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This data is provisional^*

Middle Tampa Bay

2024-04-16 15:30:00 EST

CO₂	493.61	ppm
pH_T	7.9867
Dissolved O₂	7.10	mg/L
PAR	1.875	µM/m^2/sec
Pressure	0.534	dBar
Salinity	36.78	PSU
Temperature	21.49	°C

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Middle Tampa Bay LOBO OCS Location

Configuration

Manufacturer	Instrument	Measurements
Sea-Bird Scientific	LOBO	Power distribution, Sensor control, Wireless communication, Data management
Sea-Bird Scientific	SeapHOx	Oxygen, pH, Pressure, Salinity, Temperature
Sea-Bird Scientific	ECO-PAR	PAR
Pro-Oceanus	CO2-Pro	CO₂

Archived Data

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CO2

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pHT

^* All data are preliminary or provisional and are subject to revision. The data have not received final approval by the USGS and are provided on the condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from the authorized or unauthorized use of the data.

Tampa Bay is located on the west-central coast of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico in a transition zone between warm-temperate and tropical biogeographic provinces. The bay receives freshwater run-off from a watershed that is approximately 2,200 square miles and supports seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, salt marshes and salt barrens. More than 3 million people live within the Tampa Bay watershed which is highly urbanized, supporting industrial, agricultural and suburban land uses.

Tampa Bay has successfully recovered from decades of severe eutrophication through community efforts to reduce nitrogen loads, improve water quality, and restore and protect thousands of acres of seagrass, mangrove forest and salt marsh. The Tampa Bay Estuary Program is partnering with researchers to assess the contribution of these habitats to sequestration of carbon dioxide as blue carbon, and the role of seagrass in protecting Tampa Bay's marine species from harmful effects of climate change and ocean acidification.

These research activities are being enhanced by the deployment of a Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory (LOBO), Ocean Carbon System (OCS) in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and in collaboration with the USF Center for Maritime and Port Studies and the Tampa Bay Physical Oceanographic Real Time System (http://tbports.org/) to provide real-time, high resolution water quality data through this interactive website.