A case history of ambient status and trends monitoring is presented for the South Slough estuary (southern Oregon). Datasets collected over the past decade by the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve / System-Wide Monitoring program (SWMP) include real-time measurements (every 5 min) of several meteorological parameters (air temperature, relative...
Status (as of 2006):
The current weather station has been in operation at HMSC since 1996. The weather instrument sensors are mounted on and under the roof of the Guin Library. The sensors are made by Davis instruments, a leading manufacturer of home quality instruments.
Up to the minute current...
The program started around high use beaches to monitor fecal bacteria contamination because people including Surfers were getting sick. This was really a problem of poor planning and overdevelopment in coastal communities and was eventually addressed in the Clean Water Act. All states were mandated to monitor water quality particularly...
Marine Team is a student effort to examine spatial and temporal variation of fish species within Yaquina Bay. Marine Team was developed at OSU as a seminar course with a field sampling component, to help students of marine ecology get “hands on” experience with data collection and analysis. We set...
Scientists at EPA’s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division (WED) have been studying seafloor (benthic) habitats in Yaquina estuary for several years. Those studies were conducted as parts of several research projects, including: effects of contaminated sediments on benthic invertebrates, effects of nutrient enrichment on estuarine...
Researchers from the Pacific Coastal Ecology Branch, Environmental Protection Agency in Newport presented results of multi-year cruises as will other time-series data.