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Southwest Florida Coastal and Wetland Systems Monitoring

photo of mangroves along water

Project Investigator: Eduardo Patino
Project Personnel: Lars Soderqvist, Craig Thompson, Andrew Erickson, Noel Wingers
Project Start Date: 1999 End Date: --
Recent Funding: (FY08) USGS GE PES, (FY07) USGS GE PES, (FY06) USGS GE PES, (FY05) USGS GE PES

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This study will quantify water discharge, describe hydrodynamic characteristics of estuarine rivers of southwest Everglades National Park, and provide necessary information for the development and calibration of the TIME hydrodynamic model.

For more information, please see the Tides and Inflows in the Mangrove Ecotone (TIME) Model Development Project Webpage.

Hydrologic information throughout the Everglades ecosystem is key to the development of restoration strategies and for future evaluation of restoration results. There are significant hydrologic information gaps throughout the Everglades wetlands and estuaries that need to be addressed, particularly along Florida's southwest coast. Among these gaps are flow, water level, and salinity data. This project, in conjunction with the Everglades National Park's (ENP) marine monitoring network, will provide water level, salinity, and flow information at key points within the mangrove zone along the southwest coast of ENP. This project will also include a wetland component designed to provide water level, salinity, and "sheetflow" velocity at selected points within the "sloughs" (flow paths) flowing into the estuaries. Hydrodynamic modelers of the Everglades, Florida Bay, southwest coast estuaries, and other adjacent marine systems, will use these data to calibrate and verify models describing flow patterns throughout ENP.

The objective of this project is to describe the salinity patterns in relation to freshwater inflows to the estuaries and tidal exchange with the Gulf of Mexico, to provide support for the USGS Tides and Inflows in the Mangroves of the Everglades model (TIME) and to programs like the Everglades Long Term Ecological Research (LTER). Additionally, other federal and state agencies, universities, and local institutions conducting research in the area will be give access to all the information generated though this study.

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2001

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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)
Southwest Coast Discharge Stations Mean and Median Residual Discharges (from Hydrodynamics of the SW Coast Estuaries Poster)
Water Quality Data (from the data exchange pages)

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Southwest Florida Coastal and Wetlands Systems Monitoring (project metadata)
Hydrology Data (data set metadata)
Real-Time Ground Water Data (data set metadata)
Water Quality Data (Zucker) (data set metadata)

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U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
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