European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-573
  • fiwar:
    LIFE93 ENV/UK/003167
  • Project_Acronym:
    No data
  • Project_Name:
    Automated Network of Lake Water Quality Monitors
  • Funding Authority:
    LIFE
  • Call for proposals:
    Environment
  • Focus Area:
    Water quality improvement
  • Begin Date:
    1994-01-01
  • End Date:
    1997-06-30
  • Status:
    Completed
  • Budget:
    No data
  • Description:
    Lakes are widely regarded as ideal ¿sentinels¿ of environmental change. They respond in a predictable way to changes in the catchment and are dominated by biological communities that are strongly influenced by changes in the weather. In recent years, it has become clear that many of the long-term changes recorded in lakes are driven by climatic processes that operate on a regional or even global scale. Automatic recording instruments provide the ideal means of recording the responses of lakes to short term variations in the weather. A variety of water quality monitoring systems are currently used in the water industry but the advantages of combining such measurements with high resolution meteorological records have yet to be fully appreciated. The main objective of this project was to design and build a buoy based instrument that can be deployed in lakes to monitor the response to changes in the weather. The system includes a range of meteorological as well as limnological sensors and is designed to transmit this information to a remote operator via a radio link to a telephone line.This project aims to design, construct and test an integrated water quality monitoring system for freshwater lakes and reservoirs. Most of the sensors fitted to the system have been obtained commercially but one sensor (a multi-band transmissometer for measuring water colour) has been designed and built in the IFE. The project was divided into the following distinct work phases: · design and construction of the instruments in the UK; · testing of the three variants of the prototype systems in a series of UK lakes; · deliverance of operational versions of the system for deployment in two lakes in Spain and two lakes in Ireland
  • Resource:
    https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE93-ENV-UK-003167/automated-network-of-lake-water-quality-monitors
  • Inland water types:
    Lake', 'Water reservoir'