Brevard County near shore ocean nutrification analysis
The expert panel was charged with reviewing scientific data and literature to answer a series of questions aimed at determining the existence of elevated nutrients along Brevard County Beaches and the various impacts of elevated nutrients to near shore ec...
Boynton Inlet 48-hour sampling intensives, June and September 2007
Researchers with the Ocean Chemistry Division of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory performed two 48-hour intensive studies of the water flowing through the Boynton Inlet at Boynton Beach, Florida, during June and September 2007. ...
In October 2006, a cruise of the Florida Area Coastal Environment (FACE) program was conducted aboard the NOAA RV Nancy Foster. The cruise visited coastal sites in the vicinity of six treated wastewater boils in south Florida. The outfalls included in thi...
Boynton-Delray coastal water quality monitoring program
This report discusses a sequence of six cruises in the vicinity of the Boynton-Delray (South Central) treated-wastewater plant outfall plume (26°27'43"N, 80°2'32"W), the Boynton Inlet (26°32'43"N, 80°2'30"W), and the Lake Worth Lagoon, Palm Beach County, ...
Biscayne Bay is a large subtropical estuary that extends from Broward County in the north to Barnes Sound in the south. While average depths are shallow, the Bay also includes portions of the Intracoastal Waterway, the Port of Miami, and numerous dredged ...
A 500 kHz side-looking Acoustic Doppler profiler was installed on the north seawall of the Boynton Inlet (26°32.744'N, 80°02.637'W) on February 20, 2007 and remained operational through August 2008. The system measured a profile of velocities across the i...
Decision support tool to promote long-term survival of Acropora cervicornis on the Florida reef tract (NOAA Technical Report, OAR-AOML-53)
To maximize the long-term survival (>10 years) of nursery raised Acropora cervicornis corals, a map-based tool was created that ranks locations in the Florida Acropora Critical Habitat based on climate vulnerability. Climate vulnerability is defined both ...
Florida Keys integrated ecosystem assessment ecosystem status report
The purpose of this report is to provide a broad, interdisciplinary overview of the condition and status of ecosystem and human activity components of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), with respect to recent and historical trends. In ord...
Brevard County near shore ocean nutrification analysis