REAL-TIME WATER QUALITY MONITORING
Courtesy of Daniel Cassie, DFO
Fisheries and Oceans Canada has been collecting "real-time data" from a weather station at the Atlantic Salmon Musuem in Doaktown, NB. DFO has now entered a partnership with MREAC to allow community access to the data of the Southwest Miramichi River and weather monitoring station. With MREAC's close association with NBCC Miramichi, access to the station is being shared with the Environmental Technology class. This will increase the students knowledge of real-time monitoring and assist with projects and research.

The parameters this weather station collects are: water level, water temperature, conductivity, air temperature, relative humidity and percipitation. During the summer months, MREAC will post a graph that displays the weekly trend of the water levels and temperature at this station.

 

Below is a chart displaying the water temperature trend at the Doaktown station for the past 7 days. This chart will be updated daily during the work week, when possible, from mid April to September.

 

 

Header photos contributed by Nelson Cloud, Melissa Price and Kara Baisley