{"id":4975,"date":"2016-08-24T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2016-08-27T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T23:17:22","slug":"chimacum-creek-summer-2016-temp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/24\/chimacum-creek-summer-2016-temp\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimacum Creek Summer 2016 Temp"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 14 years of collecting water quality data with my students on our neighborhood creek I finally have a way to get temperature over the summer to compare to the spring and winter! Thanks to the Olympic STEM Pathways Partnership (OSPP) work we’ve been doing I have temp sensors that I can put in the creek and just leave it there to collect data! I don’t have to get just one temperature reading OR keep going down to the creek everyday to get more data, I can just leave the sensors there collecting data at any interval I want. I set the sensors to collect data every half hour, one in the creek water and one in the soil, and left them there for a whole month. The batteries lasted three weeks so I got three weeks of data!<\/p>\n

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The entire new system with battery and PVC pipe that will serve as the waterproof casing.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here’s the new system with temperature sensor inside the water proof casing.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here are the two sensor systems, well hidden and ready to collect data!<\/p><\/div>\n

Here are the three week’s worth of temperature data at Chimacum Creek that I will be sharing with my students. I have water and soil temperature because I had two sensors and I added air temperature in green from checking weather sites:
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