Related Projects:

Ecosystem History: Florida Bay and the Southwest Coast

Monitoring Sub-Aquatic Vegetation through Remote Sensing: A Pilot Study in Florida Bay

Historical Changes in Salinity, Water Quality and Vegetation in Biscayne Bay

Ecosystem History of Biscayne Bay and the Southeast Coast

Ecosystem History of the Southwest Coast-Shark River Slough Outflow Area

Paleosalinity as a Key for Success Criteria in South Florida Restoration

Determining Target Salinity Values for Restoration of the Estuaries of the Greater Everglades

Sea Level Rise and Climate: Impacts on the Greater Everglades Ecosystem and Restoration

South Florida Ecosystem History Project Website

Last updated:
January 15, 2013

Data, Metadata, and Methodology Information Encompassing All Projects: Data for all the projects listed at left can be found in the 2 Access databases seen below. For additional project specific information and data, please follow project links at left. 1995 - 2007 Ecosystem History Access Database (Updated February 2012) Contains listings of all sites (modern and core), modern monitoring site survey information (water chemistry, floral and faunal data, etc.), and published core data; 3.5 MB, zip file 2008 - Present Ecosystem History Access Database (Updated February 2012) Contains listings of all sites (modern and core), and modern monitoring site survey information (water chemistry, floral and faunal data, etc.) 4.3 MB, zip file Metadata: 1995 - 2007 Ecosystem History of South Florida's Estuaries Database (version 6, Updated April 2012) Metadata: 2008 - Present Ecosystem History of South Florida's Estuaries Database (version 1, New! April 2012) Sampling Procedures and Methods

 

General Location Map: Map at right showing general location of modern sites and cores included in the Ecosystem History databases [larger version]. See below for core listings of general core locations: Florida Bay, Biscayne Bay, and the Southwest Coastal Mangrove Estuaries.

Cores analyzed to date for paleoecologic data. For more detailed core information, see 1995 - 2007 Ecosystem History Access Database (above).

• T24 - Taylor Creek
• 6A - Bob Allen
• 19B - Russell Bank
• 37 - Pass Key
• 25B - Whipray
• RL1 - Rankin
• 23A - Park
• Mud Creek Core
• 16B - Crocodile Point

• Molluscan faunal percent abundance and paleosalinity estimates for five cores used in statistical modeling analyses (84 kb, xlsx file; from Marshall and Wingard 2012, USGS Open-File Report 2012-1054).

Cores analyzed to date for paleoecologic data. For more detailed core information, see 1995 - 2007 Ecosystem History Access Database (above).

• MB1 - Manatee Bay (1996)
• FB1 - Featherbed Bank (1997)
• CB1 - Card Bank (1997)
• FBA and FBB - Featherbed Bank (2003)
• CBA and CBB - Card Bank (2003)
• NNA and NNB - No Name Bank (2003)
• MKA - Middle Key (2004)
• BPNA - Black Point North (2004)
• CKA - Chicken Key (2004)

• Biscayne Bay Ostracode Data (217 kb, xls file; from "Ostracoda as Proxies for Quaternary Climate Change"; Elsevier, Developments in Quaternary Science series)

Cores obtained to date. For more detailed core information, see 1995 - 2007 Ecosystem History Access Database (above).

• GLW504-AL - Alligator Bay (2004)
• GLW504-LM - Big Lostmans Bay (2004)
• GLW504-BR - Broad River Bay (2004)
• GLW504-RR - Roberts River, mouth (2004)
• GLW504-TB - Tarpon Bay (2004)
• GLW705-FBLM1 - First Bay - Lostman's River (2005)
• GLW705-SBLM2 - Second Bay - Lostman's River (2005)
• GLW705-HR2 - Harney River at small channel (2005)
• GLW705-SHR1 - Mouth of Harney (2005)
• GLW705-SR1 - Shark River - near entrance to Ponce de Leon Bay (2005)
• GLW705-SR2 - Shark River channels (2005)