Long term Milford Lab Temperature and Salinity Data

Temperature and salinity of sea water entering the Milford NOAA Laboratory has been being collected since 1948. From 1948-1974 the temperature data was collected at the dock station. From 1974 to present the temperature data has been collected from a tank inside the laboratory once per day. The salinity data has been collected from 1974 to present once per day from a tank inside the laboratory as well.

To monitor and record the temperature and salinity of sea water entering the Milford NOAA Laboratory

Contact Point of Contact.

NEFSC Data Access Procedure:

1. Formal request in writing usually to the data owner/contact or Center Director;

2. Requester is contacted by data owner to review and verify the request content and details for data delivery options.

3. If data is confidential then owner will determine if the data may be released to the requester;

4. If data can be released, the data is downloaded and packaged for delivery electronically; or the requester may be directed to where the data is available online.

NEFSC Data Access Constraint:

If data is stored on an internal NEFSC network, the requester may not have direct access to query the data unless they are also authorized for network access.

MS Excel on centralized network storage and local PC

sampling method has changed over the years

Some data may be missing

YSI meter is periodically recalibrated for accuracy

Archival of source data preserving unaltered collected data, Scheduled backups, Remote storage backups, Password protection

paper records converted to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet