Water and Sediment Quality: Five Year Science Plan for the Tampa Bay Study

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Water and Sediment Quality, Locate and Quantify Groundwater, Map and Quantify Sediment Contaminants and Resuspension, Characterize and Model Surface Water Quality and Circulation , Partners, Collaborators, and Their Contributions

Five Year Science Plan for the Tampa Bay Study
Project Leader: Kimberly Yates - April 15, 2003

Task 2: Water and Sediment Quality - Locate and Quantify Groundwater

2a. Identify submarine freshwater masses underlying the seafloor of Tampa Bay utilizing resistivity mapping. Critical Science Gap IIIA.

2b. Characterize unique subsurface water masses and their exchange rate with overlying bay water through analysis of a suite of nutrients, conservative constituents (Cl-) and select isotopes (Sr and O). Critical Science Gaps IIA, IIC, IID, and IIIA.

2c. Quantify sources of freshwater to Tampa Bay using a suite of geochemical tracers (eg.,223,224Ra,CH4). The tracers will be used to provide insight into circulation patterns and residence time for selected sites within the bay. This information will be incorporation into a predictive model of sediment/water interface processes and fluxes into the overlying water column. Critical Science Gaps IIIA and IIIB.