Activity
Environmental Change Network: Surface water chemistry (terrestrial sites)
The possible causes and consequences of changes in climate, land use and industrial, urban and agricultural pollution can be expected to be indicated by changes in the physical and chemical composition of water in rivers and streams. These are determined by both biogeochemical processes and by changes in terrestrial or atmospheric inputs. In addition to the major ions (eg Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, Cl-, SO42--S, alkalinity) which give a measure of the fundamental chemical composition of the water, other variables (eg NH4+-N, NO3--N, PO43--P) are major plant nutrients, whilst yet others (eg Al3+) have chemical states which are pH dependent and are of particular interest where water bodies are undergoing acidification. By measuring concentrations of these ions at frequent and regular intervals, together with water flow, it is possible to calculate loads and fluxes of ions which may be of interest in relation to nutrient budgets. Weekly dip samples for 15 chemical variables are recorded
General Information
- Objectives
- Collection of stream/river/lake samples for analysis of major cations and anions
- Environmental domain
- Freshwater
- Purpose Of collection
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Policy
Data series - Keywords
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stream
Cations
river
Environmental Change
Surface water chemistry
Anions
streamwater
ECN - Parameters measured
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sodium
potassium
calcium
alkalinity
magnesium
iron
aluminum
dissolved ammonium nitrogen
chloride
dissolved nitrate nitrogen
phosphate
dissolved sulfate sulfur
dissolved organic carbon - erff keywords
- E1.4, D3.1.1, D3.1.2, B1, A4, C16, A4, B2, C1, E3.1.4.10, E3.1.4.19, C13.9, E5.B.3.2, E1.2.2, D3.1.3, D3.1.4, E5.A.1, E5.A.2, E5.B.3.5, E5.C.3.2, E5.C.2, G2.2.1, S4.16, S4.22
- Essential climate variables
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River discharge
Land cover
Soil moisture
Aoil carbon - Measurement Regime
- weekly
- Links to data
- UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) stream water discharge data: 1993-2012
Location
- Bounding box
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Costs/Funding
- Future Funding Status
- Unsure
Contacts
- Lead organisation
- Sue Rennie Centre for Ecology & Hydrology LANCASTER LA1 4AP UK ecnccu@ceh.ac.uk
- Funder
- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute BELFAST BT9 5PX UK info@afbini.gov.uk http://www.afbini.gov.uk
- Funder
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon WILTSHIRE SN2 1UH UK +44 (0)1793 413200 http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/
- Funder
- Natural Resources Wales Ty Cambria 29 Newport Road CARDIFF CF24 0TP UK enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk +44 (0) 300 065 3000 http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk/
- Funder
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Porton Down Salisbury WILTSHIRE SP4 0JQ UK +44 (0) 1980 613000 https://www.dstl.gov.uk/
- Funder
- Defra 17 Smith Square LONDON SW1P 3JR UK defra.helpline@defra.gsi.gov.uk +44 20 7238 6951 https://www.gov.uk/defra
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- Environment Agency National Customer Contact Centre PO Box 544 ROTHERHAM S60 1BY UK enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk 03708 506 506 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency
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- Forestry Commission 620 Bristol Business Park Coldharbour Lane BRISTOL BS16 1EJ UK fe.england@forestry.gsi.gov.uk +44 (0) 117 906 6000 http://www.forestry.gov.uk/
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- Welsh Government Cathays Park CARDIFF CF10 3NQ UK 0300 0603300 http://wales.gov.uk/
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- Natural England Foundry House 3 Millsands Riverside Exchange SHEFFIELD S3 8NH UK enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk 0300 060 3900 http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/
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- Natural Environment Research Council Polaris House North Star Avenue SWINDON SN2 1EU UK +44 (0) 1793 411500 http://www.nerc.ac.uk
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- Northern Ireland Environment Agency nieainfo@doeni.gov.uk 0845 302 0008 http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/
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- Scottish Environment Protection Agency Erskine Court Castle Business Park STIRLING FK9 4TR UK +44 (0) 1786 457700 http://www.sepa.org.uk/
- Funder
- Scottish Government St. Andrew's House Regent Road EDINBURGH EH1 3DG UK ceu@scotland.gsi.gov.uk 0300 244 4000 http://www.scotland.gov.uk
- Funder
- Scottish Natural Heritage Leachkin Road INVERNESS IV3 8NW UK enquiries@snh.gov.uk +44 (0) 1463 725000 http://www.snh.gov.uk
- Other
- ADAS Pendeford House Pendeford Business Park Wobaston Rd Pendeford WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5AP UK enquiries@adas.co.uk 0845 766 0085 http://www.adas.co.uk/
- Other
- Forest Research Alice Holt Lodge Farnham SURREY GU10 4LH UK research.info@forestry.gsi.gov.uk 01420 22255 http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
- Other
- Marine Scotland Science 375 Victoria Road PO Box 101 ABERDEEN AB11 9DB UK +44 (0)1224 876544 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/science
- Other
- Rothamsted Research Harpenden HERTFORDSHIRE AL5 2JQ UK + 44 (0) 1582 763 133 http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk
- Other
- The James Hutton Institute Craigiebuckler Craigiebuckler ABERDEEN AB15 8QH UK info@hutton.ac.uk +44 (0) 844 928 5428 http://www.hutton.ac.uk/
- Other
- UK Upland Waters Monitoring Network http://awmn.defra.gov.uk/
Metadata
- Publication status
- PUBLIC
- Record identifier
- f49f23c0-efc6-11e3-ac10-0800200c9a66
- Last modified
- 2017-08-24 10:58:15
- Metadata author
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology ecnccu@ceh.ac.uk
- Topic categories
- Environment
- Other identifier
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Envirobase 1322037
UKEOF 473346