Water Quality Monitoring Network
The function of the SERP Water Quality Monitoring Network is to address regional
water quality concerns that exist outside the boundaries of individual political entities.
Funding for the Network has come from many different sources with individual
programs being added as funding became available. Field sampling occurs over
different periodicities due to the nature of the funding. Biscayne Bay, Florida Bay & Whitewater Bay, and Ten Thousand Islands are sampled monthly, while the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Southwest Florida Shelf are sampled quarterly. The summary maps are produced on a quarterly basis by integrating the individual projects into one data file for that month sampled.
The advantages of having this Network operated from the same facility include site
continuity, consistency in analytic methodology, and ease of data integration. The
product is a quasi-synoptic "big picture" as to what is happening in the South Florida
coastal waters.
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