Posts for tag "water quality"
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Seagrass and Water Quality Monitoring Protects a Unique Florida Preserve
During the summer months, Morgan Edwards wakes up early to mull over the day’s weather forecast. This time is vital; if the weather is cooperating, she’ll spend the entire day on the water within Florida’s Nature Coast...
- Posted March 16, 2026
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Surfers, Fishers, and Scientists Launch Portugal’s First Regenerative Seaweed Farm
In 2011, João Macedo became the first Portuguese and European surfer to qualify for the World Surf League’s Big Wave Championship Tour. Over the next decade, he racked up podium finishes, and in 2022, he caught the...
- Posted March 2, 2026
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Inside the Citizen Science Network That’s Been Monitoring Wisconsin’s Lakes for Four Decades
It’s the summer of 2012, and Paul Skawinski had just driven nearly an hour from Stevens Point through flat, central Wisconsin farmland. His destination is Porters Lake, a small, shallow lake with a few dozen docks lining...
- Posted February 9, 2026
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Using Buoys to Measure the AMOC: An Ocean Current with Global Climate Consequences
Nicholas Foukal stands on the bridge of a long, pale white boat overlooking the choppy Denmark Strait, the water a greenish-blue hue and dotted with towering icebergs. The deck and boat interior are loaded with research equipment–several...
- Posted January 26, 2026
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Tracking Three Rivers: Real-Time Buoy Boosts Monitoring and Accountability
When glaciers last retreated across the continental US, over 10,000 years ago, meltwater filled river channels and eroded the landscape. This was how the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers–among many others–were formed; natural corridors for trade and...
- Posted January 12, 2026
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From Source to Sea: Monitoring and Protecting Santa Barbara’s Hidden Creeks
The city of Santa Barbara, California, is known as the “American Riviera,” sporting a sandy coastline, warm and sunny climate, and classic Spanish Architecture. Tucked in between the Pacific Ocean to the south and the Santa Ynez...
- Posted January 5, 2026
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How the Ohio EPA Uses Water Quality Data to Monitor Change in State Waterways
Millions of Ohioans are reliant on freshwater resources for drinking water and recreation. Therefore, protecting the health of these water bodies is a leading concern for regulatory groups like the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A key...
- Posted December 29, 2025
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Chesapeake Bay Sees Largest Oyster Reef Restoration in the World Completed
The largest oyster reef restoration in the world was recently completed in the United States’ largest estuary: the Chesapeake Bay. The project is the result of a 10-year, over $100 million commitment from local, state, and federal...
- Posted December 24, 2025
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From Mountains to Meadows: Building a Watershed-Scale Monitoring Network in Nevada
A snowflake swirls high in the atmosphere, whisked across the winter sky before landing on Crystal Peak in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. It sits on this peak until the spring, when temperatures warm and the snowmelt...
- Posted November 17, 2025
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Source Water Monitoring: How Fayette County Finds the Highest Drinking Water Quality
Safe drinking water is vital for public health infrastructure, and providing cost-effective water treatment is a top goal of drinking water utilities. To reduce these costs, counties like Fayette, Georgia, rely on source water monitoring to evaluate...
- Posted November 3, 2025
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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
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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
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Smaller Buoys Fill In The Gaps of Coastal Hurricane Monitoring Networks
As hurricane frequency and severity continue to increase, real-time monitoring along the coast has become more and more important to disaster mitigation and developing forecasting models. In response to this, coastal observation networks across the United States...
- Posted October 20, 2025
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Research and Conservation: Understanding the “Outsized Influence” of Intermittent Streams
It’s a chilly winter’s day in northwest Arkansas, and several University of Arkansas students trudge to an intermittent stream frozen over with a layer of ice. They bring normal water quality sampling equipment with them, and something...
- Posted October 15, 2025
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Researching Lake Erie’s Water Quality and Fisheries at the Fairport Harbor Research Unit
Lake Erie is well known for its sport fish populations and recreation on the water. However, the lake is also notorious for occasionally suffering from poor water quality conditions, such as harmful algal blooms and nutrient runoff....
- Posted October 8, 2025
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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
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Water Quality Monitoring in the Wisconsin Northwoods
In the Northwoods of Wisconsin, the summer mornings creep serenely over a forested landscape checkered with freshwater lakes and streams. In the early light, limnologist Carol Warden wakes and gets ready for the day. Her office is...
- Posted September 22, 2025
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Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust: Community Focused Watershed Monitoring and Management in Maine
The Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is one of many land trusts across the US dedicated to monitoring and maintaining natural resources for future generations by expanding and improving current protections based on data and community needs. Such...
- Posted September 10, 2025
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Protecting Natural Ecosystem Processes in Florida’s Urban Stormwater Ponds
Florida is a state rife with nature, with three national parks, 1,350 miles of coastline, and thousands of lakes and rivers. Yet, among the natural beauty in mainland America’s southernmost state is rapid urban development and sprawl....
- Posted September 8, 2025
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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
