Florida Water Watch is a consortium of citizen volunteer, coastal water quality monitoring programs independently managed by local University of Florida IFAS Extension Florida Sea Grant programs. The Florida Water Watch program is designed to meet the coastal water monitoring needs of individual communities while maintaining statewide identity and integrity. Each local Water Watch program selectively monitors the specific chemical and physical water quality parameters to meet the needs and objectives of the local program.
Program name
Florida Sea Grant
Location
Statewide
State
Florida
Purpose
Individuals are trained to take monthly water samples, analyze the samples, and input their readings in an online database. Not only can they see the results in real-time, but the data is given to local resource managers to fill a gap where county or stat
Project Topics
Water Quality/Biotoxins/Ocean Acidification
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