In-situ stream temperature monitoring, southwest Alaska

Stream temperature is an important parameter to ecology, climate, and hydrology studies in Alaska. The National Park Service (NPS) has collected hourly stream temperature (C) data throughout southwest Alaska. Sampling for each site occurred at some point between 2006 to 2017; each sampling site has at least 1 year of data and at most 10 years. Most of the stream temperature monitoring sites are ongoing; however, some sites are missing data from 2015-2016 due to losing the loggers. One site (LakeClark_1935_2014_2016.csv) is missing data from 2016-2017 due to being unable to download the logger during the 2017 field season. Some sites have data taken from lakes and have multiple depths, anywhere from 0-240 m. This dataset is part of a larger project to collect a comprehensive statewide inventory of current and historic continuous monitoring locations for stream and lake temperatures. These data were provided by NPS for archival as part of an effort between the State of Alaskan Salmon and People (SASAP, https://alaskasalmonandpeople.org/) and the Alaska Center for Conservation Science's Alaska Online Aquatic Temperature Site (AKOATS, http://accs.uaa.alaska.edu/aquatic-ecology/akoats/) to make stream temperature data more readily available for researchers. This package includes 17 stream temperature data files. File names are formatted WaterbodyName_AKOATSID_StartDate_EndDate. This package also includes site level metadata (SiteLevelMetadata_Bartz.csv).