Surface Water - Aquatic Organism Tissue Sample Results

This data set provides results of tissue from organisms found in surface waters, from the California Environmental Data Exchange Network (CEDEN). The data are of tissue from individual organisms and of composite samples where tissue samples from multiple organisms are combined and then analyzed. Both the individual samples and the composite sample results may be given so for individual samples, there will be a row for the individual sample and a row for the composite where the number per composite is one.

The data set contains two provisionally assigned values (“DataQuality” and “DataQualityIndicator”) to help users interpret the data quality metadata provided with the associated result. Due to file size limitations, the data has been split into individual resources by year. The entire dataset can also be downloaded in bulk using the zip files on this page (in csv format or parquet format), and developers can also use the API associated with each year's dataset to access the data.