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Showcase

Highlighting projects we’re working on and gadgets we’ve built.

Low-Cost Stream “Tower Sampler”

We have developed a low-cost and very simple “Tower Sampler” that utilizes plastic bottles mounted vertically in the stream to collect discrete samples as various stream levels.

Monitoring Coastal Streams With the Mayfly Data Logger and Atlas Scientific Sensors

Adam Gold from the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences explains how the unique characteristics of coastal streams influenced his monitoring station design.

Construction of Water Level Monitoring Sensor Station

Our goal was to supply Comfort Lake Forest Lake Watershed District in Forest Lake, Minnesota with an easy to use, low cost, and low power system that continuously monitors groundwater levels with minimal visits to the site.

Arduino based water quality measurement by IO-Rodeo

I had the joy of traveling to Bhutan in November 2015 with a delegation from Stroud Water Research Center and Waterkeeper Alliance. Among our goals was to provide our Bhutanese colleagues at Clean Bhutan and government agencies with water quality monitoring tools and methods that are low cost, accurate, sustainable, and adaptable to their needs to help them monitor their own water quality. Shannon...[Read More]

EnviroDIY Mayfly logger stations deployed in PA, DE and MN!

Stroud Water Research Center staff have deployed dozens of sensor stations based on our EnviroDIY Mayfly Data Logger.

Accurate low stream depth measurements viewable on internet

Working on a remote river monitoring project with partners Cemar.org and a local chapter of The Nature Conservancy.