Sentences with phrase «collects water quality data»

USGS operates more than 3,000 real - time stream gages and collects water quality data at numerous long - term stations throughout the Mississippi River basin and the Chesapeake Bay to track how nutrient loads are changing over time.

The buoy has been collecting water quality data since 2011 — data now powering new research that captures with unprecedented clarity the lakewide hypoxia afflicting this Great Lakes estuary every summer and fall.

Not exact matches

The information collected will no doubt be particularly valuable once it's cross-referenced with satellite imagery and measurements, as well as with data on water quality and such collected by scientists working in the Gulf and on the coast.

Paula Wang, who has volunteered for more than 25 years with the Audubon Naturalist Society, noted that water - quality data collected by trained volunteers has been provided to county government agencies in Maryland, informing a decision to halt development in the watershed of Montgomery County's cleanest stream, Wang said.

The EPA oversees water quality, and the U.S. Geological Survey is responsible for collecting data and monitoring supply, but no federal agency ensures the effective use of water.

For the past six years, Shale Network researchers have collected and published water quality data online.

To identify the problems and potential solutions more precisely, Cohen and his students have spent seven years analyzing water - quality data collected through tube - shaped sensors submerged in northern Florida's rivers and springs.

The models use nutrient load data collected by Heidelberg University's National Center for Water Quality Research.

USGS operates more than 400 real - time stream gages and collects water - quality data at numerous long - term stations throughout the Chesapeake Bay basin to track how nutrient loads are changing over time.

Teachers and students living in the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay watersheds work with local organizations and learn to sample water quality and collect and analyze data from the waters and the surrounding forest environment.

We collect and disseminate scientifically sound water quality data to aid decision - makers and the public in protecting local waterways, and to foster wider community awareness and involvement in protecting water quality.

With this in mind, we are excited to be working on a citizen science project, the «Earth Challenge 2020,» which will engage one million global citizens to collect one billion data points to measure air quality, water quality, pollution and human health.»

Bernhardt and her colleagues used the historical data we had mapped along with studies of water quality and invertebrate biodiversity collected by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.

No requirement to collect and disclose baseline data needed for effective regulation: Well operators would not be required to collect basic air - quality and water - quality data prior to fracking — data needed to effectively verify no damages occur from fracking.