The CUAHSI WATERS Test
Bed project—Design
and Demonstration of a Distributed Sensor Array for Predicting Water Flow
and Nitrate Flux in the Santa Fe Basin. The study site is the
YSI - lab in a can ISUS sensor for telemetry W Graham, D Maidment, J Martin at the Santa Fe River Santa Fe River sinks into the ground at O'Leno State Park Santa Fe Rise comes back out of the ground YSI nitrate sensor and CTD sonde in Millpond spring
Deployed Sensors
Two nitrate sensors are being tested in the Ichetucknee
system of Springs. Both have associated CTD sondes and use telemetry via cell phone to deliver data
back to a computer at UF including hourly battery volts, barometric
pressure, water depth, temperature, conductivity and nitrate.
The YSI 9600 sensor uses flow injection technology and works
on standard cadmium reduction/diazotization principles (lab in a can), while
the Satlantic In-Situ Ultraviolet Spectrometer (ISUS)
uses ultraviolet absorption spectrometry.
If you have a gatorlink ID, you can view the raw, provisional, uncalibrated nitrate sensor hourly data here: http://plaza.ufl.edu/rgthomas/ and
here http://plaza.ufl.edu/rgthomas/pub
Information from these sensors collated and corrected by
Travis Rayfield is available at: ftp://ftp.geoplan.ufl.edu/pub/santafe/TravisSensorData/
CTD sondes are deployed at NWIS
stream gages along the
Hydrologic Information System (HIS)
We are beta testing the HIS system developed by a CUAHSI
team (headed by David Maidment)
You can access data in networks 3 ways:
1.
Hydroseek website (hosted by
a.
Accesses
webservices on all HIS servers (11 Waters Testbeds)
+ national NWIS webservice + EPA Storet
webservice.
b.
http://www.hydroseek.org/search/
2.
DASH
website (hosted by UF Water Institute)
a.
Accesses
webservices on our UF HIS server (1 Waters Testbed) + national NWIS webservice.
b.
http://ees-his06.ad.ufl.edu/dash
3.
MS
Excel HIS Web Service client (created by UT-Austin, edited by KM); see below.
Instructions for all three are available here (pdf)
(updated June 11, 2008)
HIS Webservice Excel Client - Download Time Series Data Another
way to access the data in our HIS database is through MS Excel 2003. You must install a small program on your PC -
Click here: _______
Then you can use these Excel
sheets from a few investigator and regional datasets. In them you can see
sites, dates of record, variables recorded and time series.
o
YSI nitrate sensor
o
ISUS nitrate sensor
o
CTD Sondes (Excel 2007)
o
Microwave data in Citra
Florida
o
Daily Rainfall in Santa Fe
basin
o
Florida DEP Storet - N03 and P in streams
o
GWL in 22 counties from USGS
Note:
Best to search by county or station name, not HUC.
Here is link to station search:
http://storet.dep.state.fl.us/WrmSpa/default.do?page=stations
Surface water time series: comparing flow and water quality:
After careful analysis, these flow
stations (NWIS) and Water Quality stations (2nd column) were
selected and geographically/hydrologically matched
for comparison.
Water Quality data from FL DEP STORET and Flow Data from USGS
Flow Metadata (.doc) –
discusses the NWIS station selection and parameters etc.
Water
Quality Metadata (.doc) – discusses the STORET station selection and
parameters and matching between river flow and wq
stations.
Access Database (.mdb à .rar) – has time series data and shapefiles of USGS flow data
and STORET water quality data for USGS gages
paired to STORET by sample date (12/22/06) click here to download RAR utility http://www.rarlab.com/
Groundwater time series: levels and quality
Santa Fe
groundwater quality and levels – raw data from SRWMD Nov 2006 (.xls à
.zip)
Santa Fe
Groundwater Quality data and Graphs (.xls - nov. 29)
Map images
See
other maps and data at Santa Fe Critical Zone
Observatory page
Last updated by K. McKee 5-14-2008