Fixed-station water-quality monitoring at Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve: 2013–2014 data summary.
Wright W and Mockus P. 2015. Fixed-station water-quality monitoring at Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve: 2013–2014 data summary.. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/SECN/NRDS—2015/978. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado. https://doi.org/10.36967/2224464
In 2003, the Northeast Florida Water Quality Preservation Group—a coalition composed of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), Office of Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas (CAMA), the National Park Service (NPS), and the Nature Conservancy—was formed by official Memorandum of Understanding to “collaborate to preserve, protect, and enhance water quality” of Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve (TIMU, Timucuan) in northern Florida. In 2006, the National Park Service Southeast Coast Network (SECN) in cooperation with the City of Jacksonville, Florida and CAMA established a jointly-operated water-quality monitoring network within the Preserve’s boundaries to provide relevant water-quality information to resource managers locally and at Timucuan. This network is currently composed of 13 sites—12 of which are monitored every other month by the City of Jacksonville for nutrients and chlorophyll a —with one additional site monitored continuously by the Southeast Coast Network for pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, specific conductance, turbidity and water level. Fixed-station water-quality monitoring at Timucuan is part of the SECN Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) Program, which routinely collects data at seven coastal park units located along the southeastern U.S. Summary findings below are based on continuous data and bimonthly discrete sampling collected during 1 January 2013–31 December 2014.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Wright, Wendy; Mockus, Peter
- Date of Issue
- 2015-09
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- DOI
- 10.36967/2224464
- Units
- NRSS , SECN , TIMU
- Keywords
- Depth, Dissolved Oxygen, Fixed-station, Marine Water Quality Monitoring, Nitrogen, pH, Phosphorus, Salinity, sonde, specific conductance, Temperature, Turbidity