Meteorologic and Hydrologic Instrumentation for Undergraduate Field Work

气象和水文仪器将用于改善 地质学和生物学课程中的野外实验室和计算机研究 在威廉姆斯学院。 这些仪器将用于气象站 在霍普金斯纪念森林，一个实验森林管理的威廉姆斯 学院的重点是野外课堂和自主研究 环境科学 传感器和数据记录器将安装在 在现有的气象站，和三个便携式气象和 水文站将在偏远地区组装使用。 使用 以数字格式对数据进行编码最先进的仪器将 方便将天气及水文资料转存入电脑档案。 便携式仪器将大大提高质量， 在实地收集并用于必修课程的数据的质量， 地貌学、环境生物学、社区与生态系统。 气象和水文数据的计算机文件也将用于 在选修课程中开发新的领域和计算机实验室，如天气 地质学中的气候和计算机 生物学和地质学专业最多 有可能进入研究生院的学生， 研究高级荣誉论文，将获得宝贵的经验，使用 现代化的仪器和计算机从他们的领域减少数据 网站.

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.