15 Aug, 2011 Author: glorianna
Alex jumps in and pushes the floating dreck downstream. Phew!
Listening to change across a landscape is different from remembering how it was when I fished there sometime in the past, or imagining how it might present itself in the future. Listening to change requires us to measure the landscape, using a range of sensing technologies, with constancy and at an appropriate granularity over time and across space.
Having successfully raised funds for the engineering design phase, we can now begin to explore the landscape with more than binoculars, cameras and the occasional tape recorder. On August 12, Alex Hackman, a restoration specialist from the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration who will serve as coordinator of the technical team, visited Tidmarsh to install pressure transducers on site. These instruments will provide a dynamic history of water depth, flow and temperature over time. In the short term, these records will serve to inform our restoration design; over the longer installation time-frame, these observations-over-time will contribute to a long-term (20 year) history of a landscape in transition, and, at the same time, will inform a web-accessible, dynamic, virtual model of the environment, a model that will be used to invite the broader public to explore, interpret and engage in conversation about specific aspects of wetland dynamics.
We have marked each installation with a DO NOT DISTURB sign. Any disturbance to these installations will result in inaccurate data! Therefore as you enjoy walking the property, please steer clear and allow these devices to do their work. Thank you.
The Arm: how much flow in August?