HR: 0800h
AN: SF31A-0719    [Abstracts]
TI: An Integrated Hydrologic Monitoring Network
AU: * Tedesco, L P
EM: ltedesco@iupui.edu
AF: Center for Earth and Environmental Science IUPUI, 723 West Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5132 United States
AU: Baker, M P
EM: baker@iu.edu
AF: Pervasive Technology Labs, 535 West Michigan St, Indianpolis, IN 46202 United States
AU: Hall, B E
EM: bhall@iupui.edu
AF: Center for Earth and Environmental Science IUPUI, 723 West Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5132 United States
AB: Ecological studies depend on the ability to monitor an environment, collect data at appropriate spatial and temporal scales, and analyze that data from the diverse viewpoints of many relevant disciplines. Historically, environmental studies have been conducted by small teams of researchers, usually collecting data by hand at some set but low frequency, and organizing it according to ad hoc, project-specific goals. Recent years have seen dramatic advancement in the ability to gather environmental data remotely and therefore at much higher frequency. We are working to create a dynamic and integrated network of environmental sensors in natural environments to acquire real time data and create tools for visualization appropriate for different audiences to promote scientific exploration. Instrumentation includes an array of water quality and water level sondes and probes distributed throughout three Central Indiana counties. Instrument platforms currently include five river monitoring platforms utilizing YSI water quality and level probes; a lake buoy array that includes three YSI sonde packages monitoring physical, chemical and biological parameters; and over fifteen YSI and Solinist groundwater probes recording both level and water quality. Many sites are providing real-time data and several additional sites are scheduled to be online in the coming months. Visualization of this real time data from remote sensors distributed throughout Central Indiana provides numerous challenges. The benefits of successfully integrating remotely deployed environmental sensors in a post 9-11 world is obvious. We are working to bridge both the extremes associated with the frequency of data collection and the lack of data coordination by creating techniques for data networking and retrieval, and data management, analysis, and visualization capabilities that operate across a range of computing platforms to make this data immediately accessible and useful to a range of interested parties, across multiple disciplines. We are working to integrate multiple data streams into a coherent data base and create applications that allow users to view data from multiple instruments at different sites. Creating visualizations of real time, dynamic data from the everyday world and delivering it via web applications as well as through innovative display spaces will be a key outcome of this program. On-line tools for QA/QC, data queries, graphing, and sensitivity analysis are under development. Our goal is to use the instrumented sites to create analysis and presentation applications to foster a community of learners interested in understanding these ecosystems, and the larger environmental issues that they represent. This broad-based community will include environmental researchers, university faculty in lecture halls, math and science teachers, university and K-12 students, civic leaders, and educators at informal learning centers.
UR: http://www.cees.iupui.edu
DE: 9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
DE: 1845 Limnology
DE: 1857 Reservoirs (surface)
DE: 1871 Surface water quality
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting