Saguenay Fjord Bottom Water and Sediment Measurements, 1931-2025

Rebecca M Howman compiled a georeferenced database of bottom-water, sediment, and dissolved nutrient concentrations for the Saguenay Fjord in Quebec, Canada. The data is sourced from peer-reviewed literature spanning from 1931 to 2025. It is hosted on the Harvard Dataverse platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling benthic nutrient fluxes based on compiled concentration data.
• Analyzing long-term environmental change in a fjord system based on the 94-year temporal coverage.
• Mapping spatial distributions of sediment and water properties based on the georeferenced data.
• Calibrating regional water quality models using historical baseline measurements.

Strengths

• Data spans a 94-year period (1931-2025), enabling long-term trend analysis.
• Records are georeferenced, allowing for spatial analysis.
• Compiled from peer-reviewed literature, suggesting a degree of quality control.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Rebecca M Howman.

Collection Method

Compiled from peer-reviewed literature.

Time Range

1931-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 20:54:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Saguenay Fjord, a tributary of the St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada.