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| roberts_ecofarm | "So, on paper these designs look like they will work. Next step will be to build one and see what happens when design meets the real world. Hoping..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| eymund | "Hi Ira. Great project ! First step would be identifying what parts of the West Harlem Piers that are most suitable for kelp propagation. This will..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| Bronwen | "Hi @iragersh- This sounds like a great project. Off the top of my head, I would think the people/organizations who would be the most helpful in hel..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| Bronwen | "Hi @iragersh - this sounds great! I wasn't able to find the Facebook Group you mentioned, so feel free to add the link to the facebook page or the ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| roberts_ecofarm | "Clarifying - 1. Ideally Id like to upload daily. For some sites I will be able to connect to the web either through wifi or through cell service. ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| MadTinker | "A couple of clarifying questions: do you have a time period in mind for sampling before data collection/processing? do you have any form limitati..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Oh great project! Pinging in a couple people who might be interested: @cfastie @pdhixenbaugh @donblair @rebeccah @bhickman @JSummers Anyone have i..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| roberts_ecofarm | "Stevie, I'm working on a project where we need to monitor changes in water quality. I posted about it here https://publiclab.org/n/17383. I'm ge..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Hi! Can you clarify the question? " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| Bronwen | "Hi! The simplest (and cheapest) conductivity sensor I can think of is the Coqui-- we have a recent blog post about it here, and I would imagine wit..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Welcome! Very cool! " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| roberts_ecofarm | "Thanks Chris, We have multiple injection well sites in our county, and more in the works, so we are planning on covering a large area. We will be..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "You are right that there has not been much follow-through at Public Lab on developing and testing DIY conductivity or total dissolved solids (TDS) ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| nikete | "@liz , I had not heard of it before, that is so awesome! The design continues to evolve, and I picked up a few lesson from reading about the neutri..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Posted a new Tutorial: Adding the SSD1306 OLED Screen to an Arduino Logger (without a library) This is the third in our series about using shift-o..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| stevie | "From @ottinger on the air quality list: "In terms of the ways they do and don't work, what I've seen from airwatchbayarea and the iWitness Map: the..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Hi @Belkinsa ! What are you hoping to use the data for? We recently worked with one of the LaMotte kits to talk about different water quality param..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| stevie | "SkyTruth has SkyTruth Alerts as well! https://alerts.skytruth.org/ " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Just built one with @Bronwen ! Thanks for these great instructions! The line we sourced for the kit is "marine-environment"-rated and was resistan..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @zengirl2 , you are awesome for re-working the wiring diagram! i just followed your updated instructions in preparation for doing this activity ..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| singhav | "Nice question " | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| MadTinker | " do not use DO sensor On a monthly period, at a number of sampling locations in the watershed, air/water temperature are collected and: DO, Ha..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| joyofsoy | "These answers came from Twitter user @Sulfur_Blue on a tweet I shared through the Public Lab Twitter account: Consider overall costs / maintenance..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "My background is mostly industrial- specifically pharmaceutical. So much of the testing was guided by something like The USP. The instruments were..." | Read more » | about 6 years ago |