Emily Caruso led field sessions at the Onset Bay Center with Baywatchers volunteers and community members to understand how people interact with different water-quality monitoring tools. Through hands-on activities and interviews, she explored how participants with different levels of experience learned, adapted, and responded to both traditional methods and newer sensor-based technologies. This work will be part of Emily’s Ph.D. thesis with Anita Milman at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Emily Caruso explains a dissolved oxygen-measuring datalogger to one of her interviewees at Onset Bay.