Salinity data collected by the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) from near-bottom sondes placed in oyster beds in the Delaware Bay from 2012 to 2018 (SEGO project)

The data in this dataset was originally collected by the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) and was curated for use in the Selection along Estuarine Gradients in Oysters (SEGO) project. Quoting Howlader (2022): “This dataset was collected in response to the deepening of the Delaware River navigational channel. The dataset has continuous near-bottom (1 m off the bottom) measurements of temperature and specific conductivity taken every 30 minutes at the five oyster bed stations from July-December in 2012-2015 and 2018 using a YSI series 6600EDS V2 data sondes (Bromilow & Wong 2018; Bushek et al. 2014, 2015, 2016). Data sondes were swapped once per month. The depth of water at the monitoring stations were 5-8 meters (Bushek et al. 2014, 2015, 2016).” The dataset includes salinity values expressed alongside corresponding datetime (UTC/GMT), station name, latitude, and longitude. The data was curated by removing anomalous values, shifting the data by the tidal basis to align it with data from Reed Point.