Jeff Woods
Eduardo Patino;
Mark Zucker
2007
Coastal Gradients Salinity Surveys
digital images and text files
http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/coastal_grads/salindex.html
Ten monitoring stations were operated and maintained along the southwest coast of ENP, the Everglades wetlands, and along the coastlines of northeastern Florida Bay and northwest Barnes Sound. Data collected at these 10 stations includes water level, velocity, salinity, and temperature. These 10 stations will complement information currently being generated through an existing network of 20 hydrologic monitoring stations of on-going USGS projects.
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2000 authorized the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) as a framework for modifications and operational changes to the Central and Southern Florida Project needed to restore the south Florida ecosystem. Provisions within WRDA 2000 provide for specific authorization for an adaptive assessment and monitoring program. A Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) has been developed as the primary tool to assess the system-wide performance of the CERP by the REstoration, COordination and VERification (RECOVER) program. The MAP presents the monitoring and supporting enhancement of scientific information and technology needed to measure the responses of the South Florida ecosystem.
The MAP also presents the system-wide performance measures representative of the natural and human systems found in South Florida that will be evaluated to help determine the success of CERP. These system-wide performance measures address the responses of the South Florida ecosystem that the CERP is explicitly designed to improve, correct, or otherwise directly affect. A separate Performance Measure Documentation Report being prepared by RECOVER provides the scientific, technical, and legal basis for the performance measures. This project is intended to support the Greater Everglades (GE) Wetlands module of the MAP and is directly linked to the monitoring or supporting enhancement component
In 2003, CERP MAP funding through the South Florida Water Management District established 10 monitoring stations as part of the Coastal Gradients Network. The purpose of this MAP project with the USACE is to continue operation of these 10 stations for the MAP activities.
This project is being worked in cooperation with the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and the U.S. Corps of Engineers (USACE)
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ground condition
As needed
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salinity
hydrology
chemistry
mapping
ISO 19115 Topic Category
environment
inlandWaters
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Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology
United States
US
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, DC, NIST
Florida
FL
Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas, FIPS 6-3, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Miami-Dade County
Monroe County
USGS Geographic Names Information System
Lostmans River
Broad River
Harney River
North River
Manatee Bay
Seven Palm Lake
Everglades National Park
Taylor Slough
Card Sound
Everglades City
Barnes Sound
Shark River
McCormick Creek
Taylor River
Trout Creek
Joe Bay
none
Central Everglades
SW Big Cypress
Bottle Creek (Rookery Branch)
C-111 wetland
Manatee Bay Creek
Snag Bay
none
none
Jeff Woods
U.S. Geological Survey
mailing and physical address
3110 SW 9th Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale
FL
33315
USA
954 377-5950
954 377-5901
jwoods@usgs.gov
http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/coastal_grads/salindex.html
thumbnails of the salinity maps
JPEG
Project personnel include Shane Ploos, Lars Soderqvist, Craig Thompson, and Barclay Shoemaker
Data are available as JPEG images and as ASCII text files in .csv format
Hittle, Clinton
Patino, Eduardo;
Zucker, Mark
2004
Hydrologic Characteristics of Estuarine River Systems within Everglades National Park
fact sheet
USGS Fact Sheet
2004-3129
Tallahassee, FL
U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2004/3129
Rantz, S. E and others
1982
Measurement and computation of streamflow Volume 1: measurement of stage and discharge
book
USGS Water Supply Paper
2175, vol. 1
unknown
U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/wsp2175
Sauer, Vernon B.
2002
Standards for the analysis and processing of surface-water data and information using electronic methods
report
USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report
01-4044
unknown
U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/wri/wri014044
Wagner, R. J.
Boulger, Jr, R. W.;
Oblinger, C. J.;
Smith, B. A.
2006
Guidelines and standard procedures for continuous water-quality monitors: station operation, record computation, and data reporting
report
USGS Techniques and Methods
1-D3
unknown
U.S. Geological Survey
supersedes Water-Investigations Report 00-4252
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/tm/tm1D3
Oberg, K. A.
Morlock, S. E.;
Caldwell, W. S.
2005
Quality-assurance plan for discharge measurements using acoustic Doppler current profilers
report
USGS Scientific Investigations Report
2005-5183
unknown
U.S. Geological Survey
in cooperation with the U. S. Amy Corps of Engineers, Detroit District
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5183
Simpson, M. R.
2002
Discharge measurements using a broad-band acoustic Doppler current profiler
report
USGS Open-File Report
01-01
Sacramento, CA
U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr0101
Ruhl, C. A.
Simpson, M. R.
2005
Computation of discharge using the index-velocity method in tidally affected areas
report
USGS Scientific Investigations Report
2005-5004
Sacramento, CA
U.S. Geological Survey
Prepared in cooperation with the Interagency Ecological Program
available online only
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5004
Salinity and temperature were measured along the same transects for each survey. These transects were measured using four separate boats over the span of one day and the data was then combined to create a salinity map of the coastline along Everglades National Park.
Salinity maps are available for Water Year 2004 (December 2003, March, June, and August, 2004); Water Year 2005 (October and December 2004 and March, May, and July 2005); and Water Year 2006 (November 2005, and April and June 2006)
The geographic coordinates were collected with a Garmon 76C handheld unit
Salinity and temperaure data were collected every five seconds via a boat-mounted flow-through cell to a continuous water quality meter. Surveys were conducted along the southern coastline of Everglades National Park from Barnes Sound to Everglades City. All salinity and temperature meters were checked in known conductivity standards prior to and following all surveys. Survey data was plotted on a map of the study area to display the spatial temporal distribution of salinity across esturarine gradients over a large geographical area.
2006
Work planned for FY 2007:
Salinity surveys will be performed using boat-mounted systems to collect information along the southwestern coast of ENP, northeastern coast of Florida Bay, and Manatee Bay/Barnes Sound. The information will include salinity and temperature data and geographic location in latitude and longitude for every data point. Four quarterly and two event-driven surveys will be completed on a yearly basis for a maximum of six per year. The salinity survey is performed on the same day across the study area and usually requires the use of 4 boats and 8 crew members to complete. The surveys will include these river/creek systems: Lostmans River to upstream Lostmans River; Broad River to upstream Broad River; Shark River/Harney River to Bottle Creek; North River to upstream North River; McCormick Creek to Seven Palm Lake; Taylor River mouth to upstream Taylor River; Trout Creek to Joe Bay/Snag Bay; and Barnes Sound to Manatee Bay/Card Sound Canal.
Salinity surveys are performed using boat-mounted flow-through systems equipped with a YSI water quality monitor for collection of temperature and salinity. Position is determined using a GPS unit which interfaces with the YSI water quality monitor. Data collection occurs every 5 seconds and is stored in the YSI 650 data acquisition system. The accuracy of all instrumentation is verified in the USGS Ft. Lauderdale laboratory or in the field before and after the salinity survey. The temperature probe is verified using a digital NIST thermometer in the Ft. Lauderdale lab. Data collected from the four boats is combined in a spreadsheet and analyzed for erroneous data such as spikes and 0.0 values. Salinity data is then imported into a GIS package for map creation. Raw data and spatial maps will be posted on SOFIA or published in the final USGS Data Series Report to be published in 2010.
Not complete
Jeff Woods
U.S. Geological Survey
mailing and physical address
3110 SW 9th Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale
FL
33315
USA
954 377-5950
954 377-5901
jwoods@usgs.gov
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0.0001
Decimal degrees
North American Datum of 1983
Geodetic Reference System 80
6378137
298.257
North American Vertical Datum of 1988
0.01
feet
Attribute values
The salinity is parts per thousand (ppt). Salinity is shown in intervals of 5 ppt by color on the maps.
The data files contain the following for each date: date of collection; temperature in degrees Celsius; specific conductance in microsiemens per centimeter; salinity in parts per thousand; and latitude and longitude in decimal degrees
USGS personnel
Heather S.Henkel
U.S. Geological Survey
mailing address
600 Fourth St. South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA
727 803-8747 ext 3028
727 803-2030
hhenkel@usgs.gov
salinity surveys
The maps are for informational purposes only and contain no implied accuracy of data points. The data are published a part of the MAP monitoring program in support of CERP restoration
JPEG
Each file contains the map for a specific date
http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/coastal_grads/salindex.html
Maps may be downloaded from the SOFIA website
ASCII
unknown
comma separated values (.csv)
Each file contains the data for a specific date
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http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/coastal_grads/salindex.html
Data may be downloaded from the SOFIA website
none
20070921
Heather Henkel
U.S. Geological Survey
mailing and physical address
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA
727 803-8747 ext 3028
727 803-2030
sofia-metadata@usgs.gov
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998