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).