South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network
Boyer JN. 2004. South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network. Florida International University. Miami, Florida
This report summarizes the existing data from the FIU South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network. This includes water quality data collected from 28 stations in Florida Bay, 22 stations in Whitewater Bay, 25 stations in Ten Thousand Islands, 25 stations in Biscayne Bay, 49 stations on the Southwest Florida Shelf (Shelf), and 28 stations in the Cape Romano-Pine Island Sound area. Each of the stations in Florida Bay were monitored on a monthly basis with monitoring beginning in March 1991; Whitewater Bay monitoring began in September 1992;Biscayne Bay monthly monitoring began September 1993; the SW Florida Shelf was sampled quarterly beginning in spring 1995; and monthly sampling in the Cape Romano-Pine Island Sound area started January 1999.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Boyer, Joseph
- Date of Issue
- 2004
- Publisher
- Florida International University
- Units
- BISC
- Keywords
- Biscayne Bay, Coastal, Ecosystems, Estero Bay, Florida Bay, Marco Island, Monitoring, Naples Bay, Pine Island Sound, Quality, Rookery Bay, Salinity, San Carlos Bay, South Florida, Southwest Florida Shelf, Temperature, Ten Thousand Islands, Water, Whitewater Bay