Florida LAKEWATCH Expanding to the Coast? ! CITIZEN'SCIENCE'SINCE'1986' Founder of Florida LAKEWATCH Florida of Founder Dr. Daniel E. Canfield Jr. (1986) Jr. Canfield E. Daniel Dr. 214/63 LakeSantaFe ( ) ( ) ( ) ( 0215 Florida LAKEWATCH Started in 1986 and Interest Grew by Word-of-Mouth 1993 Chapter 1004.49 F. S. Eventually LAKEWATCH’s Structure Evolved Into: University Land Grant Mission: 1) Research 2) Teaching 3) Extension LAKEWATCH Major Hurdles Along the Way and into the Future: QA/QC and Funding 1) Convincing professionals from agencies and governmental officials that well trained volunteers can collect scientific grade data that can be used for research and regulation if needed (QA/QC). 2) Finding funding sources that understand the value of long-term data for management and that are willing to pay the price. Volunteer and Professional Data are Equivalent Recent Study Yielded Site Specific Approval from FDEP Alternative Site-Specific and Limited-Use Methods Approval for Florida LAKEWATCH FDEP Aquatic Ecology and Quality Assurance Section July 2013 The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Aquatic Ecology and Quality Assurance Section (AEQAS), at the request of the DEP Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration, has reviewed method validation information and approved site-specific methods for alternative sample preservation and maximum holding time for total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP) and chlorophyll a (CHLA) samples, and a limited-use alternative method for the laboratory preparation of chlorophyll samples, collected for Florida LAKEWATCH projects, as further explained below. Florida LAKEWATCH (LW) is a surface water monitoring program coordinated by the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at the University of Florida, and is located at 7922 NW 71st Street, Gainesville, FL, 32653. This document describes the criteria and references used to evaluate the methods, in support of an approval order for alternative methods as required in Rules 62-160.220(7)(a) and 62-160.330(6)(a), F.A.C. (DEP. 12/3/08). The bases for the approvals are described below, and meet the requirements for alternative method approvals in DEP SOP FA 1000, subparts FA 2210 – FA 2230 (DEP. 3/31/08) and New and Alternative Laboratory Methods, DEP-QA-001/01 (DEP. 2004). 1999-2000 Legislature Gave Florida LAKEWATCH $400,000 to Expand in Coast Okaloosa Escambia Holmes Jackson Santa Rosa Walton Washington Gadsden Nassau Madison Hamilton Calhoun Leon Jefferson Baker Bay Wakulla Suwannee Duval Taylor Liberty Columbia Clay Union St. Johns Franklin Gulf Lafayette Bradford Gilchrist Dixie Alachua Putnam Flagler Levy Marion Volusia Citrus Lake Sumter Seminole Hernando Orange Pasco Osceola Parameter Mean Minimum maximum Hillsborough Pinellas Brevard Polk Depth (m) 4.6 0.5 17.7 Indian River Manatee Hardee Okeechobee Highlands St. Lucie Salinity (ppt) 32.8 0.5 40.9 De Soto Sarasota Martin Charlotte Temperature (°C) 21.4 14.6 27.5 Glades Oxygen (mg/L) 6.9 4.4 22.7 Lee Hendry Palm Beach Broward Total Phosphorus (µg/L) 25 3 122 Collier Total Nitrogen (µg/L) 309 93 1337 Miami-Dade Chlorophyll (µg/L) 3.7 0.2 28.2 Monroe Secchi (m) 2.1 0.6 7.3 Color (Pt-Co) 8 0 92 New Legislators: Lost Coast Funding in 2000–2001 Budget Florida Currently maintaining 500 Lakes, 129 Coastal Sites,124 River Sites LAKEWATCH and 5 Springs Florida LAKEWATCH active sampling locations Florida LAKEWATCH active sampling locations ! ! ! ! !! ! # ## # !! !!!!! ### ########## !!!!! ! !! ## ####### !!!!!! # ! !! ! ##### ! ! ! #### ! ! ### ! ! # # !! ! ! ## !!! ## ! !!!!! ! !!!! !! !!!!!!! !! !! ± ± ! ! !! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! !! ! ! ! !! !!! !! ! ! !!!!! !!! ! ! !!!!!!! ! ! !!!!!!!!! ! !! !!!! ! ! !! !!! !!!!!! # Lake sampling sites (475) ! ! !! ! Estuary sampling sites (133) ! ! ! ! ! ! !!!! !!!!!! ! ! !!!!!!! ! ! !!!!!! !! ! !! ! !! !! ! !!! ! ! ! ! !!! !!! !! ! !! ! !!!! ! !!!!! ! ! !!! !! !!! ! # # ! ! ! # ! # !!!! # ! ! !!! ! ! ! 0 45 90 180 Miles 0 45 90 180 Miles # # ! ## Historically LAKEWATCH Sampled 144 Stations in the Keys Area County Lake County Lake Miami-Dade E Monroe Cudjoe-6 Miami-Dade Esplanade Monroe Cudjoe-7 Miami-Dade FIU Nature Preserve Monroe Cudjoe-8 Miami-Dade Highland Monroe Cudjoe-9 Miami-Dade Mitchell Monroe Desbiens Miami-Dade Oakland Monroe Northside Miami-Dade Whispering Pines Monroe Sugarloaf A-2 Monroe Cudjoe-10 Monroe Sugarloaf B-2 Monroe Cudjoe-11 Monroe Sugarloaf F-2 Monroe Cudjoe-12 Monroe Sugarloaf M-1 Monroe Cudjoe-13 Monroe Sugarloaf N-1 Monroe Cudjoe-2 Monroe Sugarloaf O-2 Monroe Cudjoe-3 Monroe Tarpon Basin-1 Monroe Cudjoe-4 Monroe Tarpon Basin-2 Monroe Cudjoe-5 Monroe Tarpon Basin-3 Segment Estuary s (a) Clearwater Harbor/St. Joseph Sound 3 (b) Tampa Bay 9 FDEP Nutrient Criteria: (c) Sarasota Bay 5 (d) Charloe Harbor/Estero Bay 16 (e) Tidal Cocohatchee River/Ten Thousand Islands 15 • 29 Estuaries (f) Florida Bay 6 (g) Florida Keys 7 • 188 Estuary Segments (h) Biscayne Bay 9 (1-17 Segments/Estuary) (i) Sarasota Bay 1 (j) Clam Bay (Collier County) 1 (k) Perdido Bay 4 (l) Pensacola Bay 7 (m) Choctawhatchee Bay 9 Coastal Nutrient Regions (n=74) (n) St. Andrew Bay 5 Alabama ESCAMBIA HOLMES SANTA ROSA Georgia JACKSON r OKALOOSA e iv WALTON R 74 NASSAU (o) St. Joseph Bay 1 WASHINGTON la o JEFFERSON ic GADSDEN 73 h c l HAMILTON a LEON MADISON 72 p 6 7 BAY A 4 5 8 9 CALHOUN BAKER DUVAL 71 2 3 10 Atlantic Ocean 1 11 SUWANNEE 12 LIBERTY COLUMBIA WAKULLA Su ST. JOHNS 13 wa 70 nn S (p) Apalachicola Bay and Alligator Harbor 6 e t. 14 TAYLOR e UNION J o ST. JOHNS BAY R CLAY h LAFAYETTE iv BRADFORD n GULF e 69 s 15 r FRANKLIN R iv 68 16 e r 67 17 GILCHRIST ALACHUA PUTNAM (q) Loxahatchee River Estuary 4 DIXIE 66 FLAGLER 65 Gulf of Mexico LEVY 64 MARION 63 Withlacoo VOLUSIA 62 ch (r) Lake Worth Lagoon 3 e e R 61 i v e CITRUS r 60 LAKE SEMINOLE SUMTER 59 BREVARD 58 HERNANDO (s) Halifax River Estuary and Tomoka River Estuary 4 ORANGE BREVARD 57 56 PASCO 18 55 OSCEOLA BREVARD 54 19 HILLSBOROUGH POLK 53 20PINELLAS 52 21 (t) Guana River/Tolomato River/Matanzas River (GTM) Estuary 4 INDIAN RIVER 51 22 MANATEE HARDEE 50 23 OKEECHOBEE ST. LUCIE HIGHLANDS 49 24 DESOTO 48 25 SARASOTA (u) Nassau River Estuary 4 MARTIN EPA Remote Sensing Coastal Criteria, May 2013 26 Lake 47 CHARLOTTE 27 GLADES Okeechobee Florida Adopted Coastal Criteria, October 2011 CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE 46 iver 28 e R osahatc he Florida Pending Coastal Criteria, May 2013 alo 45 29 C PALM BEACH 44 Florida County Boundaries 30 LEE HENDRY 31 43 32 33 34 42 (v) Suwannee, Waccasassa, and Withlacoochee River Estuaries 3 41 35 BROWARD COLLIER 40 39 38 (w) Springs Coast (Crystal River to Anclote River) 17 37 DADE MONROE (x) Big Bend and Apalachee Bay 15 MONROE (y) Intracoastal Waterway (ICWW) 11 (z) St. Lucie Estuary 6 (aa) Indian River Lagoon, Banana River Lagoon, and Mosquito Florida Coastal Segments May 13, 2013 Lagoon 13 ¨ 0 12.5 25 50 75 100 (bb) Lower St. Johns River and Tributaries (predominantly Miles This map was prepared by Devan R. Cobb with the Division of Enviroonmental Assessment and Restoration. marine) 1 For more information please contact [email protected] or [email protected] (cc) St. Marys River 3 LAKEWATCH Awards Distinguished Service Award (2014) - SFRC University of Florida Vision Award (2014) – National Water Quality Monitoring Council Volunteerism Award (2016) – Florida Lake Management Society.