LA River Project 2026: Macroinvertebrates Rafting on Macroplastic

Jacob Haney's LA River Project 2026 dataset contains macroinvertebrate community data and macroplastic survey data from a study examining organisms rafting on plastic debris. The data supports research into the intersection of plastic pollution and aquatic ecology in an urban river system. Its cross-platform presence on Dataverse indicates established curation.

Use Cases

• Analyzing macroinvertebrate community composition associated with different plastic debris types.
• Correlating macroplastic survey metrics with invertebrate rafting prevalence.
• Assessing pollution-ecology interactions in the specific geography of the Los Angeles River.

Strengths

• Dataset is explicitly tied to a named project and author (Jacob Haney, LA River Project 2026).
• Cross-platform presence on Dataverse suggests formal archiving and data sharing.

Limitations

• Critical metadata is missing, including row count, file formats, column names, and license information.
• The dataset's temporal and spatial scale is unspecified beyond the project title and year.

Provenance

Source

Jacob Haney Dataverse LA River Project 2026

Collection Method

Likely collected via field surveys examining macroplastic and associated invertebrates in the LA River.

Time Range

2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19.

Geography

Los Angeles River