SEAKEYS Program

NOAA and the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) are supplying daily and historical enhanced Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) data via the Sustained Ecological Research Related to Management of the Florida Keys Seascape (SEAKEYS) program and this Web Page. These data are also supplied daily via e-mail to interested researchers.

The SEAKEYS program began in 1989 and has continued until the present. This program implements a framework for long-term monitoring and research along the 220 mile Florida coral reef tract and in Florida Bay at a geographical scale encompassing the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). This force behind the development of this program was the perceived marked regional decline in coral reefs and the critical need to provide data and options for resource management. The network consists of seven instrument-enhanced Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations, cooperatively managed with NOAA's National Data Buoy Center. These stations measure the usual C-MAN meteorological parameters, such as wind speed, gusts and barometric pressure, but are enhanced with oceanographic instruments measuring salinity, sea temperature, fluorometry and turbidity.

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