A simple and flexible field-tested device for housing water monitoring sensors at point discharges.

The Water Monitoring Enclosure (WME) provides a simple and flexible housing for many types of sensors for continuous measurements of water parameters (physical, chemical, or biological) and provides the opportunity of representative sampling for external analyses. The WME ensures a minimum internal water level and this ensures that the internal monitoring equipment remains submerged even when there is no flow into the enclosure. The limited diameter of the inflow pipe and water volume in the WME buffers the flow velocity from dramatic changes.

Video-logging for examining biogenic structures in deep heterogeneous subsurface sediments.

Video-logging through a transparent tube is described as an alternative method for examining in situ the distribution of biogenic structures within the deep layers of heterogeneous sediments in which undisturbed cores are hard to be obtained. The method comprises four successive phases: the installation of transparent tubes into the sediment, the lowering of a video-camera for scanning sediments through the tube walls, the numerical treatment of images for correcting deformations and obtaining panoramic views of discrete sediment layers, and the mapping of biogenic structures. The method was used successfully to determine the density and depth distribution of galleries made by the oligochaetae Tubifex tubifex (Müller, 1874) within the infiltration bed of a stormwater basin.