As limnologists, geoscientist or hydrologists, we require a variety of data: water temperature, dissolved oxygen levels, nutrient concentrations, water flow, and much more. However, the devices we need to collect this data are often too expensive, unavailable, or sometimes even non-existent. Therefore, it is sometimes necessary to build them ourselves!
This page is where you will find information about current and past DIY projects developed by myself and/or my colleagues. You will find documentation on various aspects of the project’s status, development, deployment, usage and results.
Our projects revolve around these pillars:
- Using self-made, low-cost solutions to make it more affordable to everyone.
- Adopting the open-source hardware philosophy so that the broad community can use or modify the project.
- Using open-source hosting services for software development to ensures the re-usability of the code.
- Using open-web applications for interactive visualization.
- CONTINUE EXPLORING LOOP SCOPE
RESEARCH
We integrate long-term monitoring, experimental approaches, and modelling to advance the understanding of high-mountain freshwater ecosystems.
OUTREACH
We communicate our research through scientific publications, public-oriented research stories, and collaborations with the media.
DATA
We provide access to our long-term datasets from high-mountain freshwater ecosystems through our interactive visualization portal.