established six enhanced Coastal Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) environmental monitoring stations. The SEAKEYS network encompasses the geographic scale of the Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas. The data is transmitted hourly via a Geo-stationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite (GOES) providing near real-time environmental baseline data for researchers, resource managers, and the public. These stations record hourly wind speed, wind direction, air temperature, barometric pressure, sea temperature, salinity, terrestrial solar irradiance, *sea-level, *transmissiometer, and *fluorometer (*at selected sites only).

These data are available on the web at the following sites or upon request:
- http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov
- http://www.coral.noaa.gov

A seventh monitoring station, a cooperative effort between FIO and the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science (USF/DMS), is located in Northwest Florida Bay at 25° 05' 00" N, 81° 05' 30" W (indicated on the map above by a red star). This platform contains a full suite of instrumentation and is a part of the SEAKEYS system as well as the southernmost link in the "West Florida Coastal Ocean Monitoring " initiative of USF/DMS. This station does not collect solar irradiance data, but does collect humidity and rainfall data.

These data are available on the web at the following site or upon request:
- http://comps1.marine.usf.edu/nfb/index.shtml or
- vembu@seas.marine.usf.edu