UCSD TIES

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Winter 2007Mid-Quarter Presentation

• UCSD TIES
• Environmental Monitoring Team
• February 10, 2007
• Team Lead Jason Najarro

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Role of EM Team

• Manual Water Testing
• Temp, EC, Dissolved O2, pH, Water Depth
• Analysis for client
• Baseline Data
• Remote Water Quality Monitoring Device
• Collects WQ Data Automatically
• Floating Buoy Design
• Solar Powered
• Wireless Transmission
• Database Storage

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EM Sub-teams

• Water Quality
• Structural Development
• Hardware Development
• Software Development
• User-Interface

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Water Quality Research

• Manual Water Testing
• 7 Planned site visits this quarter
• Sites to be Tested
• Marilla
• Los Coches
• Ha Hana
• Lakeside Conservancy (East pond)

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Water Quality Quarter Goals

• Biological Oxygen Demand (B.O.D.) has been added
  to the list of parameters being tested
• Data collected has been stored on EM website and
  available for viewing at http//ties.ucsd.edu/pro
  jects/env_mon/
• Considering applying for 303(d) listing

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Software Quarter Goals

• Improve Database Communication
• LabVIEW SQL Toolkit
• Insert data directly into database
• Write User Manual
• Software program descriptions
• Changing system configurations
• Sensor calibration instructions

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Hardware Quarter Goals

• Power System Testing
• Understand characteristics of system charging
• and loading
• Splice sensor wires
• Fix sensors in the water

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Structural Quarter Goals

• Test anchor system
• Junction box construction
• Protect sensor wires
• Sensor Design
• Determine proper sensor depth
• Build rack to secure sensors while underwater

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User-Interface Quarter Goals

• Finalize Interface Code
• Critique Interface usability
• Prepare for next phase of interface Web Based
• Research web technologies
• Learn necessary programming