The three contiguous National Estuary Programs of southwest Florida, along with partners from six coastal counties, have developed a tidal creek water quality assessment framework to help prioritize natural resource investigations across a large population of tidal creeks between Tampa Bay and Estero Bay, Florida. The assessment framework is based on outcomes of a multidisciplinary study and includes a nutrient based report card that characterizes nutrient conditions relative to regional numeric nutrient criteria developed for contributing freshwater streams, identification of site-specific water quality indicators of tidal creek condition, and an online open science dashboard to display the assessment framework and provide access to all information relevant to its implementation. Application of the assessment framework has provided an actionable list of southwest Florida tidal creeks prioritized for further research and potential management action along with a host of site-specific indicator results that provide insights into drivers of tidal creek condition. The open science dashboard provides a platform for dissemination of this information in a readily accessible and reproducible format and a means to incorporate new data and indicators as they become available. Local resource managers are in need of tools to help prioritize natural resource investigations and management actions that achieve the greatest resource benefit with limited available resources. This assessment framework informs these efforts and builds capacity for future research to identify and refine management tools for these creeks where management resources, data, and sentinel biological response endpoints are limited.

佛罗里达州西南部的三个相邻的国家河口计划与来自六个沿海县的合作伙伴一起制定了潮汐溪水质评估框架，以帮助优先考虑佛罗里达州坦帕湾和埃斯特罗湾之间大量潮汐小溪的自然资源调查。评估框架基于一项多学科研究的结果，包括一个基于营养的报告卡，该报告卡描述了相对于为贡献淡水流而开发的区域营养数字标准的营养状况，确定潮汐小溪状况的特定地点水质指标，以及在线开放科学仪表板以显示评估框架并提供对其实施相关的所有信息的访问。评估框架的应用提供了佛罗里达州西南部潮汐小溪的可操作列表，优先用于进一步研究和潜在的管理行动，以及一系列特定地点的指标结果，可深入了解潮汐小溪状况的驱动因素。开放科学仪表板提供了一个以易于访问和可复制的格式传播此信息的平台，并提供了一种在可用时合并新数据和指标的方法。当地资源管理人员需要工具来帮助确定自然资源调查和管理行动的优先顺序，以利用有限的可用资源实现最大的资源效益。