Water Quality & Environmental Monitoring

Water quality: Includes the chemical, physical and biological properties of water and these values are used as indicators of the health of ecosystems.

Environmental monitoring: The processes and activities to characterise and monitor the quality of the environment.

There is no one-system-measures all, and which parameters are measured depends on what measurement program is best suited to a specific project. Point-based measurement systems can be constructed around a particular need, and incorporated into below- or above-water systems. The following parameters can be measured:

Water quality / below water environmental properties:

• Depth (Pressure)
• Temperature
• Salinity (Conductivity)
• Turbidity
• Dissolved oxygen
• pH
• Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)
• etc.

 Above water environmental properties:

• Air Pressure
• Air temperature
• Relative Humidity
• Wind speed and direction
• Solar radiation
• Visibility
• Soil water content

Measuring water quality / below water environmental properties:

• RBRsolo³ compact single channel depth, temp., DO, Tu and PAR loggers
• RBRvirtuoso³ standard single channel  conductivity, depth, temp., CO2, DO, Fl, ORP, PAR, pH, Tu, transmittance voltage, etc. loggers
• RBRduet³ & RBRduo³ dual channel options with two of conductivity, depth, temp., CO2, DO, Fl, ORP, PAR, pH, Tu, transmittance voltage, etc. loggers
• RBRconcerto³ & RBRmaestro³ multi channel options up to 10 channels of above
• RBR Wirewalker wave powered profiling system
• RBR inductive modem
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• Wipers for various water quality sensors e.g. Tu, PAR, DO, etc.

• Insitu water sampling and monitoring (ecoli, etc.)
• Portable automatic analyzing system

 

Measuring above water environmental properties:

• WatchKeeper Buoy
• 3m Buoy
• 5m Nomad Buoy