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Lacawac Datasets

Data collected at Lacawac is managed and owned by the research group that collected it. Lacawac strongly encourages researchers to make their data publicly available.  Data that have been archived in the public domain are available here. For other data, please contact Beth Norman, Lacawac's Director of Science and Research, or the research group directly. 
Interactive Datasets:

Long-Term Changes in Poconos Lakes
This R Shiny App was developed by Craig Williamson's Global Change Limnology laboratory at Miami University. This app enables users to visualize trends in abiotic variables (e.g. light (PAR and UV), temperature, oxygen) and zooplankton communities over 30 years, or see more recent changes in a variety of lake data collected using high frequency sensors.  The full dataset is archived as part of the Environmental Data Initiative. The development of this App was funded by NSF (DEB 1754276 and NSF DEB 1950170), a Lacawac Watres Student Research Award, and Miami University's Eminent Scholar funds.

Recommended citation: Overholt, E. P., D. Nguyen, and C.E. Williamson. 2020.  R Shiny App: Long term changes in Poconos lakes.  https://dataviz.miamioh.edu/PennsylvaniaLakes/

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Archived Datasets:

Pilla, R.M., et al. 2021. Global data set of long-term summertime vertical temperature profiles in 153 lakes ver 4. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f889d5fe5a7e1132dcbc1f76cee660c1 (Accessed 2022-05-06).

Hargreaves, B.R. 2019.
Decades of water column temperature, lake level and meteorological data of Lake Lacawac, a pristine glacial lake at Lacawac Biological Field Station in the Pocono mountains, Pennsylvania USA (1992-2019) ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e8a18d110700f2f85cbc16845f511379 (Accessed 2020-08-02).

​Williamson, C.E. 2020. Three decades of limnological data from lakes in the Pocono Mountains region, Pennsylvania USA, 1988-2019 ver 3. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/11b0c410adad22290b74522a4321c271 (Accessed 2020-08-02).

Dodson, S. 2013. Crustacean Zooplankton Species Richness in 66 North American Lakes ver 7. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/ca2f726f197d4336c0fa3748ac0873aa (Accessed 2020-08-02).

Klug, J.L., D.C. Richardson, H.A. Ewing, B.R. Hargreaves, N.R. Samal, D. Vachon, D.C. Pierson, B.G. Steele, D.M. O'Donnell, S.W. Effler, P.A. del Giorgio, and K.C. Weathers. 2019. High-frequency water temperature and dissolved oxygen data and derived stability and metabolism metrics for nine lakes in northeastern North America for months before and after Tropical Cyclone Irene, Fall 2011 ver 6. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/e3065dc6b2bed98d137355c2013d43b6 (Accessed 2020-08-02).

Sharma, S., D. et al. 2015.
Globally distributed lake surface water temperatures collected in situ and by satellites; 1985-2009 ver 3. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/379a6cebee50119df2575c469aba19c5 (Accessed 2020-08-02).

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