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October 17, 2005
We are now collecting "real-time" data from Amity
Creek in Duluth, MN. Like the Stream Monitoring Units
(SMUs) at Chester, Tischer, and Kingsbury Creek, it is
sampling at 15 minute intervals for depth, flow, temperature.
conductivity, and turbidity. This SMU uses newer technology
-- allowing us to update the website 3 times a day. The
data from the other streams is usually updated once daily
(generally by 10 AM).
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Kingsbury Creek is
still limping along. First it was hit by lightning this summer
and now the data transmission phone line was damaged during
some construction activity. Fortunately, it is still logging
data although there is a delay in posting the data.
You can use our Java-based
Data Visualization applet to explore the data from
the SMUs and create plots like the one above. Weekly data
files from Amity Creek can be found
here.
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July 8, 2005
The Kingsbury Creek sensors are
still out of commission, apparently from a power surge during the
evening thunderstorm on 6/28/05.
April 29, 2005
WOW has a link off the new Strange
Days on Planet Earth website. This is a new National Geographic
series on PBS.
March 22, 2005 is World Water Day.
It marks the start of the Water for Life Decade, 2005--2015, a
decade-long effort to reduce by 50% the proportion of persons without
sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
See what the Center
for Disease Control is doing. (new window)
Learn more from the World
Health Organization. (new window)
February 15, 2005
Learn about spreadsheets. Two lectures have been added for Unit
IV Module 15.
The first, lecture covers spreadsheet
software. The second dives into Advanced
Microsoft Excel.
January 13, 2005
Two new modules in Unit III have just been added. Three lectures
for Module 12,
Remote Sensing and Internet Data Sources, and Module
7, Watershed Inventory and Assessment were posted today.
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