The buoy system for measuring water quality and weather information was deployed in Devils Lake, North Dakota, yesterday, May 28 2019. ESSP students deploying the buoy in Devils Lake. Photo courtesy of Mr. Mojtaba Shahabi, ESSP Ph.D. student. This is the 8th […]
The buoy is deployed today in Devils Lake. This is the 7th year of continual deployment of the buoy. It was a short season last year as a storm broke the buoy free from its anchor and crushed it on […]
The ESSP department has operated a buoy for monitoring the water quality in Devils Lake since the summer of 2011. During the winter times, the buoy was taken back to our lab for annual maintenance and calibration. We launched the […]
To monitor water quality in Devils Lake, a buoy has been deployed since 2011 measuring several water parameters (temperature, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll concentration, turbidity) and meteorological parameters (temerature, pressure, winds). The buoy is launched after the lake is unfrozen and […]