Mike is a valuable member of the Utah Water Science Center.
Science and Products
Mike is responsible for deploying the Bear Lake Water Quality Platforms each spring and retrieving them each fall. He spends the summer maintaining the instrumentation and checking the data. Among other field work, he has also been working on an evaporation model for the lake.
Bear Lake Water Quality
Bear Lake Water-Quality Data Visualizations
Displaying water-quality data with depth over time at a single location has always presented a challenge. These data visualizations were developed as a response to that issue by Katherine Jones, USGS Office of Quality Assurance.
Science and Products
- Science
Mike is responsible for deploying the Bear Lake Water Quality Platforms each spring and retrieving them each fall. He spends the summer maintaining the instrumentation and checking the data. Among other field work, he has also been working on an evaporation model for the lake.
Bear Lake Water Quality
Bear Lake, located approximately 50 kilometers (km) northeast of Logan, Utah, straddles the Utah-Idaho border and is nestled in a graben valley between the Bear Lake Plateau on the east and the Bear River Range on the west (Reheis and others, 2009). Its calcium carbonate type water is a brilliant green-blue color that, in combination with sandy beaches and easy access, draws thousands of visitors... - Multimedia
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Bear Lake Water-Quality Data Visualizations
Displaying water-quality data with depth over time at a single location has always presented a challenge. These data visualizations were developed as a response to that issue by Katherine Jones, USGS Office of Quality Assurance.