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NOAA water quality monitoring: Links to the National Monitoring Network
Dennis Apeti and Greg Piniak
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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NOAA water quality monitoring: Links to the National Monitoring Network
Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NEERs) National Marine Sanctuaries National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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REGIONAL COMPONENT
FEDERAL COMPONENT
US IOOS US IOOS
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Shellfish Growers
Fishery Managers
Acidification Researchers
IOOS OBSERVING SYSTEMS
Hypoxia data from a Gliders in the GOM
Acidification data from buoys in Pacific Northwest
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Temp
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Hypoxia data from a Gliders in the GOM
IOOS DATA Data Integration and Management
http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/data/dmac/about_dmac.html
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Land Cover/Use and Habitat Change Spatial Patterns Human Impacts
System-Wide Monitoring Program (Integrated Components)
Abiotic Monitoring Water Quality & Nutrients Weather Parameters
Biological Monitoring Habitat Change Biodiversity
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Example products • system-wide temperature trends • climatological vulnerability
SWMP database is “big”!!! (http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/)
28 Reserves - 20 years of data
Water Quality & Nutrient Data: 112 water quality stations (4 per reserve) 39 telemetered, real-time data Meteorological Data: 28 weather stations (1 per reserve), all telemetered via GOES
> 45 million water quality and weather observations > 70 thousand dissolved nutrient values
System-Wide Monitoring Program (Integrated Components)
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System-wide Monitoring (SWiM) program 14 MPAs covering >170,000 sq mi Consistent design, tailored for resource and human use Water quality monitoring: nutrients, HAB, chemical contaminants, temperature, salinity, bacterial loads Offshore Sanctuaries tend to have better water quality
Two Sanctuaries reported temperature increases
Terrestrial runoff as biggest threat to Sanctuary water quality
-- Bacterial loads, toxin bioaccumulation
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http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/data.html
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System-wide Monitoring (SWiM) program 14 MPAs covering >170,000 sq mi Consistent design, tailored for resource and human use Water quality monitoring: nutrients, HAB, chemical contaminants, temperature, salinity, bacterial loads Offshore Sanctuaries tend to have better water quality
Two Sanctuaries reported temperature increases
Terrestrial runoff as biggest threat to Sanctuary water quality
-- Bacterial loads, toxin bioaccumulation
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http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/data.html
National Status & Trends Program
National comparability: core analytes, regardless of studies
http://egisws02.nos.noaa.gov/nsandt/#
Bioeffects program -- sediment quality triad -- biomarkers -- seafood assessments
Mussel Watch program nationwide since 1986 program redesign GLRI AOCs
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System-wide Monitoring (SWiM) program 14 MPAs covering >170,000 sq mi Consistent design, tailored for resource and human use Water quality monitoring: nutrients, HAB, chemical contaminants, temperature, salinity, bacterial loads Offshore Sanctuaries tend to have better water quality
Two Sanctuaries reported temperature increases
Terrestrial runoff as biggest threat to Sanctuary water quality
-- Bacterial loads, toxin bioaccumulation
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http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/data.html
National Estuarine Eutrophication Assessment
HAB forecasts: -Gulf of Mexico -Lake Erie -Gulf of Maine
Hypoxia Monitoring: Gulf of Mexico
Other water quality efforts
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/hab/resources.html#northeast
http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/hypoxia/ http://ian.umces.edu/neea/
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System-wide Monitoring (SWiM) program 14 MPAs covering >170,000 sq mi Consistent design, tailored for resource and human use Water quality monitoring: nutrients, HAB, chemical contaminants, temperature, salinity, bacterial loads Offshore Sanctuaries tend to have better water quality
Two Sanctuaries reported temperature increases
Terrestrial runoff as biggest threat to Sanctuary water quality
-- Bacterial loads, toxin bioaccumulation
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http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/teachers/data.html
Other water quality efforts
National Estuarine Eutrophication Assessment 2007
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