Dataset

Harmful algal bloom monitoring data near Frenchman Bay from 2004-2022

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The Community Environmental Health Lab at the MDI Biological Laboratories has monitored phytoplankton and water quality in Frenchman Bay for the past few decades. Our goal was to understand how climate change and local changes in anthropogenic activity, including cruise ship activity, have altered the water quality and phytoplankton dynamics in the bay. This data provides information on target harmful algae bloom species as well as a few measures of phytoplankton biodiversity. Our data were collected by a variety of field technicians and citizen scientists who perform weekly sampling throughout the year at Bar Harbor town pier and during the summer months at the MDIBL pier and cruise ship anchorages.

Published: December 31, 2022 at 15:19

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL: https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=cehl-phyto

Contacts:

Alexis Garretson
MDI Biological Laboratory

Jane Disney
MDI Biological Laboratory

Michael A. Maniscalco
University of California Santa Barbara

Anna Farrell
MDI Biological Laboratory

Cait Bailey
MDI Biological Laboratory

Jonathan Matt
MDI Biological Laboratory

Uma P. Arora
MDI Biological Laboratory

Madison Armstrong
MDI Biological Laboratory

Samia L. Pratt
MDI Biological Laboratory

Nathan Dorn
MDI Biological Laboratory

Faye Durand
MDI Biological Laboratory

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MDI Biological Laboratory

Community Environmental Health Laboratory
MDI Biological Laboratory

10,691
occurrence records
28
taxa
6
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 6
0.1%
scientificNameID 10,691
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_MATCH 238
2.2%
ON_LAND 56
0.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data