{"id":189464,"date":"2025-05-07T09:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=189464"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:30:31","slug":"gtkgso-nbfsmn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/videos\/gtkgso-nbfsmn\/","title":{"rendered":"GTKGSO: Narragansett Bay Fixed Site Monitoring Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtu-be\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YmEddqG_umE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GTKGSO: Narragansett Bay Fixed Site Monitoring Network (NBFSMN)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YmEddqG_umE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:64px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With 14 monitoring stations spread across Narragansett Bay, the Fixed Site Monitoring Network keeps a constant eye on water quality, offering insight into long-term trends and whether management actions are making a difference. Maintained by a coalition of agencies and scientists, including GSO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/marine-ecosystems-research-laboratory\/\">Marine Ecosystems Research Lab<\/a> (MERL), the network gathers key environmental data every 15 minutes from May through November, with a few stations operating year-round. Each summer, GSO partners with RIDEM to monitor areas vulnerable to hypoxia\u2014dangerously low oxygen levels that can trigger fish kills\u2014and to support water quality assessments required under the Clean Water Act. Meet <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/heather-stoffel\/\">Heather<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/meet\/michael-mike-s-potter-ii\/\">Michael<\/a>, key members of GSO\u2019s MERL Lab who play a major role in keeping the Narragansett Bay Fixed Site Monitoring Network running smoothly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each summer, GSO partners with RIDEM to monitor areas vulnerable to hypoxia\u2014dangerously low oxygen levels that can trigger fish kills\u2014and to support water quality assessments required under the Clean Water Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":189502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2696],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189517,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189464\/revisions\/189517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}