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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| liz | "@jeff , this was an incredible event!!! It was great to steer the water quality boats with joystick and kinnect! I made a bitsync folder for photo..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| eymund | "And to maintain keep citizen science fun and light hearted, another intriguing question about Jeff's Data: Do Fish Fart ? A 2 year old explains: ..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| eymund | "Those dissolved oxygen maps are super intriguing. Weird spike in oxygen readings just north of Union Street Bridge should be investigated further...." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Yes! I can't wait to see more. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| liz | "Excited to meet Yellow Robot tomorrow! " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "I responded to Kloots' comment (above) by email, but by the time he got it he had already diagnosed and fixed the problem. As I understand it, the..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| kloots | "Dear Dr. Summers, I still get the same error after doing everything I could: WheeStat5_4b.ino: In function 'void setup()': WheeStat5_4b:122: erro..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Awesome! thanks. Can't wait to play with the Wheestat! " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "Hi Mathew, The wiki is the user's manual at http://publiclab.org/wiki/wheestat-user-s-manual. I thought there was a link to it on this page but I ..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Great! is there a wiki page already, Jack? I'd like to move this over there so when I replicate the instructions with a kit I can add some details/..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Will you be posting here and/or do you have a site or mailing list where you're organizing activity, so that we can follow progress? " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| vjpixel | "we are taking to researchers to discover this. we plan to have an answer to this question until the end of September. " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "What data are you going to be collecting? " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| marlokeno | "It's nearly impossible to separate the effects of irrigation hi-cap wells from the silica wash plants. Also, withdrawing large amounts of water for..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| WhiteRabbit | "Also, FWIW, not all stainless steels are the same. For instance, 316 SS is more resistant to corrosion than 304. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| WhiteRabbit | "Great post. It's also worth mentioning how temperature might affect water conductivity measurements: see comment under http://publiclab.org/notes..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| WhiteRabbit | "Be mindful how temperature may affect your saline conductivity measurements, as I tried to point out in the comments here: http://publiclab.org/not..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| WhiteRabbit | "You'll probably need to correct for differences in sample temperature. i.e. temperature will affect the conductivity of the salt solution. So, to..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| DavidMack | "seems like a good approach. maybe specify the type of salt: fine sea salt, table salt (with iodine), kosher salt (no iodine), or Himalayan pink sa..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| neilh20 | "Hi Don, looks great procedure, and while not knowing if it actually works - it does give a procedure for establishing a range for a specific set of..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| neilh20 | "Hey Donblair - you've got some great posts. The above was from my experience - working with designing a simple water level measurement device. Real..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Thanks, Neil -- this will be a great document to reference, going forward! The water depth measurement, and use of ruler as a an accessible standa..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Terrific writeup and results, +1 to above comments. Excellent. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| straylight | "great workshop, really well run and I loved reading about the glitches along the way :) Now you have a prototype working, the next step would be t..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago |