LakeBeD-US: Ecology Edition - a benchmark dataset of lake water quality time series and vertical profiles

LakeBeD-US: Ecology Edition is a harmonized lake water quality dataset containing time series and vertical profiles of 21 lakes in the United States monitored by long-term monitoring institutions. These institutions include the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research program (NTL-LTER), Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research program (NWT-LTER), National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), and the Carey Lab at Virginia Tech as part of the Virginia Reservoirs Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) site in collaboration with the Western Virginia Water Authority. The data include depth-discrete observations of 17 water quality variables including temperature, dissolved oxygen, chemical properties, Secchi depth, and more. Observations are divided into data collected by automated sensors at a relatively high temporal frequency and manually sampled data at a relatively low temporal frequency. All data were collected in situ.
The data are available as Apache Parquet files, and the included R scripts give guidance on how to utilize and query the dataset in R.
LakeBeD-US: Ecology Edition is an ecological science-oriented companion to LakeBeD-US: Computer Science Edition. The Computer Science Edition is available on the Hugging Face Hub.