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NALMS 2021 Workshop: Collecting and Analysing Water Quality Data With Sensors

  • 15 Nov 2021
  • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST)
  • Online - Microsoft Teams

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Are you interested in collecting high-frequency data from your lakes and reservoirs with sensors? Or do you currently do so and would like to learn how to effectively process and analyze the large amount of data that result from continuous monitoring by sensors? In this workshop researchers and monitoring professionals working with automated sensors and analyzing, visualizing, and QAQC’ing continuous data in R will share their experiences, tips, and data analysis tools. The workshop will target a technical audience at an advanced level, including participants who are already working with sensors and/or monitoring and research networks or are interested in getting more involved.

Presenters

Jen Stamp is an aquatic ecologist with Tetra Tech’s Center for Ecological Sciences, where she has worked since 2007. She works on a wide range of projects, including the Regional Monitoring Networks (RMNs), bioassessment, climate change, condition assessments in coastal and freshwater ecosystems, causal assessment/stressor identification, statistical analyses and GIS mapping. Prior to working at Tetra Tech, she worked for the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Biomonitoring and Aquatic Studies Unit. She received her MS at Ohio University and her BA from Dartmouth College.

Erik Leppo has worked for Tetra Tech for over 25 years. He analyzes data and provides technical support to clients in all aspects of data management, data quality management, GIS data processing and analysis, data analysis, taxonomic quality control, and field collection. Recent projects have involved using R programming and shiny apps on national conductivity, index calculation, causal assessment, continuous data QC, and USEPA’s Data Discovery Tool. He is experienced with taxonomic quality control comparisons, data QA/QC, developing reference condition benchmarks, data analysis, and tool development for biological condition gradient.

Kellie Merrell is an aquatic ecologist with the Vermont Lakes and Ponds Management and Protection Program. She has been monitoring Vermont’s inland lakes for compliance with the Clean Water Act since 2001. Prior to working on lakes she worked for EPA monitoring estuaries as part of the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment. She also worked in Environmental Consulting. She received her MS at University of Maryland’s Horn Point Laboratory studying the freshwater plant Vallisneria americana.

Tim Martin is the Long-Term Monitoring Data Specialist for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MNDNR) Sentinel Lakes Program. He is responsible for planning, coordinating, directing, and implementing the management, sharing, and visualization of the data collected through this program as well as data analysis and assisting in field work and program management. Prior to working for the MNDNR, he was a GIS Project Manager. He received his MS in Water Resources Science at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and his BS from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.

Leslie J. Matthews, Ph.D., has worked in the Vermont DEC Watershed Management Division since 2005, most recently in the Lakes and Ponds Management and Protection Program. When not in the field monitoring lakes, she focuses on organizing and analyzing Vermont’s inland lake data and creating web-based tools for data access and visualization.

Nicole Ward is a Postdoctoral Fellow with Wisconsin Sea Grant and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. She is currently working on integrating climate resilience planning in Great Lakes coastal management projects within the WDNR Office of Great Waters. Nicole has expertise in human-freshwater interactions and the interaction of human decision making and ecosystem change. Nicole has worked with many different field sensors and associated analyses: from soil and agricultural sensors during her Master’s at the University of Idaho to lake monitoring buoys during her Ph.D. at Virginia Tech, where she primarily worked on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire.

Kiyoko Yokota is a limnologist with a particular interest in phytoplankton population dynamics. She teaches undergraduate and graduate limnology, lake management, and other biology courses at State University of New York at Oneonta and volunteers for Otsego Lake Association. She graduated with a B.S. (biology w/ ecology emphasis) from Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota and qualified as an Associate Professional Engineer (As.P.E.Jp) while working for a civil engineering consultancy in Tokyo, Japan, on projects related to new dam construction proposals and management of existing reservoirs. Kiyoko earned a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior from University of Minnesota and completed a short-term postdoctoral training at Netherland Institute for Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) before she started to teach full time.

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