Water Quality Monitoring

This past week, Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve’s (ANERR) research team was able to complete the routine exchange of their long-term continuous water quality monitoring at seven sites across ANERR. These exchanges are key to maintain accurate data. Freshly calibrated equipment is put out while the instruments in the field are retrieved, leading to little or no gaps in the data. These instruments are then evaluated in the lab to ensure they are still reading accurately. These data, and water quality data from all the NERRs, can be found through the National Estuarine Research Reserve System Centralized Data Management Office.