NEWS.md

In adklakedata: Adirondack Long-Term Lake Data

adklakedata 0.7.1

• The package now presents data for only the 28 original AEAP+ALTM lakes, matching the scope of Farrell et al. 2018. The figshare archive (doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.32305479) still contains records for 25 additional ALTM-only lakes; those rows are filtered out by adk_data() for consistency with the published dataset. No changes to the archive itself.

adklakedata 0.7.0

Data updates

• Water chemistry through October 2024. Records 2013-present sourced from the USGS AQ Samples database (https://waterdata.usgs.gov/download-samples/). The Adirondack Long-Term Monitoring (ALTM) program continues to be processed by the ALSC laboratory; the data pipeline now goes through USGS rather than the original ALSC archive. Mapping validated against 2012 overlap with the published dataset (correlation >= 0.989 for all 20 analytes, mean difference < 1.6%).
• 25 additional ALTM-only lakes added: Arbutus, Avalanche, Barnes, Black (Paul Smiths), Bubb, Clear (N Hudson), East Copperas, Grass (St Regis), Heart, Hope, Lake Colden, Little Clear, Little Echo, Little Hope, Little Simon, Lost, Marcy, Middle (Floodwood), Muskrat, Nate, Otter, Otter (unnamed), Owen, Sochia, Sunday. These lakes have chem and nutrient records 1992-2024 but no biological, Secchi, or profile data.
• Nutrients table extended with USGS-ALTM records 1992-2024. The values in nutrients.csv now come from two different sampling protocols; use the new program column to filter.
• DOI for the new data archive: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32305479

Schema changes

• waterchem.csv: new column surface.temp.C (water temperature at time of sample, °C; available for ~10% of rows, all post-2006).
• nutrients.csv: new columns UV254.AU.cm (UV absorbance at 254 nm, AU/cm; ALTM only) and program (AEAP or ALTM).
• lake_characteristics.csv: new column data.availability (AEAP+ALTM for the original 28 lakes with full coverage; ALTM for the 25 lakes added in v0.7.0 with chem and nutrients only).
• The 25 new lakes have lat/lon in lake_characteristics.csv but other morphology fields are NA.
• AEAP-era rows in nutrients.csv have UV254.AU.cm = NA and program = "AEAP".

Not updated in v0.7.0

The following tables still cover only the original 28 lakes through 2012:

• temp_do_profiles.csv (AEAP profiles)
• secchi.csv
• phyto.csv, rotifer.csv, crustacean.csv
• nldas_drivers_1979_2016.csv (meteorology, NLDAS-2 through 2016)

Methods notes

• Nitrate is reported as NO3- (matching the original published dataset), filtered from the USGS as N parallel records.
• Ammonia is reported as NH4+, filtered from the USGS as N parallel records.
• pH uses the ALSC air-equilibrated method (USGS analytical method id EL021), reproducing the values in the original published dataset to within rounding error. The ALSC Ross-electrode pH (EL019) typically reads ~0.13 units lower and is not used.

Citation

If you use this data, please cite both the original paper and the v0.7.0 archive:

• Farrell, J. M., Winslow, L. A., Leach, T. H., Hahn, T., & Rose, K. C. (2018). Long-term dataset on aquatic responses to concurrent climate change and recovery from acidification. Scientific Data, 5, 180059. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.59
• Farrell, J. (2025). Adirondack Long-Term Lake Data - chemistry update through 2024 (v0.7.0). figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32305479

adklakedata documentation built on June 2, 2026, 9:08 a.m.