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Buoys for Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Assessment Doug Wilson NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office

Buoys for Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Assessment Doug Wilson NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office October 2003 TMAW Meeting. Buoys…. Cons Power Limitations Vulnerability Difficult Access for Maintenance Communications. Pros

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Buoys for Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Assessment Doug Wilson NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office

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  1. Buoys for Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Assessment Doug Wilson NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office October 2003 TMAW Meeting

  2. Buoys… Cons Power LimitationsVulnerability Difficult Access for Maintenance Communications Pros Offshore positioningUnattended OperationContinuous Data Leveraging Platforms

  3. What is in the Bay now… CBOS

  4. VIMS Real Time Telemetry Buoy

  5. ACT / CBL WQ Buoy

  6. NOAA NOS PORTS

  7. Planned NOAA NCBO, NDBC UMCES HPLInternational SeaKeepers Installations • Pumped Water SystemSensors / Computer on BuoyGOES TransmissionNDBC Data HandlingUnique Anti-FoulingWQ Sensors AvailableMeteorologyTemperature Salinity pH Dissolved Oxygen Redox levels (pollution) Ocean color (CDOM) Water clarity (turbidity) Phytoplankton (chlorophyll) levels

  8. UConn / EPA Surface / Bottom WQBuoys in Long Island Sound

  9. Buoys can SupportProfiling Instrument Systems NCBO Funding MD DNR in Chester R Great Lakes Water InstituteLake Michigan Buoy http://waterbase.glwi.uwm.edu/buoy.html

  10. A couple of other things… The Development of a Chesapeake Bay Regional Association of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System www.OCEAN.US.netnoaa.chesapeakebay.net/CBRAMeeting QARTOD-I The First Workshop on theQuality Assurance of Real-Time Ocean Datafor the current and next generations of Ocean Observing Systems. Hosted by the National Data Buoy Center, NOAA Stennis Space Center, MS, December 3 - December 5, 2003 (dates tentative).

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