The Yurok Marine Department and the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory announced they recently deployed a real-time ocean monitoring buoy near the mouth of the Klamath River. Installed in about 60 feet of water, the Klamath River Spotter buoy collects and transmits data on water temperature, wave conditions, wind speed and direction, and barometric pressure. The information is publicly available through the SOFAR Ocean platform. The Yurok tribe says the buoy will help researchers better understand the Klamath River plume. … Researchers plan to use the data to study environmental conditions near the river mouth and monitor potential long-term changes following the removal of four dams on the Klamath River.

Other Klamath River news:

• Record Searchlight (Redding, Calif.): What in Klamath River waters is making juvenile salmon sick?
• The Independent (U.K.): A deadly parasite is taking over and killing fish in one river in California and Oregon