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<br><br>The Chemical Ecology Program includes a NELAC-approved water quality laboratory and conducts research and provides water quality monitoring services throughout Florida. (NELAC is a national accrediting body that certifies laboratory quality and standards. This certification validates all of the water quality laboratory's measurements.) <br><br> The Program conducts monthly water quality sampling for Sarasota County, participates in the national EcoHAB program and provides analytical support for many other programs at Mote. EcoHAB is the Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms Research Program — a multi-agency partnership between NOAA's Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR-lead), NOAA Office of Protected Resources, NOAA Sea Grant, the National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Office of Naval Research. <br><br> The Chemical Ecology Program also conducts studies on optical brighteners contained in laundry detergents, leading to the development of a new tool for examining seepage from septic tanks into local water bodies. The program has also been extensively involved in research to define the relationships between seagrass health and light-reducing factors such as chlorophyll, color, epiphytes and dissolved organic matter.
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<b>Main topics include:</b> <ul> </li>Optical Brightness </li>Seagrass </li>Red Tide </ul>
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Technical reports dealing with Chemical and Physical Ecology by L. Kellie Dixon.
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2003-04-07)This report documents the procedures and results of an examination of blooms of Karenia brevis in the Gulf of Mexico for relationships to rainfall and riverine flows as surrogates for nutrient loadings, to hurricanes as a ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2010-11-15)Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) data for Charlotte Harbor, Florida, has been the subject of a number of recent investigations to address seagrass-related water clarity targets for the Harbor. In this study, Mote ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2010-03-31)This report summarizes a research project which included a long term sampling of fish communities of four estuarine mangrove creeks along Charlotte Harbor, Florida's eastern shoreline. The research included comparisons ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1999-04-10)This report summarizes the results of the Charlotte Harbor seagrass light requirement project. The goal of the study was to determine the amount of light present at the deep edge of seagrass meadows; to determine the ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1998-07-30)
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1999-04-28)This report describes a project where the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) collected samples April 1998, January 1999 and March 1999. USEPA requested Mote Marine Laboratory (MML) perform determinations ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1999-09-29)This report summarizes a project with an objective to identify the historic and present-day regions within the Sarasota Bay watersheds which contribute toxic compounds to receiving waters. The evaluation technique initially ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1999-09-24)The primary objective of this project was to determine the effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on the population dynamics of two distinct algal assemblages in Sarasota Bay, Florida: a nearshore, nutrient enriched ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1996-09-25)The objectives of the study were to evaluate the spatial variability in deposition of trace metals and nutrients across the watershed of Tampa Bay, Florida. Seven sites were established in representative areas of the ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1998-02-03)This report describes a project in which the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Region IV, Science and Ecosystem Support Division, collected samples in the Military Canal area of Homestead, Florida, in ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1993-02-03)This report provides an evaluation of data collected on the light levels necessary to support seagrasses in Tampa Bay, Florida. This information was gathered in preparation of a field study that was to be conducted by ...
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Evaluation and research of impacts of mechanical weed harvesting in Lake Okeechobee. Final report. (Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1989-02-22)This report describes a research project that was conducted to assess the environmental impacts of mechanical harvesting of Hydrilla verticillata. The study site was on the northwestern shore of Lake Okeechobee where ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1989-02-17)This report describes a study that was undertaken to identify specific tributaries, Port activities or other sources contributing the majority of metal loading in Port Manatee, located in Tampa Bay, Florida. To evaluate ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 1988-08-03)The West Coast Inland Navigation District Waters (WCIND) extends from Manatee River south to Lemon Bay, in Florida. This body of water was granted the Outstanding Florida Waters (OFW) status by the Florida Department of ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2005-03-31)This report describes a project by Mote Marine Laboratory in which a study over multiple years was conducted in Charlotte Harbor and the associated rivers on a number of ecological fronts. Because of the dramatic responses ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2006-05-25)Mote Marine Laboratory performed analyses of grain size distributions, percent solids, moisture, and percent organics on sediment samples collected by the Division of Aquaculture between February of 2002 and October of ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2007-09-05)This report describes a study to identify the presence of optical brighteners in ambient surface waters using excitation-emission matrix fluorescence. Failing septic tanks or on site treatment and disposal systems with ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2008-06-18)This report describes a project which studied three blooming stages of red tide in order to discover the nutrient sources fueling the massive, persistent biomass accumulations and to determine where are they coming from ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2003-11-20)The Project reported here was designed to examine areas of seagrass change within Sarasota Bay in relation to the monitored water clarity and clarity components, depth distribution, nitrogen concentration as a surrogate ...
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(Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL., 2005-12-08)The survey was designed to quantify nutrient processes in surface waters of Charlotte Harbor resulting from wet season flows. The study is part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project (CERP)which will redistribute ...