Data Sources & Providers

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  • Multi-resolution Land Characteristics Consortium
    • National Land Cover Database (NCLD)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    • ENSO Precipitation Index (ESPI)
  • National Atmospheric Deposition Program
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
    • Hurrell North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index
    • Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)
  • PRISM climate group
  • U.S. Census
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    • National Wetlands Inventory Dataset (NWI)
  • U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
    • Average annual runoff in the U.S., 1951-1980
    • Baseflow index grid for the conterminous U.S.
    • Estimated mean annual natural groundwater recharge in the conterminous U.S.
    • National Anthropogenic Barrier Dataset (NABD)
    • National Elevation Dataset (NED)
    • National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
    • Surficial deposits and materials in the Eastern and Central United States
    • Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)
  • Acadia National Park, Maine
  • Adirondack Lakes Survey (NY) summer surface chemistry data
  • Adirondack Lakes Long Term Monitoring (NY)
  • Biocomplexity: Coordinated Field Studies: Chemical Limnology
  • Citizens Lake Monitoring Program
  • Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
    • Department of Energy and Environmental Protection – Bureau of Water Protection and Land Reuse Lake Surveys
  • Cross Lake Comparison: Zooplankton Biomass Study
  • DEEP Lakes Grant Program Water Quality Assessment (CT)
  • Grand Portage Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Water Quality Program (MN)
  • Hamilton-KBS lake chemistry, Michigan Kellogg Biological Station
  • Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    • Ambient Lake Monitoring Program
  • Indiana Clean Lakes Program and Indiana Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program
  • Iowa Department of Natural Resources
    • Watershed Monitoring and Assessment Program
    • Lake Restoration Program
  • Lac du Flambeau (WI) Water Resources lake water chemistry (2010-2012)
  • Lakes of Missouri Volunteer Program 
  • Lake Wallenpaupack Water Quality Evaluation Program
    • Water Chemistry
    • Chlorophyll
  • Landscape Position Project
    • Chemical Limnology
    • Chlorophyll
  • Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians (LTBB)
    • Water Quality Monitoring Program
  • Maine Department of Environmental Protection
    • Lake Monitoring and Assessment (1970s-2011)
  • Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection lake chemistry
  • Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Division of Watershed Management Sampling Program
  • Michigan Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program
  • Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
    • Michigan’s Lake Water Quality Assessment Program 
    • Water Color Study 
    • Water Quality Sampling Program (MI-WQS)
  • Michigan Leelanau Conservancy Lakes Program
  • Michigan State University
    • Cheruvelil (MI) dissertation project
    • Landscape Position Project (2003)
    • MI Sonar Project
  • Minnesota Fond du Lac Lake chemistry database
  • Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
    • Lake Monitoring Program Chemistry
  • National Surface Water Survey
    • Eastern Lake Survey – Phase I & II
  • New Hampshire Acid Rain Outlet Monitoring
  • New Hampshire Acid Rain Remote Pond Monitoring
  • New Hampshire Clean Lake Baboosic Lake
  • New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
    • Watershed Management Bureau Volunteer Lakes Assessment Program
  • New Hampshire Lake Trophic Survey
  • New Hampshire Mirror Lake LTER water chemistry
  • New Hampshire Volunteer Lake Assessment Program
  • New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
    • Ambient Lake Monitoring Program
  • New York Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program (NYCSLAP)
  • New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP)
    • Catskill Reservoirs water quality
  • New York State Lake Classification and Inventory (LCI) Monitoring Program
  • North Temperate Lakes LTER
  • Ohio Department of Natural Resources
    • Division of Wildlife, Reservoir Productivity Assessment
  • Ohio Miami University, Vanni/Gonzalez lake research lab
  • Oneida Lake (NY) limnological summary for six standard sampling sites on Oneida Lake
  • Paul Lake (MI) long-term reference lake in Cascade Project
  • Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
    • PA Clean Lakes Program
  • Randomly stratified survey of lakes in the Northern Highlands Lake District
  • Seneca Lake (NY) epilimnion water chemistry
  • Sentinel Lakes Monitoring Project
  • The Big Platte Lake and Platte River Watershed Monitoring Program
  • Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council
    • Comprehensive Water Quality Monitoring Program
    • Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program (1925-2011)
  • University of Michigan Biological Station Research Applied to National Needs
  • University of Missouri Statewide Lake Assessment Program chemistry data
  • University of Rhode Island Watershed Watch (URIWW), RI: water quality monitoring, 1988-2010
  • Upper Midwest Long-term Monitoring Program (MN, WI, MI)
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rathbun Lake long-term chemistry data (1997-2012)
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    • Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Program (EMAP) Surface Waters Program Northeast lakes water chemistry data
    • Environmental Research Laboratory Duluth and University of Minnesota Duluth (ERLD-UMD) chemical survey of lakes in MN, MI, and WI
    • Great Lakes National Program Office
    • National Lakes Assessment water chemistry
    • Regionalized Long-term Monitoring Program (RLTM) (started 1982)
    • Temporally Integrated Monitoring of Ecosystems (TIME) Program (started 1999)
    • University of Maine High Elevation Lake Monitroing (HELM) Program (1986-1987, 1997)
    • University of Maine Aquifer Lakes Project (ALPS) (1986-1987, 1998-2002)
  • USGS Shingobee Headwaters Aquatic Ecosystems Project (SHAEP)
  • Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation water quality data
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
    • Water Quality Bureau
    • Lake Landscape Survey
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Electric Power Research Institute: Wisconsin Early Response Lakes
  • Wisconsin Forest County Potawatomi Community Water Resources Program for four lakes
  • CONUS-SOIL K-Factor
  • Ehlers, Gibbard, Hughes: Quaternary Glaciations – Extent and Chronology Volume 15: A closer look
  • Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
  • International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC)
    • SoilGrids250m 2017-03
  • Multi-resolution Land Characteristics Consortium
    • National Land Cover Database (NCLD)
  • National Atmospheric Deposition Program
  • National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service
    • Major Land Resource Area (MLRA)
  • PRISM climate group
    • Average Annual Temperature and Precipitation datasets, 1981-2010
    • Monthly Time Series Temperature and Precipitation datasets
  • U.S. Census
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
    • National Agriculture Imagery Program
  • U.S. EPA
    • Ecoregions of the Continental United States
    • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program 
    • National Aquatic Resource Surveys
    • National Lake Assessment (NLA 2007 & 2012)
    • National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
    • Superfund Enterprise Management System
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    • National Wetlands Inventory
  • USGS
    • Active Mines and Mineral Processing Plants in the United States in 2003
    • Average annual runoff in the U.S., 1951-1980
    • Bailey’s Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States
    • Baseflow index grid for the conterminous United States
    • Data Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing Distributions and Treatment Fluids, Additives, Proppants, and Water Volumes Applied to Wells Drilled in the United States from 1947 through 2010 (Data Series 868)
    • Elevation Derivatives for National Applications Compound 
    • Estimated mean annual natural groundwater recharge in the conterminous United States
    • National Elevation Dataset
    • National Hydrography Dataset
    • Protected Areas Database of the US
    • Saturation overland flow estimated by TOPMODEL for the conterminous United States
    • Terrestrial Ecosystems – Land Surface Forms of the Conterminous United States
    • Terrestrial Ecosystems – Surficial Lithology of the Conterminous United States
    • Topographic Index
    • Water Quality Portal
    • Watershed Boundary Dataset
  • World Wildlife Fund
    • Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
  • National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
  • U.S. EPA
    • National Lake Assessment (NLA 2007, 2012, & 2017)
  • USGS – Water Quality Portal
  • Google Earth ™ Imagery
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    • National Inventory of Dams
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
    • National Agriculture Imagery Program
  • USGS
    • National Anthropogenic Barrier Dataset (NABD)
    • National Hydrography Dataset, Medium Resolution (NHDplusV2)
  • DEEP Lakes Grant Program water quality assessment, CT, 1937-2006
  • Hamilton-KBS lake chemistry, Michigan Kellogg Biological Station
  • Healy, D.F. and Kulp, K.P. 1995. Water-Quality Characteristics Of Selected Public Recreational Lakes And Ponds in Connecticut
  • Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
    • Ambient Lake Monitoring Program
  • Indiana Clean Lakes Program
  • Iowa Department of Natural Resources 
  • Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians (LTBB)
  • Maine Department of Environmental Protection 
  • Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
  • Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
  • Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
    • Michigan’s Lake Water Quality Assessment Program
    • Water Quality Sampling Program (MI-WQS)
  • Michigan Department of Natural Resources
  • Michigan State University
    • Cheruvelil (MI) dissertation project
    • MI Sonar Project
  • Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
    • Lake Monitoring Program Chemistry & Secchi
  • Missouri Fishing Guide
  • Navionics
  • New Hampshire Volunteer Lake Assessment Program
  • New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
    • Ambient Lake Monitoring Program
  • New Jersey Lake Survey Map Guide: A Fishing Guide for All Seasons
  • New York Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program (NYCSLAP)
  • New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) 
  • New York State Lake Classification and Inventory (LCI) Monitoring Program
  • North Temperate Lakes LTER
  • Ohio Department of Natural Resources
    • Division of Wildlife, Reservoir Productivity Assessment
  • Oneida County, NY
  • Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
  • South Dakota State University – OAK LAKE FIELD STATION®
  • St. Louis County
  • University of Madison-Wisconsin Long-Term Monitoring
  • University of Rhode Island Watershed Watch (URIWW), RI: water quality monitoring, 1988-2010
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    • Marvin Boyer, Kansas City
  • U.S. EPA
    • Eastern Lake Survey – Phase I & II
    • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program 
    • National Aquatic Resource Surveys
    • National Lake Assessment (NLA 2007 & 2012)
  • Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
  • Von Gruenigen, C. and Borowski, W.S., 2010. Heavy metal concentrations in water and surface sediments of Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky.
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 
  • Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Electric Power Research Institute: Wisconsin Early Response Lakes

Photo Credit: Maine Lake by Kath Webster.