A new extraordinary project is set to turn New York’s Lake George to be the world’s smartest lake. The project will monitor and observe the lake from the shores to the darkest, deepest depths hoping to keep the Adirondack unspoiled.
The sensors that will analyze the amount of rainfall, currents, winds, stream, salinity, nitrogen, and chlorophyll, will be positioned around the lake this year. An IBM supercomputer will then monitor and analyze the information gathered to generate three-dimensional pictures of the lake. Scientists believe that the same model can be utilized in other places, using a unique and sophisticated system to assist other scientists in predicting the danger of threats such as invasive species and road salt.
Executive Director of Fund for Lake George Eric Siy said in Wall Street that it is still possible to rehabilitate the lake and that they will need a comprehensive picture of Lake George to turn the lake around.
The advocacy group Fund for Lake George partnered with IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to launch this three-year comprehensive project. The conditions of the lake will be monitored by many devices, some of them visible from land, self-propelled underwater robots, stream gauges, Doppler units, weather stations, and other sensors that would run along lines anchored from floats.
Data collected will be fed to an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer, together with information gathered from the last 30 years regarding the chemical structure of the lake.
The same type of research is also conducted on the Great Lakes, although it was not as comprehensive as the one planned for Lake George. Guy Meadows, director Michigan Tech's Great Lakes Research Center said that the researches on other lakes are going on the same direction.
Surrounded by forest and mountains in the southeast area of the Adirondack Park, Lake George is known for its crystal clear waters. It is also revered as the Queen of American Lakes which extends up to 32.2 miles.
