Tags: Cave Monitoring

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 2:57pm

Over the weekend of March 2nd, undergraduate student Jay Mrazek, hydrogeology professor Dr. Charlotte Garing, and their group of volunteers successfully installed over 900 meters of fiber optic cable in a northeastern Alabama cave. This work takes advantage of the fine-resolution temperature sensing capabilities of an emerging technology in the realm of hydrology: fiber optic distributed temperature sensing (FO-DTS), with this project being one…