Texas Stream Team Datamap and Site Automation

The Texas Stream Team is a volunteer-based water quality monitoring program housed at The Meadows Center in San Marcos, Texas. They collect water quality data used by resource managers, policymakers, and researchers to assess water health and advise conservation efforts. The Texas Stream Team Datamap is an interactive ArcGIS dashboard that visualizes over 350 sites and their collected monitoring data, serving as a vital tool to bring public awareness to water monitoring. Currently, the process to update and verify site data is mostly manual, resulting in inefficiencies and potential delays to data accessibility. This project aims to streamline the datamap update process using ArcGIS tools such as Survey123, ArcGIS Online feature layers, and ArcGIS dashboards. Through data automation, validation, and visualization, this project will allow data from the public dashboard to be more reliable and accessible to stakeholders and community scientists.