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DIY Water Monitoring, Data Portals, and Watershed Modeling Workshop

 800 540 Stroud Water Research Center

This workshop will introduce expose participants to a range of options in DIY hardware, software, and prototyping systems, highlighting the factors that users should consider when seeking a DIY program to add to their research.

A Digital Mayfly Swarm Is Emerging

 400 301 Stroud Water Research Center

Low-cost, open-source data collectors and a suite of collaborative online tools are making big leaps in the field of watershed monitoring.

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Low-cost, open-source, and low-power: but what to do with the data?

 350 210 Stroud Water Research Center

Horsburgh, J.S., J. Caraballo, M. Ramírez, A.K. Aufdenkampe, D.B. Arscott, and S.G. Damiano. 2019. Frontiers in Earth Science 7:67.

Publication title with image of a mayfly

A digital mayfly swarm is emerging

 350 210 Stroud Water Research Center

Ensign, S., D. Arscott, S. Hicks, A. Aufdenkampe, T. Muenz, J. Jackson, and D. Bressler. 2019. Eos, 100.

Video still of Milton Hershey School students deploying a water-quality-monitoring sensor.

Computer Science Students Get Their Boots Wet

 948 528 Stroud Water Research Center

As part of the Milton Hershey School’s Agriculture and Environmental Education pathway, the students are taking the computer science skills they learn in the classroom and applying them to real-world problems in the field.

Photo of two men building an environmental monitoring sensor

FREE 2-Day Training in DIY Environmental Sensing Networks for Streams and Rivers

 800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

Presented in Partnership With the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring at Dickinson College
Sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
A two-day training session on building and deploying do-it-yourself wireless stream sensor stations using the Mayfly Data Logger to collect real-time data.

Graphs showing conductivity trends in streams in winter and summer

EnviroDIY Sensors Track Road Salt Levels in Streams

 980 576 Stroud Water Research Center

During thaws and rain events, road salt is carried into streams where it can have chronic and sometimes acute effects on biological communities.

Installation and Maintenance Services for Two Wireless Stream Monitoring Stations Measuring Conductivity, Temperature, Depth, and Turbidity for London Grove Township, Pa.

 800 532 Stroud Water Research Center

Staff installed and maintained two real-time stations for monitoring water quality in a tributary of the East Branch of White Clay Creek to measure stream water level, temperature, specific conductivity, and turbidity in the creek.

Through a Scientist’s Lens: Training Citizens in Freshwater Stewardship

 800 600 Stroud Water Research Center

Stroud Water Research Center is working with Delaware River Watershed Initiative partner organizations to grow their network of volunteers and enhance the quality and quantity of the data they collect.

David Arscott, Kristen Jellison, and Jinjun Kan.

Scientists Study How to Keep Pathogens Out of Drinking-Water Sources

 1024 713 Stroud Water Research Center

Stroud Center scientists are studying how well best management practices on farms protect drinking-water sources from pollution.