One of the greatest challenges facing water quality and environmental monitoring efforts is the availability of accurate, reliable, and affordable instrumentation that can provide high spatial and temporal resolution measures of critical parameters in real- or near real-time.  To overcome this challenge, and ultimately to effectively and efficiently address various environmental concerns, there is a clear need for technology innovation enabling organizations and initiatives.  The Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) is one such organization, which is collaborating with several federal agencies and academic partners on the Nutrient Sensor Challenge (NSC), a global competition to bring innovation to the measurement of dissolved nitrogen and phosphorus in water. This presentation will discuss recent ACT efforts in transitioning emerging technologies to operational use rapidly and effectively and quantifying performance and data quality of existing instrumentation, while simultaneously building user awareness, confidence and capacity.  The presentation will highlight how a market stimulation model is being used in the NSC to incentivize development of next-generation nutrient sensors.

Facilitating innovations in environmental monitoring technologies

251st National Meeting (2016)

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