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Biological Research And Video Observatory

(BRAVO)

 

Observation Stations for Underwater Video, Sensor & Telemetry Monitoring NODES

UNDERWATER MONITORING NETWORK FOR RESEARCH, OUTREACH, & EDUCATION


INFORMATION | LIVE STREAMING
ARCHIVE | SCREENSHOTS | ANIMATIONS

Click a location on the map above to jump to real-time

online underwater video and sensor feeds.

NODE STATUS INDICATED BY COLOR:     ONLINE     TESTING/STANDBY      OFFLINE

NODE 1 - Grand River, Ontario, Canada - Streaming underwater cameras and temperature and telemetry sensors showing warm-water fish and other aquatic species - Online since 2005

NODE 2 - Mannheim Weir Denil fishway underwater camera, temperature sensors and PIT tag detection system, Grand River, Ontario, Canada - LIVE Streaming of underwater fish passage and fishway monitoring - Online since July 2007

NODE 2b - Grand River, Ontario, Canada - LIVE Monitoring of black redhorse hatchery temperatures only - Online since 2008

NODE 2c - Grand River, Ontario, Canada - LIVE Monitoring of Over-wintering Wavy-Rayed Lampmussels - Temperatures - Online December 2 2009

NODE 3 - Lake Opinicon, Chaffeys Lock, Ontario, Canada - Queens University Biological Station - Underwater video monitoring of sunfish, perch, pike, bass and other warmwater lacustrine fishes and other creatures - Online August 12 2008 - New system online May 25 2009

NODE 4 - Cooney Creek, Condon, Montana, USA - Upstream from fish barrier - Mostly trout (Westslope cutthroat trout, bull trout, brook trout) and other mountain stream fishes, bears, otters......  Online since June 18 2008

NODE 5 - Cooney Creek, Condon, Montana, USA - Downstream from fish barrier - Wild trout and other cool-water fish and wildlife monitoring - Online since July 26 2008

NODE 6 - Jefferson Dam Fishway, Rock River, Wisconsin, USA - Freshwater drum, carp, redhorse, catfish, and others yet to be determined - Online since February 15, 2009, prototype self-cleaning system installed July 2010

NODE 7 - Jefferson Dam Fishway, Rock River, Wisconsin, USA - Installed Dec 11, 2008

NODE 8 - Tropical Marine Reef Tank .  Several tropical marine fishes, invertebrates, and coral.  Here is your ideal live aquarium screensaver or virtual fishtank - Online since September 9 2008

NODE 9 - Grand River, Ontario, Canada - warm water fish migration and behaviour.  Prototype self-cleaning system - Online May 18 2010.

NODE 10 - Online System Test, Location TBA - Offline pending deployment
NODE 11 - Online System Test, Location TBA - Offline pending deployment
NODE 12 - Online System Test, Location TBA - Offline pending deployment
NODE 13 - Online System Test, Location TBA - Offline pending deployment

The Grand River, near Doon, Kitchener Ontario  Greater redhorse released into the Grand River after surgical implantaion of radio tags for a telemetry study, Kitchener Ontario  implanting a long-term radio tag into a greater redhorse for a telemetry study in the Grand River, Kitchener, Ontario  Dr. Bunt with a large greater redhorse that was part of a long term telemetry study in the Grand River, Kitchener Ontario 

This site is host for a combination of streaming and archived video, fish movement and water temperature data from various BRAVO nodes.  Node 1 is located on the Grand River near Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and streams live underwater video from cameras in the river bed along with temperature and telemetry data from radio-tagged fish. Node 2 is located inside a Denil fishway approximately 5 km upstream from Node 1. Node 2b streams data from our fish hatchery on the Grand River, Ontario. Node 3 is in Lake Opinicon, Ontario, Canada at the Queens University Biological Station, Node 4 and Node 5 are in Cooney Creek, Montana, USA, Node 6 and Node 7 are located in Rock River, Wisconsin, USA, Node 8 is monitoring a tropical marine reef aquarium in Ontario, Canada. Node 9 has been deployed in the Grand River near Doon, Ontario. Node 10 has been built, tested and will soon be deployed.

The video collected by the BRAVO system is particularly useful for long-term research objectives related to inter-annual variation in fish migration patterns, migration timing and habitat utilization and reproductive behavior. The system has also been proven to be useful for monitoring and observing behavior of benthic organisms such as mussels, crayfish, diving ducks, turtles and a wide range of fish and aquatic invertebrate species.

Click HERE for some examples of video data collected from our video archive - Look through the system to view live underwater monitoring, archive video and node-specific data.

More nodes to come as the network evolves...

Please contact us with enquiries related to the BRAVO network

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