One of two water-quality platforms that float on Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho during spring-fall, collecting seven water-quality parameters continuously at 2-meter intervals from the surface of the lake to the bottom.
Michael (Mike) D. Hess
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, 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...
Bear Lake QW Platform1 Fall 2020
One of two water-quality platforms that float on Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho during spring-fall, collecting seven water-quality parameters continuously at 2-meter intervals from the surface of the lake to the bottom.
Servicing Bear Lake QW Platform
Technician prepares to service instrumentation on platform during spring 2020.
Technician prepares to service instrumentation on platform during spring 2020.
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, 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...
Bear Lake QW Platform1 Fall 2020
One of two water-quality platforms that float on Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho during spring-fall, collecting seven water-quality parameters continuously at 2-meter intervals from the surface of the lake to the bottom.
One of two water-quality platforms that float on Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho during spring-fall, collecting seven water-quality parameters continuously at 2-meter intervals from the surface of the lake to the bottom.
Servicing Bear Lake QW Platform
Technician prepares to service instrumentation on platform during spring 2020.
Technician prepares to service instrumentation on platform during spring 2020.