Upgrading of meteorological and computational facilities at Blandy Experimental Farm

迈克尔·鲍尔斯博士是弗吉尼亚大学布兰迪实验农场的研究协调员，他要求支持对农场的气象站和现场微型计算机进行升级，以进行数据处理。该野外研究站的研究包括老野外演替研究、植物生理学、植物/动物相互作用和地下水水文。改善环境数据将有利于所有这些领域的研究。新的气象站将包括自动数据记录设备，这将提高数据记录的准确性和可靠性。一台新的微型计算机将增加对该站天气数据和其他环境数据库（数字地图、年度土壤调查、地下水位）和记录（地图、航空照片、植物园植物标本）的查阅和分析。

Dr. Michael Bowers is the Research Coordinator at the University of Virginia's Blandy Experimental Farm, and he requests support for an upgrade of the Farm's meteorological station and on-site microcomputers for data processing. Research at this field station includes old field succession studies, plant physiology, plant/animal interactions, and ground water hydrology. Improved environmental data would benefit research in all of these areas. The new weather station would include automatic data logging equipment that would increase the accuracy and reliability of the data records. A new microcomputer would increase access to and analyses of the station's weather data and other environmental databases (digital maps, annual soil surveys, ground water levels) and records (maps, aerial photographs, plant specimens in the Arboretum).