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NERRS Centralized Data Management Office (CDMO)

NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve System's data office serving System-Wide Monitoring Program (SWMP) water quality (15-min), nutrient/chlorophyll and meteorological data from 28 estuarine reserves (1994-present).

cdmo.baruch.sc.edu

At a glance

Region
United States (North America)
Coverage
National (US estuaries)
Access
Free
Category
Government
Last updated
2026

What's inside

  • Water Quality
  • Estuaries
  • Nutrients
  • Chlorophyll
  • Dissolved Oxygen

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Hotspots and trends

    Find where contamination is high and whether it is getting worse.

    Because it has: Water Quality

  2. 02

    Compliance checks

    Compare samples against drinking water and discharge standards.

  3. 03

    Sea-level planning

    Plan for sea-level rise and storm surge.

    Because it has: Estuaries

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Risk maps

    Predict contamination where no samples exist, from geology, land use and climate.

  2. 02

    Anomaly alerts

    Catch sudden spikes in sensor or lab data automatically.

  3. 03

    Surge forecasts

    Forecast surge and coastal water levels quickly.

Machine access and documentation

Open API

SOAP/REST SWMP web services (registration) + graphing/export tool

Licence: Open data

Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.

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