Water Temperature Logger Data From Five Narragansett Bay Sites

Water temperature measurements were collected at five specific locations in Narragansett Bay: Arnold Point, Roger Williams University Dock, Dyer Island, East Passage, and West Passage. Roger Williams University gathered this data using Onset Tidbit water temperature loggers from May to December 2015, in support of a grant investigating diseases affecting blue mussel culture. The dataset's presence across multiple platforms indicates its established use in environmental monitoring.

Use Cases

• Analyzing daily and seasonal water temperature fluctuations at fixed monitoring stations.
• Correlating localized temperature conditions with blue mussel disease prevalence studies.
• Validating hydrodynamic models of Narragansett Bay using in-situ logger measurements from five distinct sites.

Strengths

• Data was collected using standardized Onset Tidbit water temperature loggers, ensuring consistent measurement methodology.
• Provides spatially distributed coverage from five named locations within Narragansett Bay.

Limitations

• Critical metadata such as column names, row count, and data license are unavailable from all sources.
• Sources conflict on the 'last updated' date, with one listing 2015-12-09 and another listing 2026-03-05, creating uncertainty about data currency.

Provenance

Source

Roger Williams University, collected in support of a NOAA/NCEI grant.

Collection Method

Onset Tidbit water temperature loggers deployed at fixed locations.

Time Range

2015-05-21 to 2015-12-09

Freshness

2026-03-05 23:04:34.357681

Geography

Five locations in Narragansett Bay: Arnold Point, Roger Williams University Dock, Dyer Island, East Passage, West Passage.