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SEAKEYS
Program "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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