Data Analytics & Interpretation:


Environmental monitoring programs often generate large, complex datasets, but those data are only useful when they can be organized, analyzed, interpreted, and communicated clearly. LEB Aquatic helps organizations turn environmental, ecological, and water-quality data into defensible analysis, clear reporting, and decision-ready guidance.


Services include support with study design, data cleaning and QA/QC, statistical analysis, data visualization, interpretation, literature synthesis, and technical reporting.


Study Design & Analytical Planning

Strong analysis begins with a clear question and an appropriate study design. LEB Aquatic can help develop and refine monitoring questions, select appropriate indicators, and ensure that sampling designs are aligned with the decisions the data are meant to support.


Services include:


  • Experimental and mensurative study design
  • Analysis planning for categorical and quantitative data
  • Sample size, power, and effect-size analysis
  • Selection of ecological, water-quality, and community-based indicators
  • Interpretation of monitoring results in relation to management or policy questions



Data Management, QA/QC & Visualization

Many environmental datasets require substantial preparation before they can be analyzed. LEB Aquatic supports data consolidation, cleaning, quality assurance, exploratory analysis, and visualization to help organizations better understand and use their existing data.

Services include:


  • Consolidating information from multiple databases and spreadsheets
  • QA/QC and cleaning of complex environmental datasets
  • R programming and reproducible workflows using R Markdown
  • Data summaries, exploratory analysis, and visualization
  • Frequencies of occurrence, spatial summaries, and temporal patterns
  • GIS mapping and spatial analysis
  • Community metrics, including diversity, biomass, abundance, and size-based indicators



Statistical & Advanced Analytical Methods

LEB Aquatic applies statistical methods suited to complex ecological and environmental datasets, including datasets with spatial structure, repeated measures, censored values, hierarchical designs, and flow-dependent patterns.


Analytical approaches may include:

  • Mixed-effects modelling
  • Hierarchical linear models
  • Boosted regression tree analysis
  • Modelling censored data
  • Size-spectrum modelling, including normalized abundance size spectra, normalized biomass size spectra, and maximum likelihood estimation
  • Loading calculations using stratified Beale ratio estimators, event mean concentrations, and WRTDS-K
  • Discharge simulation and hydrograph separation
  • Spatial statistics and GIS-based analyses


Reporting, Interpretation & Communication

Analysis is most valuable when results can be understood and used. LEB Aquatic specializes in translating complex data and technical findings into clear outputs for scientific, management, policy, and public audiences.


Services include:

  • Technical reports and peer-reviewed manuscripts
  • Plain-language summaries and science communication products
  • Literature reviews of primary research, review papers, and grey literature
  • Evidence synthesis and guidance documents
  • Presentations for non-technical audiences
  • Communication of scientific findings to policy advisors, leadership teams, funders, communities, and the public


Example Deliverables

Depending on project needs, deliverables may include:

  • Cleaned and documented datasets
  • QA/QC summaries
  • Power analysis
  • Annotated R scripts or reproducible R Markdown reports
  • Statistical summaries and interpretation memos
  • Figures, maps, and data visualizations
  • Literature reviews or evidence briefs
  • Technical reports
  • Plain-language summaries for decision-makers or public audiences