An overview of the Fellows Ave monitoring station along Meadowbrook Creek.

Monitoring Urban Creeks in Syracuse, New York

Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York, is home to a number of urban creeks, ideal for monitoring the influence of human development on water resources. Syracuse University (SU) faculty, staff, and students have been monitoring the city’s waterways for over a decade, with Dr. Laura Lautz establishing a more formal program focused on collecting grab water samples from […]

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Illustration of a NexSens groundwater monitoring system

3.2 Conductivity, Salinity and Total Dissolved Solids

Conductivity, often denoted as EC (electrical conductivity), is a measure of a water sample’s ability to conduct electric current. It is primarily determined by the presence of dissolved salts and other inorganic substances that ionize in water. Such substances are known as electrolytes, and they conduct electricity due to their positive and negative charges.   The […]

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