Water quality metadatabase for the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative
Alber M, Sheldon W, Laporte C, Douce T. 2012. Water quality metadatabase for the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative. Natural Resource Report. NPS/SECN/NRR—2012/581. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
In fiscal year 2010, the Southeast Coast Network (SECN) received additional program funds to (a) expand monitoring efforts that will improve understanding of the effects of climate change on park resources, and (b) expand partnerships with other federal, state, academic, and NGO institutions to conduct resource conservation within the context of the DOI-led Landscape Conservation Cooperatives program. As a part of this effort, the Georgia Coastal Research Council developed a metadata-level database of existing water quality monitoring programs across the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (SALCC) geographic range. Specific objectives of this project were to expand the SECN’s coastal metadatabase project to: 1. Incorporate water quality metadata information from national databases into the database. 2. Identify project partners from the region, and work with them to provide descriptions of water quality sampling programs. 3. Enter water quality metadata for new programs. 4. Host the database and web portal until such time as it can be transferred to NPS. This report describes the updates that were made to the system and the website since the original project, summarizes the results of each project objective, and includes a discussion of challenges faced in meeting those objectives.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Alber, Merryl; Sheldon, Wade; Laporte, Christine; Douce, Travis
- Date of Issue
- 2012-09
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- NRSS , SECN
- Keywords
- goundwater, Hydrologic Unit Code, Meteorology, South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Southeast Coast Network, Stream Flow, Water Quality, Water Quality Protocol, Watershed