Since 2002, the University of Toledo Lake Erie Center (LEC) has been collecting data on water quality conditions in Western Lake Erie as part of an ongoing monitoring program. Constituents include physical parameters, nutrients, chlorophyll a, and harmful algal bloom (HAB) indicators. Funding for data collection has been provided by the following:
- Center for Innovative Food Technology
- Lake Erie Protection Fund
- NASA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Ohio Department of Higher Education
- Ohio Sea Grant
- University of Michigan Graham Sustainability Institute
- University of Toledo
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
This archived data website was originally developed with funding provided by the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), and was updated with funding through the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health. For seasonal real-time data from the University of Toledo water quality buoy located in Maumee Bay and other Lake Erie buoys, please see the GLOS Data Portal.
If you use this data for a publication, be sure to cite us!
UToledo Lake Erie Center. (2026). Western Lake Erie Monitoring Program Dataset. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23194222