Biscayne National Park

As part of our 50th anniversary commemoration, Biscayne National Park and the US Citizenship Immigration Bureau conducted two naturalization ceremonies. Join us and bless 40 new citizens and invite them to where we are now. The ceremony will be held at the auditorium of the Dante Fascell visitor center at 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM on Thursday, October 18. Generally free

Biscayne National Park is an American national park located south of Miami, southern Florida. This park keeps Biscayne Bay and its offshore reefs. 95% of the park is water and the banks of the bay are places with vast mangroves. In the park area of ​​172,971 acres (69,999 hectares), there is Elliot Key, the largest island, and the real Florida Keys consisting of fossil coral reefs. The island on the north side of the park is a provisional island of coral and sand. Offshore of the park has the northernmost tip of Florida Reef, one of the world's largest coral reefs.

Coral reefs on the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Florida and Biscayne National Park, the other ocean area, are located approximately 32 km (32 miles) south of Miami. In 1968, it was approved as Biscayne National Monument (to change the border in 1974) and became a national park in 1980. This park protects coral reefs and their ecosystems that live in the northernmost part of America. It has a surface area of ​​270 square miles (699 square kilometers), 95% of which is water. This park is between the North End of Florida Keys, North Key Biscayne and the South Key Largo. It forms a coastline covered with mangrove, from the west to the east, a shallow biscayne bay, approximately 33 keys (or islands), a north-south chain separating the bay from the Atlantic Ocean, and Atlantic underwater coral reefs.

Biscayne National Park is the largest marine park in the national park system. Four different ecosystems are found in the park, including Biscayne Bay, the islands in the northern Florida Keys, mangroves, and coral reefs along the coastline of the park. All of these ecosystems have experienced some degree of productivity decline in recent processes. The two factors are (1) an increase in land runoff (astigmatism) in Biscayne National Park including high concentrations of nutrients, organic matter and microorganisms, (2) flood control projects by Bis and Everglades. Significant decrease in groundwater runoff from the freshwater bottom of the Khan National Park coastline

Scientific support strategy of US Geological Survey in Biscayne National Park and its surrounding area in the southeastern Florida