Narragansett Bay Zooplankton Weekly Time Series 2001-2003

Narragansett Bay zooplankton data were collected via plankton net tows from October 2001 to October 2003 by Providence College. This dataset provides a weekly time series of marine plankton observations. It is hosted by NOAA NCEI and appears on multiple government data platforms.

Use Cases

• Analyzing seasonal and interannual trends in zooplankton abundance.
• Correlating plankton community changes with environmental factors like water temperature.
• Validating ecological models of Narragansett Bay's food web structure.
• Studying the impact of coastal processes on marine invertebrate larvae.

Strengths

• Provides a continuous, multi-year weekly time series from 2001-10-24 to 2003-10-22.
• Data collection follows a standardized method using plankton net tows.
• Cross-platform presence on NASA Earthdata and Data.gov signals institutional importance and curation.

Limitations

• Specific column names, row counts, and dataset size are unknown from all sources.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date: one reports 2003-10-22, another reports 2026-03-05.
• License information is not provided by any source.

Provenance

Source

Providence College, hosted by NOAA NCEI (Accession 0002411).

Collection Method

Collected using plankton net tows.

Time Range

2001-10-24 to 2003-10-22

Freshness

2026-03-05 22:55:27.706887

Geography

Narragansett Bay.