IRL Report Card 2022 Update
MRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
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MRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
Read moreMRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
Read moreMRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
Read moreMRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
Read moreMRC’s IRL Report Card assembles the most accurate data of Lagoon conditions to date. Find out what’s happening in the latest release.
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Read moreDr. Leesa Souto, Executive Director of the Marine Resources Council, Presents the Results of 2020’s Indian River Lagoon Health Update on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
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Read moreFrom the IRL Health Update: Indicators assess lagoon health and guide management like a medical doctor uses a patient’s vital signs to diagnose and treat human health issues.
Read moreFrom the IRL Health Update: Phosphorus (P) is a key nutrient for lagoon health that can be harmful in excess. Although the Clean Water Act requires phosphorus reductions, concentrations have significantly increased in many lagoon regions.
Read moreFrom the 2018 IRL Health Update: Chlorophyll-a measures the amount of algae in the water and lagoon health declines with increasing algae.
Read moreFrom the IRL Health Update: IRL health indicators have established Indian River Lagoon regulatory targets that include the following sources.
Read moreFrom the 2018 IRL Health Update: The most reliable data were used in the IRL Health Assessment. More than 3 million records were acquired, processed, and triaged prior to populating the database for mapping and analysis.
Read moreFrom the 2018 IRL Health Update: Offsets measure the difference between actual conditions and the healthy targets for each indicator.
Read moreFrom the 2018 IRL Health Update: The WQI use the four water quality indicators: chlorophyll-a, TN, TP, and turbidity. The WQI was calculated for each sublagoon area by converting annual offsets to a percentage scale, resulting in a final score ranging from 0% to 100%.
Read moreFrom the IRL Health Update: Total Nitrogen (TN) had site-specific targets that used medians and geometric means and the results are reported in offsets from the established target by year and twenty years for each sublagoon.
Read moreFrom the 2018 IRL Health Update: The story of the north lagoon is about decades of pollution discharged into regions of the lagoon that never circulate due to a lack of ocean access.
Read moreFrom the 2018 IRL Health Update: The South Lagoon is somewhat of a special case, where the watershed has been dramatically altered when the C-44 canal was constructed.
Read moreFrom the 2018 IRL Health Update: Continuing to assess and report lagoon health takes time and funding. Independent funding is needed to keep this report as an independent, unbiased and unmanipulted product. Help support this effort and add your name to the list below by donating now.
Read moreFrom the 2018 IRL Health Update: The first IRL Health Assessment provides a glimpse of how this complex system has changed over time and opens up a Pandora’s box of possibilities for future investigation.
Read moreFrom the IRL Health Update: The Habitat Quality Index was developed to normalize the offset percentages from the seagrass transect data to a 0–100 scale, identical to the Water Quality Index scale. Establishing a habitat index allows future indicators to be incorporated into the index using the same normalized approach.
Read moreFrom the IRL Health Update: MRC hired the Integration and Application Network at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES IAN) to facilitate the Science Assembly in January 2016.
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