An aerial photograph of Queen Bee Farms showing the wetland treatment area and the two automatic sampling locations at the inflow and outflow points.  At each of these points there are two sampling stations, an upstream and a downstream, that measure the difference in the water column height between the two.  If the value of this height is greater than 0.01 then a sample is taken from the downstream location and  preserved with acid and stored for collection.  In total Queen Bee consists of four sample stations: inflow upstream, inflow downstream, outflow upstream and outflow downstream.

Telemetry Data

The antennae used to remotely send data to and receive input from our office fifty miles away.  With our trusty office van in the background.

Water Samples

bulletWater Quality Results

 

The Queen Bee downstream culvert location where the Queen Bee project started and our acid dosing system was first installed.  This automatic sampler is located at the outflow point.  Of the two samplers at this location it is downstream relative to the other.

Reports

bullet Status Report 12/9/2003

 

The Queen Bee downstream ditch location where our work with an automatic acid dosing system was continued successfully.  This automatic sampler is located at the inflow point.  Of the two samplers at this location it is downstream relative to the other.
The Works

Instrumentation

The Crew

bulletSanjay Prasad - An electrical engineer from India attending Illinois Institute of Technology.  Lead intern in the instrumentation design.
bulletFabrice Plard - A computer scientist from France.  Lead intern in the computer programs that run instrumentation and compute results.
bulletJurgen Roessler - An Environmental Process Engineering student from Germany.  Lead intern in the development of plumbing and preservation systems.
bulletJan Ciriack - A computer scientist from Germany.  Lead intern in the maintenance of the Queen Bee database.
bulletRobert Deamer - An environmental studies and earth science major from UCSC.  Lead intern in the inflow sampling station construction.
bulletBenjamin Harrison - An environmental engineer from Australia.  Assisted in the calibration of instrumentation.
bulletRichard Adigbo - A computer scientist from Ghana.  Lead intern in the preservation of samples.
bulletSteven Bellamy - A computer scientist from France.  Designed the database where data from Queen Bee is stored.

Photo from top left to bottom right:

Fabrice Plard, Jurgen Roessler, Robert Deamer, Banjamin Harrison,

Jan Ciriack, Richard Adigbo, Sanjay Prasad