The Mysound Project: Building an Estuary-Wide Monitoring Network for Long Island Sound, U.S.A.

Tedesco, Mark A.; Bohlen, W. Frank; Howard-Strobel, Mary M.; Cohen, David R.; Tebeau, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0299-7_4

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“…The system is generally similar to those being used for other monitoring programs such as the National Estuarine Research Reserve's System-Wide Monitoring Program (NERR SWMP; Trueblood and Krantz 1998;Wenner and Geist 2001) and the Monitoring Your Sound project (Tedesco et al 2003). The goals of this system were to 1) provide real-time water quality data to aquaculture producers and 2) construct a database for use in filing and processing insurance claims and in research to improve aquaculture practices.…”

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Continuous water quality monitoring for the hard clam industry in Florida, USA

Bergquist

Heuberger

Sturmer

et al. 2008

Environ Monit Assess

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In 2000, Florida's fast-growing hard clam aquaculture industry became eligible for federal agricultural crop insurance through the US Department of Agriculture, but the responsibility for identifying the cause of mortality remained with the grower. Here we describe the continuous water quality monitoring system used to monitor hard clam aquaculture areas in Florida and show examples of the data collected with the system. Systems recording temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, water depth, turbidity and chlorophyll at 30 min intervals were installed at 10 aquaculture lease areas along Florida's Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Six of these systems sent data in real-time to a public website, and all 10 systems provided data for web-accessible archives. The systems documented environmental conditions that could negatively impact clam survival and productivity and identified biologically relevant water quality differences among clam aquaculture areas. Both the real-time and archived data were used widely by clam growers and nursery managers to make management decisions and in filing crop loss insurance claims. While the systems were labor and time intensive, we recommend adjustments that could reduce costs and staff time requirements.

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Continuous water quality monitoring for the hard clam industry in Florida, USA

Bergquist

Heuberger

Sturmer

et al. 2008

Environ Monit Assess

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“…Environmental sensor networks are an important tool for monitoring these processes at the appropriate spatial and temporal scales (Glasgow et al 2004;Porter et al 2005;Byrne and Diamond 2006;Caffrey et al 2007). There are numerous existing environmental sensor networks that provide observations of some elements of these processes (e.g., Effler et al 2002;Herrington et al 2002;Bernstein and Weisberg 2003;Cole et al 2003;Malone 2003;Tedesco et al 2003;Zappala and Azzaro 2004;Tercier-Waeber et al 2005;Sigleo et al 2005). However, there are few such networks that provide capabilities for monitoring the broad spectrum of linked biogeochemical processes.…”

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The Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory: A robust networked mooring system for continuously monitoring complex biogeochemical cycles in estuaries

Jannasch

Coletti

Johnson

et al. 2008

Limnology & Ocean Methods

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An ocean observatory that consists of an array of moored sensor platforms, telemetry, and data collection and dissemination software was designed for monitoring the biogeochemistry and physical dynamics of coastal and estuarine ecosystems. The Land-Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory (LOBO) consists of robust moorings that can withstand tidal currents and weather. The moorings are highly configurable, can be deployed in waters as shallow as 0.5 m, are relatively easy to maintain, and accommodate a complete array of standard and novel sensors. The sensors communicate with an on-board controller which relays data to shore in near-real time. Up to five LOBO moorings have been simultaneously deployed and maintained in Elkhorn Slough, California, since November 2003. Continuous hourly data of biological, chemical, and physical properties are relayed to shore, processed, and disseminated to users through a web interface in near-real time. This article describes the design, implementation, and functionality of the LOBO monitoring system. *Corresponding Author: E-mail johnson@mbari.org AcknowledgmentsThis work was funded by the NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment program through grant ECS-0308070 and by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation through a grant to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The authors would like to acknowledge the significant help of John Douglas and the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Marine Operations group for supplying the boats and equipment needed for deploying and maintaining the moorings. We also appreciate help from the staff at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve and the Sea Harvest Fish Market who provided locations for the wireless network stations. Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods 6, 2008, 263-276 © 2008, by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Inc. LIMNOLOGY and OCEANOGRAPHY: METHODSElkhorn Slough located at the head of Monterey Bay along the Central California coast. The system is capable of operation in a variety of estuaries and protected coastal waters. Materials and proceduresThe observing system consists of two versions of moorings, a suite of standard and novel in situ sensors, and two-way wireless communications. Software controls data collection, archiving, quality control, and dissemination via the Internet. A network of five moorings located within various environments within Elkhorn Slough has been deployed and tested since November 2003.The mooring system was designed to fulfill criteria that include (a) holding a suite of physical, chemical, and bio-optical sensors just below the surface and, optionally, at deeper depths; (b) the ability to withstand environmental forces such as currents, waves, and fouling for sustained (~1 y) periods in typical estuaries and relatively sheltered coastal environments; (c) collection of real-time data from the sensors and relaying those values to shore; and (d) the ability to be robust, yet easy to maintain, using small boats. A list of functional and system design requirements are shown in Table 1. The design criteri...

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“…The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is currently operating the Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS) that provides real-time data from several waterbodies to improve the safety and efficiency of maritime commerce and coastal resource management. Other observatory systems that have been deployed at various coastal environments are MYSound in Long Island Sound (Tedesco et al 2003), the COlumbia RIver Environment (CORIE) (Baptista et al 2005), the Chesapeake Bay Observing System (CBOS) and the Longterm Ecosystem Observatory (LEO-15) (Glenn et al 2000b). In addition, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided funding to establish WATer and Environmental Research Systems (WATERS) network which tests various aspects of observatory design and operation at different test beds sites.…”

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A mobile monitoring system to understand the processes controlling episodic events in Corpus Christi Bay

Islam¹,

Bonner²,

Ojo³

et al. 2010

Environ Monit Assess

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Corpus Christi Bay (TX, USA) is a shallow wind-driven bay and thereby, can be characterized as a highly pulsed system. It cycles through various episodic events such as hypoxia, water column stratification, sediment resuspension, flooding, etc. Understanding of the processes that control these events requires an efficient observation system that can measure various hydrodynamic and water quality parameters at the multitude of spatial and temporal scales of interest. As part of our effort to implement an efficient observation system for Corpus Christi Bay, a mobile monitoring system was developed that can acquire and visualize data measured by various submersible sensors on an undulating tow-body deployed behind a research vessel. Along with this system, we have installed a downward-looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler to measure the vertical profile of water currents. Real-time display of each measured parameter intensity (measured value relative to a pre-set peak value) guides in selecting the transect route to capture the event of interest. In addition, large synchronized datasets measured by this system provide an opportunity to understand the processes that control various episodic events in the bay. To illustrate the capability of this system, datasets from two research cruises are presented in this paper that help to clarify processes inducing an inverse estuary condition at the mouth of the ship channel and hypoxia at the bottom of the bay. These measured datasets can also be used to drive numerical models to understand various environmental phenomena that control the water quality of the bay.

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The Mysound Project: Building an Estuary-Wide Monitoring Network for Long Island Sound, U.S.A.

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Continuous water quality monitoring for the hard clam industry in Florida, USA

Continuous water quality monitoring for the hard clam industry in Florida, USA

The Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory: A robust networked mooring system for continuously monitoring complex biogeochemical cycles in estuaries

A mobile monitoring system to understand the processes controlling episodic events in Corpus Christi Bay

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