We also got a new member of our team. She is a TAMS student here at UNT named Prathibha Juturu and will be helping us with some of the environmental and ecological aspects of the project. To get her involved we started her off taking over the task of collecting the sensor readings from our table top artificial stream. She will be putting together the tables we post and the blog and will also start building a spreadsheet so we can do some data analysis. One part of her assignment will be to help us track down research to explain the observed changes we see in our stream. That will help us determine if the stream is a healthy ecosystem and will also help us determine if our sensor data is accurate.
| pH | DO | Temperature | # of Fish | |
| Tank 1 | 8.24 | 7.3 | 20.33 | 2 |
| Tank 2 | 8.27 | 7.2 | 20.37 | 1 |
| Tank 3 | 8.32 | 6.8 | 20.35 | 1 |
| Tank 4 | 8.24 | 7.4 | 20.3 | 12 |
Something to celebrate! No more missing fish! 16 fish!
Lori, Joe and I are more or less just working on assembling different parts of the research paper at this point so that doesn't make for very exciting blogging.
In other news, although the probes we need to complete this assignment aren't in yet, the camera that we will use in next years project is in. It will make things much easier with that project because it is already equipped with two axis servos that allow for 355 degrees of rotation. It is waterproof, which is a bonus. Finally, it is already equipped with wifi and has existing software to allow it to be controlled over the internet. That essentially means that project is done. All that needs to be added is a way upload the recorded video stream to a server that can store it and creating a website that allows classrooms and researchers to observe the tanks (assuming you don't want to just use the built in one the company provides.)
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