Ecological Studies Industry
Ecological Studies Done Using the Solar Pathfinder
This list is not at all inclusive and in no particular order. It only represents those that have gotten back with us once they completed their work. Please contact us upon the completion of your work so that we may include it here to benefit others. The Solar Pathfinder has been used in canopy studies, riparian data, bat and other animal habitats, mushroom farms, fisheries, etc.
Methods for Evaluating Riparian Habitats With Applications to Management by William S Platts, et al. US Dept. of Ag. Forest Service Intermountain Research Station General Technical Report INT-221, February 1987.
Water Quality Monitoring Protocols — Report No. 4 Protocols for Evaluation and Monitoring of Stream/Riparian Habitats Associated With Aquatic Communities in Rangeland Streams by Timothy A. Burton, et all. Idaho Dept of Health and Welfare, Division of Environmental Quality, Water Quality Bureau, Boise, ID, February 1991.
Water Quality Monitoring Protocols — Report No. 8 Protocols for Classifying, Monitoring, & Evaluating Stream/Riparian Vegetation on Idaho Rangeland Streams by Ervin R. Cowley. Idaho Dept of Health and Welfare, Division of Environmental Quality, Boise, ID, November 1992.
"Temperature Regimes of Small Streams Along the Mendocino Coast" by Peter Cafferata. Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newsletter No. 39, October 1990.
Sula Project, SFLMP Implementation Monitoring Report by Steve Kamps, et al. Montana Forst Management Bureau Planner/Environmental Impact Specialist. Scheduled for publication October 2005.
Stream Condition Inventory (SCI) Technical Guide, Pacific Southwest Region. Version 5.0 US Dept. of Ag., Forest Service July 2005.
Other riparian data studies using Solar Pathfinder found on the Internet
WATER QUALITY MONITORING: TECHNICAL GUIDE BOOK CHAPTER 14
This document is designed as an additional chapter to the Water Quality Monitoring: Technical Guidebook (OWEB July 1999). Includes section on shade measurement using the Solar Pathfinder. "When placed in stream channel, the Solar Ptahfinder becomes a convenient tool for estimating the amount of solar radiation blocked or attenuated by local topography and streamside vegitation."
CALIFORNIA STREAM BIOASSESSMENT PROCEDURE
Protocol Brief for Biological and Physical/Habitat Assessment in Wadeable Streams
Monitoring for Temperature Total Maximum Daily Load Development
(DEQ04-LAB-0048-GD Version 1 November 04, 2004) The most important measurements of vegetation are type of shade causing vegetation (conifer or deciduous if trees), vegetation height and Solar Pathfinder shade readings.
Water Quality Trading Internal Management Directive, January 2005
DEQ's IMD is based in part on the 2003 Water Quality Trading Policy ... Shade density will be measured via a solar pathfinder, densiometer or alternate ...
Rogue Riber Basin & Illinois River Sub Basin Water Quality Management Plan ...
listed as Water Quality Limited when the rolling seven (7) day maximum average exceeds the ... We will use a solar pathfinder to establish existing shade. ...
Monitoring
Stream Temperature Protocol. 6 - 1. Water Quality Monitoring Guidebook ... Shade (measured with a solar pathfinder) versus canopy cover (densiometer). ...
Graphical analysis facilitates evaluation of stream-temperature ...
solar pathfinder to estimate the. percentage of available sunlight ... implement water-quality and stream-. temperature monitoring (ODF 1994; ...
Final Report--USDA Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program www.sare.org
Our objective was to identify grazing management to enhance riparian heath on meadow streams. We collaborated with 35 ranchers and numerous agencies to survey grazing management and...streams in California. Solar Pathfinder was used at stream water surface to evaluate solar radiation per month...
Water Quality Management Plan
This water quality management plan is prepared to meet the requirements of Section 303(d) of ... We will use a solar pathfinder to establish existing shade. ...
Revised Methods for Characterizing Stream Habitat in the National ...
characteristics of water quality in the Study Unit and to ... A solar pathfinder (Platts and others, 1987) may be useful for more detailed measurements of ...
The Physics of Stream Temperature
Northwest Forest Plan Temperature TMDL Implementation Strategies. Conditionally approved by DEQ Sept. 9, 2005. Evaluation of the Northwest Forest Plan Aquatic Conservation Strategy and Associated Tools to achieve and maintain stream temperature water quality standards.
Beaver-Camas Subbasin Assessment and Total Maximum Daily Loads
Idaho water quality standards and wastewater treatment requirements. IDEQ. 1999b.
Assessment of Water Quality in Kootenai River and Moyie River ...
Water Quality Limited Assessment Units Occurring in the Subbasin ... Existing Shade for Deep Creek Measured With Solar Pathfinder......................109 ...
Quality Assurance Protection Plan
Feather River Coordinated Resource Management Watershed Monitoring Pilot Project: Tend Analysis Approach Sierra, Plumas, and Lassen Counties, CA 8.9 Stream Shading Stream temperature has impacts on the health, behavior and survival of aquatic organisms and is strongly influence dyb sitreamside shading. The Solar Pathfinder is held above the mid-channel area, approximately 30 cm above the water survface at each of the 50 channel plots. The numbers along the August sun path are totaled. The total is the percent shade for that plot.
Parameter Measured
water quality. conditions can be. determined by. location on the. National ... radiation (solar. pathfinder). CMS: Type of. vegetative cover and ...
