Automated Biomonitoring Applications in Remote Water Quality Surveillance and Time Rated Toxicological Assay

摘要

Applications of remote water quality platforms at key locations in selected drainages are becoming increasingly important for water quality assessment. Testing was made of remote site-specific biosensing units for real-time water quality monitoring from cold water streams in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to a warm water site on the Tennessee Cumberland River. The designed sensors monitored fish respiratory responses. The sensors were interfaced to existing water quality monitoring stations equipped with remote microprocessor-controlled data collection platforms. Biological responses and physical parameters were transmitted from the stations to over-passing earth satellites which retransmitted the data to a central data collection and processing center.