Dataset title:  Annual Water Quality in Everglades National Park, Florida Bay, West Florida Shelf, and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida, USA: 1994-2019

Dataset ID:  doi:10.6073/pasta/b2c8e104ecac44a44bcc02ffef3dc6f3
Dataset Creator

	Name:		Dr Paul Julian
	Position:	Hydrologic Modeler
	Organization:	Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
	
	Address:
			Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
			PO Box 839
			Sanibel, FL 33957  United States
	
	Email:		pjulian@sccf.org


Dataset Abstract



Geographic Coverage


	Bounding Coordinates

		Geographic description:	Everglades National Park, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, and West Florida Shelf.
		West bounding coordinate:	-83.1
		East bounding coordinate:	-80.038
		North bounding coordinate:	25.904
		South bounding coordinate:	24.366
	



Temporal Coverage

	Start Date:  1994-05-01
	End Date:  2019-04-30


Data Table

	Entity Name:  20220521_WYGeomean
	Entity Description:  Annual (water year) geometric mean nutrient, chlorophyll-a and total organic carbon concentrations
	Object Name:  20220521_WYGeomean.csv

	Data Format

		Number of Header Lines:  1
		Attribute Orientation:  column
		Field Delimiter:  ,
		Number of Records:  

	Attributes

		Attribute Name:  STATION
		Attribute Label:  STATION
		Attribute Definition:  monitoring location name/identifier
		Storage Type:  string
		Measurement Scale: 
			monitoring location name/identifier
		Missing Value Code: 


		Attribute Name:  WY
		Attribute Label:  WY
		Attribute Definition:  Florida water year (May - April)
		Storage Type:  float
		Measurement Scale: 
			Units:		Year
			Number Type:  integer
		Missing Value Code: 


		Attribute Name:  TN
		Attribute Label:  TN
		Attribute Definition:  total nitrogen concentration
		Storage Type:  float
		Measurement Scale: 
			Units:  milligramPerLiter
			Number Type:  real
		Missing Value Code: NA  (missing/no data)


		Attribute Name:  DIN
		Attribute Label:  DIN
		Attribute Definition:  dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentration (nitrate+nitrite+ammonia)
		Storage Type:  float
		Measurement Scale: 
			Units:  milligramPerLiter
			Number Type:  real
		Missing Value Code: NA  (missing/no data)


		Attribute Name:  TP
		Attribute Label:  TP
		Attribute Definition:  total phosphorus concentration
		Storage Type:  float
		Measurement Scale: 
			Units:  microgramPerLiter
			Number Type:  real
		Missing Value Code: NA  (missing/no data)


		Attribute Name:  SRP
		Attribute Label:  SRP
		Attribute Definition:  soluable reactive phosphorus concentration
		Storage Type:  float
		Measurement Scale: 
			Units:  microgramPerLiter
			Number Type:  real
		Missing Value Code: NA  (missing/no data)


		Attribute Name:  Chla
		Attribute Label:  Chla
		Attribute Definition:  chlorophyll a concentration
		Storage Type:  float
		Measurement Scale: 
			Units:  microgramPerLiter
			Number Type:  real
		Missing Value Code: NA  (missing/no data)


		Attribute Name:  TOC
		Attribute Label:  TOC
		Attribute Definition:  total organic carbon concentration
		Storage Type:  float
		Measurement Scale: 
			Units:  milligramPerLiter
			Number Type:  real
		Missing Value Code: NA  (missing/no data)


		Attribute Name:  Region
		Attribute Label:  Region
		Attribute Definition:  generalized ecosystem region
		Storage Type:  string
		Measurement Scale: 
			Coastal_Mangroves= Coastal Mangrove fringe along the western coast of Everglades National Park
			ENP= Freshwater portion of Everglades National Park 
			FLBay= Florida Bay
			Keys= Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 
			Shelf= West Florida Shelf, offshore of Everglades National Park, north of the Florida Keys archipelago 
		Missing Value Code: 


		Attribute Name:  source
		Attribute Label:  source
		Attribute Definition:  original data source
		Storage Type:  string
		Measurement Scale: 
			LTER= Florida Coastal Everglades LTER
			NOAA= National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (NOAA AOML)
			SERC= Florida International University Southeast Research Center (FIU SERC)
			WMD= South Florida Water Management District
		Missing Value Code: 




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Distribution

	Online distribution:  https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-fce/1248/1/2512a66648c061e6f5823b9c303b32a2


Intellectual Rights



Publications citing this dataset

Julian, Paul, Jim Fourqurean, Stephan Davis, Donatto Surratt, Evelyn R Gaiser, John S Kominoski, Tiffany G Troxler, Joseph N Boyer, Serge Thomas, Henry O Briceño, Chris Madden, Enrique Montes, and Chris Kelble. . Long-term spatiotemporal patterns and trends in water quality reveal a coastal continuum of disturbance legacies.  DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1753636/v1



Dataset Keywords

	FCE LTER
	Florida Coastal Everglades LTER
	Everglades National Park
	water quality
	water chemistry
	nutrients
	carbon


Dataset Contact

	Name:		Paul Julian
	Position:	Hydrologic Modeler
	Organization:	Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
	
	Address:
			Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
			PO Box 839
			Sanibel, FL 33957  United States
	
	Email:		pjulian@sccf.org