Dataset title: Florida Bay Physical Data, Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from January 2001 to February 2002 Dataset ID: PHY_Frankovich_001 Research type: Physical Dataset Creator Name: Mr. Thomas Frankovich Position: Project Post Doctoral Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Address: Florida Bay Interagency Science Center 98630 Overseas Highway Key Largo, Florida 33037 USA Phone: 305-852-2668 Email: frankovich@virginia.edu URL: http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/ Metadata Provider Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program Address: Institute of Environment, Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street, OE 148 Miami, FL 33199 USA Phone: 305-348-6054 Email: fcelter@fiu.edu URL: http://fcelter.fiu.edu Dataset Abstract Florida Bay physical data that includes surface temperature and salinity at Duck Key, Bob Allen Keys, and Sprigger Bank, Florida Bay in Everglades National Park, South Florida. Geographic Coverage Study Extent Description The Study Extent of this dataset includes the FCE Florida Bay research sites within Everglades National Park, South Florida Bounding Coordinates Geographic description: TS/Ph9 West bounding coordinate: -80.49 East bounding coordinate: -80.49 North bounding coordinate: 25.177 South bounding coordinate: 25.177 Geographic description: TS/Ph10 West bounding coordinate: -80.681 East bounding coordinate: -80.681 North bounding coordinate: 25.025 South bounding coordinate: 25.025 Geographic description: TS/Ph11 West bounding coordinate: -80.938 East bounding coordinate: -80.938 North bounding coordinate: 24.913 South bounding coordinate: 24.913 FCE LTER Sites: TS/Ph9, TS/Ph10, TS/Ph11 Temporal Coverage Start Date: 2001-01-14 End Date: 2002-02-12 Data Table Entity Name: PHY_Frankovich_001 Entity Description: Florida Bay Physical Data, Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida Object Name: PHY_Frankovich_001 Data Format Number of Header Lines: 1 Attribute Orientation: column Field Delimiter: , Number of Records: Attributes Attribute Name: SITENAME Attribute Label: sitename Attribute Definition: Name of LTER site Storage Type: Measurement Scale: text Missing Value Code: Attribute Name: Date Attribute Label: date Attribute Definition: Date of collection Storage Type: Measurement Scale: Missing Value Code: Attribute Name: Time Attribute Label: time Attribute Definition: Time of Collection Storage Type: Measurement Scale: Missing Value Code: -9999 (Value will never be recorded) Attribute Name: Temp Attribute Label: Temperature Attribute Definition: Water Temperature Storage Type: Measurement Scale: Units celsius Precision:1 Number Type: integer Missing Value Code: -9999 (Value will never be recorded) Attribute Name: Salinity Attribute Label: Salinity Attribute Definition: Salinity Storage Type: Measurement Scale: Units: PSU Precision: 1 Number Type: integer Missing Value Code: -9999 (Value will never be recorded) Methods Sampling Description TS/Ph 9, 10 and 11 represent the range of salinity environments encountered across Florida Bay.Measurements taken at variable intervals, minimally monthly. Method Step Description Temperature-glass alcohol thermometer, Salinity -refractometer, baseline checked with tap water. Instrumentation Glass alcohol thermometer Refractometer Quality Control Salinity measured on refractometer zero-corrected with tap water. Distribution Online distribution: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-fce/1118/4/9a03d281012f595c0367d23386f0e70c Intellectual Rights This information is released under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The consumer of these data ("Data User" herein) is required to cite it appropriately in any publication that results from its use. The Data User should realize that these data may be actively used by others for ongoing research and that coordination may be necessary to prevent duplicate publication. The Data User is urged to contact the authors of these data if any questions about methodology or results occur. 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Dataset Keywords FCE Florida Coastal Everglades LTER ecological research long-term monitoring Florida Bay Everglades National Park salinity temperature water water temperature freshwater pH ecosystems processes estuarine Data Submission Date: 2002-02-15 Maintenance 1118.4: Updated metadata to EML 2.2.; added creator ORCID identifier, FCE ROR identifier, and new funding element; moved geographic coverage for sampling sites to dataset level Dataset Contact Position: Information Manager Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Address: Florida International University University Park Miami, FL 33199 USA Email: fcelter@fiu.edu URL: http://fcelter.fiu.edu Project permits LTER permit number EVER-2001-SCI-0071. Dataset Submission Date 2002-02-15 Information Management Notes Information Manager (February 15, 2002) 1) Changed Column Field Names to SITENAME, Date, Time, Temp, Salinity 2) Deleted Lat and Long Field and 3) Coded missing values with -9999. This is a short-term physical dataset. This dataset replaces all previous versions of PHY_Frankovich_001 original. The FCE program is discontinuing its practice of versioning data as of March 2013.