h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Some ing heads stole my data logger! Completely ripped it out of the tree it was in! No animal could have done it- no claw marks, and both hoses were torn out of the river.

Six F**king months of data, completely gone.

God Blessit, today was going so well, too.

you poor thing scan

Rest assured that they are feeling the full force of my librarian glare from across the Atlantic.

Oh, Scan, I feel so sick for you

I hope they suffer for their sins. I have dolly and pins at the ready

Concentrate on your good news. There is nothing you can do so deep breathe and



Websailor

Data Logger? What was the device recording? It was stolen?

Gnnghgnnhg. *Makes a bunch of frustrated grunting noises out of empathy.*

It was more than likely some kid that ripped it out of the tree, played with it for a little while, then threw it in the river. I'm going to call the parks department and see if any of their maintenence men found it. It still may be sitting in a shed somewhere, and if it is, I want it.

It's not that I don't have other options, I could find a correlation between the six months I have and the stream gauge a few miles downriver.

Squirrel: Everything is going according to plan. Nyuk nyuk nyuk!




... So what is this data logger?

The bast(s)!

Traveller in Time digging in some sales brochures
"A datalogger is basically just the part of the instrument recording information for later analysis.

The matter for all data loggers is _what_ data is collected in this case the data logger was recording the values from pressure sensors. Probably to obtain water depth, water flow speed and perhaps some density values ('floating' sediments).

Well, 'Scandrea', I amsorry for the loss of the device, special as you could have made some interesting tables with the data for your project. I only wonder how anyone would suppose such device to stay there, unattended and presumably not locked for months.

Perhaps I am too much used to weird thieves. One of my colleages had her mobile phone stolen while she was using it. "

>One of my colleages had her mobile phone stolen while she was using it.

That's not so weird. Happens a fair amount in certain urban areas of the UK.

The thing is, it was well hidden- it had been left alone for months and months

Anyway, I've just about got everything set to do the correlation between the data I have and the downstream gauge. Prepare for some academic arm-waving on the windmill scale.

Those little !!


though!

Cat

Thanks Cat,

AkronU and I went out today to try and look for it. I don't know why I thought that was a good idea, because it's housed in white PVC pipe and we've still got about four inches of snow on the ground.

But it was a good hike! And yesterday, I managed to get something going between the USGS stream gauge and the first few months of our data, so it wasn't a total loss.