Integrated Major Research Instrumentation for Real Time Analyses Within An Experimental Watershed

该奖项部分支持了纽约州亨廷顿森林（Huntington Forest）全仪器化分水岭的开发。二十多年来，这片森林一直是纽约州阿迪朗达克山脉生态实地调查的焦点。该项目包括在Arbutus实验流域获取一套协调的仪器和开发一个优化的实时数据采集网络。实时测量将与无线技术相结合，以增强研究和教学的户外设施。教学不仅包括研究生和本科生，还包括高中教师和学生的培训。实地课程的开发是纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院及其合作机构环境调查的重点领域。Arbutus分水岭是阿迪朗达克唯一一个全面运作的地点，同时评估气候、水文、生物地球化学、陆地生物群和水生生物群的时间变化。科学家和学生在这里的主要研究重点是开发用于生态研究的现场仪器。这套新的仪器将专注于在流域内关键地点的气象、水文和生化参数的连续测量，并为包括流域水文学、元素质量平衡、汞动力学和动物遥测在内的广泛项目提供通信网络。这些测量也将用于区域生态分析。新的现场仪器将包括一个无线通信系统，该系统将传输和/或接收来自Arbutus湖流域内各个站点的数据，并扩展环境监测和数据收集，从而允许更广泛的生态和环境调查。这一扩大的数据监测系统将允许对响应环境变化的物理、化学和生物参数进行更深入的调查。

This award partially supports the development of a fully instrumented watershed at Huntington Forest, NY. The forest has been a focal point for ecological field investigations in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State for more than two decades. The project involves the acquisition of a coordinated suite of instruments and development of a network optimized for realtime data acquisition at the Arbutus experimental watershed. Realtime measurements will be combined with wireless technology to enhance this outdoor facility for both research and teaching. Teaching will include not only graduate and undergraduate students, but also the training of high school teachers and their students. The development of field curricula is a focal area of environmental investigations at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and collaborating institutions. The Arbutus Watershed is the only fully operational site in the Adirondacks that is evaluating concomitantly temporal changes in climate, hydrology, biogeochemistry, terrestrial biota and aquatic biota. A major focus of research at this site by scientists and students has been the development of field instrumentation for ecological research. This new suite of instrumentation will focus on continuous measurements of meteorological, hydrological and biochemical parameters at key locations within the catchment and also provide a communication network for wide range of projects including watershed hydrology, elemental mass balances, mercury dynamics and animal telemetry. These measurements will also be used in regional ecological analyses. New field instrumentation will include a wireless communications system that will transmit and/or receive data from individual sites within the Arbutus Lake watershed, plus expand environmental monitoring and data collection, allowing for more extensive ecological and environmental investigations. This expanded data monitoring system will allow for more intensive investigations of physical, chemical and biological parameters in response to environmental change.