MassWateR: Improving quality control, analysis, and sharing of water quality data.
The long-term protection and restoration of aquatic resources depends on robust monitoring data; data that require systematic quality control and analysis tools. The MassWateR R package facilitates quality control, analysis, and data sharing for discrete surface water quality data collected by monit...
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| description | The long-term protection and restoration of aquatic resources depends on robust monitoring data; data that require systematic quality control and analysis tools. The MassWateR R package facilitates quality control, analysis, and data sharing for discrete surface water quality data collected by monitoring programs of various size and technical capacity. The tools were developed to address regional needs for programs in Massachusetts, USA, but the principles and outputs can be applicable to monitoring data collected anywhere. Users can create quality control reports, perform outlier analyses, and assess trends by season, date, and site for more than 40 parameters. Users can also prepare data for submission to the United States Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Exchange, thus sharing data to the largest water quality database in the United States. The automated and reproducible workflow offered by MassWateR is expected to increase the quantity and quality of publicly available data to support the management of aquatic resources. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-982421678f084e08836cdc1801a624d62023-11-07T05:34:50ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-011811e029373710.1371/journal.pone.0293737MassWateR: Improving quality control, analysis, and sharing of water quality data.Marcus W BeckBenjamen WetherillJillian CarrThe long-term protection and restoration of aquatic resources depends on robust monitoring data; data that require systematic quality control and analysis tools. The MassWateR R package facilitates quality control, analysis, and data sharing for discrete surface water quality data collected by monitoring programs of various size and technical capacity. The tools were developed to address regional needs for programs in Massachusetts, USA, but the principles and outputs can be applicable to monitoring data collected anywhere. Users can create quality control reports, perform outlier analyses, and assess trends by season, date, and site for more than 40 parameters. Users can also prepare data for submission to the United States Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Exchange, thus sharing data to the largest water quality database in the United States. The automated and reproducible workflow offered by MassWateR is expected to increase the quantity and quality of publicly available data to support the management of aquatic resources.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293737&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Marcus W Beck Benjamen Wetherill Jillian Carr MassWateR: Improving quality control, analysis, and sharing of water quality data. PLoS ONE |
| title | MassWateR: Improving quality control, analysis, and sharing of water quality data. |
| title_full | MassWateR: Improving quality control, analysis, and sharing of water quality data. |
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| title_short | MassWateR: Improving quality control, analysis, and sharing of water quality data. |
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