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SEAKEYS
Program
Process
"Every
conservationist understands how socioeconomic and often also
personal aspects can impact conservation. In my opinion 90% of any
conservation issue deals with humans, whatever species or habitat we
are dealing with." (Fabio Ausenda, 1997)
 Florida
Institute of Oceanography (FIO) technicians, located at the Keys Marine
Laboratory on Long Key in the Florida Keys, make weekly trips to five of
the six SEAKEYS/C-MAN stations to maintain the oceanographic instruments.
The Dry Tortugas station is visited once a month.
 During these trips, the
technicians measure sea temperature and salinity with calibrated
instruments and clean the sensors. The calibrated measurements are
compared with those of the in situ measurements to determine the amount of
instrument drift, and for correction of the raw data at a later time.
 Data
sent hourly from the instruments at the SEAKEYS/C-MAN stations are
received at Wallups Island, VA, via a GOES satellite. They are then stored
as raw data files for several days. During the period of temporary
storage, the data are downloaded to a workstation at NOAA/AOML, where they
are reformatted into email messages and Web pages. Historical data are
reformatted for access via a high-performance database server over the
Web.
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