Water quality measurements in Buzzards Bay by the Buzzards Bay Coalition Baywatchers Program from 1992 to 2018

Abstract

Measurement(s) temperature of water • dioxygen dissolved in marine water • salinity of water • water clarity • concentration of ammonium in water • concentration of nitrate plus nitrite in water • concentration of phosphate in water • concentration of nitrogen atom in water • concentration of particulate organic carbon in water • concentration of total phosphorus in water • concentration of dissolved organic carbon in water • chlorophyll a • pheophytin a • concentration of particulate nitrogen in water Technology Type(s) Thermometer Device • titration • hydrometer • Secchi disk • spectrophotometry • chemical digestion followed by spectrophotometry • carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen elemental analysis • catalytic and persulphate oxidation • fluorometry Factor Type(s) year of data collection Sample Characteristic - Environment coastal sea water • bay • estuary Sample Characteristic - Location Buzzards Bay Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13363436