The South Florida Estuarine Water Quality Monitoring Network; 1998 Cumulative Report to Everglades National Park and South Florida Water Management District
1998. The South Florida Estuarine Water Quality Monitoring Network; 1998 Cumulative Report to Everglades National Park and South Florida Water Management District. Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University. Florida Bay; Whitewater Bay; Ten Thousand Islands; Biscayne Bay; Southwest Florida Shelf
This report includes water quality data collected monthly from 28 stations in Florida Bay, 22 stations in Whitewater Bay to Lostmans River, 25 stations in Ten Thousand Islands, and 25 stations in Biscayne Bay. A total of 49 stations on the SW Shelf were collected on a quarterly basis. Figure 1 shows the location of all the fixed sampling stations. Each of the stations in Florida Bay were monitored on a monthly basis with monitoring beginning in March 1991 at stations 1 through 24. (Except monitoring began at stations 14, 19, 22, and 23 in April 1991). In July 1992, stations 25 through 28 were added in Florida Bay. Monthly sampling of stations 29 through 50 in Whitewater Bay were added to the monitoring program in September 1992. Biscayne Bay monthly monitoring began September 1993 for stations 100-125. In May 1996 an analysis of the data was performed to address the adequacy of spatial coverage. At that time, 10 station locations in the Biscayne Bay monitoring network were moved to provide coverage of North Biscayne Bay. The Southwest Florida Shelf was sampled quarterly beginning in spring 1995. A summary of station locations and sampling POR is shown in Table 1.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 1998
- Publisher
- Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University
- Units
- EVER
- Keywords
- dissolved nutrient, Estuary, long term, Methods, monitoring stations, parameter, results, South Florida, spatial analysis, Water Quality