Rivers, oceans, lakes, aquifers, groundwater, stormwater, urban canals, underground streams, estuaries, and more -- we are passionate about water quality! This page will help you find resources to explore the waterbodies you care about, and connect with other people who have the same interests: ### Questions on Water Quality: [questions:water-quality] **** ## Monitoring * [Water sampling](/water-sampling) * [Water sensors](/water-sensors) * Posts on #water-monitoring * Posts on #water-testing * Posts on #reagents ## Water quality parameters Read about different water quality parameters here, including pH, nitrogen, conductivity, temperature, ORP and turbidity: * https://publiclab.org/common-water-contaminants Also see this overview of 7 ways to monitorn water quality: * https://publiclab.org/notes/anngneal/12-08-2017/7-ways-to-measure-monitor-and-evaluate-water-quality ## Groups and projects working on water quality issues: [wikis:project:water-quality] **** ## Water quality related pages [wikis:parent:water-quality] **** ## Activities [activities:water-quality]...
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| warren | "I think a lot of the challenge of using an Infragram camera well is the need for comparison. Comparing an area treated in one way with a "control" ..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Despite my zeal for the project, I have tried not to bomb everyone here with the many incremental updates as I go along. But I think I might have p..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "Bummer, I'm scheduled for an artist's opening on Friday night at my nature center (same weekend as the barnraising). However, I could swear I saw ..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| kanarinka | "No worries - if you can travel north a bit you should consider coming to the New England barnraising the weekend of June 5th -- http://publiclab.or..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "I live in Philly. I'm currently a LandLab Artist in Residence at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. I'm hoping to study stormwater..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| kanarinka | "Thanks ZenGirl2 - a tutorial is definitely in the works as soon as we have a working prototype that people can use -- we are looking at June 5th fo..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| zengirl2 | "I noticed that you have a lot of Github info, but are you considering writing a tutorial? I'm interested in building a Riffle for Philly. Maybe yo..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "@wattminder - have you seen some of the recent work with the Riffle, for conductivity monitoring of water? http://publiclab.org/wiki/riffle Also f..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| unmanaged | "Also I found out from a "expert" that for accurate readings, some of the drift might be based on the soil temps, you need to take soil temperature ..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Update: check out our new conductivity results in this research note -- looks like corrosion was, indeed, the culprit (thanks, Mathew and umanaged,..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Hi unmanaged -- it'd be great to have you as a beta tester! We're going to be ordering a new round of prototypes very soon, and we're hoping to ha..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| unmanaged | "See the website for more info on SS rods... If you are in the US Airgas is all over... http://www.airgas.com/browse/product_list.aspx?catID=144&..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| unmanaged | "I would love to beta test this... I am working on something like this... FYI go to your local welding shop and buy stainless steel welding rods... ..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "And, as per our discussion elsewhere today, maybe we also want this material to go in a 'wiki' ... if you get a chance, Catherine, maybe you can d..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Could we please make this infomercial video? Please. Pleeeaaase. " | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Yay! " | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "This is so exciting. " | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Tired of water quality sensors that leave your back aching? Try Riffle! With Riffle you just set it and forget it, no more painful backbends to sa..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "what about just using a 1/8" mini jack, one of the "three band" ones with a mic line too, as is now standard on phone headsets? Brilliant idea! S..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "That "four electrode" system gave me an idea-- what about just using a 1/8" mini jack, one of the "three band" ones with a mic line too, as is now ..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Thanks, Mat! Great point re: the type of metal being used. The earlier screws weren't stainless, I don't think, (I think Ben just found them lyin..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Great progress! I would bet that the screws you used before were transferring ions to the water, and that the stainless corrodes more slowly. Loo..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Hi everyone, Just a quick note to say the first gen loggers survived their initial 3 month deployment giving us real water flow data, (6m depth,~ ..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Hi everyone. I just wanted to post an update as I have done some major code development for the Cave Pearl data logger recently, and a weeks wor..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago |