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online underwater video
and sensor feeds.
NODE STATUS INDICATED BY
COLOR AS FOLLOWS:
ONLINE
TESTING/STANDBY OFFLINE
PERMANENT RUNNING
ARCHIVE
TEMPORARY RUNNING ARCHIVE
NODE 1
- Grand River,
Ontario, Canada - Streaming underwater cameras and
temperature and telemetry sensors showing warm-water fish and other
aquatic species - Online since July 2005, upgrade
pending
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,
upgrade pending
NODE 2b - Online
hatchery system with live streaming water temperatures
from wavy-rayed lamp-mussel hatchery
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
since August 12 2008 - New system online May 25 2009,
upgrade pending
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
June 18 2008 - DATA COLLECTION COMPLETE April 21
2011
NODE 5
- Cooney Creek, Condon, Montana, USA - Downstream
from fish barrier - Wild
trout and other cool-water fish and wildlife monitoring -
Online July 26 2008-
DATA COLLECTION COMPLETE April 21 2011
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,
self-cleaning system installed June 13 2011
NODE 7
- Jefferson Dam Fishway (backup), 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 aquarium"- Online
since
September 9 2008
NODE 9
- Grand River, Ontario, Canada -
warm water fish migration and behaviour - self-cleaning
system, prototype testing node - Online since May 18 2010
NODE 10
- Thornbury
Fishway - Beaver River, Ontario - rainbow trout
and salmon monitoring and fish counts - Online since April 4 2011-System will be back online in March 2012
NODE 11
- Denny's Dam Fishway
- Saugeen River, Ontario - System will live
March 2012
This site hosts 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, previously
located in Cooney Creek, Montana,
USA have completed their scheduled data collection.
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 was our first self-cleaning
prototype and was deployed in the Grand
River near Doon, Ontario.
Node 10 has been deployed at the Thornbury Fishway in
Beaver River, Ontario. Node 11 is in the Denny's dam
fishway on the Saugeen River near Southhampton, Ontario.
The
video collected automatically by the BRAVO system is particularly
useful for long-term research objectives related to
inter-annual variation in
fishway counts, 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,
various
spawning behaviour and
wide range of fish
and aquatic mammals such as
otters.

See
and vote on
archived video data
collected by our systems - Look through the various Node
pages to view live underwater monitoring, archive video
and node-specific data.
More nodes to come as the network evolves...
Contact us with inquiries
related to the BRAVO network