Friday, May 29, 2009

The probe arrives!

The WWF water quality probe finally cleared all the hurdles at customs and arrived in Placencia this week. Representatives from the Central American and Belizean offices of WWF arrived to install the In Situ Troll. They're pictured below with captain and community researcher Adrian Vernon, consultants from Adcon Corporation (the company handling the satellite uplink), In Situ (the water quality probe manufacturer) and Rachel Carrie, a graduate student working with Xac Che, a group doing watershed work in southern Belize.



Here we are all heading out to the installation site.

Here Jon Thomas of In Situ demonstrates how to calibrate the water quality probe as Kendrick Gordon of Belize Department of Environment (left) and Jose Vasquez of WWF (on the right) look on.



Arnold Lara of Adcon works on the satellite uplink as community researcher as WWF representative Mauricio Mejia looks on.




And the finished system is ready to roll. We'll be watching the probe over the next few weeks and documenting the effects of efforts to improve water quality at the farms.





Progress!!

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  1. Jon ThomasJune 2, 2009 at 6:51 AM

    The installation looks great, and now we know it can withstand an earthquake! Keep me posted on the progress! -JT

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  2. T. Brook SmithJune 18, 2009 at 8:37 AM

    Jon, thanks for all your help with the installation.

    We'll keep plugging away at the blog and the In Situ equipment will be a huge help I know.

    Already, the In Situ nitrate probe has shown us that nitrate in the sedimentation pond declines by 50% at night. By raising water levels in the sedimentation ponds at night, the farms might be able to significantly reduce the amount of N they release.

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