Event Title
Goldie' the Great Pond Sentinel. Telling the Seasonal Story of Lake Dynamics to a Stakeholder Audience.
Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
1-5-2014 10:00 AM
End Date
1-5-2014 11:00 AM
Project Type
Poster- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
Goldie is an automated sampling buoy deployed in the deepest point of Great Pond, Belgrade Lakes, Maine. Built by Nexsens Technology, the buoy is a highly capable platform for limnology research; equipped with a suite of sensors for measuring water temperature, light, dissolved oxygen concentration (surface and bottom), and fluorescence. The buoy is powered by 15-watt solar panels and communicates to our labs at Colby using a dedicated cell phone.Although Goldie provides extremely detailed data for the limnology professional, the information is not easily understood by the stakeholder community. Our work focuses on analyzing and transforming the real-time data from Goldie to make it more reader-friendly. We use the GLEON program Lake Analyzer to calculate thermocline depth, Schmidt stability, and Wedderburn number to illustrate the natural stability of the lake. These computed parameters are integrated with real-time temperature, oxygen, light, and weather to produce an interactive dashboard of lake conditions. Interactive graphs built using the Highchart JavaScript library allow the user to zoom and pan on the data sets. Updated hourly, these graphs allow the community to visualize the lake in a clear and engaging way that promotes conservation awareness through a direct connection to lake water quality.
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Chemistry Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Natural Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
63
Goldie' the Great Pond Sentinel. Telling the Seasonal Story of Lake Dynamics to a Stakeholder Audience.
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Goldie is an automated sampling buoy deployed in the deepest point of Great Pond, Belgrade Lakes, Maine. Built by Nexsens Technology, the buoy is a highly capable platform for limnology research; equipped with a suite of sensors for measuring water temperature, light, dissolved oxygen concentration (surface and bottom), and fluorescence. The buoy is powered by 15-watt solar panels and communicates to our labs at Colby using a dedicated cell phone.Although Goldie provides extremely detailed data for the limnology professional, the information is not easily understood by the stakeholder community. Our work focuses on analyzing and transforming the real-time data from Goldie to make it more reader-friendly. We use the GLEON program Lake Analyzer to calculate thermocline depth, Schmidt stability, and Wedderburn number to illustrate the natural stability of the lake. These computed parameters are integrated with real-time temperature, oxygen, light, and weather to produce an interactive dashboard of lake conditions. Interactive graphs built using the Highchart JavaScript library allow the user to zoom and pan on the data sets. Updated hourly, these graphs allow the community to visualize the lake in a clear and engaging way that promotes conservation awareness through a direct connection to lake water quality.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/177