Aquifer Microbial Community Functional Diversity from Covey Hill, 2023

A master's thesis dataset contains physicochemical metadata and amino acid sequence files from groundwater samples collected in Covey Hill, Quebec, Canada, during summer and winter 2023. Data were collected from a single aquifer system and processed through a bioreactor to simulate natural conditions. The sequences were functionally annotated using BlastKOALA.

Use Cases

• Analyze seasonal shifts in microbial functional profiles based on physicochemical parameters mentioned in the description.
• Train models to predict environmental conditions from amino acid sequence data obtained from 1 kb contigs.
• Study the link between aquifer physicochemical properties and microbial community function in a replicated bioreactor system.

Strengths

• Includes data from two distinct seasons (summer and winter) in 2023, allowing for temporal comparison.
• Contains both physicochemical metadata and FASTA files with amino acid sequences for functional analysis.
• Data originates from a controlled bioreactor system designed to replicate natural aquifer conditions.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single geographic location (Covey Hill), which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse; author Ortiz Suarez, Nicolas Fernando.

Collection Method

Groundwater samples were pumped into a bioreactor system; physicochemical parameters were measured in the aquifer and from bioreactor incubations.

Time Range

2023 (summer and winter seasons).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-02 04:11:16; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Covey Hill, Quebec, Canada.