Estuarine Science

Every summer, the Buzzards Bay Coalition’s Baywatchers program volunteers collect water quality samples at more than 200 stations.

COMBB’s deployment of continuous dataloggers for dissolved oxygen, temperature, and salinity at a set of these stations will pave the way for deployments of more dataloggers in more places in the future. It will allow us to compare what we learn from traditional grab sampling with the more detailed continuous information.

Datalogger DeploymentsLocations of dissolved oxygen and salinity loggers expanded in 2024

Datalogger DescriptionsWe created routine procedures for deploying and maintaining oxygen and salinity dataloggers

Data PipelineNew procedures streamline quality checking of incoming datalogger data

TideRiderTest deployments improve the performance of tide-carried water quality sensing robots

Water Quality TrendsAnalyzing 33 years of Baywatchers data to quantify water quality trends