Monitoring Weather, Wave, And Temperature Dynamics in Lake Erie’s Eastern Basin

Buffalo State University | Great Lakes Center

For over a decade, Buffalo State University’s Great Lakes Center has maintained and operated a real-time monitoring buoy deployed off the coast of Dunkirk, New York, in Lake Erie’s eastern basin. Funded by the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) and with field support from the NYSDEC Lake Erie Fisheries Research Unit, the buoy provides data […]

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A NexSens CB-150 LoRaWAN buoy deployed in lower Green Bay, collecting valuable, real-time surface algal pigment, temperature profile, and dissolved oxygen data.

Using Data Buoys to Monitor Southern Green Bay

University of Wisconsin

Green Bay has suffered continuous influxes of pollutants and contaminants from the Fox River due to non-point source runoff in the watershed. Deterioration of the bay’s water quality extends well into the last century, and while cleanup efforts in the bay have been successful overall, continuous monitoring of the bay is important to ecosystem management. […]

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tracking Lake Erie hypoxia

Tracking Lake Erie Hypoxia

LimnoTech

Conditions in the middle of a great lake are hard to predict. Wave actions can vary and weather can change in a flash. For those reasons, engineers with LimnoTech chose a NexSens CB-450 Data Buoy for the project.

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