Website

Region(s)

SE

Summary

This project was a collaborative effort to conduct water quality surveys in Southeast Florida counties (Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade) from December 2009 to September 2011. Quarterly surveys were conducted to measure physical, chemical, and biological water quality parameters and water samples collected for laboratory analysis.

Parameters

Depth (m), salinity (psu), temperature (deg. C), dissolved oxygen (mg/L), turbidity (NTU), light attenuation (Kd in m^-1), nitrate (mg/L), nitrite (mg/L), ammonium (mg/L), dissolved inorganic nitrogen (mg/L), soluble reactive phosphate (mg/L), total nitrogen (mg/L), total organic nitrogen (mg/L), total organic carbon (mg/L), total phosphorus (mg/L), silicate (mg/L), and chlorophyll a (ug/L)

Notes

ID_5033 split into two programs ID_5058 and ID_5033

Application

To provide data to describe the status and temporal trends of water quality in the Southeast Florida region, and to detect change in the ecosystem and link observed changes and spatial differences with reef health.

Publications

Start

2009

End

2011

Frequency

Quarterly

Method

Grab water samples sent for laboratory analysis of nutrients, turbidity, chlorophyll a, and total suspended solids. Depth, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) measured with Seabird CTD. Vertical light attenuation coefficient calculated as a log function from PAR. 2016-present: Salinity measured with refractometer.

Discontinuity

Data Location

The data is housed at http://serc.fiu.edu/wqmnetwork/

Data Format

Excel tables

Habitats

Water Column

SEACAR Citation

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection (RCP), Coral Reef Conservation Program. (2011). Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative (SEFCRI) Water Quality Monitoring Report. Updated 09/17/2020. Distributed by: SEACAR Data Discovery Interface, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. https://data.florida-seacar.org/programs/details/5058

Alternative Citation

indicates priority attributes