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1987-2018 cyanobacteria and water quality data for 20 reservoirs

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2018-11-19
These data include cyanobacteria cell densities (including maximum cell densities observed for each year in each reservoir), annual summer (June-August) precipitation, nutrient concentrations, and May-October surface water temperatures, deep water temperatures, and deep water dissolved oxygen concentrations. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Smucker, N., J. Beaulieu, C. Nietch, and J. Young. Increasingly severe cyanobacterial blooms and deep water hypoxia coincide with warming water temperatures in reservoirs. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, USA, 27(11): 2507-2519, (2021).

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