SERC Water Quality Monitoring Network
Florida
Keys National Marine
Sanctuary
Additional
Water Quality
Reports and Archive
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. Biscayne Bay, Florida Bay & Whitewater Bay, Ten Thousand Islands, and Marco-Pine Island Sound are sampled monthly, while the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Southwest Florida Shelf are sampled quarterly. The data summary maps are produced on a quarterly basis by integrating the individual projects into one data file for that month sampled.
The advantages of
having this Network operated from the same facility include site
continuity, consistency in analytic methodology, and ease of data
integration. The product is a quasi-synoptic "big picture" as to
what is happening in the South Florida coastal waters.
RELATED SITES:
Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Microbial Ecology Lab
Contact: Joe Boyer boyerj@fiu.edu
Southeast Environmental
Research Center
Florida International University
University Park Campus
Miami, FL 33199
(305)348-4076
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