H107
The MacGyver Session: Novel, Exciting, Self-Made, Hacked, and/or Improvised Sensors, Data Acquisition, and Data Transmission Solutions to Understand the Geosphere

Session ID#: 159757

Session Description:
This 14th edition of the MacGyver session leads science into the future. All are welcome to present and bring hands-on demonstrations to make this the most exciting poster-only (!) session of the AGU Fall Meeting, featuring:

  • New sensor systems, using technologies in novel or unintended ways
  • New data storage or transmission solutions, returning data from the field via LoRa, WIFI, or GSM, or even just in your pocket
  • Community initiatives that facilitate the creation and sharing of novel sensors, data-acquisition technologies, and data-transmission systems

This session is for those among us who want to share how we (for example):

  • Calibrated instant pots and cooking supplies to inexpensively build out a precision lab
  • Developed rugged circuit boards from the ground up to take new field measurements
  • Combined smartphone sensors with Arduino or Raspberri Pi
  • 3D printed automated water-quality samplers
  • Built a Cloud Storage system from Open Source Components

We welcome any and all new methods, tools, approaches, or useful "how-to"s in hydrology, plant physiology, seismology, remote sensing, ecology, oceanography, limnology, geomorphology, and any other geoscientific field.

Co-Organized:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ACSESS: Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies -
  • AMS: American Meteorological Society -
  • ASA: American Society of Agronomy -
  • ESA: Ecological Society of America -
Index Terms:

1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1972 Sensor web [INFORMATICS]
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Primary Convener:  Andrew D Wickert, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States; University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Conveners:  Theresa Blume, GFZ German Research Centre, Potsdam, Germany, James T. Dietrich, University of Northern Iowa, Geography, Cedar Falls, IA, United States, Austin Madson, University of Wyoming, WyGISC, Laramie, WY, United States and Chet Udell, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Autonomous Solution to Stream Gauging With OpenPIV (1057451)
Tyler Daniel Fulghum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES and Andrew D Wickert, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, United States
 
Smart Pebbles, Simple Calibration: Affordable & Accessible Characterisation of IMU Uncertainty for Geomorphologists. (1062129)
Charlie Gadd1,2 and Georgios Maniatis2, (1)Distributed Analytics Solutions Ltd., Research & Development, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of Brighton, School of Applied Sciences, Brighton, United Kingdom
 
Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS) | Advancing Open Environmental Instrumentation (1067460)
Chet Udell1, Cara Walter2 and John Steven Selker1, (1)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
WeatherChimes (1090665)
Winnie Woo1, William Richards2, Chet Udell3 and John Steven Selker3, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
The Effect of Sea Ice Terrain on Local Air Speed and Temperature (1094156)
Nickolas Terehoff, Radford University, Radford, VA, United States and Rhett B Herman, Radford University, Physics, Radford, VA, United States
 
Evaporometer: An open source, load cell-based environmental sensing system for rainfall and evaporation. (1094788)
Gurpreet Singh1, Chet Udell2, Cara Walter3 and John Steven Selker2, (1)Oregon State University, BEE, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Updates on PolyWAG: Autonomous filtered water sampling for eDNA (1096147)
Kai Roy1, Nikhil Wandhekar1, Aaron Arvidson2, Tilford Li2, Nathan Jesudason2, Ethan Pohlschneider,2, Taal Levi1, Emmanuel Moncada2, Chet Udell3, John Steven Selker3 and Cara Walter1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
LoomV4, A rapid prototyping library for environmental sensing, telemetry, logging, and actuation. (1096332)
William Richards1, Winnie Woo2, Chet Udell3 and John Steven Selker3, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Pied Piper: An Open-Source Vibrational Camera Trap for Autonomously Monitoring Activity Patterns and Population Distributions of Treehopper and Leafhopper Pest Insects (1097457)
Vincent Vaughn1, Elijah Shumway2, Vaughn Walton3, John Steven Selker4 and Chet Udell4, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
The development of non-contact soil moisture sensors using Rayleigh waves. (1102198)
Seoungmin Lee and Dongkook Woo, Keimyung University, Department of Civil Engineering, Daegu, South Korea
 
IoT Control of Woodchip Bioreactors to Overcome Carbon-Limited Conditions And Boost Denitrification (1116884)
Sofia Echavarria1, Zihao Zhang1, Yi Sang2, Scott Steinschneider2, Nils Napp2 and Matthew Charles Reid2, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
 
Analyzing the Presence and Concentration of Airborne Microplastics Using Python and Photo Analysis Techniques (1120838)
Julia Buccola, Radford University, Radford, VA, United States
 
Multi-function mobile temperature sensors for urban heat island modeling (1127381)
James T. Dietrich, University of Northern Iowa, Geography, Cedar Falls, IA, United States and John DeGroote, University of Northern Iowa, Geography, Cedar Falls, United States
 
A Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer You Can Make (1141618)
Yiwei Mao, University of Sydney, Physics, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Chris Betters, University of Sydney, Physics, Sydney, Australia
 
Investigating Glacier Mass Loss in the South Shetland Islands Using Open-source Data Loggers and Off-the-shelf Sensors (Invited) (1150939)
Matias Romero1, Andrew D Wickert2, Kelly R MacGregor3, Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries2,4, Shanti Bhattacharya Penprase2, Ignacio Carnevale5, Emmanuel Chang6, Jazmin Fogel7 and Jorge A Strelin1, (1)Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra (CICTERRA-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, United States, (3)Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, United States, (4)University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (5)Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, Rosario, Argentina, (6)Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ingeniería, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (7)Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, La Plata, Argentina
 
Development Consecutive Sensing Buoy System for Measurement of Ocean Waves (1151012)
Hiroaki Uetani1, Naoya Suzuki1 and Atsutoshi Ikeda2, (1)Kindai University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka, Japan, (2)Kindai University, Department of Energy and Materials, Osaka, Japan
 
Smart Rock: Low Cost, User Friendly Stream Monitoring (1163828)
Chris Milford1, Chet Udell2 and John Steven Selker2, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
An Open-Source Web Tool for Visualizing Estimates of Well Capture Zones Near Surface Water Features (1168805)
Andrew Wiebe and Jeffrey M McKenzie, McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
Tracing Stream Trajectories with a Self-built Drifter (1173886)
Theresa Blume, Alexander Hebener and Daniel Beiter, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
 
Borehole Instrument Design for Deployment on the Athabasca Glacier (Invited) (1174782)
David Polashenski, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Martin Truffer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States and William H Armstrong Jr, Appalachian State University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, NC, United States
 
A Novel Low-Cost Open-Source Clarity Sensor for Open Hydrology (1179277)
Ed Clayton, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Jon F Tunnicliffe, Auckland University, School of Environment, Auckland, New Zealand and Sam Trowsdale, University of Auckland, School of Environment, Auckland, New Zealand
 
3D-Printing a Seismo-Acoustic Logger Enclosure Housing (1181275)
Owen Walsh1, Jacob Anderson2 and Jeffrey Bruce Johnson2, (1)Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
 
Panther Buoy: A Solar Powered Open Source Water Quality and Weather Monitoring System (1190161)
Todd R Miller, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Wilson Tarpey, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Freshwater Sciences, Milwaukee, WI, United States and Jeffrey Nuese, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Public Health, Milwaukee, United States
 
A Novel In Situ Fluorometer for Monitoring Algal Pigments (1197410)
Wilson Tarpey, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Freshwater Sciences, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Jeffrey Nuese, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Public Health, Milwaukee, United States and Todd R Miller, Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Milwaukee, WI, United States
 
Novel Sampling Devices for Sewage System Monitoring: The Beaver Dam and OPEnS Integrating Sampler (1201436)
John Steven Selker1, Chet Udell1, Cara Walter1 and Hadi AL-agele2, (1)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Biological &Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
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