{"id":601,"date":"2012-03-06T11:54:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/?p=601"},"modified":"2012-03-06T11:54:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T16:54:14","slug":"coral-list-seakeys-network-shuts-down-long-term-monitoring-of-florida-keys-coral-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/2012\/03\/06\/coral-list-seakeys-network-shuts-down-long-term-monitoring-of-florida-keys-coral-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral-list: Seakeys Network shuts down long term monitoring of Florida Keys coral reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This sad bit of news comes from a recent SECOORA (Southeast Coastal Ocean
\nObserving Regional Association) bulletin. \u00a0The station referred to that
\nAOML will maintain is located on the Molasses Reef lighthouse.<\/p>\n

*SEAKEYS Assets Removed from Water<\/p>\n

The SEAKEYS network has been operational for over 20 years and provides a
\nlong time series of observations in the Florida Keys. The program provides
\na framework for long-term monitoring and research along the 220 mile
\nFlorida coral reef tract and in Florida Bay at a geographical scale
\nencompassing the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS).
\nCompounding the problem of limited funding, the instruments are primarily
\non a series of stationary platforms (lighthouses, towers), the structural
\nintegrity of which has now becoming questionable due to age. The US Coast
\nGuard do not have plans to repair the lighthouses but intend to sell. It is
\nanticipated that non-profit entities will purchase these for their
\nhistorical value.<\/p>\n

To address the future of SEAKEYS and its infrastructure and funding, the
\nFlorida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) held a meeting at the Keys Marine
\nLab in November 2011. The user community was invited and included
\nrepresentatives from many areas of NOAA (Florida Keys National Marine
\nSanctuary; National Weather Service; Atlantic Oceanographic and
\nMeteorological Laboratory; Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory),
\nthe National Park Service, the Ocean Reef and Gun Club, and FIO. The
\nNOAA\/National Data Buoy Center, Coast Guard, FL Fish and Wildlife Research
\nInstitute, and representatives from Audubon, the dive and fishing
\ncommunities, and staff from a local legislative office were unable to
\nattend, but some sent letters of support. Following the meeting other
\nfunding sources were sought but were not successfully identified.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2011, due to a lack of financial support, FIO made the
\ndifficult decision to terminate the SEAKEYS program, and are withdrawing
\nall FIO assets from the water. NOAA\/AOML, with assistance from NOAA\/FKNMS,
\nhas agreed to take over maintenance of one station (FIO is loaning an
\ninstrument to NOAA\/AOML for this purpose); NOAA\/GLERL are investigating the
\npossibility of maintaining a second station; and a limited subset of
\nmeteorological sensors will be visited every two years by NOAA\/NDBC, with
\nno maintenance support between visits.
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Jim Hendee 11:43 AM (6 minutes ago) to Coral-List This sad bit of news comes from a recent SECOORA (Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association) bulletin. \u00a0The station referred to that AOML will maintain is located on the Molasses Reef lighthouse. *SEAKEYS Assets Removed from Water The SEAKEYS network has been operational for over 20 … Continue reading Coral-list: Seakeys Network shuts down long term monitoring of Florida Keys coral reefs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}