Freshwater Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay

Principal Investigator: Clinton Hittle, Mark Zucker Project Personnel: Marc Stewart Proposals, Project Summaries and Work Plans Data Metadata Publications Talks Photos

For more information, please see the Tides and Inflows in the Mangrove Ecotone (TIME) Model Development Project Webpage.

Summary

The goal of this project is to calculate water discharge into Florida Bay.

As part of the South Florida Ecosystem Program, the U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with Everglades National Park, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the South Florida Water Management District, is conducting a study to measure flows into east Florida Bay. Information from this study will be used in conjunction with data from other studies to help determine the effects of changes in water deliveries to Everglades National Park on the Florida Bay ecosystem. Flow into Florida Bay is closely related to sediment transport, salinity, and chemical characteristics of the bay, which in turn, determine and interact with biological characteristics. Additionally, freshwater-inflow data will be used as input to hydrodynamic models of Florida Bay, for calibration of hydrologic models of the mainland, and for water-budget determinations for south Florida-all of which are essential elements for resource management and the ecosystem restoration.

Proposals

• 1998
• 1999
• 2001

Project Summaries

• 2001
• 2002
• 2003

Work Plans

• 2003
• 2004

Data

• Estuarine Creek Data (from the data exchange pages)
• Nutrients Data (from the data exchange pages)
• Current Water Level Conditions for Surface Water

Metadata

• Freshwater Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay
• McCormick Creek (data set metadata)
• Taylor River at Mouth (data set metadata)
• Trout Creek (data set metadata)
• Mud Creek (data set metadata)
• West Highway Creek (data set metadata)

Publications

Abstracts:

• Continuous Hydrologic Data in Florida Bay Channels (from the GEER Conference, April 2003)
• Determining Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay, Dade, and Monroe Counties, Florida
• Distribution of Flows in Northeastern Florida (from the Florida Bay Conference Proceedings, 1998)
• Estimating Freshwater Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay (from the South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 1999)
• Estimation of Freshwater Flow to Joe Bay, South Florida (from the 2002 Spring AGU Meeting)
• Estuarine Creek Responses to Extreme Hydrologic Events in Northeastern Florida Bay (from the GEER Conference, April 2003)
• Freshwater Flows into East Florida Bay (from the Florida Bay Conference Proceedings, 1995)
• Freshwater Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay (from the Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference, November 1999)
• Quantity, Timing, and Distribution of Freshwater Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay (from the GEER Conference, December 2000)
• Quantity, Timing, and Distribution of Freshwater Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay (2) (from the Florida Bay Science Conference, April 2001)
• Using Hydrologic Correlation as a Tool to Estimate Flow at Non-Instrumented Estuarine Creeks in Northeastern Florida Bay (from the GEER Conference, April 2003)

  Fact Sheets:

• Gauging Flows in Northeastern Florida Bay
• Freshwater Discharge to Florida Bay
• Magnitude and Distribution of Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay

  Map:

• Map of Data Collection Sites in Northeastern Florida Bay

  Open File Reports:

• Measuring Taylor Slough boundary and internal flows, Everglades National Park, Florida (OFR-01-225, available from the Water Resources of Florida website)

  Posters:

• Estimation of Freshwater Flow to Joe Bay, South Florida
• Using Hydrologic Correlation As A Tool To Estimate Flow At Non-Instrumented Estuarine Creeks In Northeastern Florida Bay (Presented at the 2003 Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) Conference)

  Water Resources Investigations Report:

• Freshwater flow from estuarine creeks into northeastern Florida Bay (WRI 01-4164, available from the Water Resources of Florida website)

Talks

From the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference:

• Quantity, Timing, and Distribution of Freshwater Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay (Note: this file is currently only available as MS Powerpoint (.ppt) file. In addition, this file is appox. 13 MB, and may take awhile to download.)

Photos

• Freshwater Flows into Northeastern Florida Bay Photo Gallery