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Cutting Edge Data

from the LoVoTECS

Citizen Science

Network

Ashley Hyde

Graduate Student Candidate, 2014

Center for the Environment

Plymouth State University

Water & Watershed Conference

March 21, 2014

There’s

an app

for that!

http://www.slideshare.net/CitizenScienceCentral/miller-rushing-plenary-ppsr2012

NH LoVoTECS-est. February, 2012

New Hampshire’s Lotic Volunteers,

Temperature,

Electrical Conductance and

Stage Sensing Network

Electrical

Conductivity

(EC)

microSeimens per centimeter

µS/cm

http://pmm.nasa.gov/node/738

22

Barometric

Stations

114 Sites

5 Precipitation

Stations

NH Dept. of Environmental Services

Green Mountain Conservation Group

The Margaret and H.A. Rey Center

Linwood School

Keene High School

Bishop Guertin High School

The Harris Center

Great Bay Community College

White Mountains Community College

Keene State College

University of New Hampshire

Pittsburg School

Prospect Mountain High School

Piscataquog LRAC

New Hampshire Fish & Game

New Hampshire Technical Institute

Southern New Hampshire University

Bartlett School

Sandwich Middle School

White Mountains National Forest

Squam Lakes Association

Israel River Group

Franklin High School

New England College

Otter Brook Farm

Newport School

Plainfield School

Trout Unlimited

Saint Anselm College

Summer 2013

Snapshot Sampling233 Samples Total

(~80 sites/month)

-Basic Chemistry

-Isotopes

-Trace Metals

Fun Data from LoVoTECS…

Creamery

Brook,

Sandwich, NH

Superstorm

Sandy (2012)

Pemigewasset

River

Franklin, NH

Superstorm

Sandy (2012)

r2= 0.95

http://www.shanalogic.com/

Future Plans for LoVoTECS…

Many Thanks…

Contact Information

The LoVoTECS Team

Dr. Mark Green, Errin Volitis, Ashley Hyde

Plymouth State University

17 High St

Plymouth, NH 03264

Phone: 603 960-4413

Email: lovotecs@gmail.com

Website: go.plymouth.edu/lovotecs

Blog: http://lovotecs.blogspot.com/