In the News
Measuring Water Clarity and Quality in Minnesota Lakes and Rivers: A Census-Based Approach Using Remote-Sensing Techniques CURA Reporter, summer 2007
by Patrick L. Brezonik, Leif G. Olmanson, Marvin E. Bauer, and Steven M. Kloiber
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Report on Minnesota rivers comes now by air
03/05/2006 - From 11,000 feet, a powerful sensor can detect subtle changes in water quality along the length of a river...
Read more from the Minneapolis Star Tribune
Satellite Tabulation of Impervious Surface Areas
2005
- The past decade has been one
of steady growth across many areas
of North America including Minnesota,
and particularly in our lake regions
and associated communities...
Read
more from LakeLine -
A publication of the North
American Lake Management Society
Scientists
Monitor Water
Quality from Air
09/08/2004
- Scientists are testing a new
tool for monitoring the health
of our rivers: a high-tech contraption
that tests water quality from
the air...
Read
more from Kare 11 News, Minneapolis-St.
Paul
Lake
Scientists adopt
a space-age approach
01/12/2003 - Alec
Donaldson, a retired marketing
executive, hops in his boat on
a hot summer day, motors to the
middle of a lake near Brainerd,
Minn., and lowers a white disk
into the depths...
Read
more from the Minneapolis Star
Tribune
Water
Colors: Earth-orbitting
satellites give
natural resource
managers a new
way to look at
lake quality
04/01/2002
- Once a week, on calm clear days
between May and September, retired
veterinarian Harold Dziuk fires
up the 15-horsepower engine on
his fishing launch and sets off
for a spot about a quarter mile
from his home on Big Turtle Lake,
a 2,000-acre body of water in
Itasca County...
Read
more from the University of Minnesota's
College of Natural Resources publication,
Spectrum
Testing
the Waters: Using
satellites to
monitor lake water
clarity
03/11/2002 - Unless
you are a toad or a swamp rat,
chances are you don't want to
live on the edge of a smelly,
algae-filled lake. Most people
like their lakes clean, clear,
and fresh...
Read
more from the Earth Observatory
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