Publications by Daniel Haug, Prairie Rivers of Iowa

Story County stream monitoring 2023

31.01.2023

Introduction Prairie Rivers of Iowa and its partners are starting a third year of monitoring in streams around Story County. January results are provisional, pending some quality control checks. West Indian Creek and most other sites were partially thawed when we sampled in January. # 2023-01-31 Started over with 2023 data # Import csv file...

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Story County stream monitoring heats up

12.08.2020

Introduction In 2020, we tested more Story County streams than ever, and introduced new ways to make sense of the data. Updated 2021-01-11 # 2021-01-11 Updated with December data # Import csv file provided by City of Ames # This version includes March thru Dec 2020 # Does not include storm samples # Skip unneeded columns for tidy format libr...

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Exploratory Data Analysis of the South Skunk River

06.08.2020

Introduction The South Skunk River at 16th St, a little upstream of the monitoring site The Iowa DNR has been collecting monthly water quality samples from the South Skunk River since 1998, from a site near the Ames Wastewater Treatment Plant. Data can be downloaded from AQuIA, an online portal to DNR’s water assessment database. https://prog...

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draft e coli analysis

17.08.2020

` # The "DNR" placeholders will stand in for any csv file downloaded from DNR's AQuIA # Within a session, the DNR object can be used in other scripts. DNR_input <- "data/07080105ecoli.csv" DNR_output <- "data/output.csv" # Document the input when you run variations: # downloaded: 2020-07-23 # sites: All sites in South SKunk River HUC8 (07...

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The Power of Pairing

28.09.2020

Introduction The City of Ames has been monitoring the South Skunk River on a weekly basis above and below its wastewater treatment system, the Water Pollution Control Facility, since 2003. There is a lot that could be done with this rich dataset, but we’ll look nitrate and total phosphorus from Jan 2011 to Sept 2020 to illustrate the value of l...

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Apples and oranges

09.11.2020

# Import volunteer chemical monitoring data collected by IOWATER volunteers # Data dump was provided by Steve Konrady on 2018-02-16 # And contains data uploaded to the IOWATER database thru 2017-09-17, when the database was shut down # Site and data tables were combined using VLOOKUP in Excel # Cleanup of text comments in numeric fields was d...

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Indian Creek vs South Skunk River

09.11.2020

# Selects a site of interest and a reference site for comparison # Here South Skunk downstream "s10850002" and lower Indian Creek "s10500001" site_a <- "10500001" site_ref <- "10850002" sites_comp <- c(site_a, site_ref) # The "DNR" placeholders will stand in for any csv file downloaded from DNR's AQuIA # Within a session, the DNR object c...

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Upstream downstream comparison

09.11.2020

# Selects a site of interest and a reference site for comparison # Here South Skunk upstream "s10850003" and downstream "s10850002" # Alternately, use "s10500001" for lower Indian Creek site_a <- "10850003" site_ref <- "10850002" sites_comp <- c(site_a, site_ref) # The "DNR" placeholders will stand in for any csv file downloaded from DNR's...

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DNR data available in Story County

08.11.2020

Locations Iowa DNR’s AQuIA database includes water quality data for many water bodies in Story County. Here we are looking a surface water data that may have been collected as part of the ambient monitoring networks for lake and streams, for regulatory and assessment purposes, lab tests backstopping the IOWATER volunteer program, and for specia...

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Overview of Iowater data in Story County

08.11.2020

# Import volunteer chemical monitoring data collected by IOWATER volunteers # Data dump was provided by Steve Konrady on 2018-02-16 # And contains data uploaded to the IOWATER database thru 2017-09-17, when the database was shut down # Site and data tables were combined using VLOOKUP in Excel # Cleanup of text comments in numeric fields was d...

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