Low-Cost Groundwater Detection

Science Hack Day 2014

Mika McKinnon, Alice Pevyhouse, Jeremy Wong, Anita Hartwith extra help from Christoph, Matthew, Brian, Chris and others

Things you need

wires

electrodes

power source

voltmeter

To measure resistivitySpace electrodes evenly

To measure resistivityInject current in OUTER pair

To measure resistivityMeasure voltage across INNER pair

To measure resistivityMATH!

To measure resistivityMATH!

To measure resistivityMATH!

To measure resistivity

As distance a

increases, the

depth of signal

increases

Recap• Low-cost groundwater

detection is necessary to measure groundwater usage on a wide scale !

• The Arduino was chosen to use for data logging purposes