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Originally Posted by CanisLupusArctos
Here's an idea that's been running around my head for the last few years, and I finally decided to Google it and see what came up.
Seems a bunch of people on Lake Sunapee have pooled resources to establish a weather & environmental monitoring buoy on their lake. It's part of a global initiative on lake monitoring as outlined in this article: http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1257
Imagine a "Broads Buoy" capable of a vertical water temp profile, wave height readings, weather, etc... maybe even with four small webcams (since we now know it's possible, thanks to IG's successful MOUNTcam experiments.)
Last year Bizer and I exchanged a few emails about putting a daymark on Black Cat Shoals (he's a fan of daymarks for boater safety.) When I saw a picture of one, it had a weather station on it, and I was immediately interested. Could serve as a fixed weather buoy (similar to the lighthouse-based instrumentation that NOAA includes in their ocean buoy system) transmitting to shore, and have its data included with the rest of the data Black Cat Island Weather Station measures.
Anyway... that sort of stuff was just a crazy idea in my head until I found out it's already being done on a global initiative with a site already in NH.... so I thought I'd share. |
Apparently you, I and some others have been thinking along the same lines. A couple of years ago, in response to some rather "imaginative" posts as to how big waves and wakes were on the lake I designed a wave monitoring sensor. Never did build one but this post has revived the memory. I thought it would be "kewl" to have a system of such devices spread about the lake to see what was up (wave-wise). I didn't plan on incorporating any real-time feedback, just recording onto a USB drive the data for later retrieval (1 week at a time). Since this was to come out of my own pocket, $$ was a primary consideration. So how serious are "we" about doing something and just what might it be that "we" want to do ? Might be fun to dig up and revise the old plans.
FWIW : I also looking into a water clarity vs depth measurement, done electronically vs the Secchi disk. Thought such a system might yeild interesting data on water clarity vs season.