{"capabilities":"The Freshwater Data Portal is a data explorer tool which allows users to view citizen science data alongside agency monitoring data to visualise data about pressures on the environment as well as the way wildlife is responding to those pressures. ","description":"The purpose of the Freshwater Data Portal is to allow regulators and citizen scientists to view and understand the availability of monitoring data from multiple sources, its temporal and spatial distribution, and its potential usability.\n\nThere is an increasing amount of freshwater citizen science data becoming available and a growing need for this to be accessible and understandable. Data from networks such as FreshWater Watch, Riverfly, SmartRivers, and Bloomin' Algae has potential to complement regulatory monitoring to increase our understanding of the health of rivers and lakes and support actions.","fundingSources":"NCEA","id":"d4c14662-7797-4e3e-bd69-550811589334","infrastructureCategory":{"value":"data","description":"Environmental data and information","infrastructureClass":"Digital infrastructures","uri":"http://vocabs.ceh.ac.uk/ri/data"},"lifecycle":"Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) Programme Policy paper - published 31 March 2022 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/natural-capital-and-ecosystem-assessment-programme/natural-capital-and-ecosystem-assessment-programme. This is the third version of this tool. The first version was initially developed in collaboration with FreshWater Watch to be included in their website. The second version https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/freshwater-data-explorer/ improved the functionality and was hosted by UKCEH. The third (current) version makes it easy to add new networks and also provides summary information about each monitoring network and for each sampling location.","metadataDate":"2025-04-09T09:24:48","onlineResources":[{"url":"https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/hydrology/ncea-freshwater-data","function":"website","type":"OTHER"}],"owners":[{"displayName":"Gemma Nash","organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","organisationIdentifier":"https://ror.org/00pggkr55","role":"owner","email":"enquiries@ceh.ac.uk","address":{"city":"Wallingford"},"fullName":"Gemma Nash"}],"partners":"FreshWater Watch","resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d4c14662-7797-4e3e-bd69-550811589334"}],"scienceArea":"Water Resources","title":"Freshwater Data Portal","type":"infrastructureRecord","uniqueness":"Citizen science data is available to visualise alongside longterm agency monitoring data. ","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d4c14662-7797-4e3e-bd69-550811589334","users":["Researchers","Citizen scientists"]}