Ideas for Laguna Chacas lake water monitoring
We are headed to Laguna Chacas to implement a lake water quality assessment. Here are some links to the ideas that Javier has suggested. Water Quality A very good low cost fecal bacteria indicator: The H2S bacteria test Riffle sampler for aquatic macroinvertebrates. Something similar to the Hester-Dendy sampler Aerial Mapping Kite or Balloon mapping: http://www.publiclab.org/wiki/balloon-mapping The biggest expense is helium. You can make balloons from emergency mylar sleeping bags. We could map sewage outflows and algal blooms Using RC planes or quadcopters to map algal blooms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu28ltyBxro Its more expensive than the Balloon mapping