Tools

This page holds links to files relating to software we have created in the course of our research. Brief descriptions of each tool and hyperlinks are provided. Please contact us if you have any questions.

 

 

ThermoStat V2 - Currently working on V3 for Spring 2012


The River and Stream Ecology Lab has recently developed a powerful stand-alone program that will replace Stream Temperature Analysis Tool and Exchange (STATE).  We’d like to share what we’ve done. We are also interested in any feedback and ways to improve. 

 

The new software is called ThermoStat V2: Tools for Analyzing Thermal Regimes.  Please note: the sun will set on STATE in September 2010.  This version of ThermoStat incorporates many of the great features used in STATE and ThermoStat V1 and more in a desktop stand-alone platform. Functionalities include:

 

- Intuitive Graphical User Interface for easy data preparation, analysis and display.

- Import data from HOBOWare Pro and BoxCar Pro formatted text files.

- Automatic and optional data cleaning functions, e.g.out-of-water days, start/end trimming.

- Automated aggregation of multiple input files into a single time series.

- Create and manage metadata files.

- Daily, monthly, weekly, seasonal and annual temperature statistics.

- Days within optimal range and days above upper lethal thresholds for 80+ common fish species.

- Thermal guild statistics: percentages of the record within the warmwater, coolwater, and coldwater ranges.

- Graphing of annual, seasonal and monthly temperature duration curves.

- Graphical overlays of species optimal range and days above upper lethal and thermal guild thresholds.

- Dates of Thermal maximum and minimum temperature

- Warming and cooling rates (hourly rates of change)

- Moving window statistics for 3, 5 and 7 day intervals

- Export of analysis results as ASCII text files (e.g. Excel and Access friendly files).

- Standardized reporting in PDF format, including graphical and tabular results.

 

ThermoStat is free. We do ask that you send me an email to nicholas(dot)jones(at)Ontario(dot)ca requesting the password to unzip the software. Knowing the number of users and the applications will help guide decisions on further development and investment. Your privacy will be respected and you WILL NOT be added to someone else's mailing list. Please DO NOT redistribute this software. If you know of someone else that may find this software useful please direct them to this website to obtain their own copy directly.

 

Installation instructions are provided in the reference manual. ThermoStat V2 is programmed using Matlab and compiled as a 'standalone' package. However it is necessary to have the Matlab runtime environment on your system which is bundled in the Zip file. Cheers!     DOWNLOAD 180 MB

 

 

 

Stream Temperature Analysis Tool and Exchange (STATE) 

 

STATE was created to help people collecting stream temperature data to: (1) automatically analyze their data in a consistent format for reporting purposes, and (2) share their data with others easily if they wish. We also hope that by using STATE users will gain a greater appreciation for the thermal regime characteristics in Ontario. We encourage you to review the short manual on how to use STATE and the report on the Analysis and Interpretation of Time Series Data from Temperature Data Loggers.

STATE features:

Please Note: STATE is CLOSING DOWN soon and is replaced with ThermoStat V2

- Online sharing of data (if desired)

- Standard reporting, error checking and quality assurance

- Thermal guild statistics

- User defined thermal criteria

- Daily, monthly, seasonal and annual temperature statistics

- Temperature duration curves

- Direct import from HOBOWare and BoxCar Pro software

- Quick and easy analysis of large datasets


      Go to the STATE website!   Analyze your "Natural Thermal Regime"

 

ThermoStat V.1
ThermoStat was created as a research tool for analyzing the natural thermal regime as recorded by data loggers  typically used by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources’ River and Stream Ecology Lab and other agencies. The program calculates 149 measures of thermal regime. A new version of ThermoStat is in development. Right click to download zip file: 1 MB

 

WSC to USGS Data Converter
The conversion tool was made to automate the formatting of comma-delimited output flow data (.csv) from the Water Survey of Canada to be suitable for input for the HIT (Hydrologic Index Tool) program which handles United States Geological Survey data. The tool is currently in beta-testing and can handle both peak data as well as full data sets, outputting “.txt” tab-delimited data. The intent is to hasten data manipulation for use with the HIT program by automation of converting Water Survey of Canada data. Right click to download zip file: 15 KB

 

Stream Site Analysis Tool (SSAT) - Watershed Analysis Tool
The Stream Site Analysis Tool (SSAT) is a toolbar for ArcGIS 9.x that performs spatial analysis on a variety of spatial datasets to be used in modeling the thermal and hydrological properties of streams in Ontario, but can be used for a variety of watershed attributing purposes.

SSAT allows researchers to integrate landscape scale spatial data with point source data. The toolbar also has the functionality to import and create raw data for analysis. This software was created in collaboration with Information Management and Spatial Analysis Unit of the Southern Science and Information Section, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. We are currently looking at ways to automate the pre-processing of data needed to run SSAT.

 

Tools we frequently use available on the WWW