Lazarus Archive · LZ-22797

Lake ice records, Red River, 1988–1996

Red River Lakes Survey, 1988–1996. Research data for the PDP-11.

Description

Freeze and thaw dates for 24 lakes, recorded by volunteers and later entered by hand.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5d4841e6a4923d9769cdfe975eb6607c96be84a2d004bd943fe3a7bbcd472071
Last verified
Sep 30, 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.

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: Red River Lakes Survey, Lake ice records, Red River, 1988–1996 (1988–1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22797.

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