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Sensors to Determine Health of Streams

Nanoengineers are making sensors for civil engineer colleagues to monitor the health of streams and rivers in Kentucky

IEEE Spectrum
06 Aug 2009

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South Fork of Curry's Fork near LaGrange, Kentucky, 25 miles east of Louisvill
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Ohio River near the Falls of the Oh
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Orangefoot pimpleback Photo courtesy of Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Illinois Natural History Survey at https://www.inhs.illinois.edu
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Pigtoe Photo courtesy of Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Illinois Natural History Survey at https://www.inhs.illinois.edu
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Fat pocketbook Photo courtesy of Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Illinois Natural History Survey at https://www.inhs.illinois.edu
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Riffles in South Fork of Curry's Fo
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Ohio River during spring floo
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The South Fork of Curry's Fork was shaped by farmers 200 years ag
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The Ohio River is filled with drift wood and tree trunks during spring flood seaso
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South Fork of Curry's Fork. Bank erosion is clearly visible and is exacerbated by flood event
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South Fork of Curry's Fo
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Land surrounding South Fork of Curry's Fo
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Land surrounding South Fork of Curry's Fo
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Art Parola (left), Cindy Harnett (righ
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Cindy Harnett's SALAMANDER senor pi
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SALAMANDER sensor pip
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SALAMANDERS deployed in shallow stre
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Flow sens
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Processor board with wireless mo
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Battery pa
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Sensors, wireless motes, and batteri
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University of Louisville associate professor Cindy Harnett in her la
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SALAMANDERs being teste
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Harnett's students installing sensors. The students from left to right are Matt Schueler, John Allison, Nikki Byrd, and Darren Marti
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Gas senso
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Carbon nanotub
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Cindy Harnett in her lab demonstrating how gas flows into nanotube-making furnac
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Nanotube-making equipme
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Furna
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Cindy Harnett contemplating her lab equipme
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