Learn Do-It-Yourself Electronics for Environmental Monitoring

• When: Tuesday, May 20 and Wednesday, May 21, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Where: Stroud Water Research Center, 970 Spencer Road, Avondale, PA 19311.
• Audience: Beginners and those with intermediate experience programming data loggers and using environmental monitoring equipment. State and federal agency staff; academic faculty; high school, undergraduate, and graduate students; and researchers from environmental NGOs and watershed organizations have attended previous workshops.
• Cost: $135 per person. Registration is limited to 24.

EnviroDIY empowers researchers with innovative digital and electronic tools and training that enable cost-effective and customizable environmental measurements. This workshop is appropriate for beginners and those with intermediate experience programming data loggers and using environmental monitoring equipment. Topics include:

• – Programming electronic data loggers and connection with environmental sensors.
• – Transmission of data from data loggers to web-based data portals via cellular radio.
• – Assembling data loggers, sensors, cellular radios, and solar panels into monitoring stations.
• – Deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting monitoring stations.

Attendees will acquire the skills necessary to assemble, program, and deploy a water monitoring station, but with the understanding that the DIY journey has just begun! We can’t cover the wide world of DIY technologies in a single workshop, but we’ll give you the foundational knowledge and resources to continue learning on your own.