Meteorologic and Hydrologic Instrumentation for Undergraduate Field Work

气象和水文仪器将用于改进威廉姆斯学院地质学和生物学课程的实地实验室和计算机研究。这些仪器将在霍普金斯纪念森林的一个气象站使用，霍普金斯纪念森林是威廉姆斯学院管理的实验森林，也是野外课程和环境科学独立研究的重点。传感器和数据记录仪将安装在现有的气象站，三个便携式气象和水文站将组装在偏远地点使用。使用以数字格式对数据进行编码的最先进的仪器，可以轻松地将天气和水文数据传输到计算机文件中。便携式仪器将显著提高实地收集的数据的数量和质量，并用于地貌学、环境生物学、社区和生态系统等必修课。气象和水文数据的计算机文件还将用于在天气与气候和地质学计算机等选修课中开发新的野外和计算机实验室。生物学和地质学专业的学生最有可能进入研究生院，这些学生参与了高级荣誉论文的实地研究，他们将获得宝贵的经验，使用现代仪器和计算机从他们的现场数据还原。

Meteorologic and hydrologic instrumentation will be used to improve field laboratories and computer studies in Geology and Biology courses at Williams College. The instruments will be used at a weather station in Hopkins Memorial Forest, an experimental forest managed by Williams College, and the focus of field classes and independent research in the environmental sciences. The sensors and data loggers will be installed at the existing weather station, and three portable meteorologic and hydrologic stations will be assembled for use at remote sites. Use of state-of-the-art instruments which encode data in digital format will permit easy transfer of weather and hydrologic data to computer files. Portable instrumentation will significantly improve the quantity and quality of data collected in the field and used in required courses such as Geomorphology, Environmental Biology, and Communities and Ecosystems. Computer files of weather and hydrologic data will also be used to develop new field and computer labs in elective courses such as Weather and Climate and Computers in Geology. Biology and Geology majors most likely to go to graduate school, those students involved in field studies for senior honors theses, will gain invaluable experience using modern instrumentation and computer reduction of data from their field sites.