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SEAKEYS
Program
NOAA
and the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) are supplying
daily and historical enhanced Coastal-Marine Automated Network
(C-MAN) data via the Sustained Ecological Research Related to
Management of the Florida Keys Seascape (SEAKEYS) program and this
Web Page. These data are also supplied daily via e-mail to
interested researchers.
The
SEAKEYS program began in 1989
and has continued until the present. This program 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). This force behind the development of this program was the perceived
marked regional decline in coral reefs and the critical need to provide
data and options for resource management. The network consists of seven
instrument-enhanced Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations,
cooperatively managed with NOAA's National Data Buoy Center. 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.
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