Website

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/coastal/sites/bigbend/

Region(s)

NW

Summary

Continuous water quality data are collected at ten water quality stations (Station ID's: BBSBC, BBSWT, BBSSK, BBSDB, BBSSW, BBSCR, BBSKB, BBSHS, BBSCH, BBSST) located within the St. Martins Marsh and Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserves in 15-minute intervals for eight parameters using protocols established by the National Estuarine Research Reserve's System-Wide Monitoring Program. As of January 2019, only two sites are currently in operation, BBSCH and BBSST. AP continuous WQ protocols and metadata: https://www.floridaapdata.org/

Parameters

water temperature (°C), specific conductivity (mS/cm), salinity (psu), dissolved oxygen (%), dissolved oxygen (mg/L), depth (m), pH, turbidity (NTU-6600, FNU-EXO), and chlorophyll data available upon request (RFU and ug/L at BBSST only)

Notes

Application

To measure changes in estuarine waters that help provide a better understanding of how human activities and natural events can affect coastal resources and to provide valuable data on the short-term variability and long-term changes in estuaries to researchers, natural resource managers and other coastal decision-makers.

Publications

presentations, meetings, reports, and online

Start

2004

End

Current

Frequency

Continuous

Method

15-minute data collections at fixed stations using YSI 6600 data sondes with a recent transition to EXO2's and EXO3's in 2019 and 2020

Discontinuity

Sporadic discontinuity of historical data

Data Location

Aquatic Preserve Data Portal - https://www.floridaapdata.org/

Data Format

.csv (yearly files)
https://www.floridaapdata.org/

Habitats

Water Column

SEACAR Citation

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection (RCP); Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserves. (2024). Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserves Continuous Water Quality Monitoring. Updated 02/05/2025. Distributed by: SEACAR Data Discovery Interface, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. https://data.florida-seacar.org/programs/details/471

Alternative Citation

indicates priority attributes