The Florida Institute of Oceanography's (FIO)
SEAKEYS (Sustained Ecological Research Related to
Management of the Florida Keys Seascape) program
began in 1989 and has continued until the present.
This program, now being supported through NOAA's
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration, Prediction
and Modeling Program (SFERPM), implements a
framework for long-term monitoring and research
along the 220 mile Florida coral reef tract and in
Florida Bay at a geographical scale encompassing
the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
(FKNMS). The network consists of six
instrument-enhanced Coastal-Marine Automated
Network (C-MAN) stations, cooperatively managed
with NOAA's National Data Buoy Center, plus a
proposed new one in northwest Florida Bay. These
stations measure the usual C-MAN meteorological
parameters, such as wind speed, gusts and
barometric pressure, but are enhanced with
oceanographic instruments measuring salinity, sea
temperature, fluorometry and turbidity.
Purpose:
The impetus for such a framework was the perceived
marked regional decline in coral reefs and the
critical need to provide data and options for
resource management.
Supplemental_Information:
-9 in the data set indicates that the parameter is unavailable
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Monroe County > Molasses Reef (25N080W0003)
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Florida Keys
Place_Keyword: Molasses Reef
Place_Keyword: Florida
Place_Keyword: Florida Reef Tract
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Region
Place_Keyword: Florida
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: none
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: James C. Hendee
Contact_Organization:
Ocean Chemistry Division, Atlantic Oceanographic
and Meterological Laboratory, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
City: Miami
State_or_Province: Florida
Postal_Code: 33149-1026
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (305) 361-4396
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Data has been reviewed and edited in attempt to
remove unreliable values.
Logical_Consistency_Report: none
Completeness_Report:
Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) at the surface and 1m,
and ultraviolet radiation B (UVB, 305, 330, 380 nm) at the surface and 1m are the only parameters available.
Underwater light data unavailable from 1/1 to 5/20
Note: these data complement the datastream maintained by NDBC that can be found at <http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=mlrf1>
only parameters available.
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Data have been manually screened and erroneous values due to instrument malfunction have been noted and/or removed
Process_Date: 201110
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: coral reef
Entity_Type_Definition:
Coral reefs are wave-resistant structures
resulting from cementation processes and the
skeletal construction of hermatypic corals,"
calcareous algae, and other calcium"
carbonate-secreting organisms.
Entity_Type_Definition_Source:
ReefBase. 1997. ""ReefBase: a global database on
coral reefs and their resources"". Ver. 2.0.
CD-ROM, ICLARM, Manila, Philippines.
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: James C. Hendee
Contact_Organization:
Ocean Chemistry Division, Atlantic Oceanographic
and Meterological Laboratory, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
City: Miami
State_or_Province: Florida
Postal_Code: 33149-1026
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (305) 361-4396
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
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