Description
The Florida Institute of Oceanography's (FIO) SEAKEYS (Sustained Ecological Research Related to Management of the Florida Keys Seascape) program began in 1989 and has continued until the present. This program, now being supported through NOAA's South Florida Ecosystem Restoration, Prediction and Modeling Program (SFERPM), implements a framework for long-term monitoring and research along the 220 mile Florida coral reef tract and in Florida Bay at a geographical scale encompassing the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). The network consists of six instrument-enhanced Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations, cooperatively managed with NOAA's National Data Buoy Center, plus a proposed new one in northwest Florida Bay. These stations measure the usual C-MAN meteorological parameters, such as wind speed, gusts and barometric pressure, but are enhanced with oceanographic instruments measuring salinity, sea temperature, fluorometry and turbidity.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource |
Tags
- 1576-06
- 2119
- air temperature
- atlantic ocean
- atmosphere
- atmospheric pressure
- atmospheric temperature
- atmospheric winds
- biosphere
- cayman islands
- c-man
- coastal processes
- conductivity
- coral reefs
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- florida
- florida keys
- florida reef tract
- formerly crews) station support for little cayman research center
- integrated coral observing network (icon
- molasses reef (25n080w0003)
- monroe county
- north atlantic ocean
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceanography
- ocean optics
- oceans
- ocean temperature
- photosynthetically active radiation
- physical oceanography
- reef monitoring and assessment
- remote sensing
- salinity
- salinity/density
- seakeys
- sea level pressure
- sea surface temperature
- surface winds
- united states of america
- upper florida keys
- zoology