Posts for tag "real-time monitoring"
NexSens XB-200 Data Buoy Review
Open water monitoring projects can pose many challenges, and NexSens Technology has the solution with the new XB-200 Data Buoy. Easy Deployment Data buoy deployments often require large, expensive vessels with lifting gear. At under 30 inches...
- Posted January 19, 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
Improving Flood Monitoring and Prediction in Eastern Kentucky through Real-Time Data
When it comes to flood prediction and disaster mitigation, real-time data is a necessity. The University of Louisville (UofL) is working to set up real-time flood monitoring systems in waterways throughout Eastern Kentucky in hopes of improving...
- Posted November 24, 2025
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
Connecting with Nature in Real-Time at the Abernathy Field Station
Just five miles away from Washington and Jefferson (W&J) College is the 57-acre Abernathy Field Station. Generously donated by the Abernathy family in 2017, the field station has served as an outdoor lab to hundreds of undergraduate...
- Posted November 10, 2025
New Tide Gauges Bring Real-Time Ocean Data to Timor-Leste’s Shores
Timor-Leste is a growing country in Southeast Asia that occupies the eastern half of the island of Timor. Since its emergence in 2002 as the first new sovereign state of the 21st century, it has made “significant...
- Posted October 6, 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
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
From Hurricanes to Florida’s Red Tides: Monitoring the Southwest Gulf Coast
Nearly every year, southwest Florida is blighted by harmful Karenia brevis blooms–known colloquially as Florida red tides. These harmful algal blooms (HABs) form over the West Florida shelf and are pushed shorewards by winds and currents. Once...
- Posted June 25, 2025
Data-Driven Advocacy on the Lower Deschutes River
Like many freshwater environments, the Deschutes River in Oregon is under pressure from development, pollution, and climate change. Many rivers, streams and lakes in the Deschutes Basin do not meet Oregon water quality standards–where state water quality...
- Posted April 28, 2025
Expanding the Port Everglades: Real-Time Monitoring of Water Quality Conditions from Planned Dredging Operation
The Port Everglades in Broward County, Florida, serves large trade vessels and cruiseliners and incoming and outgoing recreational boaters. However, as cargo ships become larger, the port must expand. A dredging project led by the US Army...
- Posted April 21, 2025
Safeguarding Communities with Real-Time Flood Monitoring in the City of Hazelwood
The City of Hazelwood is a suburb in St. Louis County, Missouri, home to around 25,500 people. Recently, the community has suffered increased flash flooding following severe storms, prompting the need for the installation of a flood...
- Posted April 7, 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
Monitoring Meadowbrook Creek: Real-Time Data Collection in an Urban Creek
Meadowbrook Creek in Syracuse, New York, has been monitored by Syracuse University (SU) faculty and students for over a decade. Originally established by Dr. Laura Lautz in 2012, the early years of the program focused on collecting...
- Posted March 10, 2025
Lancaster County Makes the Switch to Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Systems
Continuous data collection in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, started about 5 years ago, and the county will be making a major upgrade over the next year—switching from relying solely on the internal storage of water quality sondes to...
- Posted March 3, 2025
NexSens X3 Data Logger Review
Extreme environments meet extreme design with the NexSens X3 Data Logger. The new logger offers the latest in real-time monitoring technology with wireless communication, a large plug-and-play sensor library and ultra-low power consumption, all in a waterproof...
- Posted January 13, 2025
Monitoring OAE Efforts in Halifax: Fighting Climate Change with Emerging mCDR Strategies
Marine carbon dioxide (CO2) removal (mCDR) is an emerging strategy that aims to fight climate change by taking advantage of the carbon capture potential of our oceans. There are multiple types of mCDR approaches being evaluated globally,...
- Posted December 23, 2024
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Manages Monitoring Efforts in Morro Bay
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly, SLO), has been monitoring Morro Bay for decades, and while the monitoring program has changed over the years, the dedication to monitoring the bay has remained the same....
- Posted November 18, 2024
Cross-Border Sewage Contaminated Flows: Monitoring the Tijuana River
The Tijuana River runs across the US-Mexico boundary, flowing into and throughout southern California, carrying with it nutrients and contaminants throughout the estuary. In recent decades, the flows have been heavily polluted with untreated sewage from the...
- Posted November 4, 2024
