Coastal Gradients of Flow, Salinity, and NutrientsEntry ID: USGS_SOFIA_coastal_grads
Abstract: Ten monitoring stations will be operated and maintained along the southwest coast of ENP, the Everglades wetlands, and along the coastlines of northeastern Florida Bay and northwest Barnes Sound. Data collected at these 10 stations will include water level, velocity, salinity, and temperature. Three stations (Upstream North River, North River, and West Highway Creek) will also include automatic ... samplers for the collection of water samples and determination of Total Nutrients (TN and TP). These 10 stations will complement information currently being generated through an existing network of 20 hydrologic monitoring stations of on-going USGS projects. By combining data collected from the ten monitoring stations and the existing monitoring network, information will be available across 9 generalized coastal gradients or transects. Data collected at all flow sites will be transmitted in near real time (every 1 or 4 hours) by way of satellite telemetry to the automated data processing system (ADAPS) database in the USGS Center for Water and Restoration Studies (CWRS) in Miami and available for CERP purposes. In addition to data from monitoring stations described above, salinity surveys will be performed along these 9 generalized transects, and these will include salinity, temperature, and GPS data from boat-mounted systems. Surveys will be performed regularly on a quarterly basis and twice following hydrologic events, totaling a maximum of 6 surveys per year.
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2000 authorized the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) as a framework for modifications and operational changes to the Central and Southern Florida Project needed to restore the south Florida ecosystem. Provisions within WRDA 2000 provide for specific authorization for an adaptive assessment and monitoring program. A Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) has been developed as the primary tool to assess the system-wide performance of the CERP by the REstoration, COordination and VERification (RECOVER) program. The MAP presents the monitoring and supporting enhancement of scientific information and technology needed to measure the responses of the South Florida ecosystem. The MAP also presents the system-wide performance measures representative of the natural and human systems found in South Florida that will be evaluated to help determine the success of CERP. These system-wide performance measures address the responses of the South Florida ecosystem that the CERP is explicitly designed to improve, correct, or otherwise directly affect. A separate Performance Measure Documentation Report being prepared by RECOVER provides the scientific, technical, and legal basis for the performance measures. This project is intended to support the Greater Everglades (GE) Wetlands module of the MAP and is directly linked to the monitoring or supporting enhancement component In 2003, CERP MAP funding through the South Florida Water Management District established 10 monitoring stations as part of the Coastal Gradients Network. The purpose of this MAP project with the USACE is to continue operation of these 10 stations for the MAP activities.
Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: Jeff Woods Eduardo Patino, Mark Zucker
Dataset Title: Coastal Gradients of Flow, Salinity, and Nutrients
Dataset Release Date: 2006
Data Presentation Form: digital images and text filesOnline Resource: http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/coastal_grads
Start Date: 2003-01-01Stop Date: 2010-12-31
BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS
TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER > GROUND WATER PROCESSES/MEASUREMENTS > DISCHARGE
TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > SURFACE WATER PROCESSES/MEASUREMENTS > STAGE HEIGHT
TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY > NUTRIENTS
TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY > WATER TEMPERATURE
OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY
BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS
Access Constraints None. The maps are for informational purposes only and contain no implied accuracy of data points. The data are published a part of the MAP monitoring program in support of CERP restoration.
Use Constraints None
Data Set Progress
Distribution Size: 2
Distribution Format: ASCII
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 954) 377-5950
Email: jwoods at usgs.gov
U.S. Geological Survey 3110 SW 9th Avenue
City: Ft. Lauderdale
Province or State: Florida
Postal Code: 33315
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Email: alicia.m.aleman at nasa.gov
Goddard Space Flight Center Code 610.2
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20771
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Oberg, K. A., Morlock, S. E.; Caldwell, W. S., 2005, Quality-assurance plan for discharge measurements using acoustic Doppler current profilers, USGS Scientific Investigations Report, 2005-5183, U.S. Geological Survey.
Simpson, M. R., 2002, Discharge measurements using a broad-band acoustic Doppler current profiler, USGS Open-File Report, 01-01, Sacramento, CA, U.S. Geological Survey.
Ruhl, C. A., Simpson, M. R., 2005, Computation of discharge using the index-velocity method in tidally affected areas, USGS Scientific Investigations Report, 2005-5004, Sacramento, CA, U.S. Geological Survey, Prepared in cooperation with the Interagency Ecological Program.
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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2007-09-21
Last DIF Revision Date: 2016-01-27