Augustus CUR - DEPLOYED!

I am so excited to announce that the data loggers are now deployed! With the help of Dr. Woodall and her husband, Paul, we were able to deploy both of our data loggers this weekend and begin capturing data for this research. Ive included a link to a basic ArcGIS app showing the locations.

A very Simple Web App showing the locations of the Loggers

The still which the logger is housed in is made up of about 2 10' PVC pipes attached together with a 4" locking cap at the top. At the bottom of the housing are holes drilled to allow the water to pass through the PVC, while being covered in copper mesh to keep any organisms from finding their way into the still.

The still at Canaveral Sea Shore

The stills themselves are tied down to the wood columns on the dock using metal straps to stop them from moving up or down and skewing our data and the PVC lays on wooden support blocks drilled into the dock, which I don't know if you've ever tried to drill while floating on water but as a little physics lesson, if you are applying a force in one direction you will generally move in the opposite direction of that force if you have nothing stopping you.

Trying to keep ourselves stationary.....Keyword Trying

Drilling the wood support blocks into the Dock.

We have started collecting the data, which basically gives us a graph inside the software provided by the company, but we can also export it as an excel file so we can create our own graphs with said data.

An example of the data in Excel

I received a question on my last post from Fay C. sec. 101 asking: How will you take sea level measurements and how often? Seems like a lot of work to have to go out everyday to take water level measurements.

Thank you and Good question! Actually the data logger itself records the water level and temperature every 30 minutes on its onboard computer, it will save that data until it runs out of memory, so we plan to download the data about every 2 weeks and create on ongoing graph with that data.

Please keep the questions coming! This is a big project and I want everyone to follow me, so if you have any questions please ask and I'd love to answer them!