GLEAMS Decision Support System tools

ALWAS*

Automated Lagrangian Water Quality Assessment System

ALWAS is an inexpensive, automated, free-floating, sail-powered or jet-driven water quality measuring and watershed evaluation system. It is capable of making a wide range of measurements, as rapidly as every 40 seconds. Data can be transmitted in real-time or stored for later retrieval and analysis.

Water Properties, including:

•Temperature

•Barometric Pressure

•Conductivity / Salinity

•Dissolved Oxygen

•pH

•Turbidity

•Depth

•Oxidation-Reduction Potential

•Chlorophyll-a

•Blue-Green Algae

GPS Data, including:

•Geographic location

(Latitude and longitude)

•Speed and Heading

•Quality metric

•Number of visible satellites

•Time and date

Optional Measurements:

•Nitrates

•Ammonium

•Chlorides

For more information, please contact Robert Shuchman at

734.649.0937 or shuchman@mtu.edu

* Patent Pending

ALWAS Software allows for:

-Real-time wireless data transmission at over a distance of 1 mile.

-Automatic data download to a geographic database (ESRI shapefile) and Excel spreadsheet.

-GIS mapping capabilities

Example of ALWAS Data.

Lake Michigan and

Kalamazoo River

Lime Lake,

Tiffin River Watershed

Statistics calculated for North Slope of Alaska Lakes

ALWAS deployed

along Kalamazoo River