Inspiration
Stream health is incredibly important to communities and ecosystems and the current forms include calculations done by hand that could easily be done by a computer.
What it does
Our website takes user input of number of each type of benthic macroinvertebrate collected by a stream monitor and runs the calculations. Additionally, we have a dichotomous key to help monitors identify the macroinvertebrates they collected.
How we built it
We build our website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and we got our domain name through Domain.com from MLH's discount.
Challenges we ran into
A big challenge we encountered was storing the data. Since GitHub websites are all static, we were unable to use a server. We were, however, able to figure that problem out and connected our website to a server.
What's next for Stream Data Collection
In the future, we plan to make an object recognition program that looks for the different benthic macroinvertebrates. Instead of having the monitor run through our dichotomous key, they would be able to simply upload a picture of the critter and we would ID it.
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