SFCN Water Temperature Monitoring Standard Operating Procedure WT12: Importing Data to Aquarius Database—Version 1.2
South Florida/Caribbean Network. SFCN Water Temperature Monitoring Standard Operating Procedure WT12: Importing Data to Aquarius Database—Version 1.2. National Park Service
This SOP describes how to import water temperature HOBO® data for upload to the NPS Aquarius database. Aquarius Time-Series is a database platform, developed and maintained by Aquarius Informatics, that provides time series analysis and long-term storage of environmental water quality observations. This SOP describes how the CSV files are uploaded into Aquarius. The water temperature data used to be stored in a Microsoft Access database. In 2018, the program shifted water temperature data storage to Aquarius, a NPS-wide continuous water quality database. The software platform was updated from Aquarius v3.10 to Aquarius NG v2020.1, and later upgraded to v2022.1. The DOI Aquarius Sharepoint site has additional resources that can be used to learn how to use the application. This SOP is for users that already have access to Aquarius v.2022.1 (http://aquarius.nps.gov/AQUARIUS/). If you do not have access, the SFCN Data Manager and/or Dean Tucker (dean_tucker@nps.gov), the Natural Resource Specialist in the Water Resource Division. Note that the NPS Aquarius WebPortal (https://irma.nps.gov/aqwebportal) is publicly available, allowing read-only access to published water quality data.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- South Florida/Caribbean Network
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- BISC , BUIS , DRTO , SARI , SFCN , VIIS
- Keywords
- Biscayne National Park, Buck Island Reef National Monument, Caribbean, Coral Reef Water Temperature, Dry Tortugas National Park, Logger, National Park Service, Reef Depth, Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve, South Florida, South Florida/Caribbean Monitoring Network, Standard Operating Procedure, Temperature, U.S. Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands National Park, Water, Water Temperature
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Marine Communities