UVM Missisquoi Bay Platform Data
Image: Missisquoi Bay, July 2020
Recent Lake Conditions
Updated at 7:45, 11:45, and 15:45 each day| Last Platform Collection | August 16, 2026 15:00 |
| MB_Surface Temperature (*C) | 24.88 |
| MB_Bottom Temperature (*C) | 24.03 |
| MB_Surface Dissolved Oxygen (mg/L) | 12.78 |
| MB_Bottom Dissolved Oxygen (mg/L) | 9.35 |
| Last Met Collection | October 24, 2025 11:00 |
| Air Temperature (*C) | 7.49 |
| Wind Speed (m/s) | 2.52 |
| Wind Speed (mph) | 5.64 |
| Wind Direction | WNW |
2026 Lake Condition Plots
Note: click the legend to isolate desired depths for a cleaner look.
Biological Activity Plots
Note: Phycocyanin is a pigment found in cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). Increases in relative fluorescence (RFU) suggest increasing detection of cyanobacteria, but this is not a direct quantitative measurement.There are many caveats associated with using phycocyanin sensors to study cyanobacteria dynamics, but there is general consensus that they are useful for detecting relative changes over time in cyanobacteria biomass at a specific location. Given the propensity of cyanobacteria to concentrate in particular locations in the lake, often due to wind forcing, these point specific sensor data are not necessarily indicative of changes/bloom dynamics across the entire lake at any given time point.
Please contact us at andrew.schroth@uvm.edu with any questions or comments.
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These data and infrastructure are also sourced in research support provided to Andrew Schroth by the National Science Foundation under under VT EPSCoR Grant No. NSF OIA-1556770 and EAR-1561014. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. |