Jeff Woods Mark Zucker 2007 website http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/zucker_woods_patino/wtrqualindex.html The data are available for 14 sites in multiple formats from the National Water Information Systems (NWIS) website In 1995 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a series of studies to monitor several major creeks and rivers that discharge freshwater into northeastern Florida Bay and the southwest coastal estuaries of Everglades National Park. These studies provide water flow, salinity, temperature, and water-level data for hydrodynamic model development and calibration and also supply baseline information for other physical, biological, and chemical studies being conducted in these areas. From 2004 through 2006 the Restoration, Coordination, and VERification program (RECOVER) Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) funded 10 monitoring stations that together with the existing coastal monitoring network created a network of about 40 sites that could be analyzed for coastal gradients of flow, salinity, and nutrients. The purpose of this network is to gather information on the interactions between the Everglades mangrove transition zone and the freshwater wetlands. 19971227 20070710 ground condition In Work As needed -81.1 -80.35 25.5 -25.1 none hydrology water quality chemistry ISO 19115 Topic Category environment inlandWaters 007 012 Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology United States US U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, DC, NIST Florida FL Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas, FIPS 6-3, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology Miami-Dade County Monroe County USGS Geographic Names Information System Harney River Jewfish Creek McCormick Creek Mud Creek North River Shark River Taylor River Trout Creek none Central Everglades West Highway Creek Manatee Bay Creek Card Sound Canal Stillwater Creek Upstream North River none none Mark Zucker U.S. Geological Survey mailing and physical address

3110 SW 9th Ave.

Ft. Lauderdale FL 33315 USA 954 377-5952 954 377-5901 mzucker@usgs.gov http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/statementsofwork07/images/coastalgrads_fig1x.jpg Location of RECOVER MAP coastal gradients monitoring stations in relation to other USGS monitoring stations JPEG http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/statementsofwork07/images/coastalgrads_fig2x.jpg Location of nine generalized coastal transects involved in the study JPEG http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/statementsofwork07/images/coastalgrads_fig6x.jpg Locations of nutrients collection stations within the USGS Coastal Integrated Monitoring Network JPEG Project personnel include Jeff Woods, Marc Stewart, Rich Kachelriess, and Jessica Adams website - output data formats are graphs and tables Woods, Jeff Zucker, Mark 2007 book chapter USGS Circular 1306, chapter 6 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1306/pdf/c1306_ch6_i.pdf Farris, G. S.; Smith, G. J.; Crane, M. P.; Demas, C. R.; Robbins, L. L.; Lavoie, D. L., editors 2007 book USGS Circular 1306 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1306/ Water-quality samples will be collected at three locations (West Highway Creek, Manatee Bay Creek, and Card Sound Canal) for determining the total and dissolved nutrient concentrations. Not all stations have water quality data or are complete Horizontal positions were established with the use of GPS equipment. Automatic samplers are used at three locations to collect water samples for nutrient analysis. Every 18 hours a 120 ml water sample is pumped into a pre-preserved (1:1 sulfuric acid) composite bottle that is made up of four pumping sessions over a 3-day period. Field visits to collect sample bottles are made every 24 days. During a routine site visit, representative water samples are collected following a multiple vertical sampling approach quarterly at each station. Samples are collected and analyzed at the USGS National Water Quality Laboratory for total and dissolved nutrients. Water samples collected with auto-samplers are analyzed for total nitrogen (TKN) and total phosphorus (TP) concentrations. Point samples are collected to assess the potential of bio-fouling of the sampling port during monthly deployments and to compare the point data to the multiple vertical sampling data (i.e. representative data) 2004 Published and provisional water quality data can be accessed at http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/zucker_woods_patino/wtrqualindex.html. Additional project information on the water quality network can be obtained at http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/statementsofwork07/coastalgrads.html. Information is detailed in the water year 2007 statement of work. Not complete Mark Zucker U.S. Geological Survey mailing and physical address

3110 SW 9th Ave.

Ft. Lauderdale FL 33315 USA 954 377-5952 954 377-5901 mzucker@usgs.gov Everglades National Park 1 1 Degrees, minutes, and decimal seconds North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137 298.257 Available data for each site include salinity in parts per thousand (ppt), and temperature in degrees Celsius. National Water Information System (NWIS) Heather S.Henkel U.S. Geological Survey mailing address

600 Fourth St. South

St. Petersburg FL 33701 USA 727 803-8747 ext 3028 727 803-2030 hhenkel@usgs.gov Water Quality Data Data from 1996 to 2000 is published. Data after 2000 is provisional and subject to revision unknown http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/zucker_woods_patino/wtrqualindex.html The data may be accessed through the National Water Information System (NWIS) by selecting the NWIS page for a station none 20080402 Heather Henkel U.S. Geological Survey mailing and physical address

600 Fourth Street South

St. Petersburg FL 33701 USA 727 803-8747 ext 3028 727 803-2030 sofia-metadata@usgs.gov Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001_1998