- Climate monitoring
- Algal Blooms
- oil spills
Climate monitoring
Booy Network is also bringing a revolution under climate monitoring at Great Lex, said Steve Rubberg, a researcher for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s observation systems and advanced technology branch. Right now, most of the information collected on water is recovered from aunt once a year. With the Booy Network, the same information is available in a moment.
“You can’t take really good decisions until you have good data,” said Rubberg.
One of the longest projects in Rubberg-Grey Lex Temperatures 30-year study-it shows that the winter season of the region is shortenian. This change has disturbed the cycling of the nutrients of the lake, which is important to survive the organisms.
Poor nutrients can reduce the population of cycling fish, Rubberg said. By collecting real -time data on the water situation using Smart Great Lakes, decision making and fisheries can allow fisheries to rapidly respond to the effects of climate change.
He said, “There are decision making people about stocking additional fish and people are trying to restore native fish, such as whitefish,” he said. “It can inform such decisions.”
Algal Blooms
In addition to NOAA, researchers at Michigan Technological University and Lake Superior State University have collaborated with freeboard technology on water studies, which take advantage of the expander network.
A proposed study will deploy small “drifters” that floats through water to map the path of algal blooms. The Booy Network will relay their location and local algae concentration in real time.
Verham said that similar drifters cost more than $ 10,000, which is equipped with power and radio required to communicate with satellites. But his team has increased the price by about $ 500.
“People will see that it is going to be easy and cheaper to monitor the great lakes, understand the movement of harmful algal blooms,” he said. “Most of the scientists will agree that it is going to help us understand them and at the same time knows how to manage them in future.”
oil spills
Christopher Paes, Head of the Great Lex Center for oil spill expertise, stated that Smart Lake Eri helped the American Coast Guard prepare to spread oil.
“Their lake eri network, this is actually, I would say that the amount of available data and groundbreaking with the grid system, which they have installed there,” said Paes.