The mission of the Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) Information Management System (IMS) is to facilitate the site's scientific work and to ensure the integrity of the information and databases resulting from the site's coastal Everglades ecosystem research. The FCE IMS provides a centralized network of information and data related to the coastal Everglades ecosystem and given the potentially important role that the FCE LTER program may play in Everglades Restoration, an important objective is to increase public and private awareness of our Everglades research activities. The FCE Information Management Group has established IMS level protocols and services for data collection, quality assurance, data organization, data archive, data access, and data distribution to facilitate our scientific work and provide research data to those participating in Everglades restoration work and the broader scientific community.