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| Mike D, Dave and Scott trying out the Chlorophyll a attachment |
Not only does this probe measure dissolved oxygen, it also simultaneously measures temperature, pH, salinity, conductivity, bathemetric pressure and the total dissolved solids within the water, all the while plotting your GPS location ready for upload to Google Earth back in the office (no more forgetting from which pond you took your readings). Along with this an extra attachment also measures Chlorophyll a, a pigment given off by photosynthetic organisms (e.g., Algae), and as such gives an indication of the total primary productivity within the pond.
These measurements are crucial for Scott's monitoring of the experimental ponds up at Hauxley Nature Reserve, yet to collect all this data previously would have taken three probes in the field, as well as a rather time consuming laboratory experiment for Chlorophyll a. Now Scott can monitor all this in one simple dip, at least halving the time he spends in the field during those cold winter months, not to mention the time it would take in labs to process samples for Chlorophyll a.
Merry Christmas Scott. Although We can be fairly certain he will be asking for the total nitrates probe attachment from Santa next year.
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| Resorting to the manual after struggling to calibrate the probe. And before health and safety have a field day I would like to state that the bottle of Dr Pepper is actually a water sample! |
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