Posts for tag "temperature"
Monitoring Northern Idaho Watersheds Helps Keep Them Wild and Pristine
Northern Idaho is a land sparse with people, but bountiful with lakes, forests, and mountains. Up in the Northern Rocky Mountains, countless streams and rivers slice through the landscape, cascading from peaks to the tranquil valleys below....
- Posted October 22, 2025
Thirty Years of Data: Monitoring Water Quality in the Meduxnekeag River Watershed
The Meduxnekeag River flows right through the heart of Houlton, Maine and serves as a lifeline for the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, who have lived off the river for centuries. However, runoff from urban development and...
- Posted September 24, 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
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
Monitoring Habitat Suitability and Water Quality in Northwest Arkansas Springs
Northwest Arkansas has seen an economic, industrial, and population boom in recent years as a result of expanding businesses, which have created thousands of jobs in the region and the mass migration of employees and construction companies....
- Posted May 26, 2025
Monitoring Mariculture in the Gulf of Alaska
The mariculture industry in the Gulf of Alaska has been steadily growing in recent years, guided by ongoing research to help refine farm location and cultivation practices. A subset of aquaculture, mariculture focuses on rearing organisms in...
- Posted May 5, 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
Warming Linked To Lake Tanganyika Fish Declines
U. of Arizona investigators lead an effort using sediment cores and dissolved oxygen records to link Lake Tanganyika fish declines and global warming.
- Posted August 11, 2016
Lake Nipissing Algae Blooms: Mixing May Have Role
Data buoys and temperature strings help U. Saskatchewan and Nipissing University scientists study mixing’s role in Lake Nipissing algae blooms.
- Posted July 26, 2016
OpenCTD: Open-Source Sensor Ready For Seas
OpenCTD, the first open-source sensor developed by Oceanography for Everyone, is ready for marine and citizen scientists alike.
- Posted July 21, 2016
‘The Blob’ And El Niño Harmed Pacific Ocean Productivity
The 2015-2016 El Niño and the Blob came together to harm productivity in the Pacific Ocean, say scientists at University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Posted July 20, 2016
Dry, Wet Thawing Permafrost Soils Affect Greenhouse Gas Ratios
Numerous studies into thawing permafrost soils reveal insights into carbon dioxide and methane ratios impacting the permafrost carbon feedback loop.
- Posted June 29, 2016
May 2016 Global Temperatures Hottest Ever Recorded
A super El Niño event in 2016 combined with anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions has so far created the hottest year in over 136 years, NASA scientists believe. Researchers are troubled by the trend, as 2014 and 2015...
- Posted June 28, 2016
Daytime Temperature Data Less Variable For Tracking Climate Change
While researchers have typically incorporated both daytime and nighttime temperatures into their estimates of surface temperature data, University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) scientists have found that nighttime temperatures can fluctuate so much that leaving them out...
- Posted May 23, 2016
Climate Report Looks At Michigan Public Health Impacts
A new report released by researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan describes changing climate conditions as threats to public health in the state, according to a release. Those conditions include things like warmer...
- Posted May 19, 2016
At Sippo Lake, Sediment Questions And Place-Based Learning Push
Stark County Park District managers study how Sippo Lake affects water quality after sediment load reduction efforts and push place-based learning tools.
- Posted May 2, 2016
Yosemite Rock Falls Impacted By Temperature
U.S. Geological Survey and park scientists complete a three-and-a-half year study finding temperature’s role in rock falls in Yosemite National Park.
- Posted April 1, 2016
Penobscot Indian Nation Safeguards Tribal Waterways
Resource managers with Penobscot Indian Nation keep a careful eye on their waterways with help from a Thermo Orion Star portable pH meter and other gear.
- Posted March 24, 2016
Tree Respiration Rates May Easily Adapt To Temperature Rises
In a predicted future of warmer global temperatures, researchers at the University of Minnesota had guessed that the respiration rates of trees, including some output of carbon dioxide, would increase by broad margins. But in putting the...
- Posted March 24, 2016
