Posts for tag "water quality"
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
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
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
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
Save our Bogs! Culture, Conservation and Climate Action in Ireland’s Peatlands
Characterized by long-term accumulation under waterlogged conditions, peatlands exist on every continent and account for 3-4% of the global land surface. Small but mighty, these often overlooked wetland environments are estimated to hold as much as one-third...
- Posted March 31, 2025
Sargassum Surge: How Seaweed is Transforming our Oceans and Coastal Ecosystems
Until recently, Sargassum–a free-floating seaweed–was distributed throughout the Sargasso Sea, the north Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. But in the space of a decade, this seaweed has, as one scientist remarks, “Gone from a nonfactor...
- Posted March 24, 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 and Facilitating Habitat Restoration Efforts in the Great Lakes
While human infrastructure, urbanization, and industrialization have advanced human societies, the natural environment has suffered due to constructed impediments and deteriorating architecture. In order to combat this degradation, habitat restoration programs across the US work to remove...
- Posted January 27, 2025
Lake Erie Volunteer Science Network: Building Trust in Citizen Science Programs
Citizen science programs have popped up across the United States, focusing on connecting local communities with nearby water resources and building a trustworthy data pool over the sampling period. While commonly utilized as a means of ensuring...
- Posted December 16, 2024
Monitoring Kentucky’s Water Resources with Drone Imaging and Unmanned Surface Vehicles
Wesley Turner, an Environmental Scientist Advisor with the GIS and Data Analysis Section of the Watershed Management Branch in the Kentucky Division of Water, spends his days researching current technology and developing various drone programs for the...
- Posted November 25, 2024
2025 Essential Water Monitoring Gear
Stay ahead of the curve with five of the top water monitoring products for 2025. Technological advancements and manufacturing innovations are leading to better quality data, improved price points, and enhanced user experience. And, while the ‘essentials’...
- Posted October 21, 2024
Stone Lab: Cyanobacteria Monitoring in Ohio Lakes
Microcystin, one of several toxins produced by the cyanobacteria that form harmful algal blooms (HABs), has become a popular topic of lake research as the human health impacts of HABs become better understood. Stone Lab is one...
- Posted July 22, 2024
Protecting Chicago’s Lakefront: Freshwater Beach Monitoring
Thousands of people flock to the Great Lakes every year to enjoy the freshwater beaches along the coast. As an urban hub with over 2.5 million residents, beachfronts in Chicago have regular visitors as well as tourists...
- Posted November 6, 2023
Lake Malawi: A Treasure to Protect
Lake Malawi is a crucial source of food, electricity, transportation and economic health for the surrounding communities.
- Posted March 20, 2023
PME miniDOT Logger: Plunge into Data
The PME miniDOT Logger is a compact data logger that measures dissolved oxygen (DO) and temperature down to 100 meters in depth.
- Posted February 6, 2023
So Far Yet So Close: Remote Sensing at Everett
Integration of remote sensing technology into undergraduate education can help society solve environmental problems faster.
- Posted August 22, 2022
Aquatic Systems Connectivity: Finding Relationships Between Waters
The emerging field of aquatic systems connectivity examines waters, their existence spatially and temporally, and their connections to each other.
- Posted November 12, 2021
Tides and microbes transform nitrogen where streams and the ocean meet
Microbes transform nitrogen in tidal freshwater zones, usually causing denitrification, but recent research says areas of high nitrogen have been found.
- Posted September 17, 2021
Climate, Nutrients and the Future of Hypoxia in a Chesapeake Bay Tributary
A warming climate and low-oxygen from Chesapeake Bay will reduce oxygen more than nutrient reductions will increase it in the Chester River.
- Posted September 6, 2021
