess ecosystem impairment in Areas of Concern (AOCs) and to track the effectiveness of remedial actions aimed at restoring beneficial uses. Remediating AOCs contributes to the sustainability of local communities and of the Great Lakes region, and is a joint commitment under the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA). This dataset contains data collected by the Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada used in these assessments.

Organization: DataStream
Peace River Regional District Water Quality Baseline - BC Environmental Monitoring System (EMS)

GW Solutions was retained to build a water quality baseline for both surface water and groundwater in the Peace River Regional District (PRRD). GW Solutions used existing water quality data gathered from databases, web systems and reports. This dataset includes data gathered from EMS for the purposes of this project. The EMS is a water quality repository system created and maintained by the Government of British Columbia. It includes chemical analyses results on air, water, and soil for samples collected by ministry staff and industry. The database presently (2017) stores over 13 million publicly available water and sediments quality results. Data from the EMS is publicly available through the EMS Web Reporting (EMS WR). GW Solutions has compiled, cleaned and standardized the EMS water quality data as part of the Peace River Regional District (PRRD) water quality baseline. Within the PRRD, the EMS provides information on about 325 stations with approximately 10,550 water chemistry results for non-treated surface water (data available up to February 2015). The PRRD project was funded by the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia (REFBC), the Peace River Regional District (PRRD), Treaty 8 Tribal Association (T8TA), and in-kind contributions from GW Solutions Inc., and Interraplan Inc.

Organization: DataStream
Municipality of Val-des-Monts: Lac Jumeaux

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
Queen's University Biological Station Lake Chemistry

The Queen’s University Biological Station (QUBS) lake project ran from 2012 to 2016 with the aim to collect background water chemistry and plankton data from 6 lakes on QUBS property, as well as lakes in the surrounding region. The QUBS lakes were sampled May to August at fortnightly or monthly intervals whereas the surrounding lakes were sampled once annually in July or August. The water chemistry samples were analyzed by the Chemistry Lab at the Dorset Environmental Science Centre in Dorset, ON and zooplankton samples were analyzed by various students, including Megan Borland, Lauren Witterick, Mark Reist, Phil Anderson, Kaitlyn Brougham, and James Sinclair. Sample collection was done by Ayo Adurogbangba, Amelia Corrigan, Katrina Furlanetto, Ariel Gittens, Amelia Cox, Phil Anderson, Marcus Threndyle, Megan, Borland, Lauren Witterick, Emily Drinkwater, and Kaitlyn Brougham. Funding was provided by NSERC Discovery grants to S.E. Arnott and B.A. Nelson, Queen’s University’s Summer Work Experience Program, and the Alexander and Cora Munn Summer Research Award.

Organization: DataStream
Municipality of Val-des-Monts: Lac Newcombe

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
South Saskatchewan River Stewards Phosphorus Monitoring

To better understand phosphorous levels in Saskatchewan waterways, four Saskatchewan Watershed Stewardship Groups are collaborating to collect water samples from tributaries of the South and North Saskatchewan Rivers. This project will study how the tributaries contribute phosphorous to these rivers and eventually the Lake Winnipeg Basin. The Carrot River Valley Watershed Association, the North Saskatchewan River Basin Council, the South Saskatchewan River Watershed Stewards, and the Swift Current Creek Watershed Stewards have been collecting water samples for the last two years from the tributaries of the Saskatchewan River. These samples are then sent to a laboratory to be tested for phosphorous levels. This project has been funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada through the Lake Winnipeg Basin Program.

Organization: DataStream
Grand Council Treaty #3 Basic Water Quality Parameters

The Anishinaabe world view on water states "We have the right and responsibility to protect the water". Based on this view, Grand Council Treaty #3's (GCT3) long-term vision for the program is to protect and preserve the traditional waters of the Anishinaabe people from all 28 Treaty #3 First Nations by empowering and educating them through long-term stewardship and capacity-building opportunities. The goals of the CBM program are to protect and preserve traditional waters; build the environmental knowledge and capacity of Treaty #3 members; and prioritize youth engagement in the program.

Organization: DataStream
RivTemp--Pictou County Rivers Association

"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
CIMP 180_ The impact of wildfire on diverse aquatic ecosystems of the NWT

During the summer of 2014, the southern Northwest Territories (NWT) experienced an unprecedented fire season, with a burn fingerprint that spread across two ecoregions (the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield), and a landscape that is underlain by mosaic of permafrost coverage, vegetation type, and previous fire history.  Our study was conducted across the Dehcho, Wek’èezhii, and Akaitcho Geographic Regions, which encompass the most significantly burned areas from the 2014 fire season.  Within these regions, we examined water quality across a series of 50 catchments that varied based on within-catchment fire extent, ecoregion (Taiga Plains vs. Taiga Shield), and within-catchment characteristics such as wetland extent. This sampling scheme – which covers as significant a range of landscape variability as possible – is allowing us to tease apart the effects of wildfire from other landscape variables that cumulatively impact aquatic ecosystem health. We find that the effects of wildfire on stream water chemistry are relatively weak when measured at stream outlets, but that these effects can teased apart from other, key landscape attributes with the use of multivariate analyses and a large sample size. However, we do find transient changes in water quality immediately post-fire, and changes in pore water chemistry and hydrologic parameters within catchments affected by wildfire. Future work should examine long term fire-induced changes within catchments, and focus on determining the effect of wildfire during years that are relatively wet.

Organization: DataStream
Toews Environmental Water Quality Monitoring Program

On behalf of the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead, Toews Environmental Ltd. led studies on Shoal Lake, Manitoba, to inform development of a lake water level management plan and possible future initiatives to improve water quality in the lake.  The water quality study comprised collection of water samples and in situ measurements from four locations on the lake in March, June, July, August and October 2018.  Laboratory analyses focused on nutrients and related parameters including metals and phytoplankton taxonomy.  Measurements from near the lake bottom at the deepest site will allow assessment of internal phosphorus loading.

Organization: DataStream
Bathing potential assessment along the Chateauguay River

A study conducted in summer 2021 by Fondation Rivières validated the bathing potential of 9 sites along 55 km of the Châteauguay River. The bacteriological quality of the water was analyzed using both E. coli counts after laboratory culture and a new rapid analysis technology (ColiMinder, VWMS). This dataset contains all the E. coli count data after laboratory culture carried out as part of this project. /A study was conducted in the summer of 2021 by Rivers Foundation to validate the bathing potential of 9 sites along 55 km of the Châteauguay River. The bacteriological quality of the water was analyzed using both E. coli counts after incubation and a new rapid analysis technology (CoLimInder, VWMS). This dataset contains all of the E. coli counts after incubation perfomed during this project.

Organization: DataStream
CreekWatch Citizen Science

Since 2014, CreekWatch has provided the leadership, science, and stewardship necessary for community volunteers to contribute to positive environmental change in their community. We bring people together from all walks of life – scientists and non-scientists from different communities, backgrounds, cultures, and ages allowing them to investigate and act on water issues pertaining to their local stormwater creeks. CreekWatch promotes collaborative, timely, and low-cost water quality monitoring focused on improving our tributary stormwater quality and having participants explore science by making it more familiar, accessible, and inclusive. Adult volunteers work in teams using portable water quality labs to research and answer the question “How healthy are our creeks?”

Organization: DataStream
LakePulse

The LakePulse Network performed a lake health assessment at the canadian scale. Launched in 2016 thanks to the funding of the NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Strategic Partnership Program for Networks, LakePulse is an academic-government partnership that brings together 17 academic researchers from 13 Canadian universities, as well as eight provincial governments and two federal departments. Research interests were grouped under four research themes, with two to four projects within each theme. Approaches used in LakePulse include traditional, state-of-the-art and innovative methods in genomics, emerging contaminants, greenhouse gases, invasive pathogens, paleolimnology, spatial modelling, statistical analyses and remote sensing to answer the following main questions:

- How healthy are Canadian lakes?
- Is lake degradation widespread in Canada or worse in certain regions?
- Is lake health getting better, worse, or stable through time?
- How does land use and climate change affect lake health?

Organization: DataStream
Woodlands and Waterways EcoWatch - Water Quality Monitoring Program

Our goal is simple: provide planning, logistics, and technical know-how to grassroots environmental monitoring initiatives in the Haliburton region. We achieve this by being led by the people who have the most to gain from the collection of this data, the citizens of cottage country. WWEW is made up of a coalition of lake, cottage, and property owners’ associations; the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust; Trent University and Fleming College faculty; and the staff and management committee members of the U-Links Centre for Community Based Research. This unique mix gives us the enthusiasm for ensuring our common resources are maintained into the future as well as the knowledge and technical skills provided by our post-secondary partners.

View reports written with this data here:
https://database.ulinks.ca/items/browse?collection=10

Organization: DataStream
Upper Athabasca Community Based Monitoring (UATHCBM)

Upper and Central Athabasca Basin residents are justifiably concerned about the health of aquatic ecosystems, and want access to credible independent monitoring data, in order to move beyond dependence on data that may or may not be available to the public from industry self-monitoring programs.  Community based monitoring fosters a wide range of innovations, including increased awareness of water stewardship issues, improved traditional knowledge collection and application, as well as increased community involvement in research and monitoring program design.  Upper Athabasca Community Based Monitoring (UATHCBM) provides information, training, equipment and other resources to support community-based monitoring.

Organization: DataStream
RBC Future Launch Water Quality Monitoring

Ducks Unlimited Canada’s (DUC) mission is to conserve, restore, and manage wetlands to benefit waterfowl, wildlife, and people. DUC has restored and secured over 45,000 acres of habitat in Nova Scotia (NS) through restoration, conservation, research, and education. This project was to assess the health and biodiversity of 5 rural community wetlands, as well as 1 urban community wetland all located in NS. Since 2003, DUC has been conducting wetland field trips for Grade 4 students at several wetlands in NS. Each year DUC employs 1-2 youth to assist with the delivery of this program and over time we have noticed changes in the biodiversity and potentially the water quality of these wetlands. Therefore, the goal of this project was to assess the health of these wetland sites during the Grade 4 wetland field trips, as well as other times throughout the summer months.

Organization: DataStream
Hunter-Clyde Watershed Group Water Quality Monitoring Data

The Hunter-Clyde Watershed Group Water Quality Monitoring project is designed to gather water quality baseline data and seasonal trends within the watershed. Water quality is collected using YSI probes, HOBO in-stream depth loggers (collects data in 15-minute intervals) and a flow probe at 6 locations throughout the watershed, and an additional 13 YSI only sites.

Organization: DataStream
Vermilion River Aquatic Ecosystem Assessment

The North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance (NSWA) is responsible for making watershed management recommendations to the Government of Alberta. The North Saskatchewan River (NSR) watershed is comprised of 12 sub-watersheds, one of which drains toward the Vermilion River (VR). Although the VR watershed covers a relatively large (14%) portion of the total NSR watershed, information regarding the aquatic ecosystem is not readily available. On behalf of the NSWA, CPP Environmental (CPPENV) completed an aquatic ecosystem assessment of the VR including aquatic habitat and water quality, vegetation, macroinvertebrates, and fish. Seven sampling stations were surveyed from August to September in 2015, which corresponds to the locations visited in 2014 for water quality sampling. In late summer of 2015, flow was either non-existent or detected in trace amounts at all stations, except for the downstream-most station VER6. At each station, 5 transects were established, spaced 50m apart, representing a 200m reach.

Organization: DataStream
River Guardians Water Quality Monitoring Program

The Annapolis River Guardian volunteers began collecting water quality data in the Annapolis River watershed in 1992. The Clean Annapolis River Project (CARP) initiated the program as a public awareness project, and has had numerous volunteers collecting samples over the years. It is one of the longest running and most extensive volunteer based water quality programs in Eastern Canada. It is also CARP’s longest running project. At least 100 volunteers from the Annapolis Valley community have participated in the program over the years, and over 4,000 water samples have been collected and analyzed.   

The program was initiated in the early 1990’s by Dr. Graham Daborn and Dr. Mike Brylinsky of the Acadia Centre for Estuarine Research (ACER). Many groups were involved in the planning process for the program, including staff from the Nova Scotia Department of Health, the Nova Scotia Department of Environment, Nova Scotia Community College, and CARP. Some modifications have been made over the years, but the core has remained the same.
	
Since the early 90’s, 8 sites have been actively monitored. Sampling occurs from late spring to late fall, biweekly. Water quality data is collected through a water quality instrument, otherwise known as a YSI, and grab samples are sent for laboratory analysis to determine E.coli levels in the River. The information is then analyzed by CARP staff with this historical data, which is then later produced into a report card looking at water quality status and trends in the watershed over time. See past report cards here: https://www.annapolisriver.ca/annapolis-river-guardians.

Organization: DataStream
Lac Notre Dame and Usher Water Quality Monitoring

The Lac Notre Dame and Usher Lake Association mission is to promote, protect and preserve the quality of Lac Notre Dame and Usher Lake and the watershed environment of the Lakes to ensure their continued use and enjoyment by all. Our annual water sampling helps us protect water users and understand the role water chemistry might play in suppressing invasive Eurasian milfoil and blue-green algae.

Organization: DataStream
RivTemp--Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation

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
DataStream Water Quality Monitoring Data

The Meduxnekeag River Water quality monitoring program aims to build a better understanding of water quality in the Meduxnekeag watershed.  Analysis of this data informs actions by the Association, community members, land owners, academia, government, partners and Woodstock First Nation habitat monitoring and restoration activities.  Water grab samples are collected and sent for laboratory analysis.  This information is analyzed with historical data and shared with the Department of Environment and Local Government.

Organization: DataStream
RivTemp--OBVHCN_INRS

"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
Rideau Valley-Watershed Watch

The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority collects water quality data in correspondence with its goal to understand, manage, protect, restore, and enhance the Rideau Watershed. The data collected is used to better inform decisions and landowners across the watershed. RVCA’s surface water quality sampling efforts are focused towards two main programs, the Baseline Monitoring program, and the Watershed Watch program. The Baseline Monitoring Program aims to assess the contribution of tributary streams to water quality in the Rideau River, while the Watershed Watch program aims to evaluate water quality in lakes across the watershed.

Organization: DataStream