Posts for tag "Lakes & Reservoirs"
From Panama to Patagonia: Advancing Water Monitoring Across Latin America with Base Flow
Across Latin America, access to reliable environmental data is becoming increasingly important for managing water resources, supporting energy production, and protecting ecosystems. From hydropower reservoirs facing climate-related variability to rapidly developing coastal areas, getting continuous, high-quality measurements...
- Posted November 19, 2025
Monitoring Nutrients and Water Quality in Ohio Wetlands
The ecological importance of wetlands cannot be overstated, serving as unique habitats for a variety of species and playing a critical role in nutrient cycling. Yet, many of these environments have deteriorated over the years due to...
- Posted October 27, 2025
Texas’s Gulf Coast Demands More Research: USGS Scientists are Answering the Call
Along the thousands of miles of ocean coastline cradling the American South lies the popular beach town of Galveston, Texas. While tourists flock to the sandy shorelines and historic piers, another world exists right alongside them–one full...
- Posted August 25, 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
Partners for Clean Streams: Monitoring Water Quality in Northwest Ohio and Fostering Community Engagement
Growing up around a highly frequented yet often-polluted state lake in his hometown, Jesse Stock learned early on that the protection of freshwater resources and stewardship of the natural world build stronger, more connected communities united by...
- Posted July 16, 2025
Pushing Lake Science Upstream: Agriculture and Algal Blooms at Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the shallowest, most productive, and most southern of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Each summer, it suffers an algal bloom so large it can be seen from space. Since the 1960s, excess phosphorus—about 85% from...
- Posted July 14, 2025
From Paddles to Phytoplankton: Studying Vermont’s Wildest Lakes
For six months of the year, Rachel Cray, a third-year PhD student at the Vermont Limnology Laboratory at the University of Vermont, lives between a microscope and her laptop, running data. For the other six months, she...
- Posted July 7, 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
Long-Term Monitoring in the Chautauqua Lake Watershed
With a widely developed shoreline, Chautauqua Lake experiences influxes of non-point source pollution that have historically impacted the health of the lake. The Chautauqua Lake Association (CLA) has been monitoring the lake for over two decades, reporting...
- Posted June 18, 2025
Source Water Monitoring in Albany, New York: Tracing Water Quality throughout Tributaries
Thousands of US cities pull their drinking water from natural source waters like reservoirs, rivers, and streams, making overall watershed health a key consideration for water providers. In Albany, New York, the Albany Department of Water and...
- Posted May 19, 2025
Wave Sensors Integration with NexSens Buoys: A Cutting-Edge Solution for Wave Measurement
Real-time wave data supports accurate weather prediction, safe and efficient maritime operations, and provides valuable safety and operating condition information for recreation and commercial fishing. Understanding wave dynamics also helps with the design of protective coastal structures...
- Posted May 12, 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
Poás Volcano Gives a Glimpse of Life on Mars
Poás Volcano is similar to Mars in its chemical reactions and its harsh environment. Researchers are studying Poás to see what Martian life might be like.
- Posted April 4, 2022
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
Inside the Struggle to Designate Lake Erie’s Water Impaired
Debates over designation of Lake Erie’s open waters as impaired have finally resulted in a designation from Ohio, but will this mean no more algal blooms?
- Posted May 24, 2018
Mapping Trends in Open Surface Water Bodies in the US
Mapped trends in open surface water bodies in the contiguous US show that with climate change, dry regions will get drier, wet regions will get wetter.
- Posted May 16, 2018
Laboratory Focuses on Bloomington Lake
Illinois State University’s Laboratory of Environmental Analysis provides testing for agencies studying Bloomington and Evergreen Lakes
- Posted May 15, 2018
Tweeting Ospreys: The Bay of Quinte Remedial Action Plan at Work
A remedial action plan for the Bay of Quinte has citizen scientists Tweeting data about the location of osprey nests to protect the species and ecosystem.
- Posted April 25, 2018
Close Study of Lake Toxins With New Techniques Reveals Good News
A closer look at cyanotoxins in a North Carolina lake reveals safe levels for users, and a baseline for researchers moving forward.
- Posted April 9, 2018
Smart Lake, Healthy Ecosystem: The Jefferson Project at Lake George
The Jefferson Project at Lake George is now 95% complete, and has already yielded fascinating results; this smart lake is a model for other lake systems.
- Posted April 3, 2018
