cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25976/x5wn-0523
title: Government of Manitoba Long Term Water Quality Monitoring Program

description: The Government of Manitoba’s Long Term Water Quality Monitoring Program supports the Department’s mandate to provide services to protect and maintain the quality of Manitoba’s aquatic ecosystems by developing and implementing coherent long term water quality monitoring programs and activities that are responsive to present and future needs, issues and pressures. Water quality data are collected through grab samples. These samples are sent for laboratory analysis where they can be analyzed for a suite of 120 water quality variables including general chemistry, nutrients, major ions, metals, pesticides and pharmaceuticals/estrogens. The four site locations presented here are only a small subset of the 65 site locations monitored through the program. These four site locations represent four major river systems that flow into Lake Winnipeg. Samples are collected monthly from each of these four sites, with the exception of the Dauphin River, which is collected quarterly. 

The data are used by the Government of Manitoba in a variety of ways to assess water quality conditions, through technical reports including trends, loads, and the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water Quality Index, to name a few. The data are also used for water quality modelling and to inform policy decisions associated with Environment Act processes and Integrated Watershed Management Planning, to name a few. These data are also frequently requested and used externally by a number of stakeholders, consultants, academia and non-government organizations.
description: Samples are collected at each of the sites from the center channel, or from the shore where the center channel is not possible. Samples are collected from the center channel using a weighted bridge sampler lowered to approximately 0.5 meter depth below the surface. Shoreline samples are collected using a pole sampler to reach as close to the center channel as possible, to a depth of 0.5 meters. Prior sample collection, sampling equipment is rinsed three times using water from that site. Samples are then transferred to sterile sample bottles provided by the analytical laboratory and preserved as per method protocol. Samples are sent to the analytical laboratory for analysis within recommended hold times. QA/QC samples are collected quarterly and submitted as trip and field blanks with routine samples to the analytical laboratory. 

Manitoba recommends that total phosphorus (TP) and particulate phosphorus (PP) values, for the period between April 1, 2001 – March 31, 2009, be adjusted as per McCullough 2015. Raw, unadjusted TP values are reported here. It is recommended that these reported TP values be multiplied by a factor of 0.89. A detailed review of the rationale for this adjustment can be found in McCullough 2015. Please contact data provider for access to this report.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.3czc9y
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset listing the 511 species recorded in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "Country is Italy",
 "GadmGid is ITA.18.1.39_1",
 "GbifRegion is Europe and Central Asia",
 "HasCoordinate is true",
 "HasGeospatialIssue is false",
 "OccurrenceStatus is Present",
 "StateProvince is Umbria"
 ]
}

 The dataset's 511 records were derived from 10 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0024004-241107131044228/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.q2xpqd
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 1 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "HasGeospatialIssue is false",
 "HasCoordinate is true",
 "OccurrenceStatus is Present",
 {
 "not" : {
 "BasisOfRecord" : [
 "is one of (Fossil, Living Specimen)"
 ]
 }
 },
 "TaxonKey is one of (Aspidistra nikolaii Aver. & Tillich)"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 1 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0024022-241107131044228/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.25976/yvh3-vh67
title: Lac Notre Dame and Usher Water Quality Monitoring

description: 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.
description: Water samples are collected at specific sites in the lakes annually in the summer. Water clarity measurements with a Secchi disk are performed around the same time.
DOI: 10.25976/1hzw-rx71
title: MRWA temperature logger data

description: The McIntosh Run Watershed Association (MRWA) began in 1994 as a voice for the McIntosh Run, its tributary waters and the land within its watershed. The goals of MRWA are to further conservation and community stewardship of and to facilitate sustainable public access to the McIntosh Run watershed. Over the past 20+ years the association has undertaken long-term stewardship projects within the watershed. Partnering with local elementary and high schools as well as local universities the MRWA engages youth in hands on ecological stewardship. Ongoing projects include “Fish Friends” a program with the local elementary school to raise and release Brook Trout into the McIntosh Run. The MRWA partners with J.L. Isley High School for an annual River Cleanup in June. We have also partnered with university students to survey ecological communities within the watershed and restore and rehabilitate habitat along the river system.
description: Hobo temperature data logger.
DOI: 10.25976/4wp1-eo83
title: Joe Brook Habitat Assessment 

description: Habitat assessments were conducted along Joe Brook during the summer of 2021, covering a total distance of 7.7 km. In-situ data was collected with a Hanna probe every 100 meters. Channel characteristics, substrate characteristics and riparian characteristics were collected every 25 meters. The idea was establish baseline data and to get an idea of the state of the habitat. The New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund provided the funding that made this project possible.
description: A Hannah probe (multi-parameter) was used to collect data on physiochemical parameters at each sampling site (n=77).
description: N/A
DOI: 10.25976/hjrz-7d81
title: Shxwlistexw te Sqwá:la Shxweli: Care for the Life Spirit of the Hope Slough

description: Cheam Enterprises Inc. and its partners seek to build community partnerships to work to aid in the restoration of the Hope Slough. This includes working with local farmers, indigenous groups, individual citizens, and more to help measure the water quality in the Hope Slough and to work with partners to maintain and improve the slough's health. Water Quality samples are taken by hand every week, some data may be missing according to environmental factors making it impossible to take or dangerous to take.
DOI: 10.25976/t9bp-8m97
title: Rideau Valley-Baseline WQ

description: 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.
description: RVCA Baseline Monitoring Program: Following PWQMN protocols, the baseline program aims to routinely monitor water quality in tributaries across the watershed. Samples are collected at road/stream crossings and analyzed at an external laboratory. Field data is collected using a YSI Probe (ProDSS systems).
description: All data is reviewed prior to upload into the system. Inaccurate or non-representative values are flagged and/or removed from the data prior to upload.
DOI: 10.25976/afj8-cc25
title: Mikisew Cree First Nation - Community Based Monitoring Program

description: The Mikisew Cree First Nation Elders have direct experience of negative environmental changes in the Peace Athabasca Delta and have instructed and guided water quality monitoring through their Traditional Knowledge. Community 'Guardians' sample weekly using the best available science and Traditional Knowledge.
DOI: 10.25976/e2mg-a390
title: Woodlands and Waterways EcoWatch - Water Quality Monitoring Program: 2024 Spring Data Update

description: 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.
description: Water samples were collected from Secchi depths at mid-lake deepspots and poured through a 40-µm mesh filter.
description: N/A
DOI: 10.25976/gm08-v975
title: Saulteau First Nations - Land Guardians

description: Saulteau First Nations Guardian Program conducts a water quality and quantity sampling program with the goal to determine current conditions, identify potential contaminants and to monitor long-term trends potentially impacted by climate change. In the short term we provide results on water conditions that are important to the community.
description: Sampling methods are both in situ and samples for laboratory analysis. 
In situ is achieved through identifying the water column profile to guide the sample collection. This is achieved by conducting DO% and temperature measurements at 1m intervals using a YSI Pro20 until reaching the nearest whole meter above the lakebed. 
Laboratory samples are collected at major stratified zones (epilimnion, thermocline, and hypolimnion) of the lake or a specific depth (1m, 10m, 20m) if uniform temperatures are detected. A Van Dorn is used to collect samples from the determined depths. Additionally, pH, TDS, conductivity, and turbidity are collected
description: We do not conduct any data cleaning
DOI: 10.25976/kw9y-2n96
title: eDNA Water Quality 

description: Water quality testing has been incorporated into our eDNA sampling project titled Merging Advanced Technologies with Traditional Knowledge for Species at Risk Protection in order to evaluate the health of the water bodies. We use a YSI multiparameter digital water quality meter to test parameters such as: water temperature, conductivity, pH, total dissolved solids and dissolved oxygen. Sampling locations reflect areas of interest as stated by members in the asserted territory of the North Slave Métis Alliance.
description: Sampling is conducted using YSI multiparameter meter twice a year (after snowmelt, before snowfall). Calibration of the meter is done at the beginning of each sampling season (i.e. early spring of each year).
DOI: 10.25976/ndf7-nu19
title: Collaborative seasonal monitoring of rivers within the Dehcho and South Slave regions of the Northwest Territories and Dene Tha' lands of Northern Alberta

description: This project samples 19 streams throughout the Dehcho and South Slave regions of the Northwest Territories and throughout the Hay River basin of Northern Alberta. Samples are collected throughout the open water season through a collaborative effort between the university of Alberta; Dehcho Aboriginal Aquatic Resource and Oceans Management (AAROM), Dehcho First Nations, Kátł’odeeche Fırst Nation Lands Department; Nahendeh Kehotsendı̨ Program, Dene Tha' First Nation's Lands Department, and Department of Environment and Climate Change; Government of NWT. Data collection began in 2020 with a subset of streams, with additional streams added throughout 2021 to reach 19 streams total. This data represents the beginning of a multi-year collection effort which will allow us to monitor variations in water chemistry between years, particularly for methylmercury, a parameter less commonly sampled.
description: Water samples were collected from the edge of each river or stream. Water for mercury (Hg) and methylmercury (MeHg) analysis was collected using clean hands - dirty hands protocol in 125 mL and 250 mL bottles respectively. At a subset of streams, we also collected filtered Hg and MeHg samples where an extra bottle of each was collected and filtered through acid cleaned 0.45 um cellulose nitrate filter towers into a new bottle within 24 hours. Hg and MeHg samples were preserved with 0.2% and 0.4% trace grade hydrochloric acid respectively. Additional grab samples were collected and filtered in the field using 0.7 um Whatman filters. We collected a 60 mL amber glass bottle, which was preserved with hydrochloric acid and analysed for dissolved organic carbon and cation analysis. A second 60 ml Nalgene LDPE bottle was collected and remained un-acidified for anion analysis. Measurements of turbidity were collected using a calibrated LaMotte 2020i Turbidity meter, water temperature, pH, and electrical conductivity were measured using a calibrated Thermo Scientific Elite PCTS pH/Conductivity/TDS/Salinity Pocket tester or calibrated PT1 and PT2 Ultrapens (Myron L Company, USA).
DOI: 10.25976/vpu5-3a09
title: MRWA

description: The McIntosh Run Watershed Association (MRWA) began in 1994 as a voice for the McIntosh Run, its tributary waters and the land within its watershed. The goals of MRWA are to further conservation and community stewardship of and to facilitate sustainable public access to the McIntosh Run watershed. Over the past 20+ years the association has undertaken long-term stewardship projects within the watershed. Partnering with local elementary and high schools as well as local universities the MRWA engages youth in hands on ecological stewardship. Ongoing projects include “Fish Friends” a program with the local elementary school to raise and release Brook Trout into the McIntosh Run. The MRWA partners with J.L. Isley High School for an annual River Cleanup in June. We have also partnered with university students to survey ecological communities within the watershed and restore and rehabilitate habitat along the river system.
DOI: 10.25976/y9yi-no57
title: Seasonal Monitoring of Smith Creek and Scotty Creek, 2019-2021

description: Our project examined water quality in two catchments in the Dehcho of the Northwest Territories through a partnership between University of Alberta researchers and the Dehcho Aboriginal Aquatic Resources and Oceans Management program. Over three years (2019-2021), we sampled methylmercury, mercury, dissolved organic matter, nutrients, and ions at Smith Creek and Scotty Creek.
description: Water samples were collected at the edges of the streams. PT1 and PT2 Ultrapens (Myron L Company, USA) were used to measure electrical conductivity, pH, and water temperature. Samples for mercury and methylmercury analysis were collected in certified precleaned amber glass bottles following clean hands-dirty hands protocols. 2x60 mL water samples were filtered in the field, with one sample preserved with hydrochloric acid for dissolved organic carbon and cation analysis, with the other non-acidified for anion analysis and absorbance spectroscopy.

Additional information on methods and interpretation can be found here:
Thompson LM, Low M, Shewan R, Schulze C, Simba M, Sonnentag O, Tank SE, Olefeldt D. 2023. Concentrations and Yields of Mercury, Methylmercury, and Dissolved Organic Carbon From Contrasting Catchments in the Discontinuous Permafrost Region, Western Canada. Water Resources Research. 59:e2023WR034848. doi.org/10.1029/2023WR034848.
DOI: 10.25976/0nlx-3708
title: Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council - Indigenous Observation Network

description: This dataset is part of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council's (YRITWC's) Indigenous Observation Network (ION) Water Monitoring Program. The YRITWC is an Indigenous grassroots non-profit organization, consisting of 74 First Nations and Tribes, dedicated to the protection and preservation of the Yukon River Watershed. The YRITWC accomplishes this by providing Yukon First Nations and Alaska Tribes in the Yukon Watershed with technical assistance, such as facilitating the development and exchange of information, coordinating efforts between First Nations and Tribes, undertaking research, and providing training, education and awareness programs to promote the health of the Watershed and its Indigenous peoples. Data generated by this program is used to assess water quality (non-point source/climate change indicators and point-source/natural and anthropogenic indicators) at water resources and within the YRB.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, United States Geological Survey, University of Alaska Fairbanks Chemistry Department and Water Environmental Research Center Laboratory, Government of Yukon Water Resources,  Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation provided standard operation protocols, technical assistance, and guidance.
description: Sampling design is outlined in the YRITWC's Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP), adapted with permission from those produced by Cook Inlet Keeper of Homer and the Alaska Cooperative Extension, Alaska Native Village Drinking Water Protection Program Outreach. The Umbrella ION QAPP provides the framework of a standardized monitoring design that includes training availability, equipment choices, defines sampling design, describes collected parameters, defines QA/QC activities, describes sampling handling, describes sample shipment, and database management practices.
DOI: 10.25976/nb9g-f462
title: SRMT EPA Data

description: In 2007 the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in an agreement with EPA established Water Quality Standards and obtained Treatment as State status. The tribe monitors the waters within its territorial boundaries and beyond to assess if they are meeting these standards.
description: A YSI ProDDS Mulit Parameter SOnde is used to monitor ambient water quality at several sampling locations within and upstream of territorial waters. Nutrients samples are collected with a bottle at the end of a stick submerged a meter below the water off a boat moving laterally across the river. Four subsamples are taken and churned to create a single composite sample. Duplicates are taken at one of the sites randomly selected. E. coli is taken with a similar method, but the bottle has smaller holes, and each bottle is considered a single sample after thorough mixing. Triple duplicates are taken at a randomly selected site.
description: Data is in its raw format, but for instances stated below in which data points were removed. 
ResultMeasureValue = "#N/A" or "Duplicate" or "&lt;0/025"
CharacteristicName = "Depth" or "Depth, data-logger (ported)", these are the depths at which measurements were taken
Coordinates are missing
pH with ResultUnit mV or ppt
DOI: 10.25976/ugst-v250
title: Flowing Waters Information System Temperature Data

description: This dataset includes monitored air and water temperature across Ontario since 1990. The data were collected by multiple organizations for a variety of purposes (collection organization names are listed in the Result Comment of this dataset). 

This dataset includes only a portion of a larger dataset available on FWIS (https://www.comap.ca/fwis. ), which includes maximum air temperature and predicted maximum water temperature and a standardized water temperature, for records that meet the criteria for applying the algrorithms. The FWIS dataset represents a summary of the two module types from within OSAP that provide varying methods of measuring stream and air temperature. Those being the rapid and standard methods.  To fully apply the standard method water temperature is recorded between 3:45 and 5:00 when  maximum air temperature would be greater or equal to 24 C.  Such measures ensure that the stream is approaching maximum temperature for that day and enables summer maximum or standardized temperature to be calculated for the site. Air temperature at the site is also often recorded when the water temperature is recorded on site. It is used as a backup for analysis,  but is not necessary.  If either the maximum air temperature is lower than this value or the temperature is recorded outside this window, it is considered a rapid assessment value.  Users can conclude that the stream gets to a maximum of at least the value recorded but is likely to exceed this value at some point during the summer.  Note that many observations have been extracted from digital temperature recorders (the diagnostic method), with summer maximum temperatures extracted along with air temperature data from other sources.  These are generally identified as those records with more than one decimal point.  

Guidance for the FWIS dataset methods are from:
Stanfield, L. W. (Ed.). 2010. Stream assessment protocol for southern Ontario.  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, internal publication.
description: Data cfollected using either a hand held thermometer or a digital temperature recorder from whcih data were extracted for days in which the criteria were met to enable thermal stability to be calculated.
DOI: 10.25976/h6wt-6i20
title: Lake Torment Water Quality Dataset

description: This program is intended to help better understand nutrient loading within Lake Torment. Said program aims to identify possible sources of contamination.
description: Grab samples are collected at varying sites to be analyzed at Bureau Veritas Laboratory.
DOI: 10.25976/wgcf-ne79
title: CIMP231

description: CIMP231 is a stream biomonitoring study in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region investigating the impacts of beaver dams on biodiversity, food web structure and stream health. With the help of community members from Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, grab samples were collected and sent to Environment and Climate Change Canada's National Laboratory for Environmental Testing at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters in Burlington, Ontario. This data is used to predict changes in benthic diversity and food web structure.
description: 1L grab samples were taken by submerging a bottle upside down in the middle of the stream and flipping the bottle below the surface, avoiding the collection of particles floating in the stream. Samples were sent to the National Laboratory for Environmental Testing (NLET) at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW) in Burlington, ON.