National Estuarine Research Reserve System-Wide Water Quality Monitoring Program

The System-wide Monitoring Program seeks to &identify and track short-term variability and long-term changes in the integrity and biodiversity of representative estuarine ecosystems and coastal watersheds for the purposes of contributing to effective national, regional, and site specific coastal zone management&. This comprehensive program consists of three phased components: (1) abiotic factors (i.e. water quality & meteorological monitoring), (2) biodiversity monitoring, and (3) land use planning analysis.

With the initial focus on phase (1), the NERR System-wide Monitoring Program will provide data necessary for site and inter-site baseline studies, trend analyses and impact assessment. See individual National Estuarine Research Reserve sites for citation, time period of content, geographic descriptions, experimental design: ACE Basin, South Carolina; Apalachicola Bay, Florida; Chesapeake Bay, Maryland; Chesapeake Bay, Virginia; Delaware NERR, Delaware; Elkhorn Slough, California; Great Bay, New Hampshire; Hudson River, New York; Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico; Jacques Cousteau/Mullica River, New Jersey; Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; North Inlet-Winyah Bay, South Carolina; North Carolina NERR, North Carolina; Old Woman Creek, Ohio; Padilla Bay, Washington; Rookery Bay, Florida; Sapelo Island, Georgia; South Slough, Oregon; Tijuana River, California; Wells, Maine; Weeks Bay, Alabama; Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts.

Information for this metadata was taken from the Water Quality Data Dissemination Page and individual site pages which can be accessed at - cdmo.baruch.sc.edu