The project has been ongoing since 1989 with a goal of providing long term monitoring along the Florida coral reef tract and in Florida Bay. This is a real-time network of eight offshore platforms, located off the Georgia coast. These Navy platforms cover 115km x 50km in depths of 25m to 45m. The network, coordinated by Skidaway Institute of Oceanography with a number of different partners, is set up to accommodate additional instrumentation. Approximately 29 sites currently collect data for this program, with eight stations providing near real-time information online.
Historical data is available online for all of the data collection sites.
Corson Research Physical Scientist Commander and Director U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station 3909 Halls Ferry Rd.