Monitoring water quality in Toronto's urban stormwater ponds: Assessing participation rates and data quality of water sampling by citizen scientists in the FreshWater Watch

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 592, Issue , 2017, Pages 738-744

  Scott, Andrew B ^a   Frost, Paul C ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Nitrate; Phosphate; Toronto; Urban stormwater ponds; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; LAKES; NITRATES; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHATES; PONDS; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; TURBIDITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATCHES;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; MONITORING WATER QUALITY; MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENTS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATION; TORONTO; URBAN STORMWATER; WATER QUALITY MEASUREMENT;

WATER QUALITY;

NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; FRESH WATER;

DATA QUALITY; MONITORING; NITRATE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PHOSPHATE; SAMPLING; STORMWATER; WATER QUALITY;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; CITIZEN SCIENTIST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MACROPHYTE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CHEMISTRY; POND; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; STORMWATER POND; TREND STUDY; TURBIDITY; URBAN AREA; VOLUNTEER; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; CITY; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

CANADA; CITIES; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DATA ACCURACY; FRESH WATER; PONDS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 85007577061     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.201     Document Type: Article

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