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Use of Basic Observational Buoys (BOBs) in Partnership with High School Faculty and Students

Use of Basic Observational Buoys (BOBs) in Partnership with High School Faculty and Students. Quinton White Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute Lex Waters Duval County Public Schools Academy for Coastal and Environmental Studies.

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Use of Basic Observational Buoys (BOBs) in Partnership with High School Faculty and Students

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  1. Use of Basic Observational Buoys (BOBs) in Partnership with High School Faculty and Students Quinton White Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute Lex Waters Duval County Public Schools Academy for Coastal and Environmental Studies

  2. Special Thanks to: Lundie Spence-COSEE SouthEast South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium Doug Levin -Environmental Science Training Center NOAA Chesapeake Bay OfficeDan McCarthyJacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute

  3. It started with an idea-

  4. BACKGROUND

  5. Terry Parker High SchoolJacksonville, Florida

  6. MSRI- To Be Completed July 2009

  7. In January 2009, we attended a workshop at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in Georgia with Lundie and Doug to learn about BOB That gave us the concept: Basic Observational Buoy (BOB) that could be constructed and modified by its users to partner with high school faculty and students to gather water quality and physical oceanographic data on the St. Johns River (SJR) Florida

  8. Plan was for Jacksonville University faculty to work with Duval County teachers and students to construct a set of six buoys, deploy them in three different salinity regimes and retrieve associated data.

  9. Actually built 10 buoys in a contest to see which survived a 3-day Float Test! Some survived- some didn’t

  10. Some were BAD Some didn’t work as planned

  11. Combination of JU MSC 101 and ACES students did the construction and field work

  12. Then we deployed our buoy!

  13. Environmental Sensors Deployed • Dissolved Oxygen • Air Temperature • Water Temperature • Conductivity (Salinity) • Thermocline • Wind Velocity • Water Velocity- Flow rate • Light

  14. Why deploy BOB? Manatees, Water withdrawal and dredging to 50 feet

  15. Results-

  16. Results- Conductivity

  17. Positives- • Student Engagement • High level of participation • Innovative Design- almost a problem • Able to use at multiple educational levels • High school • Undergraduate • Graduate • Relatively low cost • Flexible platform for an array of sensors

  18. Challenges- • Everything takes longer than expected when working with groups of students! • Short battery life on data-logger • Pasco Explorer- GLX • Difficult to download data- • Problem solved by giving unit to students, along with the promise of a pizza, when they figured out to transfer data.

  19. THANKS Questions?

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