More data for our volunteer  WQ monitoring program(s):  Mining the world‐wide web Susan Libes

More data for our volunteer WQ monitoring program(s): Mining the world‐wide web
Susan Libes
Waccamaw River
Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program
Annual Luncheon
March 2012
Adaptive Management
The online data stream
O Weather and Climate
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National Weather Service
Weather Underground
National Hurricane Center
Rain – Cocorahs
Drought monitor
O Water
O Quantity
O Oceans: tides, waves, currents
O Rivers: floods & droughts
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Quality
O Beach swimming advisories
O Biology
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eBirds
Census of Marine Life
O Land
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Property Tax Maps
Wetlands
Soils
Watersheds
O Regulatory – US EPA
WATERS (Watershed Assessment,
Tracking & Environmental ResultS)
O Envirofacts – permit compliance
O Environmental Justice Viewer
O SC DHEC Stormwater NOI tool
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Real‐time sensors
….. getting smaller
and less expensive
and DIY
O http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/index.asp
Personal Weather Stations @ Weather Underground
KSCCONWA2
Coastal Carolina
University
Conway
Davis Vantage Pro 2 plus
KSCCONWA10
Pecan Grove
Conway
Davis VantagePRO2
Murrells Inlet
Vantage Pro 2
KSCMURRE6
Earthworks Group,
Inc.
Prince Creek
Murrells Inlet
KSCMYRTL17
J L Schwartz WWTF
Myrtle Beach
KSCMYRTL18
Murrays at
MBGolf&Yacht
(Burgess)
Myrtle Beach
Vantage Vue #6351; I.S.S.
#6357
KSCMYRTL19
Myrtle Pointe
Myrtle Beach
Davis Vantage Pro II
KSCSUFSI2
SSBWX EMWIN
Surfside
Beach
WMR-100
KSCSURFS4
Oceanside Village
Surfside
Beach
WMR 968
KSCGEORG3
Wedgefield
Georgetown
WS2310
KSCGEORG4
Debordieu
Georgetown
KSCGEORG6
Georgetown County
Stormwater
Georgetown
KSCMURRE5
Oregon Scientific
WMR200
Remote Control
Autonomous
Red Sea
Gulf of
Aden
Persian
Gulf
Gulf of
Oman
Arabian
Sea
Bay of
Bengal
Satellites
http://www.ifremer.fr/naiad/salinityremotesensing.ifremer.fr/SMOSL3b_CATDS_Monthly_1deg
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Satellite relay
Waccamaw River at Hwy 9
http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/wqwatch/map?state=sc&pcode=00010
Turbidity
Average Turbidity: 2006 to 2011
Information Systems/Technology
Social media
O Promotes data aggregation and
harvesting
O Supports knowledge-based economy
O Enables Integrated Water Resource
Management (IWRM)
O Discovering trends
O “Stationarity is Dead”
Collaborative Computing
http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/Data/GoogleEarth.html
www.eBird.org
The new naturalist
O Our changing relationship
Technology
Bad
to nature
Technology
Good
O Ecological intelligence
O Ecotherapy
O Ecoanxiety
O Ecoparalysis
O Nature Deficit Disorder
US EPA Envirofacts
Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental ResultS
US EPA Environmental Justice Viewer
>30% poverty
"In the end, we conserve only what we love. We
will love only what we understand. We will
understand only what we are taught." - Baba
Dioum, Senegalese poet
Paraphrasing.. We only protect what we value, we only value what we know…