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A program of training, innovation, and research in real-time water monitoring technologies, committed to the principle that the human right to clean water requires the right-to-know water is clean.
Choate Pond
Observatory
Smartest pond on the planet
Apr. 19, 2024
Air Pollution: 1/Low
3:00 PM EDT
Pace University
Pleasantville, NY
About water monitoring here
Water (Alan)
Temp: 54.9 F/12.7°C
Oxygen: 119%
pH: 7.67
Turbidity: 14.5
Salinity: 0.27
Weather
Temp: 54.5°F/ 12.5 °C
Humidity: 80.3%
Solar Flux: 433 sfu
Wind: S 4.52 mph
Baro. Press: 1009.7 mbar
Featured Post
What can machine learning teach us about water that we don’t already know?
By Sasha Breygina, Victor Lima, Kenji Okura, Charles Metayer, Lizi Imedashvili
The public has a right to know what is in their water — just as they have the right to know the ingredients in their favorite bag of chips. This requires data-driven solutions that revolutionize water monitoring and ensure public health and safety. Read more …
What Are Ada and Alan Telling Us?
Our solar-powered monitoring stations have transformed Choate Pond into a real-time laboratory. Named for 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace, and British computer scientist Alan Turing, who broke the Nazi Enigma code, the stations report water quality to our server every 15 minutes. Learn more.
What is in Pace drinking water?
Here is your guide to campus drinking water. It includes a description of Pace Pleasantville water sources, applicable drinking water rules, and an archive of Annual Water Quality Reports. Because Pace Pleasantville manages the local collection and distribution of its drinking water we are considered a “community water system” under federal and state law. Pace must therefore comply with applicable governmental reporting. Educate yourself! An informed drinking water consumer is a healthy drinking water consumer. Learn more.
Blue CoLab Spring ’24 Team
Top Row, L-R: Kyle Strayhorn, Ian Shimba, Sasha Breygina, Sebastian Roman, Phoenix Ellord. Middle: Keathson Lam, Alex Chen, Professor John Cronin, Kenji Okura, Victor Lima, Charles Metayer. Bottom: Professor Leanne Keeley, Leanna Machado, Cece Porter, Lizi Imedashvili, Lulu Moquette, Justin Brandon. Not Present: Dan White, Alexandra Tejeda
Our Team at Work
Blue CoLab builds systems, deploys stations, manages data, develops web sites, creates apps, and more. Our data lab, in Goldstein Academic Center, Room 317, has student-built dashboards that visualize and constantly update our data. Our technology lab is equipped for building real-time monitoring stations. Join our weekly scrum on Fridays, 1:20 Seidenberg Lounge, Goldstein Academic, Pleasantville.
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What Everyone Deserves: Real-Time Water Data
The Flint, Michigan water crisis alerted the public to how little we know about our drinking water and how late we learn.
The Dark Waters of Parkersburg, WV: A Warning to Us All
Advanced warning systems about drinking water contamination could save millions of people from exposure to dangerous contaminants.
Congress: Guarantee the Right-to-Know Drinking Water
Technology-based alerts are commonplace in daily life: storm alerts; car collisions; even asteroid near-misses. But not for water.