cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25976/a5td-e253
title: Manuels River Water Quality Monitoring

description: The Manuels River Water Quality Monitoring Program hopes to work with other like-minded organizations in Conception Bay South to monitor the quality of the water in Manuels River.  We plan to regularly test a broad suite of water quality characters (pH, dissolved O2 [mg/L, %], temperature, SpCon, salinity, TDS) in Manuels River immediately adjacent to the Manuels River Hibernia Interpretation Centre.  Records will be taken using equipment generously provided by Northeast Avalon ACAP.
description: A multi-parameter sonde graciously provided by Northeast Avalon ACAP is used to collect water quality data (DO [mg/L, %], SpCond [µs/cm], Salinity [ppt], TDS [mg/L], Temp [°C], pH) on Manuels River.  Sampling is carried out at a single location, the shallow running water adjacent to the granites immediately behind the Manuels River Hibernia Interpretation Centre.  Sampling methods follow the recommendations laid out by Northeast Avalon ACAP.
DOI: 10.25976/bv8z-1z40
title: Water Quality Monitoring of Regional Rivers (Northeast Avalon)

description: Northeast Avalon ACAP (NAACAP) completed a three year Water Quality Monitoring of Regional Rivers project on the Northeast Avalon, representing 43 watersheds where continuous monitoring had not previously been completed. Training and equipment from Saint Mary’s University CURA H2O and Community Based Environmental Monitoring Network facilitated data collection by NAACAP and community partners: Kelligrews Ecological Enhancement Program (KEEP), The Quidi Vidi/Rennie’s River Development Foundation, and the Manuels River Experience. Ongoing community based sampling efforts illustrates the need for further efforts to monitor and improve water quality. This project was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Environment and Climate Change.
description: A YSI probe multiparameter Sonde was used to collect in-situ data on physio-chemical parameters at all sampling locations. Between 61 to 77 sites, representing 43 watersheds, were sampled over three years from 2014-16. Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) protocol was used at one location on the Waterford River from 2014-16.
DOI: 10.25976/eq10-zn81
title: K'agee Tu First Nation (KTFN) Community Based Monitoring of Kakisa River watershed

description: The Tathlina Lake area is a culturally and economically significant area for the Ka'a'gee Tu First Nation, as Band members and their ancestors have lived, hunted, trapped and fished in the area for thousands of years. The lake supports a small commercial fishery, which employs KTFN members and contributes significantly to the economy of the community. The area is also downstream of one of the only producing oil and gas fields in the NWT, in the Cameron Hills. Multiple resource pressures and environmental change in the region have led the KTFN to question the cumulative effects of these influences on the current and future health of the aquatic system of the Tathlina watershed. An NWT CIMP funded project.
DOI: 10.25976/sw2m-0492
title: Clean Foundation Watershed Restoration Monitoring Data

description: Clean Foundation Watershed Restoration Program conducts restoration work in Dartmouth watersheds, with the goal to improve habitat for fish species and improve overall water quality. This work has helped to improve fish habitat quality through stream restoration structures, debris/blockage removal, riparian planting, and outreach & education. Additionally, through habitat assessments, water quality monitoring and biological monitoring, Clean wishes to provide data to other groups to analyze water quality status and trends over time in the watersheds we work in to determine future restoration sites and gauge the success of the restoration work already completed.
description: A YSI probe wet pro kit is used to collect data on physio-chemical parameters at all sampling locations. To assess additional chemical parameters, sample of water is collected from 7 locations and transferred to a bottle for lab analysis of metals and E-coli.
DOI: 10.25976/t5rx-qr11
title: TREPA: Water Quality data from the Tusket Catchment

description: With support from various other organizations, the Tusket River Environmental Protection Association collected an extensive water quality data base from numerous lakes in and near the Tusket catchment.  Data were collected in early May, late August, and late October.  Oxygen, conductivity, pH, and temperature profiles are available from 2012 to 2015.  Subsequently, volunteers took the lead, but data on nutrients, colour, chlorophyll-a, pH and related data remain available.  Investigations related to MTRI’s study on vulnerable shoreline Atlantic Coastal Plains Flora and NS Environment’s investigations into waters affected by effluent from mink farms. Support was provided by Mersey-Tobeatic Research Institute, N.S. Environment, Adopt-a-Stream, CURA H2O, and the Municipalities of Yarmouth and Argyle.
description: The deepest point in each water body is targeted for monitoring.

A YSI Professional Plus was used to record temperature, conductivity, salinity, turbidity, pH, and oxygen at .25 meters below the surface and at every succeeding meter of depth up to 10 m., or one meter from the bottom, which ever came first.  Samples from deeper stations involved collecting at 1 meter of bottom with a Van Dorn sampler and taking measurements from the fresh sample in the sampler. 

Sampling was conducted the first half of May, the second half of August, and the second half of October.  The probe was calibrated for all parameters the night preceding each sampling season, except for dissolved oxygen, which was calibrated daily. 

Samples were also collected for laboratory analyses at the AGAt and QEII labs.  Parameters measured included Chlorophyll-a (Sent out), colour, total phosphorus, orthophosphate, total nitrogen, nitrate-nitrite, turbidity, and alkalinity.
DOI: 10.25976/646x-et86
title: Eastern Charlotte Waterways Inc.: Eutrophication Indicators for the Upper Bay of Fundy Watersheds

description: Agriculture is the primary land use in the areas surrounding many of the rivers of the upper Bay of Fundy. The purpose of this data collection was to better understand nutrient loading and to determine major sources of nutrient pollution within rivers in the upper Bay of Fundy. Data was collected by Eastern Charlotte Waterways Inc. and the Clean Annapolis River Project (CARP).
description: Water samples were taken prior to, and following, a heavy rain event of greater than 25mm at 100 sites between 6 rivers in the upper Bay of Fundy.
DOI: 10.25976/99fy-8j65
title: Monitoring results from select estuaries in the four Atlantic provinces

description: The purpose of this project was to create an assessment and reporting methodology for estuary health in Atlantic Canada. Project partners were based in the Outer Bay of Fundy, Inner Bay of Fundy, southern shore of Nova Scotia, northwestern Northumberland Strait, eastern Northumberland Strait and western Newfoundland, addressing estuary health in a uniform manner throughout the Atlantic region. 
The water quality data collected in the estuaries included nitrates and chlorophyll a. Sediments were analyzed for contaminants including pesticides; and a series of samples were taken and analyzed for fecal coliform bacteria. Secchi depths were measured at all monitoring sites and a depth profile of dissolved oxygen and salinity was completed each season to establish water quality stratification.
description: To complete the assessment, a GIS polygon of each estuary will be created and then divided into 20 equally sized hexagons. Within each of these hexagons, three locations will be randomly identified. Of those three points, each group will choose one sampling location, for a total of 20 sample sites. 

A water sample will be collected from each of the 20 sites during the month of August, to be analyzed for eutrophication indicators: chlorophyll a and nitrates. 

Of the 20 sites, 15 will be chosen for coliform analysis and sampled five times during the year. There will be one coliform sampling event in each of May, July, and October, after 72 hours with no rain. Two sampling events will be rainfall dependent, one will take place after 12.5mm has fallen within 24 hours, and one will take place after 25 mm of rain has fallen in 48 hours. These sampling events will take place within 48 hours of the rainfall completion. 

During the May, July, and October sampling, a depth profile of dissolved oxygen and salinity will be conducted using a YSI multimeter.

At the 5 most coastal of the sampling sites, a sediment sample will be collected in June and analyzed for trace metals, mercury, PAHs, PCBs, OC pesticides, and TOC. 

CAMP protocols will be used to assess the biodiversity in the estuaries with CAMP sampling taking place twice, once in June and once in September.
DOI: 10.25976/c4d2-e296
title: Enhancement of an Urban Wetland, Lundrigan's Marsh

description: Lundrigan’s Marsh is a unique 32 hectare cattail marsh, with approximately 23 under a Habitat Stewardship Agreement, situated in an industrial/commercial area of St. John’s NL. Lundrigan’s Marsh is an urban wetland as part of the Virginia River system and habitat for unusual bird sightings. Northeast Avalon ACAP has undertaken data collection to assess wetland function, water and soil quality, and characterization of plant and wildlife. Through the Friends of the Marsh initiative, NAACAP aims to raise awareness of the wetland and restore vegetative buffers with the support of business and community partners.  Project funding is from Department of Environment and Climate Change,  National Wetland Conservation Fund.
description: Four sites representing inflow and outflow from Lundrigan’s Marsh, were sampled quarterly from 2017-18.  A YSI probe multiparameter Sonde was used to collect in-situ data on physio-chemical parameters, samples were collected for RCAp-MS analysis on all sampling locations.
DOI: 10.25976/kc1x-bc80
title: Eastern Charlotte Waterways: Freshwater quality data from the Outer Bay of Fundy watershed complex

description: In 1993, Eastern Charlotte Waterways (ECW) was established. Its first action was to assess the freshwater of eastern Charlotte County, New Brunswick. For two years beginning in the summer of 1994, the organization’s members visited ten watersheds between June and November, monitoring an upstream and downstream site for water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. They also monitored four popular swim locations for fecal coliform bacteria. The results of this study were published in “The watersheds of eastern Charlotte: Environmental quality assessment”. Twenty years later, in 2014-2015 the assessment has been replicated by ECW staff to identify any changes in water quality.
DOI: 10.25976/khw8-0c86
title: Belchers Marsh Water Quality Monitoring

description: The Halifax Northwest Trails Association has been collecting water quality data from Belchers Marsh since 2006, with the goal of establishing a water quality baseline and comparing data over the long-term. YSI probes are used complete chemical sampling, with the implementation of field test strips to measure nitrate/nitrite and phosphorous in 2019.
DOI: 10.25976/vahx-dq27
title: Indian Bay Ecosystem Corporation

description: The Indian Bay Watershed Water Monitoring project aims to build community partnerships, identify field sites, and develop and implement sampling protocols for long term, community-based monitoring of the Indian Bay watershed.  Water quality data is collected through portable water quality sensors and grab samples sent for laboratory analysis. This information is analyzed with historical data collected by IBEC and provincial databases to determine water quality status and trends in the watershed.
DOI: 10.25976/1j42-k176
title: Peace River Regional District Water Quality Baseline - Municipality of Hudsons Hope Lynx and Brenot Creek

description: 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.
description: On September 16th, 2014, representatives from GW Solutions, Hudson’s Hope and Saulteau First Nations collected six water samples from six locations following strict sampling protocols. This set of water quality results were integrated into the PRRD surface water quality database.
DOI: 10.25976/388f-h804
title: Athabasca Basin: Tailing Ponds and Impacts on Aquifers

description: GW Solutions’ team is supporting Keepers of the Athabasca to learn more about the connection between surface water and groundwater and the water quality around tailing ponds in Northern Alberta. The team has been gathering, cleaning, standardizing and integrating groundwater and surface water quality and quantity data from different sources of information. We have interpreted the data and developed a visualization tool and digital platform detailing groundwater and surface water quality and their potential interaction. The outcome of this project could improve the knowledge of communities, industry, and the public to understand, manage, and protect water.
The two main sources of surface water quality that GW Solutions used for its study are Alberta Environment and Parks dataset and Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP) database.   

The funders of the project are Keepers of the Athabasca and The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation with in- kind contribution of GW Solutions team
description: The two main sources of surface water quality that GW Solutions used for its study are Alberta Environment and Parks dataset and Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP) database.  
Alberta Environment and Parks, and its partners, collect surface water quality samples in rivers, lakes and other water bodies across the province. Much of the physical and chemical data from the monitoring program are stored in Water Data System (WDS), a module of the Environmental Management System (EMS). The EMS supplies data to the Environmental Data Warehouse, the source of online surface water quality data. Other datasets, such as biological data, are being added to WDS as resources allow. Further information on the RAMP program is available here: http://www.ramp-alberta.org/ramp/data.aspx 

The RAMP database is a web-based environmental data management system used to store and access over 2 million records related to RAMP’s on-going monitoring of climate and hydrology, water quality, benthic invertebrate communities, sediment quality, fish populations, and lakes sensitive to acidity. The database is a key tool used by RAMP to identify and evaluate any changes to the aquatic environment in the Athabasca oil sands region and is now available to the public. Further information on Alberta Environment and Parks is available here: https://www.alberta.ca/surface-water-quality-data.aspx
DOI: 10.25976/fbxm-3b32
title: WQ Response to Geologic Variation

description: With altered precipitation regimes and variable groundwater resources being major factors affecting water quality, we initiated a project which incorporated bedrock and surficial geology as well as stream discharge to explain variability in water samples within local areas. If you were to look at the geology maps within the Oromocto River watershed you would see vast differences between the South Branch and the North Branch of the Oromocto River combined with the Rusagonis Stream. The South Branch runs through a variety of rock formations from the Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, and up to Late Carboniferous periods while the North Branch Oromocto and tributaries run almost exclusively through Late Carboniferous bedrock which extends in a northerly direction all the way to the St. John River. With differing abilities to buffer acidity and differing chemistry for redox reactions, exploring how the water quality in the two principal branches reacts to groundwater resources was done by sampling two or more streams of each surficial and bedrock geology type. By exploring the range of water quality within the two sub catchments and comparing and contrasting these variables with land use, discharge and seasonal fluctuations, it is possible to observe trends in the data both temporally and spatially.
DOI: 10.25976/h7bc-3y92
title: Kennebecasis Watershed Restoration Committee Water Quality Monitoring Program

description: The Kennebecasis Watershed Restoration Committee Water Quality Monitoring Program aims to collect data on baseline water quality conditions throughout the Kennebecasis River watershed. This data is compiled annually in report format and provided to stakeholders and the public via our website: www.kennebecasisriver.org. Water quality data is collected using a portable water quality probe and grab samples sent to the lab for analysis. The results are used to inform and prioritize future restoration projects and identify any water quality issues occurring in our watershed.
description: A multiparameter sonde is used to collect in-situ data from each sampling site. These data are dissolved, oxygen, conductivity, and temperature. All other analytes have been analysed through grab samples sent to the DELG Water Quality Lab (1999-2016) or RPC (2016-2018). All monitoring activities follow “Guidelines for River Sample Collection” distributed by the New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government (see file attached with dataset).
DOI: 10.25976/hx2s-m606
title: CIMP167_ Changes in dissolved organic carbon quality and quantity: Implications for aquatic ecosystems and drinking water quality for northern communities

description: Large stores of carbon are currently immobilized within permafrost, but a warming climate has the potential to release this carbon as dissolved organic carbon into the surrounding environment, with the potential to impact drinking water resources and aquatic health. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) plays a number of important roles within the environment, ranging from acting as important biogeochemical and nutrient energy sources, to forming carcinogenic disinfection by-products as chlorine is added during water treatment. How DOC reacts is dependent upon its quality, yet little is known about either DOC quality or the fate of DOC in northern environments. The purpose of this research is to understand processes dictating DOC fate in northern aquatic environments in order to help predict how a warming climate could influence DOC quantity and quality. Using a space-for-time approach to represent differences between ‘warmer’ and ‘colder’ areas, water was collected from different aquatic environments including lakes, ponds, creeks, and subsurface peat water from three sites along a latitudinal gradient: Yellowknife, Wekweètì, and Daring Lake. In addition, baseline conditions were to be determined using historical geochemical records of the Yellowknife, Cameron, and Marian rivers. Water samples were analysed for concentrations of DOC and supplementary water quality parameters, in addition to water isotopes. DOC was characterized using ultra-violet and visible absorbance, size-exclusion chromatography, along with other techniques (i.e: PARAFAC and C:N ratios). In addition, laboratory experiments were conducted on select samples to see how easily DOC degrades via microbial or photolytic drivers. A wide range of DOC quality and quantity were encountered, with highest concentrations found in subsurface environments and lower concentrations in surface waters. Measures of DOC quality determined large, aromatic, humic molecules to be present within the subsurface around Yellowkni
DOI: 10.25976/jbpt-bf54
title: Eastern Charlotte Waterways: 2018 Freshwater Quality Data from the Outer Bay of Fundy Watershed Complex

description: The surface water quality monitoring sampling conducted by Eastern Charlotte Waterways with the support of the Environmental Trust Fund in the outer Bay of Fundy Watershed in Southern New Brunswick collected data on surface water quality was designed to compliment data from existing federal DELG surface water quality sampling by conducting additional sampling at existing sites.
description: Surface water samples were taken bi-monthly at 8 sample sites, along with environmental data through visual assessment and with the use of a YSI probe. Water samples were analyzed for multiple chemical parameters.
DOI: 10.25976/jn6v-3631
title: PEI-TREC

description: PEI Watershed Alliance, partnered with Atlantic Water Network, provides water monitoring equipment to watershed groups across Prince Edward Island to better understand the quality of the island's water. Data is collected using water quality probes from the PEI Equipment Bank; the Equipment Bank Manager assists with proper deployment of probes as well as data analysis.
DOI: 10.25976/qrng-ah51
title: Souris and Area Wildlife Branch Stream Water Data

description: Souris and Area Wildlife Branch installs data loggers in many of our watershed systems where we implement large amounts of habitat work or where we have done considerable restoration work over the last number of years.  Water quality data loggers are also installed in rivers in our management area where future rehabilitation efforts will take place. Loggers are placed in designated stream habitat assessment monitoring sites and in various reaches of our watersheds to help determine the temperature of the water and the amount of light that filters through the water.

Many have been deployed to monitor water temperature to help build a database of water quality for our management area so that we are consistently monitoring specific habitat sites especially headwater areas in our rivers.  Headwaters are so important because their stability aids in landscape processes and downstream waters through their influence on the supply, transport, and fate of water and solutes in our watersheds.

Water quality data loggers are meaningful tools in all of our watersheds to aid in monitoring water temperature variations in prime stream reaches, particularly spawning zones so that accurate and appropriate measures may be taken to ensure fish habitat and fish populations are secure and at a healthy level in each of our managed watersheds.
description: HOBO water temperature and water/light data loggers, YSI meters (Pro 10 and Pro 2030), and an AquaFluor fluorometer were used for water data collection.