Since 2011, an instrumented buoy maintained by Friends of the Lake and Fairfield University has been deployed on Lake Lillinonah (Connecticut, USA) during the summer months to collect high-frequency water quality data. The buoy is deployed early each summer and remains in the lake until late October. Since 2018, the instrumented buoy has been equipped with a YSI EXO2 sonde at a depth of 1 meter. The YSI EXO2 collects water temperature, dissolved oxygen, specific conductivity, pH, chlorophyll a fluorescence and phycocyanin fluorescence data. Additionally, the instrumented buoy is equipped with an In-Situ RDO sensor which collects water temperature and dissolved oxygen readings at a depth of 15 meters. Included in this data package are datasets containing 15-minute data as well as daily averages from both sensors from 2018 to present.
Prior to 2018, the instrumented buoy was equipped with a YSI 6600 sonde, which collected data on the same variables (2011-2017). These data, as well as data from the In-Situ RDO sensor during the same period, are available in the EDI data package EDI559.
Additionally, the instrumented buoy at Lake Lillinonah is equipped with a water temperature thermistor chain sensor. These data can be found in data packages EDI557 (2011-2015) and EDI558 (2018-current).