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 Onset’s free "Using HOBO Data Loggers" podcasts offer useful information on how to apply data loggers in various applications, and provides insider tips and techniques to help make your data logger projects successful. |
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Outdoor
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Prototype Testing for New Wind Turbines Presented By: David Carr
Summary:David Carr is an Assistant Director of the Alternative Energy Institute at West Texas A&M University. He discusses how his team uses Onset HOBO U30 systems to perform prototype testing for new wind turbines coming onto the market, as well as performance standards testing of existing turbines.
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Solar Photovoltaic Array Monitoring at Allegheny College Presented By: Carlyn Johnson, Student Project Leader
Summary: Onset has teamed up with students at Allegheny College to monitor a 400-500 Watt solar photovoltaic array on the roof of a campus building. Student project leader Carlyn Johnson explains how monitoring the new array will give students a leg up in understanding how solar power works.
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Monitoring Soil Conditions to Maximize Irrigation Management Presented By: Sharon Funderburk, Crop Consultant at Coney Creek Agronomics
Summary: Funderburk explains how a HOBO Micro Station aids in pepper field irrigation management.
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Hallmark protects its Valentines with a HOBO Weather Station Presented By: Kate Grover, Environmental Administrator, Hallmark
Summary: Environmental Administrator Kate Grover explains that maintaining proper humidity and temperature in Hallmark Cards Inc.'s Topeka, Kansas facility is a full-time job. She uses an Onset HOBO Weather Station on the roof of the five-acre factory to help understand indoor environmental conditions. This, in turn, helps keep stationery products from getting damp, curled up, or otherwise destroyed by the ravages of the Midwestern climate. Kate also explains how Onset Data Loggers helped her uncover previously unknown challenges when she investigated installing green-roof technology.
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Underwater Temperature Loggers Dive into the Bahamas' "Black Holes" Presented By: Dr. Stephanie Schwabe, PhD., Biogeochemistry, Environmental Lawyer, Cave Diver, and Director of the Rob Palmer Blue Holes Foundation
Summary: Schwabe discusses her expeditions in the remote “black holes” in South Andros, Bahamas and how underwater temperature loggers have been essential to her research.
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HOBO Weather Stations aid Earthquake Science Presented By: Roger Bilham, Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
Summary: Earthquake expert Roger Bilham discusses how Onset's 4-channel HOBO Micro Station is incorporated into his earthquake research "Creep Meter" instruments to measure the slip of earthquake faults.
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Using Data Loggers for Energy Management Presented By: Bruce Shaffer, President of Action Energy
Summary: Learn how low-cost data loggers can be used to identify energy savings in commercial buildings.
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Water Temperature Monitoring in Buzzards Bay Watershed Presented By: Tony Williams, Director of Monitoring Programs of the Coalition for Buzzards Bay
Summary: Learn how underwater temperature data loggers are being deployed to gather critical information for the Coalition for Buzzards Bay water monitoring program.
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Data Logging and Renewable Energy Monitoring Presented By: Tom Wineman, President of Clean Energy Design
Summary: Find out how data loggers are being successfully used in renewable energy monitoring applications.
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Underwater Temperature Loggers: Considerations for Selection and Deployment Presented By: Eileen Sandherr, Senior Application Specialist, Onset
Summary: Understand the four main steps involved in deploying underwater temperature loggers to help make your underwater monitoring project a success.
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Choosing Data Loggers For Green Building Projects: 10 Important Considerations Presented By: Gregg Daly, Onset
Summary: Discover how portable data loggers can be used in a broad range of green building projects.
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Web-based monitoring aids building performance research at Harvard University Presented By: Holly Wasilowski, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design
Summary:Holly Wasilowski is one in a team of researchers building a better computer model to judge the performance of a building. As part of her doctoral work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Holly is using a web-based HOBO U30 weather station to determine how weather could affect energy use and indoor comfort conditions within a building.
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Demystifying Water Level Logger Accuracy Specifications Presented By: Richard Kaiser, Engineer/Water Level and Water Flow Monitoring Specialist, Onset
Summary: Learn about the important questions and answers you should be aware of during the water level logger selection process.
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Tracking ocean temperatures in coral bleaching "reversal" research Presented By: Brian Von Herzen, The Climate Foundation
Summary: Coral reefs are at a critical juncture. These underwater communities are bleaching and dying at an alarming rate as ocean temperatures rise. According to climate scientist Brian Von Herzen, corals are in danger of becoming "a geologic relic" in a remarkably short time. Only the coral reefs that are able to keep cool in the coming decades will survive this century, he says. Brian founded The Climate Foundation and is working on an emergency life support system for coral reefs. In this interview, he discusses the project and the role HOBO data loggers play in his research.
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Using Data Loggers to Monitor Temperature and Ultraviolet Light Presented By: World-renowned author and amateur scientist, Forrest Mims
Summary: Mims describes his experience using data loggers to monitor temperature and ultraviolet light at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory and for monitoring rivers in Colorado.
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The Buzz on Temperature Conditions Inside a Honey Bee Hive Presented By: World-renowned author and amateur scientist, Forrest Mims
Summary: Mims discusses his use of data loggers to study temperature conditions inside a honey bee hive during the winter months.
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Using Data Loggers to Monitor Climate Change Presented By: Al Werner, Professor of Geology at Mount Holyoke College
Summary: Werner discusses his climate research in Svalbard, Norway and how data loggers have been essential to his project.
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Miami Science Museum Green Roof Monitoring Presented By: Larry Lesser, Rana Creek Living Architecture
Summary: Listen as Lesser explains how HOBO data loggers are being used to monitor different types of green roof designs at the Miami Museum of Science. The data will provide valuable information about which design would work best in South Florida’s subtropical climate.
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Climate Change Research Using Data Loggers Presented By: Dr. Matt Nolan, Professor of Geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Summary: Nolan describes how data loggers have been an important part of his climate change study in Siberia and Alaska.
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Indoor
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Achieving energy savings and occupant comfort with HOBOs New Presented By: Interview with Gregory Johnson with Kilawatt Technologies
Summary: In one company, the president’s office was so cold that no one would meet with him in the winter time. Another company blasted its employees with 30 degree air one minute and 140 degree air the next. Gregory Johnson, the president of Kilawatt Technologies in Shelburne, Vermont, describes the process of using HOBO data loggers and wireless data nodes to determine how to fix uncomfortable buildings.
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Monitoring Domestic Solar Hot Water Heating System Efficiency with Data Loggers Presented By: Guy Marsden, Owner of Art Tec
Summary: Guy explains how he used a HOBO data logger to monitor the efficiency of a domestic solar hot water heating system.
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Tracking environmental conditions at George Washington Museum Presented By: Manager Rijk Morawe, Curator Amy Muraca, and Technician Logan Metesh
Summary: HOBO data loggers are busy keeping a close eye on temperature, humidity and light at the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia. Listen in as manager Rijk Morawe, curator Amy Muraca, and technician Logan Metesh discuss some of the challenges of monitoring the museum and the role HOBO data loggers play.
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Using Data Loggers for Energy Management Presented By: Bruce Shaffer, President of Action Energy
Summary: Learn how low-cost data loggers can be used to identify energy savings in commercial buildings.
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National Grid's Deep Energy Retrofit Pilot Program Presented By: Paul Eldrenkamp, DEAP Energy Group and Massachusetts State Rep. Will Brownsberger
Summary: DEAP Energy Group in Newton, Massachusetts just finished super-insulating Massachusetts State Rep. Will Brownsberger's 1920s-era two family house, making it 80 percent more energy efficient than the average New England home. DEAP’s Paul Eldrenkamp is using eleven HOBO U10 data loggers to monitor indoor relative humidity, temperature, and dew point; a HOBO U23 logger to monitor outdoor temperature and relative humidity; and a Telaire 7001 and HOBO U12 data logger to track CO2 levels for fine-tuning the ventilation system. Listen in as he and Will Brownsberger explain the financial incentives in National Grid's Deep Energy Retrofit pilot program and how Onset data loggers are being used.
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Reducing Energy Usage in Data Centers with HOBO Data Loggers Presented By: Bill Dunckel, a senior project manager at PG&E
Summary: Bill Dunckel, a senior project manager at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), explains how he uses Hobo Data Loggers to cut down on the electricity used by his customers’ data centers.
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Making HOBOs on “Old Cape Cod” Presented By: Lisa Miller - Director of Operations - Onset Computer
Summary: There's something unusual about Onset in an age when most technology companies are outsourcing their manufacturing abroad. Over the past three decades, Onset has designed and manufactured its HOBO® data loggers on-site at its headquarters on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Listen in as Onset director of operations Lisa Miller discusses some of the reasons behind this strategy.
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Data Logging and Renewable Energy Monitoring Presented By: Tom Wineman, President of Clean Energy Design
Summary: Find out how data loggers are being successfully used in renewable energy monitoring applications.
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Web-based system monitors power for Energy Utility Presented By: Alec Stevens, president of DMI
Summary: Alec Stevens of the Wellesley, Massachusetts energy consultancy DMI is using every port on Onset's U30 in a year-long project in an apartment complex. The task: monitoring a newly installed combined heat and power system for National Grid. Calling the U30's web connectivity "totally crucial to the success of this project," Alec describes how his customers can instantly update energy use graphs with one mouse click.
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Making Beer Brewing More Energy Efficient Presented By: Jarett Diamond, Jazmine Bennett, Kerby Smithson and Gary Fischer
Summary:A group of four engineering master’s students at the University of Michigan have teamed up to make beer brewing more energy efficient. Jarett Diamond, Jazmine Bennett, Kerby Smithson and Gary Fischer are using Onset HOBO data loggers to track the energy used by the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti, Michigan for their engineering master’s project. They are collecting data on a gas-fired boiler, a brew house glycol chiller, some cold room refrigeration equipment and an air-handler to understand where most of the energy is used. Elsa Partan spoke with Jarett Diamond and Jazmine Bennett about "The Green Brewery Project."
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Choosing Data Loggers For Green Building Projects: 10 Important Considerations Presented By: Gregg Daly, Onset
Summary: Discover how portable data loggers can be used in a broad range of green building projects.
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Web-based monitoring aids building performance research at Harvard University Presented By: Holly Wasilowski, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design
Summary:Holly Wasilowski is one in a team of researchers building a better computer model to judge the performance of a building. As part of her doctoral work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Holly is using a web-based HOBO U30 weather station to determine how weather could affect energy use and indoor comfort conditions within a building.
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Using Data Loggers to Document Environmental Conditions During Hardwood Floor Installations Presented By: Roy Reichow, President of the National Wood Floring Consultants, Inc.
Summary: Reichow explains how data loggers help prove the effects of environmental conditions on hardwood floor performance.
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Measuring energy savings using data loggers Presented By: Ryan Blair and Ken Rackowski of Bluestone Energy Services, LTD.
Summary: Listen as Blair and Rackowski explain how they used HOBO data loggers as part of a comprehensive energy efficiency strategy at the EF Education Center in Cambridge, MA and helped the company qualify for substantial utility rebates.
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Energy Saving Services Reduces Energy Costs in Schools by Thirty-nine Percent Presented By: Dennis Smithwick, President of Energy Saving Services LLC
Summary: Dennis Smithwick, president of Energy Saving Services LLC in Moorhead, Minnesota, discusses how he was able to use HOBO data loggers to help cut energy costs by 39% in a 4-year-old school building. He explains how data logging was used in parallel to the school's Building Automation System, and how reports documenting the recorded data prompted the school administration to address their building performance issues.
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Using Data Loggers for Building Commissioning Presented By: Matt Malinosky
Summary: Questions and Solutions Engineering of Chaska, Minnesota specializes in commissioning new buildings and re-commissioning old ones. Listen as Malinosky describes how his company uses HOBO data loggers and what trends he sees in the industry.
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Solar Photovoltaic Array Monitoring at Allegheny College Presented By: Carlyn Johnson, Student Project Leader
Summary: Onset has teamed up with students at Allegheny College to monitor a 400-500 Watt solar photovoltaic array on the roof of a campus building. Student project leader Carlyn Johnson explains how monitoring the new array will give students a leg up in understanding how solar power works.
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Hallmark protects its Valentines with a HOBO Weather Station Presented By: Kate Grover, Environmental Administrator, Hallmark
Summary: Environmental Administrator Kate Grover explains that maintaining proper humidity and temperature in Hallmark Cards Inc.'s Topeka, Kansas facility is a full-time job. She uses an Onset HOBO Weather Station on the roof of the five-acre factory to help understand indoor environmental conditions. This, in turn, helps keep stationery products from getting damp, curled up, or otherwise destroyed by the ravages of the Midwestern climate. Kate also explains how Onset Data Loggers helped her uncover previously unknown challenges when she investigated installing green-roof technology.
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Underwater
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Using Data Loggers to Monitor Temperatures in Fish Holds Presented By: Norman Van Vactor, Leader Creek Fisheries Operations Manager
Summary: Leader Creek Fisheries Operations Manager Norman Van Vactor describes how he uses Hobo Data Loggers to make sure the sockeye salmon he sells has been kept cold on its way to shore.
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Underwater Temperature Loggers Dive into the Bahamas' "Black Holes" Presented By: Dr. Stephanie Schwabe, PhD., Biogeochemistry, Environmental Lawyer, Cave Diver, and Director of the Rob Palmer Blue Holes Foundation
Summary: Schwabe discusses her expeditions in the remote “black holes” in South Andros, Bahamas and how underwater temperature loggers have been essential to her research.
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Water Temperature Monitoring in Buzzards Bay Watershed Presented By: Tony Williams, Director of Monitoring Programs of the Coalition for Buzzards Bay
Summary: Learn how underwater temperature data loggers are being deployed to gather critical information for the Coalition for Buzzards Bay water monitoring program.
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Underwater Temperature Loggers: Considerations for Selection and Deployment Presented By: Eileen Sandherr, Senior Application Specialist, Onset
Summary: Understand the four main steps involved in deploying underwater temperature loggers to help make your underwater monitoring project a success.
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Demystifying Water Level Logger Accuracy Specifications Presented By: Richard Kaiser, Engineer/Water Level and Water Flow Monitoring Specialist, Onset
Summary: Learn about the important questions and answers you should be aware of during the water level logger selection process.
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Tracking ocean temperatures in coral bleaching "reversal" research Presented By: Brian Von Herzen, The Climate Foundation
Summary: Coral reefs are at a critical juncture. These underwater communities are bleaching and dying at an alarming rate as ocean temperatures rise. According to climate scientist Brian Von Herzen, corals are in danger of becoming "a geologic relic" in a remarkably short time. Only the coral reefs that are able to keep cool in the coming decades will survive this century, he says. Brian founded The Climate Foundation and is working on an emergency life support system for coral reefs. In this interview, he discusses the project and the role HOBO data loggers play in his research.
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Climate Change Research Using Data Loggers Presented By: Dr. Matt Nolan, Professor of Geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Summary: Nolan describes how data loggers have been an important part of his climate change study in Siberia and Alaska.
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