Lazarus Archive · LZ-09216

Lake ice records, Coastal, 1974–1983

Coastal Lakes Survey, 1974–1983. Research data for scientific instruments.

Description

Freeze and thaw dates for 85 lakes, recorded by volunteers and later entered by hand.

Provenance

Deposited by Bellbury Polytechnic Library, from its own collections. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
ede8837c964fe6e55378d731adec5fd7743ec799ccef92914c6a0868a9e2d80c
Last verified
Sep 2, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Coastal Lakes Survey, Lake ice records, Coastal, 1974–1983 (1974–1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09216.

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