Hudson River water-quality data posted to the Riverkeeper website are made freely available to the public, and we encourage their wide use. However, if you use the data for research, policy, or educational purposes, we would appreciate that you let us know so that we can document that use for our funders (which will help us continue this service).
Please do not post any data from the Riverkeeper website directly on any other website. However, linking to the Riverkeeper website, or to individual pages on the Riverkeeper website, is encouraged.
If the Riverkeeper website data are used as background or ancillary information for any presentation, publication, website, or educational product, we would appreciate proper acknowledgement (Data collected by O’Mullan, GD, Juhl AR, Lipscomb J, and Sambrotto, R, available at www.riverkeeper.org. Funding provided by Hudson Riverkeeper, the Wallace Research Foundation, the Brinson Foundation, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, and CUNY Queens College).
If you would like to use the Riverkeeper website data as an integral contribution to any publication or educational product, please contact us to discuss potential collaboration and appropriate determination of authorship.
Please contact us if needed to inquire about additional data that may be available and about QA/QC procedures.
Thank you for respecting the efforts of many individuals that has gone into collecting, processing, maintaining, and disseminating these valuable data.