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This video provides an overview
of the Coastwide Reference

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Monitoring System, CRMS website.
Other supplemental videos will

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provide more in-depth tutorials
of the features that we will

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touch on in this video. Funding
for the CRMS website comes from

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Coastal Wetlands Planning
Protection and Restoration Act,

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CWPRA, and more recently, the
Natural Resources Damage

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Assessment, NRDA, for the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

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This website is meant to be a
work in progress to be updated

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with new tools and functions as
they become available. Also,

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when data becomes publicly
available, it is incorporated

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into all website functions.

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You can access the mapping
viewer by selecting this map

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icon. The mapping viewer allows
you to visualize various data

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layers, most of which have
toggle menus with additional

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features. Here in this menu to
the left.

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It will automatically open with
this CRMS layer selected which

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shows the individual CRMS sites,
but you can add in other layers

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by checking the boxes and
interact with whichever layer is

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selected in these circles.

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At anytime you wish to return to
the home screen, click this icon

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in the top right corner.

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From the home screen, selecting
this data icon brings you to a

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page with tabs for charting,
data download and reporting.

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This is all going to be CRMS
data that's been manipulated to

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create user-friendly summaries.
If you wish to access the raw

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data, you can do that by
selecting the CIMS link.

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The charting and data download
tabs contain menus for hydro,

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vegetation, soil and spatial
information.

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The reporting tab allows you to
generate a report card with CRMS

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data aggregated by site,
project, basin, or the

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collective coast.

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Selecting the FAQ icon.

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Brings you to a helpful list of
frequently asked questions. The

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first two of which I find
particularly useful. This table

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shows you what parameters are
measured through CRMS and how

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they're measured, and the
frequency with which they're

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measured. The second one
explains the CRMS station naming

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convention and includes a link
for further information about

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that topic.

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Selecting the fact sheet icon
brings you to this.

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Fact sheet containing background
information about CRMS and how

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it can be used.

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On Page 3, there is a figure
showing how the stations are set

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up within each site, returning
to the home page at the top

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there is this program dropdown
menu. Under administration. You

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can find support documents
including the standard operating

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procedures manual.

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Also, under program
administration you can find

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publications. This is a list of
peer reviewed articles that use

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or reference CRMS data. It's not
an exhaustive list, but it is a

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good place to find references
for those working in coastal

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wetlands and it is updated
periodically.

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Lastly, under the programs menu,
we have contacts.

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This is where you can find the
e-mail link for any questions

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related to CRMS data or the
CRMS website.

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This e-mail address
crms@usgs.gov is monitored by

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the CRMS program team and can be
used for general or specific

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inquiries.

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