buoys for chesapeake bay water quality assessment doug wilson noaa chesapeake bay office
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Buoys
for Chesapeake Bay
Water Quality Assessment
Doug Wilson
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office
October 2003 TMAW Meeting
Buoys…
Pros
Offshore positioningUnattended OperationContinuous Data Leveraging Platforms
Cons
Power LimitationsVulnerability Difficult Access for Maintenance Communications
What is in the Bay now…
CBOS
VIMS Real Time Telemetry Buoy
ACT / CBL
WQ Buoy
NOAA NOS PORTS
Planned NOAA NCBO, NDBC UMCES HPLInternational SeaKeepers InstallationsPumped Water SystemSensors / Computer on BuoyGOES TransmissionNDBC Data HandlingUnique Anti-FoulingWQ Sensors Available Meteorology Temperature Salinity pH Dissolved Oxygen Redox levels (pollution) Ocean color (CDOM) Water clarity (turbidity) Phytoplankton (chlorophyll) levels
UConn / EPA Surface / Bottom WQBuoys in Long Island Sound
Buoys can SupportProfiling Instrument SystemsNCBO Funding MD DNR in Chester R
Great Lakes Water InstituteLake Michigan Buoy
http://waterbase.glwi.uwm.edu/buoy.html
A couple of other things…
The Development of a Chesapeake Bay Regional Association of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System
www.OCEAN.US.netnoaa.chesapeakebay.net/CBRAMeeting
QARTOD-I
The First Workshop on theQuality Assurance of Real-Time Ocean Datafor the current and next generations of Ocean Observing Systems.
Hosted by the National Data Buoy Center, NOAA
Stennis Space Center, MS, December 3 - December 5, 2003 (dates tentative).
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