Website

https://www.nps.gov/im/sfcn/marine-systems.htm

Region(s)

SE

Summary

To determine the status and trends in water temperatures at reef depth at coral monitoring sites established in Biscayne National Park and Dry Tortugas National Park.

Parameters

Reef-depth water temperature (deg. C)

Notes

Of the 28 Florida stations with data, only 8 are considered active. At each station we try to maintain both a sensor 1 and sensor 2 for redundancy in case of failure and for QC. There are also Quality and Approval codes in the dataset with Quality Code 31 = Good and Approval Code 3 = Approved.

Application

To document long-term changes over time in marine communities in South Florida National Parks.

Publications

Start

2004

End

Current

Frequency

Continuous

Method

HOBO data loggers for water temperature in Dry Tortugas National Park, video transects, coral point count software

Discontinuity

2004-2008 data loggers only at Bird Key N and S increased to 18 stations in 2008 and these 18 stations included coral monitoring as well as temperature.

Data Location

Coral Reef Water Temperature Data: NPS maintains its authoritative dataset in the NPS Aquarius Web Data Portal: https://irma.nps.gov/aqwebportal/ (NOTE: v.2020.1 now live).

Data Format

CSV

Habitats

Water Column

SEACAR Citation

National Park Service (NPS), South Florida/Caribbean Inventory and Monitoring Network. (2021). NPS South Florida/Caribbean Inventory and Monitoring Network: Coral Reef Water Temperature. Updated 08/27/2026. Distributed by: SEACAR Data Discovery Interface, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. https://data.florida-seacar.org/programs/details/912

Alternative Citation

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