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Delaware Basin EnviroDIY Monitoring Stations

Updates

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  • 2019-07-17 at 3:40 PM #153733
    David Bressler
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      Reminder to all folks who are visiting sensor stations, cleaning sensors, collecting and shipping grab samples, doing quality control, and any other on-site activities:  Please complete a Field Visit Data Sheet every time and enter it into the online form at https://wikiwatershed.org/drwi/ (pass: drwi).  

      *Please note that this is the only way we have of gathering metadata on stations across the Delaware Basin sensor station network.  This is very important for confirming validity of data and viability of the dataset.

      Even though your own group’s intentions may be met without completing a data sheet or entering it into the online form, completing these additional steps is of great support to this collaborative citizen science project and is very much appreciated by Stroud Center and others who are using the basin-wide data set.

       

      Attachments:

      1. Field_Visit_Data_Sheet_13-1.pdf

      2019-10-01 at 9:53 AM #153848
      David Bressler
      Participant

        Update on data portals

        As many of you know, @hicks is currently updating stations with 4G capacity and is also updating logger code to send data directly to Monitor My Watershed (up to now data had been transferred every half hour from dreamhosters to MonitorMW).  The drwisensors.dreamhosters.com portal is slowly being phased out and MonitorMW will be the long term data portal.  As nice as the dreamhosters site was it had certain limitations and also did not suit long term data storage needs (those who have older stations have seen how you lose visualization of historic data).

        This updating process has been informal as Shannon (@hicks) has been doing this work as time allows during extended road trips around the Delaware Basin.  We’re just a small team at Stroud so please let us know if you see issues or have questions about the process.

        We’ll be doing a MonitorMW tutorial at the Oct 18 User Group Meeting so please sign up if you’d like to get some guidance on usage.  Sign up here:  https://stroudcenter.org/event/envirodiy-sensor-station-user-group-gathering/ 

        2019-10-25 at 11:27 AM #153997
        David Bressler
        Participant

          Materials from the 10/18/19 sensor station user group gathering can be found at https://wikiwatershed.org/drwi/ (pass: drwi). Included in the Updates presentation (slides 22-39) are instructions on uploaded SD card data to the Monitor My Watershed data portal.

          2019-11-01 at 9:50 AM #154003
          David Bressler
          Participant

            New video tutorials have been added to https://wikiwatershed.org/drwi/ (pass: drwi)(listed under “Video Tutorials”) and at  EnviroDIY Sensor Station Tutorials playlist.  They range from on-site sensor cleaning to usage of rating curve spreadsheets.

            2019-11-16 at 10:58 AM #154021
            David Bressler
            Participant
              Hi all,
              The drwisensors.dreamhosters.com site is not working anymore.  The sites listed below still rely on this site (i.e., these stations have not been upgraded to send data directly to Monitor My Watershed).  Shannon Hicks and Rachel Johnson will be upgrading these stations for direct data transmission to Monitor My Watershed ASAP – please see paragraph from Shannon below for details.
              *If your station is in this list, please let your volunteers, Master Watershed Stewards, students, and others who work with your stations know about this news.  
              Feel free to be in touch with questions.  Thanks for your patience on this.
              -Dave B
              Shannon Hicks:
              On November 14 at 11:10pm EST, the webhost company that hosts the original DRWI datalogger portal upgraded their services to implement secure webhosting (the url changed from ‘http’ to ‘https’).  However by doing that, they broke the compatibility of the code running on any of the Stroud/EnviroDIY dataloggers that haven’t had their code updated recently to point the data to the new MonitorMyWatershed data portal.  There are 31 stations that haven’t been updated to the new portal code, so therefore they are unable to transmit their data to the portal.  Below is a list of all the stations currently affected by the problem.  They all should still be recording data every 5 minutes onto their onboard memory card, so no data is being lost.  We will get to all of these stations ASAP to upgrade their code, recover the memory card, and get them switched over to transmitting their data directly to the new MMW portal (and do a little sensor cleaning/maintenance while we’re there).  We’ll contact those of you affected to coordinate when we can make the visit since some of the stations require permissions for access or can only be accessed at certain hours or days of the week.  Or if you want to expedite the coordination, let me (Shannon Hicks) know your and/or your site’s availability if you see your station on the following list:

              SL103 Cherry Ck Downstream
              SL112 Pennypack Downstream
              SL113 Pickering 1
              SL114 Pickering 2
              SL117 Sandy Run
              SL118 UT to Sandy
              SL119 Aquashicola
              SL120 Lopatcong
              SL121 Hunter Downstream
              SL122 Buckwha Downstream
              SL131 Little Lehigh
              SL136 Hosensack Ck
              SL137 UT to Cobbs
              SL138 Lower Pickering
              SL149 Marsh Creek Upstream
              SL150 Marsh Creek Downstream
              SL152 Buckwha Upstream
              SL153 Hunter Upstream
              SL155 Ridley Upstream
              SL156 Ridley Upstream
              SL157 UT to Middle Run
              SL158 Primrose Upstream
              SL170 Chestnut Run
              SL171 Loper Run
              SL172 Indian Field Br
              SL177 Broad Run
              SL179 Lubbers Run
              SL189 Pike Ck Indep School 1
              SL190 Pike Ck Indep School 2
              SL191 Schuylkill River
              SL246 Silver Lake Nature Center

              2019-11-18 at 2:47 PM #154022
              David Bressler
              Participant

                FYI – for those who may not be aware of it, the forum topics now sort from newest to oldest (except for the first post made to each forum topic), so the most recent post in each topic will be the second one within a forum topic.

                Also, due to upgrades in some of the software, when you click on a forum link from an email you will now be sent directly to your login page where you can login and then go to the specific forum message.

                2019-11-25 at 5:09 PM #154031
                David Bressler
                Participant

                  FYI, last week at the Delaware Watershed Research Conference in Philadelphia the Stroud Center presented it’s first preliminary effort at analyzing the sensor station data from across the Delaware Basin.  David Bressler presented an overview of the project, Diana Oviedo-Vargas presented conductivity analyses, and Marc Peipoch presented temperature analyses.

                  All three presentations can be found at https://wikiwatershed.org/drwi/ under the “Workshop Resources” category – scroll down the page to find this.

                  2020-01-30 at 12:34 PM #154131
                  David Bressler
                  Participant

                    As many of you know some of the 4G cell boards have been failing, thus taking these stations offline.  The reason for this is unknown but Shannon Hicks (@hicks) and Sara Damiano (@damiano) are troubleshooting the problem.  Any stations that have had failed cell boards are no longer online but are still recording data to the SD card.  Stroud is holding off on installing new 4G cell boards until the reason for failure is identified and dealt with.  Hopefully this will be soon.  Please stayed tuned and feel free to be in touch as needed.

                    2020-02-28 at 1:23 PM #154291
                    David Bressler
                    Participant

                      FYI, Monitor My Watershed manuals and video tutorials are now available for :  https://wikiwatershed.org/help/sensor-help/

                      2020-03-18 at 8:13 AM #154317
                      David Bressler
                      Participant

                        Current problems with MonitorMW data visualization and download are being addressed.  Limnotech is working on a short term fix – shouldn’t be too long.

                        As of at least 2020-03-15 MonitorMW is experiencing connection issues with the InfluxDB database that is used to support sparkline plots and Time Series Analyst (TSA). The long-term fix unfortunately requires an architectural overhaul. Fortunately, the data are safe, as they are being stored in a separate database.

                        Here is the current issue as reported on GitHub https://github.com/ODM2/ODM2DataSharingPortal/issues/473

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