CICOREReal-Time Water Quality Monitoring - South San Francisco Bay: Center for Integrative Coastal Observation, Research and Education - California State University, East Bay

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Map of Station Locations at Dumbarton and San Leandro

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Overview

The Center for Integrative Coastal Observing, Research, and Education (CICORE) team at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) monitors water quality in San Francisco Bay using two near-real-time, continuous recording stations. The stations are located at Dumbarton Pier and San Leandro Marina. Instruments at each station measure water temperature, salinity, tidal level, suspended sediment, dissolved oxygen, pH, and chlorophyll. Data are recorded every six minutes and transferred by cellular modem to a base-station computer and web server at CSUEB.

Data from the CICORE stations in San Francisco Bay are needed to recognize and address short-term environmental changes in the Bay as well as longer-term trends associated with wetlands restoration, sedimentation rates, and sediment toxicity.

The CICORE effort at CSU East Bay is an interdisciplinary collaboration involving students and faculty from several departments. Students participate in instrumentent maintenance, water and sediment analysis, data quality assessment, real-time data acquisition, software development, data model development, and website development.

Latest Data

Location Dumbarton San Leandro
Date & Time (UTC)*
Date & Time (Pacific)**
Temperature
Salinity
Chlorophyll
Turbidity
Oxygen
pH
Pressure
Latitude
Longitude
Status: August 2nd, 2007 - Stations cleaned and calibrated, San Leandro station back up.

* To convert UTC to PST (Pacific Standard Time), subtract 8 hours. To convert UTC to PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), subtract 9 hours.
** Time is currently translated automatically to Pacific Daylight Time.
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