Building Capacity and Linking Infrastructure in the Lake and Coral Reef Scientific Communities    

 7-9 March 2005     Scripps Institution of Oceanography - San Diego, CA, USA

 

Lake Sensing Classes

 

 

 

Factors:

 

Lake Shape/Size

Topography

Inflow Importance

 

Hydro

T-Chain

Onset Met Station

Inflow Sensor

Cabled T-Chain

CAMPBELL Met Station

Net LW

SW

Water level

Inflow Gauge

Hi Res T-Chain/Conductivity (multiple)

Comprehensive Met Station (multiple)

Current Sensor (ADCP)

Flow Gauge (Flow Tubidity, Temp, Cond)

Wave Gauge

PAR/UV at Depth

OBS/ABS

LSST Particle Size Distribution

Water level

 

Chem

 

DO

pH

DO

pH

color

Automated nutrient (wet chemistry)

Nitrate/CO2 Probes

 

Biol

 

Single-Band Fluorescence

Multi –Band Fluorescence

PAM Fluorescence

FRR Fluorescence

Satellite Imagery

Video/Sonar ??

 

Issues:  Budgets

            What scientific processes do you get for each system