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A day with TWRI’s water quality monitoring team

What goes on when our water quality monitoring team goes out to conduct regular monitoring?

Michael Miller of Texas A&M AgriLife Marketing and Communications tagged along with one of our teams on a warm June day to photograph how it’s done. At various locations along Carters Creek, this team performed regular water quality monitoring, observed conditions and collected water samples for testing. 

Scroll through this photo essay to see what a typical monitoring trip looks like.

A man holds a data collection boat while another person is on a computer.
Graduate Research Assistant Norberto Barragan and the rest of the water team calibrate the m9 dopler boat gps system.
A person holds a piece of water quality monitoring equipment in the water.
Rhodes using a y-multi parameter sonde to collect in stream water quality data. The sonde is used to record ph, dissolved oxygen, specific conductivity and temperature.
Outside, a man pours water from a plastic bag into a sample bottle.
Rhodes transferring collected stream water into sampled bottle which will be sent to a lab for testing.
A man stands next to a creek and holds a secchi tube.
Research Specialist Ed Rhodes using a secchi tube to determine the transparency of the creek water.
Three people stand in and around a stream, collecting water quality monitoring data.
The water team collecting flow data from a higher vantage point.
A snake eating a frog.
Sometimes the water team gets to see nature in action!
Outside, a person holds a computer that shows real-time water quality monitoring data.
River surveyor software showing real-time data being collected from the m9 dopler boat.
Outside, next to a stream, a person writes on a sheet of paper on a clipboard while two people stand nearby holding water qualit monitoring equipment.
Research Assistant Adriana Williams recording the velocity at each section the flow tracker collects data from.
Two men stand in a stream and collect water quality monitoring data.
Barragan and Rhodes using a flow tracker to measure stream flow and collect flow data.
Two people stand or sit near a stream and watch a data collection boat float.
The water team using the boat to take measurements at stream cross section and collecting flow data.
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