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Understanding : Instrumentation

Remote Underwater Sampling Stations (RUSS units) are used on the WOW Minnesota lakes and by our collaborators across the country.

Minnesota (LakeSuperiorStreams.org) stream data is collected using stream monitoring units (SMUs).

The water quality sensors or Instrumentation on the RUSSs or SMUs used by WOW vary from site to site. Use the menu bar on you left to navigate Instrumentation

To find out what our data collaborators are using select a site below:

Lakes Washington and Sammamish (exit WOW)
Lakes Onondaga, Skaneateles, Ostico, and George (exit WOW)
Lake Mead (exit WOW)
Lower Cape Fear River (exit WOW)

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