Florida LAKEWATCH Expanding to the Coast? CITIZEN'SCIENCE'SINCE'1986'

Florida LAKEWATCH Expanding to the Coast? CITIZEN'SCIENCE'SINCE'1986'

Founder of Florida LAKEWATCH Dr. Daniel E. Canfield Jr. (1986) Lake Santa Fe 214 / 63 ( ) ( ) ( ) ( 0215

Florida LAKEWATCH Started in 1986 and Interest Grew by Word-of-Mouth 1993 Chapter 1004.49 F. S.

Eventually LAKEWATCH s Structure Evolved Into: University Land Grant Mission: 1) Research 2) Teaching 3) Extension

LAKEWATCH Major Hurdles Along the Way and into the Future: QA/QC and Funding 1) Convincing professionals from agencies and governmental officials that well trained volunteers can collect scientific grade data that can be used for research and regulation if needed (QA/QC). 2) Finding funding sources that understand the value of long-term data for management and that are willing to pay the price.

Volunteer and Professional Data are Equivalent

Recent Study Yielded Site Specific Approval from FDEP Alternative Site- Specific and Limited- Use Methods Approval for Florida LAKEWATCH FDEP Aquatic Ecology and Quality Assurance Section July 2013 The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Aquatic Ecology and Quality Assurance Section (AEQAS), at the request of the DEP Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration, has reviewed method validation information and approved site- specific methods for alternative sample preservation and maximum holding time for total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP) and chlorophyll a (CHLA) samples, and a limited- use alternative method for the laboratory preparation of chlorophyll samples, collected for Florida LAKEWATCH projects, as further explained below. Florida LAKEWATCH (LW) is a surface water monitoring program coordinated by the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at the University of Florida, and is located at 7922 NW 71st Street, Gainesville, FL, 32653. This document describes the criteria and references used to evaluate the methods, in support of an approval order for alternative methods as required in Rules 62-160.220(7)(a) and 62-160.330(6)(a), F.A.C. (DEP. 12/3/08). The bases for the approvals are described below, and meet the requirements for alternative method approvals in DEP SOP FA 1000, subparts FA 2210 FA 2230 (DEP. 3/31/08) and New and Alternative Laboratory Methods, DEP- QA- 001/01 (DEP. 2004).

1999-2000 Legislature Gave Florida LAKEWATCH $400,000 to Expand in Coast Escambia Okaloosa Holmes Jackson Santa Rosa Walton Washington Gadsden Nassau Madison Hamilton Calhoun Leon Jefferson Baker Bay Wakulla Suwannee Duval Liberty Taylor Columbia Clay Union St. Johns Gulf Franklin Lafayette Bradford Dixie Gilchrist Alachua Putnam Levy Marion Flagler Volusia Citrus Lake Parameter Mean Minimum maximum Depth (m) 4.6 0.5 17.7 Salinity (ppt) 32.8 0.5 40.9 Temperature ( C) 21.4 14.6 27.5 Oxygen (mg/l) 6.9 4.4 22.7 Total Phosphorus (µg/l) 25 3 122 Total Nitrogen (µg/l) 309 93 1337 Chlorophyll (µg/l) 3.7 0.2 28.2 Secchi (m) 2.1 0.6 7.3 Color (Pt-Co) 8 0 92 Sumter Seminole Hernando Orange Pasco Osceola Hillsborough Pinellas Brevard Polk Indian River Manatee Hardee Okeechobee Highlands St. Lucie De Soto Sarasota Martin Charlotte Glades Lee Hendry Palm Beach Broward Collier Miami-Dade Monroe New Legislators: Lost Coast Funding in 2000 2001 Budget

Florida LAKEWATCH Currently maintaining 500 Lakes, 129 Coastal Sites,124 River Sites and 5 Springs Florida LAKEWATCH active sampling locations Florida LAKEWATCH active sampling locations Lake sampling sites (475) ± # ## # ### ## ### # # # ### # # # Estuary sampling sites (133) ### # ± # # 0 45 90 180 Miles 0 45 90 180 Miles # # # ##

Historically LAKEWATCH Sampled 144 Stations in the Keys Area County Lake County Lake Miami- Dade E Monroe Cudjoe- 6 Miami- Dade Esplanade Monroe Cudjoe- 7 Miami- Dade FIU Nature Preserve Monroe Cudjoe- 8 Miami- Dade Highland Monroe Cudjoe- 9 Miami- Dade Mitchell Monroe Desbiens Miami- Dade Oakland Monroe Northside Miami- Dade Whispering Pines Monroe Sugarloaf A- 2 Monroe Cudjoe- 10 Monroe Sugarloaf B- 2 Monroe Cudjoe- 11 Monroe Sugarloaf F- 2 Monroe Cudjoe- 12 Monroe Sugarloaf M- 1 Monroe Cudjoe- 13 Monroe Sugarloaf N- 1 Monroe Cudjoe- 2 Monroe Sugarloaf O- 2 Monroe Cudjoe- 3 Monroe Tarpon Basin- 1 Monroe Cudjoe- 4 Monroe Tarpon Basin- 2 Monroe Cudjoe- 5 Monroe Tarpon Basin- 3

ESCAMBIA SANTA ROSA OKALOOSA WALTON HOLMES WASHINGTON BAY Alabama BAY JACKSON CALHOUN GULF Gulf of Mexico LIBERTY FRANKLIN GADSDEN WAKULLA Georgia LEON JEFFERSON TAYLOR MADISON LAFAYETTE DIXIE HAMILTON SUWANNEE GILCHRIST COLUMBIA LEVY PINELLAS UNION ALACHUA CITRUS PASCO BAKER HERNANDO BRADFORD MANATEE MARION SUMTER HILLSBOROUGH SARASOTA CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE NASSAU CLAY DUVAL PUTNAM LAKE POLK HARDEE DESOTO CHARLOTTE LEE ST. JOHNS ST. JOHNS FLAGLER VOLUSIA SEMINOLE ORANGE HIGHLANDS GLADES COLLIER OSCEOLA HENDRY Lake Okeechobee MONROE Atlantic Ocean BREVARD BREVARD BREVARD OKEECHOBEE INDIAN RIVER ST. LUCIE DADE MARTIN PALM BEACH BROWARD MONROE Segment Estuary s (a) Clearwater Harbor/St. Joseph Sound 3 (b) Tampa Bay 9 (c) Sarasota Bay 5 (d) CharloZe Harbor/Estero Bay 16 (e) Tidal Cocohatchee River/Ten Thousand Islands 15 (f) Florida Bay 6 (g) Florida Keys 7 (h) Biscayne Bay 9 (i) Sarasota Bay 1 (j) Clam Bay (Collier County) 1 (k) Perdido Bay 4 (l) Pensacola Bay 7 (m) Choctawhatchee Bay 9 (n) St. Andrew Bay 5 (o) St. Joseph Bay 1 (p) Apalachicola Bay and Alligator Harbor 6 (q) Loxahatchee River Estuary 4 (r) Lake Worth Lagoon 3 (s) Halifax River Estuary and Tomoka River Estuary 4 (t) Guana River/Tolomato River/Matanzas River (GTM) Estuary 4 (u) Nassau River Estuary 4 (v) Suwannee, Waccasassa, and Withlacoochee River Estuaries 3 (w) Springs Coast (Crystal River to Anclote River) 17 (x) Big Bend and Apalachee Bay 15 (y) Intracoastal Waterway (ICWW) 11 (z) St. Lucie Estuary 6 (aa) Indian River Lagoon, Banana River Lagoon, and Mosquito Lagoon 13 (bb) Lower St. Johns River and Tributaries (predominantly marine) 1 (cc) St. Marys River 3 FDEP Nutrient Criteria: 29 Estuaries 188 Estuary Segments (1-17 Segments/Estuary) Coastal Nutrient Regions (n=74) 1 2 5 6 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Apalchicola River EPA Remote Sensing Coastal Criteria, May 2013 Florida Adopted Coastal Criteria, October 2011 Florida Pending Coastal Criteria, May 2013 Florida County Boundaries Suwannee River 18 19 20 21 22 23 Withlacoochee Ri v er Florida Coastal Segments May 13, 2013 0 12.5 25 50 75 100 Miles This map was prepared by Devan R. Cobb with the Division of Enviroonmental Assessment and Restoration. For more information please contact devan.r.cobb@dep.state.fl.us or kenneth.weaver@dep.state.fl.us 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 St. John s R iver 71 70 69 Caloosah atc hee River 33 34 35 74 73 72 68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 42 41 40 39 38 37 45 44 43

LAKEWATCH Awards Distinguished Service Award (2014) - SFRC University of Florida Vision Award (2014) National Water Quality Monitoring Council Volunteerism Award (2016) Florida Lake Management Society