SE Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Metadata Project Description

The NPS has identified a need to compile information on long-term monitoring of water quality in southeast coastal waters (brackish and salt water in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and the Atlantic coast of Florida). In response to this request, the Georgia Coastal Research Council is working with the NPS to fulfill the following objectives:

1. Organize a water quality monitoring workshop (held June 5th, 2008)

2. Compile a database of long-term monitoring program metadata

3. Write a report summarizing long-term monitoring in the region (view report)

4. Develop interactive applications on our website that allow users to query the monitoring database and serve as a data portal

This project will have multiple benefits:  it will provide an ongoing inventory of monitoring activities in the southeast; it will facilitate identification of data gaps or under- or over-sampled areas; and it will help to foster interagency cooperation.