Lazarus Archive · LZ-33240

Insect light-trap survey, Northshore, 1990–2003

Northshore Natural History Society, 1990–2003. Research data for Unix workstations.

Description

Nightly counts of moths and other insects from light traps run by volunteers, one of the longest such records in the region.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Sunvale. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. A handful of files survive, from a much larger whole.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e27bb917b49fa0d482ec2cbd379f48ca6a3795435b5838d672f8a497eed8550c
Last verified
Oct 29, 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.

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: Northshore Natural History Society, Insect light-trap survey, Northshore, 1990–2003 (1990–2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-33240.

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