Posts for tag "buoy"
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
Pennsylvania’s Lacawac Sanctuary Offers Rare Pristine Glacial Lake to Researchers
Lacawac Sanctuary boasts an unspoiled glacial lake, wetlands, ponds, second-growth forests and a focus on limnology.
- Posted January 31, 2019
Lake Superior Weather Buoy Provides Valuable New Data
Superior Watershed Partnership deployed a new buoy in a remote area near Stannard Rock to provide Lake Superior weather data to locals and researchers.
- Posted October 20, 2017
Algae Bloom Spawns New Water Monitoring Program In Utah Lake
Enhanced water quality monitoring in Utah Lake shows three types of cyanobacteria algae blooms inhabiting the lake simultaneously.
- Posted September 22, 2017
Data Buoys Study Turbid Water Environments In Lake Erie Basin
Scientists from Bowling Green State University use data buoys to study the Sandusky Bay to learn more about Lake Erie Planktothrix blooms and water quality.
- Posted August 25, 2017
Data Buoys Infographic
We put together this infographic on data buoys for our Spring 2017 edition of the Environmental Monitor (PDF available online). Organizations across the globe use data buoy systems to observe and monitor atmospheric and oceanographic conditions in...
- Posted March 14, 2017
Cellular Data Buoy Supports Lake Erie Algae Research, Public Outreach
Researchers at Ohio State University’s Stone Lab gather algae measurements using a cellular data buoy with the goal of one day predicting bloom toxicity.
- Posted November 17, 2016
ESPniagara Tracks Algal Toxins In Lake Erie, Protects Drinking Water
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has completed the first long-term deployment of ESPniagara, a robot measuring microcystin in real time.
- Posted October 20, 2016
Milwaukee: Water Quality Monitoring Buoy Informs Bacteria Forecasts
A new water quality monitoring buoy deployed near Milwaukee’s Bradford Beach is helping to forecast bacteria levels for beach managers.
- Posted October 18, 2016
Lake Data Buoy Tackles Understudied Champlain
A lake data buoy recently launched on Lake Champlain by State University of New York scientists is aiding research, education and weather forecasting.
- Posted October 6, 2016
York River Buoy Launches, Adds To Networks Near And Far
A new York River buoy will add understanding to an understudied, high-traffic section of Chesapeake Bay while aiding local and national monitoring networks.
- Posted August 12, 2016
New York Bight Buoy Tracks Threatened Baleen Whales
Buoy-attached tech developed at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is helping to spot threatened baleen whales in the New York Bight.
- Posted July 27, 2016
