Website

http://serc.fiu.edu/wqmnetwork/

Region(s)

SE

Summary

The function of the SERC Water Quality Monitoring Network is to address regional water quality concerns that exist outside the boundaries of individual political entities. Funding for the Network has come from many different sources with individual programs being added as funding became available. Field sampling occurs over different time periods due to the nature of the funding. The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Southwest Florida Shelf are sampled quarterly.

Parameters

Surface and bottom temperature (deg. C), salinity, dissolved oxygen (mg/L), nitrate (mg/L), nitrite (mg/L), ammonium (mg/L), total nitrogen (mg/L), total organic nitrogen (mg/L), total phosphorus (mg/L), soluble reactive phosphorus (mg/L), total organic carbon (mg/L), total silicate (mg/L), chlorophyll a (ppb), alkaline phosphatase activity (uM/hr), turbidity (NTU), pH, light attenuation (Kd), depth

Notes

Application

Publications

Data from the SERC-FIU WQMN are freely available for academic, research, or professional purposes subject to the following user terms: 1. User shall notify designated SERC-FIU WQMN researchers when any future work based on or derived from this data is published. 2. User agrees not to redistribute original SERC-FIU WQMN data. 3. User will acknowledge the support of the SERC-FIU WQMN Program and Appropriate grant/contract numbers in any publications using these data with the following citation: ‘Data were provided by the SERC-FIU Water Quality Monitoring Network which is supported by EPA Agreement #X7 00D02412-1 and NOAA Agreement #NA09NOS4260253.’ 4. User agrees to send 2 reprints of any publications resulting The use of the data and documentation to the following address:

Start

1989

End

2008

Frequency

Variable

Method

grab samples, LiCOR LI-1400 datalogger, CTD

Discontinuity

Data Location

http://serc.fiu.edu/wqmnetwork/

Data Format

Excel spreadsheets

Habitats

Water Column

SEACAR Citation

Florida International University (FIU); Southeastern Environmental Research Program. (2008). SERC Water Quality Monitoring Network. Updated 06/30/2020. Distributed by: SEACAR Data Discovery Interface, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. https://data.florida-seacar.org/programs/details/509

Alternative Citation

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