Water quality
water-quality

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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GreenHunan "Thank you for your detailed introduction! This is Phil volunteering for Green Hunan, and we are looking to learn & share information through th..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
GreenHunan "Hi there, thanks for sharing! May I ask if this kit can be used for educational purposes? " | Read more » almost 8 years ago
jesseslone "@donblair I noticed you have a more recent post about turbidity, I was wondering if you would choose a different light sensor than the Adafruit one..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "I've submitted a bug report with steps to fix: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/885 -- sorry! " | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "I'm actually having trouble editing this page -- must be a bug due to it being "converted" to a question instead of being one from the start. " | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "Actually i haven't tried marking a question as an activity; i guess it works? Maybe not a good practice? I dunno -- new territory for us! As to you..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
pdhixenbaugh "Also: I'm not sure if you're testing (1) Hot Tap Water vs Cold Tap Water, or (2) Hot Tap Water vs. Hot Tap Water which has cooled down. Put another..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
pdhixenbaugh "So both questions and research notes can be marked as an activity? And at some point, folks replicating the activity can post their answers? I like..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
cfastie "Scott, There is no problem. The Mobius can do interval shooting at any interval, and it can also do motion detection. The trail camera has NIR LED..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
eustatic "Is the problem that the mobius can t do intervals greater than a certain amount? or mostly it's the NIR and motion capture that you are looking fo..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "Sorry, I meant make an activity out of this, with step by step instructions and such, not one taking the next step. So, yes! I'm hoping @stevie an..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Don't we have to have an activity before we have a follow up activity? There are lots of ways to make this an activity and many ways to follow up (..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "This was fun and pretty easy. I'd love to try collaborating on a follow-up activity, I don't think it'd be too complicated. What do you think? " | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Oh no @Zengirl2, TY so much for posting the awesome hard-hitting journalistic expose of LEAFFEST at the Adafruit blog: https://blog.adafruit.com/20..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
eustatic "NOAA and Coast Guard made this guide "Job Aid" to observing oil slicks from the air. It's state of the art for government. OWJA 2012 Here's some ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
zengirl2 "TY so much for posting the details of this test @cfastie and @warren! " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "I renamed this and converted it to a "Question" in the new Q&A system " | Read more » over 8 years ago
pdhixenbaugh "Ben, thank you for that explanation, it is very helpful in understanding many of the challenges and solutions presented by conductivity field measu..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
bhickman "Hello pdhixenbaugh, I like how you have colored the schematic, makes things much clearer. As for your questions, I'll try and answer them. Firstly..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
pdhixenbaugh "Hi Ben, There is a lot to dive into here. I would really like to learn how this circuit works. I'm also new to this, and have a lot of questions. T..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Thanks Patrick, The table and graphs are screen captures from Excel. The graphing module in Excel is very powerful in part because it has a huge n..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
pdhixenbaugh "How did you make the figures you used in this research note? They are really well done. " | Read more » over 8 years ago
EdMallon "Believe it or not, the UNO Datalogger tutorial I posted last year has risen to the top of the traffic stats on our blog, and has generated more tha..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
Laszlo "Dear Dr. Summers, I ordered WheeStat 5.1 potentiostat from OSH Park and built a potentiostat system as described here. Everything seems fine excep..." | Read more » over 8 years ago