Niagara Coastal Community Based Water Monitoring

Niagara Coastal is a non-profit organization with a collective approach to environmental governance. We unite coastal residents, eNGOs, educational institutes, and various levels of government with a common agenda of building a healthy and resilient Great Lakes coastal ecosystem that can support the needs of the community.

We operate various community initiatives, including the Visual Assessment Survey Tool (VAST), which engages people in capturing photos of the Great Lakes shoreline to monitor the coast.

Water quality data are collected using tools in the Water Rangers Freshwater Explorer testkit, including portable probes and test strips, conductivity meter, secchi disc, and dissolved oxygen tests. Long term trends are tracked and logged on the Water Rangers data platform.

Citation

Niagara Coastal. 2023-11-22. "Niagara Coastal Community Based Water Monitoring" (dataset). 1.10.0. DataStream. https://doi.org/10.25976/iwfb-lr36.

Data Collection Information

Samples taken using Water Rangers Freshwater Explorer testkits. A digital probe is used
to collect temperature and conductivity data from a triple-rinsed surface water sample. Clarity and depth is obtained via secchi disc. Dissolved oxygen is measured using the
Indigo Carmine test from Chemetrics. pH, Alkalinity, Chlorinity, and Hardness obtained from Taylor test strip test.

Data Collection Processing

QA/QC performed by Water Rangers staff or volunteers.

Attribution Licence (ODC-By) v1.0

You are free to share, copy, distribute, use, modify, transform, build upon, and produce works from the data as long as you attribute any public use of the data, or works produced from the data, in the manner specified in the licence. For any use or redistribution of the data, or works produced from it, you must make clear to others the licence of the data and keep intact any notices on the original data. https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/

API Access

curl -G https://api.datastream.org/v1/odata/v4/Records --data-urlencode "\\$filter=DOI eq '10.25976/iwfb-lr36'" -H "x-api-key: PRIVATE-API-KEY"

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