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1. What is it?

The project is being developed as the outreach and education portion of the developing GCOOS Integrated Water Quality Network and is being structured to accommodate data and information acquired by volunteer monitoring networks throughout the Gulf of Mexico region.

GCOOS currently has a cross-regional water quality collaboration with Florida Aquarium, Nature’s Academy (FL) and the Galveston Bay Foundation (TX).


2. What can you find?

This is a tool to explore water quality data collected by citizens.

Home - this map contains all observation entries and detailed info.
Get data - Interactive filtering tool to allow users to select a certain data set based on Date and Site.

Each organization collects water data based on their priorities and objectives. Common parameters are Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, pH and Salinity

3. How to use?


The number shows the number of monitoring entries. When you click the number, it will zoom-in


Drag a red-colored marker and Drop on a land. Popup window will show Latitude/Longitude and geocoded address, and 1 week weather information.

More details: Check "Help"

4. How to join?

If you are interested in contributing data to this project, please contact us. We do not currently offer a data entry system here. Data are organized by each contributing institution.

    
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  •  Galveston Bay Foundation
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The project is being developed as the outreach and education portion of the developing GCOOS Integrated Water Quality Network and is being structured to accommodate data and information acquired by volunteer monitoring networks throughout the Gulf of Mexico region. GCOOS has a cross-regional water quality collaboration with Nature’s Academy and the Galveston Bay Foundation (Texas).

These will be the first two organizations participating in this pilot project, allowing students in Florida and Texas to see and compare each other’s data on water quality, biodiversity and coastal cleanup efforts.


The Galveston Bay Foundation offices; where we work to preserve, protect, and enhance the great Galveston Bay.

Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was established in 1987 under the laws of the State of Texas. The mission of the Foundation is to preserve, protect, and enhance the natural resources of the Galveston Bay estuarine system and its tributaries for present users and for posterity.

The strength of the Foundation is that it involves a true cross-section of bay interests to address issues and concerns related to Galveston Bay. Its programs in advocacy, conservation, education, and research strive to ensure that Galveston Bay remains a beautiful and productive place for generations to come.

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Nature’s Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental education company focusing on educational field trips in Florida. Their mission is to enhance science literacy and foster environmental stewardship through inquiry-driven education programs.

Nature's Academy staff are experienced in teaching environmental conservation across a variety of disciplines, including ecology, marine science, botany, chemistry and physics. Education programs focus on science conservation and cater to school, family and group organizations. Participants are immersed in a variety of exciting activities, such as snorkeling, kayaking, canoeing, guided nature walks and hands-on discovery at parks and science facilities throughout the state. Nature’s Academy gives back to the local community through initiatives, such as the Tools of Change Project, which reduces plastic use by replacing disposable bottled water with a reusable alternative.

Citizen Science data is collected by students participating in Nature's academy field trips as part of the educational programming and curricula. To learn more about Nature's Academy and the programs that involved data-collection, visit: http://www.naturesacademy.org/

All products published on this website are prototype products and are not intended to be used for navigational or operational purposes. With respect to information available from this website, neither GCOOS nor any of its members, employees or agents makes any warranty, expressed or implied, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product or process disclosed, or represents that its use does not infringe privately owned rights. The user of these data and products assumes the entire risk related to use of these date and this web site. In no event will GCOOS, its agents, employees or members be liable to a user or any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages, loss of life or lost profits resulting from any use, misuse or reliance on any of the data or information appearing on this website.

Note that no QA/QC has been done for Citizen Science Data.

This application was developed using Fbone, Flask template/bootstrap/boilerplate application. Inspired by BootLeaf.

Features
  • Lightweight map application with Leaflet
  • Fullscreen mobile-friendly map with responsive navbar and modal placeholders using Bootstrap
  • D3 loading of external GeoJSON/CSV files
  • Elegant client-side multi-layer feature search with autocomplete using typeahead.js
  • Responsive sidebar feature list synced with map bounds, which includes sorting and filtering via list.js
  • Interactive dashboard using Crossfilter and dc.js

Here are a few things you should know to get the most out of this page.
Just select a topic or scroll down to start

Basics Layers Search Chart


Basics

This clustering marker represents the number of observations. Click on the marke to zoom in.


Drag and drop this marker. It will geocode address based on latitude and longitude, and also show 7-day weather forecast at that point.


Four buttons: Panel, Tool, About and Help
Click to "Panel" to open/close left side panel.
"About" contains disclaimer, collaborators brief introduction, plugin used in this site



You can draw a line, rectangle, and circle. Also put a marker on a map.
To edit/delete drawn lines/polygons, use two button in the middle
Measurement function allows user to measure a distance from point to point (kilometers)
File icon allows users to upload a kml file (Points)

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Layers

You can select 7 different base maps. Default setting is ESRI World Imagery with labels.
There are several public layers for the Gulf of Mexico. Nautical chart will provide a detail of information when zoom in.
Turn on/off the points of Interest.

Observation points (Point layer) is listed on the left panel. Mouse over on a name, the point on a map will be highlighted.
When you click the name, it will zoom in the specific site
Currently listed on descending order by date (Latest date on top).

When zoom in, the list will be dynamically changed based on available points. If you want ot list a specific site, zoom in until only one marker is shown. The list on the left panel is historical observations for the point.

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Search

Click a magnifying glass icon and type an address you are looking for.


This offers an incremental search for "site" name. Type site name to quickly find and zoom in the site.

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Chart

When you click on a marker, information window will pop up. Then click "Site Summary" to see a chart
A chart has air temperature, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, Salinity and each organization's special parameter with a time range slider.

Mouse over on a point in a chart. It will show a detailed information.

You can change the time range of a chart.

To change a time range for specific period, use top left corners button:
1m = 1 month.
YTD = January 1st to the latest date.

Chart can be exported as image.

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Developed by Shin Kobara - GCOOS

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