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Measuring Middle Fork Coquille river

Detailed Description

Esteemed Hydrologic Technician, Katie Baker, measures streamflow with an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP). The ADCP tracks the velocity of particles in the water and maps the channel bottom, combine that data with channel width and you can calculate stream flow!

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.