Cellcom is respected for its long-standing reputation of delivering extraordinary customer care, being a strong community partner, and for its renowned network, which is customized to its rural markets. “This will not only provide data that can be shared with the scientific community as we continue to understand the dynamic conditions of the Bay of Green Bay, but also provide training for students on technologies that will be used to solve current and future environmental problems,” said Katers.Ĭellcom is an innovative wireless company that provides nationwide service for its customer base throughout Wisconsin and Michigan, with more than 45 retail and agent locations.
“These types of research projects provide opportunities for faculty to utilize state-of-the-art technologies to address real world problems, while also allowing students to be actively involved in the research,” said Katers. “We are very fortunate to have a community partner like Cellcom to work with collaboratively on these important environmental projects,” said John Katers, dean, College of Science, Engineering, and Technology. “We look forward to continued collaboration with UW-Green Bay to better understand other environmental issues that impact our region,” said Webb. “To ensure clean, healthy water, we need to understand it, measure it and guide the use of it.” The data collected by UW-Green Bay will be shared with the scientific community so researchers can build on each other’s work and used to inform and create policy to protect the area’s freshwater. “Our area’s freshwater ecosystem feeds our economy, attracts tourism and provides many highly valued recreational opportunities,” said Robert Webb, vice president of innovative operations at Cellcom. UW-Green Bay will use sensors to monitor water clarity in lower Green Bay.
In addition to reducing the number of fish, poor clarity can lead to less healthy fish and fish that are less healthy to consume. Poor water clarity can block light to aquatic plants, smother aquatic organisms, and carry contaminants such as lead, mercury, and bacteria. Using clarity as a measure of water qualityĬlarity is a measurement of how cloudy the water is in a lake or river. The real-time monitoring will help identify pockets of low oxygen that result in fish kills as they travel and will provide further insights on other negative effects of dead zones, such as deterring species like lake flies that serve as a main source of food for fish. UW-Green Bay researchers are deploying buoy platforms with sensors in lower Green Bay. Warm water temperatures can also stimulate algae growth and reduce the amount of oxygen that water can hold. Dead zones have oxygen levels that are low enough to kill fish. The algae settle to the bottom and deplete the oxygen in water as it decays. Fertilizer runoff from farms and cities carries excess nutrients to lakes and bays, which promotes rapid growth of harmful algae blooms. The bay of Green Bay is relatively shallow - an average of just 30 feet -making it susceptible to oxygen deficiency, commonly referred to as dead zones. Understanding dead zones created by low oxygen levels Collectively, we can use this data to manage, restore and protect our region’s freshwater.”Ĭellcom and UW-Green Bay are currently partnering on two environmental projects to secure measurements in Green Bay and the Lower Fox River. “With real-time monitoring of relevant parameters, data is available to a wide audience of end users, along with the ability to integrate predictive models to forecast future conditions. “We are extremely excited about the collaboration between UW-Green Bay and Cellcom,” said Michael Zorn, associate dean, College of Science, Engineering and Technology. UW-Green Bay researchers expect the collaboration to yield important insights on the impact of low oxygen levels and water clarity to help protect the region’s freshwater ecosystem. Green Bay, WI (September 8, 2021) - Green Bay is part of the largest freshwater system in the world, and UW-Green Bay is partnering with Cellcom to collect and share environmental data on the health of local waterways. Researchers use wireless sensors to study how clarity and oxygen levels impact Lower Green Bay and the Lower Fox River
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