National Estuarine Research Reserve System - NERRS - Water Quality Data

Description

Water quality observations made over long time periods can provide important feedback to scientists and to local, state, and national resource managers about actions taken to manage, protect, and restore estuaries. They also provide valuable information for evaluating the impacts of environmental change on coastal habitats and species. There are at least four water quality stations at each National Estuarine Research Reserve. Each station is designed to characterize long-term variability and short term changes in environmental conditions. Data are collected with data loggers at fifteen minute intervals and instruments are deployed continuously and year round where possible. Water quality parameters collected include: water temperature, specific conductivity, salinity, percent saturation of dissolved oxygen, dissolved oxygen concentration, pH, depth, and turbidity. Chlorohpyll fluorescence is an optional parameter and pressure corrected water depth is a calculated value. The National Estuarine Research Reserves is a network of 30 reserves protected for long-term research, ecosystem monitoring, education, and coastal stewardship. Established by the Coastal Zone Management Act, the reserve system is a partnership program between NOAA and the coastal states. NOAA provides funding, national guidance, and technical assistance. Each reserve is managed on daily basis by a lead state agency or university with input from local partners. These data are collected as part of the NERRS System-Wide Monitoring Program - SWMP, which includes: 1. abiotic indicators of water quality and weather; 2. biological monitoring; and 3. watershed, habitat, and land use mapping. Data were collected under individual Reserve NOAA grant/cooperative agreements and managed by the CDMO under NOAA grant/cooperative agreement #NA22NOS4200128 (2022) and prior grants. For more information on Reserve locations and programs, please visit www.nerrsdata.org or https://coast.noaa.gov/nerrs/.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Home page for the organization. https://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/47713.pdf
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/47713
0 https://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords

Tags

  • nerrs
  • salinity
  • terrestrial hydrosphere
  • data
  • alaska
  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • national ocean service
  • biosphere
  • conductivity
  • water temperature
  • physical
  • continent
  • noaa
  • chlorophyll
  • pacific islands
  • north america
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • water quality/water chemistry
  • atlantic ocean
  • gulf of mexico
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • estuary
  • u.s. coastal waters
  • aquatic ecosystems
  • ocean
  • u.s. west coast
  • water station
  • carribbean
  • wetlands
  • estuarine wetlands
  • water depth
  • oceanographic
  • north atlantic ocean
  • great lakes
  • surface water
  • oxygen
  • u.s. east coast
  • ph
  • u.s. territorial waters
  • turbidity

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