The Water Quality mobile app is a water-monitoring, data-collection, and learning tool for educators and their students, citizen scientists, and researchers. It helps users log and share field data, interpret it through learning pop-ups, and export it to create databases.
The app includes data entry, identification, and learning features about chemical (e.g., dissolved oxygen, E. coli, pH, nitrate, turbidity), physical (e.g., water temperature, turbidity), and biological (digital field guide to macroinvertebrates) water-quality parameters.
The Water Quality mobile app is available for Apple mobile devices.
Revenue from app sales funds version updates, new features, and water education programs.
Please note:
- As of 2020, the app is aligned with the Leaf Pack Network® (LPN).
- Although we hope to add this feature in the future, data entered in the Water Quality mobile app does not currently sync to the Monitor My Watershed data portal.
Special Features
- Site profile information including a map of your location and the ability to save pictures.
- Chemical and physical water-quality parameters for assessing stream health.
- Over 20 pictures, sketches, and descriptions of aquatic macroinvertebrates to aid in identification and calculation of pollution-tolerance indices.
- Printable data report and export function to create water-quality databases.
Visit the WikiWatershed website for help resources for the Water Quality mobile app.
The Water Quality app was originally developed by educators, scientists, and programmers at Northern Kentucky University and the Foundation for Ohio River Education.
