{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Kathi Jo Jankowski", "hasEmail": "mailto:kjankowski@usgs.gov"}, "description": "This dataset includes high-frequency sensor data collected during four consecutive summers from buoys deployed at main channel and backwater sites in Pool 8 of the Upper Mississippi River from 2015-2018.  It also includes the event-specific concentration-discharge metrics (hysteresis and slope) calculated by combining the water quality sensor data with discharge data from a nearby USGS gage in Winona, MN (05378500). High-frequency sensor data were collected using water quality buoys (PISCES monitoring platforms; EMM350 Water Monitoring Pontoon Platform | ysi.com | ysi.com; Yellow Springs, Ohio) set up with EXO2 Multiparameter Sondes (YSI, Inc, Yellow Springs, Ohio) to monitor hourly or bi-hourly concentrations of chlorophyll-a, phycocyanin (metric of cyanobacteria abundance),, fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM; QSU), and turbidity (FNU), and water temperature (Celsius) as well as a SUNA v2 nitrate sensor (Sea-Bird Scientific, Bellevue, Washington) to monitor nitrate concentration.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FGYHVS", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.642dc2bcd34ee8d4add3b0b1.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_642dc2bcd34ee8d4add3b0b1", "keyword": ["Mississippi River", "USGS:642dc2bcd34ee8d4add3b0b1", "biogeochemistry", "chlorophyll a", "dissolved organic matter", "inlandWaters", "nitrogen", "phycocyanin", "turbidity", "water quality"], "modified": "2023-08-18T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-91.3239, 43.5903, -91.1700, 43.8791", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Continuous water quality sensor data from the main channel and a backwater of the Upper Mississippi River from 2015-2018"}