Coastal Gradients of Flow, Salinity and Nutrients

Project Investigators: Jeff Woods, Mark Zucker Project Personnel: Shane Ploos, Christian Lopez, Carrie Boudreau, Stephen Huddleston, Barclay Shoemaker Project Start Date: 2003 End Date: 2010 Scope of Work Data Metadata Publications Photos

Summary

The objective of this project is to operate and maintain ten hydrologic and water quality DCP's in the coastal and fresh water marsh environments of the Everglades in order to support a larger integrated monitoring network studying CERP restoration changes.

For more information, please see the Freshwater Flows to Northeastern Florida Bay, Hydrologic Monitoring in Joe Bay, Southwest Florida Coastal and Wetland Systems Monitoring and Water Flows and Nutrient Fluxes to the Southwest Coast of Everglades National Park, Florida project web pages.

Hydrologic and water quality information from this network will be made available for the development and calibration of hydrodynamic and water quality models of the Everglades, Florida Bay, and adjacent marine systems, and will supply physical data to help evaluate impacts from the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP).

The network of data collection platforms (DCP's) collect information at points of interest along transects that represent major flow paths from the Everglades wetlands to the southern estuaries. The information collected on flow, salinity, temperature, ground water - surface water interactions, and nutrient flux will be provided annually within a USGS data report.

• USGS South Florida Coastal Real-Time Stations (visit each station for 1 to 31 days of data)

Scope of Work

• 2003
• 2007

Data

• South Florida Coastal Real-Time Ground Water Stations
• South Florida Coastal Real-Time Surface Water Stations (visit each station for 1 to 31 days of data)
• Hydrology Data (from the data exchange pages)
• Real-Time Ground Water Data (from the data exchange pages)
• Salinity Surveys (from the data exchange pages)
• Water Quality Data (from the data exchange pages)

Metadata

• Coastal Gradients of Flow, Salinity, and Nutrients (project metadata)
• Coastal Gradients Salinity Surveys (data set metadata)
• Hydrology Data (data set metadata)
• Real-Time Ground Water Data (data set metadata)
• Water Quality Data (Zucker) (data set metadata)

Publications

Abstracts

• A comparison of rated discharge at Jewfish Creek using a 0.5 MHz and a 1.5 MHz Argonaut-SL using different sampling volumes (from the National Surface Water Conference and Hydroacoustics Workshop, April 2007)
• Estimates of Nutrient Loads at West Highway Creek in Northeastern Florida Bay (from the 2005 Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference)
• Northeastern Florida Bay Estuarine Creek Response During the 2004-05 Hurricane Seasons (from the GEER Conference, June 2006)
• Nutrient loading at Card Sound Canal - A tidally driven canal that experiences highly stratified, bidirectional flow conditions (from the November 2007 USGS National Water Quality Workshop)
• Nutrients Inputs along Coastal Transects within Everglades National Park, Florida (from the 2004 First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration)
• Temporal and Spatial Salinity Patterns in Joe Bay, Everglades National Park (from the GEER Conference, July 2008. This is a 3.5MB PDF and requires the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader®)
• Using an Integrated Hydrologic Monitoring Network as a Tool to Analyze Everglades Ecosystem Response during CERP Implementation (from the 2004 First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration)
• Using Hydrologic Monitoring as a Tool for Synthesis of the Greater Everglades and Southern Estuaries Modules of the Monitoring and Assessment Plan (from the GEER Conference, July 2008. This is a 3.5MB PDF and requires the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader®)

Circulars

• Estuarine Response in Northeastern Florida Bay to Major Hurricanes in 2005 (excerpt from Circular 1306, available from the USGS website. This is a (2MB) PDF and requires the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader® to be read)

Fact Sheets

• Hydrologic Characteristics of Estuarine River Systems within Everglades National Park (FS-2004-3129, available from the U.S. Geological Survey website)

Posters

• A comparison of rated discharge at Jewfish Creek using a 0.5 MHz and a 1.5 MHz Argonaut-SL using different sampling volumes (from the National Surface Water Conference and Hydroacoustics Workshop, April 2007)
• Northeastern Florida Bay Estuarine Creek Response during the 2004-05 Hurricane Seasons (Presented at the 2006 Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) Conference)
• Nutrient Inputs Along Coastal Transects Within Everglades National Park, Florida
• Nutrient Loading at Card Sound Canal; a tidally driven canal that experiences highly stratified bi-directional flow conditions (Presented at the November 2007 USGS National Water Quality Workshop)
• Nutrient Loading at Two Coastal Creeks in Everglades National Park

Presentations

• Using Hydrologic Monitoring as a Tool for Synthesis of the Greater Everglades and Southern Estuaries Modules of the Monitoring and Assessment Plan (from the GEER Conference, July 2008. This is a 3.5MB PDF and requires the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader®)

Reports

• 2005 Water Resources Data for Florida, 2005, Volume 2A: South Florida Surface Water USGS Water-Data Report FL-05-2A (Search all reports for the year. Please note individual manuscript files that follow are PDF files which require the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader® to be read.)
• 2005 Big Cypress Swamp and Southwestern Coastal Area: 022908295 Bottle Creek at Rookery Branch Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Big Cypress Swamp and Southwestern Coastal Area: 252019080544800 Upstream North River Near Flamingo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Big Cypress Swamp and Southwestern Coastal Area: 252551081050900 Harney River Near Flamingo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Big Cypress Swamp and Southwestern Coastal Area: 253047080555600 Upstream Broad River Near Everglades City, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Big Cypress Swamp and Southwestern Coastal Area: 253357080594100 Upstream Lostman's River Near Everglades River, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251003080435500 McCormick Creek at Mouth, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251032080432200 Seven Palm Lake Near Flamingo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251105080231800 Jewfish Creek at U.S. 1, Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251127080382100 Taylor River at Mouth Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251209080350100 Mud Creek at the Mouth Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251241080385300 Upstream Taylor River Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251253080320100 Trout Creek at Mouth, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251322080352500 Joe Bay 8W Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251338080312600 Joe Bay 1E Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251341080291200 Stillwater Creek Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251355080312800 Joe Bay 2E Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251422080271900 Oregon Creek Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251433080265000 West Highway Creek, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251438080333500 Joe Bay 5C Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251440080262800 East Highway Creek Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251457080395800 Taylor Slough Wetland at E146 Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251549080251200 Manatee Bay Creek Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251740080311200 C-111 Wetland Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2005 Everglades and Southeastern Coastal Area: 251816080232200 Card Sound Canal Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Water Resources Data for the United States Water Year 2006 (Search all reports for the year. Please note individual manuscript files that follow are PDF files which require the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader® to be read.)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Big Cypress Swamp Subbasin: 02290928 Barron River at Everglades City, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Big Cypress Swamp Subbasin: 02290930 Turner River Near Chokoloskee Island, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Big Cypress Swamp Subbasin: 02290940 New River at Sunday Bay, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Big Cypress Swamp Subbasin: 02290942 Lopez River Near the Lopez Campsite, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 022908205 North River Upstream of Cutoff Near Flamingo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 022908295 Bottle Creek at Rookery Branch Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 02290878 Broad River Near the Cutoff, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 02290888 Chatham River Near the Watson Place , FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 02290918 Lostman's River Below Second Bay, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251003080435500 McCormick Creek at Mouth, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251032080432200 Seven Palm Lake Near Flamingo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251105080231800 Jewfish Creek at U.S. 1, Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251127080382100 Taylor River at Mouth Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251209080350100 Mud Creek at the Mouth Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251241080385300 Upstream Taylor River Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251253080320100 Trout Creek at Mouth, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251322080352500 Joe Bay 8W Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251338080312600 Joe Bay 1E Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251341080291200 Stillwater Creek Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251355080312800 Joe Bay 2E Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251422080271900 Oregon Creek Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251433080265000 West Highway Creek, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251438080333500 Joe Bay 5C Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251440080262800 East Highway Creek Near Key Largo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251457080395800 Taylor Slough Wetland at E146 Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251549080251200 Manatee Bay Creek Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251740080311200 C-111 Wetland Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 251816080232200 Card Sound Canal Near Homestead, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 252019080544800 Upstream North River Near Flamingo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 252230081021300 Shark River Near Gunboat Island Near Flamingo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 252551081050900 Harney River Near Flamingo, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 253044080555900 Eden 3 in Everglades National Park, FL (PDF file)
• 2006 Southern Florida Basin, Everglades Subbasin: 253357080594100 Upstream Lostman's River Near Everglades River, FL (PDF file)

Photos

• Coastal Gradients of Flow, Salinity and Nutrients Photo Gallery