Testing Procedures

1. The following is how we plan on testing to see if the research buoy will work.
2. Meet with team at dock to board the Blue Sea research vessel.
3. Once on the boat, place electronic systems securely into buoy structure.
4. At designated testing site, deploy entire buoy.
5. Have buoy systems run water quality tests (air temperature, water temperature, conductivity) as soon as buoy is secure in the water, using the power gathered through the solar panels.
6. Power laptop computer on the boat to receive buoy's test results.
7. At thirty minutes after buoy is deployed, have buoy systems run another water quality test and perform the manual tests, making sure enough power is supplied for said tests.
8. At one hour after buoy is deployed, have buoy systems run another water quality test and perform the manual tests.
9. Load buoy onto research vessel and return to dock.
10. Repeat these steps one a week for three consecutive weeks.