Monitoring

Data

A wide variety of monitoring and inventory datasets are collected at Archbold Biological Station including both non-geospatial and spatial data. Monitoring data include: climatological data (1931 onwards); hydrological data (Lake Annie, groundwater, pond levels); air quality data; photopoints; and fire histories. Inventory data consist of species lists, reference collections, and property spatial information such as boundary maps, lidar, and aerial photographs and imagery. Research datasets also track long-term population and demographic trends for many species on the Station. Archbold’s data access policy provides for unconditional and conditional public and researcher access and download for many of these datasets. Archbold’s new metadata standards are being implemented gradually for monitoring and inventory data.
Several monitoring datasets at Archbold Biological Station are collected directly by state agencies including Southwest Florida Water Management District (groundwater, Lake Annie) and FL Department of Environmental Protection (ozone levels, Lake Annie). The majority of Archbold collected monitoring datasets are also submitted directly to federal and state agencies including the NOAA’s National Weather Service, South Florida Water Management District, Southwest Florida Water Management District, FL Division of Forestry, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, and the US Geological Survey, thus contributing to the vital national networks that are fundamental to detecting long-term global change. Links to Station site data on agency web sites are provided.

History of climatological observations at Archbold Biological Station

Nancy Deyrup reading the rain gauge at the main grounds weather station, December 2001. Digital photo by Mark Deyrup.

• Lohrer, F.E. (Editor). revised annually, most recent 21 January 2004.