Data Mangement


Each volunteer monitoring group participating in Estuary-Net will be required to submit metadata to their watershed coordinator and home page site prior to submitting values to Students Collecting Samplestheir water quality monitoring, macroinverebrate,  intertidal, or submerged aquatic data tables. Metadata describes the data presented in a given dataset. It is data about data. Metadata provides information on the refinement of measurements,  procedures used, site descriptions, duration of data sets, contacts and quality of the data.

 
METADATA FORM - WITH FORMAT  EXPLANATION
EXAMPLE OF WATER QUALITY MONITORING METADATA AND DATA TABLE
Marshwood High School, Metadata and Data, Piscataqua River Site, 1996.
EXAMPLE OF SYSTEM-WIDE MONITORING DATA
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Tivoli South Bay, June 1995.

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