Posts for tag "buoy"
Using Buoys to Measure the AMOC: An Ocean Current with Global Climate Consequences
Nicholas Foukal stands on the bridge of a long, pale white boat overlooking the choppy Denmark Strait, the water a greenish-blue hue and dotted with towering icebergs. The deck and boat interior are loaded with research equipment–several...
- Posted January 26, 2026
Tracking Three Rivers: Real-Time Buoy Boosts Monitoring and Accountability
When glaciers last retreated across the continental US, over 10,000 years ago, meltwater filled river channels and eroded the landscape. This was how the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers–among many others–were formed; natural corridors for trade and...
- Posted January 12, 2026
Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District Deploys Five New Real-Time Data Buoys
Water resource management in the Muskingum River Watershed dates all the way back to 1913, when a record-breaking flood devastated the area. The event became known as the Great Flood of 1913, resulting in 650 residents dead...
- Posted December 10, 2025
Catching Waves: Comparing Buoys to Deliver Trusted Ocean Data at PacWave
The ocean could power the future. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that the potential for ocean energy easily exceeds present human energy requirements–but technology to harness it is still in its nascent phase. Growing...
- Posted December 3, 2025
Smart Buoys Advance Climate Monitoring in Swiss Lakes
Lakes are sentinels of climate change. Globally, they are warming at an unprecedented but uneven rate, and in many places they also face direct human pressure, including from agriculture and recreation. In the Alps, scientists generally agree...
- Posted November 12, 2025
Smaller Buoys Fill In The Gaps of Coastal Hurricane Monitoring Networks
As hurricane frequency and severity continue to increase, real-time monitoring along the coast has become more and more important to disaster mitigation and developing forecasting models. In response to this, coastal observation networks across the United States...
- Posted October 20, 2025
What’s Floating on Lake Geneva? How LéXPLORE is Revolutionizing Lake Science
Lake Geneva (or Lac Léman) was formed some 15,000 years ago by retreating glaciers and is shared between France and Switzerland. Fringed by vineyard terraces and overlooked by both the Jura Mountains and the Alps, the lake...
- Posted September 3, 2025
Measuring Harmful Algal Bloom Toxins Using Real-Time Data Buoys in the Great Lakes
While harmful algal blooms (HABs) are a significant issue in the Great Lakes that have been monitored using real-time data buoys, there is still no automated method for measuring the toxins produced by these blooms. Todd Miller,...
- Posted September 1, 2025
How NOAA’s CURBY Aided Recovery Efforts After the 2025 DCA Plane Crash
On the evening of January 29, 2025, a military helicopter and an American Airlines flight collided midair over the Potomac River on the final approach into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Virginia, five miles from...
- Posted August 27, 2025
Real-Time Monitoring in Rhode Island: Narragansett Bay Fixed Station Monitoring Network
Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island has a long history of water quality issues resulting from land pollution, leading to the influx of nutrients into the bay, which can cause algal blooms and declines in dissolved oxygen. The...
- Posted August 13, 2025
New Buoy Boosts White Lake’s Water Quality Monitoring and Conservation
White Lake in Western Michigan is a vestige of North America’s glacial past, and gets its name from an interpretation of the Indian, “Wabish-Sippe,” meaning the river with white clay. The twin towns of Whitehall and Montague,...
- Posted July 28, 2025
Wave-Powered Buoy Deployed in Puget Sound
While the development of solar-powered monitoring systems has improved access to real-time environmental data, solar power is still limited by low light conditions, such as poor weather, nighttime, or high-latitude environments. To supplement these incumbent power solutions...
- Posted June 23, 2025
Floating Global New Ideas: Buoy-Enabled Research at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University’s School of the Environment
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), based in Tallahassee, Florida, is the highest-rated public Historically Black College or University in the United States. FAMU’s School of the Environment (FAMU-SOE) offers BS and BA degrees in Environmental Studies,...
- Posted May 28, 2025
Three Decades of Research at Acton Lake
A multi-disciplinary team at Miami University, Ohio, has been studying the environmental change at Acton Lake for over three decades. Using three different NexSens buoys over this time, the team has an incredible archive of data that...
- Posted May 21, 2025
Great Lakes Research Center: Designing Targeted Monitoring Solutions
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Great Lakes have more miles of coastline than the contiguous Atlantic and Pacific coasts combined and contain 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, making it a critical...
- Posted March 17, 2025
From Pans to Buoys: Advancing Reservoir Evaporation Rate Monitoring in Texas
In warmer climates like Texas, high reservoir evaporation rates can lead to declines in water level and water availability during droughts, making monitoring essential in order to ensure water security during times of scarcity. According to the...
- Posted February 19, 2025
Green Water in Green Bay: Using Data Buoys to Monitor the Southern Bay
While the bay of Green Bay has been referred to as the largest freshwater “estuary” in the world, the watershed hosts intensive agriculture and contributes one-third of Lake Michigan’s total phosphorus load. The Fox River flows into...
- Posted November 11, 2024
Before and After Harmful Algal Blooms: Long-Term Monitoring and Modeling in Otsego Lake
Throughout the years, harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Laurentian Great Lakes have been meticulously documented and closely studied due to their annual appearance across the basin. While these blooms have become a recurrent issue in the...
- Posted August 28, 2023
Buoy Camera Research: Key for Regional Science Consortium
Lake Erie buoy camera data has turned out to be critical for researchers and the public alike. Camera images help give a more complete picture of waves.
- Posted March 28, 2022
Low Tech, Low Cost Buoys Coming to Maine’s Shellfish Farmers
Researchers from Maine’s Aquaculture Innovation Center are building a buoy designed to aid oyster and seaweed farmers along the U.S.’s northeastern coast.
- Posted July 22, 2020
