In order to do this effectively it is necessary to understand the natural daily, seasonal and yearly changes in background levels of all measured parameters in order to explain the cause of any changes and attribute them either to natural fluctuations or to disturbance from the development. To facilitate this, we are able to access long-term databases of limnology (freshwater ecology) and oceanographic (water temperature, currents, etc.) and meteorological data (wind, temperature, precipitation etc.) from the region.