Posts for tag "water quality"
Monitoring Nutrients and Water Quality in Ohio Wetlands
The ecological importance of wetlands cannot be overstated, serving as unique habitats for a variety of species and playing a critical role in nutrient cycling. Yet, many of these environments have deteriorated over the years due to...
- Posted October 27, 2025
Monitoring Northern Idaho Watersheds Helps Keep Them Wild and Pristine
Northern Idaho is a land sparse with people, but bountiful with lakes, forests, and mountains. Up in the Northern Rocky Mountains, countless streams and rivers slice through the landscape, cascading from peaks to the tranquil valleys below....
- Posted October 22, 2025
Smaller Buoys Fill In The Gaps of Coastal Hurricane Monitoring Networks
As hurricane frequency and severity continue to increase, real-time monitoring along the coast has become more and more important to disaster mitigation and developing forecasting models. In response to this, coastal observation networks across the United States...
- Posted October 20, 2025
Research and Conservation: Understanding the “Outsized Influence” of Intermittent Streams
It’s a chilly winter’s day in northwest Arkansas, and several University of Arkansas students trudge to an intermittent stream frozen over with a layer of ice. They bring normal water quality sampling equipment with them, and something...
- Posted October 15, 2025
Researching Lake Erie’s Water Quality and Fisheries at the Fairport Harbor Research Unit
Lake Erie is well known for its sport fish populations and recreation on the water. However, the lake is also notorious for occasionally suffering from poor water quality conditions, such as harmful algal blooms and nutrient runoff....
- Posted October 8, 2025
Thirty Years of Data: Monitoring Water Quality in the Meduxnekeag River Watershed
The Meduxnekeag River flows right through the heart of Houlton, Maine and serves as a lifeline for the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, who have lived off the river for centuries. However, runoff from urban development and...
- Posted September 24, 2025
Water Quality Monitoring in the Wisconsin Northwoods
In the Northwoods of Wisconsin, the summer mornings creep serenely over a forested landscape checkered with freshwater lakes and streams. In the early light, limnologist Carol Warden wakes and gets ready for the day. Her office is...
- Posted September 22, 2025
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust: Community Focused Watershed Monitoring and Management in Maine
The Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is one of many land trusts across the US dedicated to monitoring and maintaining natural resources for future generations by expanding and improving current protections based on data and community needs. Such...
- Posted September 10, 2025
Protecting Natural Ecosystem Processes in Florida’s Urban Stormwater Ponds
Florida is a state rife with nature, with three national parks, 1,350 miles of coastline, and thousands of lakes and rivers. Yet, among the natural beauty in mainland America’s southernmost state is rapid urban development and sprawl....
- Posted September 8, 2025
Texas’s Gulf Coast Demands More Research: USGS Scientists are Answering the Call
Along the thousands of miles of ocean coastline cradling the American South lies the popular beach town of Galveston, Texas. While tourists flock to the sandy shorelines and historic piers, another world exists right alongside them–one full...
- Posted August 25, 2025
Developing New Data-Informed Management of the Mississippi Embayment in Memphis
The Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research (CAESER) at the University of Memphis oversees dozens of projects regarding the environment each year, helping to improve resource management in the region. Rodrigo Villalpando-Vizcaino, a Research Assistant...
- Posted August 18, 2025
Real-Time Monitoring in Rhode Island: Narragansett Bay Fixed Station Monitoring Network
Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island has a long history of water quality issues resulting from land pollution, leading to the influx of nutrients into the bay, which can cause algal blooms and declines in dissolved oxygen. The...
- Posted August 13, 2025
New Buoy Boosts White Lake’s Water Quality Monitoring and Conservation
White Lake in Western Michigan is a vestige of North America’s glacial past, and gets its name from an interpretation of the Indian, “Wabish-Sippe,” meaning the river with white clay. The twin towns of Whitehall and Montague,...
- Posted July 28, 2025
Partners for Clean Streams: Monitoring Water Quality in Northwest Ohio and Fostering Community Engagement
Growing up around a highly frequented yet often-polluted state lake in his hometown, Jesse Stock learned early on that the protection of freshwater resources and stewardship of the natural world build stronger, more connected communities united by...
- Posted July 16, 2025
Pushing Lake Science Upstream: Agriculture and Algal Blooms at Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the shallowest, most productive, and most southern of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Each summer, it suffers an algal bloom so large it can be seen from space. Since the 1960s, excess phosphorus—about 85% from...
- Posted July 14, 2025
Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems: How Science Drives Waterway Management in Northwest Georgia
The University of Georgia is home to multiple labs that focus on monitoring aquatic ecosystems and organisms across the state. The River Basin Center connects these monitoring efforts with external partners, including government agencies and NGOs, to...
- Posted July 9, 2025
From Paddles to Phytoplankton: Studying Vermont’s Wildest Lakes
For six months of the year, Rachel Cray, a third-year PhD student at the Vermont Limnology Laboratory at the University of Vermont, lives between a microscope and her laptop, running data. For the other six months, she...
- Posted July 7, 2025
Reimagining Water Filtration: How Monitoring and Science Enhance FloWater Filtration Systems
Over 50% of Americans think their tap water is unsafe, according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG). Other recent surveys have found that number to be as high as 70% of persons surveyed. Whether due to increased...
- Posted July 2, 2025
Long-Term Monitoring in the Chautauqua Lake Watershed
With a widely developed shoreline, Chautauqua Lake experiences influxes of non-point source pollution that have historically impacted the health of the lake. The Chautauqua Lake Association (CLA) has been monitoring the lake for over two decades, reporting...
- Posted June 18, 2025
No Red Herrings: Data Driving the Largest Salt Marsh Restoration in the NE USA
The Herring River system encompasses around 1,000 acres in the Towns of Wellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts. In 1909, the Chequessett Neck Road dike was built at the river’s mouth, drastically limiting tidal flow. Today, it’s one of...
- Posted June 16, 2025
