Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone has successfully put thermographs in stream beds to 
record stream temperatures throughout the year, and if so what method of 
securing them you used.  

We have been securing small Tidbit readers by bolting them in to short 
pieces of metal pipe and securing those with steel cable either to trees or 
large boulders up on the stream bank.  This method is semi-successful, but 
occasionally when streams blow-out we loose the readers.  I think my 
predecessors have tried various iterations of staking them with rebar in 
the stream bed, but that didn't work so well and the cable set up seems to 
be better.  

Perhaps it's just the way it goes to loose some every year, but any 
suggestions would be much appreciated!!  Thanks, Helen

Helen Neville, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Trout Unlimited
1020 Main St., Suite 440
Boise, ID 83702
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