We put together this infographic on data buoys for our Spring 2017 edition of the Environmental Monitor (PDF available online). Organizations across the globe use data buoy systems to observe and monitor atmospheric and oceanographic conditions in...
The Spring 2017 Environmental Monitor magazine ships this week, covering some of our top stories of the quarter while adding new photos and graphics.
A Lake Erie infographic from the Fall 2016 Environmental Monitor magazine details the lake’s productivity, algae woes and other facts using a map.
The Fall 2016 Environmental Monitor magazine ships this week. Our newest edition has a focus on western Lake Erie while adding new photos and graphics.
What we learned about Ohio Sea Grant research during a summer 2016 trip to Ohio State University’s Stone Laboratory, plus a few projects we didn’t cover.
The Summer 2016 Environmental Monitor is one of our best editions yet, featuring on-location reports and coverage of significant research nationwide.
It’s summer time in the Great Lakes region, and buoy deployments are ramping up. For Lake Erie, the focus is especially acute as water quality experts are keen to monitor its conditions as the algal bloom season...
The 2015-2016 El Niño has already gone down as one of the strongest ever in history. Some of its effects have included droughts as well as storms and flooding. It may very well have also been a...
It’s Earth Day! On this global day of appreciation for our planet and all the things that it gives us, we thought it’d be nice to put together a short round-up of the activities taking place to...
New to Fondriest Environmental’s product portfolio are the Van Essen Instruments Diver loggers, which are ideal for monitoring groundwater and surface water in a variety of applications. See below for a short description of each new addition....
A new year is meant for new beginnings. Here at Fondriest Environmental, this means keeping our product offerings as streamlined for the environmental monitoring marketplace as we can so that customers can find what they need quickly...
More than 300 viewers from 37 states, six countries, and 40 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took part in a Dec. 16 webinar on real-time sensors for harmful algal blooms. But don’t fret if you missed...
For more on the use of real-time sensors in water treatment plants to monitor changes in source water quality, please consider attending this Dec. 16 webinar.
Leading up to the 31st annual symposium of the Ohio River Basin Consortium for Research and Education, the Environmental Monitor zeroed in on prominent projects from several scientists involved with ORBCRE. All of the stories were published...
Nearly four years ago, I covered a study of stream temperatures in Oregon that found that water stayed cooler when logging operations left wider forested buffers along the streams. The study found that, on average, streams didn’t...
The Environmental Monitor didn’t even have a website when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded five years ago this week, killing 11 workers and leaving behind a gushing well that led to the largest-ever oil spill in...
Consultants with Task Environmental are relying on a YSI 556 Multi-Parameter Water Quality Meter to help with groundwater remediation work. The 556 is the ideal instrument for the task because of its quality construction. “I have used...
Anyone who spends enough time deploying environmental monitoring equipment understands that eventually, one of their instruments will likely end up missing. Well planned and secure installations can fail against curious passersby, outright vandals or even exposure to...